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8/19/2003 Ragnar Deerslayer: Stephanie Morgan, Girl of Adventure
I’ve been trying to think of a game that would be a good introduction to RPGs for my girlfriend (she’s 25). She wouldn’t like the combat of most RPGs, or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ragnar Deerslayer, Valamir, Mike Holmes, quozl, Simon W, John Harper, simon_hibbs, Ben Morgan, Tony Irwin, Jeph, Andrew Martin.

8/19/2003 Brian Leybourne: Read here first?
[quote="In another thread, Mike"]Other than that, these fora serve as an archive. The appropriate thing to do would be to put all the ideas or links to the ideas in…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, MonkeyWrench, Jeffrey Straszheim.

8/19/2003 Nero's Boot: About my book
Where the hell is my book? I ordered it last Sunday, and Mr. Norwood assures me it's in the mail, yet 8 days later, it is still not here. And…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nero's Boot, MonkeyWrench, Valamir, Jake Norwood, nolah, toli, Lxndr, ethan_greer, Draigh, mrgrimm, Brian Leybourne.

8/19/2003 dunlaing: Usefulness (or uselessness) of Sample Heroes
As Peter requested, I made this a seperate thread. I took the title from his post, I don't mean to imply that I think they're useless. I found the sample…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Nick Brooke, Bankuei, Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins.

8/19/2003 Philippe Tromeur: Thinking about a new Card-based RPG
I have a silly idea and I'm tinkering with it. The RPG will be played with a French Deck of Cards : that is, a Poker deck without the cards…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes.

8/19/2003 Dan Sellars: One-Shot scenarios
I didn't want to try an hijack the "One-Shot - Angry Assassins" thread so I thought I would start a new one. I want to run a scenario to a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Dan Sellars, Brian Leybourne, Paka, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Spartan, Sneaky Git, Tywin Lannister.

8/19/2003 Charles Smith: New Review of TROS at RPG.net
Guys~ Just wanted to let you know there's another review of TROS at rpg.net. It's an interesting review, and I'm not sure what to make of it at this point.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Charles Smith, Caz, Tony Irwin, Thalaxis, Brian Leybourne, Stephen, Bankuei, Valamir, toli, Nero's Boot, hyphz, Lyandar.

8/19/2003 M. J. Young: Thread Closing Question
There seems to be some confusion about thread closing here at the Forge. On several occasions, I've noted Ron saying that once the person who raised the question in the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Hunter Logan.

8/18/2003 jdagna: Campaign module playtesters needed
I am looking for an extra playtest group (or two) to test an upcoming campaign module for Pax Draconis. The module should run 3-5 sessions. I would need playtesting to…
In Connections
Participants: jdagna.

8/18/2003 JSDiamond: ORBIT release date
It's official. The printers tell me September 10th. After many problems they promised me a galley proof by this Friday, and after my 'okay' the presses are turned on and…
In Orbit
Participants: JSDiamond, Valamir, Catalyst.

8/18/2003 Jaeger: LUCK!
Ok, In my old group we treated luck dice as a kind of "hero" point where they could save you from being wounded.... say your opponent successfully pulls off a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaeger, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Overdrive.

8/18/2003 MrWrong: Official UK Men In Black HeroQuest Launch Party
For you folk in the UK , a chance to play the game and win a copy....... Saturday Night at Battlemasters, Digby Hall,Leicester University 30 August 2003 To coincide with…
In HeroQuest
Participants: MrWrong.

8/18/2003 abzu: Resources in Burning Wheel and MSH
Personally, I get very bored with tracking money in a game. PC expenses can never be adequately represented, in my opinion. Sure you make 100 gold pieces as a reward…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: abzu, Matt, ethan_greer, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jeph, iago, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2003 M. J. Young: Convenient Resource on Japanese Feudalism
I'm creating a game world that's going to borrow heavily on Japanese feudalism for both color and structure, and I need something more than just OAD&D Oriental Adventures to provide…
In Connections
Participants: M. J. Young, Andrew Martin, Valamir, Paganini, Jack Aidley, quozl.

8/17/2003 Jeph: Character sheets as the equivalent of plot webs?
So yeah. Do you remember, back in elementary school, when your fourth grade teacher told you how to start planning a story? You made a little blurb in the center…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jeph, Andrew Martin, jdagna, M. J. Young, Ben Morgan, gobi, iago, Ron Edwards, Nathaniel, Windthin, David Chunn, Mike Holmes, WDFlores, ross_winn.

8/17/2003 Alan: Conquest on History Channel
Hi all, I want to recommend Peter Woodward's show Conquest on the History Channel. Every episode, he trains a bunch of people to recreate a fighting style from the past.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Alan, prophet118, Swordmagnet, Ashton.

8/17/2003 Nero's Boot: [Weyrth] Monotheism: a Question
Do any true, Monotheistic cultures exist on Weyrth? By "Monotheistic" I mean a culture that denies the existence of other deities than the God/dess that they worship. --seeker of answers…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nero's Boot, Draigh.

8/17/2003 Nero's Boot: [Weyrth] The Fey: a Question
I have read in many places online that the faerie folk in Weyrth are an elusive, mysterious lot that that is more myth than reality to the natives of that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nero's Boot, Draigh, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Swordmagnet.

8/17/2003 Nero's Boot: [Weyrth] The Nature of the Gods: a Question
What exactly is the nature of Weyrth's Gods? Are they real entities, or are they mere fables? If they exist, are they distant and uncaring, or do they meddle like…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nero's Boot, Draigh, Brian Leybourne, Nick Pagnucco.

8/17/2003 gobi: Javascript Character Sheets?
I have PUNK currently set up as an html site. I'll be making a PDF as well, but the webpage will be a sort of sister site for more up-to-date…
In Publishing
Participants: gobi, Dev, Jonathan Walton, iago, Matt, HinterWelt.

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8/20/2003 Rose: Coke Ants
Hey can you do me a favor? I just made a new board called Coke Ants an we are looking for more members to come and post. So will you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Rose, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2003 bcook1971: Bag of Questions and a Dilemma
Some questions. (This starts out RPG Theory and turns GNS. Wasn’t sure where to post it.) I’ve been trying to find a comprehensive glossary of terms and acronyms with no…
In RPG Theory
Participants: bcook1971, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin, Alan, ethan_greer, Garbanzo, jburneko, M. J. Young, Bankuei, Emily Care.

8/20/2003 abzu: Forge East
[b]Eastern Forges[/b] I was very much inspired by being a part of the Forge booth at GenCon. It was a tremendous sense of community -- of individuals come together to…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Dev, iago, Rob Donoghue, Andy Kitkowski, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Valamir, eruditus.

8/20/2003 Windthin: Proficiency and Pitfalls
Well... I've been thinking about how to show mastery, proficiency, in skills, and these are some thoughts that occured, and a possible solution I'd like feedback on. First off, I've…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Windthin, iago, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin.

8/20/2003 MachMoth: Working out combat, need some opinions
Greetings All, I've been working on a system over on RPG-Create at Yahoo for a while now, but I've started 4 out of the last 5 threads over there, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MachMoth, Andrew Martin, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, cruciel.

8/20/2003 Dev: Pure Probabilty mechanic
(Just an idea, no game attached.) Imagine if you just had a big index of probabilities for lots and lots of stuff that might just randomly happen, and whenever something…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dev, MachMoth, M. J. Young.

8/20/2003 abzu: Conventions Forum
I recently posted a thread about starting a Forge East convention-going force in the Publishing thread. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7674 Publishing seems like the wrong place for something like this. I formally and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: abzu, iago, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, ross_winn, kwill.

8/21/2003 Jeph: Sketch for a Pirate Game
So, I just watched Pirates of the Carribean again for like the zillionth time, and this time want to make a Pirates RPG. Not specifically aboutthe movie, but about pirates…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, Tony Irwin, MachMoth, iago, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2003 bcook1971: How do you indicate the author for a quote?
Please.
In Site Discussion
Participants: bcook1971, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/21/2003 Tim Gray: Underworld update?
Last situation report seems to have been April, so is there anything more to tell? Something about UW tickles the back of my mind every so often, something to do…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Tim Gray, GMSkarka.

8/21/2003 MonkeyWrench: Planescape as a TROS setting
I love Planescape, I mean LOVE it! I think it's fun, exciting, and exotic. I also think that it could mesh very well with Riddle of Steel. There would have…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MonkeyWrench, Nick Pagnucco.

8/21/2003 lonefox: My Pool Play
Hi, I really wanted to try the pool online, so I decided to have a go at it, GMing on OpenRPG. Well, actually my matrix campign was cancelled, and some…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: lonefox.

8/21/2003 Chris Gardiner: First Donjon Game
This is my first post here at the Forge, but a frenzy of roleplaying with some old friends at the weekend provided some material I hope's worth posting here. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris Gardiner, rafial, Rob Donoghue, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2003 Chris Gardiner: Final Fantasy Donjon
So after our first Donjon game at the weekend, several of us decided that it would be the perfect system to run a Final Fantasy-esque RPG with, for the following…
In CRN Games
Participants: Chris Gardiner, anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, MachMoth.

8/21/2003 Chris Gardiner: Adventure! First Session.
I finally got to run a game of Adventure! this weekend for some old friends. Though I'm not a fan of the White Wolf system, I was impressed with how…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris Gardiner, Craig Oxbrow, Hardpoint.

8/21/2003 Paul Czege: imagining Brigadoon
So, I've been mulling the "Brigadoon Store" concept for some time. In fact, part of my motivation for building the Indie RPG display unit for GenCon was that maybe…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/21/2003 Halzebier: [Newbie Question re: Search Function]
Hi there! I'm usually quite capable of using a search engine, but the Forge's eludes me. I was trying to read up on some topics such as the Impossible Thing,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Halzebier, WDFlores, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2003 Nero's Boot: 8 PM last night: a farewell
At roughly 8 PM last night, my father passed away after a 9-month struggle with brain cancer. He was surrounded by family and friends, and died peacefully in his sleep.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nero's Boot, Dan Sellars, Draigh, Spartan, Brian Leybourne, Irmo, Shadeling, Pvt Kastro.

8/21/2003 jburneko: [InSpectres] Sam Spaderman, Supernatural Private Eye
Hello, So, the other night I was talking to a friend of mine that I've been out of touch with for a while and I talked about my change in…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, WDFlores, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2003 Krammer: New campaign world
I have been considering putting together another campaign world to play TRoS in. I got the idea from the Ars Magica thread, when I decided it would be cool to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Krammer, Rico.

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