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9/2/2003 Jason L Blair: A Li'l Sorcerer One-on-One
I'm cooking up some Sorcerer goodness for a one-man game and am curious if there's been any discussion/tips regarding this? Could someone post links, if so? Much appreciated,
In Adept Press
Participants: Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Fabrice G..

9/2/2003 Valamir: Universalis as a Training Tool
As those of you who dilligently follow all of the Univeralis website updates undoubtably know...and I'm sure that's everybody, of course ;-) Universalis has been being carried at Adams &…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, kwill, Mike Holmes, Christopher Weeks.

9/2/2003 bcook1971: Dammit! I Reinvented the Wheel!
I went into Lonestar Comics today to kill some empty holiday hours. Inspired by the variety of indie plugs I've been exposed to at the Forge, I thought I'd check…
In Publishing
Participants: bcook1971, Mike Holmes, Samael, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: Forum Rules / Guidelines
[b]Welcome to the Riddle of Steel Forge Forum [/b] This forum is maintained by Driftwood Publishing for the discussion of their game The Riddle of Steel, and other associated Driftwood…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne.

9/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: SA Madness
I'm starting a new TROS campaign shortly. I've been having SA thoughts and am interested in everyone's thoughts. By the way - none of this is in any way official,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Draigh.

9/2/2003 Catalyst: BW scripted combat
Hi, all. I think I'm a new BW convert and I wanted to babble about it. There's a lot to digest in BW. I've been taking my time since the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Catalyst, drozdal, taepoong.

9/2/2003 abzu: DargonCon Recap/Report
A brief write-up of BW at DragonCon. http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=172
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

9/2/2003 Green: ISO editor and artist
A lite version of my game, Kathanaksaya, has been published in the most recent issue of Random Order Comics and Games. After a long hiatus, I'm ready to do more…
In Connections
Participants: Green, Matt Drake.

9/2/2003 adamsmith: Annoying Player Habit
I was wondering whether anyone here could help me out. One of the players in our game has the habit of singing phrases of what has just been said to…
In Actual Play
Participants: adamsmith, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Noon, Garbanzo, cognizantchance.

9/1/2003 Ville: Mail order problems
I really would like to order OBAM but the PayPal service keeps bouncing me around... They want me to call their customer service (yeah right, like I'm gonna call internationally…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ville, Brian Leybourne, Draigh, 6inTruder.

9/1/2003 Jasper: Graal: Arthurian Romance Questing
Hello everyone, I've been away from the Forge for a while, but now have some more free time, and a game I'd like to talk about. A few of you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, anonymouse, simon_hibbs, lumpley.

9/1/2003 Swordmagnet: How to do Woad
I was thinking about Weyrth's Celtic influences today and started to think about how I would do Woad. To the unenlightened; Woad is the body painting/tatooing that is supposed to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Swordmagnet, MonkeyWrench, Richard_Strey, Rattlehead.

9/1/2003 MachMoth: D20 Donjon... Uh, wait!
I think this topic could have stood up in Actual Play, but I always consider the Theory forum as a catch all. Anyways, my players have shown interest in playing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MachMoth, Bankuei, jdagna, Dev.

9/1/2003 Nathaniel: Paroxysm: Playtesting One-off
I GMed a two hour one-off session of my new sci-fi horror rpg, Paroxysm. It was a simple little scenario where the characters are trapped on a ship as an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathaniel, Mike Holmes.

9/1/2003 Aelios: How do I use social skills?
I'm in the middle of GMing the first zero combat game I've attempted recently; we are playing Fading Suns. I'm having trouble figuring out how to resolve social rolls. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Aelios, jdagna, Mark Johnson, Matt Wilson, Rob Donoghue, MachMoth, Mike Holmes.

9/1/2003 Green: kathanaksaya for IRC and PbEM
Just recently, James West published a lite version of my game, Kathanaksaya, in the most recent issue of Random Order Comics & Games. After a little bit of sitting on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Paul Czege, Tony Irwin, Shreyas Sampat.

8/31/2003 Anthony I: First play impressions of TROS
I ran a game of TROS for my group last week and I thought I'd post my impressions. First off, any negativity you see in this applies to my group’s…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anthony I, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/31/2003 AgentFresh: Artists: Faux Tattoos and Flash Sheet Designs
I'm looking for an artist or artists who could do the following: 1. PhotoShop realistic tattos onto skin in photos. 2. "Flash Sheet" (the samples and patterns on the wall…
In Connections
Participants: AgentFresh, bigsimon, Draigh.

8/31/2003 Bryant: Actual Play: The Emotions of Dance
Our monthly experimental group tried out MLWM on Friday; I GMed, with Rob, Jess, Jere, and my old friend John playing. It was an interesting session; here's how it went.…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Bryant, Paul Czege.

8/31/2003 newsalor: Zin Letters - The Kalikos Society Gloranthan Magazine
Introduction: The Zin Letters is an English-language magazine published by Kalikos - The Finnish Gloranthan Association. The magazine is dedicated to the fantasy world of Glorantha and especially to roleplaying…
In HeroQuest
Participants: newsalor.

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9/2/2003 Theron: Newbie Armor Questions
(If this has been addressed before in a thread, a pointer would be sufficient.) I've been poring over the rules for the last few days and playing a bit with…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Theron, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Swordmagnet, Salamander.

9/2/2003 Ville: Simplified Initiative (split)
So any luck with simplified rules for buying initiative? To me it seems to ruin the fast combat so I'd like any alternative ways to handle the situation and comments…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ville, Brian Leybourne.

9/2/2003 abzu: Origins Forge Booth
http://www.originsgames.com/pdfs/Forms%20Pack%2004.pdf http://originsgames.com/pdfs/Origins%202004%20D%20Hall.pdf Hi all, So I've already talked with a few folks here about hitting Origins this year, and I wanted to invite everyone else. I just did some cursory…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Mike Holmes, AdAstraGames.

9/2/2003 linux: More Indecision
I am trying to weigh the pros and cons of the following problem I have. This pertains to the relationship between skills and attributes in my system. (D denotes things…
In RPG Theory
Participants: linux, Noon.

9/2/2003 MonkeyWrench: TROS demo in Austin, Texas
In little over a month I'll be running a demo for one of my LGS. I'd like to hear from other people who've ran demos before as this will be…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MonkeyWrench, Theron, casinormal.

9/2/2003 Bankuei: The Return of Meaningful Decision
Hi guys, I've been reading my new copy of HQ, and really, really thinking about mythology, and with it, our good friend Meaningful Decision. I'm sure that most of this…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, WDFlores.

9/2/2003 Ron Edwards: Rough categories of Narrativist play/design
Hello, I've been discussing some Narrativism stuff with some people, and here's a little snippet, as a preview to the Narrativism essay. I most recently presented these ideas to Chris…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Green, Paul Czege, joshua neff, HMT, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Walt Freitag, cruciel, Bankuei, Matt Snyder, John Kim, Marco.

9/2/2003 jeffd: Real-time RPG session?
I'm kicking around the idea of doing one of my Fading Suns sessions in real time... that is, a six hour session will cover six hours of in-game time. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: jeffd, Simon W, MachMoth, Chris Goodwin, Dave Panchyk, garapata, gobi.

9/3/2003 Church13: Submit NEW WEAPONS!!! anyone?
anyone have some sweet weapons or just ANY weapon for that matter that is not in the CoreRuleBook? stats, name, description please? Thx
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Church13, MonkeyWrench, Draigh, Swordmagnet, Waiwode, Rico, Ashren Va'Hale, Brian Leybourne, Jaeger, Salamander, Ville, Krammer.

9/3/2003 MonkeyWrench: I had an idea: Mass Combat (long!)
I was sitting here wishing TFOB was out already and decided to come up with my own mass combat rules. Seeing as how I have no idea how this sort…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MonkeyWrench.

9/3/2003 Marco: Video Games aren't fun enough ...
One thing that's often said here is that RPG's won't be main-stream in their current configurations (i.e. even popular games fall short of being pop-culture or main-stream intertainment). Here's an…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, pete_darby, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, contracycle, cruciel.

9/3/2003 Church13: TROS: GLADIATORS
a few friends and I are creating some rules, tactics and things on a "Gladiator Arena" type of a thing. Im wondering how many of you out there like the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Church13, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, JESTER, Krammer, Swordmagnet.

9/3/2003 Mikko Lehtinen: The Wrath of Gaia
Hello. I've been lurking in the Forge for a while, and the discussions here have changed my views about what roleplaying can be at its best. I have GM:ed Amber…
In Adept Press
Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2003 Dev: Character and Game Balance! or... um, not.
Please point me to the right thread if this has come up before. <g> Among the many reasons I can't sleep tonight is this singular, eerie thought: I'm happily playing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dev, anonymouse, Noon, Ben Morgan, Mike Holmes, Rob Donoghue, Marco, Ben Lehman, RaconteurX, Michael Bjorklund, M. J. Young, contracycle.

9/3/2003 Anthony I: Played D&D3.5 for first time
I got a chance to play D&D 3.5 tonight...actually, I had never played D&D 3 either- I own the books but just never played. I must say that I have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anthony I, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, MonkeyWrench, MachMoth, contracycle, Jack Spencer Jr.

9/3/2003 Raymond Caleatry: Dueling, Skirmishes, and battles, it can take to long!
I am currently adapting TROS for a more heroic setting, which may contain more combat than I have seen in TROS during my usual sessions. I find that for small…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Raymond Caleatry, MonkeyWrench, Mike Holmes, Valamir, spunky, Brian Leybourne.

9/3/2003 Stephen: A suggestion for Taunting....
We all know in real life that trying to get someone really mad works much better if you know what their weaknesses are and can capitalize on them. So here's…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Stephen, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2003 MongoosePaul: d20 and narratavism
Not sure if this fits better here or in the GNS forum but given it's not specifically GNS I opted for here. Ohh and long time reader, first time poster,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MongoosePaul, joshua neff, Rob Donoghue, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, greyorm, Cemendur, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Morgan, RaconteurX.

9/3/2003 kalyptein: Some magic questions, among others
Got my HQ book last week and I've been pouring over it for a while. I'm totally new to the system (and the world), so I'm hoping some of you…
In HeroQuest
Participants: kalyptein, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, newsalor, dunlaing, Tim Ellis, elgorade, KingOfFarPoint, Wulf, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2003 Tim Alexander: [Devout] Help with varying an ability
Hey Folks, Ok, so my own first try at a game design is represented by Devout. The seed for it came from a conversation with a relative of my wife's…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim Alexander, AgentFresh, bigsimon, Lxndr.

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