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7/30/2003 Ben Lehman: Questions about TFoB combat rules
Split from: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7354 refers to http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5194&highlight= Brian, what is the present state of Mass Combat rules, given our discussion in that thread? They still need a fair bit…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Brian Leybourne.

7/26/2003 Ben Lehman: Non 3fold-based play analysis
Saw this thread, which prompted the whole thing: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7307 This is a short essay outlining a new method for discussing playstyles which is not directly derived from the Threefold model,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Caldis, Mike Holmes, Hunter Logan, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2003 Ben Lehman: [rantish] Interactive Fantasy and Dysfunction
There is a very strong "our way or the highway" vibe at the Forge, and I don't like it particularly, mostly because I think it alienates new people. I've had…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Cadriel, Bankuei, Dr. Velocity, talysman, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Thomas Tamblyn, Andrew Martin, pete_darby.

7/12/2003 Ben Lehman: Homebrew Setting (long)
You (by which I mean Mike) asked for it. Please note that this is in the very early design phases. Props go out to John Major's excellent and sadly out…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/10/2003 Ben Lehman: Additional Race Priorities -- Exemplars
Edit: ***I have merged this thread into Mike's "empty slots" thread*** Please do NOT reply here. When working out race priorities for my China setting, I stumbled upon an interesting…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/8/2003 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer: Art and Artifice
[quote="Mike Holmes"]Could you post the basic details (maybe in a new thread)? When you say 60s art scene, I'm getting a vision of Warhol, Lou Reed, and Heroin. Am I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks.

7/3/2003 Ben Lehman: Anyone know Chinese weaponry?
Hey-- I'm working on a pet setting for Riddle of Steel, which heavily features a China analouge. And I have realized that my knowledge of Chinese weapons and fighting tactics…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Paganini, MrGeneHa, Eamon Voss, Morfedel, Bankuei, abzu.

6/30/2003 Ben Lehman: Humanity as Moral Gauge?
Hey-- I am playing around with the sorcerer rules, as I just got them. One of the things that immediately struck me is that the Humanity gauge seems primarily designed…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, jburneko, Lxndr, hardcoremoose, Trevis Martin, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, ethan_greer, erithromycin, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, greyorm, Jake Norwood, Akos Szederjei, Mike Holmes.

6/29/2003 Ben Lehman: Mind Control Demons
The threads about mind control got me thinking and, against my better judgement, I put together a perfectly good "mind-controlling" demon with the base Sorcerer rules. Whether or not you…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf.

5/7/2003 Ben Lehman: Strange Sorceror Question
Hey all-- I'm making a character for my first sorceror game, an IRC Sword and Sorceror shindig. Of course, being the sort of gamer I am, my character concept stretches…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Dav, Bailywolf.

5/6/2003 Ben Lehman: The Gentleman Gamist
Yes, I know I confessed my misunderstanding of the Model just now. But I think I have a good grasp on Gamism, and since its natural place and appeal seem…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

5/6/2003 Ben Lehman: Help a GNS illiterate?
Everyone is looking for something-- Goals, Desire and RPGs My name is Ben Lehman, and I am GNS-illiterate. No matter how many times I read Ron's essays, I can't seem…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Garbanzo, Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2003 Ben Lehman: Power Distribution in Games
Read some of the things about power dynamics in this forum, and thought I would delurk and post an essay about power in RPGs, and how it relates to system,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, M. J. Young, Paganini, lumpley.

2/13/2003 Ben Lehman: Thoughts on RoS mass combat
I don't know if Brian Gleichman is a dirty name around here (he has said some mean and nasty things about RoS) but I have just been reading his articles…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, toli, Brian Leybourne, Darth Tang, arxhon, Noon, Jake Norwood, Calder, svenlein, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco.

1/31/2003 Ben Lehman: High-Powered RoS, Oriental Styles, etc. (play report)
Hey-- In early december, we converted my friend's D&D3E campaign to Riddle of Steel, which is the system that it always wanted to run under anyway. First off, we had…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, toli, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Calder.

12/7/2002 Ben Lehman: TN 11 -- does it cause a problem?
So, one of the quirks of the TROS system is that TN 11 and TN 10 are functionally the same (if you open-end on a 10, then you must at…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, prophet118, Mask-of-Winters, Bob Richter, MrGeneHa, toli, MikeSands, Lyrax, Warboss Grock, Durgil, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, Brian Leybourne.

12/4/2002 Ben Lehman: The Doomed Hero
(don't have my book right now, as it's on loan, so if this is covered in the book I apologize) So something that came up in making a character with…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Brian Leybourne, MrGeneHa.

12/1/2002 Ben Lehman: Resources and Resolutions
Hey-- New here, so if this has been brought up before, please let me know and I will apologize profusely. Imbedded in Ron's GNS article is the old "Drama /…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Walt Freitag.

12/1/2002 Ben Lehman: The Magic of Sacrifice
Hey all-- New to the fora and the game. Bought it a couple of weeks ago, am generally impressed, and am in the process of changing bits and pieces so…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Wolfen.

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9/9/2003 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer Gedankensetting
Yes, I'm going to get back to work on 15 minutes one of these days. I've been drowning in work. However, Chris K's quote, below (from the thread in RPG…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Cemendur, AnyaTheBlue.

9/22/2003 Ben Lehman: Setting Design Technique: N or S
So, as I further try to get a handle on these terms, I'm going to ask about the way that I tend to design settings for RPGs. I will note…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

9/22/2003 Ben Lehman: relationship maps as S technique
For clarification, I see most of my games as S / N overlapping -- strong exploration of setting and character and no-collusion actor stance play with strong setting based premise…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, hanschristianandersen, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, M. J. Young, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2003 Ben Lehman: Struggle in RPGs
This is entirely based on this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8092 So I was thinking about the "Vanilla Simulationists" mentioned in this thread with regard to my own experiences with highly immersionist play…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, AnyaTheBlue, contracycle, Ian Charvill, Landon Darkwood.

9/29/2003 Ben Lehman: Humor in RPGs / Comedy RPGs
(Not certain if this should be in RPG Theory or GNS... It relates to RPG theory, but also to GNS...) Something which I have harped on for a while in…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, AnyaTheBlue, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young.

9/30/2003 Ben Lehman: Small Game Help Wanted
So I typed up my bar game, Over the Bar, as a Microsoft Word file, and found that it fits nicely on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, with room…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, RaconteurX.

10/7/2003 Ben Lehman: Stretching
This post is a little off the wall, but I've been stretching Sorcerer inside my head recently, and I've come up with an "interpretation" which I find interesting enough to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, AnyaTheBlue.

10/16/2003 Ben Lehman: A Shot in the Dark
So, I'm planning on expanding on "Over the Bar --" the ultralite "bar game" that I laid out in this thread. A more complete version is available via PM. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8163…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Tim Alexander, Valamir, failrate.

10/20/2003 Ben Lehman: My Life with Imperator
Has anyone considered the possibility of using the My Life With Master mechanics for the Nobilis setting? This idea came to me in the shower this morning, and I think…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, Michael S. Miller.

11/2/2003 Ben Lehman: The Tactics Project
Hi everyone -- I am working on a group-oriented tactical quasi-RPG which is going by the working title "Tactics." The goal is to have a simple, sustainable tactical RPG (or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Emily Care, Dev, Rich Forest, Ace Pumpkin.

11/7/2003 Ben Lehman: Gamist Characteristics
Hi. I've been doing a lot of thought recently into the methods and modes of Gamism, largely to help me with the design of Tactics. I thought I would…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Rich Forest, fusangite, pete_darby, contracycle, Walt Freitag.

11/12/2003 Ben Lehman: Mainstream?
I am writing this from a hip little Internet cafe near my house, where RIGHT NOW on television (okay, it's in an ad break) two personalities on an ESPN talk…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman.

11/18/2003 Ben Lehman: Exploration and Creative Agenda
I have been following with great interest the recent spate of threads about the overall structure of Ron Edward's General Role-Playing Theory. These are, in general, very useful threads, in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Alan, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

12/4/2003 Ben Lehman: Chorus d20
Hi all-- This is a post about a 1-shot game I ran recently for two of my gaming friends from Providence (both part of Brown's Gaming group, but neither --…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, Russell Hoyle.

12/10/2003 Ben Lehman: Charnel Gods
"Escape the sorrow and restraint of mortal cities..." (If you are one of my players for this game, please don't read. It will spoil some surprise.) Hi all-- I'm prepping…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, hardcoremoose, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2003 Ben Lehman: Tactics: Mechanics
For a discussion of responsibility management and group challenge, as well as an introduction to the game design goals, please see the previous thread for Tactics: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8551&highlight= In this thread…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Dev, LordSmerf.

12/18/2003 Ben Lehman: Assorted Questions of Demon Abilities
So, I'm running a game of Sorcerer (Charnel Gods brew) and I had some questions about demon abilities. First of all, all the demons (save one) are incapable of independent…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

1/19/2004 Ben Lehman: Toss and Bind
Hey. I noticed something the other day -- no one in my group ever uses the Toss or Bind maneuvers. Curious, I looked at the manuevers to refresh myself and...…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Deacon Blues, Trevis Martin, Jake Norwood, Merritt Baggett, Wolfen, Paganini, Overdrive, Mokkurkalfe, Spartan.

1/30/2004 Ben Lehman: The Roots of Sim (Response to Nar Essay)
Note that this is, in no way, a response to the entireity of the remarkably in-depth essay that Ron just posted, which will probably take months to digest. Rather, it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, lumpley, John Kim, xiombarg, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Uzzah, Calithena, talysman, james_west, Caldis, clehrich, Sean, epweissengruber, Silmenume, M. J. Young, cruciel, charles ferguson.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Obliteration and Sins
So I have been reading Sophocles and interviews with people who were sexually abused as children, which have combined with Dogs in my head into a incestuously breeding, heavily polygamist,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

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