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9/14/2003 Raymond Caleatry: Wheel of time Magic System conversion (This is long)
Finally i have finished typing up the first draft of the magic system, just so you guys can question it to pieces. Please rip it to shreds, the more problems…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Raymond Caleatry, Sneaky Git.

9/13/2003 deidzoeb: Footcreme - found text conflict resolution mechanic
[b][url=http://evilbobdayjob.tripod.com/ftcrm/index.html]footcreme[/url][/b] No, it's not a make-over game, although it could be. FTCRM = Found Text Conflict Resolution Mechanic = ([b]footcreme[/b]) The strategies and variations page is still under construction, but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: deidzoeb.

9/13/2003 Ronin: The pool sucks and so does it's creator
The pool is not an olympic sized water hole to frolic about and have fun in, it at best is a cess Pool waiting for the unitiated to venture into…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Ronin, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, James V. West.

9/13/2003 Soome: Hey guys, new guy on the boards needing help on his RPG
I'm not sure if this is the right board to be posting this on but here goes. Hey all, I'm Soome and I stumbled across this site one day when…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Soome, Dave Panchyk, M. J. Young.

9/13/2003 johnzo: PTA: Imperivm Confidential
Salve! Thursday at UGX, we made characters for Imperivm Confidential--a purposefully anachronistic, noir-flavoured Imperial Rome miniseries run with the Prime Time Adventures ruleset. The characters are senior watchmen (or vigiles)…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnzo, Matt Wilson, Valamir.

9/13/2003 realms_creator: Realms of Adventuring play testers
We are in the process of putting final touch on our players guide to the Realms. We are looking for play testers in the South Eastern area. The Realms is…
In Connections
Participants: realms_creator.

9/13/2003 Anthony I: Just finished a game of Paladin
Like the title says, I just ran my first game of Paladin tonight. Everyone had a great time playing. A couple of provisos first though- I used almost all of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anthony I.

9/13/2003 realms_creator: Web hosting
Can someone but me in contact with a good hosting company?
In Publishing
Participants: realms_creator, Lxndr, Dave Panchyk, Matt.

9/13/2003 ULO: Toughness question
What if instead of toughness acting like armor it reduced the shock and pain of a wound but left the bleeding and damaging effects? Sorry if its already been talked…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ULO, Ashren Va'Hale, MonkeyWrench, Brian Leybourne, Pvt Kastro, Durgil, Jaeger, Rico, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, toli, Dan Sellars, Mike Holmes, Ville.

9/13/2003 Ron Edwards: Thank you for volunteering
Over in Internet piracy on documents, Dave Panchyk wrote, it's time to create some "Wisdom of the Forge" threads/stickies/articles/sutras, that encapsulate the "best practices" (in corporate parlance) of experienced Forge…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/12/2003 GMSkarka: [HotNW] Suggest Section Titles!
OK folks, I'll need your input on this one. My plan is this: Rather than pepper the book with unlicensed lyric quotes ala early White Wolf, my plan is to…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: GMSkarka, peteramthor, TSL, Gordon C. Landis, mythusmage, VAXJedi, J. Duncan, Stephen, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, quozl, Valamir, godfather punk, AnyaTheBlue.

9/12/2003 Pilgrim: Character Creation Issues
Matt, I've been trying to tinker together a character and nothing is really coming together for me. I also found that in the Playtesters Unite thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7557, others were/are having…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Pilgrim.

9/12/2003 anonymouse: Piece: Ablative Luck.
Was watching Once Upon a Time in Mexico... Got to thinking that a game could have some kind of "luck armor". Heroes get a boatload, mooks probably only have a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: anonymouse, gobi, ethan_greer, mrteapot.

9/12/2003 Lxndr: [MLwM] For Those Of Us D4-Deprived
I own maybe three d4s, less than any other single die except the weird ones (d5, d7, etc). My fellow gamers, I believe, own even less (I'm kind of a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, Bob McNamee, mortmere, RdGkA, Paul Czege, Adam Dray.

9/12/2003 Syam Lantri: A Glorantha Campaign Setting Handbook?
Hi folks, I am a newbie in the world of Glorantha, and the lot of information delivered is very (too?) important. Fortunately, I'm not alone to think that way, and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Syam Lantri, Mike Holmes, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Nick Brooke.

9/12/2003 jburneko: The Asylum: A First Pass Sorcerer One Sheet
Hello All, My Sorcerer ideas are a dime a dozen and I generally don't post them here unless I think I might actually get a chance to develop them. Well…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Ben Morgan, Christopher Kubasik, Lxndr, Nev the Deranged.

9/12/2003 Jason E. Roberts: [HotNW] Story Seed
Destiny, a rising pop star with tons of play on the fledgling MTV network, has been abducted. Her disappearance has apparently confounded local authorities and the FBI has been brought…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Jason E. Roberts, GMSkarka.

9/12/2003 AnttiK: [Anticide Illustrations] A Small Update
The not-so-famous home of a good quality RPG illustrator. ;) Anticide Illustrations I've put up some new example illustrations into my online portfolio, so come on by, take a look,…
In Connections
Participants: AnttiK, Sylus Thane.

9/12/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: When Sorcery Goes Poof
Following the general "nothing never happens" policy, when a player fails a sorcery roll, the ritual shouldn't just fizzle out. A failed contact gets the wrong demon; a failed summon…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mikko Lehtinen, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2003 Pilgrim: Applicable Article in Pyramid
Pyramid ran an article that applies pretty well to Nine Worlds (as well as Kester's Crystal Spheres). It is: Fantasy Cosmology: When the Stars Are Just Lights by David Morgan-Mar.…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Pilgrim.

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9/14/2003 Irmo: Demo one-shot
If you intend to participate at the TROS game at RPG.net's Dutch Tangency Meeting, this is where you stop reading...... If not, I'd like to ask for comments and additional…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Irmo, Mike Holmes, Valamir, MonkeyWrench.

9/15/2003 Michael Hopcroft: GenCon SoCal Transportation & Room Sharing
I'mm be going to genCOn soCal after all, to pitch myself and help a few other Forge members if I can. I think I have my membership taken care of,…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna.

9/15/2003 Dumirik: The Last Bastion's back!
Hey boyz (and girls, its a generic term), I just wanted to announce with as little fanfare as possible (tarrraaaaah!! ;)) that my RPG currently entitled The Last Bastion is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dumirik, Mike Holmes.

9/15/2003 Paka: I wince as I type - Sorcerer for Harry Potter RPG
I am sure someone must have said this already but I haven't been watching the site as closely lately. Anyway, here's my swing. Humanity - Living up (or down) to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2003 Paka: Using Universalis to Create the Game's Setting
The Riddle of Steel game never got to be played because the brothers I was running the game for had a meltdown before the game got going. However, we used…
In Universalis
Participants: Paka, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes.

9/15/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Comic continues to rock
Just thought it worth mentioning. -Vincent
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/15/2003 Jason: Donjon round 2
This round started at a bar, with a mage dressed completely in rat pelts asking for help retrieving his magic rat mask from the mages guild. The party didn't trust…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jason.

9/15/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: A couple more rules questions
I have a couple more questions. Hold Let's see if I'm right on how the Hold ability works. The demon attacks using its Power. The target can defend normally using…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2003 taepoong: Kayfabe Questions
So we played our first session of Kayfabe last night. We had a great time! However, we had a few comments and questions, which I am sure comes from inexperience:…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: taepoong, Lxndr, HDWDiva, Matt Gwinn, abzu.

9/15/2003 Michael Hopcroft: An Open Letter from Seraphim Guard
As many of you may know, Wizards of the Coast has instituted some changes in the D20 System Trademark license, the document that determines which documents can and cannot use…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

9/15/2003 lumpley: Personal Relevance and Multi-PC Play
Up in Character and Our Weird Gamer Friends, Clinton wroteDoing this myself, I have specific characters that are: - Sad-About-Divorce Clinton - Really-Pissed-Off-Now-About-Divorce Clinton - Attracted-to-Friend's-Wife Clinton - Wishing-to-Enact-Justice-on-Loony-Parents Clinton…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, cruciel.

9/15/2003 JSDiamond: Orbit shipping TODAY!
That's it, Orbit is finished! The books are on their way as of this morning. 272 pages of planet hopping, alien hottie, boozing, gun-fighting goodness!
In Orbit
Participants: JSDiamond, Mike Holmes, Catalyst.

9/15/2003 deadpanbob: GM/World as Character
All: I've done a search on the forums, but my search-kwon-do as they say, is meek. Can anyone point me to games that have included the idea of the GM…
In RPG Theory
Participants: deadpanbob, Bob McNamee, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Lxndr, Jonathan Walton, Andrew Martin, simon_hibbs, pete_darby, gobi, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2003 Ron Edwards: My editing is done
I want to make it public that I consider Legends of Alyria to be one of the finest role-playing games available. It stands with Hero Quest in its brand of…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, ethan_greer, GreatWolf, Thalaxis, Shreyas Sampat, Gordon C. Landis.

9/16/2003 Jonathan Walton: Plato on Polysided Dice
Don't know exactly how I'd go about using this, but I thought I'd pass this neat bit of info onto those who might be ignorant (as I was until this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt Snyder, ethan_greer, Andrew Martin, mrteapot, CplFerro, mjk.

9/16/2003 ethan_greer: [Thugs and Thieves] Quick status update
Well, I've been busy cranking out the "final" playtest draft. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just finished writing the big ol' honkin'…
In SimplePhrase Press
Participants: ethan_greer, Mike Holmes.

9/16/2003 jphannil: Just (another) game idea
Hello and greetings from someone just signed in the forge. I've been playing rpg's since the beginning of the 90's, not as much now as I used to. I've always…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jphannil, taalyn, Mike Holmes, Dev, Walt Freitag, aghori, failrate, Andrew Martin.

9/16/2003 David Chunn: [SagaCraft] Hero Background
Hey, folks! I need some help deciding between two different creation methods for hero background. Since this is my first post about the game, let me sum things up for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: David Chunn, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Andrew Martin.

9/16/2003 Gethyn: Star Wars and Trainer Wheels
Hi folks I'm new to the board but I've been reading avidly for quite a while as an unregistered user. I was wondering if anyone was interested in hearing about…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gethyn, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Dana_mun, John Kim, bigsimon, RaconteurX.

9/16/2003 Jonathan Walton: When Can We Stop Making "Games"?
I find myself increasingly frustrated, not by the expectations of those outside of the gaming community, but by the expectations that gamers and designers have set for themselves. To me,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt Snyder, ethan_greer, Ben Morgan, pete_darby, Jack Spencer Jr, jdagna, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, deadpanbob, Marco, taalyn, ejh, Mike Holmes, ross_winn, John Kim, Valamir, xechnao, damion, simon_hibbs.

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