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10/28/2003 bcook1971: The Burning Wheel: First Pass
I was skipping around, reading each part within the book that pertained to the idea I was interested in, not really making good progress. Then I had a chat with…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bcook1971, abzu.

10/28/2003 M. J. Young: GNS Conflict with the Referee
In the thread GNS and Social Contract,Problems only occur when players don't like the play of he other players. That is, it's not enough to ensure that the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Anthony I, Mike Holmes.

10/28/2003 Tomas HVM: DM-therapy!
Hi, I've translated one of the minor RPGs of mine to English, and posted it on my site. It's a short read. Please comment! Pervo If you are a games…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tomas HVM, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Anthony I, Rich Forest, Cemendur, Jasper, matthijs, failrate.

10/27/2003 Dev: Accidental de-protagonization
I had the following problem in my last game, during the Endgame in particular. Consider two minions, the Traitor (trying to kill the master) and the Faithful (the one serving…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Dev, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Sample Settings
I have decided, for better or for worse, to include a number of sample settings in Fastlane. Each setting should take up no more than a few pages, just a…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, C. Edwards, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2003 Calithena: D&D and Gamism, continued
This is in response to Mike Holmes' and subsequent posts on the D&D spells and gamism thread, because it's a more general topic. Ron's essay is right on as far…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, anonymouse, greyorm, failrate, Blake Hutchins, ScottM, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Andrew Norris.

10/27/2003 Scripty: Oh, the Horror... (An Invitation to HeroQuest Brainstorming)
Hello, all. First, let me qualify this by saying that it is more of a brainstorming exercise than an actual question or criticism of the HeroQuest system. HeroQuest is a…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Scripty, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs.

10/27/2003 Calithena: Stat Scaling in Sorcerer
I've seen Ron imply in a thread on rpg.net that demons with Power 15 can 'eat Cthulhu'. Where does that leave demons like Gutterblax and Lashtipus from Charnel Gods, with…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, sirogit.

10/27/2003 Ron Edwards: When Endgame crashes and burns
Hi Paul, Up in Black ooze oozes forth, Lisa Padol asked this question, including a quote from a previous post: "2. Could some mechanism prevent the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Lisa Padol, Mike Holmes, GB Steve, Maura Byrne.

10/27/2003 ScottM: Captures- What do I aim for?
[quote="Rules"]"When ever a conflict resolution results in a minion’s Weariness increasing to a value greater than Reason, the minion is captured by the Townspeople or Outsiders."[/quote] But there's additional text…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: ScottM, Paul Czege.

10/27/2003 b_bankhead: Cthulhu's Clues: Why failure is not an option
Failure is not an option As I stated in my essay 'Drifting to R'lyeh' most skill rolls in CoC don't matter much. The design of the prototypical CoC scenario makes…
In RPG Theory
Participants: b_bankhead, Ian Charvill, Valamir, jdagna, Ben Lehman, Comte, The Benj, Rob MacDougall, Mike Holmes, gobi, kalyptein, Noon, Scripty, Marco, John Kim.

10/27/2003 Calithena: Character Conversion
This is a conversion of my namesake character, who I have played off and on (mostly with the same GM) for more than two decades, to Sorcerer. I'm open to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

10/27/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Closing down my forum
After some private discyussion with the administrators of the Forge, Seraphim guard has agreed to close dwon its forum here. Given the amount of freelance talent my company now uses…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/27/2003 ejh: Throwaway Line in GNS Essay: Ron, what were you thinking?
"Arising as it did from wargaming in the middle 1970s, the earliest RPG design reflected its Gamist + Simulationist roots. However, within a year, design philosophies split very fast across…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: ejh, Valamir, AnyaTheBlue, Ian Charvill, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes.

10/27/2003 Calithena: Computers, Gamist Design, and the Future of TRPGing
One thing that reguarly pushes my interest in gaming towards the narrativist and world-building (I guess this is simulationist, but so is wanting to know exactly which tendon that sword…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, anonymouse.

10/27/2003 Ben Dobyns: The ending
First, a disclaimer: I edited "The Gamers", so I'm working from some degree of insider knowledge. Regarding the ending as discussed by Michael S. Miller in the post immediately preceding,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Dobyns, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2003 GB Steve: octaNe at SteveCon V
I decided to keep it silly so the game was psychotronic. The characters I made up too, to save time but the players added in the extra skills. We had:…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve.

10/26/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: "The Gamers" as actual play, take two
Over a month ago, John Laviolette tried to get discussion going about the Gamers movie from Dead Gentlemen Production as an example of actual play. The resulting thread didn’t go…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, MonkeyWrench, GB Steve, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Alan.

10/26/2003 sirogit: Relationship maps and the Rat-Bastard
When I was freely constructing my own relationship map for my sorcerer game, I noticed something rather peculier that connects with two of the examples of relationship maps in Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, arxhon, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2003 Tim C Koppang: Persona - Just in Time Roleplaying
[quote="Persona's Back Cover"]Imagine if you could simply announce a character concept to your group and that would be enough--that would be character creation. Imagine if you could change your character…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim C Koppang, eldae22, phewner, ejh, C. Edwards, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Kainesh, Andrew Norris, alessan, Andrew Martin.

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10/28/2003 greyorm: GNS & Inclusiveness?
Over here MJ Young said:...the answer of the simulationist is, "You're exploring the wrong thing. You have prioritized specific aspects of the world to explore. We're not doing that; we…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, fusangite, Matt Snyder, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Alan.

10/28/2003 abzu: I play Burning Wheel
So I'm bored at work and I thought i'd post some actual play for BW -- since there is absolutely none out there. Let me see if I can illustrate…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, joshua neff, Lxndr, A.Neill, rafial, taepoong, drozdal.

10/28/2003 Matt Wilson: Lifepath question
Hey Luke: Wilhelm "rafial" is talking about running a game of BW coming up in the rotation, so I've been trying out a couple lifepaths to see how things work.…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Matt Wilson, abzu, rafial.

10/28/2003 Ron Edwards: Slavery, morality, and changing times
Hi there, This thread is picking up from the final two posts in Humakt, Rashoran, and justice. The first of the post was still fairly-well integrated with the original thread,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, Donald, Ian Cooper, simon_hibbs, Mac Logo, Valamir, bluegargantua, Peter Nordstrand, simondale, newsalor, epweissengruber, soru.

10/28/2003 abzu: Pandemonium Books in Boston
check out what I found at Pandemonium Books in Boston! http://www.burningwheel.org/images/pandemonium_display.jpg The owner, Tyler, is very friendly and open to indies. We spent a good hour talking about BW, GAMA,…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, HinterWelt, madelf, Paul Czege, Cynthia Celeste Miller, taepoong.

10/28/2003 Thanaeon: David Gemmell... Anyone familiar with him?
As the topic name says... Are you people familiar with the British fantasy author David Gemmell? The reason I'm asking is because reading TRoS I couldn't help thinking every other…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Thanaeon, Brian Leybourne, Bloodstryke, Snikwas, Caz.

10/28/2003 Mike Holmes: Credibility for the Player
It's assumed that in most traditional power split games that the player has control over his own character. And I think that's true, but simplifies things too much. I think…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mike Holmes, Marco, jdagna, gobi, M. J. Young, Calithena, A.Neill, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, fusangite, Noon, Harlequin, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2003 C. Edwards: Confirmation of Cool
(From Popular and Damaging) Rules-lite, just pick a few key stats and the rest is description: Unsatisfying. As a mass market newbie role player, it's not enough for the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: C. Edwards, Marco, Walt Freitag, Jonathan Walton, sirogit, Michael S. Miller.

10/28/2003 Philippe Tromeur: Talking about The Forge on a French radio
In my weekly radio show, "La Terre est Plate Comme une Orange" ( http://ltpco.tk/ ) on a local radio last Monday, I've talked briefly about the Forge. The part in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, joshua neff.

10/29/2003 RobMuadib: M:COTEC - State Of The Game & More Trait Design
Greetings starfighters For our new viewers, I'd thought I'd provide a state of the game address defining the basic outline of the game as it stands, which will hopefully provide…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes.

10/29/2003 sirogit: Ron Edwards' Current prjects
Excus eme if there's some obvious place where I can find this information, but I wanted to ask Ron a few things Are you currently working on any new RPGs?…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Valamir, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, Paka, xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall.

10/29/2003 Calithena: [Sorcery & Sword] Humanity Trading
I'm sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find an old thread. So I'll just ask. I decide I want to play a strongman type character. Really strong,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Valamir, scorpio rising, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/29/2003 The GM: Gaming On Purpose
Aight, here's a follow up to my other thread. Basically, I felt like it wasn't getting anywhere, even though there were some nuggets of info that made me think 'aaaah,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: The GM, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

10/29/2003 Loki: the Riddle of d20 conversion
Hey all, I've been running a low-magic game for about a year now using d20, and my group has become increasingly unhappy with the built-in powergaming of the system--so we're…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Caz, kenjib, Ville, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Stephen.

10/29/2003 Deacon Blues: Experience and SAs - New GM's Concerns
Being a veteran GM and a fan of AEG's 7th Sea, I'm a big fan of rewarding players for having their character's follow their destiny. In fact, the "Background" system…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Deacon Blues, Caz, Valamir, Lxndr, Anthony I, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Vanguard, Tywin Lannister, Noon, Dan Sellars.

10/29/2003 Jonathan Walton: Sports RPGs: A Match Made in Heaven?
[quote="Marco"]So yeah, a good fantasy ("mmm...rich sports hero") doesn't necessiarily make for a good troop-style game.[/quote] I beg to differ. This has been on my mind for years now. Roleplaying…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, quozl, Lxndr, Marco, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Comte, Jack Spencer Jr, Dev, Ben Lehman, Andrew Norris, Michael S. Miller.

10/29/2003 Loki: weapon master
While it sounds like the character this guy plays isn't very fleshed out, he does have a character kernel here: his character is someone who in the real world would…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr.

10/29/2003 Paul Czege: Greg Costikyan's list of 300 Games
In his weblog last Sunday, Greg Costikyan wrote:The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know I've been thinking about writing a book with this title. There are several…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, anonymouse, Ian Charvill, AnyaTheBlue, Mike Holmes, jdagna, John Kim, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Adam, Clinton R. Nixon, Cemendur, adamsmith, ross_winn.

10/30/2003 Calithena: Premise Revisited - Educate Me
I get stance, and the actor/author stance distinction has been one of the most fertile ideas I've gotten for thinking about my gaming in a long, long time. I think…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, Ian Charvill, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Valamir, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Marco, C. Edwards, lumpley, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Paganini.

10/30/2003 bcook1971: Playtesting a Spatial Mechanic
A few weeks back, my group played the fifth and final session for a 1st ed. D&D module. I've used this opportunity to playtest various rules in a game system…
In RPG Theory
Participants: bcook1971, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young.

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