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10/31/2003 Brassel: Challenge during Resolution of Complication?
We just played our first universal story, and boy, we had some fun! There'll be a sequel soon, I'm sure. We found the rules to be very well understandable and…
In Universalis
Participants: Brassel, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 sirogit: Playing with the idea of "Lineage" in Sorcerer
One of the concepts for something to do in Sorcerer is playing around with the idea of "Lineage", which I will define as, the sense of the supernatural descending from…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Paka.

10/31/2003 dragon_of_colour: Our first game
Hello all, Tried out Uni for the first time last weekend. Our first game was really a hit-and-miss affair, but we had fun and hammered out the rules between us.…
In Universalis
Participants: dragon_of_colour, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Brian Leybourne.

10/31/2003 Ron Edwards: [Orbit] Rock rock, rock-and-roll future
This game is way fun, both in making characters and setting up a situation. I could make up Orbit characters just to amuse myself, and the cool thing is that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, JSDiamond.

10/31/2003 Ron Edwards: [Arrowflight] Pixies, poison, and duty
Hello, This post is way overdue; we played a single-session game of Arrowflight at a meeting of our campus club almost four weeks ago. I'll start right off by saying…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Matt Wilson.

10/31/2003 Tim C Koppang: Rule Nebulas
Out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone has ever done anything like this when designing their game? I call it a rule nebulas. Basically, I think it's a nice…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tim C Koppang, Andrew Martin, Cemendur, Jasper, Jack Spencer Jr.

10/31/2003 Grimbot: World Design
I just got my book and I'm really looking forward to starting up my first session. After a few practice sessions I think I'm going to try to get my…
In Universalis
Participants: Grimbot, Valamir, GreatWolf.

10/30/2003 mikemunsil: I too...
I too am tryng to start a group, but I'm not as far along as Caitlin as I haven't identified anyone to play with. Also, I'm not overly familiar with…
In Actual Play
Participants: mikemunsil, Ron Edwards, Delta1.

10/30/2003 Paul Czege: pitching to a retailer
So...Luke's photo of OctaNe, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, and Shades of Earth on display at Pandemonium Books in Boston got me thinking about how I might directly pitch local retailers…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, jdagna, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Valamir, abzu.

10/30/2003 gregkcubed: where to buy...
Hi, new to the forum.. we've got a nerd group here in NYC and we've been playing a low magic Crom style game. We've been playing D&D d20 and frankly…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: gregkcubed, Brian Leybourne, Caz.

10/30/2003 MachMoth: Shared Action Resolution
To be honest, I never put to much thought into shared narration. I like the idea, but most of the people I play with don't. The seperation of character and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MachMoth, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf.

10/30/2003 Calithena: Mu's Bed II
Paka, my money is in your pocket the second any version of this hits pdf or the stores. This stuff rocks the HOUSE! Probably you've read her stuff already long…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Paka.

10/30/2003 Ron Edwards: [Elfs] Serpent cultists and repressed priestesses
Hello, I've been wanting to play Elfs for lots and lots of people at once for a long time. This time, we had six, and it works great! What a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Anthony I, Valamir.

10/30/2003 Calithena: DERPG and GNS
I'm jumping ahead to the next step here, but I want to pose a basic question and see how people answer it. I think that the Dying Earth RPG is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, gentrification.

10/30/2003 JamesDJIII: MACE - High Point, NC
Is any one from the Forge going to show up and run games? http://www.justusproductions.com/ Lookes like they could use an indie game injection.
In Conventions
Participants: JamesDJIII, xiombarg.

10/30/2003 Spooky Fanboy: 9 Worlds: Hubris/Arete question
Originally, in the 9 Worlds playtest, if you declared one of these sacrosanct, the other attribute was put in danger. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't wrap my…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder, Valamir.

10/30/2003 Tomas HVM: The four main forms of roleplaying games
I'm concerned in making criteria that includes all forms of roleplaying. To divide between different forms of roleplaying is another task. So I take these thoughts on the forms from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tomas HVM, Lxndr, John Kim, James Holloway, Jack Aidley.

10/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Would-be Novelist Wanted
As a game publisher trying to rbanch out into the fields of novels and manga, I find I could use writers for several projects. I pay in a percentage royalty,…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

10/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for opportunties for expansion
I'm looking to expand Seraphim guard's product line even beyond games. Sounds silly, doesn't it? But one of the people I'm working with has just offered to write me a…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

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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10/31/2003 Syranos: Rpg development
I have recently begun development of my own rpg world using an until recently unexplored system. I will be posting more latter until then I am open to suggestions. The…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Syranos, Ben Lehman, gabby2600, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

10/31/2003 chade0: half-swording?
Hello, I can't exactly understand what half-swording means. So, you graspt the blade with your off hand and use your sword as short spear? Does this mean that the weapon…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Thanaeon, Caz, Jasper, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Ingenious, LordSmerf, Jake Norwood, Jim, timfire, kidar, Ashren Va'Hale.

10/31/2003 abzu: 1 Year Old!
So today, Halloween, is Burning Wheel's first birthday. After a year of hustling we've moved hundreds of copies of the game, been to eight conventions: Ucon, Ubercon 1, Gazebo of…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, rafial, drozdal.

10/31/2003 Peregrine: Wayfarer's Song - Second Edition: Feedback
Hi everyone, I just thought I'd drop by and see if I can get a little feedback on the second edition Wayfarer's Song. A few of you will be familiar…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Peregrine, Matt, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 chade0: can you parry a grapple?
Someone is trying to grapple you and you have a dagger in your hand. Can you parry "his hand"? Or is evasion the only way?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Draigh, Brian Leybourne, Salamander, StahlMeister, Paka, Thanaeon, Ian Charvill.

10/31/2003 dunlaing: Gamma World HQ
It sounds like Gamma World D20 is bad (seperate from the "D20" part even). What would Gamma World HQ look like? Would you define Homeland keywords? Would there need to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Scripty, RaconteurX, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 Jake Norwood: Helping Jake Out
Okay...fact is that this post is mostly fueled by a desire to post more on this board. That being said, it should be fun anyway. You guys have good ideas,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ben Lehman, Snikwas, Mulciber, Spartan.

10/31/2003 a_verheaghe: help a lazy guy out w/what my Greek father told me
I'm working on keywords for a Heroic Greek campaign which I'll gladly share when finished. But, I really was hoping some creative writer could step up and help with a…
In HeroQuest
Participants: a_verheaghe, epweissengruber, Mithras.

10/31/2003 Emily Care: international rpg
In the four main types of role-playing thread: ...and it wouldn't surprise me if this were true in most of the US -- obviously, UK LARP culture is very…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Emily Care, Minx, Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, Jonathan Walton, Rich Forest, Grex, James Holloway, Ben Lehman, herrmess, Andrea Gualano, Ron Edwards, gizem, Valamir, GreatWolf, GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Andy Kitkowski, John Kim, contracycle, Dr_Mikenstein, edomaur, kwill, Erick Wujcik.

10/31/2003 Gordon C. Landis: What is a HeroQuest?
[quote="Valamir"][quote]To veer over to the Illiad example. Greek heroquesters might look for ways to resolve the rift between Achillies and Agammemnon -- but if they suddenly turned it around and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, simondale, Mac Logo, Spooky Fanboy, simon_hibbs.

11/1/2003 Wolfen: Can you parry WITH a grapple?
This topic is inspired by the one previously posted by chade0. I've been studying Aikido (sorta.. Once a week can barely be called studying) for a couple months now, and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Draigh, Mike Holmes, Salamander, cruciel, Mulciber.

11/1/2003 chade0: problems with fist fighting damage
Hi, it's me again. I test-played some fist fighting because i had not tried it before. Some questions came to mind about the damage.. I noticed that a bout between…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Wolfen, Dan Sellars, Jake Norwood, spacedragon.

11/2/2003 John Kim: Story and Narrative Paradigms in RPGs
I have just finished a fairly in-depth essay about the relation of story in static narratives (i.e. books and film) versus story in RPGs. It's a sort of formalist approach…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Ben Lehman, RaconteurX, Marco, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, fusangite, Ron Edwards, peejay.

11/2/2003 Fabrice G.: Sorcerer and dysfunctional play
Hello, Yesterday I GMed my "convention scenario" for the third time. It's amazing how fast Sorcerer expose dyfunctional play for what it is ! To recap a bit... The scenario…
In Adept Press
Participants: Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

11/2/2003 Loki: 1st TROS(QS) session, question
Tonight my group made up their d20 characters into TROSQS characters (surprisingly easy, if you concentrate on their personalities and not powers). We ran some combats using the TROS Quickstart…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Jasper, Lxndr, Draigh, Brian Leybourne, gregkcubed, Stephen, Mulciber.

11/2/2003 LordSmerf: GM/PC Play Simultaneously?
So Ron tossed this off in the Adept Press forum, almost anecdotally. I really thought it was a great articulation of something that i wanted to do. After some thought…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, jdagna, lumpley, C. Edwards, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

11/2/2003 LordSmerf: Do Generalized Systems Inhibit Long-term Play?
First, this is a personal observation stemming from my experiences playing Universalis and the Pool primarily. I was really curious as to other people's experiences. It seems to me that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, C. Edwards, Marco, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

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.

11/3/2003 chronodragon: Vampires
Does somebody know a good website where i could information about vampires, to make a game design? I'd like to know everything about Vampire classes, crucifix and amulets, powers, dark…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: chronodragon, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, hix.

11/3/2003 aghori: Diceless Binary Randomizer
This comes from a post reply I made at another forum. Take four different sized coins, from smallest to biggest their values will be 1, 2, 4, 8. These are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: aghori, Dev, M. J. Young.

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