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11/10/2003 Paganini: Fatalism and Narrativsm
The discussion at the end of this thread caught my eye, but Ron closed it afore I could post: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8494 There was some talk about Boewulf and Huck Finn not…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, John Kim, M. J. Young, Marco, Christopher Kubasik, Ian Charvill, pete_darby, Walt Freitag, Gordon C. Landis, fusangite, C. Edwards.

11/10/2003 Thanaeon: TRoS scenario idea - comments and suggestions, please!
Having recently come to possess this book called The Riddle of Steel, I'm kind of itching to use it, but I can't really stop running my Exalted campaign until it's…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Thanaeon, Valamir, Loki, Paka, kenjib, Jake Norwood, Spartan, Gary_Bingham, Tywin Lannister, Kaare Berg.

11/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Game brewing: where to discuss ideas for games
Where on the Forge is it acceptable to discuss and refine basic ideas for games, rather than games where the work has already been accomplished and need to be reviewed?…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2003 dragon_of_colour: Our Second Game
[i]Here is my posting of our game on saturday last. Overall we had a good time, and made definite improvements on our first attempt two weeks ago. We decided to…
In Universalis
Participants: dragon_of_colour, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Fenris_, Bob McNamee, kwill, magependragon, Christopher Weeks.

11/10/2003 Mulciber: Bookmarks
To (presumably) Clinton: Can we have bookmarks (something like Single This Thread Our For Special Attention), or something? To quote Berucha (sp?): I want it now!
In Site Discussion
Participants: Mulciber, C. Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/10/2003 Eric J.: My eternal hunt for Planescape
I'm in an eternal hunt for a working Planescape RPG. I want something that will facilitate the type of gameplay that Planescape, in my view, should provide. I've made countless…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eric J., ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, C. Edwards, Andrew Martin, Scripty, Jeff Powers.

11/8/2003 LordSmerf: [Trithofar] Need a little feedback
Ok. Trithofar is actually a setting that a few of my friends have been using for over ten years and we're trying to get a system locked down. Anyway, the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: LordSmerf, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Mulciber, contracycle.

11/8/2003 greyorm: Narrativism: What the Heck is it?
This thread is being started based on a number of recent newcomers to the Forge who have been having trouble with the concept of Narrativism and what it entails...mainly, their…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: greyorm, fusangite, Ron Edwards, newsalor, Matt Snyder, jdagna.

11/8/2003 gobi: Game Design 101: A survey
Assume you were to create and teach a college course in the design of role-playing games: 1) Summarize the nature of your class and its ultimate goal. 2) What would…
In RPG Theory
Participants: gobi, M. J. Young, Eero Tuovinen, jdagna, fusangite, Calithena, Lxndr, Dotan Dimet, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Ben Lehman, Comte, ross_winn, eyebeams, damion.

11/8/2003 Ingenious: First Post - Archery Question
Well, this is my first post so I'll be brief. Now, since I lack the funds to buy the book, I'd like to know how detailed the rules are for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ingenious, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, LordSmerf, Snikwas, deltadave, Sneaky Git.

11/8/2003 realms_creator: Book binding
I was wondering if anyone has done a RPG book in coil binding? We are in bata testing of our game and this book binding seems to be winning. Just…
In Publishing
Participants: realms_creator, Chris Passeno, gobi, Valamir, Paul Czege, abzu, jrs, Jack Aidley, madelf, Gold Rush Games, KeithBVaughn, Michael S. Miller, jdagna.

11/8/2003 ZazielsRephaim: First time running a game!!! any advice???
First off, I've been lurking the forum for a while, and must say everyone seems wonderfully polite, intuitive, and helpful. I picked up TROS and OBAM a couple months back,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ZazielsRephaim, Salamander, Brian Leybourne, Spartan.

11/8/2003 JSDiamond: Hell Comes to Frogtown - free rpg
Apologies to anyone with taste. http://www.orbit-rpg.com/froggy.pdf
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond, gabby2600, Lxndr, C. Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Phillip.

11/8/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Kyuseisha: Back to Formula (failures, reworking)
OK, so this is kinda against the "post when you need feedback" thing of this forum, but I figure there's a few morals of game design in this post. Actually,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, apeiron.

11/7/2003 hix: Kickers in the Tenets
Reading 'The Pregnant Pope' and thinking about my two games of Uni so far, I've found that there's always a Tenet that defined and focused the story we were about…
In Universalis
Participants: hix.

11/7/2003 dyjoots: Magic in Donjon: Power Level
I've been looking over threads here and the game itself, particularly with concerns about magic. In several threads, it was mentioned that the magic system may be a bit overpowered,…
In CRN Games
Participants: dyjoots, jdagna, rafial, Bob McNamee.

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.

11/7/2003 Rich Forest: The sniper takes aim at my guy's head...
Over in Indie Design, Ben Lehman is working on a cool idea he’s calling The Tactics Project. He’s described his goals for it like this: The real key is…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rich Forest, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Paul Czege.

11/7/2003 JamesDJIII: When Words Failed Me
Last night we played Exalted, and I had the hardest time coming up with "cool" ways to describe what I wanted to do. (A lot like games like Sorcerer, Exalted…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ben Lehman, rafial, jdagna, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, John Burdick, greyorm, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes.

11/7/2003 Chris Barrett: Can you help the Skill System for Triquetra?
[b]Summary:[/b] Individual Skills are graded 1-3. They are organized as a group of inter-connected tech trees. If you've seen the tech trees for the PC Civilization games, that's what it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Chris Barrett, Jack Aidley, Simon W, Marco, gabby2600, Andrew Martin.

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11/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Augmented: The Trouble with Hyper-Humans
Okay. I want to design a game around a theme I find interesting: humans with standard human gifts/weaknesses that are augmented/uplifted to superhuman capability. Think Nobilis (for it's Aspect descriptions),…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Valamir, Ron Edwards, gobi, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat.

11/10/2003 Jay Turner: PCs and Plots: In Media Finiti Res
Okay, I'm not sure about my Latin in the subject. It's been awhile. :) Something I noticed, though, and this might be a specifically ME thing, was that an insane…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jay Turner, jdagna, Mike Holmes, John Kim, M. J. Young, Noon, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2003 jeffd: [Fading Suns] Player/Character motivations & a question
I ran another Fading Suns session this past weekend where something really interesting happened. First some background: There were two relatively new players in the game who had both made…
In Actual Play
Participants: jeffd, Mike Holmes, jdagna, Ron Edwards, stingray20166, Dave Panchyk.

11/11/2003 Borogove: Universalis for Two?
Is it worth trying to play Universalis as a two-player game? Anyone have first-hand experience? I haven't successfully done any RPGing for years. Universalis looks like it could be really…
In Universalis
Participants: Borogove, hix, Tony Irwin, Bob McNamee, Brassel.

11/11/2003 abzu: After Lollagazebo Report
So I just returned from another convention. I slept all day today to recover and I am still exhausted. I wanted to give a brief recount of the event in…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu.

11/11/2003 Dumirik: Character Creation in Nightscape
Ho, I haven't been posting for a while, and haven't been spending too much time on my game (major exams in school), but during the next few weeks I should…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dumirik, Mike Holmes.

11/11/2003 abzu: Convention Organizers: Demo Tables vs Dealers Tables
This is an open question to any convention organizers that lurk about on the Forge: Would it be possible to create a demo table in the RPG rooms of conventions…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, jdagna, Christopher Weeks, nerdnyc, Dregg, jrients, Dev, WMGG, Derek.

11/11/2003 abzu: The End of Forge East part 1
Based on my experiences at the last two cons selling other folks' games, I have to close my open offer to sell books for other game publishers/designers. Basically, my suspicions…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Paul Czege, eruditus, nerdnyc, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, LordSmerf.

11/11/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers Adventure and Pregen Characters availab
Alright. It took a good bit longer to finish than I'd anticipated, but the much awaited sample adventure and pregenerated characters are available here. This is a 30 page adventure…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Jack Aidley, sirogit, DaGreatJL.

11/11/2003 LizardLips: Math formula to determine probabilities of this mechanic?
I have no head for numbers. I want to build a table of probabilities. Along one axis would be a row of target numbers (1 to 20), along the other…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: LizardLips, Eero Tuovinen, HMT, Mike Holmes.

11/11/2003 jeffd: Fading Suns system impression & thoughts
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum for thoughts on an existing system. If not, I'm sure it'll get moved. :) Hi Jeff, I was going to reply…
In Actual Play
Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Jeph.

11/11/2003 eruditus: Convention review: Lollagazebo
You are the first to see this. It is the start of my new convention experienceseries. I have posted this to RPGnet but it will be a few days until…
In Conventions
Participants: eruditus, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, taepoong, zephyrrs.

11/11/2003 ZazielsRephaim: Strangle? Garrots? any ideas?
Has anyone developed rules for strangulation, and perhaps stats on a garrot (strong cord or wire used to strangle)? I was looking through the books, and while I didn't find…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ZazielsRephaim, Furious D, bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, Deacon Blues, Caz, Wolfen, Salamander, Ingenious, Jake Norwood.

11/11/2003 TheRedSoup: So is that it?
I'm curious about the state of Skarka's projects. What is he doing now?
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: TheRedSoup, GMSkarka.

11/11/2003 pete_darby: Weak humour...
...brought to you by the "find and replace function" and his own early (flailing) attempts to understand GNS. If I recall the exchanges went something like this.... The SIM Sketch…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: pete_darby.

11/11/2003 Loki: diagnose my group
I've been reading some of the threads and articles on the site and I'm thinking about my game group with an eye toward making play more fun. We're in a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Loki, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII, Mike Holmes, ScottM, Tim Alexander.

11/11/2003 Peter Nordstrand: HeroQuest demos
Hello, I have recently submitted three HeroQuest scenarios to my local convention, and I would like to hear your input. I haven’t written the scenarios yet, but the deadlines were…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, bluegargantua, pete_darby.

11/11/2003 Pytorb: Another archery question
If you know someone is aiming a bow at you can you parry the incoming arrow with a shield? If so what effect does it have on the damage?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Pytorb, deltadave, Brian Leybourne, Caz, Sneaky Git, Thanaeon, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Ingenious, ks13.

11/11/2003 deltadave: GenCon SoCal - who's coming?
Is anybody from here planning on being at GenCon next month? I'd love to play in a game if there are some demos going.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: deltadave, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Anthony I, Lxndr, JESTER, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Ithron, Salamander.

11/11/2003 The big blue ape: Damage
Well, some time ago my character acquired the ability to projectile vomit, the seneschal was stumped on the amount of damage it would give, i am also stumped, any suggestions?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The big blue ape, Thanaeon, ZazielsRephaim, Caz, Jake Norwood, kenjib, Spartan, StahlMeister, Krammer, Camillus.

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