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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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.

11/10/2003 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.

11/10/2003 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 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 Ron Edwards: [Elfs] Slavers beware!
Hello, Yes, I played some more Elfs last week. It wasn't with the same group as described in the Serpent cults and repressed priestesses thread, but rather with my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, Ben Lehman, Maura Byrne.

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11/11/2003 Ron Edwards: The whole model - this is it
Hello, All the following material is supplemental to the existing essays, but it also overrules them as well as any of my previous comments in forum discussions at any point…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Marco, M. J. Young, Eero Tuovinen, The GM, Valamir, C. Edwards, Lxndr, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, lumpley, jdagna, Ian Charvill, Walt Freitag, cruciel, Jack Aidley, Gordon C. Landis, Jonathan Walton, contracycle, jeffd, Silmenume, Jack Spencer Jr, Palaskar.

11/11/2003 peejay: G: UM (Genus: Unitary Mechanics)
Hello all, As I am new here I must apologise if I inadvertantly stray from the rules etc. I have read them (honest!). After many years of getting by with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: peejay, Mike Holmes.

11/11/2003 jburneko: [7th Sea] A Harlequin Romance
Someone on RPG.net once started a very amusing thread where people listed what they thought various RPGs would be if they weren't RPGs. Someone posted, "7th Sea: If it wasn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ian Charvill.

11/12/2003 apeiron: Crucible: Publish or Perish (forge spinoff)
@ Somewhere i was reading that the Forge has gained many newbies who might be 'diluting' the pool (the quality of discussion/work). This gave me an idea of having a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: apeiron, Brian Leybourne, M. J. Young, Marco, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, RaconteurX, Emily Care, J B Bell, greyorm, LordSmerf, C. Edwards.

11/12/2003 Green: where can we go to gloat?
Since I finished Kathanaksaya and created a website for it, a player for an independent group (one I don't run) emailed me and told me he was adapting Kathanaksaya for…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Green, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2003 LizardLips: Games where characters have home bases
I want to take a look at games where the players have a shared "home base". I believe InSpecters has a franchise controlled by the players, Birthright had players controlling…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: LizardLips, J B Bell, Lxndr, Mike Holmes.

11/12/2003 Anthony: Core idea for a diceless system, looking for comments
I've always liked the idea of diceless karma driven games, but never the implementations I've seen. Of course the only own Nobilis and I read someone else's copy of Amber…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Anthony, Mike Holmes, TheRedSoup.

11/12/2003 nerdnyc: [Burning Wheel] - No Pasaran!
Sunday I am starting a Spanish Civil War campaign using the Burning Wheel Game system - adapted for the setting. Luke Crane has been a great help with answering questions…
In Actual Play
Participants: nerdnyc, Mike Holmes, abzu, taepoong.

11/12/2003 www.pittt.tk: Hello I'm new to this site...
It looks pretty cool I love role-playing games A bit about myself I'm from England and I run a msg board at pittt.tk So whats up??
In Site Discussion
Participants: www.pittt.tk, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2003 Supersonic Wind: Amateur RPG maker seeks help
I'm very new to the Indie RPG scene. In fact, I found this forum while researching for an RPG idea I got, my first. I don't know what to call…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Supersonic Wind, Mike Holmes, Jeph.

11/12/2003 Green: the game designer gloating thread
Hi, guys! I just started this thread as a place for game designers to tell about the results of their developing games on the Forge and publishing them, a place…
In Actual Play
Participants: Green, xiombarg, Jake Norwood, Tomas HVM, Eero Tuovinen, gobi, Ron Edwards, abzu.

11/12/2003 Jan_Schattling: Another Idea
I like LF very much but i am not sure if it ist suitable for every one so i thought about the combination of two games. In germany we got…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jan_Schattling.

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.

11/13/2003 anonymouse: system piece: the Human Machine
Had this thought today inna shower. The characters have the ability to alter aspects of themselves while they sleep, via dreams. Maybe they want to speed up their metabolism, or…
In RPG Theory
Participants: anonymouse, Comte, Harlequin, Emily Care, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

11/13/2003 Jake Norwood: Interesting space dogfights
One of the things that made the early Star Wars films so cool was the space battles and dogfighting. I've tried several such systems in playing starwars, but none of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Norwood, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, gobi, Grex, LordSmerf, John Kim, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead, Walt Freitag, Overdrive, MachMoth, Darcy Burgess, Harlequin, Loki, AdAstraGames, Christopher Weeks, Dev, Furious D, Ingenious, C. Edwards, Shadetree.

11/13/2003 Dev: Meaningful-quick World-Generation for spacerpunks
(Ah, the eternal progress of space-western setting...) The lowdown: human-centric Space-Western & Space-Noir. PCs hopping around from planet to planet each episode. (Planet-of-the-week, Bounty-of-the-Week, slightly arc-y threads throughout, etc.) I've…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dev, Wasabi, contracycle, gobi, Mike Holmes.

11/13/2003 Tomas HVM: [query]Could you create a RPG-whirlwind?
I've had an idea, and would like you to give some comment on it. Let me give you the background first: Some years ago I went to a marionette-show with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tomas HVM, Eero Tuovinen.

11/13/2003 Jan_Schattling: Music for Little Fears
I got my german copy of the Rules last month on a big convention and so i was one of 500 People who got a soecial edition wich included a…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jan_Schattling, Jason L Blair.

11/13/2003 Brassel: Master-Components are coin generators
Yesterday we had some high-fantasy-game with armies of creatures making war to each other. Everything worked out just fine, with one exception: In a small skirmish (20 v. 20) we…
In Universalis
Participants: Brassel, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/13/2003 pete_darby: Another way that sim play is downright weird...
[quote]I'd go as far as to say that player interest in the inability of characters to adequately address the premise is in itself a good indicator of narrativist play, just…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Marco, Ian Charvill, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, Jack Spencer Jr.

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