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11/27/2003 Cassidy: Engaging Narrative
It's been a while since I last posted on this forum. My introduction to the Pool has proved to be an epithany in my role-playing life this year; long may…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, HMT, qxjit, Ron Edwards, James V. West, xiombarg, Matt Wilson.

11/27/2003 Der_Renegat: The Hero Scale 2 (split)
Very impressive post mr. Mike Holmes! Enlightening for the understanding of HQ rules and the understanding of the lord of the rings, too - really! I wonder how you would…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, Christopher Kubasik, RaconteurX, newsalor, soru, Ron Edwards, HMT, Mac Logo, Scripty, Donald, simon_hibbs, droog, Mike Holmes.

11/27/2003 Harlequin: Play group size for MLwM
One question... the Actual Play reports I've been reading have all been relatively small playgroups, three to four minions, at most five. I want to introduce MLwM to my regular…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Harlequin, Lxndr, xiombarg, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

11/27/2003 John Kim: Open Play for the Soul
[quote="Paganini"] Narrativism is about setting up a specific kind of choice for the characters to face. Call them urgent choices. For one reason or another, an urgent choice can't just…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, Ian Charvill, Christopher Kubasik, greyorm, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/27/2003 Noon: Good cop, bad cop
Recently I had an idea to operate a game at a different level. I thought of almost having two GM's (yeah, nothing new). But in this case one has more…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, MachMoth, The Benj, Andrew Norris, Emily Care.

11/26/2003 Draigh: OT: Thanksgiving Greetings
Hey everybody, just wanted to wish all of us Americans a Happy Thanksgiving. And to those of you who aren't American... HAPPY THURSDAY!!! http://www.homestarrunner.com/zeen_ecard.pl?idnum=10698892511177
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Draigh, Thanaeon, Sneaky Git, kenjib.

11/26/2003 Valamir: Journal of the Mail Society
Hey folks, don't know if you've seen this yet, but Erik Schmid's got his Journal of the Mail Society available through RPGMall now. I'll take a little credit for having…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir.

11/26/2003 Bob Goat: Unamed Game: Looking for a little advice
Hi, I have been working on an RPG for the past couple of years and have recently come to a point where I think I may need to scrap my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bob Goat, matthijs, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Harlequin, Loki, contracycle, Lxndr, Dumirik, Jake Norwood.

11/26/2003 Calithena: Interesting RPG history link
I got some offline queries about RPG history. Victor Raymond, who plays in M.A.R. Barker's Thursday Night Game, wrote the article at the attached lnik; he hasn't followed it up…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Calithena, Emily Care, Valamir, Jack Spencer Jr, Liz Henry.

11/26/2003 Dr. Awkward: I'm looking for "war stories"...
[i](If this thread is in the wrong place, please move it for me. I debated for a long time where to put it, and this seemed like the closest thing…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Dr. Awkward, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf.

11/26/2003 Stephen: ANOTHER sorcery variation!
Here's a thought. I was never particularly fond, myself, of the "Target" variable in spell CTNs. Its primary purpose from a game standpoint seems to be to ensure that any…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Stephen, toli, ZazielsRephaim, kenjib, Jake Norwood, GaGrin, StahlMeister.

11/26/2003 Der_Renegat: HQ for Cyberpunk and strength ratings of cyborgs
Hey! I love the whole cyberpunk genre, especially in manga comics like Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, Eden and Blame! While its really easy to adapt most aspects of HQ…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, Donald, soru, Mac Logo, Scripty, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, simon_hibbs.

11/26/2003 kwill: safe sorcery: scary magical friends?
I've recently had to put a Sorcerer demo on hold because the event will (hopefully) attract a number of younger newbies, and the organisers felt that talk of summoning and…
In Adept Press
Participants: kwill, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Emily Care.

11/26/2003 kwill: harsh humanity
so I thought you took victories off humanity in humanity checks, and in my first roll ever in a Sorcerer game reduced someone to Humanity 1; you can imagine I…
In Adept Press
Participants: kwill, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

11/26/2003 Dotan Dimet: Just Desserts (clarify Reward techniques, please)
Forge newbie ramble. Please bear with me. In The Whole Model, Ron writes: I consider the two most important Techniques to be reward system and IIEE. Now, I understood…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dotan Dimet, MachMoth, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

11/25/2003 Dotan Dimet: Races and "races" in literature and RPGs
Re: the RPG-Orc thing, the weirdest case of symbolic stand-ins IMO was in the Underground RPG, where psychotic superpowered discharged vets (the PCs of the futuristic setting) play a literary…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Ron Edwards, James Holloway.

11/25/2003 Cemendur: Non-Visual Thinkers & Imagined Space
In Art Does It Matter?, ways of learning and ways of thinking were discussed in relation to RPGs. On the other hand (and this is getting a bit tangential)…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Cemendur, Lxndr, M. J. Young, Alan, ethan_greer, Green.

11/25/2003 Harlequin: Help request - Fortune in the _______?
Disclaimer: The primary game I am working on is (if contracts happen before completion - else this disclaimer may vanish as I self-publish) not indie. A major game publisher wants…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Harlequin, cruciel.

11/24/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Turning North
So this week's game was a classic problematic game situation. Of the six players from last session, only three could make it to this session. In this session I had…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, taepoong, rafial.

11/24/2003 Matt Snyder: Daedalus No. 2 call for content
The first issue of Daedalus was a resounding success. To date, readers downloaded the PDF version well over 2,500 times. I estimate a very rough readership somewhere between 1,500 and…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, Zathreyel, mikemunsil.

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11/27/2003 sirogit: Relationship Map Techniques?
Having a spot of difficulty in making relationship maps that involve the PCs strongly in the story(Even with group created R-maps.) I was wondering if anyone used paticurly effective techniques…
In RPG Theory
Participants: sirogit, Noon, hix, Roy, Mike Holmes.

11/28/2003 bcook1971: Question about searching
Can your search page handle strings? e.g. . Or would you have to go ? I have trouble using it in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, jrs, Emily Care.

11/28/2003 Kenway: 60 Second Pool (variation)
How about this Pool variation: 60 second Pool (variation). *For character creation, instead of 50 words, you get 60 seconds to describe your character orally to the others. The other…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Kenway, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, James V. West.

11/28/2003 mf_v1: Late is better than never, especially on a quiet board!
So I've been meaning to drop a line to this board for an age, and never gotten around to it until now. Upon my prompting, a fellow gamer of mine…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: mf_v1, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Captain Kayfabe, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

11/28/2003 Thierry Michel: Wishes non fulfilled
There an article by Umberto Eco there, about the death of the printed book. The last paragraphs are especially interesting (to me, at least): Indeed, in a role-play game…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Thierry Michel, pete_darby.

11/28/2003 Ian Charvill: Falsifying GNS
In a couple of threads recently people have raised the idea that GNS is not falsifiable so therefore is questionable as a theory. It occurs to me that GNS is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian Charvill, Valamir, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, jdagna, Christopher Kubasik, marcus, beingfrank, MachMoth.

11/28/2003 chade0: What is the damage when thrusting with a poleaxe?
The weapon appendix does not give any thrust damage for pole axe, only cutting damage. But if you have a spiked pole axe and you want to thrust with it,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Jake Norwood.

11/28/2003 chade0: IRC channel dedicated to tros?
Has someone created a TRoS IRC channel in some irc network? =) Just wanted to ask... :)
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, feanor, Thanaeon, Ingenious, Draigh, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

11/28/2003 Paganini: Is it as fast as they say?
So, I know it's really late to be thinking about buying TROS. It's been out for ages, it's got 2000+ posts at RPG.NET - I mean, heck, I've even *designed*…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paganini, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Ian Charvill, Thanaeon, A.Neill, Sneaky Git, Mike Holmes, Jim, Salamander, Tim Gray, deltadave, Jake Norwood, Draigh, Wolfen, Ben Lehman, The Flashing Blade, Jaif.

11/28/2003 Gold Rush Games: POD printing and distribution
We're rolling out our new Eureka! program, with two separate services available to small press and indie publishers. We offer POD printing and distribution. Whether you print your books elsewhere…
In Publishing
Participants: Gold Rush Games, Michael Hopcroft.

11/29/2003 realms_creator: Jugde screen
I am in need of someone who can print some screens for my game. If you can hlpe or now someone I will pay for the product. Thanks
In Connections
Participants: realms_creator.

11/29/2003 Kenway: Engaging Narrative? "NEMESIS" Pool addon rules
For Cassidy: if it doesn't sound too self-promotional, here's some addons I've worked on you can try for your campaign. They are designed to help serialized adventures with recurring NPCs…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Kenway, Cassidy.

11/29/2003 Silmenume: Creative Agenda and behavioral disconnects
I think one of the reasons the people have a hard time grappling with the idea of a creative agenda is that CA is the expression of desire unexamined. What…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Harlequin, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Mike Holmes, Tim C Koppang.

11/30/2003 greyorm: WotC Market Research & GNS
Over at ENWorld, there was an announcement about the following survey data complied by WotC in 1999: Breakdown of RPG Players. Here's my questions: how accurate do you believe the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: greyorm, xiombarg, Walt Freitag, jdagna, Emily Care, contracycle, beingfrank.

11/30/2003 Paganini: Pag designs a game... again!
No character creation as yet, but the engine is looking like playtest shape. I'm think I'm going to use this for a dragon slayer game, since Scott never did anything…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paganini, Sparky, Bob McNamee, MachMoth, Jeph, Lxndr, gobi.

11/30/2003 kanseg: Feedback from TROS session - first one for some new players
I took a couple of new players through their first TROS session today. Basically I gave a copy of the TROS core book to one as a birthday gift and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: kanseg, jeffd.

11/30/2003 Dumirik: Nightscape: Nightmares and Barbarity in the Wastelands
Ok. I think I have it now. The second official draft copy of Nightscape is now finished. Sorry it took so long, but it's not as if anyone was on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dumirik, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/30/2003 jeffd: [Shooting Stars] Trademarked Actions
Foreward: This isn't about game systems or anything - it's really just a quick observation about something I've done in a game I'm playing in. Background: Shooting Stars (as it…
In Actual Play
Participants: jeffd, Mark D. Eddy, MachMoth.

11/30/2003 ethan_greer: Update
So, another Thanksgiving has come and gone. For those who celebrate it, I hope you had a happy one. Mine sucked -- I took ill Wednesday evening, had to pass…
In SimplePhrase Press
Participants: ethan_greer.

11/30/2003 Kenway: Other Genres for Dust Devils?
Beyond the Deathwish addon (spies), has anyone tried any other genres? I imagine a cyberpunk adventure would work: Digital Devils: Hack or give up the deck.
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Kenway, Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair, Tim Alexander, furashgf, Brand_Robins.

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