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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 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 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 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 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 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.

11/29/2003 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.

11/29/2003 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 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.

11/28/2003 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.

11/28/2003 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

11/27/2003 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.

11/27/2003 Sly: Ars Magica, the TROS way
Hey everyone, I recently dug out my old Ars Magica books and bought Riddle of Steel. Then I found this thread and thought...wow. I notice it has not been talked…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sly, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes.

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11/30/2003 hermes: OT: Anyone know what has happened to RPGNOW?
I know this is somewhat off-topic, but since it is an avenue for many indie-rpg writers to publish and since this is the specific Forge forum where I usually post,…
In Publishing
Participants: hermes, Gold Rush Games.

12/1/2003 Jeph: Sci Fi Action Theater
(This is, as usual for me, cross posted with RPG.Net's tAoGD forum. An attempt to create a rules-light scifi game emulating various TV serials, mostly Sim-oriented with a few quirks.)…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, MachMoth.

12/1/2003 Paka: Kingdom of Twilight (TROS Fae-based Campaign idea)
A buddy is coming into town and asked for a game concerning the Fae. I remember someone had an Actual Play of TROS used in a Fae game and it…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Brian Leybourne.

12/1/2003 ZazielsRephaim: Recap of first session (part 1)
Well, we finished our first session of TROS and it went extreamly well. I think everyone enjoyed much of what happened. I figured I'd do a recap for the players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ZazielsRephaim, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, bcook1971, Ingenious.

12/1/2003 anonymouse: system part: Karmic character design
Sprung from some discussion in #indiegames tonight and simmered for awhile.. A character accumulates Karma over the course of its life. When it dies, its Karma is totalled up and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: anonymouse, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Paganini, Shreyas Sampat, MachMoth.

12/1/2003 simon_hibbs: HQ and LotR
I'd like to address this subject more directly, and in a way that isn't just concerned with assignign ratings and heroic scales to characters, but addresses the whole issue of…
In HeroQuest
Participants: simon_hibbs, soru, HMT, Mac Logo, newsalor, Mike Holmes, Donald, Der_Renegat, Valamir, Jaif, Eero Tuovinen, RaconteurX, Calithena, Ian Cooper.

12/1/2003 ejh: Artist available
Hey, if anybody would like some art, give me a buzz and we'll talk. You may know me from the "Birthroot Bargain" Trollbabe comic, and soon the cover of the…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

12/1/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers: Design Change ideas
Had an opportunity to do some more playtesting this weekend. Conceptually the game is pretty tight, and I'm mostly happy with the mechanics except for two areas. 1) Handling time.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, montag, hix, gobi.

12/1/2003 hubris_rho: Calling all ye kind-hearted souls...
Hi, If I’m breaking any rules here just yell and I’ll scamper back into the shadows to continue lurking, but I thought it was probably about time I finally posted…
In Connections
Participants: hubris_rho, Gold Rush Games.

12/1/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Frickin Elven Princes
We had another small and short session last night. We only had three players and we were missing one from the main arc of the "Tristam goes north saga", so…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Valamir, BirdMan.

12/1/2003 ethan_greer: Donjon on Gaming Report
[url=http://www.gamingreport.com]Gaming Report[/url] has a glowing review of Donjon [url=http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=795]here.[/url] Congrats, Clinton!
In CRN Games
Participants: ethan_greer.

12/1/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: I need stats for...
a messer.... now that I have played with one in real life I want one for my character but I cant make up my mind on the stats, I was…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Draigh, Jake Norwood, Ingenious, Salamander.

12/1/2003 Ron Edwards: New review up - actual play too!
Hiya, Our own David (kwill) has posted his actual-play review at the ... um ... Kwa-Zulu Natal Roleplayers site. David, what the hell does "Kwa-Zulu Natal" mean? It certainly sounds…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, marcus, Christopher Weeks, kwill, ScottM.

12/2/2003 Noon: Primal situation
Awhile ago on the RPG.net forum there was a thread on situation and characters by Valamir. It was a rant, but the focus was the players supplying the situations that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Valamir, qxjit, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2003 Paganini: [indie-netgamin] Pag's Dragon Game
I need a name for this game. Yup, yup, I do. Because I think it's gonna be worth keeping. Has "Draconum" been taken? Anyway, we made characters, and one scene…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, contracycle.

12/2/2003 Dev: Game Mechanic: the "Wobble" factor
Instead of "success/failure" task resolution, this idea is based on increasing the "wobbliness" or "wonkiness" of certain tasks, while looking for certain dice-patterns instead of numberical results. What's the point?…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dev, xiombarg, contracycle, Mike Holmes, gobi, Lxndr, M. J. Young.

12/2/2003 Jim: 1475ad PbEM - female PC position available
After a six month tour in Western Australia with work, I'm kicking my PbEM in the guts to get it started again now that I'm home again. At present I'm…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jim, Wolfen.

12/2/2003 Kaare Berg: [Burning Wheel] First light in a nordic land
I steal ideas. I never claim they are my own, but I steal ideas and use them shamelessly. Which is why I love this site, and why I figured I'd…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kaare Berg, abzu, taepoong, Christopher Weeks, Paka, drozdal.

12/2/2003 Mike Holmes: State of the Industry Editorial
Here's an interesting article from The Guild Companion, a free eZine that often has some interesting insights. I'm not sure if I agree with all of the analysis of the…
In Publishing
Participants: Mike Holmes, greyorm, xiombarg, Jack Spencer Jr, Adam, Valamir, LordSmerf, contracycle, madelf, Ron Edwards, AdAstraGames, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, RaconteurX, HinterWelt, Christopher Weeks, ryand.

12/2/2003 Dregg: [Bad Muthas] Car chase mechanics & 3D
Hello, I'm fairly new to the list and wanted to say hello before I toss out my thoughts and question. I am currently working on a Blaxploitaion/70 Action RPG, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dregg, contracycle, Mike Holmes, gobi, abzu, Malechi.

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