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11/15/2001 jburneko: Railroading With Dice, A Core Mechanic
So, I'm looking over the RPG that I'm working on and while the actual document is not done I think I'd like some feedback on the idea behind the core…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, contracycle, unodiablo, Paul Czege, Bankuei, mahoux, greyorm.

11/15/2001 unodiablo: Two Page Action Movie RPG - Playtime!
After playing Two Page Action Movie RPG (2PAM from here on out) three times in two weeks, I thought I'd take the time to do a post about it. I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: unodiablo, mahoux, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/15/2001 Laurel: Best of Threads?
Ron was giving Nathan some good thread examples in a post and it got me thinking... one of the most useful things for newcomers and even oldcomers with limited memory…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Laurel, Bankuei, kwill, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

11/15/2001 Nathan: Quarter Page Ad
I think indie-rpgs needs either a nice fat publish quality banner or a quarter page ad that we can include in our PDFs. Obviously, the value of this site may…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Nathan, Ron Edwards.

11/15/2001 Nathan: Difference Between Complete & Incomplete Mechanics
Howdy out there, As I continue working and clarifying the Wild for the last time (seriously), I realize that the rule system is very, very simple. Character Creation is no…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, kwill.

11/15/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Dungeon Cards (working title)
After the talk of a GMless dungeon crawl game both here & elsewhere, and not to be outdone by Zak, I finally got some insight into a dungeon card game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes.

11/15/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried Sorcerer, part 2
(this is part 2 of a two part post about a Sorcerer game) ACTUAL PLAY 1: Scene-framing, railroading, and director and author stance Throughout the game I exercised hardcore scene-cutting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, joshua neff, kwill, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, furashgf.

11/15/2001 Tor Erickson: Souther Fried Sorcerer, part 1
Hello All, On Saturday I met with my three players and an observer to play our first session of Sorcerer. This was a particularly exciting moment because we were finally…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

11/15/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: New Jack Dungeon
I was gonna just post this in my journal b ut I thought, hey, what the hell. I was taking a shower and thinking about RPG's. For some weird reason,…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, ravensron, Bankuei, Ben Morgan, Tim Denee, Bret.

11/14/2001 Epoch: Amber Times Seven
Ron requested that I post a little something on the experience of going to Ambercon. I think it's an interesting topic, so I'm going to -- although, given our disparate…
In Actual Play
Participants: Epoch, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, DaR, xiombarg.

11/14/2001 Ron Edwards: An interesting review
Hey, One of role-playing's "men of letters," Andrew Rilstone, has posted a review of Little Fears here. Its points bear some discussion. I'm not quite as interested in psychologizing…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Dav, Bankuei, contracycle, Jason L Blair.

11/13/2001 jburneko: An Experiment In The Ordinary
There's an idea I've been mulling over for a while now. It's something that's been brought up before on various game sites but never really addressed in an interesting way.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Epoch, Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Marco, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, mahoux, Le Joueur.

11/13/2001 Zak Arntson: Fungeon - GMless Dungeon Crawling (Preliminary Design)
Okay, over at livejournal, I've put up a sneaky peek at Fungeon. http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=15027185 Simple currency, Room by Room play, resolution builds in a fun way of narrating events. In a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Nathan.

11/13/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Chairs, redux
In GNS, there's a funny lil' post about CLS - (Chair/Loveseat/Sofa) that yuk-meister Wick wrote up. What's funny is that John and I sat in on a discussion by Sim-Everything…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Mytholder.

11/13/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Just whose pool is it?
In my theorizing about The Pool I've come to consider the dice pool as a player resource rather than a character resource, meaning that a large pool represents a greater…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Bankuei.

11/12/2001 Matt Snyder: "Universal group" systems
I have long loathed systems billed as "universal." There are a number of reasons, not the least of which I admit is ignorance about their actual usefulness in play. By…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Marco, Laurel.

11/12/2001 Nathan: New & Improved...
Mystic Ages Online is new and improved -- now with a nice MySQL database underneath everything to ease the automation -- Tell me what you think! http://www.mysticages.com Thanks, Nathan
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes, unodiablo, Paul Czege, ravensron, Ian O'Rourke.

11/12/2001 John Wick: C/L/S: A Bit of Good-Hearted Satire
I have a theory. I call it "The Sitting Theory." As far as I can see, everything you can sit on falls into one of three categories: Chairs, Loveseats and…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Wick, Marco, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Jack Spencer Jr, Blake Hutchins, 333Chronzon, Mytholder, unodiablo, Laurel, Le Joueur.

11/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Forums and thread organization.
It seems to me that there's a problem with the forums and the threads. The way the software works, we're supposed to keep the same conversation in the same thread.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2001 rpghost: Feedback on an idea...
You know, I've had the idea for a while of working on a solo-adventure game system. Something that you could play by yourself (without a GM). I know there is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: rpghost, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Stivven, unodiablo, jburneko, JSDiamond, Bankuei.

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11/16/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Ars Mechanica
Here's a peek at the mechanics for Ars Mechanica. Trying to emphasize fun and action (for the players) during combat. One of the problems I've had with this game is…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, sdemory.

11/16/2001 Zak Arntson: Chill Companion - Worth Buying?
I've heard that the old Chill (with the crazy covers) is an amazing product, especially it's sense of horror. I saw the Chill Companion book at the store, by Ray…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Going on a link hunt - help requested
Hi there, I'm revising Sorcerer's links page. I'm also thinking that I want to branch it out into non-gaming circles. So far, I've found some stuff about the following: -…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Dav, Time.

11/16/2001 Ron Edwards: Help with Nobilis prep
Hello, I am interested in playing Nobilis with a very appropriate group. We've done a hell of a lot of Hero Wars, The Window, and Amber, for instance, and they've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Epoch, Mytholder, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Philippe Tromeur.

11/16/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: GenCon '02
This question is not, "Who is going?" or "Are you going?" Nay, the question is, "What are you going to be doing while you're there?" We (and by "we" I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Nathan, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Galfraxas, hardcoremoose, Mytholder, Jack Spencer Jr, Ferry Bazelmans, unodiablo.

11/18/2001 lumpley: My Firstest Relationship Map
I just mail-merged our master list of all the wizards in our Ars Magica world (in which various people have been playing since 1990) onto stickers and stuck them to…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Mytholder, Stivven.

11/19/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried System Comments
Hi All, There was another combat in our game on Saturday, and it turned out really nicely. The scene basically involved Cole (a PC) accidentally insulting Junior, a big, mean,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

11/19/2001 Xil: For those of you who dont have the book yet...
Hope this isnt out of line, but some people mentioned not having the little fears book yet, and I recently wound up with two of them, so I posted one…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Xil, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

11/19/2001 unodiablo: Dead Meat - step by step - Interested?
Hey All, I'm far enough along in the planning and production of the printed version of Dead Meat that I thought I'd post here and ask if any of you…
In Publishing
Participants: unodiablo, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose.

11/20/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorc & Sword news again
Due date from the printer is November 26. Ship to the warehouse should be November 28. Shipping from the warehouse should start immediately, and that's when orders begin. M apologies…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Time, joshua neff, unodiablo, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Zak Arntson, Tundra, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/20/2001 Ian O'Rourke: I've just dug myself a hole...
We are about to finish our twice monthly 3e game - and very much it has been, an epic campaign in the Star Wars tradition. Anyway, that leaves a gaming…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Tor Erickson.

11/20/2001 unodiablo: Dead Meat - Game Design and Publishing Journal
Wow. My very own Game Designer's journal. Never thought I'd be writing one of these back when I started checking out GO every day… 11/19/2001 Start the Journal… The initial…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: unodiablo, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

11/21/2001 greyorm: Heads Up
Just your friendly neighborhood raven knock, knock, knocking on your chamber door to let you know I got up off my rear-end and posted two old, unfinished gaming systems on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: greyorm, Bret, Mike Holmes, Nathan, razgon, Le Joueur, Gordon C. Landis, Julian Kelsey, contracycle, John Wick, Jack Spencer Jr, Spiral, Marco.

11/21/2001 Epoch: Charm
I've been meaning and meaning to put up a web page for this game concept, but essentially, I just won't get around to it with my current web-load. So here…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Epoch, Ron Edwards, Mithras.

11/21/2001 Paul Czege: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil has need of you
Some of you are aware I'm planning to put The World, the Flesh, and the Devil into pamphlet format for distribution at GenCon. Basically, I'm going to write it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, Blake Hutchins, Matt, contracycle, xiombarg, Ron Edwards.

11/22/2001 James V. West: The Beast
Hey all. I want to share a little of what I'm doing with my game. THE QUESTING BEAST is a game of Arthurian romance done with anthropomorphics. Instead of being…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

11/24/2001 Demonspahn: What scared you when you were a child?
First post here, so Hi everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it on the archives. There has been a lot of talk lately it…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Jared A. Sorensen, Uratoh, peteramthor, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, unodiablo, nEo, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson, mahoux, Bret, Tim Denee, Bog-fiend, J B Bell, Dios-Flakk, JimmyB, MK Snyder, Comte, matsuhito, Enoch, Antekvist, magistrate, Shreyas Sampat, Paka, Julie, Slant, greyorm, anonymouse, Jason L Blair, FatesPuppet, Neylana, Heather Manley, Jan_Schattling.

11/24/2001 Zak Arntson: Fungeon - Secret Webpage
Okay, I've since hammered out the Preliminary Game design (thanks, Mike!), and put the thing up at a webpage. I haven't linked to it from my main site, so it's…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, xiombarg, James V. West.

11/25/2001 Paul Czege: frustration with "enigmas"
So this evening my girlfriend and I sat down to create our characters for Eloran's forthcoming Mage scenario. And maybe recent games of The Pool, Sorcerer, and Theatrix have me…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Epoch, contracycle, Mytholder, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

11/26/2001 Paul Czege: the big three you never see
Hey everyone, I was sitting last night reading Hardball, by Chris Matthews, and had an awareness that the fiction and nonfiction I read, and the movies and television programs I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, hardcoremoose, John Wick, joshua neff, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Uncle Dark, James V. West, James Holloway, Marco, Ian O'Rourke, Jared A. Sorensen.

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