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1/12/2004 John Harper: [Pool variant] The Poodle
We just started a new game series (set in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe) and we're using a Pool variant that I developed. It's working pretty well, so I thought I…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: John Harper, Matt Wilson, Cassidy, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

1/12/2004 Mouse: My Game: Tactiturn
I’m in the middle of completing a game system that’s based around realism (at least on the non-fiction part of it). I’ve been out of touch with the latest RPG’s,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mouse, Zathreyel, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes.

1/12/2004 Calithena: RPG/CCG hybrid scam; Monetary Awards in RPGs more generally
In another thread, Mike Holmes wrote: "The one thing that I always bring up regarding that we have this scorekeeping device…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, MachMoth, Andrew Martin, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Drifter Bob, damyano.

1/12/2004 adamsmith: [Adventure!] Real world prejudice in games
I'm gearing up to run the now iconic adaptation of CoC's Masks of Nyarlathotep using the Adventure! rules. Given the setting and content, I'm trying to work out to what…
In Actual Play
Participants: adamsmith, Zathreyel, Technocrat13, Matt Wilson.

1/12/2004 Mikko Lehtinen: Re: Demon Abilities in Combat
I've been wondering whether using the demon power Cover causes fatigue or not. Let's consider two cases: 1) A demon sword makes the wielder a mighty warrior. I'd judge that…
In Adept Press
Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 Tim Alexander: [Trollbabe] Trouble at the Blood Gate
Hey Folks, Got the opportunity to run a Trollbabe game on Friday, and boy was it a blast. Chargen and prep is as straightforward as it reads and after a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 MachMoth: Shattered Spirits
Hey, everyone miss me? Well, of course not. Anyways, I'm back from holidays, and dropping my latest project on ya'll, Shattered Spirits (No not the movie about the boozer). Players…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MachMoth, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin, Ben Morgan, Harlequin.

1/12/2004 Lxndr: Hidden Forums
I've been wondering this for a while, but only now have bothered to ask about it: The MLwM playtest forum operated under the noses of a lot of Forge members…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jeph, Michael S. Miller.

1/12/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Worm
Strip 1 for the new story is up! Illustrated by Antti Karjalainen. Best, Ron
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, ejh, AnttiK, James V. West.

1/12/2004 Michael S. Miller: Epilogue Question
We played MLwM yesterday and had a blast. I had to make one ruling that I wanted to ask Paul about (but anyone is, of course, free to jump in).…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 Jack Aidley: [Great Ork Gods] Latest rules
[b][i]"You're Green, You're Ugly and the Gods Hate You."[/i][/b] Here I shall relate my latest thoughts on Great Ork Gods, following on from my [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8741]early ideas[/url]. If you’re not read…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Aidley, Lxndr, Loki, Valamir, Kilor Di, Shreyas Sampat, Mark Thomas.

1/12/2004 Matt Wilson: [the puddle] - Firefly
Today was the final prep for a game set in the space-western universe of Joss Whedon's Firefly. We spent a couple hours talking about how the characters know each other…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson.

1/11/2004 zmook: A Boost question
[quote="Ron Edwards"]All of the above leads most people in my games to request Boosts [i]before[/i] the "everyone goes for their guns" moment, so as to enjoy the benefit of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Well of Souls 4--Endgame?
This thread is a continuation of Well of Souls 1, Well of Souls 2, and Curse You Rickard--Well of Souls 3. If you would like to have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

1/11/2004 [MKF]Kapten: Need some help on a plot (my players stay out)
OBS: English is not my main language. If you find the text tedious and hard to read, please tell me and I will try to rewrite so it will be…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: [MKF]Kapten, Paka.

1/11/2004 6inTruder: Oh, the Cosmic Horror! One Sheet (not really)
I've had this thought in my head for a HUGE ammount of time (since before I owned Sorcerer) that Sorcerer is a great game for CoC, as when you can…
In Adept Press
Participants: 6inTruder, Ron Edwards.

1/11/2004 chade0: Let's try it: a meeting in IRC
Hi all, Let's try to setup an IRC meeting. For those who do not remember how to use an IRC program (for example mIRC) and who do not know how…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: chade0, Bob Richter, Ingenious, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Lxndr, De profundis, murazor.

1/11/2004 Brian Kittrell: The Rhapsody of Eternal: New concept for a vampire game
I am currently designing a role playing game based around a fictional world of my own design centered on vampires and the undead. I am currently looking for constructive criticism…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Brian Kittrell, montag, Zathreyel, Shreyas Sampat, sirogit, Rich Stokes, Mike Holmes, Dev, Ben Morgan, gobi, Troy_Costisick.

1/11/2004 kidar: simple question about skill selection
In character generation after choosing your skill packets you can lower (or pick up new) skills. My question is: Can you lower one individual skill with more than one point?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: kidar, Tywin Lannister, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

1/11/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Building systems to help with relationships
In the process of designing The Kevin & Kell Roleplaying Game for Seraphim Guard, I am facing the design problem of relationships as a vital -- in not the most…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Mark Johnson, jdagna, M. J. Young.

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1/13/2004 Paganini: TROS musings and questions and stuff...
So, I finally got it. Bad stuff first... I was kinda disappointed with the editing. Bad grammar, misspellings, too wordy, and stuff. Better than a lot of indie publications, true,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paganini, Brian Leybourne.

1/13/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Simple sorcery/combat questions
Ok, this should be a no-brainer, but I haven't run sorcery in TROS before, really. Here's the setup: - A sorcerer is casting a spell with CTN 2. - A…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ingenious, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Salamander, Ben Lehman, Poleaxe.

1/13/2004 realms_creator: Armor rating
I would like to have some imput on the armor system for our game setting. Please post only honest replies. Thanks Protection Type Armor Rating Armor Points Leather Armor 30%…
In RPG Theory
Participants: realms_creator, Andrew Martin, Calithena, Jack Aidley, Gordon C. Landis, Drifter Bob, Dr. Velocity.

1/13/2004 Gwen: Unnamed System
This is a link to the PDF for my unnamed system. I will be using this system for a few of them longer games I have thought up and just…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gwen, Andrew Martin.

1/13/2004 Lxndr: Swordsman Question
Okay, this has been bugging me for some time: why are swordsmen so pitifully, horribly bad at Body Language? They get the Body Language skill at +3 as a part…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lxndr, Ingenious, Brian Leybourne, Paganini, Salamander, Wolfen, toli, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Bob Richter.

1/13/2004 Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro: Character Creation
I have discovered an interesting, and as far as I know, unique (surely it’s been done before) form of character creation that could be used for many RPG’s – especially…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro.

1/13/2004 Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro: Character Creation
I have discovered an interesting, and as far as I know, unique (surely it’s been done before) form of character creation that could be used for many RPG’s – especially…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, Andrew Martin, xiombarg, Lxndr, The Benj, Jeph, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson, Maarzan, inthisstyle.

1/13/2004 Ian.Plumb: Atrophying Skills
Hi, What mechanic would you suggest using for indicating that a skill is getting worse through lack of practice? Over what period of time would you suggest the skill degrade?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ian.Plumb, Ingenious, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter.

1/13/2004 Heraldic Game Design: [LUNA] Simplifying Traits. Is it necessary?
Luna uses a semi-freeform Trait system for in character creation. In order to give them some kind of structure, I've got it so that a Trait is assigned one of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Andrew Martin, Knarf, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

1/13/2004 Brand_Robins: 9 Worlds Questions
While going on to a friend about how cool Dust Devils was, I got pointed to 9 Worlds as an even better game. I downloaded the playtest and am loving…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Brand_Robins, Matt Snyder.

1/13/2004 sirogit: Bad uses of Spiritual Attribuites
Been theorizing of the biggest things that you want to avoid in setting Spiritual Attribuites... Keep in mind this is all subjective. 1. Passion for Material Goods. This hits me…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: sirogit, Valamir, Stephen, Ingenious, Half-Baked, Andrew Mure, Wolfen, Pyske, Paka, ZazielsRephaim, Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Thanaeon.

1/13/2004 timfire: Can I order TROS through Borders?
Can I order TROS through Borders (or other major bookstores) or is it only available directly through the TROS website? Thanks!
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: timfire, Bob Richter, Jake Norwood, Paganini, Wolfen, Loki.

1/13/2004 sirogit: How do you make a situation a character cannot walk out of?
I'm very intereasted in capturing what Valamir calls in a RPG.net post: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88152&perpage=10&pagenumber=1 Situation-driven play. I read the thread a few pages across but it seemed to be very largely…
In RPG Theory
Participants: sirogit, Paganini, pete_darby, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Noon, John Kim.

1/13/2004 Michael S. Miller: Going Outside the Village II
On the drive this morning, I came up with something appropriate to Going Outside the Village, but since the thread is old, I started a new one. My Life with…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/13/2004 toli: swords, swords, swords
I've got two questions/thoughts I've been kicking around. Maybe you guys can help me 'resolve' them. (1) The first relates to the difference between an arming sword and a cut…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: toli, Jake Norwood, murazor, Salamander.

1/13/2004 Balbinus: Historical HeroQuest actual play
Hi, I posted this originally on rpg.net in response to a query there but thought that it would be of interest to folk here as well. Rather than go into…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, Thierry Michel.

1/13/2004 Harlequin: Forum setup help wanted
I'm looking for someone who can, if provided with webspace (also working on that), help me to set up a PhpBB forum akin to the one Clinton has managed here…
In Connections
Participants: Harlequin.

1/13/2004 Kryyst: Forged RPG
First I'd just like to say hello as I'm new. I've been browsing this site in particular this forum and the theory forum and there are plenty of great ideas…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kryyst, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Jack Aidley.

1/13/2004 Krammer: tfob
Recently Ive noticed that Jake's signature says, "the flower is in bud..." I was just wondering how much it is in bud. Is it just beginning to bud, or is…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Krammer, Jake Norwood, kanseg.

1/13/2004 Krammer: observation on magic
now, I know that the magic is meant to be powerful, but I never really knew just how powerful it was until recently. in a recent scenario, the seneschal decided…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Krammer, Wolfen, Bob Richter, Rico, Ingenious, kenjib, StahlMeister, Morfedel, Lxndr.

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