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1/19/2004 Ben Lehman: Toss and Bind
Hey. I noticed something the other day -- no one in my group ever uses the Toss or Bind maneuvers. Curious, I looked at the manuevers to refresh myself and...…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Deacon Blues, Trevis Martin, Jake Norwood, Merritt Baggett, Wolfen, Paganini, Overdrive, Mokkurkalfe, Spartan.

1/19/2004 Grover: Combat Rules
Y'know, roleplaying games frequently have much larger rulesets for combat than for other activities. This is often explained as a throwback to wargaming roots, or because the game is focused…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Grover, Andrew Martin, gobi, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Noon, Umberhulk, John Kim, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, pete_darby, weeble, M. J. Young, Jasper, Maarzan, montag, Shreyas Sampat.

1/19/2004 Matt Wilson: [the poodle] you can't take the sky from me
Today was almost the first full episode of our game set in the Firefly universe. I say almost because we played an hour's worth last week and ended a little…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

1/19/2004 arxhon: Feng Shui actual play thoughts
{crossposted with rpg.net} I've been gone for a while (not that you noticed :-P ), and here's what iv'e been up to. I've been running a Feng Shui game for…
In Actual Play
Participants: arxhon, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, urbwar, Jesse Paulsen, montag, Grex, Ron Edwards, Deacon Blues.

1/18/2004 cthulahoops: [Sorcerer] In Utero - Happy Families
Hi, Well, I said Sorcerer was the next game I was going to run and I did so today. It was absolutely insane. I decided to run the In Utero…
In Actual Play
Participants: cthulahoops, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Lxndr.

1/18/2004 ADGBoss: AzDG Looking for Artists
HEllo all, things are progressing in such a way for me over here that I can now start looking for artists. I you are interested in doing any of the…
In Connections
Participants: ADGBoss.

1/18/2004 sirogit: Character Creation/Advancement and "Character Type"
"Character Type" meaning profession, race, faction, or whatever such seperated character options that a game has. I want a system combining Class-like options and point buy systems that has a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: sirogit, Lxndr, HMT, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin, Autocrat, Doctor Xero.

1/18/2004 LordSmerf: [MLwM] University Days
This is a log of our final two sessions of My Life With Master. This is a continuation of this game. The record keeping duties were transferred to a different…
In Actual Play
Participants: LordSmerf, Mike Holmes, Mulciber.

1/18/2004 matthijs: Great game - and a few questions
I ran my first MLWM game two days ago, and it was a lot of fun. We went for a light-hearted approach, knowing we'd only be playing for about three…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: matthijs, jrs, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Creating New Keywords II
Trailing off this thread... I'm having a really icky time figuring out, and coming up with new, animist traditions; several reads of the animism chapter have started to clear up…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, doubtofbuddha, buserian.

1/17/2004 Troy_Costisick: GenCon Forge Booth at Indy 2004
Heya guys, Mainly this is for Ron. Are you going to be running a booth similar to the one you did last year at Indy? If so, where do I…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GaryTP.

1/17/2004 gobi: [PUNK] Update agogo
Last update to PUNK was around August last year. It's time to take a another stab at the concept. In case people have forgotten about PUNK, it's an attempt at…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gobi, Mark Johnson, Jasper, Calithena, Dev, anonymouse, Shreyas Sampat, Jeph, Doctor Xero.

1/17/2004 Shreyas Sampat: The d20 Box
[quote="Matt Wilson"]... we bailed on poor d20, which was boxing us in. My chief complaint about d20 I think is that it provides a lot of information about what a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Calithena, Mark Johnson, Sparky, Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, Jeph, Umberhulk, ADGBoss, Bob McNamee, efindel.

1/17/2004 jeffd: Sorcerer - Pre Session Notes
So, this evening I did our Sorcerer pre-session. One of the players didn't show; I'm not sure why. Not an auspicious happening, I'm thinking of either a) dropping him or…
In Adept Press
Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

1/17/2004 John Kim: Spirit Tests in Vinland
OK, I just completed the session summary for my last Vinland game, and I thought it was a particularly interesting case. So this session members of the Brygjafael clan were…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, lumpley, clehrich, Sigurth.

1/17/2004 daMoose_Neo: Final Twilight - Modern Fantasy CCG - Need input!
My group, Neo Productions Unlimited, is about to release a new ccg this spring, entitled Final Twilight. As a modern fantasy, its a little bit different from most of the…
In Connections
Participants: daMoose_Neo.

1/17/2004 Sigurth: Gladiators (Split)
Anyone develop any proficiencies for Gladiators or Pit Fighters? Like Trident and Net (though I think this would be a variation of Cut and Thrust) How about with bladed cesti?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sigurth, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, StahlMeister.

1/17/2004 LizardLips: Losing resource tokens whe damaged?
I have a damage mechanic that I need help with. A character can be Hurt, Wounded or Dying. With each state of health, the character suffers a penalty of some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: LizardLips, Jasper, Umberhulk.

1/16/2004 taalyn: Crux needs you!
Any and all interested in helping me finish Crux are hereby invited to join the team. Mostly, I need a multitude of writers, as my cowriter has gone missing and…
In Connections
Participants: taalyn.

1/16/2004 Brian Leybourne: Book Arrived
Just a quick note to say that my book arrived and in good condition. I've completed one read through. Some questions are bubbling away already, but I'll wait until another…
In Universalis
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Christopher Weeks.

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1/19/2004 Sammael99: First Impressions (incomplete)
So Burning Wheel arrived to my door on Saturday (well, actually on Friday night, but I got home at 2 AM, so I didn't check my mail until Saturday.) Great…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Sammael99, abzu, rafial, joshua neff, taepoong, Durgil, Lxndr, Valamir, drozdal.

1/19/2004 Ian O'Rourke: [Primetime Adventures]: Pre-Actual Play
Just downloaded Primetime Adventures, just done the first read through. Now, the role-playing game as TV show thing is a big thing of mine. It's sort of the common way…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson, John Harper, Meredith, Ron Edwards.

1/19/2004 Ron Edwards: Narrativism essay update
Hello, The essay has been finished for about a week now. I'm currently filling in the details on the proto-game I'm including with it, tentatively titled Cold Heart, or Out…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, sirogit, Gordon C. Landis, hix.

1/20/2004 Sigurth: [TROS] The Riddle of Hârn
Originally, my gaming group toyed with idea of creatinga hybrid HarnMaster/TROS system, however, when I received the TROS book and read it, as GM, I made a command decision. WE…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sigurth, Wolfen, November Kilo, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, John Kim, Halifax, Ron Edwards, Pyske, Valthalion.

1/20/2004 zmook: Humanity checks
Okay, so Humanity checks seemed straightforward enough when I first read them, but then I started thinking about how to administer them. The rules say: GMs can also decree Humanity…
In Adept Press
Participants: zmook, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Fabrice G., Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, djarb, joshua neff.

1/20/2004 pete_darby: Fishing for Bangs... (serenwyn campaign
Okay, it's another chapter in the Serenwyn game tonight... and, ladies and gentlemen, we are taking the training wheels off, and driving with bangs. I've mailed out the prologue to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: pete_darby, Mike Holmes, buserian, Peter Nordstrand, Ian Cooper.

1/20/2004 Jeph: No Press RPG Anthology (III)
Might I request news of progress? Luke? Rich? Com on guys! I hate being left in the dark! --Jeff
In Publishing
Participants: Jeph, abzu, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, Matt, Lxndr, gobi, quozl, xiombarg.

1/20/2004 Calithena: Making a Game out of Magic
This is the kind of thread I never know whether to put here or in RPG theory. I want to discuss some issues relating to RPG magic systems in a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Calithena, Lxndr, gobi, Umberhulk, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, GreatWolf, Jack Aidley, Christopher Weeks, apeiron, M. J. Young, Paul Czege, BPetroff93, RaconteurX.

1/20/2004 hatheg-kla: GM resources
This is probably off-topic... or perhaps not? My question is just whether anyone knows of a good set of tables/charts that as a GM I can use to 'randomly' generate…
In Actual Play
Participants: hatheg-kla, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Bankuei, Kaare Berg, Skadedyr.

1/20/2004 sirogit: Humanity and Audience Sympathy
I've been wondering this for some time: How correlatable are Humanity and audience sympathy? Naturally, there's some disconnect that's perfectly functional... there's plenty examples of doomed heroes. I've always thought…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Mike Holmes.

1/20/2004 louissan: [Interlock + Fuzion] magic system - Ideas?
Hi all, I'm glad to participate on these wonderful forums ...though not quite sure whether I should post this here, even though I read the sticky posts ... if I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: louissan, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Ben Lehman, Kryyst.

1/20/2004 Matt Wilson: Premise in actual play
In light of some recent threads about narrativism in an undisclosed location, I'd like some accounts of nar play and addressing of premise. How specific was your Premise before the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, John Kim, abzu, clehrich, Paganini, Lisa Padol, pete_darby, inthisstyle.

1/20/2004 Paka: EN World Discussion of TROS
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74946 Maybe worth some Riddle-folk from our boards checking out and politely chiming in.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, kenjib, Bastoche, Hugin, Sigurth, kanseg.

1/20/2004 MachMoth: Character Depreciation
I had a very vague idea, and instead of butchering it myself, I thought I'd share it. Character depreciation. In some way, characters have a set (or not *shrugs*) lifeline.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MachMoth, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, Jack Spencer Jr, anonymouse, gobi.

1/20/2004 Silvermane: Ammunition
Greetings! First of all, let me congratulate you; Orbit is one of the best Sci-Fi RPGs that I had the pleasure of reading in the last years. The setting is…
In Orbit
Participants: Silvermane, JSDiamond.

1/21/2004 Melkor: Help with the Hit Location Zones diagram...
Call me mentally challenged, but I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding the Hit Location Zones diagram on the Character Sheets and P. 76 of the main rulebook. In looking…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Melkor, Ingenious, Paganini, Deacon Blues, Wolfen.

1/21/2004 Lxndr: Burning Wheel Site Hacked
At least, as far as I can tell, someone fucked over Luke by hacking his website. Ugh. Sorry, Luke. I hope the data's recoverable. :(
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, abzu, rafial, Sammael99, Kaare Berg.

1/21/2004 Rich Stokes: More Playtest feedback...
Ethan, This week we didn't get to play due to the typical RL restraints of folks at our age, but some of us were able to get together for a…
In SimplePhrase Press
Participants: Rich Stokes, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

1/21/2004 Howmandu: Anyone going to Dreamation 1/22/04 to 1/25/04?
Dreamation is this weekend in North Jersey. Anyone planning on attending ? http://www.dexposure.com/d2004.html
In Conventions
Participants: Howmandu, Dregg.

1/21/2004 Morfedel: Non Game Mechanic Alternatives to Controlling Sorcerers
I had been thinking about controlling sorcerers; some people think they are just fine, but I think many of us have had the distaste of having to watch sorcerers turn…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Morfedel, De profundis, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ingenious, Andrew Mure, Lxndr, Stephen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, Thanaeon, Rick, Wolfen, Bob McNamee, Amy1419, Malechi, Pyske.

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