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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 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 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 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.

1/20/2004 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.

1/20/2004 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

1/19/2004 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.

1/19/2004 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 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 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Things Fall Apart in Tarshish
Well, its the fifth of our planned seven sessions of Burning Wheel, and we appear to have crested the hill and are now (hopefully) skidding toward our denouement. It's a…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, johnzo.

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1/21/2004 Harlequin: Mysterious magic
One completely orthogonal line on the challenge of magic comes in if it's really, really unknown and strange. I don't know that I've ever seen an RPG which handled this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Harlequin, Ron Edwards, John Kim, M. J. Young, talysman, gobi, Bill_White, inthisstyle, neelk, Calithena, montag, teucer, clehrich.

1/21/2004 Ron Edwards: [ReCoil] Play feedback
Hello, Here's the feedback from our session of ReCoil, played last night at the campus club with me and four players. I'll post the one-sheet and the characters later. 1.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

1/21/2004 ADGBoss: Devilfyre Playtest Available
Well its fianlly finished. The game system that is going to power up Seraphim: Candlebright is finally done. I wanted to bring out the system by itself as well…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ADGBoss.

1/21/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Under a Serpent Sun
http://www.burningwheel.org/pdf/bw_atg_uass_r1_scrn.pdf Hi all, I would like to use this thread to discuss the (game) design of the above linked pdf. The questions I would like to discuss are: Does it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: abzu, inthisstyle, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

1/21/2004 The big blue ape: A Magicish question
Not to long ago while reading OBAM, I read the humunculus spell, and I thought of a rather odd thing to do, say for example my character created a humunculus,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The big blue ape, Brian Leybourne, Krammer, ZazielsRephaim.

1/21/2004 apeiron: LotR RPG Inquiry: What did you think of it?
i recently read through the Lord of the Rings RPG. i am wondering if any of you have played the game. Please share with me your reflections on the game…
In Actual Play
Participants: apeiron, John Kim, Negilent, ADGBoss.

1/21/2004 Bob Richter: Ninja vs. Pirate
Bah. Enough with that stale "Knight vs. Samurai" bit. Who wins in a fight between a Ninja and a Pirate?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bob Richter, MonkeyWrench, Salamander, Deacon Blues, murazor, JESTER, Wolfen, Ingenious, kenjib, Bastoche, tauman, Furious D, Jake Norwood.

1/21/2004 Sigurth: Editing Posts
I noticed that there was a time limit for editing posts....I am told 360 minutes by the site when I have tried to edit after a day or so. Does…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Sigurth, Christopher Kubasik, M. J. Young.

1/22/2004 Jason Petrasko: Heart & Fire, a 1PG RPG
[b]Concept[/b] A fixed 6d6 dice pool lightweight game system with a focus on character drama. [b]Character Generation[/b] Each character is represented as: [list]a set of Qualities a set of Dramatic…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason Petrasko, Mike Holmes, Dev.

1/22/2004 Wolfen: Sorcerous Detection
So I find myself wondering: How do you detect magic? Can a sorcerer detect magic cast in their vicinity? If so, how close? And what is the in-game explanation for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Ingenious.

1/22/2004 Pyske: Improvisational TROS variant
I've been considering running another TROS game for a while now, and tonight on the spur of the moment I volunteered to run a game. We'll be playing this Friday,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Pyske.

1/22/2004 Valamir: Axes Knives and Swords
Just saw this special on the History Channel tonight. Pretty good accurate information. They had some scenes of sword fighting, and as I'm watching I'm thinking "hey, those guys actually…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Salamander, Jake Norwood, toli, Poleaxe.

1/22/2004 Roman: Upon reading Chapter 2 of "GNS and Other Matters ...&qu
Your limerick, sir. There once was a man from Schenectady Who wanted to have a vasectomy. The doc got on a roll Mistook a part for the whole And perpetrated…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Roman, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2004 doubtofbuddha: Hesitance towards Glorantha as a Setting
AS you may know (See my City of 10,000 Magicians thread), I am working on starting a Glorantha HeroQuest game. Last night a player of mine brought up so concerns…
In HeroQuest
Participants: doubtofbuddha, Alan, buserian, RaconteurX, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Ian Charvill, pete_darby, soru, Kao Nashi, Scripty, contracycle, Bankuei, Emmerson, Deacon Blues, Brand_Robins, simon_hibbs, Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, Donald.

1/22/2004 Alan: NEW SA Category: Secrets
I was just mulling over the Riddle of Spice and hit on an SA idea I thought appropriate for the Dune universe: The Secret. It would be similar to a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Alan, Ingenious, kenjib, StahlMeister, Ben Lehman, Valamir, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Jasper.

1/22/2004 motherlessgoose: Need good intro to HQ
I am considering buying HQ. I have perused the rulebook in the store and was at first highly turned off by the price. I was also taken aback by how…
In HeroQuest
Participants: motherlessgoose, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Scripty, Ian Cooper.

1/22/2004 Negilent: TROS spiritual attributes in BW
I have both systems, and the thing that drew me to TROS was the spiritual attribute system. But no offense Jake, but along came BW and I fell totally for…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Negilent, Lxndr, abzu, Valamir, joshua neff, Bracken.

1/22/2004 ADGBoss: Seraphim: Candlebright Alpha Test Posted
This thread is related to yetserday's Devilfyre Alpha Test Thread except this download is the full Seraphim: Candlebright game, with both the Devilfyre System and the Seraphim setting... Confusing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ADGBoss.

1/22/2004 Morfedel: Hedge Magic
I was thinking of creating hedge magic - or, for those not familiar with the term, magic that is very weak. Generally, a hedge magician is far weaker than a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Morfedel, tauman, MonkeyWrench, StahlMeister, Paka, Valthalion, Dan Sellars, Drifter Bob.

1/22/2004 Sonja: Game design: hobby or career?
If somebody has a talent for game design, can they genuinely make money and a living out of it? I am inclined to believe it is only a hobby or…
In Publishing
Participants: Sonja, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Mark Johnson, Pramas, sacrosanct, coolblade.

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