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7/22/2004 Simon W: have-a-go heroes
[b]The 24 hour role-playing game of Marvel City's not so super superheroes.[/b] You may spot the resemblence to a certain 'Mystery Men' movie, but that is pure intention. Anyhow, I…
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Participants: Simon W, TonyLB.

7/22/2004 S-Max: Help with Modern-Spy-Supers game
Hi, folks It's my starting post and, not intending to be repetitive, I'd like to have some ideas from the veterans here for a game I'm trying to design. This…
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Participants: S-Max, Zathreyel, TonyLB.

7/21/2004 Crackerjacker: My 24 Hour RPG
Just wanted to say that I'm starting my 24 hour rpg now (7:13 Eastern US)
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Participants: Crackerjacker.

7/21/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Blocking Action and Monologues
I'm writing up a superhero game called Capes. Its premise is "Power is fun, but do you deserve it?" Two issues were highlighted by last nights playtest. First issue: It…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf, inky, John Harper.

7/21/2004 Dumirik: FACES: Subconcious Role Playing 24 hours RPG?
Hello. You may remember a while back that I brought up the idea of a game in which you play as aspects of a person's subconcious, with the GM interpreting…
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Participants: Dumirik, Lathan.

7/20/2004 Gidd: Exile - Flash RPG
Hi Guys, Launching my new online flash rpg game - Exile - in a little under 2 weeks time. The game is top-down dungeon based, and revolves around characters gaining…
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Participants: Gidd, sirogit, bigsimon.

7/20/2004 Nathan: Barbarians Versus - Feedback Welcome
Greets all, My next rpg to be released in PDF is Barbarians Versus, a fun lil' game about barbarians fighting alien reptilian evil from outer space. In essence though, it…
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Participants: Nathan, SrGrvsaLot, Frank T, Mike Holmes.

7/19/2004 SrGrvsaLot: 24-Hour RPG: The Last Days of Atlantis
Well, I finished the game, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I think it wound up being closer to a "campaign sourcebook" than an actual game, though.…
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Participants: SrGrvsaLot, greedo1379, Andy Kitkowski, Andrew Martin.

7/19/2004 kevin_presley: New Updates to the REALMS OF ADVENTURING site
Hello all! The forge has given me some wonderful(if not sometimes sturn) advice about the role playing genre. I would love to continue getting this advice, as this is one…
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Participants: kevin_presley, LordSmerf, Valamir, Chris Goodwin, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, John Harper, Akamaru, theltemes, dewey.

7/19/2004 giovannipezz: [Tarots RPG] just another game that uses tarot cards...
Hello! Here I present my little creature: Tarots is an Universal Role Playing System based on Divination of Tarots and inspired by Everway, Chimeres, Castle Falkenstein and GURPS. http://giovannipezz.angelcities.com/tarots/ some…
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Participants: giovannipezz, LordSmerf, MarcoBrucale.

7/19/2004 Lathan: Blood Royal 24-hour RPG
It's 5:30 AM, and I've just finished this game. I'm a few hours under the 24, but it's finished (and so am I, almost... very tired...). Blood Royal is a…
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Participants: Lathan, Loki, Jediblack, Paul Czege, ErrathofKosh, Andy Kitkowski.

7/18/2004 Jediblack: KaffeInsomnia 24 Hour RPG
Hi all, I've just finished my 24 hours rpg... but there's a problem it's in italian and I don't think I'll be able to translate it before the 24th hour.…
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Participants: Jediblack, Simon W, Sydney Freedberg, philreed, Andy Kitkowski.

7/17/2004 LordSmerf: [Caper] A Game in Search of a Premise
So i started this project intending to enter it as a 24 Hour RPG. Basically i'm trying to capture the feel of Caper fiction. Examples include: The Italian Job, Ocean's…
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Participants: LordSmerf, MikeSands, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Blankshield, Stephen, Ron Edwards, Jere, Juicetyger, Thor, SteveCooper, Frank T.

7/16/2004 Simon W: Dreamscape 24 hour RPG
I wrote this up the other day, working on the basis that I wasn't going to have a free weekend over the next three weeks. I had to do it…
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Participants: Simon W, Jediblack, Andy Kitkowski, slackerman.

7/15/2004 Jay: Feedback on conceptual framework <sorry if long>
Hello, before I begin, let me just say that this is my first post, I have been a lurker for a while, and while I am reasonably sure this is…
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Participants: Jay, Shreyas Sampat, Bob Bell.

7/15/2004 Jediblack: [Aeternum] Core System
Hi all, here is few ideas from my new experiment: In Aeternum all is under the govern of three Eterni: Morte (death), Pensiero (thought) and Destino (destiny). Morte is the…
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Participants: Jediblack, TonyLB, Victor Gijsbers.

7/15/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] The Problem of Evil
For those who are interested, I've put up an Example of Play for Capes. Capes is a superhero game with the Premise "Power is Fun, but do you deserve it"?…
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Participants: TonyLB, StrongBadMun, inky, Sydney Freedberg, John Harper, Shreyas Sampat, Tobias, Stephen, dalek_of_god, LordSmerf, Jinx, Bob McNamee, Marhault.

7/14/2004 rgrassi: [Levity]: New free system, need a review for translation
Hi all. I'm Roberto from Italy. I've just published an italian PDF version of my free rpg system specifically built for kids, new to Gdr and Gdr casual players. http://www.robertograssi.net/meyroan/rpg/levity.zip…
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Participants: rgrassi, Kesher.

7/14/2004 Heraldic Game Design: [LUNA] Rough Beta now available.
Hi Folks, I finally got to do some writing, and I have a very rough beta version of the Luna System now available. for download at http://heraldicgame.com/luna_04.pdf. You'll notice there…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Tobias, btrc, John Kim.

7/13/2004 Tobias: How to have 'Merits' and 'Flaws' without being stale?
Ok, So we all know about Merit/Flaw systems. And we've seen tons of them. Some that are so generic, boring, and overlong that we fall asleep - some with real…
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Participants: Tobias, Victor Gijsbers, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, failrate, madelf, Emily Care, Vaxalon, Jasper.

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7/23/2004 Joshua Tompkins: [The Cauldron] Writing Down the Rules
[i]Hmm, not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I can't seem to find any better forums here at the Forge.[/i] This is my first post…
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Participants: Joshua Tompkins, ethan_greer, ErrathofKosh, GregS.

7/23/2004 kevin_presley: Need a little insight on a non-level building rpg game
hello! I have two other threads going(realms of adventuring), but I am getting off of that topic for a second to ask for some seasoned advise from anyone with a…
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Participants: kevin_presley, GregS, lumpley, Paganini, John Harper, rafial, Deadboy, Eero Tuovinen, Ravien, btrc, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, cfc, sergeant_x, dewey, Precious Villain, TooManyGoddamnOrcs, andy, Elkin, Doug Ruff, MrSandman666, MrSanmdan666.

7/23/2004 Space Cowboy: Suggestions or suggested resources to develop a slang/lingo?
Hello all, I am further fleshing out the background for Wild Sphere, my space western RPG set in an alternate future, and one of the things I want to do…
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Participants: Space Cowboy, Dev, Mark D. Eddy, Czar Fnord.

7/23/2004 Tim C Koppang: Scope of Premise; Making Choices
I've been working on a game now for a little over a year and a half now, the name of which is in flux, but what I have called "Lineage"…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes.

7/24/2004 bluegargantua: The Last Hunt -- Call for Comments/Critique
Hi, I'm trying to put a little more effort into developing my RPG ideas and maybe even finishing them. To that end, I'm making the pre-Alpha draft of my game…
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Participants: bluegargantua, TonyLB.

7/24/2004 Dumirik: [Faces] 24 hr RPG
I have completed my 24hr RPG, started last night at 11:30 approx and posted at 10:30 today Australia, Sydney time. The game is Faces: Subconscious Role Playing, where you play…
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Participants: Dumirik.

7/24/2004 Jason Petrasko: Karbon, a 24hr RPG
Well its almost tied up. I have <7 hours left to clean it and add a little more color and editing/fixes. Here it is so far: http://greyearth.com/24HourRPG/karbon.pdf In summary: Karbon…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, cfc, Dumirik, Simon W, b_bankhead, Demada, John Burdick, Sidhain, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg.

7/26/2004 PlotDevice: Hello all. New 24hour rpg
Well, it has taken me this long to find the Forge, and I am finding it interesting reading. Hello all! :) For my first post, I was bitten by the…
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Participants: PlotDevice, Frank T.

7/27/2004 Vaxalon: The Skein, Chapter 1 - Jumping in with both feet.
1. Introduction Skein attempts to do something unusual in a roleplaying game. The aim is to have a seamless process that includes worldbuilding, character creation, backstory and narration. The line…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2004 Tobias: [YGAD] - update for those following the action
Those who have been following the development of YGAD (Your Gods Are Dead) know that i've been striving for a 'buckle-down' phase to get all the rules into place, finally.…
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Participants: Tobias.

7/28/2004 arturo227: Adjectives needed for degrees of success
Hi all, I'm designing an RPG with a "degrees of success" resolution mechanic. There are four degrees, from General to Exact. My problem is that I can't think of, and…
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Participants: arturo227, timfire, JimmyB.

7/28/2004 Insect King: New home-written OGL game
Hey all. I'm busy rewriting an OGL/d20-based rpg. And since I've to overhaul chunks (thanks to White Wolf's Dark Ages Fae) I was wondering if a I could post some…
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Participants: Insect King, Mike Holmes, Vaxalon.

7/28/2004 Eric Goold: Primal Insanity - My new rpg!
Hello, I'm new here. But amidst studying for my qualifier examination this summer, I took a bit of time to type up some refinements to a game that I came…
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Participants: Eric Goold, Mike Holmes, The Walruss, Paul Czege.

7/29/2004 Solly Brown: Crime game set in 1970's new york ...Opinions
A lack of respect can be fatal and it usually is with me. I tell dem one time; no no that ain't true, sometimes I don't even fucking tell em…
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Participants: Solly Brown, Ron Edwards.

7/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Vespertine: Some System Help?
Man, it's been a long time since I've had a thread in this forum. Anyway, I'm trying to put some finishing touches on this concept called Vespertine that I've been…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, PlotDevice, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Tobias, Christopher Weeks, Marhault, chadu.

7/30/2004 bcook1971: [Tell Your Tale] Breakthrough on Range Combat Concepts
This is just a shout out kind of post. I've been working on completing a playtest draft of an RPG I've written. It's about what happens between "Once upon a…
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Participants: bcook1971, Sydney Freedberg.

7/30/2004 Lathan: [Blood Royal] Mechanics help
I've been redoing the mechanics of Blood Royal, my 24-hour game; the original dice rules were really messed up, something I unfortunately noticed only after publishing. The non-crippled version (I…
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Participants: Lathan, GregS.

7/30/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Social resolution mechanics
Okay, the new revision of Capes is online. I've separated the action into two phases: First is Monologue Phase for talking, invoking Attitudes and Powers, and playing with Debt. Second…
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Participants: TonyLB, statisticaltomfoolery, LordSmerf, Sydney Freedberg, Marhault.

7/31/2004 Jasper: Symmoira
A couple of days ago I was hit with this lightning bolt of an idea (or so it seemed anyway) for a new system, and I've done little but work…
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Participants: Jasper, PlotDevice, Ravien, timfire, GregS.

7/31/2004 linux: Combat Mechanics...
Before the question, a little background information on the mechanic: In this mechanic, each weapon has a damage based on the ability of the weapon to penetrate objects (penetration) and…
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Participants: linux, bcook1971, Vaxalon, Dauntless, Hereward The Wake, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, ErrathofKosh, GregS.

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