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8/10/2001 James V. West: This might be fun.
Seems like we're having all kinds of new games ideas today...here's one more. PLOT ELEMENTS- a game of competitive storytelling. In this game, the group tells a story. This is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards, unodiablo, Ferry Bazelmans, Jamie Thomas Durbin.

9/3/2001 James V. West: Web-Page Challenged...
I posted my stuff on a geocities page using the generic "page builder" software they provide. Very limiting, as far as I can tell. The next time I post a…
In Publishing
Participants: James V. West, Matt, Tyrant, Valamir, peteramthor, Jack Spencer Jr, FilthySuperman, Philippe Tromeur, Epoch, Ron Edwards, Clay.

9/9/2001 James V. West: The Pool: the creator's first session
Hey all: Finally, at long last, I have played my own game. I knew when I wrote it I would enjoy playing it, but that's usually the case with designers,…
In Actual Play
Participants: James V. West, kwill, Blake Hutchins, Epoch.

9/15/2001 James V. West: Updated Pool
I revised The Pool and updated the site. Basically, I made a few changes such as removing the "Major Trait" jargon and removing a few other unnecessary items. I also…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

10/7/2001 James V. West: Updated version of The Pool: testing my novice html skills.
Hey all I put up an updated version of The Pool (version 127.29???). It's my first attempt at html so be gentle. There's nothing fancy about it whatsoever. I think…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, GB Steve, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Jeffrey Straszheim.

10/31/2001 James V. West: relationship maps and all that jazz
Friends I'm rather in the dark about a lot of the stuff that's been discussed here at the Forge before I came along. Not to mention the fact that there…
In RPG Theory
Participants: James V. West, Don Lag, Ron Edwards, Laurel, Paul Czege, Jack Spencer Jr.

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.

12/15/2001 James V. West: TQB draft one in the hands of dangerous minds
Hey all I uploaded The Questing Beast, draft one, to the geocities site and placed that link in the hands of some dangerous and powerful thinkers. I need to make…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/23/2001 James V. West: The Questing Beast
Hey all! First off, I hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday season. I posted the first draft of The Questing Beast. I'm posting about here just in case you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Mithras, Thededine.

12/27/2001 James V. West: PDF available
Hey I just put TQB in a pdf file without any images. Its a small download and you can print it out easily. This is for those of you who…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Ben Morgan, lumpley.

12/27/2001 James V. West: Picked it up cheap!
I'm on vacation. I had some bucks. I went to the local comics/game shop and browsed the used/discounted stuff as I'm a terribly poor cheapskate. Lo and behold, I stumbled…
In HeroQuest
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Ranko.

12/28/2001 James V. West: The Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer's Bible
Ok, anyone familiar with this book? Its written by Sean Patrick Fannon, pubished in 1996 by Prima Publishing. THE FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING GAMER'S BIBLE. I bring this up because I bought…
In RPG Theory
Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm.

12/29/2001 James V. West: Animal Forms
Thededine wrote: "I've got two questions/suggestions for you: a) Is this a 'sample' and not necessarily definitive, list? State either way in the text. b) -Why- did you chose these…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

1/1/2002 James V. West: The Iron Devils Quandary
I’m writing a game based on the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre of fantasy. Its called Iron Devils and its primarily based on the style and atmosphere of stories written by…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Uncle Dark, hardcoremoose, Paganini, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Matt Snyder, Laurel, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/7/2002 James V. West: HOF: an idea for a game (long)
This is an idea I’m working on (and I apologize for the length and the typos in advance): Hof- a game of swords, devils, and family. In a nutshell: Players…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Zak Arntson, Paganini, joe_llama, Skippy, Garbanzo.

1/9/2002 James V. West: Alrighty then, let's smurf!
I don't know why I did it, but here it is: www.geocities.com/randomordercreations/smurf.html May Peyo forgive me.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Uncle Dark, joe_llama, Laurel, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Zak Arntson, Matt Snyder, Mithras.

1/11/2002 James V. West: What to do, how to do it.
Hey folks. I'll start this forum off by asking a few questions: 1) Can I/Should I ever delete anything from my forum? 2) If I want to post about something…
In Moderators
Participants: James V. West, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Now I get it.
My copy of Sorcerer was in the mailbox today. I sat in the parking lot of the USPO and eagerly flipped through the book, drinking in paragraphs and statements like…
In Adept Press
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Manu, Paul Czege, Bailey.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Pondering the Beast
Apologies in advance for the somewhat rambling nature of this post. This is called thining out loud. You can find The Questing Beast here: www.geocities.com/randomordercreations/tqb1intro.html Now that I've put some…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Manu, Mike Holmes.

1/15/2002 James V. West: How much Premise does it take?
How much Premise do you need to create an egaging rpg? This is me asking because I’ve suddenly become very aware of Premise or lack of it in my ideas.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Paul Czege, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Marco.

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