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10/13/2008 chance.thirteen: Opportunity Pool idea
This is an unsettled idea; I can't quite wrap my head all around it because I have all the various goals in mind. However, I want to share it to…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, opsneakie, Vulpinoid.

11/5/2008 chance.thirteen: evaluating relative values of abstracted goals
Such an endearing title, but I wanted to be specific. I enjoyed reading through Burning Empires, but the end of conflict left me feeling rudderless. There were to be concessions,…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, Eero Tuovinen.

3/4/2009 chance.thirteen: Avoiding type of task primacy?
I am throwing together a RPG for my friends from standard parts. The problem i have is linked to my own thinking. I tend to divide action in an arena…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, Luke, Noon, Creatures of Destiny, Bert.

3/18/2009 chance.thirteen: Can you create suspense via mechanics?
The topic of suspense came up in another thread, and to avoid derailing the topic I will attempt to open it here. A little reading on suspense as an audience…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, Egonblaidd, Noon, soundmasterj, dindenver, Paul T, Vulpinoid, FredGarber.

4/15/2009 chance.thirteen: is this the place to ask for input on social actions?
I am trying to brainstorm on what sort of social actions and capacities exist, and how they seem to be related in the real world, then use those notes to…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, whiteknife, JoyWriter.

10/6/2009 chance.thirteen: Recommended writing tools?
I have no idea where to put this, but I know that game designers often use these sorts of things so  hopefully it's the right forum site at least. :D…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, whiteknife, Jasper Flick, Darcy Burgess, duncanguy, lumpley, DagdaMor, sirealestate, MikeF, zmobie, Mike Sugarbaker.

11/3/2009 chance.thirteen: Handling common motivations and character specific ones with the same system
I'm working on a mechanism that interlaces strong character motivators with temporary behavior modifiers brought on by social interaction. It is very similar in form to the Spiritual Attribute in…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, chronoplasm, Teataine.

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