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12/30/2003 Troy_Costisick: [EmberWorld] Hammering out an exhaustive History
Heya, The time has come for us at Twilight Press to begin work on our next book for our campaign setting. Our plan is to do an in-depth book on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

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.

8/14/2004 Troy_Costisick: Balance of Character
Heya, I was reading the thread by Sean (A note on balance) and it sparked a discussion (argument) between myself and a friend of mine (Scott) who was over for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, NN, Walt Freitag.

8/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Call of Cthullu and GNS
Heya, This post is mainly to see how much of GNS I am understanding, so please feel free to correct me on any of this. I really want to gage…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Marco.

11/23/2004 Troy_Costisick: Understanding GNS
Heya, Please forgive me if any of this has been stated before as I am still very much a student in learning when it comes to GNS theory and the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, timfire, M. J. Young.

11/24/2004 Troy_Costisick: GenCon booth construction (split)
Heya, Some thoughts on construction that might make it easier to transport. From where I sit, the framwork must have two properties: transportable and disassembleable (that a word?). Think about…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

12/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Forge Assisted Games
Heya, Is there a compiled list of games that made it into print that were aided in their development here on The Forge? I'm just interested to see the titles…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Blankshield, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen.

4/4/2005 Troy_Costisick: Character Effectiveness = CA/SIS Interface?
Heya, This is a split topic from: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14908&start=0 James Holloway Wrote: Troy: Quote: You have a player who is wanting to engage in one of the Arenas of a CA…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Noon.

4/30/2005 Troy_Costisick: Broken Link
Heya, I'm trying to get to Anvilwerks site, but the links on this site as well as a couple other sites are broken. Has the site moved? Peace, -Troy
In CRN Games
Participants: Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/1/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cian] Split - Banding Together
Heya, Killa seemed like he wanted the previous thread to end, so I started a new one here to address something he said. Michael S. Miller wrote: Why should…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, killacozzy.

5/10/2005 Troy_Costisick: Using Task Reso to get Conflict Reso
Heya, This is loosely related to another thread over in the GNS forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15369. I hope I'm not honking off anyone by asking this sort of question here about a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, pete_darby, paulkdad, timfire, Ron Edwards, John Burdick, Doug Ruff, Yokiboy, Valamir, M. J. Young, Alephnul.

6/26/2005 Troy_Costisick: What is the function of Kewl Powerz
Heya, In this thread Tony wrote this: My argument is that they address something that is hard to address in other ways. Which is why, in fact, games without them…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, KingstonC, Jeph, Remko, Andrew Morris, Noon, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg, chadu, HMT, Vaxalon, timfire, John Kim, Simon Marks, Artanis, Brand_Robins, xenopulse, Eero Tuovinen, Itse, cruciel.

8/15/2005 Troy_Costisick: What Role Does Setting Play In System?
Heya, I'm working on a problem in my latest design, and am hoping to get some good input from you guys.  Let's say you have a finite ammount of space-…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Artanis.

9/13/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #1
Heya, Never done a rant before, and not sure this really counts as one.  Don’t really care either.  I just have a point I want to make and then a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Gaerik, Arturo G., Halzebier, Jasper, WhiteRat, Joshua BishopRoby, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Lehman, c, timfire, Noon, Graham Walmsley, M. J. Young, Tony Irwin.

9/28/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #2: Follow Up
Heya, I suppose I should call these non-rants, but in the end it’s not really important.  This is a follow-up to the rant I wrote here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16809.0 Again, I make…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Jeph, Joshua BishopRoby, Green, Valamir, WhiteRat, Blankshield, demiurgeastaroth, gsoylent, lumpley.

9/29/2005 Troy_Costisick: Coding Help
Heya, I'm sorta embarrassed to ask this questions because I used to know.  But could someone tell me how to change a long link like this: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php into a single…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Jack Aidley.

10/3/2005 Troy_Costisick: Ronnies October
Heya, The next Ronnies contest will begin October 2 and the submission time will end October 12. Have I missed the post on this? Peace, -Troy
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

10/10/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cuthroat] GF Status
Heya, I am in the midst of revising Cutthroat.  You can download the origonal here. In his comments in the origonal thread, Ron wrote this: Actually, I'm thinking even more…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #3: The Power 19
Heya, As I was looking back through my earlier rants and the links to other threads provided, I realized two things about the three questions I examined.  First, they were…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Tony Irwin, Graham Walmsley, timfire, Joshua BishopRoby, M. J. Young, 1of3, ChrisJaxn.

11/15/2005 Troy_Costisick: Hosting a File
Heya, I have a revised version of Cutthroat ready for folks to download and read.  I don't have my own website up and running just yet, and I was just…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Adam Dray.

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