Three League City Three League city is the capital of the mountain kingdom of Cloud Brush. River Rushing divides around a long island, consisting entirely of a...
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eternal_beginner
eternal_begi...
Oct 2, 2006 2:15 pm
... Taking a couple of pages from the "indie game design book": Kat already discussed the importance of open discussion about "what we want from this?" - a...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 3, 2006 8:00 am
Thanks for that. I do always try to build in situations, such as moral dilemmas, that cannot be solved by breaking things, or people, for exactly these...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 4, 2006 4:06 pm
Responding to an old post here... I'm interested in all this indie games talk and want to learn more. Where to start? John, or anyone~ is pretender still...
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eternal_beginner
eternal_begi...
Oct 5, 2006 4:15 am
... more. ... Check out: www.indie-rpgs.com - the original Forge. Recommend reading Ron's essays first, to get some understanding of "the whole idea" before ...
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drsamsara
Oct 5, 2006 4:23 am
Hello. Just thought I'd say hi. I'm an old-school gamer who left the hobby during the 90's and only got back in the last few years. During this later time,...
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John
longspeak_te...
Oct 5, 2006 4:31 am
Jon, you silly boy, the URL is in the original post you quoted and is still good. :-) Repeated here for your linking pleasure: ...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 5, 2006 7:59 am
Its true I am silly! Aside from that I see the link does work, but in your old post that I discovered I saw you mention that Pretender it was free. What I...
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John
longspeak_te...
Oct 5, 2006 3:30 pm
Jon, It turns out you are *not* the silly one. I am. I tested the link, saw the page come up and didn't bother to actually READ it before proceeding to the...
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John
longspeak_te...
Oct 5, 2006 3:59 pm
Greetings and welcome, I don't know about anyone else, but I've never considered using the fortune deck in this way specifically because of the...
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dr_jack_holcomb
Oct 5, 2006 8:22 pm
Hi, all. Sorry I vanished for a bit there. A stack of essays to grade, now graded. I agree with Dr. Samsara that spreading around the narrative control is a...
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George Harnish
lefou23
Oct 6, 2006 5:27 am
In the spirit of open communication, don't forget to tell your players any expectations you have for them. Here are some things I've tried in other RPGs. Give...
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drsamsara
Oct 6, 2006 5:27 am
... The two decks solution is clever. I hadn't even considered that. The play you are describing is about what I was thinking, although the GM wouldn't...
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John
longspeak_te...
Oct 6, 2006 5:38 am
... And after a thorough search, I must apologize, as I no longer have the original electronic copy. I deleted it when I bought the nopress anthology. Sorry, ...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 6, 2006 9:24 am
Curses! never mind, thanks very much for looking. *normal silliness resumes* ... A thousand JonF ... a ... the...
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dr_jack_holcomb
Oct 7, 2006 10:38 pm
Hey, all. I have posted a description of the realm of Water Hyacinth in the Files section, under (I think) Everway Source Material. Your comments and...
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Robert Barrett
maltesechang...
Oct 9, 2006 3:58 am
Dear Jack, I've put up an HTML version of the file at the Everweb: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rwb/www/gaming/everweb/water-hyacinth.html Let me know what you...
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Robert Barrett
maltesechang...
Oct 9, 2006 4:05 am
Dear Jon, I'm loving Three League City. Do you plan to add any more to the document? Or can I just put it online at the Everweb as is? Best, Rob ... ...
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dr_jack_holcomb
Oct 9, 2006 4:49 pm
Thanks, Rob! *sigh* I just reread a couple of bits, and I've already seen one subject-verb agreement issue and any number of places where the prose should be...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 15, 2006 8:00 pm
Many thanks Rob, I do intend to add more, much more; hopefully in collaboration if others want to contribute. My idea for a chinese-fu-wuxia setting, was what...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 17, 2006 9:06 am
Uh oh, My last post sounded a bit like I was taking credit for Dr Jacks work, or for setting his wheels in motion, or somesuch. Sorry, that wasnt what I meant...
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dr_jack_holcomb
Oct 17, 2006 3:11 pm
Hey, Rob and Jon and Everybody. ... Well, it's not like that would be entirely inaccurate... your prompting did get me going on that. Suffice it to say that...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 17, 2006 5:03 pm
Jack... I have to admit, I hadn't read your file until I saw this post, I hadnt realised how much work you had done on Water Hyacinth and how well you tied it...
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katabatic_jack
Oct 17, 2006 9:40 pm
Hey, folks. Superficial trivia first: as you can see I've figured out how to rename myself. I originally created the "dr_jack_holcomb" id when I had grand...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 20, 2006 3:58 pm
It was never taken by me as rank-pully, I always thought it was some kinda cool supervillain persona... Now you have re-established your secret identity you...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 20, 2006 6:37 pm
Just thinking aloud: The Five Kingdoms: "Wind-Brush" Mountain kingdom: elemental correspondance = Air "Old Home": First of the Kingdoms, elemental...
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Shawn Isenhart
shawn_isenhart
Oct 24, 2006 2:38 pm
There's a different five element pattern in Chinese philosophy. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_five_elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water...
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jonfreeman2000
Oct 25, 2006 1:08 pm
Indeed, and the five elements of chinese and buddhist philosophy are reckoned to be an extension of the Indian 3 'element' concept ( fire water earth). Shawn,...
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drsamsara
Oct 25, 2006 2:01 pm
... In some ways, using the _wuxing_ is better than the Classical or Buddhist elements, because the _wuxing_ are actually not so much elements (as building...
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Michael J. Coffey, CPC
ardeacoaching
Oct 26, 2006 2:41 pm
Many moons ago, when Rubicon Games was still actively producing Everway products, I wrote up a series of quests using the wuxing. The back-story to it was...
