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I haven't heard anything from all of my fellow Dresden fans resently. Have any new ideas about the system they are implimenting for the Dresden RPG been leaked...
Michael W. Kilduff
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Sep 19, 2006
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... Check out our latest update to the website (which was sent out to the updates list) -- Spirit of the Century, our pulp game, is that leak, in that it uses...
Fred Hicks
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Sep 19, 2006
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Ok,I'm confused. The Dresden rpg isn't going to be set in Chicago? That would suck a lot fo the fun out of it for me, cause one of the things that cracks me up...
Trevor Curtis
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Sep 20, 2006
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I'm going to bet some of you are wondering why there's all this talk of Baltimore in a game based on the stories of a character set in Chicago. I'm even going...
Fred Hicks
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I think most of it's the fact that Jim doesn't live in Chicago, and has people feeding him things long distance ;) ... -- A blow from a whip raises a welt, but...
Michael Finn
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... Well, not exactly. Chicago is _definately_ going to get covered, and if you want to run a game in Chicago, that'll be easy as pie. Hell, it'll be more...
Robert Donoghue
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Sep 20, 2006
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This part I completely agree with. When you play a game you like to enjoy a world but often when someone else is controling a character you have read about...
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Sep 20, 2006
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Okies,thanks. Cleared that right up. Now if you guys could only teach other rpg writers to be as forthcoming with answers. Now the other question this topic...
Trevor Curtis
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Sep 21, 2006
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... <snip> ... I would think that Providence has to be a prime playground for anyone looking to play a Dresden RPG. It's old, small enough that everyone has a...
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Sep 21, 2006
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... Almost certainly not for the simple reason that we've got a license for the books, not for the TV show, so addressing the show is pretty much a Bad Idea...
Robert Donoghue
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Sep 21, 2006
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... I'd also add in that, the way these things work, we'd have at most a chance to think about, what, maybe three or four of the episodes? It's not like we'll...
Fred Hicks
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Sep 21, 2006
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I love the idea of small towns with crazy secrets. So, if you have some good ideas for Providence I know I would love to see you write it up and include a...
The mighty poet Shado...
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Sep 21, 2006
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Lots of American towns have a really interesting history that makes them ideal to use. The problem is more that you are simply spoiled for choice. One series...
Michael R. Blair
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Sep 22, 2006
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Lemme just second Cryptozoology as a fantastic book. For Ideas, the book "Weird U.S." is also a treasure trove, and they're producing local versions, like...
Robert Donoghue
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Sep 22, 2006
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... Back when I was in college, a couple friends and I started working on a sourcebook for where we lived, York, PA. The plan was to develop a book that would...
Kurt Feltenberger
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Sep 22, 2006
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The draw to play in the Dresden universe is just too great. I had to start up a new campaign based on the Cthulhu system again. Very ecclectic cast this time...
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Sep 27, 2006
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We tend to use CoC as out default system as well. It is simple and everyone knows it. Are you using Sanity points? I always thought that these could be renamed...
Michael R. Blair
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Sep 27, 2006
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SAN points could be used to represent Harry's inability to use technology. Of course, this would tend to lead to an effect of, say, Murph gradually having more...
Marshall Smith
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Sep 27, 2006
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I had not thought of that, interesting, very interesting idea. Not canon but very useful if only for a different game. I had always though that Harry's 'Murphy...
Michael R. Blair
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Well there are other ideas inside of that line of thought. What if the magic does not directly affect technology but the unconcious mind of the mage? I mean...
The mighty poet Shado...
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Much better logic being applied to the rules of magic. Look for a logical magician by robert weisenberg. ... From: Michael R. Blair To:...
Robert Hicks
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Sep 28, 2006
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I have pretty much left sanity points the same. Harry gets sick at particularly gruesome crime scenes and it's kind of funny to have a character have to...
kilrwolf
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Just as a curious player and ST did you set an affected range or is it a fluctuating distance for the technological effects? kilrwolf <kilrwolf@...>...
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I left it pretty dynamic, depending on what is going on. Usually about 10-15' away, things work fine, unless he was doing something particualrly magical....
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Oct 26, 2006
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My name's Bill Mobley. I'm a Dresden fan who started reading the books about two or three days before meeting Jim Butcher at DragonCON. I've finally caught up...
silverdenarian13
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Nov 3, 2006
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There is none. :) We are simply having to be patient. Fred refuses to name a date like a big baby just because he can't meet them! ;) Ok, seriously, no mojitos...
Peggy Carpenter
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Nov 4, 2006
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...it's been quite, too quite. No, really, just wondering what was going on with DFRPG....
weaverchilde
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Nov 14, 2006
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... Quite what? Quite quiet? ;) ... Tons, if you consider that we just put out Spirit of the Century <http://www.evilhat.com/?spirit> -- which uses the same...
Fred Hicks
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Nov 14, 2006
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... And man is it worth it. I didn't care for Fate 2.0, nor am I a huge advocate of FUDGE. But Fate 3 rocks. It gets out of the way, it uses personal...
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Nov 15, 2006
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Thanks a bundle! We're very proud of the work on Spirit of the Century and we're certain it's giving us a strong base for the Dresden Files RPG. Fred...
Fred Hicks
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