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    Cold Iron Blackmarsh Adventures Bestiary Thoughts

    In service of publishing Cold Iron Blackmarsh Adventures, I'm working on a bestiary and I'm looking for some thoughts from others. Cold Iron is a symmetric system, all creatures have the same attributes as PCs and all have levels, again just like PCs. Most creatures are just going to have...
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    Your most desired never published RPG titles

    Since we have a thread for out of print, and folks have mentioned some never finished projects... Here's some of mine: Gamelords Free City of Haven Volume 3 Gamelords Thieves Guild complete RPG with all the other character classes A complete Midkemia setting (not sure this was ever on the...
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    The Briefcase (or backpack) Challenge

    You just got an evacuation alert. You have some time, but you need to prepare for the worst. You want to save some of your physical gaming stuff in a briefcase or backpack. What do you take? Of course we're all going to take our laptops, but what physical stuff? Consider also the possibility of...
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    Handling different weapon types in Cold Iron

    As I work on improving the writing in my version of the Cold Iron rules, I'm reminded that I still am unsettled on how to handle some weapons in Cold Iron, specifically how to make them different. Cold Iron weapons are available at a variety of sizes to match your STR (I've personally increased...
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    Perception vs. Stealth

    I'm thinking specifically about Cold Iron, but I open this for discussion of perception vs. stealth in any game system. There are definitely some things that work well and some things that don't work well in various systems. So last night we had our first real run of Cold Iron, and we wound up...
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    Help me design a better non-combat skills system for Cold Iron

    I've never been very happy with non-combat skills in Cold Iron. The original designer has only ever shared much detail about one sort of non-combat skill - Riding... Let's start with some basic stuff. Cold Iron resolution uses the cumulative standard normal distribution rendered in chart form...
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    Cold Iron Blackmarsh Adventures

    So I keep wanting to get a Cold Iron campaign going... But trying to create my own setting just is not going to happen, so I'm looking for thoughts on a setting that is well supported that would be amenable to Cold Iron. Having been running two RuneQuest campaigns for some time., one in...
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    What well loved gems do you have in your RPG collection

    The "White Whales and Holy Grails" thread got me thinking about the gems I have in my collection. But I don't want to hear about the items in your collection that you DON'T seal away, but actually use, maybe even to the point of near destruction. Absolutely my favorite is my original 1st...
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    General Samurai/Ninja Role Playing

    While I have interest in specific systems, I thought I'd see who all was interested in talking samurai/ninja role playing in general. Obviously we may refer to specific systems, but let's see who is interested and where this might go. As I get into setting up my campaign, one thing I'm curious...
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    Cold Iron Samurai Adventures

    OK, I'm going to try this here... I'm looking for feedback and discussion on implementing Samurai (and Ninja etc.) campaigning with the Cold Iron system. Obligatory link to more about Cold Iron: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nyOzdxP8VZV2oSyKnxnS160WBRpC1Cd9fNfn2Va9VAI/edit?usp=sharing...
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    Cold Iron Samurai Adventures

    I've decided to take another spin at samurai adventures on Unseen Servant, this time with Cold Iron. Here's my recruitment post over there: https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=11658 And here's the text of the post: For the past few months or so as I've been playing the...
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    Thoughts about a play by post game

    I'm starting itch to run a play by post game (probably on Unseen Servant) again, but I need to figure out something that will work and I thought I could get some thoughts from you folks. I thought I was off to a great start some time ago with Yoon Suin, but the entirely random setting didn't...
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    Games I own but have not run or played

    I thought I'd start a new thread for this... For me, I'm going to focus on print games since it's (almost) no cost to keep a PDF you decide you aren't going to play. Feel free to also include things you HAVE played but don't see any likelihood of playing again any time soon (though I will...
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    Character advancement or reward

    I've been thinking about the various games I play and have run and how players are rewarded. In my current thinking there are three basic paths for reward: Experience - Characters are rewarded with experience points or character points or something. Over time, these allow the character to...
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    A new campaign idea - RuneQuest Thieve's Guild

    I love RQ. I've also always loved Thieve's Guild, but trying to run it these days with no legal way to get a copy of the rules doesn't sound like a good idea. Plus, they never developed the magic system (you could cobble together fighters, but casters no way). So why not merge the two. RQ can...
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    What can you tell me about Warhammer Fantasy (1e), the setting, and adventures?

    So in trying to decide what to replace my bi-weekly Traveller campaign with and coming to the conclusion that Cold West Iron Marches might be a hard sell, I'm exploring options. One thing I'm coming to a conclusion about is that I need a reasonably detailed setting that is also easy to absorb...
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    Adapting Trilemma Adventures

    With the mention of these in the Favorite Adventures thread, I took a look at them. I'm still hoping to start a Cold Iron campaign, and originally my plan was a West Marches inspired campaign, but I'm getting less and less excited about crafting a setting from scratch, and thinking that maybe...
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    Is there a way to search for threads started by a particular user?

    I wanted to find the threads I started...
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    Cold Iron Blackmarsh Adventures

    I have a Friday evening to myself coming up soon and thought I'd see if a Cold Iron one shot would gain any interest. Here's the Roll20 link: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/286613/cold-west-iron-marches
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    Skills for West Marches exploration

    As I continue to work on my Cold West Iron Marches (West Marches inspired campaign using Cold Iron), I'm contemplating how to handle skills outside of combat and magic. I don't have a good solid skill system to use, so I actually have the freedom to make up something that will work well with...
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