Role-Playing Games

On these pages you find all my copious data about role-playing games, in particular about IDEAS. You will also find information about all the games I am currently running on-line, rules and game development and special utilities just for the gamer.

See you on the Game Grid!

NightStalkers	A freeform RPG game played on IRC on Sandnet.
Player's Guide	A player's guide for IRC RPG players.
Eyes in the Dark (I2D)	Eyes in the Dark is a modern horror RPG that I started up on the net some time ago that is just blasting off. We have bad player-bounce and some other technical hics but the game survives and is very popular. Read about it below! Eyes in the Dark is still running after 5 months and is a success! Join the Party! *No gaming could be easier than IRC, or more fun!*
Rumpus!	Well, sink my torpedoes but I'm gonna have a stab at Rumpus again! Rumpus is a RPG to be played on IRC that has a very low- level, combat-intensive style. I like to call it "Mortal Combat meets Godzilla." I have no takers yet but I persevere.. because I know all the mecha-nuts out there (and there are so many) will love it. Players for Rumpus have begun to sit up and be counted for the 40-foot stomping terrors that they are. You think your monster can whup their monster? Go ahead.. I dare ya, I double dare ya.
IDEAS Online PC sheet	I've been playing with Java lately and I've made a client-server appet that allows players and a GM on IRC to keep in touch through a pretty and simple interface that controls saves, damage and a bunch of other number-crunching features (see I2D.)

Player Section:

This section is for links for players of IDEAS, both in life and on IRC, including utilities, rules and other useful information.

Experience and Development: A page explaining how xps are awarded, and how you can spend them.
IDEAS Roller: this dice roller for Win95 (in VB and C++ formats) is to assist the player in making saves and calculations during the game. If you have Win95, request this file from me.
Games List: List of current games and players and links to them all.

Rules:

IDEAS© is my own RPG system. It is a point-based system in the way that GURPS or Champions is. It has been under development for over 12 years and that includes much playtesting. On this page I will include information for its various franchisees and players.

Game Mechanics & Rule Updates
Furry Tomorrow: IDEAS has recently been licensed out as the game-mechanics for an RPG currently being developed. Becuase of its modular design, I expect IDEAS to be used for many such games in this way.
Adventures and Scenarios

Kane: Where the Wyld Things Dwell: Details about the world that all shape -shifters and undead come from. This is the worldview shared by Near Dark, AfterDark and Eyes in the Dark.
Cabal: details about demons, angels and gargoyles and how they relate.

White Wolf:

White Wolf should take 50% of all its royalties and pay them directly to the writers of NightLife, upon which most of White Wolf is clearly based, and RH+ didn't even cheese it very well.. Check out the humanity costs, could anything be cooler? I highly recommend you have a look. It's quite likely that if I'd seen this when I was designing IDEAS, a lot would have been different.

Viecksy: A clan of flying vampires
Obour: A clan of scientific vampires
Werewolf Disciplines: Rather than gifts based on Rank, here is a system of werewolf disciplines more in the style of other WW games.
Werewolf: The Cursed: Rules for integrating werewolf players into all-vampire games . These rules are nearly complete, I'll be making them available soon.
Ghost: Death is not the End: Rules for ghost characters before Wraith came out.
Middian: We Are Between
Gargoyles: the Cabal: I'm planning on playing Korul Al-Wassar in a new WW game.. so I had to sketch up some gargoyle rules for the lil' critter. When they're reasonably done I'll post them to the web for you to enjoy. Note that these are not as finished or polished as the rules for Cursed.
Dice Fix: Fixing the dice-system of White Wolf so that the probabilities work out right
Combat System Fix: Making the combat system of White Wolf work.

Utilities:

IDEAS Character Sheet: clicking on this link downloads the standard System4 character sheet.
IDEAS Calculator (Win95): The IDEAS Calculator. Download this into its own directory and run it. It is a game-aid useful when playing online in Win95. (link down.)
IDEAS Calculator (DOS): (link also down)
Java: I am also working on a way to automate PC sheets and present them on any web browser during the game, with information shared between players and GM. I'm collaborating with a gamer-programmer from NeXT :) beware we're everywhere! To find the link to your page, click on your game and follow the link.

Games:

Eyes in the Dark: Eyes in the Dark is an ongoing IRC-based RPG with a modern horror flavor. All the characters play monsters. Because of its popularity, it has been moved onto its own page.
Immortal: I am being urged to run live games again, and one I am interested in is Immortal (from Precedence Games.) I am having trouble finding players and time, now that I am not within a network, as I was at school, but I keep trying.
RUMPUS!: Rumpus is a RPG to be played on IRC that has a very low- level, combat-intensive style. I like to call it "Mortal Combat meets Godzilla." Currently taking players.
Near Dark: A solo game centered around a vampire called Bancroft.
Loopy2:Who Are You?: This is the game in which I play Loopy, the werewolf.
PC Sheets: the following character sheets are available online

Eyes in the Dark	Alex Wolf Vlad, the devil Shadowblade Ginchi Hitochi (Gaki) Formorian Bendigo, the fallen angel the Middian the Rakshasa Nefara, the dragon Nassim gat Kanda, the gargoyle Manta, the aquatic GELF The Mad Scientist
Loopy2:Who Are You?	Loopy aka Lewis P. Looks-Twice, the werewolf Korul Al-Wassar, the gargoyle Jessica, the were-zebra
Near Dark	A Warwulf A or water-horse

Fluff:

fluf' : (slang) fiction taken from events in a role-playing game

Carnival Loopy: From the Consortium. Loopy is taken to a circus and the vampires come to collect him.

This page dedicated to all my playtesters, without whom I could never have accomplished all I have, and to Loopy, who never lets me forget what it's like to be in the passenger seat, like West European, Doink, Slick, Mexxswell, Oak, R'nagoth, Bancroft, Aleema Surr, Diva, LK1 MIUS, Eglantyne, Burnoye, WIZ, (jeez.. there's so many!) LAWAK, tha Rakshasa, Aounghas MacOg, Alex Wolf, the Middian, Nefara, the Formorian, Stalker, Johnny, Nassim gat Kanda,...

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