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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6175691" data-attributes="member: 42582">But the influence of The Forge, and the games that inspired it and have been inspired by it, is huge - whether or not people have actually read Edwards or heard of Sorcerer.For instance, Vincent Baker - probably the most successful of the Forge designers - is in the acknowledgements for games as diverse as Burning Wheel and Marvel Heroic RP.&nbsp; (Not to mention Dungeon World, which began its life as a hack of Baker's Apocalypse World.)And 13th Age, with its much-lauded &quot;One Unique Thing&quot; and &quot;Backgrounds as skills&quot;, is basically recycling PC build techniques that Jonathan Tweet pioneered in Over the Edge, and that since then have appeared in many other games (perhaps most notably HeroWars/Quest, with its free-descriptor approach to PC building) before turning up in a D&amp;D clone.(Slightly tangentially: <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=32094.0" target="_blank">this thread</a> might be interesting to see some Forge types discussing the dynamics of OSR D&amp;D play.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6175691, member: 42582"] But the influence of The Forge, and the games that inspired it and have been inspired by it, is huge - whether or not people have actually read Edwards or heard of Sorcerer. For instance, Vincent Baker - probably the most successful of the Forge designers - is in the acknowledgements for games as diverse as Burning Wheel and Marvel Heroic RP. (Not to mention Dungeon World, which began its life as a hack of Baker's Apocalypse World.) And 13th Age, with its much-lauded "One Unique Thing" and "Backgrounds as skills", is basically recycling PC build techniques that Jonathan Tweet pioneered in Over the Edge, and that since then have appeared in many other games (perhaps most notably HeroWars/Quest, with its free-descriptor approach to PC building) before turning up in a D&D clone. (Slightly tangentially: [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=32094.0]this thread[/url] might be interesting to see some Forge types discussing the dynamics of OSR D&D play.) [/QUOTE]

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