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In Random Order Creations 7/16/2005 Halzebier: [The Pool] Questions about +2 and +3 traits
Hi there!
I've never played The Pool, but I'm planning to and reading up on it.
In Ron's review of The Pool, he says the following:
It turns out…
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Participants: Halzebier.
6/6/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Using The Pool to play HeroQuest.
[i](Warning: this is a cross post from the HeroQuest forum. Its about The Pool and Heroquest and as such is potentially of interest to both sets of readers).[/i]
I have…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint.
5/9/2005 Matt Gwinn: TQB - Anthropamorphic troubles
After working on characters for The Questing Beast some of us are having a really hard time associating animals with the characters. It's not that we can't assign Forms, we're…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Bankuei.
3/2/2005 The All Powerful Yeti: The Pool PbF
So 6 months ago I moved several states away from my normal gaming group. We never got the chance to play the Pool before I left, so we've now decided…
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Participants: The All Powerful Yeti.
11/21/2004 James V. West: Message From Space
Hello everyone!
As Ron has pointed out, I only check in once in a while. It's very cool to see that people are still drawn to The Pool even though…
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Participants: James V. West.
10/12/2004 The All Powerful Yeti: New to the Pool
So my gaming group has decided we've become dissatisfied with only playing what has basically been a Simulationist game, so we've decided to give the Pool a shot with your's…
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Participants: The All Powerful Yeti, Ron Edwards.
10/3/2004 Frank T: When to roll
Hi everybody!
After my first attempt at The Pool failed (I described it here in the Actual Play Forum), I volunteered to GM the next try. I understand that our…
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Participants: Frank T, aplath.
9/19/2004 Andrew Martin: TQB Variant
I got a little carried away and wrote up a TQB variant, for Noon, so I thought it would be good to post it here as well.
It's like a…
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Participants: Andrew Martin.
7/26/2004 MarcoBrucale: [The Pool] Decameron-inspired variation and campaign
I've just begun to use The Pool for my games, but it gives me new ideas every time I use it! And the good news is that they're whole *narrative…
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Participants: MarcoBrucale, James V. West.
5/23/2004 Garth: Questions from a Pool newbie
Hey there. This is my first post here at the Forge.
I'd been here once or twice before, reading some of the articles at the urging of a friend. This…
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Participants: Garth, Paganini, Bob McNamee, aplath.
4/24/2004 Lxndr: Snowball
Twisted Confessions was down for a while, making Snowball more-or-less unavailable online. It's back up now. I apologize for any problems anyone had attempting to access it in the meanwhile.
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Participants: Lxndr, nuanarpoq.
4/16/2004 Dev: Life in Orion's Arm (use of the Pool?)
There is this grassroots-built, expansive hard-science posthumanist sci-fi universe being built up at Orion's Arm, and certainly, some folks are trying to game it. However, lots of the Hard-Science constraints…
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Participants: Dev.
3/11/2004 Lollo: Brainwash (for Snowball)
Hi you all,
in the weekend, at Ambercon Italy, I'll test "Brainwash", a Snowball scenario. It's inspired by Chuck Palahniuk novels and tells the story of a rockband starting from…
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Participants: Lollo, Lxndr, zib.
2/29/2004 James V. West: Mean Streets '79
The buddy-cop action movie RPG by Mike Hall Mean Streets '79 is now available as a free PDF download right here.
This is a cool little game (5 whopping pages…
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Participants: James V. West, james_west, Mike Hall.
2/19/2004 amel: new variant of The Puddle
Hi, I posted a variant of The Puddle at the Adept Press Forum.
Andreas
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Participants: amel, Scripty, James V. West.
2/9/2004 James V. West: The Pool - O Jogo
First France, now Brazil. Alexandre Amaral has translated The Pool into Portuguese!
Alexandre said it would eventually be posted at this website: http://www.rpg.com.br/
In the meantime, in case you want…
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Participants: James V. West, BURP.
2/8/2004 James V. West: Le Pool
Pierre Pradal has successfully translated The Pool into the French language and made it available in PDF format.
Visit his site here.
He has kept the translation as close to…
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Participants: James V. West, RiP.
2/7/2004 jhawkins: The Puddle without player narration
I've been using the Puddle without having much story-narration by players. So if the player rolls the dice and succeeds, their character manages to do whatever they were trying to…
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Participants: jhawkins, James V. West, Cassidy.
1/31/2004 John Harper: UniPool -- Its Universalis! It's The Pool! It's both!
[b]UniPool[/b]
Universalis meets The Pool
Each player gets a stack of 10 coins at the start of each session. Any coins left over from a previous session are lost. These…
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Participants: John Harper, HMT, Alan, James V. West, Bob McNamee.
1/13/2004 Paganini: TROS musings and questions and stuff...
So, I finally got it. Bad stuff first... I was kinda disappointed with the editing. Bad grammar, misspellings, too wordy, and stuff. Better than a lot of indie publications, true,…
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Participants: Paganini, Brian Leybourne.
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