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9/15/2001 James V. West: Updated Pool
I revised The Pool and updated the site. Basically, I made a few changes such as removing the "Major Trait" jargon and removing a few other unnecessary items. I also…
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Participants: James V. West.

9/5/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Player power in the MoV
In Ron's review of The Pool he said this: The discussion of the Monologue of Victory seems driven by paranoia that the player will destroy any logic or content…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Supplanter.

9/1/2001 Uncle Dark: contested rolls and the Pool
Heya, I just finished reading The Pool ( I know, I'm behind on my Game Design Geek reading list... I've been finishing a masters degree, OK? :smile:) and it looks…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West.

8/15/2001 Paul Czege: a question about The Pool
Hey James V., I've got a question about The Pool. In the "Play" section of the rules, you write: a) If the situation brings into play one of your…
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Participants: Paul Czege, James V. West.

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9/19/2001 Uncle Dark: NPCs and GM
I've been following the updates and discussion of The Pool for some time. I have a couple of questions which are, for me , theoretical (at this point), but I…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Tim C Koppang, HMT, Mike Holmes.

9/24/2001 Mike Holmes: Flipping The Pool
Spurred on by something Ron said about it when it came out, I've been giving The Pool a little thought of late and something has occurred to me. Isn't the…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Straszheim, Epoch, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

9/25/2001 Paul Czege: no islands in the pool
Hey everyone, I ran the second session of my scenario for The Pool last night, and I have to say that if you'd been there, the one thing you'd have…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Epoch, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins.

9/26/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Filling The Pool :)
This is related to the current topic "No Islands in The Pool". What bothers me most about the conclusions in that thread is the idea that, from a statistical perspective,…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

9/27/2001 Tor Erickson: Tragedy in the Pool
Hi all, What do you think about using the Pool as a vehicle to run a tragedy? I've been thinking about this over and came up with a couple of…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Ben Morgan, Mithras, James V. West.

9/27/2001 Mike Holmes: Plot Flow and Metagame Resources
I mentioned to Ron that I agree with many that The Pool is an important design due to the fact that it lays bare the relationship between Metagame Resources and…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, James V. West.

10/7/2001 James V. West: Updated version of The Pool: testing my novice html skills.
Hey all I put up an updated version of The Pool (version 127.29???). It's my first attempt at html so be gentle. There's nothing fancy about it whatsoever. I think…
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Participants: James V. West, GB Steve, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Jeffrey Straszheim.

10/11/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: comments on The Pool
I finally sat down and read it. The current version, anyway. These are my impressions. Unfortunately, My head is deep in my own game The Wheel. I can see some…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Epoch, James V. West, Mike Holmes, gentrification.

10/19/2001 Mike Holmes: The Questing Beast
Hey James, Back yet? Are you any farther on TQB? Can you give us any preview? Mike
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Participants: Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, James V. West.

10/21/2001 Blake Hutchins: The Pool question
Two, actually, since I'll repeat the one from "X-Games" over under Actual Play. 1. How would you suggest The Pool handle player v. player rolls? 2. Do zero dice Traits…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, James V. West.

10/23/2001 hardcoremoose: How often do you roll your Pools?
We had our third session of The Pool tonight. It started out a bit off - a couple of us had the giggles and after nearly a month of not…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins.

10/26/2001 Ron Edwards: Link?
Hey James, Where's the page? The link in the Library is broken. Best, Ron
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Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West.

11/6/2001 Blake Hutchins: X-Games Thoughts (repeat thread)
Hello all, Thought I'd repost the thoughts and feedback from our first session of the Pool. The complete thread is in X-Games Update (1) under the Actual Play thread. This…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, James V. West.

11/6/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Monologue of Defeat
I had a different idea for adding a "Monologue of Defeat" (I guess it is an inevitable name). A character can take a certain number of flaws , quirks, or…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins.

11/13/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Just whose pool is it?
In my theorizing about The Pool I've come to consider the dice pool as a player resource rather than a character resource, meaning that a large pool represents a greater…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Bankuei.

11/22/2001 James V. West: The Beast
Hey all. I want to share a little of what I'm doing with my game. THE QUESTING BEAST is a game of Arthurian romance done with anthropomorphics. Instead of being…
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Participants: James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

12/15/2001 James V. West: TQB draft one in the hands of dangerous minds
Hey all I uploaded The Questing Beast, draft one, to the geocities site and placed that link in the hands of some dangerous and powerful thinkers. I need to make…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/16/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Website?
Does Random Order Creations have a website? And also, to save myself double posting somewhere else, is their a website for Wyrd? Need it for links from an immininent FLN…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose, James V. West.

12/24/2001 hardcoremoose: The Questing Beast comments
Hey James, I still haven't read the whole thing - it's a sizeable document - but I have browsed i, read a little, and have some working knowledge of your…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Uncle Dark, Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes.

12/27/2001 James V. West: PDF available
Hey I just put TQB in a pdf file without any images. Its a small download and you can print it out easily. This is for those of you who…
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Participants: James V. West, Ben Morgan, lumpley.

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