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7/27/2003 James V. West: Random Order Comics and Games #4
The new issue of Random Order Comics and Games is now available. This issue features not one, but two complete RPGs: Mike Hall's Mean Streets '79. Buddy cop action movie…
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Participants: James V. West, Paganini.

7/26/2003 nuanarpoq: Hi, looking for some advice on scenario writing for the pool
hi guys i've been encouraged by the +/ve feedback on the pool and have got the guys i regularly game with interested in running a session. i've read through some…
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Participants: nuanarpoq, Russell Hoyle, Paganini, Bob McNamee, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Cassidy, Mike Holmes.

7/22/2003 melchyor: Something Wrong with www.randomordercreations.com?
I've been getting nothing but 403 authorization error pages when I try to connect to www.randomordercreations.com for the last day or so. I am trying to get information on The…
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Participants: melchyor, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West, Overdrive, Trevis Martin, Blake Hutchins.

7/18/2003 Lxndr: A Snowball's Chance in Hell (Pool Variant)
(Also posted to Indie-Netgaming) Thought y'all might get a kick out of this. Snowball (Snowball is a variant rules system based on 'The Pool' and 'The Questing Beast,' as well…
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Participants: Lxndr, James V. West, Shreyas Sampat, nuanarpoq, Paul Czege.

6/8/2003 James V. West: The quest begins here...
[url=http://www.randomordercreations.com/tqb.html][i]The Questing Beast[/i][/url] is now available! Instead of Print-on-demand, I opted to desktop publish the game. It is a 32-page book, comb bound with a silver metallic motif on a…
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Participants: James V. West, Lxndr, C. Edwards, lumpley.

6/5/2003 dragongrace: Pool Variation: Court of the Dragon Emperor
http://home.earthlink.net/~jjeskiewicz/CoDE.html I've put together a little game called Court of the Dragon Emperor that relies on the Pool as the core to the system. To see all of what I've…
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Participants: dragongrace, Mike Holmes, James V. West.

5/13/2003 Maurice Forrester: multiple successes in the pool
I ran The Pool for my kids yesterday (there's a post about that in Actual Play) and I've been thinking about making a small change to the success and failure…
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Participants: Maurice Forrester, dragongrace, aplath, Cassidy, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Paganini.

5/9/2003 Cassidy: Recent Pool Play - Insights and Thoughts
Hi all, Currently running my second Pool (Puddle actually) game and thus far it's went quite well. It's a simple enough game; modern day secret agent stuff. Players are all…
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Participants: Cassidy, James V. West.

4/27/2003 Kenway: The Pool with 2 players?
I was planning on a Pool campaign with only 2 participants and I didn't want to have 1 GM and 1 PC. Are there any suggestions to make play more…
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Participants: Kenway, Shreyas Sampat, Bankuei, aplath, Paganini, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Cassidy, Scripty.

4/17/2003 kregmosier: review of ROC #1 on rpg.net
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9232.phtml w00t! way to go, James! -k ps... #3 rocks also...just got my copy in the mail.
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Participants: kregmosier, Paganini, James V. West.

4/16/2003 aplath: Easy Rider meets the X-Files ...
Hello all, Just posting an account of the first session of a new game I started yesterday using the Pool. After a few playtests with the Pool, this one is…
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Participants: aplath, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, James V. West.

4/11/2003 Florian Edlbauer: [The Pool] Second try
In case anyone is interested, here's my second playtest report for The Pool. Me and my small group moved much closer to a compromise between our playing style and The…
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Participants: Florian Edlbauer, Cassidy, Kenway, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

4/9/2003 James V. West: Random Order #3 now available
Hey everyone! This weekend I premiered Random Order Comics and Games #3 at the 2003 SPACE convention in Columbus, Ohio. What a great show! Tons of people selling, buying, and…
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Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards.

3/18/2003 Kenway: The Pool: Clockpunk adventure recap
This is just a Pool campaign recap. The Pool: Clockpunk adventure The players were traditional AD&D and Marvel Super Heroes-raised gamers, so they not surprisignly played The Pool mostly AD&D-like.…
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Participants: Kenway, James V. West.

3/17/2003 Tor Erickson: Motifs as questions
Hi all, I had this revelation a couple of days ago when I was putting together the characters for a TQB one-session. I wanted one of the characters to be…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Paganini, James V. West.

3/16/2003 Parandro: The Pool working in Detective Stories?
Hi there, until now I haven't yet played a game of The Pool, although I like the idea of giving narrative power to players very much. The problem is: as…
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Participants: Parandro, Bob McNamee, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

3/10/2003 timczar: The Pool/Puddle with different genres
I haven't read through all the posts concerning the Pool and it's variants, but I'm curious what genres it's been used in successfully, and if it's really tanked when using…
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Participants: timczar, Bob McNamee, Cassidy, James V. West.

3/2/2003 James V. West: TQB: Counting the days...or hours?
Hey As I've mentioned before, I'm going to go with a Print On Demand service for The Questing Beast. What this means is I've had to learn how to do…
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Participants: James V. West, Paganini, Fabrice G..

2/26/2003 Mark Withers: Play by forum/pm/email...
Is anyone interested in playing a game of the Pool, either by forum, personal message or email? Also, what do people think about that style of play? Is the Pool…
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Participants: Mark Withers, Cassidy, James V. West, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, Colin the Riot.

2/22/2003 James V. West: The Pool Variations Are Up
Hey I finally got around to posting some of the variations on The Pool. Check it out here! If I've left some out please don't be shy. Let me know…
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Participants: James V. West, Cassidy, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

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8/21/2003 lonefox: My Pool Play
Hi, I really wanted to try the pool online, so I decided to have a go at it, GMing on OpenRPG. Well, actually my matrix campign was cancelled, and some…
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Participants: lonefox.

9/13/2003 Ronin: The pool sucks and so does it's creator
The pool is not an olympic sized water hole to frolic about and have fun in, it at best is a cess Pool waiting for the unitiated to venture into…
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Participants: Ronin, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, James V. West.

10/6/2003 James V. West: I ain't dead, but I'm badly bruised...
Hey all I've been virutally dead on the forum for some time now. I just wanted to chime in and say I'm still here, still alive, and still in some…
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Participants: James V. West, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards.

10/7/2003 Minx: Pool without GM, just using characters?
First of all: Hy! Me and to fellow players (actually family: Brother and girlfriend) are looking forward to playing Pool, as it sounds very ... interesting. (It´s sooo coool, I…
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Participants: Minx, James V. West, Bob McNamee, Lxndr.

11/6/2003 Lxndr: Publishing Snowball
Up to this point, I've offered Snowball free from the Twisted Confessions website. I have no plans to stop doing that. However, I am also tempted to submit it to…
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Participants: Lxndr, James V. West, abzu.

11/27/2003 Cassidy: Engaging Narrative
It's been a while since I last posted on this forum. My introduction to the Pool has proved to be an epithany in my role-playing life this year; long may…
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Participants: Cassidy, HMT, qxjit, Ron Edwards, James V. West, xiombarg, Matt Wilson.

11/28/2003 Kenway: 60 Second Pool (variation)
How about this Pool variation: 60 second Pool (variation). *For character creation, instead of 50 words, you get 60 seconds to describe your character orally to the others. The other…
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Participants: Kenway, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, James V. West.

11/29/2003 Kenway: Engaging Narrative? "NEMESIS" Pool addon rules
For Cassidy: if it doesn't sound too self-promotional, here's some addons I've worked on you can try for your campaign. They are designed to help serialized adventures with recurring NPCs…
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Participants: Kenway, Cassidy.

12/23/2003 Buddha Nature: Snowball query (with a touch of Puddle)
This is mostly for anyone who has GM'd snowball... When you GM Snowball, using 1's and 6's as the only throws that get the players monologues, how often do you…
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Participants: Buddha Nature, Lxndr, James V. West, Cassidy.

1/2/2004 James V. West: Random Order Comics and Games #5
The new issue of Random Order Comics and Games is now available. This issue features several comics, including a new Zarp story that takes you into his past for just…
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Participants: James V. West, Lxndr, John Harper, Paganini.

1/12/2004 John Harper: [Pool variant] The Poodle
We just started a new game series (set in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe) and we're using a Pool variant that I developed. It's working pretty well, so I thought I…
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Participants: John Harper, Matt Wilson, Cassidy, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2/9/2004 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.

2/19/2004 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.

2/29/2004 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.

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.

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.

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