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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.

11/6/2001 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.

11/6/2001 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.

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.

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.

10/21/2001 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.

10/19/2001 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.

10/11/2001 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.

10/7/2001 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.

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.

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.

9/26/2001 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.

9/25/2001 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.

9/24/2001 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.

9/19/2001 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.

9/18/2001 Paul Czege: question: when the GM narrates in The Pool
So far, I've run one session of my scenario for The Pool. Near the end of the session, Scott Knipe found his character Grazel Deathsower face-to-face with Sgt. Aminar "the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, jburneko, Ron Edwards, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Tim C Koppang.

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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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.

12/29/2001 James V. West: Animal Forms
Thededine wrote: "I've got two questions/suggestions for you: a) Is this a 'sample' and not necessarily definitive, list? State either way in the text. b) -Why- did you chose these…
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Participants: James V. West.

1/5/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: For math geeks
Here are some statistics I've worked up for Questing Beast. The first table is the odds per the number of dice rolled. ========================================================== Dice MoV GM MoF 0 0.0…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Pondering the Beast
Apologies in advance for the somewhat rambling nature of this post. This is called thining out loud. You can find The Questing Beast here: www.geocities.com/randomordercreations/tqb1intro.html Now that I've put some…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Manu, Mike Holmes.

1/15/2002 joe_llama: The Questing Beast - personal opinion
Hi James! Sorry for postponing my feedback, I was caught up in a few other issues (real life, for example). First of all, I have to say that I absolutely…
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Participants: joe_llama, James V. West, Ron Edwards.

1/23/2002 Ron Edwards: The Beast Released II
Hi James, Here are some of my mechanics-concerns about The Questing Beast. 1) As I mention in the Actual Play forum, the Pool ends up being quite stable. One player,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, James V. West, Paul Czege.

1/28/2002 Bankuei: Motifs
I sat back watching one of my favorite anime series, Giant Robo, which is teeming with an actual story(more than blow things up), and is covered with motifs left and…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur, James V. West.

1/30/2002 Zoetrope10: The Pool & casting dice
James I was delighted to discover The Pool a couple of days ago, by way of Ron's "Top 5 RPGs" article ( http://www.fandomlife.net./A55840/fln.nsf/all/52385EA75E4435DE80256B22006000B6?OpenDocument) I found the section of the rules…
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Participants: Zoetrope10, James V. West.

1/30/2002 Skippy: Alms for the poor
Okay, its sad to admit, but I find myself needing GM'ing advice. See, I've never run (or tried to run) an all-out player empowered game, and I'm really liking the…
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Participants: Skippy, Ron Edwards, greyorm, James V. West, hardcoremoose.

2/6/2002 Tim Denee: Smurf smurf smurf
Godstruth, I just smurfed Smurf: the Smurfing. 'Smurf' has smurfed all meaning for me. Not that it had any meaning in the first smurf. I wish I could smurf what…
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Participants: Tim Denee, James V. West.

2/22/2002 Christopher Kubasik: When Heroes Fail
James, Haven't yet played The Pool or TQB yet... But since it feels like a dream I had years ago made real, I believe I've got a handle on it.…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Bankuei, Gordon C. Landis, Rod Anderson, Blake Hutchins.

2/22/2002 James V. West: What's up.
Hey everyone! Just checking in with an update on what's going on with The Questing Beast, The Pool, and all my other scads of projects. - The Questing Beast will…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose.

2/24/2002 James V. West: The Premise of the Beast
I've been tackling one of the sticking points of The Questing Beast: what should a character actually do? No one has said much about it, but I felt like I…
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Participants: James V. West, Zak Arntson, Paul Czege, Zoetrope10, Gordon C. Landis, Henry Fitch, Mike Holmes.

3/5/2002 James V. West: TQB Playtest Journal ONE
Hey everyone! Last night was my first official playtesting session of The Questing Beast. I hoped to post a detailed overview of the session tonight, but time and duties forbid…
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Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards.

3/9/2002 James V. West: TQB Levels of Play
Hey In The Questing Beast you are actually playing 3 different types of roles. I'm addressing this in the opening pages of the game and I'd like to present what…
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Participants: James V. West, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir.

3/9/2002 James V. West: TQB Styles of Play
Hello again The Questing Beast features the idea of Accords, which can be best described as settings discussed and agreed upon by a group before starting play. This establishes what,…
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Participants: James V. West.

3/26/2002 Kenway: Questions about running Pool combat
I was going to try running a Pool adventure, but I was wondering about combat: -I want to run an epic battle or an extended duel, but it seems that…
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Participants: Kenway, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, jburneko, Valamir, HMT, Paganini, Bob McNamee.

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