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7/16/2004 Valamir: GenCon Catalog material
In this thread the plan was outlined to create a catalog of games for the GenCon booth that included 2-3 pages of (digest sized) additional content for each game (rather…
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Participants: Valamir, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin.

7/16/2004 Adrienne: Good experience with newbies.
This week, I ran a Universalis game for a couple of high school students as part of my job. I'm working for a summer program that serves upperclassmen or just-graduated…
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Participants: Adrienne, Mike Holmes.

7/12/2004 Mike Holmes: Sim UniWiki (Split from "Spam Killed...")
[quote="Christopher Weeks"]I'm interested in playing because I'd like to see what Universalis does with a different set of parameters. But honestly, without story, it's hard for me to envision the…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, kwill, Dev.

7/9/2004 Nyrath: Universalis accouterments
I was trying to jazz up the occasion, so I tried to find some useful accessories at the arts n' craft stores. Some places sell bags of multicolored transparent discs…
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Participants: Nyrath, Christopher Weeks, Andrew Morris, Tony Irwin, Hudson Shock, Valamir, The Wah, Mike Holmes, OnyxFlame, Tobias, Arvid.

7/8/2004 CPXB: The Single Flip of a Coin
One of the big differences between Univeralis and most other games is how complications are handled in pretty much one flip of the coin. You roll and the other guy…
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Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/4/2004 hive_mind: Universalis PDF?
Sorry if this is a Taboo Topic, but i was wondering if Universalis will ever be available in PDF format? I find myself gravitatinng to this format more and more…
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Participants: hive_mind, Nyrath, Valamir, Mike Holmes, dunlaing.

7/3/2004 Hudson Shock: Superman and Batman
Any suggestions on how to handle, say, Superman and Batman in the same story, as far as physical strength goes? Someone buys Olympic-level Strength for Bats (1 Coin). Someone else…
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Participants: Hudson Shock, Eero Tuovinen, CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/3/2004 Hudson Shock: Dialog and creating traits
Hi. I just got Uni a few days ago. I'm loving it so far and am looking forward to introducing my friends to it. But I'm trying to get everything…
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Participants: Hudson Shock, Christopher Weeks, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, CPXB.

7/2/2004 Bob McNamee: Spam killed the Universalis Arena II
Regrettably, the Universalis Arena II wiki based Universalis game has ended. The Shard(dimension)-hopping city of Hope game was killed by wikispam bots. On two separate occassions in the past 2…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Trevis Martin, JackBauer, Christopher Weeks, greyorm, Mike Holmes, ScottM, J B Bell, Dev, kwill.

7/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Who takes to Universalis with ease? (gamers or non-gamers?)
In the number of tenets thread, Given that my group includes two people who are new to gaming, the authority with which they approached plotting the game I found…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Nyrath, Bankuei, Paganini, Bob McNamee.

6/30/2004 The Wah: Adding Traits to Characters you don't control
Is it possible to add a trait onto a character that you do not control? Or do you first have to take control with a coin and then spend more…
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Participants: The Wah, Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Mike Holmes.

6/28/2004 Christopher Weeks: Universalis at GenCon?
Hiya, What are the chances of getting some Universalis veterans together at GenCon for a few hour game? I'd love the opportunity to play face to face with some of…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Mike Holmes.

6/25/2004 Grog: Meaty Examples
I was wondering/hoping if someone had a link to an example of Universalis play? The ones on the web site are good but dont give any 'game mechanincs'. Things like…
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Participants: Grog, Christopher Weeks.

6/23/2004 Grog: d10s
D10s? I got a few. D6s! I got buckets of them. Can I use d6s instead of d10s?
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Participants: Grog, rafial.

6/23/2004 CPXB: Universalis Redux
I played Universalis, again, last night with a slightly different group of people. In particular, John Marron was absent and his replacement was not as good as John, shall we…
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Participants: CPXB, Valamir, hix, Christopher Weeks.

6/23/2004 Grog: Known Setting
Ok this may be a painfully obvious fact... But, I was wondering if any of you have used a known setting and run with it? Like The Belgariad, or Lord…
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Participants: Grog, CPXB, Valamir, hawklord2112, Mike Holmes, Tobias.

6/22/2004 Grog: Excited again! But a few questions
Looks a good game, excited about the possibility of sitting around a table with my mates again. Havent done that for over 5 years. But before I delve into Universalis,…
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Participants: Grog, Christopher Weeks.

6/19/2004 Andrew Morris: Is a Universalis LARP possible?
I was discussing Universalis with a friend the other day and he asked if it would be possible to run Universalis as a LARP. I immediately dismissed the idea and…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Christopher Weeks, Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, kwill.

6/13/2004 Tony Irwin: Ramshead playtesting
I had never heard of Universalis until it was already a gorgeous little blue book with lovingly drawn, kooky fantasy art pics of robot pirates and laser artillery on lizard…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Bob McNamee, Valamir.

6/12/2004 Valamir: Universalis Picked up by Alliance
As some of you are aware, earlier this year I hooked up with Key 20 Direct, a new consolidator run by Jason Blair and his partner Jason Valore. They rep…
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Participants: Valamir, ethan_greer, Jürgen Mayer, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, Mark Johnson, Tony Irwin.

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8/2/2004 Karasu: Alternate Dice Gimick?
I picked up Universalis a several months back and I've been dying to play it ever since. Now that I might have the chance to try it out with my…
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Participants: Karasu, CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Arvid.

8/6/2004 Don D.: Our first Tenet Phase and a request
I am new to Universalis but am excited about playing. I usually go for roleplaying games but find as I get older that I have less inclination to spend hours…
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Participants: Don D., Valamir, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Bob McNamee, Nev the Deranged, hix.

8/14/2004 simproductions: Available in the UK?
I'm looking to buy Universalis but am looking for a UK supplier or UK based site as P&P accounts for a lot of my money gone when making purchases of…
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Participants: simproductions, Valamir, DigitalMage.

8/26/2004 Christopher Weeks: LEGOversalis
OK, So I screwed up my GenCon with too much responsibility for or dveotion to our (Game/LEGO User Group) track of LEGO games and didn't get to spend anywhere near…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Blankshield, Tobias, ffilz, Mike Holmes.

8/29/2004 hix: Actual Play: The Cat who could End the World
This continues an Actual Play write-up from about ten months ago A Russian Fairytale. That thread has the first two chapters. In this one, I’ll post the last three. Our…
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Participants: hix, Mike Holmes, Tobias, Valamir.

8/31/2004 Hudson Shock: Aargh! Lost my book! My first game is tonight!
The title says it all. Okay, the basic rules are easy enough - I even wrote a summary of them a few weeks ago. The only thing I don't remember…
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Participants: Hudson Shock, Eero Tuovinen, hix, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/31/2004 Valamir: Post Gen Con Website Update
Some good updates to the site today. There are 8 new actual play examples from various GenCon demos, including one with the obligatory zombies. There are also 2 more entries…
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Participants: Valamir.

8/31/2004 Valamir: Universalis Third Printing
Thanks to a fairly significant volume of stock moved by Key 20 into distribution (including 2 subsequent sizeable reorders by Alliance) I find myself running lower on Universalis than I'd…
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Participants: Valamir, rafial, Christopher Weeks, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, komradebob, Bob McNamee, OnyxFlame, Andrew Morris, Bankuei.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Edge Dice
Over in this thread, What I had also originally suggested (and I can't remember if it's in there or not) is that the player who gets the edge die…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Re: Post Gen Con Website Update
[quote="Valamir"]read over the actual play demos, feel free to start up a discussion here.[/quote] Here, here? Or out there, here? (If the latter, feel free to do your moderator magic.)…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

9/3/2004 Hudson Shock: Challenges
This came up in the game. I just winged it, but I'm wondering what the official answer is. I'd look it up, but as I've mentioned before, I can't find…
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Participants: Hudson Shock, hix.

9/6/2004 Tobias: Universalis - effective anti-kitchensinking tenets?
Hi all, I know I can put 'no immediate turn-around on what came before' and 'no elements outside the genre' rules gimmicks in play, but I was wondering if people've…
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Participants: Tobias, Ron Edwards, Tony Irwin, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Savage_Joker, Christopher Weeks, xiombarg.

9/7/2004 Christopher Weeks: The Challenge as a social karma investment instrument
[quote="Over in [URL=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12612]this thread[/url], Tony Irwin"]But when you challenge someone you're saying up front "Here's what I like, here's what I want. Show me what you want and how badly…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Tobias, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2004 Tony Irwin: Featured Effect
Hey, I like the "Featured Effect" discussion at the bottom of the new Actual Play reports on the web-site. Looks like a really good way of teaching people about the…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/26/2004 cthulahoops: Saving Orion (Gaelcon Post #1)
Hi, I just got back from Gaelcon (the biggest Irish games convention, http://www.gaelcon.com) where I organised a Universalis game called Saving Orion. The set-up I used was really simple, there…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Valamir, A.Neill, Gary_Bingham, OnyxFlame.

11/4/2004 OnyxFlame: Gameplay idea
I don't have the game yet, but I must say I'm totally drooling over it lol. I did have a nifty idea though... What if you used random stuff off…
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Participants: OnyxFlame, Tobias.

11/14/2004 kwill: trouble logging into TUA3
heya, when I try to log in by clicking "login" in the blue box on http://wiki.trmfineart.com/bin/view/Unigame/WebHome or any other TUA3 page, the link takes me to the same page using…
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Participants: kwill, Trevis Martin.

11/15/2004 CPXB: Concrete advise about framing scenes
Universalis is currently my favorite game, but I clicked with it unusually well. I've played a fair bit of it with a fair number of people -- doing tonight a…
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Participants: CPXB, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, OnyxFlame, Adrienne, Arvid, Valamir.

12/2/2004 Tobias: self-referential universalis
gimmicks challenging gimmicks, dropping the barriers between player coin-spending and things happening in-setting, rules affecting different players differently. Been done? Where? Results? Thanks
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Participants: Tobias, Mike Holmes.

12/6/2004 OnyxFlame: Actual Play - my first game
Cowboys & Mermaids & Sheep, Oh My! # of players: 3 Tenets: 1. At least one lesbian 2. Magic exists. 3. Includes a time warp. 4. Involves sheep. 5. Big…
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Participants: OnyxFlame, Valamir.

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