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1/3/2005 Valamir: Universalis play in Dallas
Bill Cook, sent me This Cool Link Looks like a pretty slick way of organizing local mini cons. I'm glad to see Uni getting some play. Bill, let us know…
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Participants: Valamir.

12/26/2004 JohnUghrin: Complications and Control
Okay, I'm trying to prevent my second game of Universalis from exploding and a question has come up that I don't know how to answer. I have looked through the…
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Participants: JohnUghrin, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Tony Irwin.

12/6/2004 Tony Irwin: Edge mechanic
The edge mechanic for when you draw in successes during a complication... Am I right in thinking that because this rewards players who draw in complications, that its encouraging you…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Valamir.

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.

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.

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.

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.

11/4/2004 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9/3/2004 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.

9/1/2004 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.

9/1/2004 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.

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.

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 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.

8/29/2004 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.

8/26/2004 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.

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1/5/2005 Hudson Shock: Example of play - pulp altnerate WWII
No questions or problems this time. We played Universalis just before New Years and had an absolute blast. We knew ahead of time that we wanted to do a really…
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Participants: Hudson Shock, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/10/2005 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS ART CONTEST VOTING for Entries #1-#6
[size=12px]In September of 2002, an early conversation about how to pronounce "Universalis" resulted in the "Universe Alice" art contest. We were looking for the image that best captured the spirit…
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Participants: Valamir, Adrienne, headcase, pigames.

1/10/2005 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS ART CONTEST VOTING For Entries #7-#11
[size=12px]In September of 2002, an early conversation about how to pronounce "Universalis" resulted in the "Universe Alice" art contest. We were looking for the image that best captured the spirit…
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Participants: Valamir, Sraporn, slowdin, Christopher Weeks.

1/10/2005 Tobias: Actual Play: The Key to All Evil (YGAD game continues)
Some quick facts on this weekend's session: Between all the other things I'm busy with, I'm still translating the YGAD game (mechanics) to Uni Gimmicks, since I think there were…
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Participants: Tobias, Mike Holmes.

1/23/2005 matthijs: First try - short comments, Complication question
Monica and I decided to give Universalis a test run. Monica hadn't read the rules; I had, but told her there might be a lot of leafing through the book…
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Participants: matthijs, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Tony Irwin.

1/26/2005 Christopher Weeks: How much can I share the rules?
If I'm sitting at a table, explaining to people how to play Universalis, that's obviously cool. What about a virtual table on the internet? It seems like it's probably still…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/29/2005 matthijs: Review up at RPG.net
[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11023.phtml]Here[/url]'s my Universalis review - the first of two. This is a review of the game text, the next one will be of actual play.
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Participants: matthijs, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

2/2/2005 quozl: Using Cards as Coins
I had an idea that I haven't tried out yet but I'd thought I'd run it by all of you first. Instead of coins, each player gets a deck of…
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Participants: quozl, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

2/15/2005 Valamir: Explaining how to create stories with Uni
In the discussions for this review Matthijs made the following really good observation that I wanted to open further discussion on Seems to me there's a lot of talking past…
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Participants: Valamir, CPXB, Christopher Weeks, ethan_greer, bcook1971, komradebob, ffilz, Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, pete_darby.

2/19/2005 hix: Lessons from playing Uni on Wiki?
Hi, I haven't seen a thread that covered this, so ... Most of the Universalis-Wiki games I've monitored/played in seem to have petered out. I'm wondering whether participants and observers…
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Participants: hix, Mike Holmes, Valamir, ScottM, Trevis Martin, MatrixGamer.

2/20/2005 matthijs: Universalis Plot Threads
We tried out Universalis at this year's HolmCon (hopefully the first of many). The sessions were fun, but sprawling and unfinished. Later, I talked a bit about how I wanted…
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Participants: matthijs, CPXB, Mike Holmes.

3/4/2005 Trevis Martin: New Universalis Play by Wiki starting up.
Hi folks. Mike Holmes mentioned this in the Lessons from playing Uni on Wiki? thread. But I wanted to announce it so it could be seen. We're trying to start…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, hix, Valamir, ScottM, Shieldage.

3/12/2005 Valamir: RAMSHEAD ANNOUNCEMENTS
1) ART CONTEST WINNER: With 40% of the 77 votes cast, John Harper's image wins the contest and the $50 prize. Thanks to all who voted. Special thanks to…
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Participants: Valamir.

3/13/2005 Tony Irwin: Robots & Rapiers download
I was just able to download R&R for free, is that what you intended? It looks outstanding! I love the blend of caligraphy style text and more "mechanical" text. Art's…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Valamir.

3/28/2005 Arvidos: Demoing Universalis
Im was planning to demo Universalis on a local (=swedish) convention, so.. Do you have any fancy demo-gear I can order? (Like.. a poster, I guess :p) Anything else to…
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Participants: Arvidos, Valamir, komradebob.

4/9/2005 Valamir: Universalis Sales Data
In the Spirit of My Life with Master and Prime Time Adventures I offer: Universalis Sales Chart Most of the categories are self explanatory. The Distribution Sales are all through…
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Participants: Valamir, MatrixGamer, Michael S. Miller, Bob Goat.

4/13/2005 MatrixGamer: Matrix Games and Universalis - similar but different
Ralph commented on my game (Matrix Games) on another Forge forum and suggested I drop by this list. Our games are similar and it would be interesting to compare and…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Valamir, Christopher Weeks, komradebob.

4/13/2005 MatrixGamer: More Observations on Matrix and Uni [split from Wiki Observa
Trevis wrote up a page for new players that should help a lot, and will give everyone an idea of how it's set up. You can read it here: http://wiki.trmfineart.com/bin/view/Unigame2/IAmANewPlayer…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Valamir.

4/17/2005 hix: Solo Uni
I’ve played Uni solo twice over the last couple of years; both times as a tool to kickstart some storylining ideas for a TV show pilot. Going in, I typically…
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Participants: hix, Valamir, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks.

4/29/2005 Gaerik: Got my copy... Get yours today!
Okay, I got my copy in the mail a week or so ago and have finished reading the rules and digesting them a bit. This is a really cool game!...…
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Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

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