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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.

3/4/2005 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.

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.

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.

2/15/2005 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.

2/2/2005 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.

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.

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.

1/23/2005 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.

1/10/2005 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.

1/10/2005 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 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.

1/5/2005 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.

1/5/2005 Eye-Zee: Request: Hints for Bulletin Board Play
I'm a new member here, and a new Universalis player. I joined up for the express purpose of asking this question (though I will probably have more as time goes…
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Participants: Eye-Zee, Valamir, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

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.

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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.

5/3/2005 Doren: playing PARANOIA ish setting... tips on rule's gimicks
I got Uni a few weeks ago but unfortunatly I have yet to convince any of my friends (or so called friends) to give it a try. Partly its because…
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Participants: Doren, Trevis Martin, Stickman, Mike Holmes, Valamir, GreatWolf.

5/6/2005 hix: Using Uni to write scripts
Hi gang, In the Solo Uni thread, Chris asked what I'd have to teach people in order to use Universalis as a script-writing tool. Well, we're about to have the…
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Participants: hix, Valamir, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

5/19/2005 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS COVER
Well, its my intention to have a sharp and spiffy new cover for the next printing of Universalis. Unfortuneately, I'm not going to be able to use the wonderful contest-winning…
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Participants: Valamir, Paul Czege, Chris Passeno, John Harper, ethan_greer.

5/24/2005 Mike Holmes: Tenet Phase Participation
Steve (AKA Hix) thought this might make a good thread topic, so here it is: I have personally experienced cases where individual players have gone through tenet phases without adding…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, matthijs, hix, Trevis Martin.

6/8/2005 Christopher Weeks: Game at rpol
Hey, I just stumbled across a Uni game at rpol. Is anyone reading this involved? I particularly find it interesting to watch them stumble in the "Tenets - Proposals" thread.…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

7/8/2005 Trevis Martin: Universalis wiki game starting
A new universalis wiki game is getting started on my site I think we've accepted that we will not get the ever growing wiki uber universalis game. That…
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Participants: Trevis Martin.

7/18/2005 Valamir: Test
Testing new features. Nothing to see here
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Participants: Valamir.

8/4/2005 nilsderondeau: Universalis and the straight story
Hello all, Finally have a copy of the game in question after an extended and very interesting correspondence with Mr. Holmes.  Have also been following the GCP wiki. This seems…
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Participants: nilsderondeau, Valamir, Andrew Morris, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin, Bob McNamee, komradebob, Mike Holmes.

8/20/2005 Eero Tuovinen: Ralph Mazza, where art thou?
Ralph, if you find this notice, contact me. I suspect that your e-mail service provider is blocking my messages. I also sent you PM a while ago, but to no…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Christopher Weeks.

9/8/2005 Jack Aidley: Challenges: a rules questions
It wasn't clear to me reading the rules as we played last night (great game, BTW!) - when someone challenges one of your statements do you take the coin you…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Valamir, Arturo G., Mike Holmes.

9/11/2005 Nev the Deranged: Just think...
This is totally offhand, but I was wondering what might have happened if they'd had a copy of Uni back in Lord Byron's infamous swiss chalet on that dark and…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Mike Holmes, Arturo G..

9/28/2005 Valamir: Universalis Examples
I've decided to take the opportunity of the next print run of Uni to do some major revisions to the text.  These revisions are looking to wind up much more…
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Participants: Valamir, Stickman, Tobias, Jack Aidley, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks, Arturo G., demiurgeastaroth, matthijs, GreatWolf, daHob, Nev the Deranged.

9/29/2005 Valamir: Revised Chapter 1
The draft for the revised Chapter 1 can be found here See if this addresses the concerns raised in the examples thread. Ralph
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Participants: Valamir, pedyo, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, Arturo G., Jack Aidley, demiurgeastaroth, Tony Irwin, Robotech_Master.

10/5/2005 Arturo G.: Using d6 for complications
At the end of the new chapter-1 draft it is said that there will be an appendix explaining how to use d6s instead of d10s for complications. I have not…
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Participants: Arturo G., Valamir, hix, Victor Gijsbers.

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