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5/14/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Robots & Rapiers v2.3] Session I
Due to a logistical error, John took the notes for this last session and is now in Hawaii, so I’m just going to touch on some of our major findings…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Valamir, Ron Edwards, ( o Y o ), Iskander, mtiru, Matt Wilson.

4/24/2007 LukeSineath: Idea for a Conflict-based historical game
I'm interested in roleplaying in historical periods.  I started to think about a way to run a game based on the fall of the Roman monarchy using Burning Wheel, but…
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Participants: LukeSineath, Mike Holmes.

4/22/2007 Robotech_Master: Second Game: Zombies of Orion
This game had four players, at a gaming-group picnic a friend put on. I proposed as the the first tenet, "Orion needs to be rescued." The guy to my left…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2007 Valamir: ROBOTS & RAPIERS BETA V2.3 NOW AVAILABLE
At long last, Robots & Rapiers is nearing completion of the design stage.  The game has gone through major revisions the last couple of years but is now at a…
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Participants: Valamir.

4/2/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Robots & Rapiers Playtest v2.3] Character Creation
So we held another playtest session on Thursday. I had not had a chance to read through the revised document, and the revisions didn't update the sample characters we'd been…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Iskander, mtiru.

4/1/2007 Valvorik: Adding traits during complication and elimination costs
If a complication is about eliminating a component (e.g., character), and during the resolution the component is narrated as having additional traits (the controller seeking to give them traits resisting…
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Participants: Valvorik, Valamir.

3/22/2007 Robotech_Master: Ficlets!
I've recently started writing on ficlets.com. You get to write stories in 64-to-1024-character chunks ("ficlets"), then someone else gets to write a follow-up sequel or prequel chunk. And multiple people…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Mike Holmes.

3/4/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Robots & Rapiers Playtest] A Simple Letter
Hi Ralph, Some thoughts following our first session of Robots & Rapiers: 1. We had a good deal of fun, which is unusual and a pleasant surprise for a playtest.…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Valamir, drozdal, Robotech_Master, Iskander, Mike Holmes, jenskot, GreatWolf, mtiru.

2/14/2007 Robotech_Master: Mini-scenes vs. interruptions
It says in the rules that a mini-scene only lasts until the end of the turn of the person who created it. What if he's interrupted?
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir.

2/14/2007 Robotech_Master: Unclear on groups
I'm having a little trouble understanding the groups trait. On page 33, in the mini-scene example, it mentions the creation of a "team of Slytheran" and that it's "1 Coin…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/12/2007 unexpected: Another way to start a Confrontation?
Hello! I'm quite new to Universalis (one session so far), I really like it, but - of course - my gaming group has encountered a situation, were we are not…
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Participants: unexpected, hix, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2007 Robotech_Master: Ideas for Rules Gimmicks for Chatserver Play
I was just thinking about possible rules gimmicks for chatserver play, made necessary by the lack of visual contact. For instance, a shorthand for making clear how many coins you…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Mike Holmes, David Artman.

2/4/2007 Robotech_Master: First game: Slaves of Springfield
My first session of Universalis went pretty well, for all that there were only two players in it. I had arranged to give a "demo" at MetaGames, the local gaming…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Mike Holmes, Valvorik, Valamir.

1/23/2007 Robotech_Master: Seeing Universalis everywhere I look...
It's funny--I've been so immersing myself in Universalis over the last couple of days that I'm starting to think of movies and TV shows and things in Universalis terms. "Luke…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Mike Holmes.

1/23/2007 Robotech_Master: Looking to start chatserver game
I'm looking at starting a chatserver game of Universalis, to get better acquainted with the rules in the hope of running some live demos soon. In order to play, you'd…
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Participants: Robotech_Master.

1/21/2007 Robotech_Master: 2-page Play Aid: Free Dialog?
I was glancing at the 2-Page Play Aid on the Resources page, and happened to notice, under its list of things you could do at any time, it says that…
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Participants: Robotech_Master.

1/20/2007 Robotech_Master: Interrupt interrogative
I was reading through the rules on Interrupts and something wasn't quite clear to me. Say there are four players, A, B, C, and D. It is player A's turn,…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/8/2007 TheGroog: My First Impression
Hello I first met Universalis about 2 years ago, with the first (?) edition. Myself, son and buddy merely dipped our feet but we had an underwater laugh with dolphins…
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Participants: TheGroog, Valamir, Robotech_Master, hix.

12/19/2006 Zatt: Using pre-made scenes.
One thing that I thought of while I've been readying myself for my upcoming Universalis story arc for our Warhammer 40,000 campaign was the idea of readying scenes. Here's the…
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Participants: Zatt, Mike Holmes.

12/5/2006 Zatt: Laptops with Universalis
Just a question: How many of you use a laptop when you're acting as the recorder? It came to me that I type much faster than I can write, and…
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Participants: Zatt, Mike Holmes, demiurgeastaroth, Curufea, Robotech_Master, David Artman.

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5/21/2007 ( o Y o ): Re: [Robots & Rapiers v2.3] some questions
Hi Valamir, I mean the Difficulty. Your comment on RAM9 suggests that the "other way" round (Bonus is my Bonus and Difficulty is my Difficulty) it would be more intuitive.…
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Participants: ( o Y o ), Valamir.

5/23/2007 epweissengruber: Indie RPG Toronto Takes on Universalis: AGAINST THE 13th REICH!
http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3087998 We had a good experience with the game and I hope to pull it out again for our next social meeting.
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Participants: epweissengruber.

8/25/2007 rycanada: Rules Gimmicks for a scribe?
My wife, who loves to host and listen in on games but hates playing them (strange and wonderful at the same time) is very interested in scribing for a game…
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Participants: rycanada, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2007 rycanada: Shut up and Tenet
I finally (finally finally finally) got a physical copy of Universalis (so I don't have to go off of my recollections of others games and a few handouts anymore).  I…
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Participants: rycanada, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Valvorik.

9/6/2007 Valvorik: Complication question
Sorry if this was answered (went back 6 pages and couldn't find something). Once a complication is declared, it is the case that you can "buy dice" narrating and get…
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Participants: Valvorik, Valamir, rycanada, epweissengruber, Robotech_Master.

9/7/2007 rycanada: Two questions
Does there exist a master flowchart for the game?  I'm working on one to get my head around the flow, it's going to be quite large (but helpful for my…
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Participants: rycanada, hix, Trevis Martin, Valamir.

9/14/2007 rycanada: Universalis Flow Charts
Well, here they are.  This is as far as I'm going to take the concept until I have an actual play session coming up. I hereby pass yon torch to…
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Participants: rycanada, Mike Holmes.

9/16/2007 rycanada: Card-based
I did the search and read the old thread on this, but I have a different idea for making Coins and Dice into cards. Here's the deal:  Facedown cards are…
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Participants: rycanada, twilight, Valvorik, Mike Holmes.

9/16/2007 Shane Boone: iChat Universalis
I recently started playing Universalis with my wife and son and I love the game.  I am thinking of playing using iChat on a Mac, but have a couple of…
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Participants: Shane Boone, demiurgeastaroth, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

9/19/2007 Robotech_Master: Wholescale RPG conversions: who pays?
Say that I wanted to do a Robotech roleplaying game. And that I wrote up the master-class templates for all the various mecha. Who pays for all these things? And…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

10/14/2007 Robotech_Master: Third Game: "Sid Loves Nancy"
Today at a local geek picnic fest, I started a game of Universalis. Four of us hadn't played it before, two of us had. My friend Sandy, the other one…
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Participants: Robotech_Master.

10/15/2007 Robotech_Master: Counter suggestion: party money
My brother first suggested this to me, and I tried it out today and found it works pretty well. A local party supply store has a pack of 144 shiny…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, David Artman.

10/15/2007 Robotech_Master: "Orion needs to be rescued"—1 coin or 2?
Elsewhere, the tenet "Orion needs to be rescued" has been proposed as a good seed tenet, a starter to get people thinking about what the game will be about. But…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir.

10/15/2007 David Artman: Alternate Ideas for Coins
A recent thread has me wondering (ALERT! POLL THREAD!).... Coins are fairly common and are easy to acquire and cost relatively little (as low as 1¢ per coin--or even lower,…
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Participants: David Artman, rycanada, Valvorik, Robotech_Master.

11/6/2007 rycanada: Lots of questions
1)  What happens when you tightly limit the number of Traits a Component can have?  (I'm thinking 5 for a non-named, 10 for a named character, max 3 named characters…
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Participants: rycanada, David Artman, Valamir.

11/28/2007 Valamir: Neat thread on Board Game Geek
[url=http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/243289]Thread on Gimmicks to make Uni more competitive, like Once Upon a Time[/url] Check it out if you're interested. Ralph
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Participants: Valamir.

12/5/2007 wburdick: Universalis + PDQ + FATE
We've combined all three in our current campaign and it's working out swell!  I posted about it on the FATE group, but here are some more details.  As GMs (there…
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Participants: wburdick, Valamir, David Artman.

12/24/2007 Knoble: Few quick ?s
Hi Guys, I just got the book and stayed up waaay too late last night reading the first 5 chapters. I'm very excited about this game, and look forward to…
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Participants: Knoble, Valamir.

2/22/2008 derthnada: PDF...again
I see that this has been brought up a few times over the years, but I just wanted to share my opinion, in case it matters: If this game was…
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Participants: derthnada, Valamir, snej, Robotech_Master, David Artman.

5/29/2008 Maitresinh: Universalis Vs setting as a RPG scenario
hi there First of all sorry for my english. i've discover Uni after making some search in order to find a way to play RPG quickly/easily, ( -> without preparation…
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Participants: Maitresinh, Valamir.

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