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10/14/2008 LemmingLord: Zero or Less on One Side of a Complication
The question came up recently - what happens if one side of the complication is at 0 or less dice at the time everyone decides to resolve? Is it just…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Valamir.

7/27/2008 Jumanji83: Advice sought for introducing Universalis in a con
This fall, I will be running games for the first time at a con (Draconis, in Montreal), and one of the game I'm thinking of maybe running is Universalis. Now,…
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Participants: Jumanji83, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

10/14/2007 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.

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.

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.

9/16/2007 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.

9/14/2007 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.

9/7/2007 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.

9/6/2007 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.

9/3/2007 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.

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.

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11/10/2008 fuxoft: "My Queen,the fire was set as per your orders" - Confused about Rulebook example
Hello there. I am fascinated by Universalis and I just tried our first game (after translating the main game terms into Czech for my fellow players). We made many mistakes…
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Participants: fuxoft, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

11/22/2008 deinol: Universalis Review
Just posted my Universalis Review: http://www.apathyblogs.com/2008/11/22/universalis/
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Participants: deinol, Valamir.

1/10/2009 daemonjax: Rules (Challenge/Interrupt/Tenet/Gimmicks) Clarification Request...
Forgive my ignorance of the rules as written, but just to cement these things in my head...  1) You can challenge another player's introduction of a fact at any time…
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Participants: daemonjax, Valamir.

1/23/2009 Robotech_Master: Universalis @ VisionCon, Springfield MO, this weekend (maybe)
I'm going to be at VisionCon at the Clarion in Springfield, Missouri with a copy of Universalis, a bag of D10s, and a box of poker chips. I'll be staffing…
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Participants: Robotech_Master.

1/23/2009 Robotech_Master: Universalis + Ficlets
You know, I wish I had thought to propose this while ficlets.com was still alive. Up until earlier this month, there was a website run under the auspices of AOL…
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Participants: Robotech_Master, snej.

3/27/2009 EvilCat: A game of naval horror looking for more players!
Game is already in process, but just began. You can read it here. Tenets: Story elements - Naval adventure. Lovecraft-esque horror. Pseudo-historic setting of Elizabethan time. Moral choice between…
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Participants: EvilCat.

5/7/2009 Valamir: Blood Red Sands Beta V3.0 is now available.
A competitive, in your face, testosterone fueled role playing experience in a brutal, over the top, heavy metal world of savagery and dark sorcery. Download the playtest rules and play…
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Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick.

5/22/2009 EvilCat: Trait questions
After several games, there is one thing that bothers me. Traits. They describe components, pump their importance, and can be drawn upon for dice in complications. Other facts cannot be…
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Participants: EvilCat, Valamir, David Artman.

7/31/2009 Jedyte: How do you record?
Hi guys, Just played my first Universalis game. The thing my group had some difficulty with doing in a clear way, is keep the Record. How do you guys do…
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Participants: Jedyte, EvilCat, Valamir.

9/7/2009 fealoro: Universalis by Forum
Hi all Has anyone tried to run some Universalis game by forum? How does it run? There is some gimmick that could be useful? Thanks
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Participants: fealoro, EvilCat.

11/5/2009 wolfgray: Wiki, Email, or Wave Game?
Anyone doing a online universalis game in Wiki, Email, or google wave?
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Participants: wolfgray, EvilCat, David Artman, exedore6, Robotech_Master.

11/10/2009 folderol: Thanks and some questions :)
First of all, a big thanks to Ralph & Mike for this fabulous game! Being an former D&D player (many many years ago), the freedom experienced while playing Universalis is…
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Participants: folderol, EvilCat, JoyWriter, Valamir, David Artman.

12/7/2009 Robotech_Master: Wishing for Universalis E-book
I would really like to have an e-book version of Universalis. And by e-book, I don't mean PDF (although a PDF would be better than nothing). Since there aren't a…
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Participants: Robotech_Master.

3/7/2010 davout1805: Worldbuilding: Looking for samples
Hello, I'd like to use Universalis to create my campaign setting. I'm looking for any demos, samples, game logs, etc of game sessions of Universalis used for setting creation. Does…
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Participants: davout1805, Valamir.

3/28/2010 wburdick: Other Games Like Blood Red Sands
Remember I posted about premade settings for Universalis a few years back?  I think you did a really good one with Blood Red Sands!  I'm sure you've thought a lot…
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Participants: wburdick.

3/30/2010 wburdick: The mechanics of betrayal, selfishness, and heroic death
One of the things I find most intriguing is that the "GM" player is supposed to use story telling to actively improve his position as a player and nerf the…
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Participants: wburdick, Valamir.

4/4/2010 wburdick: Good Characters, Evil Players
Here's my attempt to make an adventure-party style RPG based on Blood Red Sands.  The players each have their own PC, along with story components.  Overall play follows BRS' model:…
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Participants: wburdick.

4/4/2010 wburdick: Blood Red Sands Rules Questions
During a clash, if one side is damaged and has no available dice left and the other side has a force die, what happens?  There are no dice that will…
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Participants: wburdick, Valamir.

10/14/2010 Valamir: Universalis monthly sales since 2002
[url=http://www.ramsheadpublishing.com/index.php]http://www.ramsheadpublishing.com/index.php[/url] Having just completed my semi annual update to my inventory and sales numbers I though I'd put the number up on my website as an item of general publishing…
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Participants: Valamir, Artanis, mreuther.

12/31/2010 jb.teller4: Universalis with kids?
So this actual play post got me thinking about using Universalis with kids. I have five kids, though only three are old enough to want to play (9 yo boy,…
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Participants: jb.teller4.

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