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9/23/2002 Mike Holmes: Converting to Scattershot Science Fantasy
Can I get an order of Traveller, please? And can you have it ready by Thursday night? Scattershot will replace GURPS, which I'm currently using. Mike
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg.

9/24/2002 Le Joueur: Scattershot Time Travel - Maybe in the Future
Hey Paul, Maybe you should toss in your idea anyway; if it took that long, perhaps your players might be ready. Well...in my opinion, the great unmet need…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

9/24/2002 Le Joueur: Combined Techniques: Experience Dice and Genre Expectations
[b]Pieces Parts[/b] There are four primary components to any GenEx, Central Concept, Metaphor, Motif, and Running Gag (well, Running Gag is what we call it). The Central Concept is the…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

9/21/2002 Le Joueur: Call for Playtesters; Let's Make a Deal.
I received an interesting private message yesterday. It was about a comment I made over in Electronic Publishing Potential about not having enough setting to go to blind playtest. I…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

9/16/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: The Suspense is Killing Me
Well, let's try and make this a biweekly thing, shall we? Suspense It's what die rolling is for. Heck, I could go so far as to say it's the whole…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

9/3/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Creating Detail
I'm running a bit late so this is a little pressed, excuse (or question) the vague parts. This Technique describes how you can use Scattershot's various Mechanix to create Detail…
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Participants: Le Joueur, damion.

7/26/2002 Jake Norwood: I want it on one page or a pdf
Okay, I'm sick of it. I want to read and get (as in "understand") Scattershot really badly, but I can't get it from a hundred random posts full of inter-line…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Seth L. Blumberg, Le Joueur, damion.

7/22/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Challenge and King Solomon's Auction
I'm gonna throw two Techniques together (mostly because it's past time I spelled out one of them). The first is mentioned in passing in the Mechanix, the second it Scattershot's…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, damion.

7/22/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Who's in Charge
So far, most of Scattershot's Emergent Techniques have been about handling what happens between the players and their games or within those games. It's past time to discuss what happens…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

6/22/2002 Bankuei: Hitpoints as morale
Since hitpoints are considered to be fighting spirit as opposed to actual damage ratings, more questions have popped up: •Is it reasonable to say that hp can be raised/lowered by…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur.

6/22/2002 Bankuei: Experience Dice question...
Yep, that's right Fang, you're going to get quite a few questions from me :P So here goes the barrage of xp dice questions: •How many/how often do you recommend…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur.

6/21/2002 Bankuei: RMIB question
So if I understand it correctly, someone resisting an action, may roll a negative MIB, thereby adding to the RMIB, correct? That is, Goliath attacks and rolls MIB +3, and…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes.

6/20/2002 Le Joueur: Roughly, But It Should Be Magic
Bankuei asked for information for using the Scattershot mechanix for Dungeons & Dragons type play. I dug up my ancient notes. Okay, this is in super rough-draft form, many things…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

6/20/2002 Bankuei: Old school fantasy the Scattershot way...
This week I have a friend who's flown in from NY, and he's telling me about this really fun D&D campaign he's in, and it's got me all hyped for…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur.

5/16/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Mystiques and Intrigue
What is a Mystique? The definition is "an aura of heightened value, interest, or meaning surrounding something, arising from attitudes and beliefs that impute special power or mystery to it."…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

5/14/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: an Ambitious Approach...
[Reading [u]Robin's Laws[/u] by Robin Laws got me thinking. So many of his "Player Types" rang clearly of the Scattershot Model, I thought it scary, except numerous times he had…
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Participants: Le Joueur, mtr1966.

5/1/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Genre Expectations
Okay, next Emergent Technique time! This time let's visit the Genre Expectations concepts. Previously I briefly covered the idea, here and referred to it, here, but I haven't really gone…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Walt Freitag, Paul Czege.

4/28/2002 Le Joueur: Emergent Techniques: Sine Qua Non
Once upon a time, I might have tried to parse these techniques on something like a weekly basis, but due to the 'rough cut' nature of what I am now…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Joe Murphy (Broin), Mike Holmes.

4/28/2002 Le Joueur: Down with Just a Few SMACS
[i]Originally, I wanted to really impress everyone with a mini-shot of Scattershot, but heck, I just can't bring myself to finish this. So, in keeping with the new 'rough cut'…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

4/28/2002 Le Joueur: Scattershot Undergoes a 'Transition' of Its Own.
This comes as something of a sad announcement for me. I've decided to scrap the 'for print' design specification for Scattershot. Being a 'serious' or 'professional' game designer has been…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Joe Murphy (Broin), Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

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9/23/2002 Ron Edwards: Genre Expectation - a Sketch of "Cosmic Zap"
Hi Fang, I've been considering what I'd like to use for a fairly-Sim genre game (close as I'll ever get anyway). Since I don't want the metagame stuff to be…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, b_bankhead, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, Bob McNamee.

9/27/2002 Eddy Fate: Angels
I'm still a bit behind, but I'll try to keep up. :-) As requested, I'm taking a private conversation open here. I offer up "Angels and the Second War of…
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Participants: Eddy Fate, Le Joueur.

10/31/2002 Le Joueur: We Take You Now, Live...
It's alive! It's alive! That's right folks, the secret's out. I got me a webpage. You're all welcome to come on down to Uncle Fang's Playtest Emporium, better known as…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

11/9/2002 M. J. Young: Responding to the Invitation
Please don't think me ungracious; I really do appreciate being invited to the forum. I have too much on my plate as it is, and my wife would shoot me…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Le Joueur, Bankuei, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes.

11/10/2002 MK Snyder: Scattershot Gaming Model
Continuing discsussion of the Gaming Model Just a stylistic suggestion that might make some of the ideas easier to grasp--consider adding some graphic elements such as axes or tables so…
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Participants: MK Snyder, Le Joueur.

12/7/2002 damion: Here's Another One; Luckily, It's Short
If you don't want any more of these, just get rid of it. It occured to me that this just seemed like a really good match, also, it it might…
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Participants: damion, Le Joueur.

1/17/2003 Le Joueur: GenEx: Not Just 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
I've been asked to whip up a GenEx for Jack and the Beanstalk. While that's too narrow for me to create (beyond my meager abilities, but not impossible), I thought…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

2/3/2003 clehrich: Committed Passive Players
Hi, I'm slowly reading through all of the Scattershot material, and I'm working now on Ambitious Approaches. It's been quite a while since this appeared, so I'll give the passage:The…
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Participants: clehrich, Le Joueur.

2/5/2003 clehrich: Solomon's Auction
[quote="In reference to a post by Paul Czege, 7/22/02, Fang"]While I am tempted to include Solomon’s Auction as an appendix to every product, I only see it being “comfortable” in…
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Participants: clehrich, Le Joueur.

2/13/2003 Le Joueur: All Things in Moderation
It's about time I got around to posting the Scattershot Forum's moderation guidelines. Without further ado:There are no 'dead threads' (unlike the remainder of the Forge). If you have any…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

2/13/2003 Le Joueur: The Official Scattershot Reading List
This is The Official Scattershot Reading List. As a Forum 'topper,' I intend to keep modifying it's content to keep it as up-to-date as possible; feel free to add comments…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

4/9/2003 Le Joueur: Important Annoucement
Scattershot is undergoing a major rewrite; I've taken it back to formula. Don't worry, none of the parts will change, just the presentation (and a major, if defining, addition). If…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Valamir, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

4/30/2003 Le Joueur: No Myth Gamemastering
First, let's see if we can centralize the No Myth Gamemastering Style. The most important thing to remember about gaming is that it's all made up! Every bit of gaming…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Bankuei, clehrich, Emily Care.

5/16/2003 Le Joueur: Vive La Resistance or System Doesn't Matter
Pretty much all of the below grows out of an understanding of the many works of Ron Edwards...and dissent from them. System Doesn't Matter As far as I can tell…
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Participants: Le Joueur, greyorm, Garbanzo, M. J. Young, clehrich, Bankuei, Gordon C. Landis, damion, Mulciber.

5/16/2003 Le Joueur: Mike - DO NOT READ Until After the Judging! - The Critique
The Critique of "In Your Element, Out of this World" (or IYEOW) I'm attempting to show how to use the 'tools' from the "Deliberateness and Elegance" thread in the making…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

5/19/2003 Bankuei: New Narrativism and the GNS's Closeted Sister
Hi Fang, Ok, looks like we're on the same page with a lot of stuff, that was the clarification I needed. What about a different perspective that takes the…
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Participants: Bankuei, Le Joueur, Gordon C. Landis, clehrich.

5/19/2003 lumpley: Missing the Lumpley Principle Boat
Hey, I just wanna pop in and defend my little principle. Fang, I'm with you ab-so-lutely when it comes to participation and inspiration. The only reason to play with mechanics…
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Participants: lumpley, Le Joueur, ejh.

5/20/2003 Le Joueur: Is It Over?
Well, that's the final bell. I don't have anything else to add.... See yah!
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Participants: Le Joueur, Lxndr.

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