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7/27/2004 ErrathofKosh: Modes of Sim
I've been trying to work out what I think about Sim by reading and responding to a lot of the threads in this forum. To clarify things a bit, I…
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Participants: ErrathofKosh, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Silmenume, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2004 marcus: What Play is This?
I have read the Simulationism, Gamisim and Narrativism essays (amongst others) but have some considerable difficulty in applying the definitions to many instances of actual play I have encountered. To…
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Participants: marcus, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, pete_darby.

7/26/2004 PlotDevice: Sticky definitions or recommended reading links, please.
Hello all. I am a 34 year old 21 year experienced gamer and designer of games living in Sydney Australia. I have a couple of degrees in English and work…
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Participants: PlotDevice, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Silmenume, BeZurKur, Selene Tan, Justin A Hamilton.

7/19/2004 Tobias: Is there a 'GNS-questionnaire'?
Or something similar to it? So that, after a few sessions, you can get all players (and GMs) evaluation of 'what game are we playing anyway'? (This would mean a…
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Participants: Tobias, ErrathofKosh, M. J. Young, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, beingfrank.

7/18/2004 Silmenume: Implications on use role of mechaics in Sim
I don’t know how to ease into this so – While in Gamism and Narrativism mechanics are ideally employed to allow for effective addressing, mechanics in Sim is a subset…
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Participants: Silmenume.

7/15/2004 Mike Holmes: Getting Beyond GNS
How do I miss these damn threads? Somehow I missed this: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11837 All nine pages of it. Late in the thread, there was a lot of debate about some classic…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Doctor Xero, ErrathofKosh, Marco, Rob Carriere.

7/15/2004 Ben Lehman: CA Classification and Game Systems
Hi. This may be a "duh" to a lot of people, but it struck me very hard, and as something which isn't necessarily talked about a lot in these parts,…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, NOS, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Marco, Bankuei, John Kim, MarcoBrucale, Tim C Koppang, M. J. Young.

7/14/2004 Silmenume: Looong post on Sim definition
By amazing and wonderful dumb luck I ran across Chris’ (clehrich) thread Not Lectures on Theory . His ideas on Structure, Ritual, and most importantly “Risk” fill in some gaping…
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Participants: Silmenume, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, beingfrank, Wormwood, Bill C. Cook, ErrathofKosh, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Marco, Caldis, Tim C Koppang, clehrich.

7/6/2004 Wormwood: Facilitative Play
I've been working on bridging the gaps between the standard model and the technical play re-casting of it, and one of the major concerns I've encountered is facilitative play. I…
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Participants: Wormwood, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

7/6/2004 Paganini: [Narrativism] Premise and Stance
So, it occurs to me that a much simpler and clearer way of explaining and supporting what I've been saying all week has to do with the three Stances.Ron had…
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Participants: Paganini, lumpley, clehrich, Marco, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, contracycle, C. Edwards.

7/2/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Narrativist LARP (split)
(edit) Peculiar, I didn't notice that this is a revived thread. Or rather, the inside:outside thread is a revival, and fooled me totally. I clearly should go sleep it off.…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

7/3/2004 lumpley: When Is It Real?
In this post in Waiting for Narrativism...What do you think about the split of "whether something is real even if its not entered that space, vs. only if it…
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Participants: lumpley, Marco, Gaerik, Jack Spencer Jr, John Kim, M. J. Young, Paganini, Ben Lehman, Caldis, contracycle.

7/3/2004 komradebob: I'm totally confused about Narr...
I've been checking out this site for ages now and for the life of me, I still do not understand Narrativism. Could someone explain to me how Nar differs from…
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Participants: komradebob, Bankuei, Doctor Xero, pete_darby, M. J. Young.

7/2/2004 Matt Snyder: Waiting for Narrativism
I'm seeing a lot of recent discussion of Narrativism in which people are just plain missing the premise in action (or so it seems to me). Several people have recently…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Kesher, Valamir, John Kim, lumpley, Doctor Xero.

7/2/2004 Doctor Xero: Is G/N/S now a census of angels moshing on pins?
I've participated in The Forge for awhile. I enjoy Indie Gaming and RPG Theory especially, but I found myself shifted over to GNS Model Discussion when addressing the G/N/S model…
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Participants: Doctor Xero, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Eero Tuovinen, C. Edwards, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Ravien, Paganini, Andrew Norris, Marco, clehrich.

7/2/2004 ErrathofKosh: Defining Sim Design
I have been coming to this site for more than a year now, reading the articles, threads, etc. in effort to gain some knowledge before I begin asking questions that…
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Participants: ErrathofKosh, Ravien, M. J. Young.

7/1/2004 Kesher: Premise in Situation and how it relates to Character
I realize that there're probably gallons of digital ink that have been spilled about this, but help a poor newbie out: What's an example of Premise being addressed in a…
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Participants: Kesher, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

7/1/2004 lumpley: Caring How it Resolves?
From "Sacrificing Character Integrity" - a Rant. Vince, I don't usually disagree with you, but I got to now. Train of thought commencing: A transcript is an account of the…
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Participants: lumpley, JamesSterrett, Silmenume, Kesher, Paganini, ADGBoss, Noon, Marco, TonyLB, pete_darby, contracycle, C. Edwards, Doctor Xero, Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, TooManyGoddamnOrcs, John Kim, Walt Freitag, ErrathofKosh.

7/1/2004 Kesher: Connections between Setting & Color
Howdy. Just wondering if someone could help me clear this up: If Setting is defined as the "place where things happen" (a paraphrase of the basic GNS article), then is…
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Participants: Kesher, Mojo, Valamir, komradebob, Ron Edwards, jrs.

6/30/2004 lumpley: "Sacrificing Character Integrity" - a Rant
Can this idea please just die? You can't understand the difference between Narrativism and Simulationism this way: A Narrativist will sacrifice character integrity in order to address Premise. It's just…
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Participants: lumpley, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Marco, Valamir, Ravien, C. Edwards, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, timfire, ADGBoss, M. J. Young, Sean, contracycle, TonyLB, Mark D. Eddy, Bankuei, Paganini, hanschristianandersen, JackBauer, Jack Spencer Jr.

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7/28/2004 M. J. Young: Simulationism: Reflexive Play?
It seems to me that Jay (Silmenume) has several times said words to the effect that we don't explore the elements of exploration, but rather use the elements of exploration…
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Participants: M. J. Young, ErrathofKosh, Silmenume.

7/30/2004 Valamir: The Model as seen by Valamir [Long. Very, very long]
A slew of threads in recent months has tackled various aspects of the model and led to some really good discussions that have influenced my perception of how its many…
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Participants: Valamir, PlotDevice, Marco, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Vaxalon, Lathan, Tim C Koppang, Paganini, Caldis, C. Edwards, Emily Care, John Kirk, M. J. Young.

7/30/2004 Valamir: Dramatism and Illusionism
In this thread Marco commented I especially liked the expansion on Simulationism--I think it's good and well wrought--but it seems to me to leave out GDS Dramatism which, I do…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Silmenume, Marco, M. J. Young, contracycle, John Kim, Caldis, ErrathofKosh, Sean, Lee Short.

8/4/2004 Ron Edwards: "Shared story authorship" inquiry
Hi there, On an actual play thread, James (DJamesIII) wrote, Ron: this next question is for you, and it may be a new thread in a new forum. Is the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, TonyLB, JamesDJIII.

8/7/2004 Ravien: Step On Up driving Challenge, driving Step On Up?
In Ron's Gamism essay, he mentions how Challenge can drive Step On Up: The Challenge adversity sets up all sorts of System demands and risks to the characters, which…
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Participants: Ravien, Ron Edwards.

8/9/2004 Tony Irwin: Risk in Sim play.
I was hoping people could help me understand the role of risk in sim play. I really like recent definitions I've seen of how risk is used in gamist play:…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Marco, ErrathofKosh, timfire, bcook1971, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young.

8/9/2004 Mike Holmes: New 3D Model
GNS has limitations, I think we'd all agree. One of the limitations is that it doesn't address the concept of player control, other than to say that without control you…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Hunter Logan, Andrew Morris, ErrathofKosh, Marco, Artanis, Sean, Jack Aidley, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, Valamir, Tobias, Christopher Weeks, Dev, Lee Short, Caldis, contracycle, Mark Woodhouse, Mark Johnson.

8/9/2004 Tony Irwin: Risk in C/As
[color=darkblue]Folks, I'm trying to understand risk in Sim play, so that I can write a really great sim RPG! I'm trying to really nail down what I enjoy most about…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, ErrathofKosh, John Kim.

8/11/2004 ejh: GNS Analogy From Art
Just posted the following at my blog. Would appreciate comment, esp. on whether people see it as accurate. I have three friends who are all artists -- all concern…
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Participants: ejh, ErrathofKosh, John Kim, Hunter Logan.

8/12/2004 Alan: Narrativism and the Impact Character
I've recently learned some fiction theory that I think might be useful when thinking about narrativist role-playing and game design. First a disclaimer: the following is specific to this one…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/14/2004 Victor Gijsbers: Dethroning the SIS
[b][u]Introduction[/u][/b] In this post, I will critically discuss the notion of Shared Imagined Space and its relation to Creative Agendas. I will claim that: * [i]The Shared Imagined Space (SIS)…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Sean, Marco, Valamir, lumpley, M. J. Young, Alan, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

8/16/2004 Marco: Participationism and Sim II
In the thread on introducing a Narrativist to Sim Play, Ron said he'd tell his players this: guys, I'm gonna make decisions for your characters. I'll mainly do it…
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Participants: Marco.

8/16/2004 Andrew Morris: Defining GNS Through Examples
I've been following the New 3D Model thread, and found it very easy to grasp. This reminded me that I (along with others) have difficulty fully understanding GNS. I tend…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

8/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Call of Cthullu and GNS
Heya, This post is mainly to see how much of GNS I am understanding, so please feel free to correct me on any of this. I really want to gage…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Marco.

8/17/2004 PlotDevice: Applying Business Psychology to GNS?
I am just wondering if anyone has tried to apply the kind of psychological models that are spoken about in Learning and Development and Company Culture excercises to GNS theory?…
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Participants: PlotDevice, beingfrank.

8/17/2004 Lee Short: Some Myths About Virtualism
There are a number of confusions circulating about Virtualism. In this post, I will try to expose some of them. These confusions are a consequence of the following belief: …
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Participants: Lee Short, John Kim, Marco, Caldis, Mark Woodhouse, M. J. Young, contracycle, Valamir.

8/19/2004 Doctor Xero: Simulationism analogy from paintings
[quote="in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/posting.php?mode=quote&p=131754 ejh"]I have three friends who are all artists -- all concern themselves with the creation of images. All consider themselves serious artists. But they have very different attitudes…
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Participants: Doctor Xero.

8/19/2004 Mark Woodhouse: RGFA GDS vs Big Model GNS: Inputs vs Outputs?
[b]Unraveling the intersection of RGFA GDS and Big Model GNS[/b] In observing the ongoing attempt to map Virtuality and GDS Dramatism into the Big Model, I’ve hit on (what I…
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Participants: Mark Woodhouse, M. J. Young, contracycle, Caldis, ErrathofKosh, Marco, John Kim.

8/20/2004 Lee Short: Formal vs. Operation Definitions of G,N,S
Split off "Myths About Virtualism" -- responding to Mark Woodhouse I don't think we've actually got any real differences here in how we'd classify the example. But I'll clarify my…
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Participants: Lee Short, Caldis, contracycle, Alan.

8/23/2004 ErrathofKosh: Motives and Methods, Conflict and Elements
First, I'd like to preface this post by noting that I hesitated before coming up with the resolve to present this. This is mixture of ideas that I have been…
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Participants: ErrathofKosh, Silmenume.

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