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12/13/2004 John Kim: Social Function and Feedback in Narrativism
So I was struck by a recent comment of Chris Lehrich's in the thread Ramblings on the role of Mechanics in CA's (fishing). So I thought I would…
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Participants: John Kim, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Simon Kamber: Narrativism without premise, simulationism without sim?
I've been trying to identify my own CA for a while. I think I've gotten a handle on most of the GNS terminoligy here, and I can place most of…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, jdagna.

12/8/2004 M. J. Young: Toward a New Creative Agendum Evaluation
Some years back, I devised a GNS/DFK quiz. There was a lot of debate about it, and although it is still available online (mainly, as with Ron's articles, for historic…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Marco, Jasper, Wormwood, ffilz, beingfrank, clehrich, jdagna.

12/6/2004 epweissengruber: (OT free association) How to Enable Verbal Play in a Game
Recent discussion have reminded me of a note I saw on the Gametheory.net webiste http://www.gametheory.net/News/Items/090.html The mathematics of drama is a welcome development. I look forward to the analysis of…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

12/6/2004 GB Steve: Still dreaming, or drifting?
I've been reading Ron's Simulationism: The Right to Dream. It's a lot of dense text to absorb, especially when I'm not a regular visitor to these shores. Anyway. I understand…
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Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Noon, John Kim, Marco, Rob Carriere.

12/1/2004 Gerhi Janse van Vuuren: GNS/Creative Agenda related to Bernard Suits' Game Theory
Trying to dive into the deep end here. I am writing up my masters dissertation in drama studies where I look at Bernard Suits theory of make believe games as…
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Participants: Gerhi Janse van Vuuren, Alan.

11/30/2004 Tony Irwin: Setting Premise Narrativism
Can anyone summarise and help me understand setting premise narrativism? I've already read this thread but would really appreciate some help with the idea. Many thanks! Tony
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Participants: Tony Irwin, timfire, Paul Czege, Sean.

11/28/2004 Stuart Parker: Mechanics as symbol sets II (split)
Rather than starting a new thread about the same thing you guys were discussing 6 weeks ago, I thought I would raise a similar issue here: I have never managed…
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Participants: Stuart Parker, GaryTP, Ron Edwards, contracycle, clehrich, Artanis, Jere.

11/28/2004 Stuart Parker: When was Illusionism added?
Some time ago, I tried to fit my group's style of play into the GNS model and came away very frustrated. In re-reading the essay this morning, I noticed the…
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Participants: Stuart Parker, John Kim.

11/28/2004 Silmenume: Ramblings on the role of Mechanics in CA's (fishing)
I am not certain whether this is a statement which is seeking debate or just a half baked idea presented to see if it leads anywhere (i.e. fishing). I have…
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Participants: Silmenume, clehrich, Marco, contracycle, Simon Kamber, M. J. Young, Caldis.

11/26/2004 Vaxalon: Delete this thread.
Never mind. Delete this thread.
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Participants: Vaxalon.

11/23/2004 Troy_Costisick: Understanding GNS
Heya, Please forgive me if any of this has been stated before as I am still very much a student in learning when it comes to GNS theory and the…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, timfire, M. J. Young.

11/22/2004 timfire: Binary Narrativism (relates to CRPG's)
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=143314#143314]Somewhere else[/url], Mike Holmes said this: [quote="Mike Holmes"]If, on the other hand, you want to go with a real narrativism based [[i]computer[/i]] design, then we're talking about getting into an…
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Participants: timfire, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray, Noon, Walt Freitag, contracycle, clehrich, epweissengruber, M. J. Young, Selene Tan.

11/9/2004 John Kim: Moral Articulation and GNS
OK, this is split from Classifying by Social Function, as I thought this is an interesting topic -- but not really a part of generally classifying by social…
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Participants: John Kim, pete_darby, clehrich, Alan, Blankshield.

11/8/2004 RobNJ: New World of Darkness, GNS analysis?
Has anyone reviewed the new World of Darkness games from a GNS perspective? I'd be curious to see what the opinion was.
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Participants: RobNJ, Trevis Martin, Marco, sirogit, pfischer, Christopher Kubasik, Alan, Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Erling Rognli, John Kim.

10/31/2004 greyorm: Typhoid Mary in Action?
Over in Frustrations with 3E, Callan said: For example, recently I pitched a very low key problematic situation to a player so he could address the premise (A guy with…
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Participants: greyorm, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Noon.

10/26/2004 Wormwood: Play as Social Function
This is a split from Classifying By Social Function and is related to some discussions I started a while ago, Technical Play and the one word GNS. John asked me…
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Participants: Wormwood, contracycle.

10/26/2004 Walt Freitag: Literary Comedy, Answered Premise, and Narrativism
Brought to a thread from private messages initiated by Tim Alexander: Hiya Walt, I was looking through the archives and in the midst of following a few threads I ended…
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Participants: Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, contracycle, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, Victor Gijsbers, GaryTP.

10/25/2004 Grover: (unnecessary?) Narratavist-Simulationist clashes
I recently got Sex and Sorcery, and I was reading through it, when one of the examples struck me in an odd way, and so I thought I would talk…
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Participants: Grover, inky, Marco, Ron Edwards.

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12/31/2004 Silmenume: The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast
[quote="From the Provisional Glossary"]Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, the[list]"The GM is the author of the story and the players direct the actions of the protagonists." Widely repeated across many role-playing texts.…
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Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Jaik, Brendan, John Kim, Ron Edwards, Marco, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Noon, greyorm, TonyLB, Valamir.

12/31/2004 Black Iris Dancer: On creativity and artificial boundaries
Hi, everyone. This being my first post, I figured some introduction was in order. I think that about sufficies. I found this site while looking for, of all things, legal…
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Participants: Black Iris Dancer, Brendan, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, xenopulse, clehrich, Marco, apparition13.

1/3/2005 Jaik: "Unconscious" accomodations for TITBB
[quote] I'm interested in this: [quote]Quote: The GM would say that he writes the story and the players would say that they play their characters however they wish. Neither side…
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Participants: Jaik, Marco, Bankuei, Valamir, M. J. Young, John Kim, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2005 Artanis: Lumpley Principle, Authority and CA
Hello everyone! I've recently been trying to figure out what System really is. So I started off with the Lumpley Principle, as it defines what System is (according to the…
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Participants: Artanis, bcook1971, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2005 Tobias: Connection personality type - type of play.
I'm just looking for referrals here, but has anyone ever done some matching of the personality model that distinguishes three types of Quotient/personality (IQ, EC and CQ), with G, N,…
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Participants: Tobias, apparition13, Alan, M. J. Young, inky, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2005 Silmenume: Sim is Bricolage and makes myth - comments?
I boldly propose in this thread that the Sim process is Bricolage and that the product created is Myth. I list the following links that posters should read and be…
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Participants: Silmenume, contracycle, Mark Woodhouse, Ron Edwards, Halzebier, Lee Short, Marco, Caldis, lumpley, Mark D. Eddy, clehrich, John Kim.

1/10/2005 Silmenume: Sim has not be discussed as process yet it needs to be so -
In the year and a quarter that I have been at the Forge discussing Sim, I have found that there have been two basic, consistent errors in the process of…
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Participants: Silmenume, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, Marco, contracycle, pete_darby.

1/11/2005 Marco: Re: Sim has not be discussed as process yet it needs to be s
[quote="contracycle"][quote="Marco"] I'm just sayin' [/quote] Yes Marco, but I think its that nuance that we can now lay to rest. I fully agree that retrospectively the prodct of sim oplay…
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Participants: Marco, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Valamir, Wormwood, The GM, Bankuei, Jaik, Silmenume, John Kim, clehrich, M. J. Young.

1/15/2005 Montola: Mechanics as symbol-sets (split)
[quote="clehrich"]Okay, I'm going to have to sit down and read this essay carefully. What you describe here, in terms of cultures favoring one type of representation over another, sounds simplistic…
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Participants: Montola, Ron Edwards, clehrich.

1/21/2005 Silmenume: Celebrating Theme is Nar Equiv of the Gamist Crunch.
On another thread entitled Retroactive Story Ron Edwards make a post that caught my attention. The particular post can be found here. In it he describes a CoC game whereby…
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Participants: Silmenume, Ron Edwards, timfire, Alan, Marco, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Caldis, Noon, contracycle, Walt Freitag.

1/24/2005 Astrivian: Design v. Play: semantic questions about GNS, but mostly S
I have been reading the articles about the GNS model and a few threads and i have a question regarding the design and play of the GNS model. Note: if…
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Participants: Astrivian, Ron Edwards, Marco, Silmenume, Paganini.

1/26/2005 Wormwood: [Deceit] Deception in the Big Model
Caveat: This stems from a post by Lisa, here. For the purposes of these threads the moral implications of deceit should be ignored. This is really the only way to…
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Participants: Wormwood, Ron Edwards.

1/27/2005 GB Steve: Is gamism about facing the challenge or wanting the rewards?
Or both or neither? I'm a little confused. For example. 3e seems squarely aimed at ratcheting up challenges and giving just enough rewards so that those challenges stay interesting (i.e.…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2005 M. J. Young: Participationism with an Agendum
O.K., this happens to me periodically, as I'm responding to a post and then discover the thread has been closed. This is a continuation of the discussion over in Celebrating…
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Participants: M. J. Young, Silmenume, Marco, Caldis, contracycle, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

1/30/2005 Silmenume: An effort to un-gum the Discussion.
Hey Everyone, Since everything is all gummed up right now on in the other thread, I thought I would pose this question from over here. There are several underlying assumptions…
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Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Marco, clehrich, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, ffilz, groundhog.

1/31/2005 Marco: Nar play with Sim Rules
[quote="M. J. Young"]Marco, I want to thank you for sticking with us here through a lot of arguments about the various agenda. I think your contributions have often assisted me…
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Participants: Marco, Sean, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2005 apparition13: TROS & GNS: NS? NG!
A few months ago I started reading rpg forums and began running into references to TROS both here and elsewhere. There's alot of enthusiasm for the game, so I read…
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Participants: apparition13, Ben Lehman, Yokiboy, Matt Wilson, Wolfen, Silmenume, timfire, Marco, Noon, contracycle, Alan, kenjib.

2/1/2005 Green: reconciling different CAs within a group
There has been a lot of talk at the Forge about how the system influences playing. As a result, a lot of the discussion of roleplaying has centered on roleplaying…
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Participants: Green, Bankuei, Marco, Paul Czege.

2/4/2005 Silmenume: 1/3rd baked idea about Situation and Sim
[blort] If Sim is “about” the creation of meaningful interrelationships of its constituent parts (Character and Setting – Man vs himself in the former and Man vs mankind and Man…
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Participants: Silmenume, Ron Edwards, clehrich, Valamir, apparition13, Caldis, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Marco, ffilz, Sean, M. J. Young, Doctor Xero, Maarzan.

2/8/2005 lev_lafayette: Three cheers to imaginative gamist players!
In the thread Early roleplaying and the interpretation of scripture, I just made the comparison between simulation priests, narrative wizards and gamist mystics. The basic point was that the…
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Participants: lev_lafayette, Bankuei, komradebob, S'mon, Ron Edwards.