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In My Life With Master Playtest

9/12/2002 Ron Edwards: state of the art - or my notions anyway
Hi Paul, Here's my rundown on the "state of the art" in My Life with Master. 1) Clarify the examples of "Less than / More than" so the latter do…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/12/2002 Paul Czege: do I want Carlotta?
In my opinion, the essential text on the subject of a coherent and effective linkage across rule examples, color text, and illustrations is Le Mon Mouri. So I've been thinking…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/11/2002 Paul Czege: Attor's hand
Matt Gwinn made quite an interesting suggestion last week related to the eventual layout and presentation of My Life with Master: that the game text be enhanced by the presence…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2002 Paul Czege: rule or analysis? More/Less than Humans in MLwM
Hey, Geez there's been some good discussion on these More/Less than Human threads. I'm hesitant to even respond to one of them for fear of stifling it. Mike, your examples…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2002 Matt Gwinn: Less Than Human options
Scott and I were driving home after our game on Monday and I started to think about our characters' "Less Than Human" traits and realized something. As far as I…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

9/3/2002 Paul Czege: getting the phrase you want
So...I'm in the midst of fleshing out the section of the rules about Connections, and acting on them, and getting Love. And I'm realizing just how much I detest my…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

9/1/2002 xiombarg: My Life With Maestro
I'll have a more complete report later, but some comments from running the game tonight while it's fresh in my mind. These comments come from both me and my players:…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: xiombarg, Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/30/2002 Matt Gwinn: Character Flavor
My Minion for our upcoming game is and actor/playwrite who was stabbed in the head during a performance of Hamlet. The injury rendering him unable to speak properly, but like…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes.

8/29/2002 xiombarg: rules tweaks
I'm going to be running this game this Saturday. With that in mind, I kinda have to decide which rules tweaks to use and which ones not to use, of…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: xiombarg, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/29/2002 Mike Holmes: Die Conventions
A statistically similar, but possibly simpler method to the current die mechanic would be to roll the same number of d4s as before, and count each as one unless it…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: Character Effectiveness (or Lack Thereof)
I started my character in our playtest with 2 Self Loathing, and 1 Weariness in a game where Reason was one lower than Fear. What did this mean? That I…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: My Master
I feel that the Premise of this game is timeless. If that's so, then I should be able to create a Master in any setting. Here' my experiment to see…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, xiombarg, joshua neff, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: Publishing
In discussing publishing of Master, I'd like to make a clarification. Universalis went direct to print. Only sort of true. While games like Universalis and Dust Devils did…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Silent Tamatama.

8/28/2002 xiombarg: rules question
Okay, I've been reading the game with the intent of running it, and my first question is: When adding the d6 or d8, do only 1s and 2s still count?…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: xiombarg, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/23/2002 Paul Czege: Danielle says to work on the More/Less than Human mechanics
In each of the three chargen sessions I've hosted, the biggest gravel patch for the players has been coming up with the More than Human and Less than Human descriptors…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: an infinity of eight: Master Type/Aspect combinations
So, you know that part of creating a Master is deciding on Type and Aspect, and that the Types are Feeder, Breeder, Collector, and Teacher, and the Aspects are Brain…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2002 Matt Gwinn: coincidence?
As some of you know, my mionion has the less than human quality of not being able to express himself unless quoting shakespeare. I went online this morning to find…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: a curious endeavor: Master creation
Wherein is detailed the curious endeavor of five otherwise good tempered individuals: 1. The group, consisting of myself, in the role of gamemaster, Tom, Scott Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2002 Mike Holmes: What Does Master Czege Require?
So, Paul, what exactly are you looking for here? Further playtest reports? General discussion on the system? What do you think needs doing most? Mike
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

8/20/2002 Paul Czege: Welcome!
Welcome! What you're seeing here is the archived My Life with Master playtest forum. It was active from late August, 2002, to early August, 2003, and at its peak had…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

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9/17/2002 Paul Czege: I may have created a monster
So...I have a social concern. As it turns out, Claudia Repton, who Tom's character Hiram murdered in our game session yesterday, was one of Danielle's character Ambrose's Connections. And…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

9/25/2002 Paul Czege: on NPC Minions
Hey Mike, BTW, I mentioned to Josh that I thought that we should work up the other minions. I've mentioned this before. I felt during our test that it…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/4/2002 Paul Czege: stumbling toward an introduction
It's one thing to do a good job writing an RPG document like the Nicotine Girls rules, detailing character creation, conflict resolution mechanics, and ancillary instructions. I'm realizing it's…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Seth L. Blumberg.

10/18/2002 Blake Hutchins: Playtesting tonight
Hey all, Finally getting something up and running tonight. It's a bit rushed, and none of the players has ever experienced anything like MLWM before. Only one of them has…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege.

10/21/2002 Blake Hutchins: Blake's playtest game
[u]CHARACTERS FOR “THE MASTER OF NIGHTMARES”[/u] Decided to start a new thread to get this going. See the "Playtesting tonight" thread for the setup of the Master, the setting, and…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Seth L. Blumberg.

10/25/2002 Paul Czege: the Master loves his dice mechanics
On the Blake's playtest game thread, Mike wrote: BTW, if it's not clear, I was the one who designed a lot of the die mechanics. And he absolutely…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2002 Paul Czege: what to do when you're feeling icky
Last Monday, after five sessions of play, Matt's horrific playwright character Gideon was rolling something like 16 dice of Self-Loathing. And I can't help but think it wasn't far from…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

11/21/2002 lumpley: Meg, Emily & Vincent's Playtest
Our Master: Pharus Oriens (Collector Brain) Let's see. Pharus believes that he's the Antichrist, destined to rule the Earth in apocolyptic fury. He's the third son of a like fundy…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Emily Care, xiombarg, Paul's Girl, hardcoremoose.

2/19/2003 Paul Czege: your last chance for despair
This week I began writing My Life with Master up for publication. So I've been working my way through feedback from private messages and threads in this forum to make…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paul's Girl.

3/21/2003 Paul Czege: the playtester credits
Okay, strictly business, I need people who playtested the game to tell me on this thread how they want their name listed in the playtester credits, and also how their…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, Silent Tamatama.

5/7/2003 Ron Edwards: Late-stage playtest
Hello, We played My Life with Master with the campus group last night. I was the GM. Both Master creation and, character creation worked wonderfully and set up all the…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

5/10/2003 Paul Czege: some of Colin's art is seen
Hey everyone, If you're curious, part of one of Colin's awesome illustrations can be seen incorporated into my brand new splashy placeholder page here. The slice you're seeing is…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

7/7/2003 Paul Czege: MLwM demo henchmen
Hey...if you've played My Life with Master, will be attending GenCon, and are interested in running a demo or two of the game at the booth, please let me know.…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis.

7/10/2003 Paul Czege: incubating a GenCon demo
Hey Mike, Paul, are you coming up with a demo pack for this? That is, pregens and master and all worked out before hand? This is what I want…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Paul's Girl, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

7/12/2003 Paul Czege: the Master is in transit...
...on his way from Nashville to Livonia by next Tuesday. Be very afraid. Paul
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/1/2003 Silent Tamatama: The GenCon Demo of MLWM
Hey Paul, I got a question about your GenCon demo that I meant to ask you, while we were at the Con on Sunday. In your notes on how to…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Silent Tamatama, Paul Czege.

8/1/2003 Mike Holmes: Forum
Hey Paul, are you going to open up the forum now that it's published? Maybe pull the 1.2 rules, but otherwise make it public? Mike
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

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