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4/16/2004 GreatWolf: My Life with The Computer
The April 16 entry of the Paranoia XP blog cites MLwM as a design influence. Apparently Paul's little game is creating quite a stir, even in the mainstream. Good on…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Bob McNamee.

4/9/2004 DannyK: MLwM Online?
OK, after hearing good stuff about the game, and reading some of the posts in this forum, I'm very interested. If anyone is still reading this forum... Do you think…
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Participants: DannyK, Trevis Martin, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Nev the Deranged.

4/5/2004 Paul Czege: Jonathan Tweet plays My Life with Master...
...and reviews it here. Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, RaconteurX, Matt Wilson.

3/14/2004 Eero Tuovinen: [MLwM] Vlad the Kommissar
We finally played My Life with Master. A lenghtier analysis will have to wait for the article I'll write for a Finnish fanzine, but meanwhile... it's great. I GMed the…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, james_west.

3/9/2004 Eero Tuovinen: My Life with Master movies
In short: I'm currently organizing a little MLwM review/promotion here in Helsinki, and was thinking about arranging a movie night. It's somewhat of a tradition with Helsinki university students to…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Valamir, jrs, joshua neff, hix, Sean, mattwbrooks, C. Edwards.

3/9/2004 cappadocius: Help w/ My Life With Batman
Hi all. Did chargen for a new game tonight, and things seem to be on track. Everyone's excited, which is a good thing, and the player of Dogwelder (actual Gotham…
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Participants: cappadocius, GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

3/5/2004 Paul Czege: collecting data: Fear, Reason, etc. and length of game
So...I continue to get requests from folks for guidance in setting Fear and Reason, and about the allocation of starting Love, out of interest in configuring their games for a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, cthulahoops, kwill, Ron Edwards, Smithy, hix, Adam Dray, Warren.

3/4/2004 Rob MacDougall: My Life With Computer Redux: Paranoia XP and MLWM
Hi all. I remember someone posting here last year about the idea of a MLwM game set in the Alpha Complex of the Paranoia rpg. I posted some thoughts on…
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Participants: Rob MacDougall, xiombarg, RaconteurX.

3/2/2004 Arseny Kuznetsov: A little help, please!
I wonder if anyone here can help me. I would like to buy a PDF copy of "My Life With Master" but, since I'm living in Russia, I can't pay…
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Participants: Arseny Kuznetsov, Paul Czege.

3/1/2004 Jonathan Walton: When Endgame is Tardy
Hey folks, So I was running "My Life with Master" for a group of 12-14yo boys last night at a local Con. Quite an experience, let me tell you. Everything…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Michael S. Miller.

2/26/2004 6inTruder: [nicotine girls] pdf w/ examples?
is there any chance of Nicotine Girls getting the pdf treatment with some play examples or such? I guess cause I'd like to print it out, and I'm not exactly…
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Participants: 6inTruder, Paul Czege.

2/24/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Pointers on starting a short game
I'm starting one or more games of My Life with Master next month, possibly with different GMs, for review purposes. I've not played the game before, so I thought to…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Michael S. Miller.

2/4/2004 Ulmo: Problems with Master
So getting the feet wet and played a bit this week and I some questions and worries arise. Questions : Is it the intent that the "conflicts" that the minion…
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Participants: Ulmo, Lxndr, cthulahoops, GB Steve, Paul Czege.

2/3/2004 Paul Czege: the Master needs your vote!
[EM]My Life with Master[/EM] has made it to the Weird GameWyrd Game Awards shortlist in the "RPG or Supplement Most Likely to Inspire Good Roleplaying" category. So, whaddya say, four…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

1/22/2004 Ulmo: Running this at DunDraCon
Which is a convention styling towards RPGs in Northern California. I was curious if anyone had any feedback on how to structure the game to run at a convention. I…
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Participants: Ulmo, Paul Czege.

1/18/2004 matthijs: Great game - and a few questions
I ran my first MLWM game two days ago, and it was a lot of fun. We went for a light-hearted approach, knowing we'd only be playing for about three…
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Participants: matthijs, jrs, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/13/2004 Michael S. Miller: Going Outside the Village II
On the drive this morning, I came up with something appropriate to Going Outside the Village, but since the thread is old, I started a new one. My Life with…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/12/2004 Michael S. Miller: Epilogue Question
We played MLwM yesterday and had a blast. I had to make one ruling that I wanted to ask Paul about (but anyone is, of course, free to jump in).…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2004 ethan_greer: Best Sui Generis RPG of 2003
Ken Hite gives MLwM the nod. And nobody is even slightly surprised. Congrats, Paul! Read all about it here.
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Participants: ethan_greer, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Valamir, Matt Snyder, abzu.

12/28/2003 Paul Czege: "arguably the best RPG of 2003"
[EM]My Life with Master[/EM] gets a pretty nice write-up [A HREF="http://www.ogrecave.com/features/12xmas_2003_4.shtml"]here[/a] in the "downloadable games" part of OgreCave's 2003 Christmas List. Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege.

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4/27/2004 Chris Passeno: Possible Origin's Award?
It looks like MLWM is listed as "eligible for nomination" in the Best Roleplaying Game section. I saw this at Gaming Report
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Participants: Chris Passeno, Paul Czege, GB Steve, Peter Nordstrand, Christopher Weeks.

5/15/2004 Paul Czege: shelve with: counterculture erotica
Jonathan Woodward reviews My Life with Master in the second installment of his Exploding Dice review column at BlueBlood.net: www.blueblood.net/bb_55.html(cautionary note: Blue Blood has ads and links to some adult…
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Participants: Paul Czege, RaconteurX.

5/26/2004 RaconteurX: Gloranthan MLwM
Strange titles such as "My Life with Moonson" and strange masters such as Delecti the Necromancer leap unbidden into my mind and just scream for some form of treatment... I…
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Participants: RaconteurX, GB Steve.

6/2/2004 Paul Czege: some otherworld
So... I've had several folks tell me privately they think My Life with Master is brilliant, but that they could never play it, because they are dealing with real life…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, Eero Tuovinen.

6/11/2004 Paul Czege: a message from the game
[size=18px] [quote="My Life with Master"]There are those who say this is the twilight of roleplaying, that there are more people leaving the hobby than joining it, and that with the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Morgan.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] Simple Rules Question
Hello, My weekday group has started a My Life With Master game. I'll post more details in Actual Play but I wanted to put some simple rules questions here. They…
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Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

6/26/2004 Jürgen Mayer: My Life With Diana
According to http://www.ogrecave.com, Matt Forbeck announced the short list for the Diana Jones Award at Origins: HeroQuest My Life With Master Savage Worlds "the Scandinavian gaming scene" True Dungeon Congrats,…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, GB Steve, Bob McNamee, montag, Paul Czege.

6/26/2004 Bob McNamee: My Life with "Princess" Diana
Bob McNamee wrote From the title of the thread I was expecting a My Life with Master idea with Princess Diana as the Master.... :) Markus replied Me too!…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Jürgen Mayer, ethan_greer.

6/27/2004 Nev the Deranged: Newbie question
I just got MLwM in the mail and read through it. I'm jazzed to play, but as usual, will have a devil of a time finding players, especially for something…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege, vhirvela.

6/27/2004 Grex: Diana RPG
OT, but I can't resist... It gives me great pleasure to know that this exists: Diana -- Warrior Princess! Check it out at http://www.heliograph.com/diana/dianareviews.shtml Edit: Something went very wrong! This…
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Participants: Grex, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, GB Steve, KingOfFarPoint, DannyK, Sean.

6/28/2004 Dev: MLwM mechanics thinkin'
If I may be so bold; Paul, what was your thinking behind the MLwM d4-pool mechanics? Why did you pick these in particular to back up play? Why do I…
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Participants: Dev, Paul Czege, vhirvela, Mike Holmes.

6/29/2004 Valamir: MLWM the Reality TV show
If you haven't seen it, tune it to Blow Out, Bravo's latest entry into the realty TV show genre. I think this is the best RTV series ever, because it…
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Participants: Valamir.

7/1/2004 Paul Czege: Fear and Unrequited Love Comes To Finland
Hey everyone, Arkkikivi Publishing (kustannusyhtiö Arkkikivi), the joint publishing venture of Eero, Jari, and Markku Tuovinen will release their licensed Finnish translation of My Life with Master, Kätyrin…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Jason L Blair, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, vhirvela, newsalor.

7/27/2004 vhirvela: MLw Dr. Victor Frankenstein
Hello I am new here. Hmm I even might be the first one to post here not because I found out about My Life with Master RPG but because I…
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Participants: vhirvela, Eero Tuovinen, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/11/2004 Don D.: Quick question about players and Gm
I have ordered MLWM and am looking forward to getting it. From the reviews I've read I notice that the player's characters are often seperate from one another, possibly never…
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Participants: Don D., Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/11/2004 Don D.: My life with Emperor
Master: Emperor Palpatine Minion: Darth Vader More than Human: Supreme Force powers except when in the presence of his Master (I can't remember him using much force when the Emporer…
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Participants: Don D., Mike Holmes, xiombarg.

8/13/2004 Don D.: Being Captured & Sincerity
My wife and I have come up with our Master and the rest of the background but we had a couple questions about the rules... 1. Can you please explain…
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Participants: Don D., Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

8/13/2004 Don D.: When are the dice rolled? All things Narrative?
Lets say the minion is bringing the baker back to the Masters abode in the rain as ordered and on the way back there is a flash flood sweeping them…
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Participants: Don D., Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, GB Steve.

8/14/2004 Don D.: Who Narrarates?
In any given scene who narrarates what happens when? What part does the GM narrarate and what part does the minion's player narrarate? Or is it more like the traditional…
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Participants: Don D., GB Steve.

8/14/2004 neelk: MLwM scene construction Qs: how do player requests work?
I'm trying to figure out what the precise rules for running a scene are. Right now, I know that I should go around the table, running a scene for each…
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Participants: neelk, Eero Tuovinen, joshua neff, Don D., Paul Czege.

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