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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.

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.

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.

6/27/2004 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.

6/27/2004 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.

6/26/2004 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.

6/26/2004 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.

6/17/2004 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.

6/11/2004 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.

6/2/2004 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.

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.

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.

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.

4/27/2004 kwill: [MLWM] how short can M&M creation be?
I would like to get a MLWM game going soon, as my group will have a limited time to play (the rest of the quarter before mid-year vac) I have…
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Participants: kwill, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve.

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.

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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.

8/17/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Actual Play] My life with roses
I recently bought My Life with Master, and have started a game today which I will tell about here. Set-up session In 1798, in a part of Prussia which is…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, rafial, Mike Holmes.

8/18/2004 Paul Czege: taking this show on the road
Half Meme Press will be at the GenCon game convention through Sunday, August 22nd. Orders for My Life with Master books received in the interim will ship the week of…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

8/19/2004 GB Steve: Congratulations!
The Diana Jones Award and Indie Game of the Year, a well deserved sweep! What further delights can we expect from Half Meme in the coming year?
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Participants: GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers, Dev, joshua neff, ScottM, Sean, Paul Czege, Colin the Riot, Ed Cha.

8/19/2004 Don D.: What is it about MLWM...
What is it about MLWM that makes it so popular with those who play it and love it? Is it the stories that are told? If this were the case…
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Participants: Don D., neverrob, Dev.

8/30/2004 neelk: Does Self-Loathing go up with a Horror Revealed?
When a player does something that would push their PC's Self-Loathing above Love+Reason and they trigger a Horror Revealed, does the character's Self-Loathing go up, or is it capped at…
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Participants: neelk, Paul Czege, xiombarg.

9/7/2004 Overdrive: Ideas, anyone?
Ookkei, we're playing MLWM once again. This time it's at a friend's summer cottage, where we'll spend the next weekend playing mucho everything. But I have such lot to do…
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Participants: Overdrive.

9/14/2004 timfire: [Lab] Setting Premise?
I'm taking Paul up his invitation to discuss experimental play. I'm intrigued by the idea of Setting-Premise, but I'm not sure where to begin. How 'bout the obvious: Paul, are…
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Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, matthijs, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes.

9/22/2004 Sean: [MLwM] Starting Scores and Killing the Master: Data?
I'm curious about whether there's any correlation between starting choices for Weariness and Self-Loathing and winding up being the one who kills the Master (or gets the first attempt at…
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Participants: Sean, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, kwill, Smithy.

9/24/2004 Michael S. Miller: Self-Loathing and More Than Human
In another thread Erik Hanson wrote: I still dislike the notion that Minions only gain Self-Loathing through "successful" die rolls to perform Violence or Villainy. That means that a…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Erik Hanson, Mike Holmes, Lisa Padol, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

10/4/2004 Tav_Behemoth: The Valedictorian's Death: Actual Want-to-Play
I had an interesting experience at my birthday party - itself an interesting experience because it was just about the first time all year I've had a social interaction that…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, Victor Gijsbers, Valamir, Sean, olleolleolle, ivan23.

11/9/2004 jkantor: Anyone Home?
I ordered My Life with Master in pdf form at the end of last week and I was wondering if Paul had gotten it.
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Participants: jkantor, Paul Czege.

11/11/2004 jkantor: MLWM as a Matrix Game
I'm active in the Matrix Game Yahoo group. Matrix games are not really rpgs, but argument-based. Players make arguments which are rated for strength by a referee and then rolled…
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Participants: jkantor, kwill, Victor Gijsbers.

11/17/2004 Doug M.: First campaign: Resisting Master, etc.
I'm about to run MLwM for the first time, and I have a couple of questions. First: I'm not clear on the point of resisting Master before your Love is…
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Participants: Doug M., GB Steve, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Marhault, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Valamir, DannyK.

11/21/2004 clehrich: MLWM rules confusion: overtures and intimacy
I'm a little confused. Am I right that when making an overture (to get Love), you can use an Intimacy/Desperation/Sincerity bonus if the approach warrants it? I'm having a little…
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Participants: clehrich, GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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