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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.

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.

11/11/2004 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.

11/9/2004 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.

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.

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.

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.

9/14/2004 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.

9/7/2004 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.

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.

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.

8/19/2004 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.

8/18/2004 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.

8/17/2004 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.

8/14/2004 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.

8/14/2004 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.

8/13/2004 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.

8/13/2004 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.

8/11/2004 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.

8/11/2004 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.

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2/7/2005 Paul Czege: the rpgmp3.com "Christmas Special"
Sometimes when I get an email requesting a postage quote for My Life with Master to an international address, I inquire how the person heard about the game. And most…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Roger Eberhart, GB Steve.

2/28/2005 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press financial chart leaked to the web
Last time I did this, the CFO docked me a week's pay. But I just can't help myself. I was starved for exactly this kind of information back prior to…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

5/3/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Tony
This Thursday is general election day in the UK, and it's also my gaming night. So I'm planning a session of My Life with Tony. The Master is Tony Blair,…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Miskatonic.

5/9/2005 Michael S. Miller: A Manifesto on Mastery
[i]A Manifesto on Mastery[/i] is available in [url=http://www.chimera.info/daedalus/index.html]the latest issue of Daedelus.[/url] Read and tremble, underlings! The Master will indulge questions, clarifications, discussion and the like here.
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Victor Gijsbers, Adam Dray, sonicforest, Artanis.

5/18/2005 loki's wrangling: A list of sample more than/less than human characteristics?
I'm going to run a MLWM campaign and it would be a great help if I could provide my players with a list of sample more that/less than human characteristics.…
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Participants: loki's wrangling, Michael S. Miller, Valamir.

5/18/2005 Danny_K: MLWM -- you've played the game, now watch the opera!
One of my non-gaming interests is opera, and I went last weekend to the Seattle Opera's performance of "Tales of Hoffman" and had a very weird experience. While watching and…
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Participants: Danny_K, loki's wrangling.

5/22/2005 loki's wrangling: Muwahahaha! I'm da Master!
Just finished my first session with MLwM--and my first time GMing, too. (Lost my GM cherry! At last! :D) It went much better than I ever expected. Man, am I…
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Participants: loki's wrangling, Michael S. Miller.

6/20/2005 epweissengruber: Demos and Convention Games of MLWM
Dear Paul I will be running a demo of MLWM at a convention. You offer some advice about running 1-shots in the book. But what about short 1-shots. Is there…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.

8/2/2005 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press First Annual Unplanned Contest
I just approved the proof of a roleplaying game. And the printer is tracking to have books to me for Gen Con. So I'm geeked, and decided to have a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, matthijs, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Uzzah, ejh, quozl, Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, GB Steve, lumpley, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Victor Gijsbers.

8/24/2005 rylen dreskin: Character sheets
Hey, I'm gearing up for my first MLWM game.  I bought the hard copy version and would like printable character sheets.  Has anyone made those or other lists of key…
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Participants: rylen dreskin, Uzzah, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

8/30/2005 Paul Czege: quenching your late summer thirst for madness and wine
[center][color=Purple][size=15pt][b]Bacchanal[/b][/size][/color][/center] Print copies of this year's most whispered about game are now available to those who missed it at GenCon. The book is 5.5" x 8.5", 12 pages, saddle stitched,…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

9/1/2005 MatrixGamer: MLWM as a Matrix Game (split)
Cool! I just happened upon this thread. I will take the feedback to heart and write a better intro article for the site. As to Matrix Games not being RPGs.…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Paul Czege.

9/6/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Bacchanal Dice Set?
To run Bacchanal, you need (let's say for 6 players, to make things nice and average): 1 purple d8 1 black d8 1 red d8 1 silver d6 1 white…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Yokiboy, Miskatonic, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2005 Paul Czege: Bacchic frenzy on the bitwaves
Paul Tevis talks about Bacchanal in the 7th installment of his Have Games, Will Travel podcast: http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=18642 The Bacchanal segment is about 15 minutes in, but you don't want to…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

9/9/2005 Solamasa: [MLwM] Question on Commands and those Tricky, Tricky Minions
Hello, A question regarding commands from the Master.  On page 27, the text states: If the Master wins, the minion is obliged to carry out the command ... And to…
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Participants: Solamasa, GB Steve, Adam Dray, Michael S. Miller, Victor Gijsbers, Eero Tuovinen.

9/13/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] Die Leiden des jungen Werthers - with a twist
Last thursday, I unexpectedly had to master a one-shot for two players. So I took My Life with Master from my bookshelf, grabbed a handful of d4s, and off we…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

9/15/2005 Arturo G.: Question: Using More/Less-Than traits, and trying to avoid conflict
Hi folks! I got my copy of MLwM yesterday. I'm discovering incredible nice things thanks to The Forge. I have now some new exciting games and almost no time to…
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Participants: Arturo G., Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege.

9/17/2005 rylen dreskin: My first MLWM session
I've put a record of my first MLWL session in Actual Play.  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16871.0 Rylen
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Participants: rylen dreskin.

10/6/2005 Paul Czege: horror or not?
I try not to let questions about My Life with Master go unanswered. But RPG.net no longer has a working search engine. So now I look for threads where it…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Paka, Victor Gijsbers, Bob Goat, Arturo G., droog, Peter Nordstrand, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, joewolz, Bret Gillan, GB Steve.

10/11/2005 Peter Nordstrand: My Life with My Life with Master
I'm playing the game on wednesday. Three players are expected join me (including Jonas Karlsson, who I am looking forward to meeting for the first time). Questions: The guidelines for…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G., Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Nev the Deranged, Eero Tuovinen.

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