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10/12/2005 Paul Czege: fill your glass with wine...dice
Half Meme Press is pleased to now have a small quantity of Bacchanal dice sets for sale. The sets consist of: a purple d8, representing the god Bacchus a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Yokiboy, Nev the Deranged.


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.


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.


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.


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.


9/13/2005 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.


9/9/2005 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.


9/7/2005 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.


9/6/2005 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.


9/1/2005 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.


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.


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.


8/2/2005 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.


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.


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.


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.


5/18/2005 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.


5/9/2005 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.


5/3/2005 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.


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.


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10/19/2005 Spiral Jacobs: First time ST for My Life With Master: Advice?
I ordered My Life With Master and might be running it this weekend.  I haven't been the ST at a game in a very long time, so I'm in need…
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Participants: Spiral Jacobs, RobNJ, Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G., Mike Holmes, majcher, Eero Tuovinen.


10/20/2005 jburneko: Paul Wins!
Hello There, I ordered My Life With Master, Primetime Adventures and Dogs in the Vineyard all on the same day and My Life With Master was the first to arrive. …
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Participants: jburneko.


10/27/2005 Technocrat13: [MLWM] Weariness; Why do I want it again?
We got a chance to play our first session of MLWM tonight and had a great time.  Something that came up at the end of the session was that one…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Paul Czege, theghost, Victor Gijsbers, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.


10/28/2005 Spiral Jacobs: Starting stats for a 2 minion game?
OK, so tonight's the night, but my third minion may not be coming.  I was thinking as starting stats: 3 Fear 3 Reason 1 Love 1 Innocent Would this work…
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Participants: Spiral Jacobs, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Arturo G..


11/1/2005 MrSandman666: [MLwM] Becoming the Master
Hello everybody... This weekend I will finally (FINALLY!!!) play my first game of MLwM. There will be four minions and I will be the master. I tried to prep myself…
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Participants: MrSandman666, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, Technocrat13.


11/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: A Beast/Brain Master
Because the GM didn't have the time (or rather, peace of mind) to prepare for our usual (read: very infrequent) game of Trollbabe, it was decided that I would GM…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller.


11/15/2005 CPXB: Master-slave dialectics, or a reasonable fascimile
There was a discussion of My Life With Master in Actual Play and someone said that the game is Nietzschian, saying that the master was a superman and when it…
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Participants: CPXB, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, droog, Sean.


12/5/2005 RobNJ: PDF character sheet?
On the homepage, I couldn't find a downloads section or the character sheet.  Is it available online in PDF?
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Participants: RobNJ, Paul Czege.


12/14/2005 RobNJ: [MLwM] Unlimited Love?
What's to stop someone from requesting scene after scene of love overtures?  Why would anyone ever go back to the Master?
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Participants: RobNJ, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Adam Dray, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers.


12/15/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Jesus
It was our annual Christmas MLwM game last night and so we went for a Christian theme. The game was played relatively straight, but not completely without gags. Jesus is…
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Participants: GB Steve, Justin A Hamilton, Graham Walmsley.


12/20/2005 Mr. Sluagh: My Life with Frank and Peter
haven't gotten My Life with Master yet, although I may.  I was wondering if it would be appropriate for the following game ideas:     The First: Rocky Horror  …
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Participants: Mr. Sluagh, Victor Gijsbers.


12/28/2005 Adam Biltcliffe: dice (a regrettably mundane question)
So, forgive my first Forge post for being on such a banal question, but ... I just now ordered a copy of My Life with Master, and I gather I…
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Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, Trevis Martin, joepub, Michael S. Miller, droog, Victor Gijsbers, Iskander.


1/21/2006 Neros Boot: I just arranged a trade
I just traded away a game in return for My Life with Master.  On Monday, it'll ship out my way. --and thus, my budding love affair with Forge games grows…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Paul Czege.


1/23/2006 Michael S. Miller: Bacchanal: Outie for Best Sui Generis RPG of 2005
Ken Hite has awarded the Outie for Best Sui Generis RPG of 2005 to Bacchanal. Here's the link. Congratulations, Paul!
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, ejh, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Paul Czege.


2/17/2006 Nev the Deranged: Dave's MLWM Quickref
Hiya. My quick-referencing ways continue with My Life With Master. I am submitting this for critiquing and troubleshooting before finalizing it. Please let me know if anything needs correcting or…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, RdGkA.


3/18/2006 Victor Gijsbers: [Bacchanal] A question on soldiers
Tonight, I will play my first game of Bacchanal, so I just reread the rules. They leave me wondering: if someone puts a soldier in my glass during the initial…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.


3/25/2006 Victor Gijsbers: Bacchanal review at RPG.net
I am proud to present to you: review of Bacchanal.
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, ejh.


4/9/2006 markus_cz: Ordering "My Life with Master"
Paul, I've recently stumbled upon "My life with Master", and really enjoyed it. I'd love to order a PDF version, but there's a little problem: I don't have a PayPal…
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Participants: markus_cz, Paul Czege.


4/18/2006 epweissengruber: [MLwM] My Appartment Con
Toronto IndieRPG Group played a session of MLwM during the Easter Break Con. at my pad. We tried to do a 1-shot using the recommendations in the rulebook: high fear,…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Paul Czege, two_fishes, Michael S. Miller.


4/26/2006 coffeestain: My Life with Master Soundtrack?
Because every game needs a soundtrack. Regards, Daniel
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Participants: coffeestain, Paul Czege, markus_cz.


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