Previous Topics In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press Participants: MrSandman666, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, Technocrat13.
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… In Half Meme Press Participants: Spiral Jacobs, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Arturo G..
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… In Half Meme Press Participants: Technocrat13, Paul Czege, theghost, Victor Gijsbers, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.
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. … In Half Meme Press Participants: jburneko.
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… In Half Meme Press Participants: Spiral Jacobs, RobNJ, Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G., Mike Holmes, majcher, Eero Tuovinen.
10/12/2005 Paul Czege: The Ken in Yellow In reference to Bacchanal, in his latest Out of the Box column, Ken Hite writes:
"I firmly believe that somewhere in here is the greatest King in Yellow game… In Half Meme Press Participants: Paul Czege.
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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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 In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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.… In Half Meme Press 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,… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press Participants: epweissengruber, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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? In Half Meme Press 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? In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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
… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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! In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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. In Half Meme Press 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… In Half Meme Press 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,… In Half Meme Press 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 In Half Meme Press Participants: coffeestain, Paul Czege, markus_cz.
4/29/2006 ghoyle1: My Life With "Ming" Hi there,
I've just bought MLWM, and I'm still trying to get my brain wrapped gooily around the game system, which, at this point, seems to be a rather daunting… In Half Meme Press Participants: ghoyle1, Jonas Karlsson.
5/4/2006 Eric J-D: Nicotine Girls--An Odd Proposal Hi Paul,
This is the first time I've posted in your forum I think, so forgive me if this is a strange first post (as well as a longish one). … In Half Meme Press Participants: Eric J-D, Paul Czege.
5/8/2006 eruditus: My Life with Father Cross posted with Actual Play and NerdNYC forums.
Here is a run down on our master and characters. Tomorrow I will post the outcome of the game.
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19768.new#new In Half Meme Press Participants: eruditus.
5/9/2006 Dumirik: My Life With Master: question Hey,
I'm running a session of My Life With Master soon with some of my friends, and I'd like to ask a question about conflicts with the Master. If the… In Half Meme Press Participants: Dumirik, Ron Edwards.
5/17/2006 Yokiboy: My Life with Yoki Hello Paul,
Okay, so you might pretend that the game is set in some eastern European setting, but I know the truth. This game simulates my early gaming life. Seriously… In Half Meme Press Participants: Yokiboy, matthijs.
7/4/2006 baron samedi: [MLwM] Starting Fear for single session game? Hello,
I have friends over this summer who'd like to try playing , but we have only a single evening available.
Thus, I was wondering what the starting FEAR and… In Half Meme Press Participants: baron samedi, Artanis, jrs, Paul Czege.
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