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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12/15/2005 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.

12/14/2005 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.

12/5/2005 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.

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.

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.

11/1/2005 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.

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..

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.

10/20/2005 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.

10/19/2005 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.

10/12/2005 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…
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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…
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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.

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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.

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…
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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). …
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Participants: baron samedi, Artanis, jrs, Paul Czege.

7/12/2006 matthijs: [Bacchanal] Winning? Losing? Finishing?
I played Bacchanal tonight. Just me and a friend. We enjoyed it; it supported one of my favorite modes of play, which is putting your weird stuff out on the…
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Participants: matthijs, Paul Czege, HOT.

7/17/2006 Arturo G.: [MLwM] A strange choice for the Outsiders?
Hi, there! Last week I organized a session of MLwM during PuCLN (a national Spanish games convention). It was highly successful. I think players really enjoyed it. Indeed, it was…
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Participants: Arturo G., baron samedi, Artanis.

7/22/2006 markus_cz: MLwM - Considering the Endgame
Hi, I have a little question about the Endgame - what exactly happens when a player not involved in fight with Master decides to join the fight? The book says…
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Participants: markus_cz, Paul Czege.

8/5/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM] Advice for a one session game
Hi guys - On Tuesday I'm running my first game of MLWM as a stopgap for our usual weekly game. I'm hoping to play a complete game in the space…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Michael S. Miller, Jonas Karlsson, aeble.

8/9/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM] meeting no criteria for an epilogue
I ran my first game of MLWM last night, and it mostly went well (I'll post a report here later). We did find a slight hitch though ... When testing…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Jonas Karlsson.

8/22/2006 markus_cz: Nicotine Girls - an idea
Hi, in my game group we've finally decided to try this interesting game. Thinking about the rules, I had an idea. You see... we'd only play a one-shot. And in…
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Participants: markus_cz, Paul Czege, matthijs, Mike Holmes.

8/25/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM]My Life with Sauron
I originally posted this over at Story Games but thought it might be a good plan to post it here too. I mentioned that I was debating whether to run…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

10/15/2006 memolith: Print size for MLWM?
I admit it, I'm a cheapskate. I purchased the pdf of MLWM, to save a couple of bucks. Now I'm wishing I'd just bought the printed copy. Anyhow, I found…
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Participants: memolith, Thomas Lawrence, Paul Czege.

12/1/2006 Paul Czege: The Rumors of My Master's Death...
After an unaccountable delay, the print edition of <i>My Life with Master</i> is again available. This run features a matte-laminated cover and the only revisions I've ever made to the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Marhault.

12/23/2006 GB Steve: [MLwQ] Straight outta Windsor
Straight outta Windsor It was time this week for our annual Christmas game of My Life with Master. Paula was the Master, Queen Elizabeth, and the characters were as below…
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Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

3/12/2007 tstone: Would like to buy your games...
Paper copies, but have no access to Paypal.  Any way to send you a money order and pick up some of your games? Thanx!
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Participants: tstone.

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