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7/13/2007 broundy: MLWM-inspired comic
Hi Paul! After reading about "My Life with Master" last year, and lurking on these forums for a while, my brain caught fire with lots of cool ideas. I started…
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Participants: broundy, Artanis, xenopulse, Paul Czege, Nev the Deranged, Yokiboy, skatay.

6/6/2007 AlanDeSmet: MLwM: The math behind the game
I'm running my first game of My Life with Master (play report "Soon"), and I became curious about the math behind the game.  For example, theoretically a Minion can successfully…
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Participants: AlanDeSmet.

5/24/2007 Darcy Burgess: [MLwM] - The Horror Revealed
I had the pleasure of experiencing my first My Life with Master game this past weekend.  It was a wonderful romp, with friends old and new, as well as new…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Paul Czege, lee-anne.

4/29/2007 Paul Czege: 2006 sales of My Life with Master charted against prior years
Most recent post at halfmeme.com. But for fun, first ask yourself what impact you'd expect from the game being out of print for the Saturday and Sunday of Gen Con…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

4/24/2007 Paul Czege: talking about ashcans, The Ashcan Front, and game design with Clyde L. Rhoer
Clyde and I had a very enjoyable and wide ranging conversation late last Friday evening at Forge Midwest that he recorded for his Theory From the Closet podcast. And it's…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

4/6/2007 markus_cz: How to play Nicotine Girls?
How to play Nicotine Girls? I know this sounds strange... but really, how? There's absolutely no advice in the game rules of how to play it, how to frame scenes,…
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Participants: markus_cz, hix, JC.

4/2/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bacchanal] Multiple ties?
So, I'm futzing around with the Bacchanal dice, trying to teach myself to play so I don't look like a buffon if/when I get other folks to try it. And…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

8/9/2006 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.

8/5/2006 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.

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.

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.

7/12/2006 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.

7/4/2006 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.

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.

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8/24/2007 Paul Czege: how to buy the Acts of Evil ashcan
I have some left and just put up a page where you can order one if you'd like: http://www.halfmeme.com/buyevil.html Thanks, Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege.

9/19/2007 Spooky Fanboy: On the Ashcan Front...
On this thread, I loaded a mash of suggestions and questions I had regarding the Acts of Evil ashcan. I really had two suggestions: one to more quickly protagonize a…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy.

9/23/2007 Spooky Fanboy: [Acts of Evil] Hexes and blessings
For those good, old-fashioned curses that last unto the seventh generation, which Aspect would they use? I can see arguments for Voice, but I think Memory, with it's attachment to…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

10/5/2007 Twilight Dream: [split from] Re: horror or not?
I'm sorry for bringing up a thread this old, but I have just started playing MLwM, and when I found this thread I started thinking about this. The major difference…
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Participants: Twilight Dream, Paul Czege.

10/27/2007 Earthling: [MLwM] Questions about game mechanics
We finally got around to playing a three-player My Life with Master session yesterday, and while it went pretty well, the rules mechanics aroused several questions. First of all (I…
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Participants: Earthling, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

12/14/2007 ODDin: Translating MLwM to Hebrew
Hi, I wanted to translate MLwM to Hebrew, to introduce this great game it to the Israeli community. I'm not yet sure whether publishers here will want to actually print…
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Participants: ODDin, Eero Tuovinen.

12/16/2007 Mar_cus: Fear in Nicotine Girls
I'm translating Nicotine Girls to polish (with permission from Paul) and I have some problems with understanding Fear... Does Fear have anything to do in roll for Dreams? Or in…
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Participants: Mar_cus, Filip Luszczyk.

1/10/2008 Paul Czege: My Life with Master: The Architecture of Protagonism
Hi all, The article I wrote about <i>My Life with Master</i> for <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083566">Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media</a> (MIT Press, 2007) is <a href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/protagonism">now up</a>…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

1/20/2008 JC: [MLWM] One session?
hey :) Polaris is designed to be played over multiple sessions, but fun can still be had with it in a single session, by upping the amount of experience the…
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Participants: JC, Peter Nordstrand.

2/20/2008 Marshall Burns: [Nicotine Girls] Wow. Ouch. Wow.
Paul, I just wanted to let you know that I just read Nicotine Girls, and it's brilliant.  So brilliant that I don't think I'll ever be able to play it. …
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Participants: Marshall Burns, jburneko, Wolfen, Paul Czege.

3/26/2008 JC: AP with questions
hey :) I put an AP with some questions up in the Actual Play forum, and I'd be grateful for some answers cheers!
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Participants: JC.

4/16/2008 Evlyn: Nicotine girls play by blog!
Maybe this could be fun to play: Each player make a nicotine girl and a blog for her. - You post blog entry instead of playing scenes. - You use…
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Participants: Evlyn, Eero Tuovinen.

5/27/2008 phargle: MLWM endgame mechanic question.
We finished a game of MLWM.  It appears that the endgame mechanic makes each successive effort to kill the master harder and harder - each round that goes by therefore…
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Participants: phargle, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2008 Paul Czege: I got Craned at Origins
Luke Crane interviewed me at Origins this year as part of the Pelgrane Press See Page XX Interview Series he's been doing, and the interview <a href="http://www.pelgranepress.com/seepagexx/September2008-Luke.html">is now available</a> (along…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

11/13/2008 Filip Luszczyk: MLWM - still available?
So, I made this big (and likely final) order at IPR yesterday, and I couldn't find MLWM there. I don't see it in that new indie non-store where IPR stuff…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

12/22/2008 Paul Czege: use My Life with Master to introduce players to the hobby
Christian Lindke, in his December 17th <a href="http://cinerati.blogspot.com/2008/12/but-master-why-must-i-feed-children.html">review of <i>My Life with Master</i></a> on his pop culture blog Cinerati, suggests there's a difference between games "to use to introduce players"…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

1/26/2009 Paul Czege: It damn near killed me...
...but between January 8th and today I completed an indie entry to Jared Sorensen's <a href="http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=8258&page=1">Indie Game Company Game Design Challenge</a>. System design, playtesting, fixing the broken stuff, art direction…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Adam Dray, Thor Olavsrud, Artanis, Graham Walmsley, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen.

1/30/2009 Paul Czege: [Thy Vernal Chieftains] frequently asked questions
One effect of personally emailing a pdf to purchasers is also personally receiving questions about it by email. So I thought I'd do some of the frequent ones as a…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

2/8/2009 victorio: Contact Paul by email ?
Hello, Yann Lefebvre and me have wrote an email to Paul (paul (aatt) halfmeme.com) but we have no reply for the moment. We hope our email is finish in is…
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Participants: victorio.

3/5/2009 jessecoombs: Minor nitpick about character sheets for MLWM
I finally found the character sheet online for My Life With Master, but I was wondering... Is there a version of the sheet that has the changes from the newest…
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Participants: jessecoombs, Paul Czege.

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