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5/22/2010 hatheg-kla: [MLwM] Convention game thoughts
Ho I'm going to be running a game of My Life with Master in a couple of weeks at a mini-convention.  I've run a couple of games already for friends…
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Participants: hatheg-kla, Noclue, hix, Eero Tuovinen.

4/27/2010 Paul Czege: to purchasers of the Acts of Evil ashcan
As an original purchaser of the Acts of Evil ashcan, you are hereby granted a license to create your own game based on the text of the ashcan. The license…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Graham Walmsley, Ignotus, Filip Luszczyk.

12/30/2009 Melinglor: [MLwM] First play, with some awkwardness
So I played a one-off game of My Life With Master the other night. It wasn't as fulfilling as a full game (as one might expect), but it did give…
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Participants: Melinglor, jburneko, Eliarhiman6, Adam Dray.

11/12/2009 il mietitore: [MLWM] Hammering Doubt
Hi to everyone, i'm Alex "il mietitore" from Italy ("il mietitore" means "the reaper", in italian. Yeah, it's trash and silly, but I invented it when i was noob, and…
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Participants: il mietitore, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Paul Czege.

11/11/2009 Klaus_Welten: [MLWM] One-shot rules?
Hi there! I'm going to GM a demo of MLWM and I've got a question: which values for Fear, Love and so on would be appropriate for a one-shot game?…
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Participants: Klaus_Welten, Artanis, Adam Dray.

7/4/2009 jmilum: Bacchanal free version link no longer works
The link to the free version of Bacchanal on the Half Meme website no longer works here is the broken link: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Bacchanal.php
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Participants: jmilum, Paul Czege, Melinglor, lending, EpsilonMinus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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7/9/2010 juliusz: Acts of Evil and Ashcan Front forum
Hello everyone, Do you know what's going on with Ashcan Front forum (and "Acts of Evil" subforum there)? Any chances for it to return online in foreseeable future?
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Participants: juliusz, Paul Czege.

7/23/2010 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press and Cream Alien Games at SMACC this coming weekend
If you're within driving distance of southeast Michigan this weekend, <a href="http://halfmeme.com/">Half Meme Press</a> and <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/creamaliengames/">Cream Alien Games</a> will be running a table at the first ever <a href="http://idea-men.us/smacc/guests.html">Southern…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

7/27/2010 martind: [MLwM] Noob, first game tomorrow
Hi guys, I'm going to master my first game at My Life With Master tomorrow and I have a couple of doubts about the endgame (among other things, I'm a…
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Participants: martind, Artanis.

7/27/2010 KevinH: [MLwM] New GM and the Baron Badass...
... pronounced ba-DASH. Baron Istvan Attila Von Badass is a young Hungarian nobleman, interested in ancient hunnish shamanism. He wants to impress the professors at his old university and is…
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Participants: KevinH, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

9/6/2010 dindenver: [MLwM] Question
So,   I played this for the first time today.   Is it normal to roll d6 for Love, Fear, Self-Loathing and Weeriness?   And, if so, is it normal…
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Participants: dindenver, Artanis, Adam Dray.

9/14/2010 ristarr: [MLWM] newbie scenario
I just played MLFM at dragoncon for the first time. My copy just arrived in the mail today ( thanks for the extremely fast shipping! ). I am going to…
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Participants: ristarr, Adam Dray.

1/6/2011 billyzero: MLWM Download Question
I bought the digital version of the game from the http://www.halfmeme.com/master.html website using paypal.  I received a paypal receipt.  I then created an account with the Forge Bookshelf  website but…
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Participants: billyzero, Paul Czege.

1/31/2011 Paul Czege: some kind of mathematical notation?
My current game design project has resolution mechanics that involve drawing tokens of various types from a bowl, and interpreting the combinations against a menu of possible outcomes. Some of…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

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