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8/28/2003 Paul Czege: this is some strange laboratory!?
Okay, I'm probably past due on explaining the whole "labworks" concept... To be honest, it was never in my plans to ask Clinton and Ron for a Half Meme Press…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, Mike Holmes, jburneko.

8/28/2003 Ola J.: The Horror Revealed ... question
[First post to the Forge - a bit nervous, actually, since the level of discusssion here seems to be pretty high - easily the highest signal to noise-ratio I've ever…
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Participants: Ola J., Valamir, Alan, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Bryant.

8/26/2003 Paul Czege: while supplies last...
Those of you who missed out on the GenCon print run of My Life with Master, and who don't buy pdfs, your wait is over. Half Meme Press is proud…
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Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg.

8/15/2003 joshua neff: Actual Play: Castle of Spiders
I began a MLWM run this past Wednesday, with myself GMing & Mike Holmes, Julie, & our friend Ryan running the PCs. Here's what we ended up with: The Master:…
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Participants: joshua neff, Russell Hoyle, Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes.

8/14/2003 GB Steve: Expanding the franchise - MLwM the card game
Or, Turning art into moolah. MLwM would make a cracking card game. Each player would be a minion. In front of them on the table they would collect Villagers with…
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Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes, John Harper, iago, Brian Leybourne.

8/13/2003 Brian Leybourne: Book & PDF
Hey Paul, When you get the second printing off the ground, are you planning to offer a "if you bought the PDF, you get that cost off the book" kind…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, iago, Paul Czege.

8/13/2003 Nick Pagnucco: Bought it, Love it
Hi. I'd like to say more, but the subject line says it all. MLWM is disturbingly cool. For some reason, when I got done reading it, I wanted to use…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Paul Czege.

8/8/2003 iago: Going outside the village
So, I'm a sucker for taking games and seeing how far I can stretch them in terms of altering the setting, or subverting the paradigm (like, with Paladin, making the…
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Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, jburneko, Lxndr, John Harper, lumpley, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Bryant, Bob McNamee, b_bankhead, Paul Czege.

8/7/2003 John Harper: New Indie RPG Desktop: MLwM
I finally got around to doing a desktop image for My Life with Master, and I think it turned out rather well if I do say so myself. You can…
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Participants: John Harper, Jason L Blair, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, iago.

8/7/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Love, Fear, and Reason settings
As noted in the text, these three items, when dialed in 'correctly' cna adjust the probable length of the game. Having only experienced 2-3 demos of MLWM at GenCon, and…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Alan.

8/7/2003 jburneko: My Life With Master Rules Question
Hello, Okay, so I bought My Life With Master and I LOVE it! But something struck me a bit odd. It seems that stats only ever go up. I don't…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim.

8/6/2003 Paul Czege: yes, but I never inhaled
So...we played Nicotine Girls on Monday night. It was a return to gaming for us, after four months of movie nights and me being too busy working on My…
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Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paul's Girl.

8/5/2003 Paul Czege: underbuzz
A collection of mini-quotes and links from folks who have something to say about My Life with Master:"'My Life with Master' is bizarre, twisted, and brilliant; incredibly dark but, in…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Bryant.

8/5/2003 Paul Czege: how to start living with the master
The life of a minion is a hard one. The horrific things you do make it difficult to feel good about yourself. If only someone loved you... Half Meme Press…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

8/4/2003 Jeffrey Miller: PDF of the Character Sheet?
If it doesn't give too much of the game away, would you ever consider making a PDF of just the character sheet available? I really like the layout of it,…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Ben Morgan, Comte.

8/3/2003 Brian Leybourne: Wow.. first ever post
Wow, the first post in a new forum. Thats, well, not that exciting really. :-) So, Paul, tell me more. I've been having a hard time finding out much about…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, ethan_greer.

5/9/2003 Paul Czege: The Valedictorian's Death
Okay...since Tom let the cat out of the bag on the Profiling, spring 2003 thread, here it is: The Valedictorian's Death This is the game that took over…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Emily Care, jburneko, Tim Alexander, xiombarg, Bellman, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

6/26/2002 Paul Czege: nicotine girls, smoking again
So, Ralph's deconstruction of my mechanics for Nicotine Girls was a painful heads-up to me that I probably needed to get a hell of a lot more serious…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Stuart DJ Purdie, xiombarg.

5/20/2002 Paul Czege: nicotine girls
Hey everyone, So...despite my history of pronouncements that I'm not a game designer, and that The World, the Flesh, and the Devil was an anomaly, I seem to have…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Henry Fitch, Walt Freitag, contracycle, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Zak Arntson, xiombarg.

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9/8/2003 Paul Czege: reviewed at RPG.net
SteveD reviews My Life with Master. Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir.

9/11/2003 Overdrive: Thanks for the quick authorization
Today at work I discovered that MLWM had been reviewed at rpg.net, so I read the review. Not 5 minutes from that I decided to get it. (not that I…
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Participants: Overdrive, Paul Czege.

9/12/2003 Bellman: Typo?
From page 11 of MLWM: Needs are understood to be what the Master would have from the Townspeople. And Needs are something that necessarily threaten the Townspeople in some way...even…
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Participants: Bellman, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2003 Lxndr: [MLwM] For Those Of Us D4-Deprived
I own maybe three d4s, less than any other single die except the weird ones (d5, d7, etc). My fellow gamers, I believe, own even less (I'm kind of a…
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Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, Bob McNamee, mortmere, RdGkA, Paul Czege, Adam Dray.

9/16/2003 Brian Leybourne: Hooray!
Not a message of great substance, actually. Just joy that my copy of MLWM arrived in the mail yesterday (Good fast service too, thanks Paul). Give me a couple of…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes.

9/18/2003 mortmere: Using the Devil's Picture Book as a dice substitute.
It's already been mentioned that the d4 is not something we all know or love. Instead of using a different dice ladder though I suggest using a standard deck of…
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Participants: mortmere.

9/18/2003 Paul Czege: Lesen Sie Deutschen?
Andreas Melhorn reviews My Life with Master here. So, uh, does he like it? Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, Lxndr, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

9/23/2003 Paul Czege: Greg Costikyan blogs My Life with Master
[A HREF="http://www.costik.com/weblog/"]http://www.costik.com/weblog/[/A] Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Gordon C. Landis.

9/23/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS, a one-sheet and chargen
Well, if you're going to have a labworks, someone has to uncork the first Klein Bottle. So here goes... Two weeks ago we did chargen using the EPICS…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, hardcoremoose, jscottpittman, Valamir.

9/24/2003 Dev: Play of MLwM is a single session
I'd really love to try MLwM, at least at first, as a single-session thing. (Let's just say that my friends have commitment issues. Damn pesky college kids and their loud…
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Participants: Dev, xiombarg, GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

9/24/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS, prepping the first session
So, if you've been following the other "lab: EPICS" thread, you know my plan for the first scenes of the game, in service to setting-premise Narrativism, was to…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

9/28/2003 GB Steve: My LARP with Master
I'd like to run this game as a LARP. I had thought of My Life with Masters - all the players are the minions of Phil Masters at a British…
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Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

9/29/2003 jrs: MLWM rule interpretation
I have a couple questions about the die mechanics in MLWM after running our first session yesterday. In the rules, there is the stipulation that a roll that would result…
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Participants: jrs, Paul Czege, ethan_greer.

9/30/2003 Paul Czege: talking points for My Life with Master
So, Luke Crane's very generous offer to sell copies of My Life with Master at UberCon comes with a requirement. He wants "talking points." This is what I've…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hix, abzu.

10/9/2003 Paul Czege: "a tremendous game"
Ken Hite reviews My Life with Master (and Kill Puppies for Satan, and Cockroach Souffle, and Sex & Sorcery, and Orpheus)¹. Paul ¹ I couldn't have asked for better…
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Participants: Paul Czege.

10/20/2003 Ben Lehman: My Life with Imperator
Has anyone considered the possibility of using the My Life With Master mechanics for the Nobilis setting? This idea came to me in the shower this morning, and I think…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, Michael S. Miller.

10/27/2003 ScottM: Captures- What do I aim for?
[quote="Rules"]"When ever a conflict resolution results in a minion’s Weariness increasing to a value greater than Reason, the minion is captured by the Townspeople or Outsiders."[/quote] But there's additional text…
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Participants: ScottM, Paul Czege.

10/27/2003 Ron Edwards: When Endgame crashes and burns
Hi Paul, Up in Black ooze oozes forth, Lisa Padol asked this question, including a quote from a previous post: "2. Could some mechanism prevent the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Lisa Padol, Mike Holmes, GB Steve, Maura Byrne.

10/27/2003 Dev: Accidental de-protagonization
I had the following problem in my last game, during the Endgame in particular. Consider two minions, the Traitor (trying to kill the master) and the Faithful (the one serving…
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Participants: Dev, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

11/13/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS wrap-up
So, with three sessions played, and for various reasons, I pulled the plug on the EPICS game: My plan to begin the game with each player selecting one of…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jscottpittman, Mike Holmes.

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