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8/25/2004 lumpley: PTA ETA?
How soon until I can buy a couple of the perfect-bound PTAs to give as gifts? -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Matt Wilson, Ian O'Rourke, Christopher Weeks, bastion-b.

8/28/2004 Albert of Feh: PTA as narrative management module?
Well, the Moose in the City thread has already convinced me that I absolutely must buy this game. That said, I'm a bit curious... (I'll note that what was said…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Matt Wilson, Alan.

8/29/2004 Ron Edwards: Musings on play-experiences and the current text
Hi Matt and everyone, Here's a quick summary of stuff we talked about on the phone. 1. I was interested in what happens if the budget runs out. As the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Alan, Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson.

8/29/2004 Andy Kitkowski: PTA to play Manga
Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick, PTA has been the most *infectious* game of GenCon that I played. We're watching Buffy season six now on DVD (never watched it…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

9/1/2004 Ron Edwards: Reality TV
Hello, My wife just suggested that PTA could handle "reality TV" quite well. I agree with her, because my take on so-called reality TV is that it's a fictional story…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

9/16/2004 John Harper: PTA Shows: Elevator Pitch Time
So, we all know that show creation is a group process for PTA. But it's a good idea to arrive at the planning session with a couple of basic "elevator…
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Participants: John Harper, Tobias, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, joshua neff.

10/7/2004 Matt Wilson: Books for sale
I have books, and you can buy 'em here.
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Participants: Matt Wilson, dyjoots, pfischer, joshua neff, lumpley, Technocrat13, LordSmerf, Drew Stevens, Shreyas Sampat, ScottM, skatay.

10/11/2004 Matt Wilson: More shows worth emulating
Here's a thread where you can post new or old shows that you think are good role-model shows for Primetime Adventures, adding to the short and questionable list I included…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Meredith, Jonas Larson, rafial, pete_darby, Alan, Valamir, Mike Holmes, dunlaing, stingray20166, Caldis, kaotmus, azrianni, WarrenET2, joshua neff, Demada, Jaik, Chris Goodwin, ivan23.

10/19/2004 dyjoots: Quick question about Scene requests
I'm not sure if I missed it or if the books just isn't clear... does the Producer get included in the circular process of requesting scenes during play, or is…
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Participants: dyjoots, LordSmerf, Matt Wilson.

10/22/2004 John Harper: Techniques for driving conflict in a scene
One of the jobs of the Producer in PTA is to drive the action of the a scene towards conflict. How do you do this? I'd like this thread to…
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Participants: John Harper, Alan, Matt Wilson.

10/25/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Small Clarification on Trait Use
I'm reading on Traits now, and I'm a little confused; the rules that govern them are a bit difficult to locate. I'm posting a little synopsis below; is this all…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson.

10/30/2004 damiller: Can I...
I was wondering if this would be the appropriate board here at the Forge to let people know I am wanting to run a PTA Rockford Files Play By Post…
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Participants: damiller, Matt Wilson, DannyK.

10/31/2004 Doyce: Everyone has SP 1?
In this brilliant thread, Lxndr said: I'm also wondering what sort of episode would erupt if everyone had 1s. Would that wind up being like "Superstar" from Buffy Season…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, azrianni.

11/1/2004 Matt Wilson: Primetime Adventures retroactively makes Gaming Guru list
In his latest LJ post, Robin Laws lists Primetime Adventures among his picks of new stand-out products at GenCon 2004, even though he got the book after the Gurus panel.
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper.

11/7/2004 holyman: Conflict Question...
Hello! Currently in the prep period of a new show, and I've got some questions about Conflict Resolution. It seems clear that when there is only one Protagonist in a…
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Participants: holyman, Matt Wilson, azrianni.

11/8/2004 urbwar: Got PTA today
Just got my copy of PTA in the mail today, so I hope to look through it tonight at work. It looks nice; it's definitely a well put together book.…
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Participants: urbwar, Matt Wilson, Vaxalon, kerri_miller.

11/9/2004 DannyK: Looking for tips on creating a show
OK, here's the play: I've ordered PTA on the strength of some RPG.net threads, and I'm waiting for it to arrive. I'd like to start talking it up with my…
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Participants: DannyK, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, dyjoots.

11/18/2004 Matt Wilson: the shape of things
Sales of Primetime Adventures are going better than I'd anticipated. It's a month and a half or thereabouts since I put it up for sale, and I've sold about 40…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Paul Czege, Bob Goat.

11/20/2004 Matt Wilson: The Official Primetime Adventures Errata Thread
Like all print productions, Primetime Adventures has mistakes. And like all gamers, you've probably found one. Now's your chance.  Any mistakes you find, please post them in this thread, and…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Damocles, Chris Goodwin, azrianni, BlackSheep.

11/21/2004 Damocles: Variations and house rules
So I got PTA a while ago and am pretty psyched about it. And one thing I particularly like is that it seems to lend itself to fiddling around with…
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Participants: Damocles, John Harper.

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