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12/30/2004 Andy Kitkowski: PTA Idea Mine
Just wanted to point out, there's kind of an Idea Mine going on at RPGNet: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=164561 Feel free to skim or jump in.
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

12/28/2004 Yokiboy: Great Overseas Service!
Hello, What great service I encountered from Dog-eared Designs. I ordered Primetime Adventures in the middle of December, and living in Sweden didn't count on seeing the game until sometime…
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Participants: Yokiboy, ricmadeira, MarcoBrucale, Joe Dizzy, matthijs, Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson.

12/26/2004 jporrett: Fan Mail Question
My friend and I were tossing around ideas for a show the other week and came up with an idea for a show: http://ameagaru.blogspot.com/2004/12/pta.html It was mostly just so we…
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Participants: jporrett, Chris Goodwin, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

12/21/2004 Chris Goodwin: Episode prep
It has been mentioned that adventure prep is quick and easy. No one has yet mentioned this, but you can get dozens of episodes pre-prepared for you every week at…
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Participants: Chris Goodwin, Mike Holmes, Charles Warren, Joe Dizzy, Matt Wilson, Frank T.

12/21/2004 Alan: Example Campaign Links
Here's a compilation of PTA campaigns that have appeared in Actual Play to date (listed in reverse chronological order): Play Using Finalized Rules Veritas Mundi - Spirits and Black…
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Participants: Alan, Chris Goodwin, Matt Wilson, Bryant, Rob MacDougall.

12/20/2004 azrianni: Review up
My review of PTA is up at http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10903.phtml (on rpgnet).
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Participants: azrianni, WarrenET2, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Wilson.

12/13/2004 WarrenET2: Just sent away a money order.....
So in about 10-20 days I should have PTA in my hands. Never heard of it untill a fellow on another list started going on and on and on... about…
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Participants: WarrenET2, Andy Kitkowski, Norbert Matausch.

12/13/2004 Vaxalon: Running PTA via IRC
We're planning to start a new PTA game on IRC starting on Tuesday, January 4. Our first session will be at 8pm Eastern time, in #indierpgs on the Magicstar server.…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Alan, azrianni.

12/11/2004 azrianni: little problem with protagonist sheet ?
Am I wrong, or on the protagonist sheet download at the dog-eared website, are the nine circles in the "issue" box supposed to be in the "screen presence" box instead?
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Participants: azrianni, Matt Wilson.

12/6/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - system notes
So Galactic as I see it is setting-based narrativism, ideally. Therefore if there's a reward system, it comes from the players addressing the premise, which is again embedded in setting…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Tony Irwin.

12/1/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - preview information
Since I've gotten at least a small amount of speculation about my next game in development, I thought I'd fill in some blanks. Galactic is intended to be an epic…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Jonas Larson, joshua neff, Valamir, greedo1379, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

12/1/2004 Nicolas Crost: Conflicts with multiple Protagonists
Hi everybody, in our PtA online-game (if anyone is interested and speaks German, this is the log of the first session), we made the following observation: conflicts with more than…
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Participants: Nicolas Crost, John Harper.

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.

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.

11/18/2004 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.

11/9/2004 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.

11/8/2004 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.

11/7/2004 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.

11/1/2004 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.

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.

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1/3/2005 Joe Dizzy: Conflict guidelines?
Hello everybody, I plan on introducing PTA into my gaming group and want to make sure I understand the basics of it first. Especially since my players are much more…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, azrianni, Alan, Chris Goodwin, John Harper.

1/10/2005 Matt Wilson: Dog Gone
It's the honeymoon at last! Only six months late. I'll be away on vacation from Jan 11 to Jan 18, and will be unavailable for product fulfillment or questions during…
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Participants: Matt Wilson.

1/12/2005 azrianni: pta for pbem?
Is there any interest in doing PTA as a PBEM? If we could get enough people who already know the game, I think it'd be fun to try. I don't…
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Participants: azrianni, ivan23.

1/13/2005 MDMayer: Adding Sequels to Scenes (variant)
Adding Sequels to Scenes (variant) Pg. 51: "Most often it will end following the resolution of a conflict, though players may want to add some in-character dialogue or…
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Participants: MDMayer.

1/16/2005 Landon Darkwood: PTA and the Extended Conflict...
Hello, all, Just bought PTA and read it, and it's be an understatement to say I'm extremely enthused by it. It's bumped two other games off my "must play immediately"…
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Participants: Landon Darkwood, Yokiboy, azrianni, Matt Wilson, MarcoBrucale, timfire.

1/19/2005 MarcoBrucale: Personal sets for itinerant series
I was considering how to introduce personal sets in mainly itinerant series, like the example on page 36 of PtA. I eventually came up with only two ideas: 1) Flashbacks…
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Participants: MarcoBrucale, Yokiboy, Emily Care, pete_darby, azrianni, Matt Wilson, Chris Goodwin, Ian O'Rourke.

1/19/2005 Joe Dizzy: Demo Experiences?
Hello everybody, I want to demo Primetime Adventures at our local convention in February and would like to prepare a handful of things before-hand to make the game as smooth…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, azrianni, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson.

1/21/2005 Matt Wilson: Andrew Navaro not to head up Galactic Art
[b]Update:[/b] Andrew has just informed me that he's taken a very good job where freelance work is not allowed. Congrats to Andrew. Galactic artwork will wait for now. I'm still…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Bob Goat, azrianni.

1/26/2005 Ian O'Rourke: Producer and Scene Creation
After having read the print version, which is very good by the way (very clean and the cover is excellent), I'm a bit confused about the role of the Producer…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson, nikola, Joe Dizzy, azrianni, Alan, John Harper, chrisn, ashmoo.

1/26/2005 Damocles: PTA Number of players?
I was wondering, how many players could you could reasonably handle with PTA? Anybody have any experience with or ideas for handling larger groups, say of six or seven people?
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Participants: Damocles, Bob Goat.

2/4/2005 Rob MacDougall: Comedy is easy, PTA is hard.
Hi folks. I just posted a medium length post at the gaming blog The 20' by 20' Room about my experiences with Primetime Adventures. The short version: I really love…
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Participants: Rob MacDougall.

2/13/2005 Joe Dizzy: A few questions
So, as I mentioned in my AP post, the second game I ran yesterday was an utter mess. Mostly due to two people who had very strong and very different…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, pfischer, Matt Wilson, Frank T, Ron Edwards.

2/14/2005 azrianni: 3 + 2 or 2 + 3
Starting work on a second PTA series, and working on a character, I realized that I'm apparently really biased in favor of Edges over Connections. The characters I make or…
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Participants: azrianni, Matt Wilson, immlass.

2/17/2005 azrianni: late to the party
This is a good thread. I was just thinking about the specific scene where the Don is casting blame instead of instigating the gang war. I agree that the player…
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Participants: azrianni.

2/23/2005 Danny_K: Recruiting for a PTA game on RPG.net
Matt, I hope you don't mind me posting this on your board -- feel free to delete it if you think it's inappropriate. I've never had as much trouble getting…
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Participants: Danny_K.

2/28/2005 Jason Newquist: PTA Conflicts Doggy Style?
So, in the last month I bought and read both Dogs and PTA, and I must say, I'm quite taken with these games. I like 'em both quite a bit.…
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Participants: Jason Newquist, Danny_K, TonyLB, Chris Goodwin, Damocles, Matt Wilson, Vaxalon.

3/13/2005 JMendes: Several procedural questions
Ahey, :) Righty. We tried our hand at PtA last Friday, and I have several questions. Many of these are also in my Actual Play post, but I thought it…
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Participants: JMendes, Matt Wilson, Alan, ricmadeira, azrianni, Danny_K, John Harper.

3/19/2005 Jason Newquist: Things that are Hard to Film
I play in a regular CoC game, and the Keeper is pretty damn good. Delivers solid product, and he comes up with some wonderful stuff. But a lot of it,…
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Participants: Jason Newquist, Chris Goodwin, Matt Wilson, John Harper.

3/23/2005 Matt Wilson: stepping out for a few days
Hey all. I'm heading back to Seattle until Sunday (which apparently is Easter, I didn't even know) and probably won't have much net access while I'm there. If you gots…
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Participants: Matt Wilson.

3/28/2005 JMendes: PvP in PtA
Hey, :) I'm splitting this off, because I think it's become out of topic for the original thread. don't be afraid of this... specially not in…
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Participants: JMendes, TonyLB.

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