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8/1/2006 Matt Wilson: Two Anniversaries
Two anniversaries, kinda. First, it’s now three years to the day since I brought Emmett home from the Humane Society. He’s snoozin’ nearby on his little blue doggy bed. Hooray…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, coffeestain, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Troy_Costisick, John Harper, joshua neff, oliof, Arturo G..

7/24/2006 ColinC: Galactic Soundtrack
I hope to be playtesting Galactic sometime soon, and am trying to think of music to play while we're playing.  Here's what I've got so far. (all of these are…
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Participants: ColinC, Dev, joshua neff, Matt Wilson, Michael McAleese, ironick, Andrew Morris, Joe Dizzy, Frank T.

7/22/2006 joshua neff: [PTA] St. Sebastian
The first thing: I haven't actually played PTA since it was a playtest document, but I've wanted to play it more. The second thing: As soon as we moved back…
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Participants: joshua neff, Matt Wilson.

7/14/2006 mystic_philosopher: High Low rules?
Hi I just played a pilot episode with my family. It was fun. We came across the rule pg 65 that when deciding stakes between a tie "victory goes to…
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Participants: mystic_philosopher, Matt Wilson.

7/12/2006 Matt Wilson: Galactic!
Hey, school's out for a while, and I finally took care of that giant printing job, so maybe I have a little time to spend online for the next couple…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Michael McAleese, Thunder_God, hix, Doyce, Glendower, John Harper, Hans, Sydney Freedberg, Joe Dizzy, Phil Bordelon, Adam Wells, Mychal, Pyromancer, Snarls-at-Fleas, Claudia Cangini, monsterfurby, xenopulse.

7/12/2006 Lisa Padol: PTA at GenCon?
I'm probably not making GenCon, but a friend has offered to do my shopping via proxy. Will PTA be available there? I want to buy a copy for Lee Gold.…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Matt Wilson.

6/21/2006 komradebob: Why the change to cards? Player Reaction?
Hopefully, after having bought PTA months ago, I'll be getting to actually play soon. I did have a question about the change from dice to cards, however. As I understand…
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Participants: komradebob, IMAGinES, Lisa Padol, gwangi, Arturo G..

6/15/2006 BabbageCliologic: 3/2 traits instead of 2/1 traits
Hello: I saw in the Changes part of the website that the traits were changed from 3/2 to 2/1 for 2nd Edition (which I own). What is the reasoning for…
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Participants: BabbageCliologic, Ben Lehman, Valamir.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Uneven Screen Presences
Thought I would break this into it's own topic. Has anyone ever played PTA with different players having different and uneven distributions of Screen Presence?  That is, with each character…
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Participants: Sindyr.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Question: Use of fan mail to use used-up traits?
It's in the beginning, under Basic Rules Concepts: Traits, it says: "After the player must spend…
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Participants: Sindyr, drnuncheon, Gabe McKean.

5/5/2006 Yokiboy: Non-Ensamble Cast Series
Hello, Does anyone have experience playing a Non-Ensamble Cast Series in Primetime Adventures? How did it impact the play? Without an ensamble cast how does one ensure that the Problem…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Alan, Sindyr, Adam Biltcliffe, Glendower, dpetroski, Call Me Curly.

5/3/2006 Sindyr: Matt Wilson: where are you?
I have some more PTA questions for Matt, asked a few of them here as well as sent him some of them using the private messaging system - is Matt…
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Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Only one conflict per scene?
I know that sometimes Scenes can occur with no conflicts - do they ever occur with 2 or more conflicts? What is the signal that a scene is over and…
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Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Glendower.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Nitpick error?
In the appendice on page 101 it says that Alan/Alice has four cards. On page 102 it says that Josh spends a point of fan mail to bring her to…
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Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Alan.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Question: Brining in a character
First of all, I was going to open the PTA pdf, and copy the relevant section of text, and paste it here. The PTA pdf is aparently locked, and won't…
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Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson.

4/16/2006 REkz: Card vs Dice mechanic
Matt & PTA'ers, I just got my copy.  Hoorah!  Finished reading it in 3 days. Great book, seems like a great game.  I'm psyched to run it. I would've liked…
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Participants: REkz, BlackSheep, jasonm.

4/13/2006 Sindyr: Authentic TV season possible? How?
I have just read through the PDF, and have just received my hardcopy.  I need to read it at least another 3 to 5 times. That being said, one of…
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Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, John Harper, joshua neff, Matt Wilson, spikexander.

4/10/2006 jenskot: Just played 7 sessions. Questions: Producer Role, Player vs. Player
We just completed a 7 episode series of PTA as part of the Gotham Gaming Guild. After the first session and reading this forum, we realized we had drifted the…
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Participants: jenskot, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

4/9/2006 Zamiel: PDF Edition
I'm already a very proud owner of the 108pg print edition of PTA, but I find myself on the go a lot, and I make frequent reference to my PDF…
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Participants: Zamiel, Mike Lucas.

4/4/2006 pfischer: 60 minute convention demo - any thoughts?
Hi, I am doing a solo indie games track at a Danish convention during 5 days over Easter, trying to expose as many people to good, solid games as possible.…
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Participants: pfischer, Matt-M-McElroy, Matt Wilson.

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8/3/2006 thwaak: Bring It On!
Heya, Last night I was talking up PTA to my gaming group after our session ended, so we didn't have a lot of time to discuss it, and interest in…
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Participants: thwaak, Matt Wilson, joshua neff.

8/16/2006 Thomas D: [PTA] Actual Play Actual Examples?
I just posted something similar to this over at story-games.com, but thought I'd ask here. I'm in the process of selling PTA to my current gaming group as a game…
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Participants: Thomas D, Aaron Smith, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, John Harper, Cabbagetom, Doyce, Christopher Kubasik, Alan.

8/18/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Question about the Goals update
Over here, Matt said: Pursuing goals as written in the game is a little hazy. This update tightens it up nicely and provides a good visual resource for dramatic…
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Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson.

8/23/2006 Aaron Smith: PTA demoing at Con?
I'm looking to run several demo games of PTA at the San Fransisco bay area KublaCon on the memorial day weekend. I'd like to have a small stock of books…
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Participants: Aaron Smith, Matt Wilson, 1000buffalo.

9/6/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Questions about Conflict
Hi guys, I posted thes on another thread (I'm just so excited about PtA I lost my mind). Realizing things could get really cloudy, I'm starting a new thread. I…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Matt Wilson.

9/9/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Running Out of Budget
I know this has been covered. But my Search-Fu is failing me. What happens when the Producer's budget is eptied out? Does game play change in any way? Or do…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ben Lehman.

9/11/2006 Garth: Playing Without a Producer?
Here's our situation:  We came up with a great premise and set of characters and issues... then the Producer had to bow out.  Can't run the series. We hate to…
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Participants: Garth, Aaron Smith, John Harper.

9/14/2006 Thomas D: d20 PTA: a dice mechanic variation
Oh, and just because this might have been missed by some people interested in PTA that don't read the Actual Play forum, here's a bit on a d20 dice mechanic…
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Participants: Thomas D, Chris Goodwin, Vaxalon, Mychal, Jhulae.

9/17/2006 Paka: The Season
After playing quite a few PTA one-shots and having a grand ole time at it, we've finally sat down to play a PTA season and I get to play, rather…
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Participants: Paka, Matt Wilson, Storn, Bret Gillan.

9/21/2006 TJ_Crow: [PTA] Playing Pretender
I've been going over PTA lately with the intent of pitching it to my group shortly and thinking about the shows we have all enjoyed so that I can offer…
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Participants: TJ_Crow, alexandro.

9/29/2006 jburneko: Conflict Between Protagonists Questions
Hello, My group is going to start up a full PtA season soon and I just want to clear up some minor confusions about how conflicts between protagonists are handled. …
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson.

9/29/2006 Mychal: 2d6 Feet in a random direction
Here is a link to a podcast that has a review of PTA. Two of the hosts are owners of my flgs, End Game. Enjoy http://www.2d6feet.com/ because of them, I'll…
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Participants: Mychal, 1000buffalo, Matt Wilson.

10/3/2006 Stickman: Email bounced?
Hi Matt, I tried to contact you earlier about upgrading from the pdf to full paper version of the game, but the email got bounced. Is there a better way…
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Participants: Stickman, Matt Wilson.

10/8/2006 azrianni: "Previously on..."
I just recently thought that the one bit of the common TV formula that doesn't get used is "previously on...". I was wondering if anybody had tried doing anything with…
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Participants: azrianni, dyjoots, Matthew Glover.

11/3/2006 jburneko: The PtA Economy Between Episodes
Hello Again, Just a few quick questions to confirm my understanding of what happens to each resource pool between Episodes. 1) Any unspent budget goes away between episodes.  Correct? (Note:…
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson.

11/6/2006 DaveyJJ: Got my PDF ... veteran RPGer returns to RPGing after 20 years
Yeah, it took a great game to get me back into RPGing after this amount of time, but PtA was the catalyst. Got a group of younger RPGers at work…
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Participants: DaveyJJ, Matt Wilson.

11/6/2006 DaveyJJ: Matt's one paragrapgh take on NBC's Heroes?
I wonder what Matt would write if he had to compose a single paragraph about NBC's new show Heroes, in the same vein as he wrote about Lost and Six…
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Participants: DaveyJJ, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Wolfen, John Harper, scififan9009, chrisn.

11/7/2006 chrisn: Splitting the players
My first PtA game begins this Saturday (we're revamping Land of the Lost as a stark modern sci-fi/drama series to trial run the game) and I have a question even…
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Participants: chrisn, Matt Wilson, Bankuei.

11/9/2006 chrisn: Primetime Reminders
I love the fact that conflict resolution is handled in PtA with playing cards (rather than dice). So, when I thought to make some reminders for the players on what…
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Participants: chrisn, John Harper, Dave Versace, cydmab, Glendower, 1000buffalo, REkz, Gugliandalf, Brennen Reece, relaxingnap.

11/11/2006 nitramwi: Do you need to narrate?
Hi all!  Just started a wonderful game of PTA, and I have a serious question. In conflict resolution, do you have to have one person act as a narrator? Instead,…
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Participants: nitramwi, Jonathan Hastings, John Harper.

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