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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.

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.

9/21/2006 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.

9/17/2006 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.

9/14/2006 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.

9/11/2006 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.

9/9/2006 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.

9/6/2006 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.

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.

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.

8/16/2006 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.

8/3/2006 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.

8/2/2006 thwaak: [Praise & Shipping] Matt Rocks!
Just wanted to say that I ordered PTA on July 26, and got it August 1. That's excellent turn around time (considering that I ordered some stuff from IPR on…
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Participants: thwaak, Matt Wilson, 1000buffalo, ejkong, Dave Versace, dragavan.

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..

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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.

11/25/2006 green5865: hello
hello im thinking of buying PtA and was wondering how hard would it be to run a game based around the highlander series or dr who. thank's
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Participants: green5865.

12/20/2006 1000buffalo: Silverscreen Adventures ;)
So, I've had this idea rattling around in my head for a few months, and thought I'd put it out there. I have a vision of a little companion book…
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Participants: 1000buffalo, Matt Wilson, chrisn.

1/9/2007 jburneko: Fan Mail Between Seasons
Just another quickie question: Do players keep their unspent fan mail between seasons? Jesse
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson.

1/22/2007 Mike Sugarbaker: A little self-mandated public humiliation
So, here I've been spending the last two years pimping PTA every chance I get, telling people it's my favorite game, the game that got me back into roleplaying, and…
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Participants: Mike Sugarbaker, John Harper.

1/28/2007 Tropico: Player-conflict resolution possible?
Hi, I just bought Primetime Adventures based on many good things I've heard and how fun it is. I'm planning it on playing it with my DVD group; we're a…
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Participants: Tropico, Glendower, Matt Wilson, John Harper, Filip Luszczyk.

2/13/2007 hix: Gathering tips for PTA pitch sessions
It struck me that’d it’d be useful to assemble a list of tips for running PTA pitch sessions – good questions to ask, tools for sorting out problems. I haven’t…
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Participants: hix, Glendower, memolith.

2/18/2007 The Mule: Observations and Questions on our first PTA attempt
First, off, Hello World! PTA was highly spoken of by a friend of mine, so I've decided to take the leap from Dungeons and Dragons into nontraditional games! I bought…
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Participants: The Mule, Matt Wilson.

2/22/2007 rycanada: Is another edition of PTA coming?
I was just wondering if PTA is essentially "done" or if there was going to be another edition.  There's a few things that I find kind of tricky in reading…
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Participants: rycanada, Matt Wilson.

2/22/2007 rycanada: Getting ready to run PTA for the first time (advice?)
So, either next weekend or shortly thereafter I'll be "running" a game of PTA for a motley crew of friends, gamers, and maybe a coworker or two.  I'm definitely going…
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Participants: rycanada, LeSingeSavant, Ben Lehman, Paka, Matt Wilson.

3/1/2007 Johan Granberg: Cutting the first episode and starting with a spotlight?
I have previously played one full five episode season-game and one that was cut short because of what I think was the result of a rushed pitch session. The first…
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Participants: Johan Granberg, BlackSheep.

3/20/2007 Claudia Cangini: Suggestion for PTA con demo?
Hello, I'm here looking for suggestions or links to previous thread treating this subject. I'd like to run a PTA demo at a local Con. I love the game and…
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Participants: Claudia Cangini, Matt Wilson, LeSingeSavant.

4/4/2007 Caesar_X: [PTA] TV Tropes Wiki
<Cross-posting from Story-Games> I was going through my del.icio.us subscriptions feed and saw that someone posted a site called TV Tropes. I've only taken a quick look, but this could…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Matt Wilson.

4/10/2007 Snarls-at-Fleas: Max number of players in PtA
I was wondering about for some time. I'm going to run PtA in nearest future and as far as I can see all the shows are usually about 3-4 protagonists.…
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Participants: Snarls-at-Fleas, Matt Wilson, hix.

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