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8/28/2004 Dev: First reading: fast thoughts
I'm moving, so I can't elaborate, but here's an email I gave to Ben recently after a first read. I'll break it up and elaborate more when I have net…
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Participants: Dev, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

8/27/2004 Ben Lehman: Welcome!
Welcome everyone to my spiffy Polaris playtest forum, where you can savage the game text to your heart's content, far away from prying eyes that might assume that my god-awful…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Dev.

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9/2/2004 Ben Lehman: The Art Thread
Hi. So one of the topics that came up in the multifaceted First Reading, fast thoughts was the art, design, look and feel of the book. Now this is totally…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Dev, Ron Edwards.

9/10/2004 Ben Lehman: What I'm Thinking
So this is a brief thing about what I'm thinking about the game right now. People are welcome to offer their advice around the issue, but what I would really…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

9/12/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Playtesting Polaris
So, we had us a playtest of the game. One session with four players, no scheduling possibility for more. All four are old-time roleplayers, all male, with perhaps two actives…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

9/13/2004 Ben Lehman: What Traits Do
This is the "No psychological traits" thread, spun off from Eero's playtest thread. Here's what I want traits to do: Traits are things that frame conflicts -- they provide set…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

9/17/2004 Ben Lehman: Things for next Revision
This is a public service announcement. I'm about to give the game text, especially the mechanics, a big once-over. Here are the rules that I'm thinking of changing. Please comment…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

10/17/2004 Ben Lehman: An essay and a half
Hi. So I'm fiendishly late with the next playtest draft of the game, which I hope is why this forum is quiet, and not that everyone is going "ecch, this…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

10/19/2004 Ben Lehman: Latest Version of Text
This thread is for me to post links to the latest version of the Polaris playtest drafts. Do not reply to this thread. If you have anything to say (Even…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

10/19/2004 Ben Lehman: The New Draft
For those of you have have the old one, here's what's changed in a major way: Sub-attributes dropped. Only four automatic traits. Uses d6. Introduction of the diagram (yes, I'll…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

11/3/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Anyone get a chance to playtest yet?
Looking to see if anyone wants to share some vignettes yet. I haven't had time to playtest myself, but it's 3 down on my list. Good stuff? Bad stuff? -Andy
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Rich Forest, Ben Lehman.

11/4/2004 Ben Lehman: The "Blurb"
In Anyone got a chance to playtest yet?, Andy asked: What's the "Blurb" for Polaris? I'm buddies with Ben, so it kind of fell into my lap, and while I've…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Jinx, Emily Care, Andy Kitkowski, Rich Forest.

11/13/2004 Ben Lehman: [IRC Group] Chargen
The Transcontinental Cyberspace-Enabled Elite Action Squad of the Polaris Playtest Legion (AKA, the IRC playtest group) met on Tuesday in IRC to do chargen and possibly initial scenes for our…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Shreyas Sampat.

11/23/2004 amel: comments after reading the rules
Hi Ben, hi everyone! Finally, I read the game text. Unfortunately, I am not a playtester but just a testreader. The little time I have, I usually use for favourite…
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Participants: amel, Ben Lehman.

12/17/2004 Andy Kitkowski: So... What's the latest?
Any new files, changes, or stories? Just thought I'd poke around for more info. -Andy
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman.

1/20/2005 Ben Lehman: Polaris with the Boys
So I got together with three friends of mine tonight -- Calder, Jasper, Anders. We played Polaris. This is the first time I've actually got to play the game face-to-face,…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

2/1/2005 Ben Lehman: Bye, all!
After some hard thought, I think I'm going to mothball this forum in favor of having a publically available playtest document and using Actual Play, Indie RPG Design, and my…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, xiombarg.

4/1/2005 Ben Lehman: Polaris Goes d20!
Hi all. After much thought, I've decided to revamp Polaris as a D&D supplement using the d20 engine. Knights will be reconfigured as a nesting series of prestige classes (Angst…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Emily Care, xiombarg, Dev.

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