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2/6/2005 John Kim: Draft: Immersive Story Methods for Tabletop Play
Hi, So unfortunately PUSH dropped off my radar months ago, and I lost track. However, I am interested in contributing again and I'll try to keep up on the forum.…
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Participants: John Kim, LordSmerf, Eero Tuovinen, Jonathan Walton.

2/4/2005 clehrich: What am I writing?
[quote="In the new Sticky, Jonathan"]- Chris Lehrich, [i]New and Exciting Stuff[/i] (Maybe) - Jonathan Walton, Chris Lehrich, Rich Forest, etc., [i]Editorial Chores and Pleasures[/i][/quote]Eh? Here's my guess, but I have…
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Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest.

2/4/2005 Jonathan Walton: Issue #1 Outline
[b]PUSH[/b] Vol 1. - Eero Tuovinen, [i]Anglo Influence and Reactions in Finnish Roleplaying[/i] - Emily Care, [i]Collaborative Roleplaying Paradigms[/i] - Ben Lehman, [i]Polaris-Style Resolution and Responsibility Distribution[/i] - Jonathan Walton…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, LordSmerf, GaryTP.

2/4/2005 Jonathan Walton: Member Purge & Opening
Hey Folks, So here's the deal. I'm going to go through the memberlist and get rid of anyone that's never posted in this forum and, from the look of things,…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, clehrich.

12/11/2004 clehrich: Addressing the Audience
So as I start slowly grinding the gears to think about writing something on structural analysis, myth, and gaming, I'm running immediately against a problem that I think is general…
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Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, Rich Forest, Jonathan Walton.

12/8/2004 clehrich: Weird Structuralist Nonsense
Hey gang, You may have noticed my recent madness on the RPG Theory forum, about structuralism, myth, and gaming. It's at the tail-end of the "RPGs and Text " thread,…
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Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, Rich Forest, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton.

11/21/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Arthouse Wuxia
Hey Folks, Long time no see. http://1001.indie-rpgs.com/ArthouseWuxia.doc The biggest reason that I've been silent is that I've been preparing an initial draft of my wuxia article, which right now is…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat.

10/17/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Notes] Ithaca: an introduction of sorts
So, I'm doing some pre-planning for the introduction, where I pick out all the relevant quotes from the sources that I want to use, and then throw them all together…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

10/16/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Notes] Arthouse Wuxia
So, Shreyas and I chatted a bit today about what we want to cover in our Arthouse Wuxia article, enough that I think I can lay down a basic outline…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, neelk, Ben Lehman, clehrich, Rich Forest, Shreyas Sampat.

10/15/2004 Emily Care: [Draft] "GMless" play article
Here's an outline/proposal. Input appreciated. I. intro to concept of alt gm-task distribution A. snappy examples of functional alt-gm play (Universalis, Soap), (contrast with trad. task dist.) B. examples of…
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Participants: Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Jonathan Walton, Liz Henry, LordSmerf.

10/15/2004 clehrich: [Draft] RPG of Cruelty
Here's a draft of something I knocked together a while back in response to people's yammering at Jonathan about Brecht and gaming on his RPG.net forum. I'm a little hesitant…
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Participants: clehrich, neelk, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, Eero Tuovinen, Shreyas Sampat.

10/15/2004 clehrich: Citation-Handling
[b][u]Citing Sources Style-Sheet[/b][/u] There are several reasons to give citation information. First and foremost, citations and bibliographies help your readers to follow up on what you have said. If someone’s…
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Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, John Kim, Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

10/15/2004 Jonathan Walton: Pre-Planning: What's Issue #1 Looking Like?
[quote="Emily Care"]November? What have we got on tap for it?[/quote] So far: - Eero's article on Finnish Roleplaying's Cultural Liberation - Neel's game [i]Lexicon[/i] - an article about & excepts…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, GaryTP, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Rich Forest, LordSmerf, Piers Brown.

10/14/2004 Jonathan Walton: Let's Talk About Deadlines
[quote="Back when we were talking about the Player's Guide, Chris Lehrich"]If I were editing this, I would lay down the law about the following: 1. Three deadlines, all absolute without…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Emily Care.

10/13/2004 Jonathan Walton: How We Got Here
I was reading through the old Players' Guide thread and finding tons of great stuff that could be beneficial to people who are beginning to think about what they want…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

10/7/2004 Jonathan Walton: Charter
Chris said that we should discuss this at some point, so I'm making it a sticky. --- 1. Push is about real people roleplaying. This is the core of what…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

10/5/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Cover/Layout
I figured I might as well post this, since I've been sitting on it for a while. http://1001.indie-rpgs.com/push.jpg It's the blocky, modernist style you've seen in Brian Glass' design work…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, GaryTP, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

10/5/2004 clehrich: Thinking about editing -- for the rest of us
Hi gang, While we wait for stickies, I want to suggest something. Everyone ought to think about an introduction. Who am I? What's my thing? What am I really good…
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Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, Eero Tuovinen, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, GaryTP.

10/4/2004 clehrich: Some Editorial Suggestions
While we wait for stickies, let me make some suggestions. I'm not necessarily wedded to anything here, but some of this might be useful. First, a central principle: the primary…
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Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton.

10/4/2004 Eero Tuovinen: [Draft]The front lines of the Great Culture War...
Here's the piece I wrote. I haven't had time to polish it any, and won't have this week. Normal procedure, if there's anything to rip apart, do it. I'm still…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Rich Forest, Emily Care.

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2/7/2005 Jonathan Walton: Bizarre Distribution/Promo Scheme: Contributor Copies
So we've already had one inquiry about whether we're doing a print run of PUSH, and I was recalling Chris or Eero saying that they'd much rather have a half-dozen…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

2/7/2005 LordSmerf: [Outline] Limiting yourself: why constraint is necessary...
"Limiting yourself: why constraint is necessary for fun roleplaying." Intoduction -Fictional Actual Play w/o Constraint -Define constraint, utilize lines on the road illustration Sources of constraint -Social contract (all Constraint…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Eero Tuovinen.

2/11/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Arthouse Wuxia (Take 2)
I'm going to post sections as I get done revising them. Thoughts and suggestions are most welcome (somehow, my footnotes have turned into lowercase roman numerals?). ----- Arthouse Wuxia Jonathan…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

2/13/2005 clehrich: Editing MSS
What sort of editing is supposed to be happening here on the forum? Mostly content editing, or are we also supposed to be doing proofreading? I vote for content and…
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Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton.

2/21/2005 Jonathan Walton: Rights
Just thought I should make this explicit, since some people were asking: PUSH is an indie publishing venture. You keep all rights to everything you submit. That means ALL RIGHTS.…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

2/22/2005 Jonathan Walton: Bonus Feature: Creators' Commentary
I was thinking about Emily's article and Eero's and how it would be cool to actually get the discussion of them started in the journal itself, beginning to make connections…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf, Shreyas Sampat.

2/23/2005 Jonathan Walton: If You're Looking for Overtime Work...
...you guys should all submit proposals to this project: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14444 Despite the fact that the thread number has four 4's and, by Chinese numerology, the book is thusly doomed to…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

2/24/2005 Shreyas Sampat: Forward Thinking Technique: Convergent Evolution: Mridangam
The linked post is my first draft for that "Iron Chef" idea we have been batting around for Issue 2. I need to, like, assemble the necessary attributions for this,…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton.

4/3/2005 Jonathan Walton: We Have a Webpage
[url]http://100flowers.indie-rpgs.com/push[/url] Look through it. It's a draft. Suggestions are very welcome. In the contents section, those who've submitted stuff have the title of their most recent draft listed. Those who…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

4/11/2005 Jonathan Walton: [FINAL] Arthouse Wuxia
Here's Part 1 of my final draft. Hopefully I can get Part 2 done by the end of this week. I'm going to try to step up and get my…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

7/5/2005 LordSmerf: Constraint - Secion I (of III), Draft 1
These are the first of three planned sections of the article on "Constraint". The introduction to section II (Designing for constraint) is also included, but will eventually contain analysis of…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton.

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