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11/23/2006 Daniela Nicklas: key phrase IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE
Hi! After playing Polaris for the first time (and aching for more -- unfortunately, it was a trial at a convention and not a regular group) I noticed that we…
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Participants: Daniela Nicklas, Steven Stewart, GB Steve, Everspinner, Ben Lehman.

11/9/2006 Paul King: [Polaris] Getting It
Presented for comment.  The idea is to have something to present to players so that they can understand more of the conflict between Heart and Mistaken. Polaris is a game…
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Participants: Paul King, Hermes3, Ben Lehman, Web_Weaver, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, Daniela Nicklas, Steven Stewart.

10/31/2006 cthulahoops: Polaris at Gaelcon
As part of the Indie-Games track I was organising at Gaelcon this year, I ran Polaris.  I didn't get a chance to get a group together to play it in…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Hermes3.

10/29/2006 Garvey: Polaris in a Play-By-Post Format
I didn't see this discussed anywhere, but I may have missed it. I'm thinking of setting up a Polaris play-by-post game, and I curious if this has been done before…
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Participants: Garvey, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Everspinner.

10/16/2006 Noutaja: Phrases in dialogues
I was reading Polaris on my spare time and found myself thinking about the different ways to run dialogues for two or more persons in Polaris. So this is just…
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Participants: Noutaja, Ben Lehman.

8/24/2006 ocasta: Polaris: Ending a Scene
I've just read through the Polaris rules for the first time and am looking forward to playing it this weekend. I had one question from the rules regarding ending a…
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Participants: ocasta, Arturo G., Ben Lehman.

8/5/2006 Steven Stewart: It looks awesome...
Hey Ben, et. al, Just got the game in the mail. First Off Kudos to IPR. They have been so far, the best ordering company I have purchased a game…
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Participants: Steven Stewart.

8/2/2006 Noutaja: More About length of game
Hi everyone! Usually our Polaris sessions arent very long. Every session lasts something between 4 or 6 hours, I dont know yet that how many sessions we need to play…
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Participants: Noutaja, Ben Lehman, martino, Steven Stewart, Blankshield, Arturo G..

8/2/2006 Steven Stewart: Offering to Host a Polaris Game over Ventrilo (Voice over Intenet Software)
Hello fellow Polaris fans. I am really excited about this game, and looking forward to playing. Due to some real life constraints and location, I think that playing Voice Over…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Ben Lehman.

7/31/2006 Steven Stewart: Two Questions from Tokyo
Hiya, First I would like to say thanks for making such a game. News travels slow to this end of the world, and eventhough I don't physically have the book…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Ben Lehman, Rorimack.

7/12/2006 Artanis: [Polaris] Key phrases design
Hello Ben! I'm really fascinated by the Key Phrases and how they allow for powerful negotiation between the players. Would you agree to share with us your thoughts about how…
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Participants: Artanis, cpeterso, Ben Lehman.

7/9/2006 GB Steve: Polaris by Christian Dior
[url=http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2006CTR/complete/slideshow/CDIOR?loop=0&event=show1503&designer=design_house27&trend=&iphoto=37&play=false&cnt=6]This [/url] shows something from Dior's latest collection that seems to be straight from the pages of Polaris.
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Participants: GB Steve, Artanis, Ben Lehman.

6/1/2006 khelek: Two Player - BadWrongFun
I hosted and played in my first Polaris game last night! In expectation of the difficulty of herding my friends into a single room I invited five (5!) players, all…
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Participants: khelek, Ben Lehman, Steven Stewart.

5/24/2006 Johan Granberg: Crappety crap crap.
I ordered Polaris (along with some other stuff, but Polaris was the real reason i placed the order) from IPR a couple of weeks ago and have been itching to…
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Participants: Johan Granberg, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

5/17/2006 Nicolas Crost: "You Ask Far Too Much"-Question
Hi, the following question arose during our game of Polaris: When faced with an "You Ask Far Too Much"-statement as a player, do I a) revise the content of my…
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Participants: Nicolas Crost, Ben Lehman, Valamir.

4/19/2006 GreatWolf: [Polaris] Key Phrases are lies
In another thread, Ben said this: It occured to me sometime after publishing the game that all three of the elaborate key phrases (game opening, character introduction, game closing)…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Valamir, Jinx, Raquel, Arturo G., Bankuei, Gaerik.

4/17/2006 Thunder_God: [Bliss Stage Playtest] Read Through Questions
Reading a PDF, reading a book, not so good for getting questions out of it, one must sit with a pen, so I did. Some questions are answered later, I…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Ben Lehman.

4/11/2006 GB Steve: [Polaris]French convention game
At SteveCon Paris this week we played a game of Polaris, in French. I'll ask the strangely named Squeeze to email his translations to Ben if he hasn't done so…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ben Lehman.

4/4/2006 harish: This post was spam
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Participants: harish, Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/22/2006 Joe Murphy (Broin): [Polaris] A convention game
Sunday afternoon, I'm due to 'run' an introductory session of Polaris. This is taking place as part of the 'Indie Games Track' at Conpulsion, a gaming con in Edinburgh. I…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Ben Lehman.

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1/19/2007 Lisa Padol: [Polaris] Starting to Click
(Possibly to be crossposted on my 'blog.) We finally had our fourth session of Polaris, so long after the third we were reminding each other what had happened. I think…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ben Lehman.

1/19/2007 Katya: Mitigating Moon's Actions
I'm involved in a Play by Post game of Polaris, and thus far, it seems to be going pretty well.  A question did come up today, though, for which we…
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Participants: Katya, Ben Lehman.

1/20/2007 Artanis: Moons and Mistaken character control
Hello! A rule question popped up last time I played. Do Moon characters move to the Mistaken part of the Cosmos when the Mistaken follows a suggestion with "we shall…
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Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

2/11/2007 Artanis: [Polaris] Experience for non-Heart protagonists in a scene
Hello, A rule question for those having encountered similar situations: What happens when a protagonist is brought into a scene of which his player is not the Heart, and that…
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Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

4/6/2007 Garvey: Non heart Protagonists and asking permission
In the book, it says you can't use another protagonist in a conflict statement without permission. My question is whether permission is given ahead of time, not knowing what the…
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Participants: Garvey, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Web_Weaver, yellowparis.

4/20/2007 sryke: Looking for Polaris
I was wondering if you sold PDF versions of Polaris through somewhere? Shipping costs to Australia tend to scare me : ) and Indie Game seems to be out of…
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Participants: sryke, Ben Lehman.

4/23/2007 TomTitTot: [Polaris] Thinking of Year Zero setting... madness?
[i]I posted this elsewhere, in a slightly different format...[/i] -------------- Yes, I know this is a strange idea. I finished reading Polaris a few days ago, and have been foolishly…
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Participants: TomTitTot.

5/24/2007 Yokiboy: [Actual Play] Polar Ice
Hello, We played a quick session of a Polaris last week, which I documented here. Hope it's okay I'm using the cover pic to pimp it? We're geared up for…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Ben Lehman, cydmab.

5/25/2007 Svante Landgraf: Swedish translations of the key phrases
After a lot of discussion in my gaming group and on the Swedish forum at www.rollspel.nu (more specifically here), we've arrived at a translation of the key phrases that we're…
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Participants: Svante Landgraf, Ben Lehman, Hermes3, fjj.

6/28/2007 Ben Lehman: Bliss Stage Pre-Order
<i>Seven years from now, humanity is in ruins, devastated by a ferocious alien occupier from the edges of our understanding.  The adults of the world have been undone by the…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Skywalker, hix, GreatWolf.

7/11/2007 Ben Lehman: Playtest Documents
I'd like to remind everyone to please not circulate your playtest documents via the internet.  They're not game previews, and they're not for public consumption. Of course, anyone who has…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

8/20/2007 hix: Where can I find Bliss Stage character sheets?
Hi Ben, I'm reading Ignition Stage right now. Very exciting. I'm gunna pitch my group a game of it tomorrow night. I just checked the tao games site, and couldn't…
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Participants: hix, pfischer, Ben Lehman.

8/20/2007 Nev the Deranged: Bliss Stage Fantasy?
So, Bliss Stage was the first game I demoed at GenCon, and also my first purchase of the con. As a result, I was thinking about it whenever I wasn't…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Skywalker, Ben Lehman.

8/21/2007 Skywalker: Final Act question
First, congrats on such a great game. One question I have is with Final Act. There are two missions. However, I am unsure on what the expectation is on how…
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Participants: Skywalker, hix, Ben Lehman.

8/21/2007 Skywalker: Reciprocal nature of relationships
This may seem like a dumb question but due to the reciprocal nature of pilot to pilot relationships, I assume any changes to Intimacy, Trust and Stress made by the…
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Participants: Skywalker, Ben Lehman.

8/22/2007 hix: Co-ordinating editing suggestions for Bliss Stage
Hi Ben, We played Bliss Stage for about an hour last night - got through a mission, a resolution action and an interlude action. Much fun was had, and many…
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Participants: hix, Ben Lehman, Neil the Wimp, cdr.

8/22/2007 Adam Biltcliffe: Bliss Stage rules questions
So there's a handful of things I couldn't make out from a couple of read-throughs of Ignition Stage: The pilot templates have "special abilities" on them that aren't mentioned anywhere…
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Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, Ben Lehman.

8/25/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bliss Stage] - "Real World" question
I read through Ignition Stage, and it looks like it'll take some actually trying it to get a more comprehensive handle on how things work beyond the stuff covered by…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Eero Tuovinen, Skywalker, Mark Woodhouse, Ben Lehman.

8/28/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] Sharing missions?
Does it make any sense to anyone to compile a list of "off-the-shelf" missions somewhere?  It seems to me that this might be a helpful tool for Bliss Stage GMs.
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Participants: GreatWolf.

8/29/2007 Andy Kitkowski: [Bliss Stage] Character Sheet?
Hey, I was putting together a pack (to ship the copies to my buddies in Japan) and to give them some related material (RPG info webpage, character sheet links, etc).…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman.

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