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9/7/2007 TomTitTot: [Bliss Stage] Final Act - Actual Play impressions
Last evening my friends and I played in a game of Bliss Stage, using the default Final Act scenario included with the ignition Stage book. We were very lucky to…
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Participants: TomTitTot, Ben Lehman, pfischer.

9/7/2007 Ben Lehman: Thousand Kings Rules Changes
I have changed the rules of the game. If you have the O.II.O version, change it accordingly. This changes three things: Memories, the post-session adjustments and spirits. Memories: You may…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Dryraisin.

9/6/2007 TomTitTot: [Bliss Stage] Stress and Relationship Responses
Hey everyone, We just played through the Final Act scenario, and let me tell you, it was a blast. However, we have one question that has niggled since I read…
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Participants: TomTitTot, Ben Lehman, Temple, Eero Tuovinen, Nev the Deranged, Neil the Wimp.

9/2/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Polaris] Question about Moon statement
Ben, apologies if you've answered this before. In our Polaris PBP game, a Moon has made a statement that I, as the Heart, naturally want to respond to by saying…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman, Garvey, Web_Weaver, yellowparis, Tanda.

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.

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.

8/25/2007 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.

8/22/2007 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.

8/22/2007 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.

8/21/2007 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.

8/21/2007 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.

8/20/2007 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.

8/20/2007 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

4/6/2007 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.

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9/19/2007 JC: [Polaris] Soundtrack
how about a thread of recommended background music for Polaris? let me start with Black One, by Sunn O))) who's next?
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Participants: JC, 5niper9, Ben Lehman, Raquel, Mark Woodhouse, Artanis, Nev the Deranged, cydmab, shadowpriest, AXUM.

9/24/2007 JC: [Polaris] First game!
hey :) I'm playing Polaris this weekend, and I'm excited! all of us are new to the game, so we have a few hesitations here are my first questions: when…
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Participants: JC, Ben Lehman, Garvey.

10/3/2007 Dryraisin: Bliss Stage Play by E-mail
    I just got my copy of Bliss stage and after reading through it I really can't wait to try it out with my friends. Problem is we really…
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Participants: Dryraisin, Ben Lehman, JC, Garvey.

10/8/2007 JC: [Polaris] Three is a breeze
heya :) just thought I should let y'all know that I played Polaris for the first time, through IRC, and that it went very very well, even though there were…
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Participants: JC, cydmab, Ben Lehman.

10/18/2007 cdr: [Bliss Stage] Edible Adults?
So the adults that fall into Bliss don't need food or water, but can you eat them?  At least before the remote drones carry them all away to be neatly…
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Participants: cdr, Ben Lehman.

10/23/2007 cdr: [Bliss Stage] Endgame Report: One Kiss Kills
Let me start by saying I adore Bliss Stage and hope to run it a lot, probably mostly at conventions or game stores for people who have never played before…
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Participants: cdr.

10/25/2007 cdr: [Bliss] ANIMa console for easier handling
An idea others may find useful: at the bottom of the character sheets I made for Bliss Stage I put a row of nine 20mm boxes with the leftmost three…
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Participants: cdr, GreatWolf.

11/16/2007 hix: [1000 Kings] Some questions after reading the playtest draft
Hi Ben, I have a few questions about the playtest draft of Land of a Thousand Kings. 1.  When creating characters, does each player come up the memory of 'another…
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Participants: hix, Ben Lehman.

12/12/2007 JC: [Polaris] One session data point
hey all :) just a data point, for those wondering if you can play Polaris in one single session: that's exactly what I did last Saturday in 11 hours: -…
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Participants: JC, Filip Luszczyk, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski.

3/27/2008 Skywalker: [Bliis Stage] Interim Phase
I see the pdf of the Interim Phase has been released. I have sent an email to Ben, but does anyone know what the differences are?
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Participants: Skywalker, Ben Lehman.

4/1/2008 CrimsonKing: Where can I buy the PDF?
hi, I've just searched at IPR and on your HP and didn't find a PDF-Version, can you help me please? Thank you very much
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Participants: CrimsonKing, Eliarhiman6, Ben Lehman, JC.

4/4/2008 Willem: [Polaris] Thou Art But A Warrior, Indie Hurricane!
A week has passed since my AMAZING game of "Thou Art But A Warrior..." at the Portland, OR Indie Hurricane Event, set in Anna Kreider's setting hack for Polaris. As…
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Participants: Willem, Ogremarco, wunderllama.

4/11/2008 Melinglor: [Bliss Stage] First Impressions from the Last Sale of Gamestorm
So I've bought and read Bliss Stage, after playing a fifteen minute demo with Ben at Gamestorm. I've been ruminating, and I just wanna say this game us fucking fantastic.…
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Participants: Melinglor, Ben Lehman.

6/8/2008 Aysez: [Bliss Stage] Hardcopy?
Hey, I've been looking at getting Bliss Stage, but IPR only has it in PDF. Is there a hardcopy available currently or will there be one?
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Participants: Aysez, Ben Lehman, cdr.

6/22/2008 demiurgeastaroth: [Polaris] Thou Art But A Hurricane: Event Meter?
In this thread about a game at Indie Hurricane, an interesting technique was mentioned: She also added a little event meter, where every time someone (anyone!)…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Eliarhiman6, Arturo G., AXUM.

7/21/2008 Ben Lehman: Ascent Stage Feedback
I'm taking feedback for a new version of Bliss Stage on<a href="http://benlehman.livejournal.com/153961.html"> my livejournal</a>. I figured that a pointer here would be appropriate.
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Zamiel, Filip Luszczyk.

7/22/2008 BlissAuthority: Running a Bliss Stage play-by-wiki game. Want to play and/or watch?
Hello again, it's been a long time. So...  I'm trying to start a Play By Wiki Bliss Stage game at the Toothycat Wiki.  Unfortunatley, due to 3 of the interested…
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Participants: BlissAuthority, Zamiel.

7/27/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Bliss Stage] Timing Anchor Abilities
The player places a minus both in Safety and Mission. He calls for a flashback. After the flashback, the anchor uses her ability to re-roll a die in Safety, potentially…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman.

8/9/2008 Filip Luszczyk: Polish translation of key phrases
The following translation is neither literal nor especially accurate. We wanted the phrases to sound somewhat pretentious and just a bit archaic, but our main priority was that they fit…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman.

8/30/2008 BlissAuthority: Generational Bliss Stage?
"Today is the 15th anniversary of our first victory.  Today is the day my mother died protecting us.  The day that Keenan died with "If I don't make it, know…
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Participants: BlissAuthority, Ben Lehman.

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