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1/10/2007 Dev: Rules questions: minutae, antag credits
* Minutae: if you have multiple players offering minutae (and an effect on the conflict), is there a specific way of deciding which one to use, or should that just…
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Participants: Dev, nikola.

12/14/2006 blackpaladin: The Lost Room as a setting...?
Joshua (or whomever) - I've become increasingly intrigued with Indie RPGs, particularly Burning Empires. Having that in my thoughts while watching the The Lost Room gave rise to this story…
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Participants: blackpaladin, nikola, Andrew Morris, Miskatonic.

11/22/2006 nikola: Shock: errata
Please check in on the Shock: errata thread over at Xenoglyph, the glyphpress discussion board before playing. I'm keeping up on weirdnesses and unclear or  incorrect rules over there. When…
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Participants: nikola, Miskatonic, rafial.

11/17/2006 Tim C Koppang: Shock: Inspirations
Nothing like a list of 70 upper-level scientists' predictions for the future to get your game of Shock: rolling. Now that you have the science, all you have to do…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, pfischer, nikola.

10/16/2006 Eric J. Boyd: Shock: actual play - some clarifications please
I've posted a report of my group's first session playing Shock: here. We used a setting modeled on Shadowrun and had a rockin' first session that slowly interweaved the characters'…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, nikola.

9/27/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Shock] Missing Rules?
I remember back in the heady days of the playtest editions that there was some talk re: fixing the game for two players. Did that ever happen?  From my reading…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, nikola.

9/4/2006 Pookie: Utb Review Query
Each time I write a review, I try and send a copy to the author. Unfortunately I do not have Joshua's e-mail. Could he be so kind as to srop…
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Participants: Pookie, nikola.

9/2/2006 nikola: The Official glyphpress Discussion Forum
I've just gotten the glyphpress discussion board up over on the glyphpress site. On it, you can find discussion about the rules of Shock: and Under the Bed, including errata…
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Participants: nikola, greyorm.

9/2/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [Shock:] Some questions and errors
Joshua, I picked up Shock: at Gen Con and finished reading it today. I'm very pleased to finally have a game for exploring real science fiction issues. That said, I'm…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, nikola, Iskander.

8/31/2006 Manu: Crux questions
Hello, I immensely enjoyed reading shock:, and am looking forward to trying it out. I have a few questions though: -Can multiple protagonists occupy the same crux on the grid?…
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Participants: Manu, nikola.

8/28/2006 Ron Edwards: [Shock] rules question
More about setup, actually. So we're sitting at the table. Myself, Chuck, Bob, Betty, and Sue. The names are fictitious, this is not a real example, I haven't sat down…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, nikola, lumpley.

8/21/2006 pfischer: Shock on IPR?
Hi, I can't seem to find Shock on IPR - am I looking in the wrong place? Is it going to be there at some point if not there yet?…
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Participants: pfischer, nikola.

8/18/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Shock:] Interesting link I ran across while looking around for more Shock:
[url]http://yudkowsky.net/sing/shocklevels.html[/url]
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, TempvsMortis.

6/25/2006 Halzebier: [UtB] Questions & Looking for IRC transcript of actual play
Hi there! I have a game of UtB scheduled, possibly for tomorrow already, and I'm still full of questions. In fact, I can't quite imagine how a conflict actually plays…
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Participants: Halzebier, Ben Lehman, nikola.

6/15/2006 Nev the Deranged: [UTB] Questions
At the end, once all the face up cards have been used and you're in the endgame, how exactly does the turn structure work? From the manual it sounds like…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola.

5/20/2006 Jason Newquist: Shipping... closer?
Joshua! When will you start shipping pre-ordered Caution Orange squares?
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Participants: Jason Newquist, nikola, Miskatonic, epweissengruber, Thunder_God, Valamir.

5/3/2006 nikola: Under the Bed is now back under your bed!
[url=http://glyphpress.com/UtB/]Under the Bed[/url], second edition is now available from the glyphpress site! The new cards are smaller (2.25" x 3.5") and some rules have been refined (The game now goes…
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Participants: nikola, b00jum, Artanis, matthijs.

3/26/2006 nikola: Ken Hollings Shocks the 20th century
A dude named Ken Hollings is making a series of podcasts called Welcome to Mars about the history of the 20th century through the eyes of science fiction. I've been…
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Participants: nikola.

3/20/2006 nikola: Shock: pre-order the future!
[Edit: The game can now be pre-ordered from [url=http://glyphpress.com/shock/]the site[/url] directly!] I'm still hoping that Shock: will be done by the end of the month. I'm having some printing issues…
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Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, Thunder_God.

2/28/2006 James_Nostack: Octavia Butler dead at 58
Dang.  I only read a few of her books, but she was good.  I figured I'd post it here because she showed up in the bibliography thread. Head injury after…
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Participants: James_Nostack, nikola, Nev the Deranged, lopes-gabriel.

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2/5/2007 matthijs: [Shock] A compilation of tips, clarifications & explanations
[b]SETUP[/b] [b]Suggested order for world & character creation[/b] The order of operation in the book is logical, but it encourages wild creativity instead of focusing it. Here's a suggestion for…
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Participants: matthijs, nikola, Anders, Pilgrim.

2/6/2007 matthijs: [Shock] Some more questions
There's a few things I'm still not 100% clear on. d4s in a conflict When several of my d10s are successes, does my opposition affect all of them with…
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Participants: matthijs, Anders, nikola.

3/7/2007 Miro: How to contact glyphpress?
Hello   Does anyone know how to effectively and privately contact glyphpress?I have got some questions about my order, tried sending e-mails, can't send PM here:) so I'm looking for…
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Participants: Miro, nikola, AnaSaupe, jrnmariano.

3/15/2007 Sinistraphobia: The Gamestas with Joshua A.C. Newman
This is just a heads up about our interview with Mr. Newman about Shock, on Episode -14.  We hope you enjoy, and feel free to give your thoughts and opinions.…
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Participants: Sinistraphobia, nikola, Paka.

3/25/2007 matthijs: Shock: seriously rules.
I played Shock: again a few days ago, for the third time; once again, a one-shot. One of the other players had tried it before (once); the two others hadn't.…
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Participants: matthijs, nikola.

6/16/2007 Alan: Clockwise or Counterclockwise
Hi Joshua, I'm going to present Shock at Go Play NW next weekend. I've studied the rules and the recommendations for effective play on the Forge, but I'm confused about…
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Participants: Alan, nikola.

7/6/2007 Hisho: [Shock:] A little rules question?
Hi, I am a little bit irritated by the use of Minutia. I will explain my question using an example: Making it very easy Protag-player rolls 2d10 and end up…
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Participants: Hisho, nikola.

7/18/2007 nikola: Preorder Shock: 1.1
(Crossposted from Monkey Do, Monkey See) I’m not good at keeping my mouth shut, but I win a brownie for this one. Over the last 8 months or so while…
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Participants: nikola, rafial, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2007 Nev the Deranged: Shock: 1.1 Q&A
I emailed Joshua my questions, since I wasn't sure if it was kosher to post about 1.1 yet, but he said it was cool, so I am cut and pasting…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, matthijs, Melinglor, xenopulse, ldd23, biotaps35, Artanis.

7/31/2007 Hisho: Example Praxis Scales
So, with 1.1 on the way and a question I asked some days ago about the existance of a list of example praxis scales I thought... well create your own.…
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Participants: Hisho, jane566, nikola.

8/7/2007 nikola: Shock: 1.1 PDF for 1.0 early adopters
Folks, if you bought Shock: 1.0 before I started pre-orders for 1.1, you're entitled to a PDF of 1.1. Email me at joshua at glyphpress.com, let me know if you…
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Participants: nikola, Eero Tuovinen.

9/14/2007 drnuncheon: Shock 1.1 changes (and reasoning)
I was explaining Shock to a gaming buddy several states away (it's simplicity seems to be very suited for online games) when I went to look up the rules for…
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Participants: drnuncheon, nikola.

10/10/2007 JC: [Under the bed] Bottom of page 2?
hey :) looked around a bit but couldn't find it, so I'm asking here: what's the text missing at the bottom of page 2? I can sort of guess, but…
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Participants: JC, RussellGrieshop, jane566, nikola.

11/5/2007 Miskatonic: Shock: squares
J, Would it be too much trouble to produce versions of the three character sheet dealies with crop marks printed on the page? The design loses a lot of its…
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Participants: Miskatonic, nikola.

12/4/2007 Dredj: A site hard SF afficianados might like.
This may be the best hard SF site on the web. http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
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Participants: Dredj, epweissengruber, nikola, David Artman.

12/10/2007 Dredj: Free online sci-fi artwork.
Does anyone know where to find good, free sci-fi art on the internet? Especially the retro stuff, such as good scans of book covers from way back when, such as…
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Participants: Dredj, nikola, Selene Tan.

1/14/2008 TomTitTot: [Shock] Antagonist Story Goals?
Hello! I'm going to be helping to organize a game of Shock on Saturday, and since I have never played a game of Shock and only just got v1.1 for…
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Participants: TomTitTot, nikola, pfischer, TempvsMortis.

1/21/2008 Neil the Wimp: [Shock 1.1] Antag failures; antag credits
A couple of questions about Shock 1.1. On p. 37, "Fallout for Failure".  The section starts: "When you lose a Conflict, you gain something in return. "If your Protagonist is…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, TomTitTot, nikola, TempvsMortis.

1/22/2008 TomTitTot: [Shock] Escalation and Link-risking
I posted these in the "Antagonist Story Goals" thread, but thing they won't be seen and besides, the other players in our game were wondering about these rules as well...…
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Participants: TomTitTot, nikola, TempvsMortis, Mel_White.

2/9/2008 JC: [UTB] Can the toys lose?
hey :) in Under the Bed, can the toys lose? meaning: when a toy has 4 Favoritism Tokens, and is chosen for a final conflict, and loses, do the toys…
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Participants: JC, nikola.

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