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9/6/2005 JasperN.: Angels' Wings and Devils' Shards - Actual play and rules clarifications
Hi everyone - this weekend I had the pleasure of playing BtI for the first time on IRC. I talked Caynreth from my German RPG board into trying the game…
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Participants: JasperN., Emily Care.

9/5/2005 MatrixGamer: Breaking the Ice: one gamers thoughts and memories when reading the game (long)
BREAKING THE ICE Observations from a Matrix Gamer. I traded games with Emily at Gen Con and have gotten to reading it over the Labor Day weekend. First off –…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, jasonm, ejh, Emily Care.

8/31/2005 Meredith: BTI: The vision behind the rules?
Hi Emily, I just finished reading BTI, which my hub Matt (PTA Matt) thoughtfully brought back from GenCon for me.  I'm not a gamer, but had read about it online…
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Participants: Meredith, Emily Care.

8/27/2005 LordSmerf: Did you do this on purpose?
Emily, it was great to meet you at GenCon even if I never did get to really talk to you.  Here's one of my big questions after reading through <i>Breaking…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Emily Care, GreatWolf, Andrew Morris.

8/25/2005 Mike Holmes: Other Projects?
You've already mentioned plans for at least one other game. Any hints as to what we can expect out of your new venture, Em? Mike
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton, Andrew Morris, Andrew Norris, Shreyas Sampat, Allan, Brand_Robins.

8/25/2005 Emily Care: Hello & Welcome
Hi there! This is the forum for Black & Green Games, bringing you Breaking the Ice as of Summer 2005 at GenCon Indy. I'm Emily Care Boss, the brains/shadowy figure…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Nev the Deranged.

8/25/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Ha! THe first post! (and Alternate Settings to BTI)
Cool, we've got Hot Forum-on-Forum action in the house. So, I never got a chance to run it at GenCon, but I so want to soon run BTI in alternate…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon, Emily Care, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Allan, Ben Lehman, jasonm, Dumirik, Frank T, JasperN., GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers.

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9/12/2005 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice first run selling out
Hello, I'm a bit amazed to be able to announce that the first print run of Breaking the Ice is about to sell out.  It is minus a bunch given…
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Participants: Emily Care, Matt Wilson, TonyLB, Blankshield, coffeestain, JasperN., Bob Goat, Andrew Morris, Gregor Hutton, Ben Lehman, Shreyas Sampat, MatrixGamer, Andrew Norris, xenopulse.

10/6/2005 Emily Care: Actual Play Links
A place to post links to actual play of Breaking the Ice, and other B&G games.  Here are some recent threads: The ordeals of love Angels' Wings & Devils' Shards
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Participants: Emily Care, GreatWolf.

10/9/2005 Emily Care: Out of the Box write-up
Good news: Ken Hite wrote about <i>Breaking the Ice</i> in his  latest Out of the Box column, along with many other great games including the Mountain Witch and Polaris. City…
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Participants: Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers, Brand_Robins, Harlequin.

10/11/2005 ejh: Cat and Caedmon
Quick <a href="http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/2005/10/cat-and-caedmon-breaking-ice.html">link</a> to a blogged actual play writeup of my first full series of 3 dates in BtI. Brought up some observations/questions about how Turns end.  Emily, forgive me…
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Participants: ejh, Emily Care, jporrett.

10/17/2005 Remko: Breaking the Ice: Diplomacy [alternate setting]
[b]Facts[/b] [i]Moscow, Sovjet Republic, October 27, 1962[/i] President Khrushchev had accused the US of piracy and of trying to provoke a war which would annihilate mankind. Two U2 planes were…
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Participants: Remko.

10/17/2005 Blankshield: Alternate not-setting for BtI
Hi Emily, Just wanted to note that after I read through the text, the first thing that occured to me was "I could play this with my daughter!" And before…
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Participants: Blankshield, Emily Care.

10/18/2005 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice second print run now available
The second printing of Breaking the Ice is now officially available.  Get it while it's hot!  My thanks to folks who helped me clean this printing up: Michael S. Miller,…
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Participants: Emily Care, TonyLB, Brand_Robins.

10/27/2005 Emily Care: international romance
Hey there, From the orders I'm getting, looks like lots of folks in Europe are discovering Breaking the Ice.  I'm sure Ben & Eero's trek across Finland for the Polaris…
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Participants: Emily Care, Frank T, Blankshield, Arturo G., matthijs, JasperN., Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Matt Wilson, greuh, Artanis.

10/28/2005 Jeroen: Some remarks
[quote]Just as a little thing of knowledge, Mandragon is a roleplaying forum from Belgium, but in the Flanders, Belgium, people also speak a dialect of Dutch. Actually, In the Flanders,…
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Participants: Jeroen, Victor Gijsbers, Emily Care.

11/2/2005 Brand_Robins: Actual play link
Heya, Mo and I finally got to play Breaking the Ice. Before I could do a writeup, she did. It's on her blog <a href="http://www.spaceanddeath.com/sin_aesthetics/">Sin Aesthetics</a>. The short version is…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Emily Care.

11/29/2005 Emily Care: And what can Santa bring you, little girl?
Hola! The awesome folks at OgreCave have put out the first of their annual x-mas list of games for gifts, and <a href="http://www.blackgreengames.com">BtI</a> made the cut along with PtA revised…
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Participants: Emily Care, Bret Gillan.

12/23/2005 Emily Care: Rethinking a response
Back in Jonas' actual play write up on the Forge a while back, he & his friend Helena ran into a creative clash: I chose to continue my turn…
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Participants: Emily Care.

1/2/2006 Emily Care: New things in 2006
Hello all, Happy New Year! Things have been brewing at Black & Green, and are going into full swing in the New Year.  Thanks to the incomparable Andy K &…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Victor Gijsbers.

1/11/2006 Emily Care: Temporary outage
Hello, Looks like there will be a temporary outage at the Black & Green Games website.  I believe it will be out of service from 1/11-1/13/06, or thereabouts.  My apologies…
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Participants: Emily Care.

1/17/2006 Emily Care: Just three words....
Broke Back Mountain I just saw this last night, coincidentally, as the Golden  Globe awards were going on.  It broke my heart and made me remember how powerful a medium…
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Participants: Emily Care.

1/26/2006 Iskander: [AP] Breaking the Ice between Clark and Bruce
So, my weekly BW game couldn't meet up this week, and in fact only one other player was available, so we decided instead to hang out, pick a game of…
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Participants: Iskander, Emily Care, phredd, Victor Gijsbers, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB.

2/1/2006 Emily Care: A Sweetheart Deal
Hello! Happy February! In honor of the traditional significance of this month, I'm offering a special deal on Breaking the Ice.  All games ordered in the month of February will…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Keith Senkowski, urbanpagan, jasonm, Nathan P., Shreyas Sampat, Kat Miller, Selene Tan, Graham Walmsley.

2/5/2006 Emily Care: game of the month
Good news! I'm honored to be able to say that Breaking the Ice has been named game of the month on the French role playing site Guide du Roliste Galactique…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller.

2/9/2006 Iskander: The End of a Sentence
Hey, Emily, in my copy, on p. 31, the last paragraph runs: But it is the Active Player who should choose the Compatibility, and ...then it stops. What's the end…
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Participants: Iskander, Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers.

2/13/2006 Emily Care: Character Sheet Musings
Over on his blog, Thomas has written an essay on the effects of character sheet layout on interpersonal interactions while role playing.  He analyzes the character sheets from Breaking the…
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Participants: Emily Care.

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