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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.

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.

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.

1/11/2006 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.

1/2/2006 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10/18/2005 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.

10/17/2005 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.

10/17/2005 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.

10/11/2005 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.

10/9/2005 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.

10/6/2005 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.

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.

9/6/2005 Halzebier: [BTI]First Impressions
Hi there! My copy has just arrived and I'm floored by the art (and presentation) alone. The art, specifically the drawings of Jed and Meimei, is professional, light-hearted and on-topic…
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Participants: Halzebier, jasonm, Emily Care.

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.

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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.

2/16/2006 Bryan Hansel: No Attraction in the First Date
Thanks for sending the game right away, Emily.  I got it before Valentine's Day and was able to give it my Ilena for a V-Day gift.  I actually gave it…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, Andrew Morris, Emily Care.

2/19/2006 Iskander: I have been bad. Again.
[url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=246977&page=3]I couldn't help myself.[/url] Sorry, ecb.
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Participants: Iskander, Emily Care.

2/21/2006 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice among the Pyramids
My thanks to Matthew Pook for reviewing Breaking the Ice.  His review was published in the Feb. 17 edition of <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=5800">Pyramid Magazine</a>. I'm very curious to see what the…
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Participants: Emily Care.

3/1/2006 Emily Care: love triumphant
So, February was a special charity fundraising month at Black & Green Games. People totally stepped up, for the chocolate, the game & for the women it would benefit. This…
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Participants: Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Bryan Hansel.

3/2/2006 Emily Care: BtI at IPR
As of today, you can get Breaking the Ice from the good folks at Indie Press Revolution.  They have a great selection of some of the best indie rpg titles…
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Participants: Emily Care, coffeestain, TonyLB, Victor Gijsbers, Nathan P., inthisstyle.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] [Plug] Breaking the Ice at Games of Berkeley
I'll be running Indie game demos at Games of Berkeley next month (April), and perhaps beyond - on the 15th, at 5-o'clock, I'll include a Breaking the Ice demo.  Just…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Emily Care.

3/24/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] Also holding BtI demos at Eudemonia on Mondays.
On the 10th and the 24th of April, to be precise.  Come break the ice with someone you love at 1pm.
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

5/5/2006 Bailywolf: "Transhuman Contact"- Breaking the Ice for posthuman relationship woes?
After reading the novel Mindscan - a fascinating book dealing with consciousness, uploading, and the legal and social ramifications of that kind of thing- I got to thinking about a…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Emily Care.

7/14/2006 Emily Care: new game from Black & Green
<a href="http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ecb/StM2.pdf">Shooting the Moon</a> will be available at GenCon Indie.  Thank in great part to the amazing illustrations of the <a href="http://www.jennworks.com/">Jenn Manley Lee</a>, and lots of help from the…
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Participants: Emily Care, matthijs, Thunder_God, jasonm, Bret Gillan, ejh, Andrew Morris, JasperN., IvanVideoPlayer, joshua neff, Brand_Robins.

7/18/2006 JasperN.: Breaking the ice between four
Hello everyone - I´m going to run BtI with a group of four, following the suggestions in the rule book. Does anyone have any expirience regarding play with more than…
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Participants: JasperN., Emily Care.

7/28/2006 joshua neff: first [AP] Breaking the Ice the old-fashioned way
I bought BtI a few months ago, but my wife (Julie) and I only just got to playing it for the first time last night. I'll cut past the chase…
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Participants: joshua neff, Emily Care.

8/21/2006 azrianni: review of Breaking the Ice on RPGnet
I've posted a review of Breaking the Ice on RPGnet: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12397.phtml
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Participants: azrianni, Emily Care.

8/29/2006 xenoss: RPG novice seeking advice
Hello everyone.  I am new to the Forge and sort of new to the hobbie.  I don't know if there are anyone like me, but let me say a little…
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Participants: xenoss, Emily Care, Iskander.

8/29/2006 Emily Care: Shooting the Moon at IPR
Hello, Shooting the Moon is now available from the good folks at Indie Press Revolution.  You can find it at the Black and Green page.  Many thanks to Brennan, Ed,…
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Participants: Emily Care.

9/14/2006 Graham Walmsley: [BtI online] Uptight English and American pirates
Jason and I played BtI last night, using a web application I've been working on. So, basically, Jason's sitting in North Carolina and I'm sitting in London. We're talking using…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Emily Care, jasonm, xenoss.

10/25/2006 jburneko: Shooting The Moon, Rules Questions.
Hello, First let me say that I think Shooting The Moon is excelent!  I've been waiting for a romantic rivals game for quite some time.  I do have some questions…
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Participants: jburneko, Emily Care.

11/2/2006 lokis wrangling: [BtI] Question: The Final Attraction Roll
Hi, I was wondering about this rule, After the Third Date has been completed, make a final roll for all the new Attraction Levels, but this time roll all your…
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Participants: lokis wrangling, Emily Care.

11/2/2006 lokis wrangling: [BtI] The Detective and the Half-Demon
Possibly the most unusual thing about this game of BtI is that it's not a standalone game. It's a spinoff from a larger GURPS campaign in which I am currently…
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Participants: lokis wrangling, Emily Care.

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