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7/14/2006 bluegargantua: [Grey Ranks] Other Child Soldiers of WWII
Hi,   Although they never fought the Polish Scouts directly, you might be interested in the new Osprey Book about the Hitler Youth:   http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php?title=S874X&ser=WAR later Tom
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Participants: bluegargantua, jasonm.

7/5/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] System Draft 3.3
I'm still struggling with the system for Grey Ranks, but I feel like I'm getting closer.  I know what I want it to do, but translating that into mechanically satisfying…
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Participants: jasonm.

6/30/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Situation Generators
Grey Ranks will include some AG&G-style situation generators, and I've put my first pass up for folks to look at and comment on.  The idea is that at the beginning…
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Participants: jasonm.

6/28/2006 TS: Grey Ranks
He, can you tell me author game about Grey Ranks (Jason Morningstar) is Pole? I think about translate it for polish but maybe author wrote original in Polish?
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Participants: TS, jasonm.

6/27/2006 jasonm: The Roach at Origins
Hey all, if you happen to be going to Origins, see if you can horn in on one of the Shab-al-Hiri Roach sessions being run by Technocrat13 and UrbanPagan, the…
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Participants: jasonm.

6/8/2006 Pelgrane: Roach questions
We ran a game this evening and enjoyed it, although it was very slow. If I get time, I'll post it in Actual Play. In the meantime, a couple of…
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Participants: Pelgrane, jasonm, Myrmidon, Adam Dray.

6/8/2006 jasonm: [Drowning and Falling] On the way
The Mad Irishman sent the first layout mockup of Drowning and Falling yesterday and it is looking very good - there will be some minor tweaks but it is nearly…
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Participants: jasonm, inthisstyle, cpeterso.

5/25/2006 jasonm: Multilingual Roach Character Sheets
Hey polyglots, We'd like to offer character sheets for The Roach in lots of languages.  If you'd like to translate the text of the sheet for us, we'll gladly credit…
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Participants: jasonm.

5/22/2006 oliof: Roach Demo at NordCon - some not so great, and a lot of great moments.
OK, on saturday night, I was offering a game of 'Shab Al-Hiri Roach' at NordCon, the biggest rpg convention in northern germany for ten years. We were six players -…
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Participants: oliof, jasonm.

5/22/2006 jasonm: Roach Convention Demo - Feedback Requested
Hey freinds, I'm working up a convention demo for The Roach and I'd like some comments, particularly from experienced Gen Con demo monkeys and hardcore Roachists.  Here's what I've got…
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Participants: jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, oliof, Nicolas Crost, Technocrat13, urbanpagan.

5/10/2006 Myrmidon: Further Roach Gameplay question
Further Roach Gameplay question 1. It's player A's scene.  They assign a Pembertonian of note (one who must appear during this event) to player B.  Can player A narrate freely…
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Participants: Myrmidon, jasonm, segedy.

5/2/2006 ocasta: All Roaches are not created equal.
A couple of weeks ago I got an opportunity to play the Roach. There were four of us, all old time roleplayers who hadn't roleplayed for many years and were…
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Participants: ocasta, jasonm, Technocrat13.

4/28/2006 Michael S. Miller: The Roach scuttles Out of the Box
Ken Hite reviews the Shab al-Hiri Roach in his latest Out of the Box It's a brilliant recapitulation of comic and horrific tensions, an ideal "one shot" game that embraces…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, jasonm, inthisstyle.

4/11/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Entering Convention Mode
Hi Roach-players, I am hoping to play the Roach a lot this friday on GothCon. It is a drop-in event, and I intend to attract hordes of innocent players. At…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Alex Fradera, jasonm, Technocrat13, LeSingeSavant, Sydney Freedberg.

4/11/2006 jasonm: Roach Play: The Flameout
I've heard about two recent games (and hope to see actual play soon) in which the players had a less-than satisfying experience because the game got big fast.  "We were…
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Participants: jasonm, jrs, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Jonathan Hastings, Valamir.

4/8/2006 Alex Fradera: To what degree can you impact the fiction without a conflict to back it up?
Just to get this straight: a) I'm pretty clear on this: Only the spotlight character can call for a conflict, and they set the stakes. Other players have some…
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Participants: Alex Fradera, jasonm.

4/6/2006 Alex Fradera: Relationships polarity
Am I right in understanding that (stepping into PC's shoes for clarity) every PC you like hates you, and every PC you hate likes you? That's what I get from…
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Participants: Alex Fradera, Peter Nordstrand, jasonm, segedy.

4/4/2006 jasonm: Half a Sheet to the Wind
We're reprinting The Roach, and we've got half a sheet of cardstock that is currently unassigned - in other words, we've got 40 cards, which consume 3.5 sheets of 8.5"…
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Participants: jasonm, Shreyas Sampat, Technocrat13, jrs, segedy.

3/29/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Roaring Drunk
Hi there, If you resist the Roach, you cannot act on the Opportunity of the Card you drew for the current Event. Makes sense. He narrates…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, jasonm, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, segedy.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Who Are We?
It occurs to me that I ought to introduce myself and the rest of the BPG staff. I'm Jason Morningstar, and my duties at this point include writing games and…
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Participants: jasonm, Paul Czege, Emily Care, madirishman.

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8/1/2006 jasonm: [Drowning and Falling] Now Available!
Drowning and Falling is now available for sale at Indie Press Revolution, so go snag a copy and help out a worthwhile charity.  Both Remi (art director) and I will…
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Participants: jasonm.

8/2/2006 jasonm: [The Roach] Gameplay Questions
Emily Care Boss had some questions arise during her Roach game at Jiffy-Con.  THey are good questions, so I thought I'd share them here with y'all.  Here's what I told…
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Participants: jasonm, Emily Care, Doyce.

8/8/2006 Jeremiah Lahnum: Avoiding the Roach from Beyond the Grave
I just read this game a few days ago and I'm eager to play it.  Other members of my group are pretty excited as well.  One thing I like is…
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Participants: Jeremiah Lahnum, jasonm.

8/11/2006 Bret Gillan: [The Roach] Gameplay Observations
So I got to play Shab Al-Hiri Roach last night and it was a blast. We were only able to play for two hours so we only made it through…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, oliof, segedy, jasonm.

8/11/2006 Jeremiah Lahnum: [The Roach] Actual Play, Koalas, Incest and Gunfire
Last night I got play Shab-al-Hiri roach with a bunch of my friends.  Bret already posted a little bit about what he felt about the session, but I wanted to…
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Participants: Jeremiah Lahnum, jasonm, Bret Gillan, segedy, Lxndr.

9/9/2006 Doyce: [Roach] Quick question in mid-game
I'm putting this up a couple places, and this is one of them -- apologies. Starting up a Roach game, and doing relationships: The game says you have a positive…
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Participants: Doyce, jrs, jasonm.

9/20/2006 jasonm: Initiating Conflicts
There's an interesting discussion about initiating conflicts, and various rules hacks, going on over at Story Games.  You might want to check it out!
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9/28/2006 oliof: Gigantic Roach seen in germany! News at 11
Hi, a new kind of sumerian roach has been successfully put on photograph: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Germany&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=48.857868,10.205666&spn=0.003551,0.010364&t=k&om=1 enjoy,     Harald
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Participants: oliof, jasonm.

10/16/2006 jasonm: [Roach] Getting Drunk
We got a great question about getting drunk in Roach play recently and I thought I'd lay it out here as well.  The drunk rule appears under "Resisting the Roach",…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards.

10/23/2006 oliof: [Roach] Rules additions and game handling propositions.
Hi, in some conversations at Spiel Essen I talked to people that played the Roach and complained about it being too random. I gather this is because of some things:…
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Participants: oliof, jasonm.

10/24/2006 oliof: [Roach] The Library as A Temple?
Today in germany at least, it's the day of the library. On the radio this morning, I heard a report on the IKMZ Cottbus, a new center for information and…
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Participants: oliof, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2006 oliof: roach theme cards
A significant number of people have been telling me they like the roach but for the lack of an overarching structure. So, what I'd like to do is collect a…
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Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm.

12/3/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Playtesting Thread
I'm starting to playtest Grey Ranks, so if you are interested in that project check here for updates, as well as the BPG site and the Forge playtesting forum.  Here's…
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Participants: jasonm.

12/31/2006 Uruush: Picking sides
In scenes where the spotlight player does not set the stakes at the outset, do players declare for or against him beforehand?  I'm having a hard time digesting when people…
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Participants: Uruush, jasonm.

1/6/2007 Uruush: Pemberton Follies
I've Wikipedia'd Follies to try to get a handle on what they are.  I think I understand in a general sense, but I'm curious how others (including the designer) have…
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Participants: Uruush, jasonm, James_Nostack.

1/10/2007 Uruush: Questions
Hello again.  Pesky me. 1) Can stakes be whether a given PC feels a certain way about an issue against their player's inclination? Example: "At stake is whether my character,…
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Participants: Uruush, Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm.

1/24/2007 Uruush: [The Roach] Actual Play - When You're Smiling...
Note: I didn't think this well-enough organized to post in the Actual Play forum but wanted to share since I'd been asking questions in preparation for the game: When You're…
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Participants: Uruush, jasonm.

1/27/2007 JBLIII: [Roach] Would Play-By-Wiki Roach be feasible?
A friend of mine has a website, PlayByWiki.com, that (as the name suggests) allows folks to game using a wiki.  This makes it substantially easier to play games that would…
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Participants: JBLIII, jasonm, Graham Walmsley, foucalt, segedy.

2/21/2007 jasonm: Interview with Sons of Kryos
I got interviewed by the Sons of Kryos at Dreamation.  Thanks, Judd and Jeff!  My bit starts 34 some minutes in.
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Participants: jasonm, Paka.

3/23/2007 jasonm: Gen Con Roach Volunteers Needed!
Hey, I know no one runs a game of The Roach, but I'd love to find a couple of enthusiastic volunteers to facilitate formal, scheduled games at Gen Con.  If…
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Participants: jasonm, Hans.

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