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In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011

2/10/2011 Ron Edwards: Ronnies 2011, Round two results
This was a particularly difficult set of entries to judge. Games seemed to shift in and out of winning status in my mind as I reviewed them, and whenever I…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Elizabeth, whduryea, Ghostlight Games, Paolo D., Gryffudd, baxil.

2/3/2011 Ron Edwards: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
Submission period: either one week from today at the time of this posting, or 24 hours from when I announce the ninth submission here. 1. Pick two (and only two)…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gryffudd, Vulpinoid, stefoid.

1/19/2011 AyeGill: Pre-second round thoughts and prep
Hi Everyone. Ron, is there any sort of plan as to when the second round will begin? Or will it just happen when the Round one entries have been reasonably…
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Participants: AyeGill, Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, Nathan P..

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies 2011] Round One kicks in now - what we do next
Hi, I've mentioned that the Ronnies are a little different from most contests, and here's another reason: it doesn't end with the judging. The whole point is to develop what…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud, Troy_Costisick, Noon, epweissengruber.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Facing the End] Ronnies feedback
Lee Hammons' Facing the End is the final game of this round of Ronnies to receive feedback. The end-of-the-line status had nothing to do with the title - it turned…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, DocSavage.

1/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [Swords of the Skull-Takers] Ronnies feedback
Joe Prince's Swords of the Skull Takers is a solitaire RPG of unrelenting survival horror, with the outstanding virtue that your character may not in fact survive. It's a card-counting…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

1/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Eye in the Pyramid] Ronnies feedback
David Berg's The Eye in the Pyramid: pure reveling in conspiracy theory nuttiness. It's not even talking about stuff that coooooould be true in a kind of naughty sense, nor…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, davidberg, Dantai, happysmellyfish.

1/13/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Sword and the Skull] Ronnies feedback
In Troy Costisick's The Sword and the Skull, Arthur meets Umlaut! However, I was bummed to find that the initial chrome-and-polished-bone imagery faded out pretty quickly from the text as…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

1/13/2011 Ron Edwards: [The War of the Sheaves] Ronnies feedback
Zac Dettwyler's The War of the Sheaves is like a big salad or stew. It's impossible to evaluate as a whole without eating it as a whole, but I don't…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud.

1/12/2011 Ron Edwards: [Knights of Twilight] Ronnies feedback
I've been a little stalled on Ronnies feedback in the past few days. I do have notes for every game; the issue is strictly about turning them into readable prose,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, davide.losito.

1/11/2011 Ron Edwards: [Danse Macabre] Ronnies feedback
William Duryea's Danse Macabre is a jeepform. William, I dunno if you know what that is, but ... um, you don't have to, because you wrote one. If you're interested…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, whduryea, Bret Gillan.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Demilich] Ronnies feedback
Noam Rosen's Demilich is, with Diary of a Skull Soldier, one of the two current Ronnies entries I would most personally like to see developed into a published product. I…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, DorkThoughts.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Veterans] Ronnies feedback
Rush Wright's Veterans strives toward a long, long-standing ideal in RPG design. I suppose one might call it the Milton Friedman model of story construction: if we're all competing as…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, TrollSlayer.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Skull Full of Bong Hits] Ronnies feedback
Nick Aubergine's Skull Full of Bong Hits: The Necromancer’s Curse is so great that I can only say, laughing almost too hard to talk, "Read it!" and point. It's yet…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Nick Aubergine, Paul Czege.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Death's Head] Ronnies feedback
Rudy Johnson's Death’s Head is all kinds of ballsy. I started reading it, was excited to find it to be a particular kind of scary, then found it switched to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud, Troy_Costisick, FetusCommander, contracycle, Bret Gillan, pkalata.

1/8/2011 Ron Edwards: [untitled jeepform] Ronnies feedback
Ben Lehman's untitled jeepform might serve as a case study for what I mean by "baking" in the context of these threads. All the parts are fine in terms of…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

1/7/2011 Ron Edwards: [Diary of a Skull Soldier] Ronnies feedback
The premise of Callan Sweet’s Diary of a Skull Soldier and its use of terms are brilliant. This is the Gene Wolfe RPG, including politics right there and right on…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon.

1/7/2011 Ron Edwards: [Sword of the Skull] Ronnies feedback
Willow Palecek’s Sword of the Skull Imagine a big music keyboard with some kind of responsive mechanism built into it, so that in some cases, what you key in produces…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Willow.

1/6/2011 Ron Edwards: [Cold Soldier] Ronnies feedback
Bret Gillan’s Cold Soldier. Just …wow. Many years ago, an internationally-renowned martial artist was asked, in an interview, what technique he might possibly not have mastered yet. He paused for…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, jburneko, whduryea, Goblin.

1/6/2011 Ron Edwards: [Keen Edge of History] Ronnies feedback
Clifford Horowitz’s Keen Edge of History: ah, the “play the weapons” game! An excellent, fun premise; much-promised from RPG designers but rarely seen, and it fits the terms immediately. I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

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2/10/2011 stefoid: Angels in February games
I didnt get the Angels thing at all -- just didnt occur to me, I looked at wings and thought "wtf?  Obviously every 2nd entry is going to be about…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: stefoid, baxil, Nathan P., Kensan_Oni, AyeGill, Ron Edwards, Willow, Elizabeth, whduryea, Ghostlight Games, Gryffudd, Ben Lehman.

2/11/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Secret Lives of Serial Killers] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-secret-lives-of-serial-killers]The Secret Lives of Serial Killers[/url][/b] by Willow Palecek wins a Ronny. My notes actually put it this way: "All right, you win the Ronny, you depraved [expletive]." And they…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, stefoid, Willow, Ghostlight Games, whduryea, Noon, baxil, davidberg, Ian Charvill, Paolo D., Nathan P., Elizabeth, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Eliarhiman6, Kensan_Oni, Thunder_God, tzirtzi.

2/12/2011 Ron Edwards: [Wings of Blood] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/wings-of-blood]Wings of Blood[/url][/b] by Paolo Davolio ... Holy cow, googly eyed spike-backed freaky reptile dudes, all drawn by Ralph Bakshi's herpetological evil twin! For example ... [i]I was born on…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paolo D., stefoid.

2/10/2011 davidberg: More reflections on round two (split)
I'm really curious to see what folks did with Whisper.  I couldn't get away from it as "information asymmetry as a core dynamic of play".  It took me forever to…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: davidberg, whduryea, Ron Edwards, Nathan P., Ghostlight Games, Elizabeth.

2/13/2011 Ron Edwards: [Deathbird Black] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/deathbird-black]Deathbird Black[/url][/b] by Baxil is priceless! Ever since reading [b][url=http://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=12933.0][Middle Earth - home brew] 1st day in July 4 week of play[/url][/b], I've wanted to see a frenzied and fun…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, whduryea, davidberg, Nathan P., Elizabeth, baxil.

2/14/2011 Ron Edwards: [Moral Dawn] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/moral-dawn]Moral Dawn[/url][/b] by Eigil Rischel presents the flip side of They Became Flesh, both in concept (humans who are maybe angels) and in personal crisis (there is no climactic end-state).…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, AyeGill.

2/14/2011 Ron Edwards: curses
Apparently I made some kind of error with my flash drive, and the files I worked on so hard over the weekend are not available on it. More Ronnies threads…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/15/2011 stefoid: Uncle Louis update (split)
Am updating Uncle Louis -- sent new version to the site.
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: stefoid, baxil.

2/15/2011 Ron Edwards: [Haunted] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/haunted]Haunted[/url][/b] by Jesse Burneko is one of those newspaper on the nose Runners-Up for me, in that I was writing things on my copy like "good!" "strong!" and so on,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.

2/15/2011 Ron Edwards: [Air Patrol] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/air-patrol]Air Patrol[/url][/b] by Patrick Gamblin is a Runner-Up, and if there were an award based strictly on a setting's fun color and zappiness, it would win it. And that's saying…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, Gryffudd, baxil, davidberg.

2/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [Anathema] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/anathema]Anathema[/url][/b] by Devon Oratz wins a Ronny! This one gets the Sheer Guts award for this round, which given some of the other entries, is really saying something. I kind…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, charlesperez, pkalata.

2/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Murder: A Game About Crows] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/murder]Murder: A Game About Crows[/url][/b] by Michael Mullen is a pleasure to look at, but I had a hard time reading it. I found myself overwhelmed by minor questions -…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

2/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Realization Dawning] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/realization-dawning]Realization Dawning[/url][/b] by Gregor Hutton, as a Ronnies entry, was clearly a snapshot taken in the middle of a design process. Enough is there for me to see where it's…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.

2/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Cycle of Seasons] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-cycle-of-the-seasons]The Cycle of Seasons[/url][/b] by Nathan Paoletta is going to be the hardest judgment to justify. Why not a Ronny? Or if I think it's unsuccessful, why almost a Ronny?…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Nathan P..

2/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Volume of Secrets] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-volume-of-secrets]The Volume of Secrets[/url][/b] by J. P. Mullen threw me into a tizzy of evaluation much like the characters themselves, flitting through a fog of unknowns and uncertainties. I'm not…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Kensan_Oni.

2/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [Uncle Louis] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/uncle-louis]Uncle Louis[/url][/b] by Steve Mathers received the cryptic judgment of "other" in the results thread, but that's actually an honorable category in Ronnies history. Some of the really fascinating and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, stefoid.

2/21/2011 Ron Edwards: [Memory Quest] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/memory_quest]Memory Quest[/url][/b] by David Berg works off the incomplete-knowledge model of play, which we've all seen brought to jaw-dropping fruition with Sunshine Boulevard (or TSLOSKs for those in the know),…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Ghostlight Games, davidberg, Nathan P..

2/21/2011 Ron Edwards: [MurderWing] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/murderwing]MurderWing[/url][/b] by Joe J. Prince is a whole different sort of "other" from the entry that shared this category. It's the first setting-supplement entry for any Ronnies round, which I…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai, Gregor Hutton.

2/21/2011 Ron Edwards: February round: reflection after the first rush
Realization Dawning, Moral Dawn, The Secret Lives of Serial Killers, MurderWing, Haunted, Murder: A Game About Crows, The Cycle of Seasons, They Became Flesh, Deathbird Black, Air Patrol, The Volume…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, jburneko, stefoid.

2/25/2011 Roger: [The Secret Lives of Serial Killers] Rational musings (split)
Maybe I've just seen Inception too many times, but this makes me wonder how deep you could go. Could there be /another/ layer, in which the 'victim' is the guy…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Roger, Ron Edwards, pkalata, Ghostlight Games.

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