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In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011

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 stefoid: Uncle Louis update (split)
Am updating Uncle Louis -- sent new version to the site.
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Participants: stefoid, baxil.

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.

2/14/2011 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.

2/13/2011 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…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, whduryea, davidberg, Nathan P., Elizabeth, baxil.

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…
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Participants: davidberg, whduryea, Ron Edwards, Nathan P., Ghostlight Games, Elizabeth.

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.

2/11/2011 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.

2/10/2011 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…
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Participants: stefoid, baxil, Nathan P., Kensan_Oni, AyeGill, Ron Edwards, Willow, Elizabeth, whduryea, Ghostlight Games, Gryffudd, Ben Lehman.

2/10/2011 Ron Edwards: [They Became Flesh] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/they-became-flesh]They Became Flesh[/url][/b] by Elizabeth Sampat is a Runner-Up, and as is so often the case with that designation, exceeds one or more of the actual Ronnies winners (in all…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Elizabeth, jburneko, whduryea.

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Participants: Roger, Ron Edwards, pkalata, Ghostlight Games.

2/28/2011 Ron Edwards: Third round - soon
Hi everyone, I find myself quite torn between two things: 1. Encouraging and providing a personal example of enthusiastic, critical play and feedback for many of the games generated so…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, pkalata, davidberg, stefoid, Gryffudd, tzirtzi, Roger, Elizabeth, Ross Cowman, Ben Lehman.

2/28/2011 Paul Czege: Ronnies participants, I'm curious
Ronnies participants, What did you learn from your participation (completion and submission of a game) in either round one or two of the Ronnies this year? I'm curious. Paul
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Paul Czege, Bret Gillan, Paolo D., whduryea, davidberg, Troy_Costisick, Willow, Ben Lehman, Cliff H, Elizabeth, Ghostlight Games, jburneko, Vulpinoid.

4/1/2011 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies 2011] April round begins
Wheeee! I must be cuckoo starting this on a Friday, with practically no internet access until Monday. But so long as you all know that, that's OK by me. Well,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Willow, Ben Lehman, Ghostlight Games, valiance, misterecho, charlesperez, jackson_tegu, Elizabeth, Ross Cowman, jburneko, Doug Law, Thunder_God, baxil, whduryea.

4/9/2011 baxil: April round: Themes
Still haven't seen much talk about the new round of games, so here's a conversation starter. February's entrants really were remarkable in their ... not similarity, exactly, but in the…
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Participants: baxil, Thunder_God, Elizabeth, Ross Cowman, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, stefoid, contracycle, davidberg.

4/11/2011 Ron Edwards: Ronnies 2011, Round three results
It's true: there's a certain similarity across this round of entries. Last time there was a weird compatibility across a variety of different games; here, it's almost as if everyone…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Tokala, Ben Lehman, Ross Cowman, Andreas Eriksson, Elizabeth, jackson_tegu, baxil.

4/11/2011 Ross Cowman: Queens of Time and Space
It was nice to come back to my design after the 24 design-a-thon and look at it with fresh eyes. Here is the pdf. http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/queens-of-time-and-space In particular Ron had a…
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Participants: Ross Cowman, Ben Lehman, baxil, Mike Sugarbaker, Rafu, Roger, Ron Edwards.

4/12/2011 Dan Maruschak: [Brick & Mortar: Last of the Independents]
[url=http://www.danmaruschak.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Brick-and-Mortar-rev001.pdf]Brick & Mortar: Last of the Independents[/url] I haven't had great luck getting inspired by these “groups of words” design contests, especially in terms of coming up with games of…
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Participants: Dan Maruschak, baxil, Ron Edwards, stefoid, happysmellyfish.

4/13/2011 hix: [The Strongest Link] Some initial thoughts
Out of this month's Ronnies entries, I was most interested to read The Strongest Link, a game about group decision-making. This is a topic I'd like to write design a…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, PaulVogt.

4/13/2011 Ben Lehman: [Camwhores] Analysis
So I have a non-neutral perspective with regard to Camwhores, first because Elizabeth is my friend and showed me the game as it was in progress, but also because it's…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Elizabeth, Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games.

4/14/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Shackled Self] Ronnies feedback
I placed Raffaele Manzo's The Shackled Self into my "ferment" category, meaning that I think its system does not live up to the potential of the content. And here by…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Rafu, baxil.

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