Previous Topics In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, pkalata, davidberg, stefoid, Gryffudd, tzirtzi, Roger, Elizabeth, Ross Cowman, Ben Lehman.
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.
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.
2/21/2011 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: [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),… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Ghostlight Games, davidberg, Nathan P..
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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, stefoid.
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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Kensan_Oni.
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?… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Nathan P..
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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.
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 -… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.
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.
2/15/2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, Gryffudd, baxil, davidberg.
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,… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.
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.
2/14/2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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).… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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,… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 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… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Rafu, baxil.
4/14/2011 Ron Edwards: [Homage to Ninshubar] Ronnies feedback Ben Lehman's Homage to Ninshubar wins a Ronny! The terms are right there on target, and it's instructive to consider the listed references. I think as it currently stands it's… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.
4/15/2011 Ron Edwards: [Beholden] Ronnies feedback Baxil's Beholden is a Runner-Up this round. For the record, an adaptation of someone else's game is a viable design approach; some of the best games out there started life… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, baxil, Ben Lehman.
4/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [Her Son] Ronnies feedback I would love to see Jackson Tegu's Her Son as its own custom card game of some kind, given some design refinement, probably next to a similarly-packaged final version of… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards.
4/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [Tales of Lust] Ronnies feedback Andreas Eriksson's Tales of Lust wins a Ronny! As with Homage to Ninshubar, the game is in such a playtestable state that I have only a few comments at this… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Andreas Eriksson.
4/18/2011 Ron Edwards: [Queen of Thorns] Ronnies feedback Eric Boyd's Queen of Thorns is probably the best entry for me to explain what I mean by a design that needs some fermentation. Both the Ronnies terms and the… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Eric J. Boyd, Tim C Koppang.
4/18/2011 Ron Edwards: [You Are My Destiny] Ronnies feedback Guy Shalev's You Are My Destiny is a Runner-Up, and a very near one. I ultimately found myself confused by too many procedural details, unable to imagine presenting it to… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Jason Petrasko.
4/18/2011 Ron Edwards: [In Exile] Ronnies feedback Jacob Bouvier's In Exile, Queens of Time and Space, and Queen of Thorns make an interesting trilogy: respectively, restoring a deposed queen who is still very much the leader, serving… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Tokala.
4/19/2011 Ron Edwards: [Within My Clutches] Ronnies feedback I placed David Berg's Within My Clutches as a Runner-Up. My take on the terms is that lust and chains are near-synonyms, making the game about one thing rather than… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, davidberg.
5/3/2011 Ron Edwards: Back home Hi,
In case you've wondered why I haven't been Ronnying, it's because I've been in Italy for InterNosCon. I'm still trying to fix the inevitable shambles my ordinary life became… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Paolo D., davide.losito.
5/13/2011 Bret Gillan: [Cold Soldier] Playtest copy available Just a heads up to anyone interested in Cold Soldier that the playtest document is going to be on http://gasmaskgames.com/ - just click on Cold Soldier on the top. I'd… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Bret Gillan, whduryea.
8/1/2011 Ron Edwards: Finishing up this year's Ronnies, and GenCon stuff Hi,
So one of my priorities is actually to play more Ronnies entries, especially winners, but really anything that I like. GenCon seems like a good place for it, so… In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011 Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God.
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