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2/5/2009 watergoesred: [Dirty Secrets] April Coroy in "Death by numbers"
Here's the actual play of our first time playing Dirty Secrets. There's five of us. This session took just over 2 hours. We hope to finish this novella game in…
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Participants: watergoesred, GreatWolf.

12/9/2008 GreatWolf: Dirty Cities design journal
I'm working on my next game, which currently has the working title of Dirty Cities. This is the game that will let me play The Wire. If you're interested in…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

11/27/2008 Ron Edwards: [Legends of Alyria] Traits! Traits!
Hello, As some of you know, a relevant and sophisticated conversation is occuring about a key aspect of game design, so far undiscussed until raised recently by Markus. Can someone…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Valamir, JCunkle, Markus, Artanis, otspiii, lumpley, Noon.

11/7/2008 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Yummy rules questions for Seth and others
Hi! I just finished a 5-hour short story yesterday evening (we played in two evenings). We had quite a few Sex/Romance Revelations. At first, we declared the relationships as strictly…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

8/28/2008 JC: [A flower for Mara] A question about Grief
hi :) I've just read through A flower for Mara, and I don't see the link between the Grief the players choose and their Flower Soliloquys on the one hand,…
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Participants: JC, GreatWolf.

7/8/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] So how do I go about demoing *this* game?
So, the new game that I'm releasing at GenCon is called  A Flower for Mara.In this game, you take on the role of various relatives of Mara, a woman who…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

5/6/2008 GreatWolf: [Showdown] Looking for playtesters
I've had some response already, but I'm casting my net wider now. If you're interested in playtesting Showdown, you can download it here. Please post about your experiences here or…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

4/23/2008 GreatWolf: Help me name my next game
First, check out my award-winning RPG called Wuxia Melodrama. Yay me! Anyways, I'm in the process of developing this game a bit, and one of the changes I've made is…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis, Peter Nordstrand.

4/16/2008 jburneko: [Dirty Secrets] Simple Rules Question
Hello, Simple rules question.  Do you still set goals in Violence scenes?  The rules say Violence scenes work like Investigation scenes "except" and "don't set goals" isn't listed among those…
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Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Linnaeus, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2008 GreatWolf: Jesse tells you to Be Judgemental
Jesse Burneko has posted a great thread on playing Dirty Secrets. Go check it out. It's really good.
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Participants: GreatWolf.

4/15/2008 Linnaeus: [Dirty Secrets] Investigator Involvement
A few weeks ago, Seth and I were chatting over Google Talk, and discussion inevitably turned to Dirty Secrets. Just as inevitably, I started pontificating on the genre of detective…
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Participants: Linnaeus, M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

4/1/2008 GreatWolf: A Flower for Mara at Forge Midwest
So, I'm going to be at Forge Midwest, and I'll be bringing the necessary material to play A Flower for Mara.  If you're going to be there, and you'd be…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

3/13/2008 hix: [Legends of Alyria] How do you determine 'initiative' when activating Traits?
What happens in a conflict when the two opponents both want to activate the same Trait?  Does the owner of the Trait get first option?  Is it the person with…
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Participants: hix, GreatWolf, Filip Luszczyk.

3/13/2008 hix: [Legends of Alyria] How does Virtue determine the cost of Traits?
I finally played Alyria a couple of nights ago (I've been wanting to since 2002!), and now I have rules questions. On page 109 it says, "Virtue ... determines the…
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Participants: hix, GreatWolf.

2/19/2008 Yokiboy: [Dirty Secrets] Print Issues?
Hello, Is it just my version of Dirty Secrets or do the rest of you have doubles of pages 53-54 and 127-128 as well? TTFN, Yoki
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Participants: Yokiboy, GreatWolf.

2/19/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Actual Play videos
When we playtested A Flower for Mara last month, we videotaped the whole thing.  I'm still working on assembling footage, but these are approximately the first half of the game:…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

2/10/2008 Artanis: [DS] Questions on the violence sequence
Hi Seth and Co.! A few technical questions: on page 55 it says that the Authority gains a bonus investigation sequence if he or she inflicts 3 Violence on the…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

2/10/2008 GreatWolf: A Flower for Mara Actual Play
This is the thread where we will collect actual play of A Flower for Mara. To begin, here are the two playtests that I've done so far: A Flower for…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

2/8/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [LoA] Various rules questions
After our last Sunday's session, I have a number of questions: 1). How does an exchange resolve when both sides succeed and their temporary Attributes are equal? 2). Is it…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

12/25/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Hospitals are dangerous
So this is a humorous observation on my three times playing the game. Each time, I play, there is a Violence scene in a hospital. Always because the investigator had…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

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4/26/2009 watergoesred: [Dirty Secrets] Two "investigators"
I got a germ of an idea when watching Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy", a story about someone wrongly accused of a crime: playing Dirty Secrets with two investigators. One is the…
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Participants: watergoesred, GreatWolf, M. J. Young.

5/26/2009 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Dirty Secrets errata and FAQs
As you fine folks come across questions and errata, I'll put them here. Hopefully I'll remember to check this thread before the next edition. Investigator has no dice going into…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

5/31/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [LoA] I/C ties
The original clarification comes from this thread. The situation: two player characters are in a conflict, both have no Inspiration and both have some Corruption. Both players want to…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

6/16/2009 Eliarhiman6: [Dirty Secrets] some rule questions
Hi Seth! 1) A crime can be "the theft of a person", but in this case, isn't the victim the person kidnapped?  If the person kidnapped is a child, the…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, GreatWolf.

8/18/2010 il mietitore: [Dirty Secrets] Some question
(i'm from italy so sorry if you find some grammatical-rubbish around the post) Heya, man ;) Yesterday we played Dirty Secrets here in Italy. It was for all of us…
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Participants: il mietitore, GreatWolf.

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