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2/18/2004 Paul Czege: pitching to comic store owners
So...advancing from Bill Corrie's great advice on pitching and selling to local game stores, I've been thinking seriously about trying the same thing at a local indie-friendly comic store…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Mark Johnson, Clay, daMoose_Neo, ejh, James V. West.

2/17/2004 Paul Czege: ISBNs
Hey, Those of you who've bought ISBNs, can I ask where you purchased them, how many you bought, and how much you paid? Right now I really only need one,…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, jdagna, kwill, Ron Edwards, coolblade, Pramas.

2/3/2004 Paul Czege: the Master needs your vote!
[EM]My Life with Master[/EM] has made it to the Weird GameWyrd Game Awards shortlist in the "RPG or Supplement Most Likely to Inspire Good Roleplaying" category. So, whaddya say, four…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

12/28/2003 Paul Czege: "arguably the best RPG of 2003"
[EM]My Life with Master[/EM] gets a pretty nice write-up [A HREF="http://www.ogrecave.com/features/12xmas_2003_4.shtml"]here[/a] in the "downloadable games" part of OgreCave's 2003 Christmas List. Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

12/13/2003 Paul Czege: Q4 shareholder report
What the Half Meme Press bean counters are passing off as a Q4 shareholder report can now be seen at www.halfmeme.com. Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

12/4/2003 Paul Czege: Why a new Half Meme Press?
Mostly so there's a single point of access for all my game designs. So check out my redesigned site, and look for:An awesome new Half Meme Press logo, designed…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg.

11/13/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS wrap-up
So, with three sessions played, and for various reasons, I pulled the plug on the EPICS game: My plan to begin the game with each player selecting one of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, jscottpittman, Mike Holmes.

10/30/2003 Paul Czege: pitching to a retailer
So...Luke's photo of OctaNe, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, and Shades of Earth on display at Pandemonium Books in Boston got me thinking about how I might directly pitch local retailers…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, jdagna, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Valamir, abzu.

10/29/2003 Paul Czege: Greg Costikyan's list of 300 Games
In his weblog last Sunday, Greg Costikyan wrote:The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know I've been thinking about writing a book with this title. There are several…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, anonymouse, Ian Charvill, AnyaTheBlue, Mike Holmes, jdagna, John Kim, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Adam, Clinton R. Nixon, Cemendur, adamsmith, ross_winn.

10/9/2003 Paul Czege: "a tremendous game"
Ken Hite reviews My Life with Master (and Kill Puppies for Satan, and Cockroach Souffle, and Sex & Sorcery, and Orpheus)¹. Paul ¹ I couldn't have asked for better…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/6/2003 Paul Czege: some kind of celebrity, it seems...
[A HREF="http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Diner_Wrapper&file=index&req=ShowFile&file_wrap=html/Top10Results.htm"]GamingReport.com: Top Ten Game Designers/Writers[/A] Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Fabrice G..

10/3/2003 Paul Czege: profiling, fall 2003
Hey, Over six months have passed since Profiling, spring 2003...so my clock says lets have a new one. To recap, the questions are:What are the last three role-playing games…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Jason E. Roberts, Ian Charvill, jburneko, Matt Snyder, Tim Alexander, Matt Wilson, AnyaTheBlue, ethan_greer, anonymouse, rafial, C. Edwards, inthisstyle, Jeph, hanschristianandersen, Christopher Weeks, Drastic, Peter Nordstrand, kalyptein, Clinton R. Nixon, Alan, Gordon C. Landis, Jeffrey Miller, ScottM, Chris Passeno, Fabrice G., Brian Leybourne, Matt Gwinn, Trevis Martin, Anthony I, johnzo, RaconteurX, Jonathan Walton, gobi, Dave Panchyk, Bob McNamee, Hafaza, Rich Forest, Sylus Thane, joshua neff, Tomas HVM, David Chunn, AnttiK, Halzebier, pete_darby, Ola J., John Harper, herrmess, AgentFresh, Cemendur, Simon W, Jasper, taalyn, John Kim, Ben Lehman, gentrification, Michael S. Miller, Jack Aidley, A.Neill, xiombarg, Ian Cooper, Paul's Girl, lumpley, elgorade, bluegargantua, drozdal, Dave Versace, iago, MongoosePaul, erithromycin, GB Steve, jeffd, Silent Tamatama, GreatWolf, Theron, jrients, Enoch, Kaare Berg, ADGBoss, DNAphil, Zathreyel, Pyske, adamsmith, Scripty, Heather Manley, Borogove, rasputin, Emily Care, hix, LordSmerf, Rod Anderson, Jake Norwood, leomknight, arxhon.

9/30/2003 Paul Czege: talking points for My Life with Master
So, Luke Crane's very generous offer to sell copies of My Life with Master at UberCon comes with a requirement. He wants "talking points." This is what I've…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hix, abzu.

9/24/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS, prepping the first session
So, if you've been following the other "lab: EPICS" thread, you know my plan for the first scenes of the game, in service to setting-premise Narrativism, was to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/23/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS, a one-sheet and chargen
Well, if you're going to have a labworks, someone has to uncork the first Klein Bottle. So here goes... Two weeks ago we did chargen using the EPICS…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, hardcoremoose, jscottpittman, Valamir.

9/23/2003 Paul Czege: Greg Costikyan blogs My Life with Master
[A HREF="http://www.costik.com/weblog/"]http://www.costik.com/weblog/[/A] Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Gordon C. Landis.

9/18/2003 Paul Czege: Lesen Sie Deutschen?
Andreas Melhorn reviews My Life with Master here. So, uh, does he like it? Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Lxndr, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

9/8/2003 Paul Czege: reviewed at RPG.net
SteveD reviews My Life with Master. Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir.

8/28/2003 Paul Czege: this is some strange laboratory!?
Okay, I'm probably past due on explaining the whole "labworks" concept... To be honest, it was never in my plans to ask Clinton and Ron for a Half Meme Press…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, Mike Holmes, jburneko.

8/26/2003 Paul Czege: while supplies last...
Those of you who missed out on the GenCon print run of My Life with Master, and who don't buy pdfs, your wait is over. Half Meme Press is proud…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg.

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4/5/2004 Paul Czege: Jonathan Tweet plays My Life with Master...
...and reviews it here. Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, RaconteurX, Matt Wilson.

4/28/2004 Paul Czege: before the after glows
Hey Ron, We've been having a pre-chargen email conversation about character ideas (for Sean's Afterglow). Just the big brush stuff at this stage, and focusing more at first on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, DannyK, Ben Lehman, Sean.

5/14/2004 Paul Czege: intentionally risking the personal
Hey Chad, In your thread about your third Dead Inside playtest, you wrote: They all were slightly more amenable to *intentionally* exploring personal (that is, their own) psychological…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, matthijs, chadu, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue, Jack Spencer Jr, Noon.

5/15/2004 Paul Czege: shelve with: counterculture erotica
Jonathan Woodward reviews My Life with Master in the second installment of his Exploding Dice review column at BlueBlood.net: www.blueblood.net/bb_55.html(cautionary note: Blue Blood has ads and links to some adult…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, RaconteurX.

5/26/2004 Paul Czege: conspiracies
So... I've been thinking a lot lately about roleplaying that uses conspiracies as the basis of antagonism. And I'm interested in what folks might have to say on the following:Years…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, ethan_greer, Jere, talysman, contracycle, komradebob, Ben Morgan, Jack Spencer Jr, Praetor Judis, Doctor Xero, neelk, jeffd.

6/2/2004 Paul Czege: some otherworld
So... I've had several folks tell me privately they think My Life with Master is brilliant, but that they could never play it, because they are dealing with real life…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, Eero Tuovinen.

6/11/2004 Paul Czege: a message from the game
[size=18px] [quote="My Life with Master"]There are those who say this is the twilight of roleplaying, that there are more people leaving the hobby than joining it, and that with the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Morgan.

6/29/2004 Paul Czege: rubbermaid-esque transparent storage boxes
Hey Ralph, On the Booth design and logistics thread, you wrote: A slightly off the wall suggestion would be to ask all sellers to purchase the…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Bob Goat, Christopher Weeks, smokewolf, btrc, alchemist, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder.

7/1/2004 Paul Czege: Fear and Unrequited Love Comes To Finland
Hey everyone, Arkkikivi Publishing (kustannusyhtiö Arkkikivi), the joint publishing venture of Eero, Jari, and Markku Tuovinen will release their licensed Finnish translation of My Life with Master, Kätyrin…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Jason L Blair, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, vhirvela, newsalor.

8/18/2004 Paul Czege: taking this show on the road
Half Meme Press will be at the GenCon game convention through Sunday, August 22nd. Orders for My Life with Master books received in the interim will ship the week of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/12/2004 Paul Czege: pta: fan mail fixes dysfunctional narrativism
It's the second scene of our game. Matt Gwinn's Russian defector to the American space program just lost a dice roll against the Producer. And we all know that means…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, nikola.

10/15/2004 Paul Czege: someone with an ISBN needs to do this
Google is apparently testing a new search product that works like Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book." From what I can tell, publishers send books to Google for scanning and…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Bob Goat.

11/8/2004 Paul Czege: Genghis Con advertising
Heather Barnhorst, who recently wrote a review of My Life with Master, has asked me to extend an invitation to the Forge community. It seems that she runs Genghis…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

2/7/2005 Paul Czege: the rpgmp3.com "Christmas Special"
Sometimes when I get an email requesting a postage quote for My Life with Master to an international address, I inquire how the person heard about the game. And most…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Roger Eberhart, GB Steve.

2/28/2005 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press financial chart leaked to the web
Last time I did this, the CFO docked me a week's pay. But I just can't help myself. I was starved for exactly this kind of information back prior to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

3/2/2005 Paul Czege: Empire of Satanis
Hey Darrick, I think definitely you've been successful at evoking Lovecraft and Ligotti with your setting. The Vahs-vra are fantastic. The Akturian Heads. The Vihm. The Aquatic Glyphs of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, darrick, Thor, hardcoremoose, daMoose_Neo.

3/10/2005 Paul Czege: password security
Hey Clinton, The hack could have included a download of user information, right? Are user passwords insecure as a result (i.e. we should change them)? Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, Victor Gijsbers, Domhnall.

4/7/2005 Paul Czege: New Games Journalism
So, there's a bunch of computer games guys writing what they call "New Games Journalism." Here's an example. It's a reference to the "New Journalism" of Hunter S. Thompson…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski, Dave Panchyk, Sean, Rob MacDougall.

6/21/2005 Paul Czege: [GenCon 2005] sponsor a Forge Booth chair!
Okay, over the weekend I bought twenty steel folding chairs. They're beige-grey. They were $9.99 each, plus tax. Tom will bring them to GenCon. He'll also store them in his…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, abzu, Matt Wilson, Matt Gwinn, Andy Kitkowski, GB Steve.

7/29/2005 Paul Czege: what Ron should do
On Barrier to newcomers, Ron wrote: I have a really, really long list of stuff that other people think I should do, believe me. Additions or suggestions to that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Gaerik.

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