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2/21/2004 M. J. Young: Ubercon III
I'm surprised not to see a thread on this here. I will be at Ubercon III next weekend in the NY Metro area; I will be running a Legends…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, inthisstyle, abzu, Dregg, Thor Olavsrud, urbwar.

2/10/2004 M. J. Young: Understanding: the "it" of Simulationism
I was very unhappy with Mike Holmes' conclusions in The Roots of Sim II (in his post of February 9th, if it has continued), so I'm starting a new…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Rob Carriere, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, Silmenume, clehrich, Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, cruciel, Emily Care, Sean, Caldis, Ron Edwards.

2/5/2004 M. J. Young: Help with Summaries?
Seth had some excellent advice over in the Ubercon Demo thread,In that case, you're going to want to have some brief summaries of setting elements on hand, plus…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, Mark D. Eddy, hix, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat.

2/3/2004 M. J. Young: Character Sheet feedback (split from Ubercon Demo)
Thanks; got it. I am surprised that the new character sheet doesn't include any place for notes. Particularly, there's no place to identify a character as Blessed, or Digger Paladin,…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, GreatWolf, Shreyas Sampat.

1/31/2004 M. J. Young: Giving Prizes
O.K., this is weird, but I'm asking for ideas/advice. I was registering to run a few games at UberCon, and one of the questions was whether any prizes would be…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, A.Neill, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, C. Edwards, james_west, Dregg, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Helvetian.

1/26/2004 M. J. Young: Ubercon Demo
Seth, I just submitted a Legends of Alyria demo event to the Ubercon events list, for Friday evening. Let me know if there's anything you want me to have or…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

12/6/2003 M. J. Young: Toward a Name for the Theory
Ron recently pointed out that it's a mistake to refer to his roleplaying model as "GNS", which is an accident of history and at this point a rather limited (if…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Mark Johnson, xiombarg.

11/21/2003 M. J. Young: An Interesting Promotional Strategy
My son and I stumbled into something that was worth sharing with other independent game publishers. Here it is. We were at UNY-con, and the seminars were wonderful but poorly…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, gobi, Dregg, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, Cemendur, AdAstraGames.

11/20/2003 M. J. Young: <i>Post Ludem</i> GNS Analysis
[i]I probably shouldn't start this thread; I'm too far behind on what was posted over the weekend as it is. But if I don't, I'll forget, and it will be…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Harlequin, jdagna, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, John Kim, joshua neff, Paul Czege.

11/6/2003 M. J. Young: Simple to Complex Combat in Multiverser
Over in design and resolutionI suspect I'd like Multiverser. The simple-to-complex issue (did I read you right? Up to 12 steps?) is a great assist in play. I also…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young.

10/28/2003 M. J. Young: GNS Conflict with the Referee
In the thread GNS and Social Contract,Problems only occur when players don't like the play of he other players. That is, it's not enough to ensure that the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Anthony I, Mike Holmes.

10/20/2003 M. J. Young: Game Design Seminar at UNY-con
Dan Brace has agreed that I should run a seminar at UNY-con November 14th-16th in Rochester, New York specifically on game design. I'd like it to be a panel…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, lumpley, inthisstyle.

10/16/2003 M. J. Young: Cross-Gender Play, or Walk a Mile in My Stiletoes
I'm often saying that role play can be a way of coming to understand other people, how they think, why they do what they do. I've also said that I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Tomas HVM, contracycle, Clinton R. Nixon, AnyaTheBlue, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, jrs, LordSmerf, JSDiamond, Mike Holmes, Mark Johnson, ADGBoss.

9/25/2003 M. J. Young: Setting as an element of System
This is a spinoff from Front-loaded relationship-driven Nar/Sim overlap, in a way--that's what led me to think this way, and it's relevant to the discussion there. I had been…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, damion, Windthin.

9/25/2003 M. J. Young: Clarifying Simulationism
I'm trying to catch up with all the posts over on the Front-loaded relationship-driven Nar/Sim overlap thread, and I'm getting boggled with all the "this is what sim means…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, AnyaTheBlue, jdagna, John Kim, pete_darby, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Ian Charvill, Walt Freitag, Marco, Jonathan Walton, Wormwood, ethan_greer, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis.

9/18/2003 M. J. Young: Questioning Jack Spencer Jr.'s View of Solo Play
It came up again in Non-electric Interactive Written Solo Entertainment, and it's been discussed before: is it still role playing if you're doing it alone, such as with Choose…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, Walt Freitag, Marco, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis, pete_darby, AnyaTheBlue, ejh, Ron Edwards.

9/18/2003 M. J. Young: Creating the Other
Over on the thread Characters as Therapy (Split) I was pretty satisfied with the consensus, until Joachim recalled somethingHere's another way of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, cruciel, jdagna, bcook1971, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2003 M. J. Young: Man Against Himself: Personality Mechanics
There have been several threads about personality mechanics recently, but I suddenly had a thought about these that might be worth addressing. I think it was Personality Mechanics that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes, Dauntless, John Kim.

9/10/2003 M. J. Young: My Character Would
In Who Cares? before Ron declared it finished,It may just be the groups that I play with, but I only encounter "my character" when people are objecting…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Gordon C. Landis, Cemendur, erithromycin, jdagna, cruciel, Lxndr, MachMoth, Jack Aidley, pete_darby, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, John Kim.

8/28/2003 M. J. Young: GNS Analysis--Post Play
[quote="Ron Edwards"]M.J., I'm having a hard time seeing how your insight is a new thing. I mean, I'm glad you wrote it, and it makes perfect sense, and it's all…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, cruciel.

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4/1/2004 M. J. Young: The Hard Question extended
I'm a bit miffed that Neil's thread The Hard Question got closed so quickly after such a shocking and, in my view, wrong-headed turn. In essence, the thread began…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Valamir, beingfrank, RDU Neil, clehrich, Ian Charvill, Silmenume, contracycle, Storn, Ron Edwards, cruciel, Rob Carriere, pete_darby, Bankuei.

4/19/2004 M. J. Young: Is a "closed" sticker a possible future feature?
I've often poured over posts on a thread for what feels a long time, and then come to the end to find that Ron or Clinton has closed it. Sometimes…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, greyorm, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, xiombarg, Shreyas Sampat, quozl, Jack Spencer Jr, Emily Care, Rob Carriere, orbsmatt.

4/20/2004 M. J. Young: Alignment and Premise in D&D
I feel silly doing this, but over in Ben Lehman's Gamism and Narrativism thread a side issue emerged regarding whether D&D had within it the possibility of addressing premise…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, NN, contracycle, BPetroff93, Noon, myripad.

5/12/2004 M. J. Young: Character/Player Gender Relationship?
[quote="In [i][a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11126"]Mechanical Gender Differences II (Mongrel)[/i][/a] Walt Freitag"]Players tend to assume that they will play characters of the same gender of the player.[/quote] I was shocked by this statement.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, rafial, Ravien, Sean, AnyaTheBlue, Matt, Jack Spencer Jr, beingfrank, Walt Freitag, clehrich.

5/14/2004 M. J. Young: Gaming Outpost Thread Restoration
Much of the pre-history of The Forge was in the discussions at Gaming Outpost. It was there that Ron Edwards first introduced System Does Matter and the distinctions between…
In Connections
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

5/26/2004 M. J. Young: Lunch at Dexcon?
It was mentioned over in the Ropecon thread that a number of Forge people are going to be at Dexcon. I was hoping to be able to manage it, but…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, Helvetian, abzu, lumpley, JamesSterrett, Tav_Behemoth, Dregg.

6/29/2004 M. J. Young: Congratulations to My Life with Master
Congratulations, Paul, for making the short list on the Diana Jones Award. --M. J. Young
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, C. Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2004 M. J. Young: Simulationism: Reflexive Play?
It seems to me that Jay (Silmenume) has several times said words to the effect that we don't explore the elements of exploration, but rather use the elements of exploration…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, ErrathofKosh, Silmenume.

8/15/2004 M. J. Young: Altering the SIS in CRPG
I really should not be starting this thread, because I'm still wading through the stuff I missed when my computer crashed; but in reading Vincent's A short rant about…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Noon, Rob Carriere, simon_hibbs, Christopher Weeks, contracycle, Inner Circle Inc, Andrew Martin, Blankshield, JamesSterrett, Doug Ruff, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2004 M. J. Young: Acceptance of Delayed Gratification--a Gamer Trait?
In Rewards for Setting Up, Callan (Noon) asked what the personal rewards were for the time spent setting up for a game. He put forward the idea that in-game…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Noon, Negilent, John Kim, Eric J., Doctor Xero, timfire, contracycle, Ravien, Cup of Iron, Storn.

9/2/2004 M. J. Young: Illusionist Techniques
Over in Jay's Point of Clarification Concerning Illusionism threadNot all illusionist techniques are necessarily "force" in that the invalidate player choices. Some are used precisely to enhance player choice.I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Marco, clehrich, Blankshield, contracycle, bcook1971, Sean, Eric J., Silmenume, ErrathofKosh.

9/3/2004 M. J. Young: Referee/Player Sim/Nar Clash (from What GNS Is About)
As sometimes happens to me, I was asked a question in a thread, and I started to draft my answer, and then discovered that the thread had been closed since…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Marco, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, John Kim.

9/3/2004 M. J. Young: Proactive versus Reactive--Illusory?
John Kim and I (and several others) drifted into this discussion over in Plot is the Wake of the Characters' Desires: But looking at it again,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, clehrich, John Kim, ErrathofKosh, Russell Impagliazzo, Gordon C. Landis.

9/28/2004 M. J. Young: Splitting Simulationism?
For a while lately I've been bothered by what I perceive as a widening rift in the definition of simulationism. In my mind, I had come to identify simulationist play…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, C. Edwards, Mark D. Eddy, Marco, Jinx, Ron Edwards, Sean, timfire, Silmenume, clehrich.

10/8/2004 M. J. Young: Ubercon IV
Things have been going so crazy around here I've not had a chance to mention that I'm slated to be at Ubercon IV next weekend, October 15-17. I've still got…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, inthisstyle, abzu, Tav_Behemoth, Dregg, Michael S. Miller.

10/8/2004 M. J. Young: Demo games--new rules or old?
Seth-- This seems the quickest way to get hold of you, as my private message boxes are kind of full and my address book is a disorganized disaster. I'm going…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

12/8/2004 M. J. Young: Toward a New Creative Agendum Evaluation
Some years back, I devised a GNS/DFK quiz. There was a lot of debate about it, and although it is still available online (mainly, as with Ron's articles, for historic…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Marco, Jasper, Wormwood, ffilz, beingfrank, clehrich, jdagna.

12/17/2004 M. J. Young: Article draft comments wanted
I've taken up GB Steve's request for something summarizing RPG theory as it currently stands, and have drafted a three-article series that I think does a fair job of covering…
In Connections
Participants: M. J. Young.

12/22/2004 M. J. Young: Defining Game Mechanic
Over in Ramblings on the role of Mechanics in CA's (fishing), somewhere on the second page,My understanding is that a mechanic is a specific feature of system…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, lumpley.

12/27/2004 M. J. Young: Sim approach to speculative, short story-based sci-fi?
[quote="In the [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13725"][i]Breaking the Heart of the Universe[/i][/a] thread, Snowden"]I'd be curious to hear more about your Multiverser experience, which sounds like you were taking a sim approach to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Snowden, Jeph, Caldis, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Marco, b_bankhead.

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