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3/18/2004 Gaerik: Sci Fi vs Fantasy
In another thread, I mentioned that I was currently GMing a Sci Fi game (Alternity) which wasn't my preferred genre and that I was having a hard time getting invested…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Mark Johnson, orbsmatt, John Kim, komradebob, brainwipe, Scourge108, quozl, rafial, GreatWolf, John Burdick, RaconteurX, Dev, Brother Adso, TerroX, Eric J., Mike Holmes.

3/19/2004 Gaerik: Mechanic for Narrative Control
With my current group of players in which we play either 3e D&D or Alternity things progress pretty much as I feel the authors of the game intended. Our group…
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Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Norris, Valamir, clehrich, Green, TerroX.

3/22/2004 Gaerik: Sim GM with Gamist Players
In an online group where I'm a player we have this situation. The GM is a pretty coherent Simulationist player. At least that is my observation from playing with him…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Noon.

3/24/2004 Gaerik: Bangs, bangs and more bangs!
In reading several threads about Bangs, I've noticed that people throw out ideas for them that are pretty independent of any specific group or game. I, personally, would find a…
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Participants: Gaerik, Alan, Blankshield, kwill, Andrew Norris, Lisa Padol, Valamir.

3/24/2004 Gaerik: Confused about Bangs...
In a recent thread, a debate occurred on the proper usage of the term Bang. Like the person I was disagreeing with, I like for my terms in these types…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, montag, Alan, Lisa Padol, beingfrank, Brother Adso, pete_darby.

4/7/2004 Gaerik: Railroading Fun
My question at it's simplest is "What constitutes Railroading?" Does any overarching plotline by the GM mean the players are being railroaded? If railroading is defined as the GM forcing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Alan, timfire, Nick Pagnucco, DannyK, Tomas HVM, Domhnall, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, jrs, contracycle, Henri, Seth L. Blumberg, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Noon, Valamir, Walt Freitag.

4/16/2004 Gaerik: Giving it a shot...
Okay, most of the members of my gaming group are going to be out of town or otherwise occupied on our normal day to play this week. Thus, I thought,…
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Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Paganini, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: [The Pool] Jumping into the Pool (longish)
My group played the Pool for the first time Sunday afternoon with some mixed (mostly good) results as far as I'm concerned. I'll go over the players, the characters, the…
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Participants: Gaerik, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: Earth of the Fourth Sun
I was just wondering if anyone had actually tried out The Earth of the Fourth Sun rpg by Thomas Slaughter. It looked interesting. He's got a pdf playtest version of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, M. J. Young.

4/21/2004 Gaerik: A Plentiful Plethora of Panoramic Premise
Okay, so my title for this topic is a little ostentatious. Sorry. My questions for the Narrativist experts out there multitudinous but they all revolve around having multiple premises in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, BPetroff93, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, GreatWolf, pete_darby, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young.

4/30/2004 Gaerik: [Alternity] A rambling bit of review... (longish)
Ron expressed a desire on another thread to see a review of the Alternity game done by someone who has or is currently playing the system. My gaming group is…
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Participants: Gaerik, Zak Arntson, rafial, John Burdick, Matt Wilson, ghostwolf, johnzo, Autocrat.

6/23/2004 Gaerik: [D&D] I need proactive protagonists...
I've got a nice little D&D game that has been running for 4 sessions now and I'm relatively pleased with how it is going. The majority of my players are…
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Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ADGBoss, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, greyorm, DannyK, Zak Arntson, Bankuei, MarktheAnimator, Noon, clehrich, Itse.

6/30/2004 Gaerik: Drifting, Rewards, Narrativism and D&D
My bi-weekly D&D campaign is typically Gamist and we have a lot of fun with it. Stepping on up has a certain thrill that we like and the 3rd Edition…
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Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, Trevis Martin, Doctor Xero.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Scene framing goodness
My group and I have been playing a D&D 3.5 campaign for the last several months and have been enjoying ourselves. The group is pretty Gamist by and large and…
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Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, TonyLB, ADGBoss, Noon, Valamir, StalkingBlue.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: Problem with Link in Signature
This is just a small website problem I seem to be having. My signature contains a link to the website of a game I am working on, it isn't working…
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Participants: Gaerik, timfire, TonyLB.

2/22/2005 Gaerik: GM-lite / GM-less Games
I'm not at all sure that this is the place to post this message but it concerns wanting to actually play, so I'll put it here. Ron can feel free…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, M. J. Young, daMoose_Neo, CPXB, JusticeZero, Andrew Morris.

3/22/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Conflict Resolution and other Forgey things (l
My group played once again this weekend and I thought things went very well indeed. I must say that my time here at The Forge has really helped me run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Bankuei, TonyLB, John Kim, Valamir, Lee Short, gorckat, Matt Gwinn, Andrew Norris.

4/4/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Forgotten Realms Campaign part 3
We played our Forgotten Realms campaign again last night. It was a session that I thought went relatively well but that I'm still not completely settled on what I did…
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Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Noon.

4/7/2005 Gaerik: Tony's Wish Fullfillment
I'd like to co-write a game with an experienced designer. You pick the game. You provide artistic direction. You boss me around unmercifully (I'm ex-military. I like that.). I get…
In Connections
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

4/11/2005 Gaerik: Goals and G/N and S
Greetings, I'm either about to have one of my "Duh!" moments or one of my "God, you missed the whole damn boat!" moments. So, please, bear with me (all you…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, contracycle, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, JMendes, Bob the Fighter, daMoose_Neo, Rob MacDougall, Gordon C. Landis, Silmenume, bcook1971.

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