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2/14/2004 james_west: Feminist game design?
[b]The Stranger, or [i]Feedback[/i][/b] [i]This is a game I wrote before breakfast this morning, based on the 'feminist game design' thread in RPG theory. I'm not sure if it's feminist…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: james_west, Matt Wilson, clehrich, Mark D. Eddy, Ravien, Scourge108, Paul Czege, Doctor Xero, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Zathreyel, jrs, aplath.

2/11/2004 james_west: Feminist Game Design [split from Religion in Role-Playing]
Hello, all ! Some discussion in the 'more on religion and role-playing' thread made me think about what a game meant to address feminist/race issues would look like. I surveyed…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Nick Pagnucco, Bankuei, timfire, John Kim, GB Steve, Doctor Xero, sirogit, pete_darby, Thuringwaethiel, inthisstyle, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, clehrich, lumpley, KingstonC, Librisia, contracycle, Christopher Weeks, Itse, AnyaTheBlue.

2/9/2004 james_west: [MLwM] The Kindest Torch-Wielding Mob Ever
We played My Life with Master yesterday. Four players (two men, two women) plus me, over a course of about six hours play time. Our game centered around the mind-bogglingly…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Mike Holmes.

2/6/2004 james_west: Game prep for Trollbabe
It seems implied by the descriptions of play and by the rules that this meant to be a low prep time game (for instance, the Trollbabe picking out where she…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/4/2004 james_west: Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games
I've just read Lehrich's new article, "Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games." The thesis of the article appears to be that Role-Playing Games are ritual in nature, that their primary social…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, clehrich, John Kim, Walt Freitag, RDU Neil, contracycle, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, chadu, Librisia.

2/1/2004 james_west: more than one trollbabe in a conflict
I can't figure out how more than one trollbabe on the same side of a conflict works; do you run them as parallel conflicts? do they both roll? what happens…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Alan, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2004 james_west: Gamism's hard question
Going back a few pages, I didn't see another thread on this; sorry if I missed it. Here's my answer: I have always been a competitive person, but simultaneously, I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2004 james_west: ... simulationism is less common than I thought.
I've been reading Ron's set of recent essays, and I had a minor epiphany. One of my pet peeves with a lot of different games I've been in over the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Valamir, Ron Edwards, coxcomb.

1/30/2004 james_west: My experience using Forge arcana
I was very active on the Forge for a bit right after it started (I just looked - I'm member #26), learning about GNS, stance, scene framing, relationship maps, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Christopher Weeks, Alan.

1/28/2002 james_west: Ron's Essay
I've been busy - hadn't got around to reading Ron's essay before now. So, my take on it: First, it's marvelously well written - very rigorous. Even if you don't…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

8/24/2001 james_west: selling like hotcakes.
I had my local game store order a couple copies a while back, and when I went down yesterday not only had they sold both of them, the ones due…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: james_west, Jason L Blair, unterhund, Tyrant, Uratoh.

8/21/2001 james_west: S.O.A.P. at a con ...
I'm planning on running (presenting? whatever) SOAP at a Con in about two weeks, and I'm wondering if anyone's ever come up with more examples/transcripts for me to give the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: james_west, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2001 james_west: Running Elfs at a con ...
I've got a convention coming up in two weeks, and I've got two sessions of Elfs in the schedule. One in which I'm planning on running a perversion of Keep…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/31/2001 james_west: Why are all the reviews by Ron Edwards?
The topic pretty much says it all. You might put something about how one goes about submitting a review and who may do so in the Review Philosophy Page.
In Review Discussion
Participants: james_west, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2001 james_west: My first sorceror session (sort of).
I ran a session Saturday the 28th that mostly used Sorceror rules and genre, although I threw in a whole bunch of other stylistic weirdness. For instance, scenes were rarely…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Paul Czege, Dav, hardcoremoose, Ferry Bazelmans, greyorm.

7/5/2001 james_west: Favorite things I've learned
Favorite things I’ve learned from reading this site: (1) Facilitating the creation of good stories as an explicit design goal. This is from the GNS discussions. Previously, I’d only thought…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, joshua neff, John Wick.

7/2/2001 james_west: The Undertoad
Hey - When is this going to be available through stores? Are you doing online sales? I've had a series of interesting ideas about this sort of game since I…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: james_west, Jason L Blair.

6/22/2001 james_west: A Mechanic for Other Plot Types?
In Relationship Maps, Edwards has done a very good job of producing a concrete mechanic for running scenarios based on the style of plot found in mysteries and a lot…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Uncle Dark.

6/22/2001 james_west: Example scenario
I'm thinking when you release the alpha, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an example scenario, to give people an idea of the sort of story you had…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: james_west, GreatWolf.

6/16/2001 james_west: Relationship maps
I have to preface this by saying that reading Sorceror's Soul made me feel like Saul on the road to Damascus. It solved a fundamental problem I didn't even know…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, joshua neff, Paul Czege, greyorm, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Dav, Uncle Dark.

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