Subsequent Topics 6/6/2004 CPXB: Negentropic Gaming -- First Night With Universalis
Last night I played Universalis with some friends -- including Adrienne and John Marron from this board -- over at my place. John M. is an experienced narrativist grognard; I'm…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.
6/23/2004 CPXB: Universalis Redux
I played Universalis, again, last night with a slightly different group of people. In particular, John Marron was absent and his replacement was not as good as John, shall we…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Valamir, hix, Christopher Weeks.
6/24/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action
I decided to drop my M&M game on Wednesdays and replace it with Universalis. My players were all for this and we played. We came up with these tenets:
Tenets…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.
6/26/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] The Third Time This Week
I played a lot of Univeralis this week, hehe. I think I blunted the worst of the cravings and the once a week game I have going will be sufficient…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Bob McNamee.
7/1/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 2
This was actually the most difficult Universalis game I've had to date. During the tenets phase of the first session, we didn't actually bother to come up with any antagonists.…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Valamir, Mike Holmes.
7/8/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 3
Session 3
A good session, but a little short, again. Universalis takes a lot out of a person. We started the game by talking about it a little bit, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Mike Holmes.
7/8/2004 CPXB: The Single Flip of a Coin
One of the big differences between Univeralis and most other games is how complications are handled in pretty much one flip of the coin. You roll and the other guy…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Valamir.
7/22/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 4
Unfortunately, Lyz dropped out of the game. She didn't actually tell me this, but passed along the information through another player, hehe. Because I haven't spoken to her – and…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Mike Holmes.
7/25/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 5
Session 5
This was mostly a continuation from Wednesday's shortened session. IMO, it went really well and we got a lot of things done, not so much in game but…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB.
11/15/2004 CPXB: Concrete advise about framing scenes
Universalis is currently my favorite game, but I clicked with it unusually well. I've played a fair bit of it with a fair number of people -- doing tonight a…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, OnyxFlame, Adrienne, Arvid, Valamir.
10/19/2005 CPXB: Comments on Uni as a "storytelling game" vis-a-vis an RPG
I was writing down my game notes and my general comments section turned into an impromptu essay. Here it is:
This is the first Universalis game that feels like a…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Mike Holmes, Arturo G..
11/9/2005 CPXB: New rules gimmick critique requested
I'm thinking of proposing a rules gimmick and was wondering if y'all could point out how it might change the game. It is:
"Back and Forth" Complications: Probably my biggest…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Danny2050.
11/15/2005 CPXB: Master-slave dialectics, or a reasonable fascimile
There was a discussion of My Life With Master in Actual Play and someone said that the game is Nietzschian, saying that the master was a superman and when it…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: CPXB, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, droog, Sean.
12/13/2005 CPXB: Problem with Universalis
My Uni game ran into what, to the group I'm playing with, at least, is considered an insurmountable problem.
We're in 10 sessions into a Uni game and what is…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Kintara, Valamir, wburdick, Arturo G., Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin.
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