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4/17/2004 Valamir: Record number of users
I find it interesting that the record number of simultaneous users reported at the bottom of the Main Page used to adjust every couple of months to a new level,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Asrogoth, Emily Care.

4/8/2004 Valamir: Last Word
The last (non moderator) member to post here before the forum closes wins bragging rights till next year. Who will win...I take an early lead.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, Paganini, taalyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Eva Deinum, Marhault, Chris Goodwin, Miskatonic, Dave Panchyk, Domhnall, ADGConscience, GreatWolf, Brendan, xenopulse.

4/2/2004 Valamir: Minimilist Trait use
Split from Universalis Drinking Game Second follow up question: Has anyone run into problems in games due to minimalist play style issues for some things with rather more expanded descriptions…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Bob McNamee, komradebob, Christopher Weeks.

4/2/2004 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Contacts, Favors, and Influence
I'm busily at work getting R&R ready for the next round of testing and thought I'd throw out a concept I'm pretty excited about. Contacts. Contacts are all of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, montag, Jack Aidley, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

3/28/2004 Valamir: What does a city in Wyerth look like?
Well, check out this site One of the coolest web resources I've ever seen. Over 3 dozen dutch city maps from 1652 in Gif and Jpeg. Actual period maps showing…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, ZenDog, Ian.Plumb, Irmo, Bob McNamee, MrGeneHa.

3/23/2004 Valamir: Trust and the Boink moment
So as not to clutter this cool glorantha thread Why is that such a "boink" insight for gamers, as opposed to the "duh"-obvious requirement for everyone else, for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, clehrich, ethan_greer, pete_darby, Matt Wilson, Blankshield, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, Itse, M. J. Young, Noon.

3/18/2004 Valamir: SA dice by roll or CP
An interesting question came up in the SA survey thread regarding whether groups added dice from SAs into each exchange or into the Combat Pool total. I was astonished by…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Malechi, Stephen, Ian Charvill, Edge, Ian.Plumb, Alan, Ingenious, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Thanaeon, nsruf, Irmo, thomcat.

2/25/2004 Valamir: Power (split)
[quote]For example, the players in my James Bond 007 game are mostly (2 out of 3) accustomed to Illusionist play. However, they pretty instantly got into taking charge to a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Noon, pete_darby, contracycle, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Ben Lehman.

2/16/2004 Valamir: swings vs thrusts
Take a weapon like an Arming Sword or Long Sword. Both of these weapons are designed to both cut and thrust. They are better at cutting (which is why they…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Caz, Brian Leybourne, Richard_Strey, Muggins, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Edge, Malechi, Overdrive, Salamander, bergh, Turin, Ben Lehman, lokdu, Tash.

2/10/2004 Valamir: Extreme Vengeance
I hate to be the sort to post links like this. But Extreme Vengeance is one of those games that gets frequent props here and its quite hard to find.…
In Connections
Participants: Valamir.

2/1/2004 Valamir: Riddle of Prydain
On the topic of interesting settings for use with TRoS, I hit upon the idea of a journey to Prydain last night. Seems well suited. Fairly low magic loads of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Half-Baked.

1/30/2004 Valamir: Shooting the Sacred Cow
I was going to post this in Indie Design, but then I decided to talk more in generalities than about the specific application to my on going Robots & Rapiers…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Matt Wilson, ethan_greer, Matt Snyder, Jonathan Walton, Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, Doctor Xero, C. Edwards, clehrich, Rob MacDougall.

1/26/2004 Valamir: An example of some exemplary Con support for indie demos
I pulled this report off of a mailing list I'm on. I did not participate first hand in the event so can't really answer any questions. But I was quite…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir.

1/22/2004 Valamir: Axes Knives and Swords
Just saw this special on the History Channel tonight. Pretty good accurate information. They had some scenes of sword fighting, and as I'm watching I'm thinking "hey, those guys actually…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Salamander, Jake Norwood, toli, Poleaxe.

1/1/2004 Valamir: Bad Roleplaying? I blame Tolkien.
Ok, after several aborted attempts at rereading LotR, I decided to get the books on CD and have them read to me on my long long long drives over the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Mark Johnson, Lxndr, LordSmerf, Paganini, Trevis Martin, Brian Leybourne, M. J. Young, quozl, John Kim, Endoperez, Eero Tuovinen, xechnao, Troy_Costisick, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, mark2v, Dr. Velocity, jdagna, Noon, ethan_greer, Calithena, Andrew Norris, b_bankhead, Gordon C. Landis, Caldis, C. Edwards, s3kt0r, apeiron, Matt Wilson, Ozymandias, Taina, Bob McNamee, contracycle, Halzebier, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers: Design Change ideas
Had an opportunity to do some more playtesting this weekend. Conceptually the game is pretty tight, and I'm mostly happy with the mechanics except for two areas. 1) Handling time.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, montag, hix, gobi.

11/26/2003 Valamir: Journal of the Mail Society
Hey folks, don't know if you've seen this yet, but Erik Schmid's got his Journal of the Mail Society available through RPGMall now. I'll take a little credit for having…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir.

11/11/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers Adventure and Pregen Characters availab
Alright. It took a good bit longer to finish than I'd anticipated, but the much awaited sample adventure and pregenerated characters are available here. This is a 30 page adventure…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Jack Aidley, sirogit, DaGreatJL.

10/2/2003 Valamir: Bucanneers & Bokar
Now that S&B is finally out I'm looking forward to continued voodoo pirate goodness in B&B. I gather the free pdf adventure planned for September got pushed back; any firmer…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Valamir, GMSkarka, quinchris, TSL.

9/19/2003 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Announcing Ramshead's new RPG
Ramshead Publishing invites you to review and playtest our next RPG, Robots and Rapiers. You can find the 130+ page pdf alpha version on the Universalis website. I expect…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Marco, John Harper, gobi, Thierry Michel, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Sylus Thane.

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4/27/2004 Valamir: Another Departure from GAMA
Jonathan Albin resigns as Marketing Director for GAMA. Problems in the GAMA hierarchy...what else is new. I received this as part of an email broadcast. As it is definitely industry…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, xiombarg, Dav, Andy Kitkowski.

4/28/2004 Valamir: Welcome Christopher Hammock
Congratulations. You are member #3000! <insert balloons and confetti falling from the ceiling here> There is no prize, I'm afraid, but it seemed like too big a milestone to let…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards, Jeph, ethan_greer, clehrich, Bankuei.

4/29/2004 Valamir: Access Announcement
Well, it finally happened. They said it was coming and it finally caught up with me. The corporate net nanny just blocked indie-rpgs. They'd already blocked rpg.net a few months…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, cruciel, joshua neff, talysman, Jürgen Mayer.

5/10/2004 Valamir: Mechanics that reflect Setting
I split this off from this thread because I thought it was particularly interesting topic in its own right, and only tangental to the purpose of that thread. …
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, neelk, Christopher Kubasik, John Kim, Lxndr, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Noon, pete_darby, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton.

5/19/2004 Valamir: Full time game designers
In this thread When you underprice your product vs. what the market would pay and is paying for similar works, you're hurting everyone who is making those other works…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, John Burdick, Dev, daMoose_Neo, wakingjohn, mearls, contracycle, Jack Aidley, abzu, Bankuei, Dav, John Kim, ryand, Ron Edwards, Sean, Olibarro, Andrew Morris.

5/24/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine
The premier issue of GQM is out, a companion magazine for the retailer's bible Games Quarterly Catalog. Its primarily full of advertisements aimed at retailers but there are a number…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Matt Snyder, daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski.

6/4/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine Ads
Hey folks. Issue #2 of GQM is due out in time for GenCon. It is scheduled to include a column by Peter Adkison featuring (at least in part) the Forge…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Paul Czege, abzu, Matt Snyder, Christopher Weeks, Tobias.

6/12/2004 Valamir: Universalis Picked up by Alliance
As some of you are aware, earlier this year I hooked up with Key 20 Direct, a new consolidator run by Jason Blair and his partner Jason Valore. They rep…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, ethan_greer, Jürgen Mayer, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, Mark Johnson, Tony Irwin.

6/29/2004 Valamir: MLWM the Reality TV show
If you haven't seen it, tune it to Blow Out, Bravo's latest entry into the realty TV show genre. I think this is the best RTV series ever, because it…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Valamir.

7/13/2004 Valamir: Gen Con extras
I was thinking of purchasing a digital cash register. There's a pretty sweet Casio for $200 at office depot that we could actually program in all of the product prices…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, alchemist, btrc, jrs, Ron Edwards, abzu, Bob Goat, Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, smokewolf, Lxndr, Tav_Behemoth, Matt Wilson, Jürgen Mayer, lumpley.

7/16/2004 Valamir: GenCon Catalog material
In this thread the plan was outlined to create a catalog of games for the GenCon booth that included 2-3 pages of (digest sized) additional content for each game (rather…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Christopher Weeks, Tony Irwin.

7/21/2004 Valamir: Web Site Down
The Universalis Website is down. From appearances it looks like Nathan didn't pay the dues on the ActionRoll domain. I am attempting to get in touch with him to get…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

7/27/2004 Valamir: Motocaust: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Had an opportunity to play some Motocaust this weekend with some other assorted Forgites. They may well chime in with some of their own view points. THE GOOD With somewhat…
In Actual Play
Participants: Valamir, montag, Jake Norwood, philreed, Ron Edwards, jrs, Jasper.

7/29/2004 Valamir: RPGMall
I recently had a series of email exchanges with James regarding the future of RPGMall and my perception that it needed to reinvent itself as something more than just an…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir.

7/30/2004 Valamir: The Model as seen by Valamir [Long. Very, very long]
A slew of threads in recent months has tackled various aspects of the model and led to some really good discussions that have influenced my perception of how its many…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, PlotDevice, Marco, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Vaxalon, Lathan, Tim C Koppang, Paganini, Caldis, C. Edwards, Emily Care, John Kirk, M. J. Young.

7/30/2004 Valamir: Dramatism and Illusionism
In this thread Marco commented I especially liked the expansion on Simulationism--I think it's good and well wrought--but it seems to me to leave out GDS Dramatism which, I do…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Silmenume, Marco, M. J. Young, contracycle, John Kim, Caldis, ErrathofKosh, Sean, Lee Short.

8/17/2004 Valamir: Paging Gordon Landis
Does anyone have Gordon's phone number? He has not responded to PMs or Email. He is supposed to be at GenCon in the Forge Booth but I can't get in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

8/23/2004 Valamir: Forge Booth Triumphant
[b][size=18px]GenCon Sales Results and Comparison[/size][/b] In 2003 we had 287 separate customer transactions In 2004 we had 360 separate customer transactions This is an increase of 73 customers or 25.4%…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, abzu, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, smokewolf, Lisa Padol, Bob Goat.

8/24/2004 Valamir: Narrativism: Not a Creative Agenda...
I have been recently thinking more on the nature and interrelation of CAs and Techniques in the context of my recent essay. I've been thinking a great deal on the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, timfire, ADGBoss, Artanis, Alan, Marco, Lee Short, Asrogoth, contracycle, Sean, Caldis, John Kim, ErrathofKosh, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Silmenume, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

8/31/2004 Valamir: Post Gen Con Website Update
Some good updates to the site today. There are 8 new actual play examples from various GenCon demos, including one with the obligatory zombies. There are also 2 more entries…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

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