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5/10/2004 xiombarg: Forge Hubris, Part II
Jason might get mad at me for calling attention to this, but as it's a public post "on the record", I'd like to point it out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jasonlblair/98591.html Regardless of what…
In Site Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, Dev, chadu, ethan_greer, clehrich, Valamir, Paka, Matt Wilson, Walt Freitag, John Harper, John Kim, Mark Johnson, joshua neff, Bankuei, Jason L Blair, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Sean, Dav, M. J. Young, Jack Aidley, Asrogoth.

5/7/2004 xiombarg: King of Life and other stupid questions
Okay, I've finally gotten around to starting to read the rules, and possibly run a game of this. I have two stupid questions: 1) What's the "King of Life"? Is…
In lumpley games
Participants: xiombarg, lumpley, bluegargantua.

4/28/2004 xiombarg: the "supplement treadmill"
Malcolm (eyebeams), as a freelancer for White Wolf (he can correct me if that's an incorrect way to refer to him in this context), made and interesting comment on another…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Pramas, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, FFG Greg, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, quozl, Erick Wujcik, ethan_greer, mearls, Lxndr, ryand, Paul Czege, Matt.

4/28/2004 xiombarg: customer fraud and e-publishing
I thought the following link might be of interest to y'all: When Your Customer Commits Fraud In essence, it goes over your rights, as a writer, regarding your customers, when…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Dev, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2004 xiombarg: metaplot footnote 2
Well, as of today I feel that someone was listening to my my rant. I mean, the cynical part of me "knows" that the main White Wolf people aren't reading…
In RPG Theory
Participants: xiombarg, DannyK, Matt, eyebeams.

4/16/2004 xiombarg: intro to roleplaying (for Unsung)
Could y'all do me a favor? http://xiombrag.tripod.com/unstart.pdf The above is some introductory "what is roleplaying" kinda text for the RPG I'm currently working on the manuscript for. I want to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Zak Arntson, Jack Spencer Jr, quozl, Dev, Ben Lehman, Steve Samson.

3/31/2004 xiombarg: Unsung Overhall
So, okay, Alexander sent me an email with several suggestions about changing Unsung as a post mortem to the campaign we just ended. Other people are welcome to chime in.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Lxndr.

3/31/2004 xiombarg: [unsung] FINALE -- opinions, please
So, yeah, I'm putting Unsung:SWAT on hiatus so I can work on the full version of the Unsung manuscript. So here's the thread about our latest, and possibly last, playtest…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, suffusionofyellow.

3/15/2004 xiombarg: too many choices
Check out this article: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040301crbo_books I think the thesis of the book reviewed, if true, has some interesting implications for RPG design. For one thing, it certainly explains why a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: xiombarg, Nuadha, Scourge108, pete_darby, Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, Doctor Xero, simon_hibbs, willofgod, clehrich, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro.

3/14/2004 xiombarg: Pretender: Eat Me
Okay, I ran a one-shot of Pretender, with Dana and Ben. Dana reprised her mechancal were-dinosaur role, and Ben provided us with punk attitude. Here are the logs: http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender2_ooc.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender2_nar.txt…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg.

3/3/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] loose ends, suggestions?
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread and earlier episodes. http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung8_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung8_ooc.txt As before, the first link is the "narrative" and the second link is a log…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg.

2/12/2004 xiombarg: Why does the DOT hate the Forge?
Okay, that's semi-humorous. But I just started a new job at the US Department of Transportation, and they filter and block certain web sites. Now, some of them I understand.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, Blankshield, Jack Aidley, Christopher Weeks.

2/4/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Ricky Goes Apesh*t (Blood Opera?)
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung7_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung7_ooc.txt As before, the first link is the "narrative" and the second link is a log of our out-of-character…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Lxndr.

1/30/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Shooting My Specific Sacred Cows
Okay, I've been thinking about my game, Unsung, in light of the recent sacred cows thread and Ron's newest essay. At one point while playing the game, Mike commented: "Why…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

1/26/2004 xiombarg: Playtesting in Washington, DC
Well, I'm going to be moving to the Washington, DC Metro area pretty soon. Any indie people out there willing to help me playtest my games, or in need of…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg.

1/14/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Half an Episode, Out of Order
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. This session had a lot more Gifts, in part because we "skipped ahead". http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung6_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung6_ooc.txt As before, the first link…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

1/5/2004 xiombarg: alternate wound penalties
[url]http://www.burningwheel.org/pdf/woundtolerances.pdf[/url] It appears that Luke thought these important enough to print out and include them, as a seperate sheet, with my copy of [i]The Burning Wheel[/i]. Why is this? Could…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: xiombarg, taepoong, abzu, Kaare Berg, Lxndr, Durgil, rafial.

12/29/2003 xiombarg: Chargen and Magic
Okay, I finally got around to reading my copy of HeroQuest, and the most confusing thing for me was magic, particularly in chargen. In particular, I'm talking about list-based chargen.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: xiombarg, Peter Nordstrand, RaconteurX, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, TheLHF, Ian Cooper, Calithena, Nick Brooke.

12/5/2003 xiombarg: Ivanhoe Mailing List
I dunno if I mentioned this here before or not, but there is a mailing list for people interested in discussing my games. Any of them. Even the stuff written…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg.

12/5/2003 xiombarg: Social Contract Fodder
As we all know, problems with the social contract of the game are often part-and-parcel with overall social problems. Which is why I found this essay particularly interesting: http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: xiombarg, C. Edwards, jdagna, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik.

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5/12/2004 xiombarg: scare quotes and "industry"
In a recent discussion my my Livejournal, one of the posters mentions something regarding "scare quotes" that I think is relevant to discourse here, as a sort of a footnote.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, John Kim, greyorm, ethan_greer, Asrogoth, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Rob Carriere, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, GMSkarka, Sean, Jack Spencer Jr.

5/18/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Retirement System (and more)
Well, I'm working on the for-pay version of my RPG, Unsung, and I'm looking for comments. At this point, the game is technically playable: Introduction (mainly aimed at new roleplayers)…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

5/18/2004 xiombarg: The Castle: A TRoS Mini-Setting
I came up with a little mini-setting for TROS that might interest some of y'all: http://www.livejournal.com/users/xiombarg/530091.html Obviously, chargen would have to be modified somehow to match this, perhaps by eliminating…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: xiombarg.

5/20/2004 xiombarg: timing of new releases
I'm curious what people think of the ideas in this blog entry: http://gamethink.blogspot.com/2004/05/publishing-schedules-picking-right.html Personally, I think the power of buzz cannot be underestimated, but it's worth noting that buzz is…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg.

5/20/2004 xiombarg: LARP and GNS: Narrativist techniques?
[size=9px](Note: Jargon ahead. And it's long. Continue at your own risk. Ewige blumenkraft.)[/size] Sometimes I feel like I'm the only LARPer on here. I know that's not true, so I'm…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, Andrew Morris, Blankshield, Matt, Ron Edwards, Merten, John Kim, iambenlehman, Erling Rognli, JamesSterrett, Eirik Fatland, Walt Freitag.

5/21/2004 xiombarg: thought experiment
So, okay, I've been reading the version of the manuscript that Vincent sent me, and it's much clearer than the outline, that's for sure. I like the intro to the…
In lumpley games
Participants: xiombarg, lumpley, Emily Care, nikola.

6/1/2004 xiombarg: Unsung Done (kinda -- revised, certainly)
Well, as y'all know, I'm working on the for-pay version of my RPG, Unsung, and I'm looking for comments. At this point, I've done everything I can before layout and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Sydney Freedberg, Garbanzo.

6/1/2004 xiombarg: layout tips
Two things... 1) Can anyone point me to a good resource, either here or elsewhere, on doing layout? I'm not talking about a free course telling you everything you need…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Clay, C. Edwards, Bob Goat, Weisshaupt.

6/9/2004 xiombarg: Adventure Trade Organization
[url]http://www.rpgnews.com/article.php?sid=3291[/url] [url]http://www.rpgnews.com/article.php?sid=3294[/url] [url]http://www.adventuretrade.org/[/url] So, does anyone know anything about this? In particular, the man behind it, and how useful it's likely to be in actuality? I'm thinking if any of…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Shardmaster.

7/1/2004 xiombarg: stupid S&S questions
Okay, I'm sure there are threads that answer these questions, but my search-fu is poor today. 1. Okay, Pacts. If I understand this correctly, a Pact roll is exactly like…
In Adept Press
Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, greyorm, DannyK.

8/1/2004 xiombarg: LARP System: WRATH
So, here's the first draft of a LARP system I'm writing: http://xiombrag.tripod.com/WRATH.pdf I'm looking for comments from LARPers and non-LARPers alike. In particular, I'm interesting in: 1) Any obvious condradictions…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, PlotDevice, mindwanders, simon_hibbs, sirogit.

8/23/2004 xiombarg: DC Area Playtesters Needed
One of the cells of the top secret "Righteous Group" -- known to its members as simply "the RG" -- is just now finishing up its first mission, infiltrating and…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg, Adorame, Vaxalon.

8/27/2004 xiombarg: Clark Ashton Smith
I've been trying to catch up on my "classic" S&S reading, and I've ended up reading a lot of Clark Ashton Smith stories, especially since most of them are available…
In Adept Press
Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

8/30/2004 xiombarg: 9W errata?
I got my thank-you copy... And the game is very rockin'. But I'm curious if it's because I'm on a IBM PC or what, but a lot of the pages…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: xiombarg, Matt Snyder.

10/28/2004 xiombarg: Unsung: PLAYTESTERS NEEDED
Okay, guys, I seriously need external playtesters for my upcoming game, Unsung. You can download everything you need to play from here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/rpg_workshop/2497.html The files are PDFs, and they're just…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg, bcook1971, Ben Lehman.

3/29/2005 xiombarg: Free Desktop Publishing...
Okay, kids, can anyone reccommend a decent, FREE (or very, very cheap, like less than $40) desktop publishing program that works on Windows 98 andor Windows XP? Feel free to…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, spawky, madelf, Trevis Martin, Dev, MisterPoppet, Victor Gijsbers, Clay, nikola, Doug Ruff, jerry, MatrixGamer.

4/17/2005 xiombarg: Unsung Ready
Wahoo! I have my second commercial role-playing game entirely laid out at this point, in the form of a text-only beta. You can download a copy here: http://xiombrag.tripod.com/unsung.pdf If you…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Jasper, matthijs, paulkdad.

4/17/2005 xiombarg: Advertisement Swaps
As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm going to be publishing Unsung soon. I'd like to do an ad swap. Ads submitted to me for inclusion in the game would have to…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg, daMoose_Neo.

4/25/2005 xiombarg: Unsung: Art Needed
So, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm pretty far along with Unsung at this point. I need spot art. I'm talking clean, black-and-white line drawings, scanned in at 1200 dpi or…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg.

9/30/2005 xiombarg: Unsung Unleased! My Publishing Experiences So Far
It might interest some of you to know that Unsung, a game I more or less have been developing here on the Forge since, like, forever (do a search on…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, Dumirik, Mike Holmes, Jasper.

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