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6/4/2004 Christopher Weeks: Name Generation
Hi all, I imagine that just about all of us have, at one time or another, invented fictitious linguistic trends with varying degrees of success for our games. We want…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Zak Arntson, Andrew Morris, Shreyas Sampat, b_bankhead, Bob McNamee, M. J. Young, greyorm, Pagrin, Tobias, Rob Carriere.

6/4/2004 Christopher Weeks: How many tenets?
Hi all, I'm curious about the numbers of tenets that games typically incorporate. What got me to thinking about this is that there are58 basic tenets in TUA2 -- which…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes, The Wah, CPXB, hix.

5/27/2004 Christopher Weeks: [IGC] Fixing Ice
Hi all, I wrote my first game in response to the Iron Game Chef - Fantasy. In the Reviews and Results thread, Holmessama performed wonderful surgery on how the game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, dalek_of_god.

4/7/2004 Christopher Weeks: Radical politics?
OK, so screw the political summaries, what are you radical about? Me: taxation is thievery, there is no implicit social contract it is merely a thuggery-based protection racket. The minimum…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, Dev, Valamir, quozl, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Aidley, coxcomb, Marhault, Shreyas Sampat, Alan, contracycle, joshua neff, greyorm, cruciel, Lxndr, Matt Wilson, GreatWolf, clehrich, BPetroff93.

4/6/2004 Christopher Weeks: Summarized Personal Politics of Forgies
OK, here's a game based on a line of Ralph's from over in the Iraq thread: For the record, my personal political platform is about 1/3 Right, 1/3 Left, and…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Jonathan Walton, Andy Kitkowski, taalyn, Ben Terry, lumpley, Argetlamh, Marhault, Matt Wilson, RDU Neil, cruciel, Walt Freitag, Anonymous, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Sean, joshua neff, Valamir, Lxndr, quozl, ScottM, Chris Goodwin, Rich Forest, montag, Shreyas Sampat, greyorm, Dev, C. Edwards, Dav, Ben Lehman, contracycle, ADGConscience, xiombarg, Asrogoth, Malechi.

4/5/2004 Christopher Weeks: Favorite Board Games?
I've noticed over the eight months that I've been here that a bunch of people play board games. Seth's Gipf query made me think of this more concretely. What board…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, xiombarg, GreatWolf, Umberhulk, rafial, quozl, Valamir, Ron Edwards, ScottM, Jonathan Walton, Christopher Kubasik, ethan_greer, Asrogoth, coxcomb, Paganini, Ben Lehman, Walt Freitag, Marhault, Jack Aidley, Sean, orbsmatt, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, JamesSterrett, Brian Leybourne.

3/25/2004 Christopher Weeks: The Universalis Arena
Hi all, Several of us have been playing an asynchronous game of Universalis on Clinton's RPG Laboratory site for a few months, under the name The Universalis Arena. Over the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, ScottM, james_west, Bob McNamee.

3/18/2004 Christopher Weeks: RPGs for kids
Howdy all, Over in This thread we started discussing kid-friendly RPGs. The topic is threatening to dunk that thread, so I'm bringing it over here. There was also a thread…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Noon, M. J. Young, quozl, daMoose_Neo, Jack Spencer Jr, Ben Lehman.

3/16/2004 Christopher Weeks: Questions about a kind of fortune mechanic
Are there games in which the player has a pool of dice from which she must allocate some number for each task resolution roll and the pool regenerates through some…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

1/30/2004 Christopher Weeks: The absolute best part of playing Universalis
There is this moment in time. An agonizing moment stretched into an eternity when all you can do is wait and watch. When everything is going to shit and you're…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, ScottM.

1/23/2004 Christopher Weeks: [MLwM] Dr. Sweet's Clinic
We played this game in one sitting. It was on a Sunday afternoon and I think actual play ran from around 1:00 to around 6:00. The Master: Dr. Leopold Sweet—runs…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

12/9/2003 Christopher Weeks: Scene definition and division
Hi all, Over at The Universalis Arena we have a scene where there might be a lull in the action, but there might be more action to happen in a…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Valamir.

11/19/2003 Christopher Weeks: Travelling self-serve Forge display?
The discussion of late got me thinking about how to get small-press games to lots of cons. What if there was a self-serve display rack of some kind for a…
In Conventions
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Dregg, GB Steve.

11/15/2003 Christopher Weeks: Announcement: The Universalis Arena is opening
Hello, If you've kept up with the Play by post/email thread, you might already know this. But if not... The Universalis Arena is a new game of Universalis in a…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks.

11/14/2003 Christopher Weeks: tenet breadth?
Hi all, I'd be interested to hear what people think appropriate tenet breadth/size/coverage is. Or is it just one of those things that a play group will define through challenge?…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/5/2003 Christopher Weeks: Fizzled online play (split from Year of the Rat)
If anyone's keeping track, this game appears to be officially dead. It's my second attempt to play in an online Sorcerer game that went through the character creation process and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Tim Alexander, sirogit, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Calithena.

10/22/2003 Christopher Weeks: Play by post/email?
Hi all, Has anyone played Universalis by post or email? If so, how did you handle laying out narration so that interruption could happen? What other concerns does such a…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, hix, Bob McNamee, Valamir, ScottM, Trevis Martin.

10/7/2003 Christopher Weeks: My first game.
We just played on IRC and it was really cool. I'm psyched! You just can't go wrong with music magic, biomechanical fish, and Kraken combat! You can catch the details…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 Christopher Weeks: Humanity and Protagonism in difficult settings
[b]How can I establish protagonism for characters in a setting that by modern western sensibility admits mostly of evil?[/b] I have been playing with Sorcerer settings as an exercise. Most…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

9/8/2003 Christopher Weeks: Who cares?
In a current thread: but what I care is secondary to what the character cares Sorry. Characters are pencil scribblings on a piece of paper. No RPG character…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Jack Spencer Jr, Marco, Valamir, Ron Edwards, John Kim, ejh, MachMoth, kalyptein, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, erithromycin, pete_darby, cruciel, lumpley.

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6/18/2004 Christopher Weeks: Wiki Error?
Hi all, I PMed Clinton earlier, but I thought I'd put this into public light in case anyone else knows anything. If you look at the recent changes for the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Christopher Weeks.

6/28/2004 Christopher Weeks: Universalis at GenCon?
Hiya, What are the chances of getting some Universalis veterans together at GenCon for a few hour game? I'd love the opportunity to play face to face with some of…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Mike Holmes.

7/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Who takes to Universalis with ease? (gamers or non-gamers?)
In the number of tenets thread, Given that my group includes two people who are new to gaming, the authority with which they approached plotting the game I found…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Nyrath, Bankuei, Paganini, Bob McNamee.

8/6/2004 Christopher Weeks: Are MMORPGs CRPGs?
So I've been following the current threads on CRPGs and whether or not they're RPGs and whether or not the employ an SIS. But I want to know if we're…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Blankshield, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Merten, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Gamskee, Lxndr, herrmess, JamesSterrett, Eric J., Comte, Troy_Costisick.

8/26/2004 Christopher Weeks: LEGOversalis
OK, So I screwed up my GenCon with too much responsibility for or dveotion to our (Game/LEGO User Group) track of LEGO games and didn't get to spend anywhere near…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Blankshield, Tobias, ffilz, Mike Holmes.

8/29/2004 Christopher Weeks: DitV comments
Bought it at GenCon. It was one of the games I didn't even have to think about. I knew it would be good, but Holy Cow! I should even be…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, nikola.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Edge Dice
Over in this thread, What I had also originally suggested (and I can't remember if it's in there or not) is that the player who gets the edge die…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Re: Post Gen Con Website Update
[quote="Valamir"]read over the actual play demos, feel free to start up a discussion here.[/quote] Here, here? Or out there, here? (If the latter, feel free to do your moderator magic.)…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

9/7/2004 Christopher Weeks: The Challenge as a social karma investment instrument
[quote="Over in [URL=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12612]this thread[/url], Tony Irwin"]But when you challenge someone you're saying up front "Here's what I like, here's what I want. Show me what you want and how badly…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Tobias, Mike Holmes.

9/9/2004 Christopher Weeks: DiTV with Mormons and religiosity in gaming
I'm looking back over what I've written and I'm not sure if any of this is apropos. This is one of those notes that I might just back over and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, nikola, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, Brand_Robins, Valamir, MajorKiz, Paka, DannyK, inthisstyle.

9/13/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Appropriate reading?
Over here people mention a couple of books: A Study In Scarlet and Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 And I got to thinking that a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, Jason Durall, Ron Edwards, JasperN., Neal, Danny_K, avram, oreso, Noclue, Nathaniel, David Artman.

11/17/2004 Christopher Weeks: Minnesota indie-players wanted
I've just moved to Minnesota (near The Cities) and for a few months I've been finding MN-based Forge readers. I've just formed a Yahoo group -- indiemn for discussing opportunities…
In Connections
Participants: Christopher Weeks, greyorm.

12/30/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Accomplishments
The book presents the only kind of improper accomplishments that a player can come up with as ones that invalidate the whole "dogness" (or survival) of the character. Is that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Nick Pagnucco, Technocrat13, jasonm, Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, nikola.

1/8/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Automatic NPC generation
I know it doesn't take forever and it isn't rocket science, but I cooked up an Excel spreadsheet that generates a batch of six NPCs as per Vincent's instructions in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley.

1/26/2005 Christopher Weeks: How much can I share the rules?
If I'm sitting at a table, explaining to people how to play Universalis, that's obviously cool. What about a virtual table on the internet? It seems like it's probably still…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/4/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Town Tracker
Hey all, I'm writing an application that allows you to enter the towns you create for your Dogs to visit. I'm still tweaking things here and there, but if you…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, ScottM, Paka, inthisstyle, Yokiboy.

3/15/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Capes] Scenes and Characters III (indie-MN)
Four members of the Indie-MN group met at our local game shop Sunday and played our third session of Capes. We've already reported on the first and second sessions. I'll…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Grover, Shane Street, Sydney Freedberg.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Why is marriage between two people?
Right, so last year we had this thread that's been continued. In it and elsewhere, I see lots of people supporting gay marriage but unabashedly assuming that marriage is still…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Sean, timfire, xenopulse, lumpley, Harlequin, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, joshua neff, Valamir, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, inthisstyle, Meguey, Matt Wilson, daMoose_Neo.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Explain the presense of your faith...
Spawning again from this thread (and from a thread on Vincent's blog a while back), I don't think I've ever asked people to analyze the source of their Faith. I…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Bankuei, Frank T, TonyLB, inthisstyle, xenopulse, Anonymous, John Wick, Sydney Freedberg, Jason L Blair, joshua neff, Eero Tuovinen, Green, Ben Lehman, GB Steve, nikola, daMoose_Neo, Meguey, ScottM, greyorm, James Holloway, contracycle, pete_darby, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, Lxndr, Miskatonic.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Peak Oil
Someone referred to this issue in one of the other threads -- maybe the what do I hate thread. It's something that I've just recently been researching. What do you…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Bob Goat, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Andy Kitkowski, kenjib, Vaxalon, Walt Freitag, Harlequin.

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