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8/27/2004 lumpley: Prime Time Adventures: Moose in the City
I've been telling and telling this story. Usually I save it for the end of my GenCon story telling because it's so good. I guess I'm going to lead with…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Matt Wilson, Calder_Johnson, anonymouse, Caldis, Gordon C. Landis, b_bankhead, Meguey, John Harper, Mike Holmes, nikola, Lisa Padol.

8/25/2004 lumpley: PTA ETA?
How soon until I can buy a couple of the perfect-bound PTAs to give as gifts? -Vincent
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: lumpley, Matt Wilson, Ian O'Rourke, Christopher Weeks, bastion-b.

8/25/2004 lumpley: Welcome Anew!
The soopaseekrit stage of this forum was fun and helpful, so thanks to everyone who participated. Now this is the lumpley games forum, exposed to view and scrutiny! Please don't…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, nikola, Spy vs. Spy, Ethesis, baron samedi, Warmachine3002.

8/17/2004 lumpley: Woo Hoody Hoo!
I have the books in my hot little hand! I'll see some of you at GenCon. Check it out: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/dogs.html -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Ron Edwards, jrs.

8/4/2004 lumpley: A short rant about "SIS"
"SIS" is broken terminology. I hate it with hate! The SIS is precisely what the players agree happens in the game. A CRPG, a game book, Stratego, they don't have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Sean, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, timfire, John Kim, Noon, Paganini, ADGBoss, contracycle, Alan, simon_hibbs, ErrathofKosh, Jonathan Walton.

8/3/2004 lumpley: I Have an Issue, for one
I'm still seeing only the first strip of "We All Have Issues." Is that as it should be? -Vincent
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, joshua neff, 6inTruder.

7/27/2004 lumpley: Reminder: Credibility
Assent underlies each moment of play. At each moment of play, if any single player doesn't fully assent to the imagined events of the game, play stops and the group…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Noon.

7/26/2004 lumpley: The Mountain People: an Uncertain Future
This week on the Discovery Channel. No, I'm lying. The Mountain People's future is clear. They get to stop being the demonic enemies of the Faith and start being just…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Jonathan Walton, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, xiombarg.

7/6/2004 lumpley: Online Playtesting?
Hey everybody. Jack Bauer asked me to ask you all if anybody's doing any online playtesting or wants to. He wants to play over AIM, he doesn't want to run.…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman.

7/3/2004 lumpley: When Is It Real?
In this post in Waiting for Narrativism...What do you think about the split of "whether something is real even if its not entered that space, vs. only if it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Marco, Gaerik, Jack Spencer Jr, John Kim, M. J. Young, Paganini, Ben Lehman, Caldis, contracycle.

7/1/2004 lumpley: Caring How it Resolves?
From "Sacrificing Character Integrity" - a Rant. Vince, I don't usually disagree with you, but I got to now. Train of thought commencing: A transcript is an account of the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, JamesSterrett, Silmenume, Kesher, Paganini, ADGBoss, Noon, Marco, TonyLB, pete_darby, contracycle, C. Edwards, Doctor Xero, Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, TooManyGoddamnOrcs, John Kim, Walt Freitag, ErrathofKosh.

6/30/2004 lumpley: "Sacrificing Character Integrity" - a Rant
Can this idea please just die? You can't understand the difference between Narrativism and Simulationism this way: A Narrativist will sacrifice character integrity in order to address Premise. It's just…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Marco, Valamir, Ravien, C. Edwards, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, timfire, ADGBoss, M. J. Young, Sean, contracycle, TonyLB, Mark D. Eddy, Bankuei, Paganini, hanschristianandersen, JackBauer, Jack Spencer Jr.

5/24/2004 lumpley: A Non-RPG Example of Premise in Play
Check out Scott McCloud's current morning improv, Mimi's Last Coffee. Requires Flash. You've got a thematically charged setup and characters locked into it. You can see from reading the comic…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, M. J. Young, Emily Care, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer.

5/19/2004 lumpley: It Could Be Worse
Cranky post by me: I remember a time, maybe a year and a half ago, when new people would come to the Forge, post in Indie Game Design, and ...…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Andrew Norris, John Kim, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Brad Renfro, ethan_greer, Andrew Morris, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, GMSkarka.

4/29/2004 lumpley: Lines, Veils, Breaking the Ice
(Anybody who happens to not know, "lines and veils" is a way to talk about players' comfort with in-game material. Ron introduced the terms in Sex and Sorcery.) Emily Care…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, cruciel, DannyK, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Doyce, talysman, C. Edwards, bluegargantua, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Noon, Nev the Deranged, quozl, John Harper.

4/28/2004 lumpley: A Theoretical Combat System
Straight out of Fear & confusion, and bearing in mind that somewhere out in the world there's someone who wants me to write a game called Two Clicks... Imagine a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, cruciel, Noon, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, ethan_greer, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Norris, John Harper, Christopher Weeks.

4/19/2004 lumpley: again with the killing puppies!
I ran kill puppies for satan at OurCon this weekend, for 5 undergrad students and 1 grad student, 4 women 2 men, with two romantic couples present, I believe -…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, hawklord2112.

4/7/2004 lumpley: Responsible Game Design
So I'm designing this Dogs in the Vineyard game, right, and ... well, it's like my freewheeling monkey business days are over. Time was, I could write a Matchmaker or…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat.

4/6/2004 lumpley: Adventures in Dramatic Drama
Climactic session last night. It'll take some telling, so. So You Know I play Acanthus, Meg plays Damwild, Emily plays Soraya. When I say "us" or "ours," I mean these…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Emily Care.

4/5/2004 lumpley: The Me Principle
So this is kind of self-involved and pointless, but if I can't post it drunk at the birthday party when can I? I didn't name the Lumpley Principle. I wouldn't'a…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Andy Kitkowski, Gordon C. Landis.

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9/2/2004 lumpley: A GenCon Story. Contains Swears.
GenCon '04. Here's a story: this guy comes to the Forge booth. It's Saturday before noon and he's already been drinking a bit and plus he's a real asshole. He…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, jrs, Ben Lehman, abzu, Satyrblade, Ed Cha.

9/2/2004 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet Picks Dogs
[url=http://www.jonathantweet.com/jotgamesgcpicks.html]Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon[/url] A few of you know just how psyched I am. [quote="Jonathan Tweet"]I almost didn't pick Dogs because I didn't want a game with characters that…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, ScottM, Matt Wilson, bluegargantua, hardcoremoose, DannyK.

9/2/2004 lumpley: A Big Important Addition to Dogs' Fallout
Add to the Long-term Fallout list: Rewrite your coat's description to include permanent damage. Reduce your coat's dice if it's called for. Add to the Reflection Fallout list: Rewrite your…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, jrs, inthisstyle.

9/3/2004 lumpley: Making Before the Flood Playable
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/flood.html]Before the Flood[/url], as we all know, is broken or incomplete. [quote="Eric Minton"]The game needs structure, and I think the best way to give it that would be to introduce…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Emily Care, Eric Minton, nikola, Valamir.

9/3/2004 lumpley: Sad GenCon
I have never seen so many unhappy people in one place as at GenCon. What's up with that? You look at the people passing by and they frown all the…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, ffilz, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, JSDiamond, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Chris_Chambers, jdagna, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes.

9/7/2004 lumpley: Are we as cool as Shakespeare?
This is my thousand and first Forge post! The weekend before GenCon, Meg and I went to As You Like It, performed by Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass. It…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, John Kim, Ron Edwards, Noon, Ben Lehman, eef, Gordon C. Landis, Christopher Weeks, Matt Snyder, Erling Rognli, Person, Nathaniel, TonyLB, ffilz, Jonathan Walton, Walt Freitag, pete_darby, Silmenume, Emily Care.

9/13/2004 lumpley: DitV: Saint's Rest
Here's Daniel Coffin's RPGnet post about his first town: dogs in the vineyard: saint's rest (my players, get lost). I'm pointing to it because the town hits me, as I…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, nikola, ScottM.

9/22/2004 lumpley: [kpfs] I was Rude to my Customers (graphic)
The conversation about safewords reminded me of this story. Here's some safeword-relevant context: I've run like a million demos of kill puppies for satan. What I do when I run…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, ErrathofKosh, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, abzu, Noon.

9/25/2004 lumpley: Emergency Backup Website
Occasionally, septemberquestion.org goes down. That's life. I've put the Dogs in the Vineyard portion of lumpley games up on my old geocities site: http://www.geocities.com/lumpley/dogsources.html My blog and comment functions aren't…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

9/30/2004 lumpley: Nat'l Protect Your Players Day
...Just for Ron. This isn't me moderating, it's me setting tone for the convo: Dogs can be a serious game that takes on no foolin' issues. I don't think we…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, MajorKiz, Ron Edwards, nikola.

10/1/2004 lumpley: UNY-Con Seminar: Understanding Roleplaying
I'm running a seminar at UNY-Con this fall. "Understanding Roleplaying," and here's the description:Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley.

10/3/2004 lumpley: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology
Cyrus Dunn is walking among corpses. We see his shoes in black and white. As he steps between the corpses they're black and white too - except that on every…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Matt Wilson, Nazzi, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Valamir, Emily Care, Paul Czege, hanschristianandersen, Meguey, dunlaing.

10/21/2004 lumpley: Understanding Roleplaying - Outline
[quote="I"][b]Understanding Roleplaying[/b] Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of what really happens when you role-play, and we'll go from there.…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, matthijs, Jonathan Walton, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Piers Brown, pfischer, Roger, Paganini, nikola, kwill.

11/19/2004 lumpley: Creating Towns
In another thread, DannyK wrote:Is it just me, or is town creation a lot tricker than it looks? I can create a whole pocket universe in Nobilis in a fraction…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, Blankshield, ivan23, Grover, jasonm, Mark D. Eddy, lelak, Paka, Leningrad, ScottM, Solamasa, urbanpagan.

12/7/2004 lumpley: A Design Checklist for FitM Conflict Resolution Rules
For Conflict Resolution - What does the winner get? - What does the loser get? - How do we know who's the winner and who's the loser? - What do…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Troy_Costisick.

1/31/2005 lumpley: 10 Dogs, 6 Ronin and Assorted Bombastic Aristos
Roleplaying is like sex, y'know? And I'm a hanging out getting to know each other, not on the first date kind of guy. So, yes, a gaming con, but I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paka, Eric Minton, RobNJ, nikola, Bob Goat, gains, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris.

2/2/2005 lumpley: Roleplaying Theory In Person
This is more Dreamation 2005 writeup. I had two hours on Sunday afternoon to talk about roleplaying theory. There were 3-6 other people there, depending on which bit of the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, ffilz, xenopulse, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, clehrich, timfire, Noon, Shawn De Arment, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Weeks, Storn, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

2/3/2005 lumpley: Theory Seminar [cont'd]
In my thread Roleplaying Theory in Person...Vincent, this isn't the first time you've done this sort of thing, right? Do you feel that non-Forgies 'get-it'? What types of questions do…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, timfire, Harlequin, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Bob Goat, M. J. Young.

2/18/2005 lumpley: My Sad, Down Website
Yes, it's down, it's not just you. It does this sometimes. I don't know when it will be back. Soon, I'm sure! Pretty sure. Meanwhile we can have conversations here,…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, xenopulse, pfischer.

2/24/2005 lumpley: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology ep2
Here's the pilot episode's thread: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology. The pilot episode was (retroactively) called "Hello, Hell." Somehow I didn't manage to post about episode 1. I have half a writeup…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, contracycle, Danny_K.

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