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7/24/2004 bluegargantua: The Last Hunt -- Call for Comments/Critique
Hi, I'm trying to put a little more effort into developing my RPG ideas and maybe even finishing them. To that end, I'm making the pre-Alpha draft of my game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: bluegargantua, TonyLB.

7/19/2004 bluegargantua: Loose Canon
Hey, The following comes from Ron's original review of Hero Wars which can be found at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/reviews/16/ My most major concern is whether the story will be told for us…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluegargantua, Thor Olavsrud, Invain, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Jere, Bankuei, Donald, jrichard, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, Nick Brooke, ErrathofKosh, Wulf, simon_hibbs, soru, Tim Ellis, Valamir, Ian Cooper, Hobbitboy.

7/2/2004 bluegargantua: Toast Points
Hey Vincent: Dogs in the Vineyard rocks on toast! I really love it. Feel free to quote me on the back of the book. :) Tom
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua.

4/26/2004 bluegargantua: Group Extended Contests and Ganging Up
Hi, So I ran some heroquest yesterday and it went fairly well. We ran out of time before reaching the Heroquest portion of the game, but people seemed to have…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluegargantua, Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, Bryant, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, lightcastle, Alai, contracycle.

4/26/2004 bluegargantua: [Great Ork Gods] Oh that poor little goblin!
Hey, So let's see. For players we've got: Vincent, Emily and Corrie. We also had Bryant, but he showed up late and got to watch (I mean, we could've let…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, Eszed.

4/7/2004 bluegargantua: Your first mini-supplement
Hi, So last night we were disucssing old TV shows (as gamers often do) and I was reminded that Battlestar Galactica was really just "MORMONS IN SPAAAAACE!". And then of…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, xiombarg, Albert the Absentminded, pfischer.

2/20/2004 bluegargantua: Dog Dispensation
Hey, I think we had this conversation before under the heading: "Can a Dog order a regular Faithful to violate Church Law? For example, could the Dog order the Faithful…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/19/2004 bluegargantua: Skipping Steps
Quick question: Could you go from Pride to Sin to Murder? We've got Bro Ben thinking he deserves a second wife and sleeping with Sis Abigail. Bro Fred, Sis Abigail's…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley, Jake Norwood.

2/17/2004 bluegargantua: Streamlining Character Creation
Y'know what I think is the hardest part about character creation? Figuring out your initial die pools. It's a little wonky. You have to sit there and figure out which…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

1/14/2004 bluegargantua: Providing Challenge in Adventures
Hi, So I'm assembling a quick one-shot for our local gaming group to test out the HQ system. We're just curious to take the system out for a spin and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluegargantua, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper, Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins, RaconteurX, Scripty.

12/20/2003 bluegargantua: Killing Christmas Puppies
okay, so, i ran kill puppies for satan tonight. tonight i was guided by lord lumpley's tarnished rule: in kpfs, prepping a plot is a complete and total waste of…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Zathreyel, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards, Bryant, lumpley, Meguey.

10/9/2003 bluegargantua: Things I learned from Nobilis
Hey, So, I've been playing in a Nobilis game which recently went on hiatus. It's my fevered hope that the game revives at some point in the future because the…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, xiombarg, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, pete_darby, GreatWolf, Jere, John Kim.

7/7/2003 bluegargantua: Hero Wars Mechanics Question
Hey, So I've been running some test sessions of the Extended Contest Mechanics for Hero Wars and I think I've found a snag (or a misunderstanding on my part). There…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluegargantua, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2003 bluegargantua: Heroquesting -- The Larger Picture
From an older thread... However, it is definitely not, "Which side are you on?" The sides in the various political conflicts in Glorantha are deconstructed through playing the game.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluegargantua, sben, Ron Edwards, MrWrong, Uncle Dark, Valamir, Tod Olson, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, Nick Brooke, Tim Ellis, Gordon C. Landis, Alai.

4/19/2003 bluegargantua: [24 hour game] Affairs of State
Hey, Just finished my submission for the 24-Hour Game. You can pick it up here. It's called Affairs of State and players take on the role of diplomats from…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: bluegargantua, Jeph, lumpley, clehrich, Emily Care, Mike Holmes.

1/2/2003 bluegargantua: Playing with Pre-packs
Again, another topic I hope hasn't been done to death: Another question which has been tugging at my mind recently is: How frequently do people run published scenarios for their…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Clay, GreatWolf, rabidchyld, xiombarg, hyphz, clehrich, John Kim, Blake Hutchins, Ted E. Childers.

1/2/2003 bluegargantua: Campaign Length
I did some searching, but I didn't see this particular topic mentioned before. My apologies if I'm recovering old ground... I'm taking an informal poll and asking people how long…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, DaR, Eric J., Emily Care, Matt Gwinn, Uncle Dark, Matt Wilson, Ardwen, cruciel, clehrich.

12/18/2002 bluegargantua: The Box -- an idea for clarifying terminology
Hi, So reading through the GNS articles and a number of threads here in this forum, I've come to the following conclusion: The terminology was rather vague to begin with.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: bluegargantua, Emily Care, quozl, Bankuei, Seth L. Blumberg, talysman, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

11/27/2002 bluegargantua: Sorcerer One-Shot
Hi, As mentioned a few threads back, I ran a one-shot demo game of Sorcerer for Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge MA as part of their Iron Gamer Series.…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

11/14/2002 bluegargantua: Sorcerer and the Dicecapades
Greetings, I'm working up a Sorcerer adventure to run as a one-shot in the next couple of weeks and I'm trying to head off a potential administrative problem: So as…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Dotan Dimet.

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9/16/2004 bluegargantua: Forcing an Outcome
OK, Me and Cadmus, just stumbled in on Branch Zachary having an affair with Avigail. We catch them going at it through the bedroom window and you say that Avigail…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley, DannyK, Ron Edwards, charlesperez, Ben Lehman, Valamir, nikola, jrs, inthisstyle, Jonathan Walton, clehrich.

9/16/2004 bluegargantua: Heresy Lite
Hey, OK, so there's murder which is just a Sin and Murder which is Really Bad News. The former is simply a crime of passion or opportunity or injustice. The…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua.

10/9/2004 bluegargantua: [DitV] One-on-One Session
Hi, So I had a Friday night free and decided to play me some Dogs. Only my friend Lucas was free. So we just did a one-on-one session. So here's…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Rob MacDougall.

10/13/2004 bluegargantua: PDF Format
Hey, Quick question: I'm too late to get a nice thick book to hold in my hands (sob), but the PDF samples on the website show the pages landscape style…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bluegargantua, abzu.

12/12/2004 bluegargantua: Discreet Spell Casting
Hi, So, I'm reading through the magic system in BW. The section gives a spell out of the book to illustrate the different components of a spell description. Sitting here…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bluegargantua, Thor Olavsrud.

8/23/2005 bluegargantua: [Bacchanal] GenCon Playtest
Hey,   So.  GenCon.  It was my first time and a hoot.    I didn't do a whole lot of actual gaming for reasons that belong in another post.  I…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Yokiboy, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Star, Paul Czege.

11/15/2005 bluegargantua: [DitV] Welcome to Bounty
Hey,   I'd wrapped up my Amber/Nobilis game and offered to do a Dogs one-shot for people.  I was interested in trying it out again, they seemed game to try…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, TonyLB, oliof, Victor Gijsbers, Neal.

7/14/2006 bluegargantua: [Grey Ranks] Other Child Soldiers of WWII
Hi,   Although they never fought the Polish Scouts directly, you might be interested in the new Osprey Book about the Hitler Youth:   http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php?title=S874X&ser=WAR later Tom
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: bluegargantua, jasonm.

7/25/2006 bluegargantua: Mr. Nobody Resolves
Hi,   I've got a conflict.  I've claimed one side of it.  No one else has claimed the other side, but, for various reasons, they all chip in some debt,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: bluegargantua, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Hans.

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