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9/20/2004 Paka: Olde School Dee And Dee Sorcerer
[i]Would this work at the table or am I just sleep deprived?[/i] [b]Sorcerers[/b] are your favorite junior high characters. [b]Demons [/b]are magic items, henchmen, followers and cool pets. Note that…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Tobias, pfischer.

9/17/2004 Paka: Where the Wild Things Are
I had the pleasure of reading this to two kindergartenners today and couldn't help but think that Max was a Sorcerer. If I were to run Grade-School Sorcerer again it…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, pete_darby, TickTock Man.

9/16/2004 Paka: 3 BW Games in 5 Days
Agent BW517-MB108 reporting for duty. Friday night I will run a game with pre-made characters, my girlfriend, an old buddy who was manager at a gaming store I worked at…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, bcook1971, taepoong, rafial.

9/15/2004 Paka: BW - The Sorcerer is Dead, Now What?
I'm going to run this one-shot twice, once on Friday and once again on Tuesday with two different groups and pre-made characters. Here's the concept, then the characters and then…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka.

9/15/2004 Paka: extra rotam nulla salus
The subject header is from the opening page of the BW book. What does it mean?
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud, jrs, taepoong, abzu, rafial, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Jason L Blair.

9/15/2004 Paka: Implied Setting in BW(split from Bat-things, Spite, love...)
[quote="Ron Edwards"]1. I've been saying for a while that there is a lot more Setting implicit in the Lifepaths than most people seem to be realizing. I do not think…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

9/10/2004 Paka: Still Wrestling with a Sorcerer in Prison Idea
Roughly inspired by Oz, Shawshank Redemption and Escape from Alcatraz but not entirely faithful to any one of them. Humanity is hope of ever making it back outside to a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, hix, DannyK.

9/10/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Rocking Mu's Bed, Finale with Paula and Robert
[u][b]Out of Game[/b][/u] Getting together to make up Kickers is a nice little half-session activity that I find is best done over lunch or dinner. We're gearing up for the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2004 Paka: [Dogs in the Vineyard] New Gidea
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12548 Above is the link to the creation of New Gidea. We talked about the game itself and I mentioned that I'd like this to be a five session game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, hix, Christopher Weeks, bluegargantua, Manicrack, ErrathofKosh, DannyK.

9/1/2004 Paka: DitV Town: New Gidea
[b]Town:[/b] New Gidea [b]Pride:[/b] Master Printer was on his way to kill the man who raped his sister when the bandits attacked. Through fate he killed the leader and the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, DannyK, Emily Care, lumpley, S, nikola, Albert the Absentminded.

8/29/2004 Paka: Structuring a Dogs in the Vineyard Campaign
I've been thinking how I would work if it my current Dogs in the Vineyard one-shot turned into a campaign. I think the first game should be in a town…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, lumpley.

8/25/2004 Paka: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Eden's Prophet
This game ambushed me at Gen Con and this Thursday I'll get to play it. A gaming buddy from ye olde D&D game is visiting and so we're getting together…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, lumpley, bluegargantua, Manicrack, Grover, nikola, DannyK.

8/24/2004 Paka: Post Gen Con Indie RPG Booth Effect
I came to the con with two buddies, Jeff and JJ. Both have traveled the familiar: D&D-Rifts-White Wolf gaming highwayand have been looking for something that works for them. They…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, thelostgm, abzu.

8/1/2004 Paka: The Riddle of Blood
The Starless Crown worn on the brow of a powerful lich rallied the undead hordes to war with the living. The power of the crown forced even our own Grand…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Deliverator, Tywin Lannister, Negilent, Valamir.

7/21/2004 Paka: Gamer's Log: Mario's Vendetta
A friend of mine is in town for the summer and he's running a TRoS mini-campaign set in Renaissance Italy. He's calling it Vendetta and we learned the combat system…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Emiricol, Sir Mathodius Black.

6/20/2004 Paka: Narrativism and Small Groups
Is there a link between Narrativist games and small groups? It seems to me that the most successful Nar games work with groups of 3 and 4's pushing it. Is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paka, M. J. Young, John Kim.

6/11/2004 Paka: A Sorcerous Month
I've been playing Sorcerer regularly these past four to five weeks. Two different games of Mu's Bed, a one-shot of Blood Simple, a two shot with Grade-School Sorcerers and another…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, hix.

6/8/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Gun-fu Ghost Story
This game is something of a mess. The concept was written up by a buddy of mine, the Thursday Night 7th Sea GM, who hasn't ever played Sorcerer before. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, John Harper.

5/28/2004 Paka: Non-Verbal Demons
I don't like 'em. When my players make up Demons it is as if they are making these great NPC's for me to play and non-verbal Demons just make me…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

5/28/2004 Paka: Gun-Fu Ghost Story
Rob (aka Scorpio Rising) has been running our 7th Sea game for years and hasn't played in a while, so I asked him what he'd like me to run whiel…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Nev the Deranged.

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9/24/2004 Paka: [Monkeywrench] Solo Space Monkey
Today I ran a 4th grader on my maiden run of Zak Arnston's Monkeywrench. On Friday the kids are allowed to bring in their Gameboys. A gaggle of usually imaginative,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat, Noon, Zak Arntson.

10/1/2004 Paka: What I've taken from different games. Lessons learned.
[b]Dust Devils: [/b]It forced me to loosen my grip on the game and realize that it is our game and not my game that is at the table due to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, Negilent.

10/10/2004 Paka: The Evils of Civilization
The City is all cities, a primordial urban mess whose alleys lead everywhere and everywhen. Sorcerers are the desperate, the rugged or the just plain mad who live outside in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Mike Holmes.

10/13/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] The City's Demons and the Wild's Untamed Spirits
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=139350#139350 The above link is the thread in which this setting was created and fleshed out. Jeff, JJ and I have been running one shots in various systems and Jeff…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka.

10/15/2004 Paka: [DiTV] Job Gully
[b]Town[/b]: Job Gully [b]Pride[/b]: Elders in the community have courted those who are on their way to the northwest for the latest gold rush and it is destroying the town…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, DannyK.

10/19/2004 Paka: [Monkeywrench] Monkeys on Mars
Monkeywrench is the kids' RPG in which the players are monkeys on board a space station trying to get free. Conflict resolution is a simple d6 roll, 4, 5, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Shreyas Sampat.

10/21/2004 Paka: [DiTV] Dogs One-Shot
A few friends are coming to visit from outta town and so we will be making up characters primarily through e-mail. Town creation will come later. For now, here are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, lumpley, RobNJ.

11/7/2004 Paka: Underworld: Werewolves vs. Vampires
I just played in a brilliant game by my buddy, Robert and the premise was that the trailer for Underworld was cool but the movie sucked, let's play it right.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Scripty, Sydney Freedberg, DannyK.

11/11/2004 Paka: School Days
[b]Influences[/b]: Freaks and Geeks, Battle Royale, School Daze, Buffy the Vampire Slayer?, Malcom in the Middle?, Dawson's Creek? [i]? = shows I'm either not sure of or haven't seen[/i] [b]Humanity[/b]…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, DannyK.

11/23/2004 Paka: [BW] The Gift at GYGO-a-thon 1
The Gift is an odd adventure to me. Luke was kind enough to e-mail me the character sheets and some hints as to how to play it. I played it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud, abzu.

11/29/2004 Paka: Being a Game's Therapist
A friend of you e-mails and says their game isn't working. Something's wrong. Consider it an RPG intake call. What is it you ask? Whose playing and what are their…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, Nathan P., bcook1971, beingfrank.

12/7/2004 Paka: Mystery Men
I've been flirting with how to do super-heroic Sorcerer and here is my most recent attempt. The starting Demon is something that happened to you that made you want to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, urbwar, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Bailywolf, Ben Morgan.

12/15/2004 Paka: [Burning Wheel] One-shot with ole gaming buddies
I ran a BW game with two friends who have been doing nothing but d20 gaming recently. I can't count the number of times one of them said, "Thanks, Judd,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, abzu, Stigg, taepoong.

12/15/2004 Paka: Some Dogs High Points
I'm not sure when or if I'll have time to write up the other DitV games I've run so I thought I'd write up a couple of high points of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Emily Care, lumpley.

12/16/2004 Paka: Sorcerer One-Sheet Preperation
I am not sure if these steps are exactly where I want them just yet but here is a rough guideline to making a one-sheet. Any feedback or disagreements are…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka.

12/20/2004 Paka: Stepping Away from the United Party Mentality
I am about to run Blood Simple on New Year's Day, it looks like and we're in the preliminary e-mail stages, flirting with the game idea before any foreplay takes…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/21/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Blood Simple '05
I e-mailed 'em: The New Year's Eve Weekend on the evening of New Year's Day we could game. I could run Sorcerer, which is neat because it is capable of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, RobNJ.

1/5/2005 Paka: Sorcerer for YA Fantasy Fiction
Inspirations: high fantasy young adult novels, The Golden Compass, Narnia and Harry Potter. Demons are: animal familiars summoned by wizards, apprentices and the gifted that are in fact manifestations of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2005 Paka: Out of the Joint (Inspired by The Wire, The Corner and Oz)
[b]Inspirations[/b]: The Wire and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood and Oz will probably be in there too. You only ever role-play two days in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 Paka: Dime-Store Katana's
Yes, I know katana is a Japanese word and shouldn't be plural. Dime-Store Katana's is a game about fucked up people who solve problems with violence because they are deluded…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Brendan, Doug Ruff, Vaxalon, Ben Morgan, anonymouse, sirogit, tj333.

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