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10/16/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Notes] Arthouse Wuxia
So, Shreyas and I chatted a bit today about what we want to cover in our Arthouse Wuxia article, enough that I think I can lay down a basic outline…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, neelk, Ben Lehman, clehrich, Rich Forest, Shreyas Sampat.

10/15/2004 Jonathan Walton: Pre-Planning: What's Issue #1 Looking Like?
[quote="Emily Care"]November? What have we got on tap for it?[/quote] So far: - Eero's article on Finnish Roleplaying's Cultural Liberation - Neel's game [i]Lexicon[/i] - an article about & excepts…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, GaryTP, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Rich Forest, LordSmerf, Piers Brown.

10/14/2004 Jonathan Walton: Let's Talk About Deadlines
[quote="Back when we were talking about the Player's Guide, Chris Lehrich"]If I were editing this, I would lay down the law about the following: 1. Three deadlines, all absolute without…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Emily Care.

10/13/2004 Jonathan Walton: How We Got Here
I was reading through the old Players' Guide thread and finding tons of great stuff that could be beneficial to people who are beginning to think about what they want…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

10/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC - Initiations
Okay, I'm going to post the entire transcipt online (for Vincent and people who like reading all the Peanut Gallery comments), but here's the quick-and-dirty version of the first session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, beingfrank, lumpley, ScottM, Ben Lehman, DannyK.

10/7/2004 Jonathan Walton: Charter
Chris said that we should discuss this at some point, so I'm making it a sticky. --- 1. Push is about real people roleplaying. This is the core of what…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

10/5/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Cover/Layout
I figured I might as well post this, since I've been sitting on it for a while. http://1001.indie-rpgs.com/push.jpg It's the blocky, modernist style you've seen in Brian Glass' design work…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, GaryTP, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

10/4/2004 Jonathan Walton: You're Probably Wondering Why You're Here...
Hey Folks, Just a quick "hello" message until I get the stickies finished and up. Chris Lehrich just told me that all the members of this new group got an…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich.

10/4/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC - Initiations
Hoo doggie! Well, we've got a fistfull of great characters now, so why don't we start setting up some great initiation scenes for them. What we need for each character…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, Doyce, DannyK, anonymouse, beingfrank.

9/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC
Okay, I'm done thinking about this game. Now I've got to play it. So, let's play Dogs on IRC, as soon as possible. I'm 12 time zones away from most…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, lumpley, DannyK, anonymouse, beingfrank, Blankshield, Doyce.

9/29/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs as Angels [Braindump]
So, I was thinking about Dogs when I was supposed to be thinking about my Fulbright research today, when I suddenly realized that I like Dogs for the exact same…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, nikola, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, DannyK.

9/19/2004 Jonathan Walton: Death in Dogs?
This is mostly a Vincent question, but other people might have thoughts too. What is the point of character death in Dogs? What does it mean exactly and what purpose…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Christopher Weeks, nikola, Doyce.

9/19/2004 Jonathan Walton: The Cat Comes Back
So, the initial toughts on my mod-in-progress, Lions on the Precipice, were shared and bounced around in this thread. Now that I've gotten more settled here in China, I'm ready…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Albert the Absentminded, Emily Care.

9/13/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the Mountains
So, while I was in the shower today, I had a thought. What if one day the Dogs, including at least one native convert (PC or NPC), rode into one…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, MajorKiz, Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, DannyK, nikola.

9/11/2004 Jonathan Walton: Nighttime Animals is a Revolution
So, I was commenting in another thread about how Vincent Baker's Nighttime Animals Save the World is a great game for beginning roleplayers, which gave me the excuse to go…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Noon, Gamskee, Andrew Morris, timfire.

9/10/2004 Jonathan Walton: Let's Try This Again (White Wolf)
So here's a new clean thread where we can start over without all of the venom of some of the recent threads about White Wolf, their publishing model, their motivations,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt, Inner Circle Inc.

9/9/2004 Jonathan Walton: Disappointed with the Forge (re: White Wolf)
Over the past few days there have been a series of threads offering thoughts on the new World of Darkness and, more often, White Wolf's business model and "real goals"…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, greyorm, Doug Ruff, Bankuei, Andrew Morris, eyebeams, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Noon.

8/9/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Vespertine] Playtest It With Me!
Hey Folks, So I'm developing this game called Vespertine, which is a pseudo-sequel to Jason Blair's game of childhood terror, Little Fears. The game is about teenagers fooling around with…
In Connections
Participants: Jonathan Walton, anonymouse.

8/9/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dramatic Drama II (split)
[quote="Emily Care"]From my experiences in this game, I think it would probably be easier to integrate someone else into the negotiation of events than one might think: it's actually pretty…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

7/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Vespertine: Some System Help?
Man, it's been a long time since I've had a thread in this forum. Anyway, I'm trying to put some finishing touches on this concept called Vespertine that I've been…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, PlotDevice, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Tobias, Christopher Weeks, Marhault, chadu.

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11/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Idea: Free to Non-Roleplayers
So I'm in the middle of writing this extremely long article on the origins and development of wuxia for my in-the-works progressive roleplaying journal, Push. And I was thinking, "How…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jack Aidley, Matt Snyder, timfire, ethan_greer, jdagna.

11/21/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Arthouse Wuxia
Hey Folks, Long time no see. http://1001.indie-rpgs.com/ArthouseWuxia.doc The biggest reason that I've been silent is that I've been preparing an initial draft of my wuxia article, which right now is…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat.

11/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Exalted Adopts Stances (sort of)
Okay, so there was all this buzz about Exalted: The Fair Folk and how Rebecca Sean Borgstrom was going to further her diabolical plans of infecting Exalted, a fairly traditional…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Valamir, TonyLB, Ben Lehman.

12/2/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Vespertine] So Close I Can Taste It!
So I'm trying to finish up all the system design work on Vespertine so I can start writing it. And I'm SO, SO close. And the art just came in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Tobias, Sydney Freedberg, inky, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf, daMoose_Neo.

12/16/2004 Jonathan Walton: [Vesperteen] Creeping to the Finish Line
Okay, so design post I had going has slipped off the front page, so, according to Forge etiquette, I'm creating a new thread. The last thread was here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13549 Thanks…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Emily Care, Eero Tuovinen, inky, LordSmerf, GaryTP.

1/28/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Anotherkind] Children of the Corn
So we were hanging around IRC and Paganini wanted to play something, Josh was game, and I volunteered to GM. We settled on Otherkind, specifically just the dice mechanic, which…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Piers Brown.

2/3/2005 Jonathan Walton: Diaspora: How I Learned 2 Stop Worrying & Love the Forge
So I posted the following text over on Vincent's Blog, but I thought that it was important enough to bring over here and maybe talk about a bit with both…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Harlequin, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, M. J. Young, clehrich, A.Neill, contracycle, JamesDJIII, bcook1971, Trevis Martin, Brendan, Bankuei, Green, Nathan, Andy Kitkowski.

2/4/2005 Jonathan Walton: Member Purge & Opening
Hey Folks, So here's the deal. I'm going to go through the memberlist and get rid of anyone that's never posted in this forum and, from the look of things,…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, clehrich.

2/4/2005 Jonathan Walton: Issue #1 Outline
[b]PUSH[/b] Vol 1. - Eero Tuovinen, [i]Anglo Influence and Reactions in Finnish Roleplaying[/i] - Emily Care, [i]Collaborative Roleplaying Paradigms[/i] - Ben Lehman, [i]Polaris-Style Resolution and Responsibility Distribution[/i] - Jonathan Walton…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, LordSmerf, GaryTP.

2/7/2005 Jonathan Walton: Bizarre Distribution/Promo Scheme: Contributor Copies
So we've already had one inquiry about whether we're doing a print run of PUSH, and I was recalling Chris or Eero saying that they'd much rather have a half-dozen…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

2/11/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Draft] Arthouse Wuxia (Take 2)
I'm going to post sections as I get done revising them. Thoughts and suggestions are most welcome (somehow, my footnotes have turned into lowercase roman numerals?). ----- Arthouse Wuxia Jonathan…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

2/21/2005 Jonathan Walton: Rights
Just thought I should make this explicit, since some people were asking: PUSH is an indie publishing venture. You keep all rights to everything you submit. That means ALL RIGHTS.…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

2/22/2005 Jonathan Walton: Bonus Feature: Creators' Commentary
I was thinking about Emily's article and Eero's and how it would be cool to actually get the discussion of them started in the journal itself, beginning to make connections…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf, Shreyas Sampat.

2/23/2005 Jonathan Walton: If You're Looking for Overtime Work...
...you guys should all submit proposals to this project: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14444 Despite the fact that the thread number has four 4's and, by Chinese numerology, the book is thusly doomed to…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

4/3/2005 Jonathan Walton: We Have a Webpage
[url]http://100flowers.indie-rpgs.com/push[/url] Look through it. It's a draft. Suggestions are very welcome. In the contents section, those who've submitted stuff have the title of their most recent draft listed. Those who…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

4/6/2005 Jonathan Walton: The View From Here: 3 Years Hence
Time to wish and prophesai :) 1. Where do you see low-tech* roleplaying in 3 years? 2. Where do you see indie roleplaying in 3 years? *I know that technological…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, Scripty, timfire, Shreyas Sampat, xenopulse, Bankuei, komradebob.

4/8/2005 Jonathan Walton: What Should I Do With These?
So, I have these amazing pictures that I did for a game concept called We Regret to Inform You the Gamemaster is Dead, which was going to be a kind…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Paka, daMoose_Neo.

4/11/2005 Jonathan Walton: [FINAL] Arthouse Wuxia
Here's Part 1 of my final draft. Hopefully I can get Part 2 done by the end of this week. I'm going to try to step up and get my…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

4/16/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Improv] Past Glories: Adventures in Ritual Lang.
So I got up this morning with a real hankering to play something, so I log on to IRC and try to recruit some folks for a pick-up game. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, TonyLB, Paganini, Selene Tan.

4/21/2005 Jonathan Walton: Scene Framing Workshop (IRC)
So, this morning, I was pondering the simple beauty of some of the pick-up games I've played in IRC over the past few months. It happens like this: a bunch…
In Connections
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes.

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