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10/1/2004 Trevis Martin: RPG Net review of Dogs
Is here http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10709.phtml Its a little abbreviated but a good showing none the less. best Trevis
In lumpley games
Participants: Trevis Martin, pfischer, Brand_Robins, nikola.

9/8/2004 Trevis Martin: Yet another Character Sheet
I just wanted to make the character sheet I made for my group available to others. You can get it here Its not as baroque as Ben's and not as...um...utilitarian...as…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin.

9/8/2004 Trevis Martin: Character Sheet as the Baseline.
I wanted to share something I came across in Doyce Testerman's blog the other day which was a kind of 'bonk' insight moment for me (though I'm sure Ron has…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

9/2/2004 Trevis Martin: (9W) Duration of tricks.
Hi Matt. I bought Nine Worlds at GenCon and have just gotten through it. Its great! That layout is FANTASTIC (relax, just teasing you a little, man.. I want to…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Trevis Martin, Matt Snyder.

9/2/2004 Trevis Martin: A question on handicap.
Hey Alex, I've been reading Fastlane and its really good. (Plus I think its just a little bit cool that I get to be thanked, thanks for the thanks.) I…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Trevis Martin, Lxndr.

7/3/2004 Trevis Martin: New Sword and Sorcerous Literature Available
Well, following last years release of the first 13 Conan Stories, Del Ray and Wandering Star have just released The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane. I just got my copy…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, joshua neff, Spartan, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Sean, Tim Mahan.

6/4/2004 Trevis Martin: Posessors/Parasites, Stamina and Damage
Hey Ron, I've perused a bunch of past threads but I can't seem to find an answer to my question. If someone attempts to damage a possessor or parasite demon…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Henri, Bob McNamee.

4/11/2004 Trevis Martin: TROS: Crashing and Burning in Middle-Earth (long)
By consensus my play group ended our fledgling first time TROS game last night and I thought I'd post a small post mortem here. Let me state up front that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2004 Trevis Martin: Comparitive data thread: Reward and Reward Mechanics.
Hi everyone, I found myself interested in the comparing of dwarf stats in the Dwarfs, Dwarves and Small People thread and I think it would be a good thing to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Lxndr, Michael S. Miller.

1/29/2004 Trevis Martin: Dice systems in TROS and other inquiries
Hi everyone, First, Jake, thanks for the game. I recieved it for Christmas (after all what says Happy Holidays more than vicious sword combat?), and we are due to play…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Trevis Martin, Paganini, Thanaeon.

1/28/2004 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer's Soul reading list and an interesting thought.
Hello everybody, I've just finished reading the Ross MacDonald novel "The Zebra Striped Hearse." (And Rons right, I think I've blown a cornea keeping track of the realtionships.) I've also…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

10/22/2003 Trevis Martin: MLwM: Meat for the Machine 2: Revenge of the Spider Babies.
Here follows the second session narration log for our MLWM game. Ref: * Ref: * Ref: * Ref: MLWM, Meat for the Machine, Session 2 Ref: * Ref: * Ref:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes, AgentFresh, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, anonymouse.

10/15/2003 Trevis Martin: MLwM: Meat for the Machine
Hey everyone, We've started a game of MLwM over in indie netgaming and have played one setup and one story session so far. I'm the Ref, my first time trying…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, anonymouse, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2003 Trevis Martin: Universalis - A twisted farce.
Yesterday, two of our group were extraordinarily late for our game due to a miscommunication about an event that they had. We were waiting to play our game of Donjon.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2003 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer, 1st Game.
My group and I recently finished our first game of Sorcerer. I will admit that I'm to blame being the Forge head among us. This isn't the first Forge spawned…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Valamir, J B Bell, Jeph, Christopher Weeks.

8/4/2003 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer, Embraced by the Dark
This was an idea I had for a Sorcerer game, mainly inspired by Flatliners and the progressive demon option mentioned in Sorcerer and Soul. Embraced by the Dark Inspirations: Flatliners,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Delta1, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

8/2/2003 Trevis Martin: Shadows - Actual Play from indie-netgaming.
Last night those of us hanging in the indie netgaming social irc (#indierpgs) room did a pick up game of Zak Arneston's Shadows. A creepy good time was had by…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, C. Edwards, Lxndr.

6/10/2003 Trevis Martin: Sex and Sorcery -- This Book Rocks!
Wow Ron. Really wow. I just received my copy in the mail today and I've read it all the way through. Its a page turner. My brain is numb. I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Bankuei, Jeffrey Straszheim, Lxndr, Andy Kitkowski.

3/26/2003 Trevis Martin: Paladin - Only one weapon?
Hey Clinton I've just recently purchased and read Paladin and I have a question. There is a point early in the rules that you mention its important the the Paladin…
In CRN Games
Participants: Trevis Martin, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, Bob McNamee, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

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11/24/2004 Trevis Martin: Revisionist History: Mechanics Clarity Check
Hi folks, I've just put the alpha writeup of my game Revisionist History on my website. Check it out here This is a game in which all the players take…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Trevis Martin, reprobate, Nathan P., Lathan, clehrich.

1/1/2005 Trevis Martin: & Sword Fiction, The Writing of Robert E Howard
Del Rey has been releasing trade paperbacks of Wandering Star's collection of the Robert E Howard's conan fiction. (A good thing as the Wandering Star hardcover limited editions are very,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, bcook1971, joshua neff, Paganini, James_Nostack, Alan, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2005 Trevis Martin: New Universalis Play by Wiki starting up.
Hi folks. Mike Holmes mentioned this in the Lessons from playing Uni on Wiki? thread. But I wanted to announce it so it could be seen. We're trying to start…
In Universalis
Participants: Trevis Martin, hix, Valamir, ScottM, Shieldage.

3/6/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Stretching Description in Conflict Resolution
I just got through doing character creation for a couple of my players. Karri and Joey are friends of mine. Karri is about 33 and Joey is 17. They were…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin.

3/23/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Question about injury from non-physical fallout
My group was creating some more DitV characters last weekend and when running an initiatory confilct I had a character who had to 'take the blow' with 4 dice. It…
In lumpley games
Participants: Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, Leningrad, Wolfen, Lxndr, nikola, Doug Ruff, lumpley, gorckat.

3/25/2005 Trevis Martin: [Revisionist History] New draft needs critical eyes.
Hi folks. Its me again. I've revised my game Revisionist History and I'd like some feedback on it. Its a game written for online play like Neel Krishnaswami's Lexicon. It…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Trevis Martin, Tobias.

3/26/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Kings Rock
Okay so we played Dogs earlier tonight. At first I was gonna run one of the great towns that someone else made up. It was a busy day and I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Trevis Martin.

4/12/2005 Trevis Martin: Anna Kerenina R-map
I found it here: http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/anna/characters/anna_characters_map.jhtml while doing a search for relationship maps. I think it might be useful to someone. I"m probably going to use it myself. best, Trevis
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, pfischer, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, matthijs, Mike Holmes, Andy Kitkowski, Rob MacDougall, Jere, Thierry Michel.

5/7/2005 Trevis Martin: PTA - The Cards Option
Okay, my group played a little session of this gem of a game and I really like it. The question I have is that I've seen it mentioned around these…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Trevis Martin, Alan, Eero Tuovinen, Frank T, Matt Wilson, Kenway, John Harper, Rob Donoghue, rafial.

5/24/2005 Trevis Martin: Publishing with TiddlyWiki
I wanted to share this with everyone. I ran across a wiki software called TiddlyWiki. It is an entirely client side wiki software written in xhtml and javascript. That works…
In Publishing
Participants: Trevis Martin, Andy Kitkowski, Paul Czege, Gaerik.

7/8/2005 Trevis Martin: Universalis wiki game starting
A new universalis wiki game is getting started on my site I think we've accepted that we will not get the ever growing wiki uber universalis game. That…
In Universalis
Participants: Trevis Martin.

7/27/2005 Trevis Martin: [Regency Park] Playing Card Resolution and Statistics -Help?
Hi Folks I've been working in bits and pieces on my game Regency Park.  It is a Game of love, marraige and social drama set during the English Regency period…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Trevis Martin, Thededine, MikeSands, Warren, Black Iris Dancer, Walt Freitag.

8/16/2005 Trevis Martin: The Game of Design
So my group has been playing the new Vampire:TR game.  Our conclusion so far: setting is better, rules still suck.  I had gotten some intense desire back when everyone expressed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin.

9/26/2005 Trevis Martin: Site Offline? [BACK ONLINE, THANKS FOR PATIENCE! - Matt]
Hey Matt, I seem to be unable to reach Chimera Creative's site.  You tweaking or is this a server thing? best Trevis
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Trevis Martin, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, smokewolf.

10/25/2005 Trevis Martin: Universalis, Entropy and the Fall of the Uniwiki
After a fourth and fifth try, our attempts at playing Universalis by Wiki have come to an anticlimactic end. I think Mike's original idea, way back when we started thinking…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, ScottM, Valamir, Mike Holmes, nijineko, nilsderondeau, greyorm, Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Noon, Ron Edwards.

12/28/2005 Trevis Martin: Parasite Powers
Hey Ron, I want to know if I have this right.  The book notes that a Parasite always confers all its powers except Boost (which it can confer optionally) to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2006 Trevis Martin: Need some webspace or a page?
Hi folks, I currently have an account with Dreamhost, and I host a couple of private domains on it that I tinker with.  Here's the thing.  I'm not expecting spikes…
In Connections
Participants: Trevis Martin.

5/12/2006 Trevis Martin: Need some art?
Hi folks, I'd like to do art for someone's game.  I'm an experienced artist but I've not done any illustration work for publication before.  I'm wanting to build a portfolio…
In Connections
Participants: Trevis Martin.

10/26/2006 Trevis Martin: [Vampire: The Requiem] Play as written?...right.
I decided early in 2005 that I wanted to play a game with the new Vampire: The Requiem rules.  It was pretty easy to convince the group to give it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, sirogit, James_Nostack, Simon C, Joe Murphy (Broin), Lamorak33, TJ.

1/14/2007 Trevis Martin: [Sorcerer] If at first we don't succeed...
So my recent game of Sorcerer didn't go so well.  I had pushed to play it after we had finished with Vampire and gotten through a several month period of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

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