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11/11/2004 clehrich: [Shadows In The Fog] New Draft
Some of you may recall my game Shadows in the Fog, an occult history horror and weirdness thing set in Jack the Ripper's London. Well, after much agony and some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, redivider, Mike Holmes, Cemendur, Piers Brown, Jere, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Lee Short.

10/16/2004 clehrich: On Charitable Reading
Lately on the Forge, I have noticed a lot of what might be called “uncharitable reading.” I’m not going to point fingers or give references here; there’s no point in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: clehrich, Clinton R. Nixon, Ethesis, casquilho, Michael Johnson.

10/15/2004 clehrich: [Draft] RPG of Cruelty
Here's a draft of something I knocked together a while back in response to people's yammering at Jonathan about Brecht and gaming on his RPG.net forum. I'm a little hesitant…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, neelk, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, Eero Tuovinen, Shreyas Sampat.

10/15/2004 clehrich: Citation-Handling
[b][u]Citing Sources Style-Sheet[/b][/u] There are several reasons to give citation information. First and foremost, citations and bibliographies help your readers to follow up on what you have said. If someone’s…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, John Kim, Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

10/5/2004 clehrich: Thinking about editing -- for the rest of us
Hi gang, While we wait for stickies, I want to suggest something. Everyone ought to think about an introduction. Who am I? What's my thing? What am I really good…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest, Eero Tuovinen, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, GaryTP.

10/4/2004 clehrich: Some Editorial Suggestions
While we wait for stickies, let me make some suggestions. I'm not necessarily wedded to anything here, but some of this might be useful. First, a central principle: the primary…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton.

10/3/2004 clehrich: Sorcerers of Fu Manchu
Hi, gang. I'm working toward a brief Sorcerer campaign and I'm having a little trouble getting it to make sense in the writeup. In particular, I'm having trouble with rituals.…
In Adept Press
Participants: clehrich, Old_Scratch, sirogit, DannyK, marcus, Rob MacDougall, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2004 clehrich: Congratulations Ron!
Has anyone else noticed that Ron recently broke the 10,000 posts mark? Happy something day, Ron! If you're going to chime in on this, folks, do so before he comes…
In Site Discussion
Participants: clehrich, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2004 clehrich: Sim-Diceless thread search
Hi gang, I'm working on something at the moment, which you won't be surprised to hear is wildly theoretical and probably completely bizarre, and I won't talk your eyes off…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: clehrich, Trevis Martin, Jonathan Walton, timfire, neelk, Sean, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, John Kim, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, contracycle, Marco, Arref.

9/20/2004 clehrich: Inquisitors in the Vineyard
As I mentioned somewhere else around here, I'm starting to collate some notes for a 16th-century Inquisitors supplement. But already I'm running into some trouble, and I wonder if you…
In lumpley games
Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, nikola, beingfrank, lumpley, MajorKiz, James Maliszewski, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, DannyK.

7/9/2004 clehrich: [Shadows in the Fog / Age of Paranoia]
Hi again. Some of you may remember some previous threads about Shadows in the Fog, a while back: The first thread The next try Then Jere decided to port the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, bluegargantua, Jere, jeffwik.

7/5/2004 clehrich: More on jargon and models [long]
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a little while now, actually since I had a nice chat with Alan McVey at a conference a month back, and when I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, MR. Analytical, Matt Snyder, greyorm, Erick Wujcik, Tim C Koppang, pete_darby, Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards, John Kim, timfire, komradebob, M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, Marco, Valamir.

4/16/2004 clehrich: Age of Paranoia -- test and setup run
I hope Jere and Rob will jump in here and explicate, but I’ll give it a brief go. Please comment freely on any part. Tonight we had the first session…
In Actual Play
Participants: clehrich, Jere, bluegargantua, Bryant, Emily Care, Rob MacDougall.

4/10/2004 clehrich: GM Technique and Teaching
As some of you know, I teach in college classrooms, usually small seminars. And the more I think about classic problems that arise in teaching, the more I think that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2004 clehrich: For Eero: My Life With Levi-Strauss
So after Eero, Jonathan, and Ralph said all that postiive stuff, I just want to let you know I'm actually starting to work on Levi-Strauss in Amazonia, though I'm not…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, Andrew Martin, Jonathan Walton, Piers Brown, Eero Tuovinen.

4/6/2004 clehrich: Yee F-ing Ha!
Hey, since we're all getting sloshed and not paying attention to the normal rules about what is and is not an appropriate topic of conversation here on the Forge, I…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: clehrich, Sean, coxcomb, Valamir, Rob MacDougall, Walt Freitag, taalyn, jrs, ScottM, Rich Forest, JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat, Ben Lehman, WDFlores, montag, ADGConscience, Emily Care, Nick Pagnucco, Piers Brown.

4/4/2004 clehrich: Bad RPG Fiction
One other thread I wanted to start, which I think might pick up a bit once more people have drunk heavily, is about bad RPG fiction. I'm talking about the…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: clehrich, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, rafial, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/4/2004 clehrich: Be honest, now
Okay, you can log out and answer this if you like, but Ron's so plastered by this point that he won't remember a thing. Admit it, have you ever: 1.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Shreyas Sampat, Sean, C. Edwards, cruciel, bcook1971, ethan_greer, Jonathan Walton, talysman, Alan, brainwipe, Marhault, Nick Pagnucco, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, hix, Dav, Ron Edwards, timfire, Jack Aidley, orbsmatt.

4/4/2004 clehrich: Beer and munchies
Okay, so Walt's got a lampshade on his head at 2:30 in the afternoon, but most of the rest of us seem to be starting up slowly. So my ultra-important…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: clehrich, Shreyas Sampat, Lxndr, cruciel, Jeph, coxcomb, Bob McNamee, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Steven Bishop, jrs, brainwipe, ScottM, Jack Aidley, WDFlores, orbsmatt.

3/31/2004 clehrich: How do I define this?
Over in The hard question Jesse brought up an anecdote that really hit me over the head. Let me start by quoting it, for those who didn't go through that…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: clehrich, coxcomb, Noon, Valamir, Walt Freitag, cruciel.

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11/19/2004 clehrich: Levi-Strauss in Amazonia -- MLwM Variant
Long ago, on the Birthday Forum last Spring, Eero Tuovinen made the terrible mistake of suggesting a transposition of My Life with Master as Levi-Strauss in Amazonia. I apologize, but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, John Kirk.

11/21/2004 clehrich: [Shadows in the Fog] Playtesters badly wanted!
Okay, this is a cry for help. Shadows in the Fog is just begging to be playtested by someone other than me. There is serious question about whether it can…
In Connections
Participants: clehrich, Peter Nordstrand.

11/21/2004 clehrich: MLWM rules confusion: overtures and intimacy
I'm a little confused. Am I right that when making an overture (to get Love), you can use an Intimacy/Desperation/Sincerity bonus if the approach warrants it? I'm having a little…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: clehrich, GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

11/22/2004 clehrich: RPG Prose Style exemplars
As most of you know, much of my professional work is, unfortunately, devoted to grading--I mean teaching writing, as in academic prose style. Not surprisingly, then, I have been working…
In Publishing
Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rob MacDougall.

11/22/2004 clehrich: Cults and Gaming -- suggestions?
Digging among the various Mainstream and whatnot threads in the Big Five, including Gay/Gamer especially but also a lot of others, I stumbled on a weird thought. Most of that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, Silmenume, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton, daMoose_Neo, John Kim, John Kirk, contracycle, WhiteRat, Mike Holmes, Mark Woodhouse, Noon, wkoepf.

12/3/2004 clehrich: On RPGs and Text [LONG]
In a couple of running threads, I’ve emphasized a radical divide between textual media and RPGs. Ron has suggested that this may be dragging at least one of those threads…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Matt Snyder, John Kim, neelk, daMoose_Neo, Christopher Kubasik, Alan, LordSmerf, TonyLB, lumpley, ethan_greer, Mark Woodhouse, Piers Brown, Mike Holmes, Michael Brazier, Ian Charvill, contracycle, Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards, Caldis.

12/4/2004 clehrich: Self-defense and Forge-defense -- should I?
Hi gang, So Ben Lehman pointed out to me that in the course of a discussion about RPGs and how they should be written, someone posted a small and out-of-context…
In Site Discussion
Participants: clehrich, Bankuei, greyorm, Matt Wilson, Trevis Martin, Marco, Ron Edwards.

12/8/2004 clehrich: Weird Structuralist Nonsense
Hey gang, You may have noticed my recent madness on the RPG Theory forum, about structuralism, myth, and gaming. It's at the tail-end of the "RPGs and Text " thread,…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, Rich Forest, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton.

12/11/2004 clehrich: Addressing the Audience
So as I start slowly grinding the gears to think about writing something on structural analysis, myth, and gaming, I'm running immediately against a problem that I think is general…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, Rich Forest, Jonathan Walton.

12/20/2004 clehrich: Setting up a Wiki Game
Hi gang, I'm looking for advice. Bear in mind that I live in the stone age, when we still used pencil and paper, so I'm a little clueless. I have…
In Publishing
Participants: clehrich, Dev, Trevis Martin, Brendan, daMoose_Neo.

1/17/2005 clehrich: [SITF] Wiki site up
With the help, guidance, and support of Trevis Martin, and a cool bit of coding from Bryant Durrell, the Shadows in the Fog wiki web home is now up and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich.

1/20/2005 clehrich: SITF Wiki site
Hi, A while back I asked for assistance for setting up a wiki for Shadows in the Fog, and with Trevis Martin's immense help I've done this. The Site is…
In Publishing
Participants: clehrich.

1/21/2005 clehrich: Transcript: Terminological suggestion
I would like to propose a consistent alteration or expansion of terminology. This started in Marco's thread on retroactive story. Standing Definitions this post I"]I propose that "transcript" be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Marco, LordSmerf, John Kim, ffilz, Silmenume.

1/30/2005 clehrich: [CoC] Ruminations on Fear
Quite a number of years ago, I ran a brief CoC campaign. It never finished up, I forget why, but one session sticks clearly in my head. It raises some…
In Actual Play
Participants: clehrich, Silmenume, bcook1971, inky, Artanis, Marco, GB Steve.

2/3/2005 clehrich: [InSpectres] Wodehouse variant thinking
So over in Actual Play, Sven started a thread about Operation Icebox and had a comment also about P.G. Wodehouse's novels in InSpectres. That started to get crazy, so I'm…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, gains, Svend, hix, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/4/2005 clehrich: What am I writing?
[quote="In the new Sticky, Jonathan"]- Chris Lehrich, [i]New and Exciting Stuff[/i] (Maybe) - Jonathan Walton, Chris Lehrich, Rich Forest, etc., [i]Editorial Chores and Pleasures[/i][/quote]Eh? Here's my guess, but I have…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Rich Forest.

2/13/2005 clehrich: Editing MSS
What sort of editing is supposed to be happening here on the forum? Mostly content editing, or are we also supposed to be doing proofreading? I vote for content and…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: clehrich, Jonathan Walton.

2/16/2005 clehrich: Bricolage APPLIED (finally!)
[size=14px][b]RPGs and Bricolage: Theory and Practice[/b][/size] In Jay’s recent thread on a 1/3-baked idea, a surprising (to me, anyway) agreement was reached about Simulationism, reflexivity, and so forth. In many…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, CPXB, Jere, John Burdick, Nathan P., J. Tuomas Harviainen, Nicolas Crost, Sean, LordSmerf, matthijs, Paul Czege, shaheddy, Harlequin, Walt Freitag, Dobamine, M. J. Young, komradebob, xenopulse, GreatWolf, contracycle, Silmenume, pete_darby, lpsmith, Scrubilicous, GB Steve.

2/21/2005 clehrich: Vanishing Into the Mists
Dear Friends at the Forge, Owing to a sudden and unexpected professional commitment, which puts me under the gun to complete my current book in just a few months, I’m…
In Site Discussion
Participants: clehrich.

12/11/2010 clehrich: Selecting a game system
Been a LOOONG time since I posted here, and I haven't been reading either. Mostly I haven't been playing. I now have a group to work with, and I'm looking…
In Actual Play
Participants: clehrich, Abkajud, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn, Frank Tarcikowski, Clay.

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