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9/26/2004 jburneko: Social Contract and Automation
Hello Everyone, It's been a while since I posted. Most of that is due to the fact that I'm getting married at the end of October and because I have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, Noon.

6/24/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount Part II.
So, last night was the second session of the My Life With Master game. I took the advice most of you put forth and played the master with more cruelty…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Dumirik, CPXB, Nicolas Crost, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mojo, GB Steve.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount.
Hello All, Long time, no post. My weekday group has started a game of My Life With Master. During master/character creation one player suggested doing something related to the French…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Tobias, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, Nev the Deranged.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] Simple Rules Question
Hello, My weekday group has started a My Life With Master game. I'll post more details in Actual Play but I wanted to put some simple rules questions here. They…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

4/12/2004 jburneko: Small Sorcery Question
Hello, I've owned TROS for some time now and I've read parts of it in bits and pieces but only recently took the plunge and read the entire book cover…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: jburneko, Edge.

4/5/2004 jburneko: Yet, More On Conflict
Hello, In another thread Ron wrote: There's really no such thing as rolling against "no defense." If there's truly no defense, then the only constraint on the announced action…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

3/30/2004 jburneko: Sorcerer Reference, "lighter" Demons and Humanity
So, anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really a big anime fan. But a couple of months ago a friend of mine suggested that I check out a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, sirogit, Ace, xiombarg, jrs, Bankuei.

3/25/2004 jburneko: Structural Aesthetics vs. Story Now
Hello All, This will get around to Actual Play eventually, if it evolves too much into more theoretical GNS discussion, feel free to move it. Structural Aesthetics play a HUGE…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, pete_darby, GreatWolf, DannyK, Dev, cruciel, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, clehrich, joshua neff, hix, Valamir, Sean.

3/12/2004 jburneko: [The Pool/Eden Falls] Book 1, Final Chapter
So, on Tuesday, the curent Eden Falls scenario came to a conclusion. As usual I offered up the option to either keep playing with these characters in this setting with…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

3/4/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More On Complex Conflict
I don't know what it is about this Asylum game I'm running but I'm really beginning to see that for all my intellectual understanding I really suck at this whole…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

2/24/2004 jburneko: [The Pool] Eden Falls - Find a Villain
I've been wanting to post about my religious-flavored "superhero" game for some time now. The game is now in it's sixth or seventh session and is going incredibly well. When…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

2/12/2004 jburneko: More on Social Conflict
Hello, This thread was sparked by the Trollbabe thread on Social Injury. I admit that my grasp of Social Conflict as it applies to Trollbabe and Sorcerer wavers in and…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Dav, Ron Edwards.

2/10/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] In A House of Madness
So character creation plus the first actual play session for my Socerer game set in an asylum has come and gone. And the results were.... unexpected. A bit of background.…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, clehrich, Christopher Kubasik, newsalor, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2004 jburneko: Demons as Primary Antagonist
Hello, I'm not sure if the subject of this post fully captures what I'm about to talk about so please bear with me if this wanders a bit. I've been…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

1/26/2004 jburneko: Thoughts From a Player
Hello, Allright, so I've had three gaming sessions since the new year. Character Creation + First Session of Play for my Eden Falls game using The Pool and a Character…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, John Kim, Matt Snyder, bcook1971, Christopher Kubasik, pete_darby, Paganini, clehrich.

1/23/2004 jburneko: Swimming in The Pool is quite refreshing.
Hello Again, As mentioned in a previous post I've decided to use The Pool as the system behind the latest game my weekday group is playing. I thought that donig…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jeph, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

1/14/2004 jburneko: [The Pool] Eden Falls
Hello All, So, my weekday group concluded the Ravenloft game I was running just before the Hollidays and we started up a fresh game last night. For a while, I'd…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Tim Alexander, Blake Hutchins.

11/20/2003 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Dialogue and Combat
Okay, dialogue in a combat situation is a massive problem for me. In most traditional "linear" initiative systems, I'm very inconsistant with how I run dialogue. Sometimes It's a free…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

11/11/2003 jburneko: [7th Sea] A Harlequin Romance
Someone on RPG.net once started a very amusing thread where people listed what they thought various RPGs would be if they weren't RPGs. Someone posted, "7th Sea: If it wasn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ian Charvill.

10/20/2003 jburneko: Elfs and Modules
Hello, Ron, have you considered opening up a mini-supplement program for Elfs? I was thinking that having a supply of modules for sale would not only allow people to profit…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, Paganini, greyorm.

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1/17/2005 jburneko: Elfs Question
Hello, My group requested that we play Elfs. So, I reread the rules and amazingly I only have one question. Regarding Magic Items. It says that one becomes available every…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

1/20/2005 jburneko: [Elfs] RavenElfs First Session
Hello, So last night my group played our first session of Elfs. As a scenario I'm using an Elfified version of the original I6 Ravenloft module. First of all, I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, ADGBoss, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2005 jburneko: Drives Question
Hello, When talking about building characters it says, "Take five Heroic or Villainous Drives" which is kind of confusing since there are only 5 heroic and 5 villainous drives to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

3/21/2005 jburneko: Resource Ownership and Turn Order Expenditure
Hello Again, Do I have these right? 1) Players own Story Tokens 2) Characters own Inspiration. Examples: In scene A I play character X and earn 3 story tokens and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Miskatonic.

4/5/2005 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Player Tactics That Affect Multiple Targets
Hello, I've been reviewing older rules question threads, sorting some things out and I'm trying to work out situations where a single player wants to prevent or hinder the actions…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Alan, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

4/13/2005 jburneko: Goal Ownership
Hello All, I've been following the many Capes discussions and I find the whole thing interesting. One thing that has caught my attention recently is the notion of a 'preventative'…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/15/2005 jburneko: Squabling Over Color?
I've been following the Capes discussions fairly closely and the central complaint seems to be that there's no mechanics for controling narrative color. And quite frankly, it's one of my…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Gaerik, Valamir, TonyLB.

4/21/2005 jburneko: SIS Control Problem: A Concrete Example
I've been thinking about all the arguing about whether or not there's any causal substance in the SIS in Capes. I've seen the arguments on both sides. Here's a concrete…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Valamir, C. Edwards, Jinx, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Anders Gabrielsson, Gamskee, drnuncheon, Zamiel, Kintara, Hans, Keiko, Gaerik, James_Nostack.

4/29/2005 jburneko: Two Thoughts On Capes
There are two thoughts I've had about Capes from the very first time I read it. I was going to reserve these two thoughts until after I had some Actual…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Is taking responsibility for your character really so hard?
My weekend group is now four or five sessions into a 7th Sea game. This game is a sequal to a game we played a year ago. Some of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Danny_K, Valamir, Sean, TonyLB, Alan, John Kim, Lee Short, bcook1971, James Holloway, Noon, Brand_Robins, Heraldic Game Design, Eric J., hyphz, Mike Holmes, Itse, Wolfen, komradebob, S'mon, Mandacaru.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Audience/Author Duality of RPGs. Can it impact theme?
Hello Again, Something very very interesting is happening in my current 7th Sea game. The game is a sequal to a game we played over a year ago. Some of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, Frank T.

6/1/2005 jburneko: Portrait Play, a subset of The Dream?
Hello, I had started this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15488 over in Actual Play in an effort to get to the bottom of a particular player's behavior. Here are some choice quotes from…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Noon, Bret Gillan, Danny_K, Brand_Robins, timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray, komradebob, John Kim.

6/7/2005 jburneko: An Experiment: Turning Capes into a More Traditional RPG
I was thinking about the entire debate about whether Capes is *really* an RPG or not. I, of course, think it IS an RPG. All the elements of a so-called…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

7/4/2005 jburneko: Revised or Rewritten?
Hello, I've been comparing the material on the website under the Creative Commons section with the book I actually own. It appears to me that the game has been seriously…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: jburneko, Bob Goat.

7/20/2005 jburneko: Capes Rules Questions
Hello We've run through a few capes sessions and I have some rules questions. 1) Can I stake debt on a side I'm not allied with? 2) Assuming there is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

7/27/2005 jburneko: [Capes] Most Revealing Game I've Played To Date
Hello, I've been playing Capes with my weeknight group.  We've had four sessions.  In the past I've tried to respect my fellow players' internet anonymity by only using their first…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Noon.

8/3/2005 jburneko: More Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Here are some straight forward rules questions that arose from last nights game. 1) The Free Claim you get at the top of a page is per player, not…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

8/16/2005 jburneko: Other Trollbabe Rules Changes
Hello Ron, So, I noticed in the other thread you mentioned one of the reasons that the print version of Trollbabe wasn't going to happen is that your desire to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2005 jburneko: Strange Reaction to Trollbabe
I've shown Trollbabe to a lot of people.  I've encountered a lot of negative reactions.  A lot of guys don't want to play Trollbabe because they'd be personally uncomfortable with…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Sean, Bankuei, John Harper, Noon, Pol Jackson, Ron Edwards, Jacob.

8/28/2005 jburneko: Con-Game Phenomenon or Actual Play Style?
I was reading "5 minutes of fun packed in 4 hours of dysfunction" thead and a very loud bell went off.  Take a look at these threads: The original L5R…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Frank T, Jasper Polane, RobNJ, Merten, Nicolas Crost, Sean, Bankuei, komradebob, jaw6, Joshua BishopRoby, Paka, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, GB Steve, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

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