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1/20/2002 Paul Czege: bring out the imp
Hey, On the "Imp" thread, James wrote: If I shy away from doing games similar to his, then I’ll never do games again. I didn't want to derail…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Logan, Joe Murphy (Broin), James V. West, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson.

1/9/2002 Paul Czege: how we played Chalk Outlines
Hey Vincent, everyone The title is how we played Chalk Outlines because I want to allow the possibility that we did a disservice to the game, by playing the whole…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, hardcoremoose, lumpley, contracycle.

12/31/2001 Paul Czege: WYRD questions
Hey Scott, I've been reading the WYRD ashcan, and I have a few questions related to a paragraph on page 16, in the "Contested Runecastings" section. It says: "When multiple…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

12/28/2001 Paul Czege: on making the same character over and over
Hey, On the A Connecticut Narrativist in King Arthur's Simulation thread in GNS Model Discussion, Skippy wrote: I have a current player who always plays a mage. ALWAYS....Kelly…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Skippy, Ryan Ary, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Joe Murphy (Broin), Uncle Dark, Osric, Logan.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: have you read the literature of Sorcerer & Sword?
Hey everyone, I have to say that if there's one single element in Sorcerer & Sword that I anticipate will drive sales of the book to casual buyers, it's the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: setting creation: avoiding pressures to historical accuracy
Hey everyone, So...I've been giving a little thought to a setting for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and I keep hitting into the same snag. I'm tempted…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Balbinus, A.Neill, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Osric, John Wick, joe_llama.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: more than mechanics alone
Hey everyone, Recently, Scott Knipe sent me to RPG.net to see a thread entitled "Top 5 Free Rpg's" on which GB Steve made some very nice comments about A…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/21/2001 Paul Czege: when the game played isn't the game in print
On the "Gamism In Action or Why I Hate Arts and Crafts" thread in Actual Play, EpochMike wrote: You can also borrow the "And, two years later" technique. It…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, contracycle, gentrification, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, unodiablo, Marco, Skippy.

11/29/2001 Paul Czege: The "general" system I've never seen
Hey Ron, In Chapter 5 of your "GNS and Other Matters..." essay, you describe a "general" system as holding "constant one or two of the listed elements of role-playing (Character,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Joe Murphy (Broin), Demonspahn, Bret.

11/26/2001 Paul Czege: the big three you never see
Hey everyone, I was sitting last night reading Hardball, by Chris Matthews, and had an awareness that the fiction and nonfiction I read, and the movies and television programs I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, hardcoremoose, John Wick, joshua neff, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Uncle Dark, James V. West, James Holloway, Marco, Ian O'Rourke, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/25/2001 Paul Czege: frustration with "enigmas"
So this evening my girlfriend and I sat down to create our characters for Eloran's forthcoming Mage scenario. And maybe recent games of The Pool, Sorcerer, and Theatrix have me…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Epoch, contracycle, Mytholder, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

11/21/2001 Paul Czege: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil has need of you
Some of you are aware I'm planning to put The World, the Flesh, and the Devil into pamphlet format for distribution at GenCon. Basically, I'm going to write it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, Blake Hutchins, Matt, contracycle, xiombarg, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2001 Paul Czege: How did you discover The Forge?
Hey everyone, There've been a lot of new people here the past couple of months, and I'm getting really curious how people are discovering the site. How did you discover…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, JGCook, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Bret, Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, unodiablo, mahoux, Mike Holmes, Time, Joe Murphy (Broin), razgon, Bankuei, GMSkarka, Jack Spencer Jr, xiombarg, Ranko, Julian Kelsey, James V. West, J B Bell, Philippe Tromeur, Blake Hutchins, Skippy, Daredevil, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Chris Passeno, Paganini.

10/21/2001 Paul Czege: breaking private messages across multiple pages
Hey Clinton, My page of private messages is becoming a slow load. I do clean them out, but there are some I don't want to get rid of. Is there…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/15/2001 Paul Czege: not by pre-planning
From Ron's spiffy new GNS essay: They also vary a great deal in terms of unpredictable "shifts" of events during play. The key to Narrativist Premises is that they…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, Epoch, contracycle, Le Joueur.

10/15/2001 Paul Czege: Drama like your cold feet under my covers
Have you been compulsively checking this forum for some closure on the Theatrix superhero scenario I first wrote about in the "Theatrix in action" thread? Too bad. This is a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Laurel, Clay.

9/25/2001 Paul Czege: no islands in the pool
Hey everyone, I ran the second session of my scenario for The Pool last night, and I have to say that if you'd been there, the one thing you'd have…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paul Czege, Epoch, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins.

9/18/2001 Paul Czege: question: when the GM narrates in The Pool
So far, I've run one session of my scenario for The Pool. Near the end of the session, Scott Knipe found his character Grazel Deathsower face-to-face with Sgt. Aminar "the…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, jburneko, Ron Edwards, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Tim C Koppang.

9/18/2001 Paul Czege: Sorcerer review by Kenneth Hite
I'm not sure of the arrangement between Gamer's Realm and Pyramid, but I just ran across Kenneth Hite's review of Sorcerer here: http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

9/4/2001 Paul Czege: I created The World, the Flesh, and the Devil...
...from a profane interbreeding of The Pool, Sigil, Sorcerer, Everway, Story Engine, and illuminated manuscripts. It features Fortune-based conflict resolution, player narration of successes and failures, and dice fabrication as…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, James V. West, lumpley, Ben Morgan, Bankuei.

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2/4/2002 Paul Czege: DNS errors?
Hey Clinton, I've had to try the URL repeatedly this afternoon, because I've been getting a DNS error nine times out of ten. Is something up? Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege.

2/25/2002 Paul Czege: two WYRD proposals
Hey Scott, I've been thinking a lot about how I might modify the mechanics for WYRD subsequent to our session on Friday. But before I get into that, maybe I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Silent Tamatama.

2/26/2002 Paul Czege: several hundred dollars worth of GM
Hey everyone, Ron's fantastic and complex post in the Sorcerer forum about the zones and categories of a character's interests brings up an interesting side issue. The post reveals…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, J B Bell, Gordon C. Landis.

3/8/2002 Paul Czege: a strange error
Hey Clinton, An attempt to reply to a private message from Dav generated the following error for me: Couldn't find template file: ./language/lang_german/email/privmsg_notify.tpl DEBUG MODE Line : 99 File :…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/18/2002 Paul Czege: that ain't no profiling thread
Hey, Inspired by the profiling thread that's going great guns over in Actual Play forum... What three languishing game concepts had such potential in your mind that you wish…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt, Le Joueur, Cynthia Celeste Miller, xiombarg, Robert Leal, hardcoremoose, Petter Sandelin, Clinton R. Nixon, Tim Denee.

3/25/2002 Paul Czege: character envy
Last Friday we had a character session for Whispering Vault. My girlfriend's character is defined by having grown up in the Warsaw ghetto and her experiences there fighting Nazis during…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Rich Forest, hardcoremoose, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, unodiablo, Misguided Games, Mike Holmes, quozl.

4/3/2002 Paul Czege: Real life partners, in-game depravity
Hey Dav, So, my girlfriend just produced an incredibly creepy Whispering Vault character for our upcoming game, a surprisingly visceral character that kind-of took me by surprise. And it got…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, S'Nora, Mike Holmes, Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell, Bankuei, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Clay, Valamir.

4/14/2002 Paul Czege: Horror: Simulationism and Narrativism
Hey bodhi, I've decided for myself that the best chance my game has of capturing a sense of wonder, is to reward the players for trying to instill a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, contracycle, hardcoremoose, Wolfen, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2002 Paul Czege: that ain't no right way to play
[B]True or False[/B]: four Simulationists who meet for the first time at a convention are likely to have a mutually satisfying game, because they share the same goals? [B]True or…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Le Joueur.

4/24/2002 Paul Czege: how I made dice for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Hey, Some of you are aware that I'm prepping to run The World, the Flesh, and the Devil in a few weeks. Well, I made some dice and they…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Wolfen.

4/27/2002 Paul Czege: not functionally equivalent to handling a protagonist
Hey Walt, I want to go back to something you wrote on the abundance of races in Fantasy RPG's thread: I shouldnt'a called it "protagonizing setting," I should…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, contracycle, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Wolfen, GreatWolf, Gordon C. Landis, amiel.

5/6/2002 Paul Czege: dream sequences: the least narrativist thing I did
Hey, When I ran The Pool last summer, I used a dream sequence on Scott Knipe's character Grazel. And I wasn't happy with it as a Narrativist device. It was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Wolfen, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, A.Neill, Seth L. Blumberg, Walt Freitag.

5/7/2002 Paul Czege: no option to add dice with requested rolls
Hey James V., I was glad to see your recent posts clarifying the location of the official rules. Now upon reading them, I have a question. Can you explain your…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Henry Fitch, Blake Hutchins.

5/20/2002 Paul Czege: nicotine girls
Hey everyone, So...despite my history of pronouncements that I'm not a game designer, and that The World, the Flesh, and the Devil was an anomaly, I seem to have…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Henry Fitch, Walt Freitag, contracycle, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Zak Arntson, xiombarg.

5/28/2002 Paul Czege: a one-sheet for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Some of you are aware that I've been ramping up to run The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and that the greatest initial obstacle for me has been…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Henry Fitch, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/3/2002 Paul Czege: spare not thy protagonists from the vagaries of tWtFatD
The designer is playtesting his own game rules this evening. And this afternoon, upon reviewing the discussion about what Trials should be like on the thread about the one-sheet,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege.

6/4/2002 Paul Czege: the island of misfit games
I need a conversation about this... I don't think anyone will deny that The Forge is a steambath of design effort, a hothouse of creativity. But I can't help but…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, C. Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, xiombarg, Valamir, Bailey, RobMuadib, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Nathan, Laurel, greyorm.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: return to the island of misfit games
Well...some of the more controversial thoughts I raised for discussion on the island of misfit games thread got eclipsed by conversation about how the Forge might better promote actual…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Nathan, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Le Joueur, rafael, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Ring Kichard, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Wolfen.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: what makes me saturated?
Hey, On the island of misfit games thread, as a way of voting in favor of Clinton's game(s)-of-the-month idea, Laurel wrote: ...would probably help diminish the "spread too…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Ace, Zak Arntson, Eric J., Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/19/2002 Paul Czege: the mortification of the world, the flesh, and the devil
If you have never playtested a game of your own design, let me tell you, it is humbling beyond your capacity to imagine. Yesterday I ran my second session of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Buddha Nature, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

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