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11/30/2004 GB Steve: A wild and an untamed thing - how literature refuses gaming
[url=http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?ey,viriconium,1]M. John Harrison's postion on roleplaying[/url], is that: [quote]"What would it be really like to live in the world of .... ?" is an inappropriate question, a category error. You…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Matt Snyder, Valamir, lumpley, ethan_greer, MR. Analytical, Alan, joshua neff, simon_hibbs, John Kim, Ben Lehman, Sean, M. J. Young, daMoose_Neo, madelf, neelk, greedo1379, Ian Charvill, Russell Impagliazzo, Mark Woodhouse, clehrich, Erling Rognli, SlurpeeMoney, Caldis.

11/26/2004 GB Steve: The purpose of play
An item of interest for theoreticians: This article By Monica Veinbergs presents a summary of this longer one by Lloyd P. Rieber and suggests that: Reiber proposes four types of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, contracycle, bcook1971.

11/9/2004 GB Steve: The state of play, or refute-o-matic
The next issue of Places to Go, People to Be is going to be carrying a small article by Balbinus. This is basically a reprint of a post to RPG.net…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, simon_hibbs, timfire, M. J. Young, Matt Wilson, Noon, John Kim, contracycle, clehrich, ffilz.

8/19/2004 GB Steve: Congratulations!
The Diana Jones Award and Indie Game of the Year, a well deserved sweep! What further delights can we expect from Half Meme in the coming year?
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers, Dev, joshua neff, ScottM, Sean, Paul Czege, Colin the Riot, Ed Cha.

4/6/2004 GB Steve: I hate the Forge!
Gets right up my nose, and long may it continue to do so.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, orbsmatt, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards.

2/15/2004 GB Steve: Re: The five percent
[quote="Clinton R. Nixon"]The Forge isn't for everyone. It's for those who love it, who love debate, who love new thought; those who love it enough to work with those who…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

2/3/2004 GB Steve: [MLwM] My Life with Headmaster - a short convention game.
It was SteveCon VII last weekend and in the first four hour slot we played Carry on up the Ring, which is something only thirty-something Brits would really appreciate. We…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Dave Panchyk, clehrich, Bob McNamee.

12/12/2003 GB Steve: [MLwM] Killing Puppies for Santa
I ran a mad game tonight and it was pretty brutal. We finished it in just over three hours with 3 1/2 players (one had to leave halfway through to…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, ethan_greer, Emily Care, Bob McNamee, abzu.

10/27/2003 GB Steve: octaNe at SteveCon V
I decided to keep it silly so the game was psychotronic. The characters I made up too, to save time but the players added in the extra skills. We had:…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve.

10/3/2003 GB Steve: SteveCon V - hi octaNe
I'm organising SteveCon V in London on, or about October 28th. Since SteveCon III, I've decided that I'll feature an indie game as my game of the Con to run.…
In Conventions
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

9/28/2003 GB Steve: My LARP with Master
I'd like to run this game as a LARP. I had thought of My Life with Masters - all the players are the minions of Phil Masters at a British…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

8/14/2003 GB Steve: Narrative rpgs make good card games
In this thread, I propose that MLwM would make a cracking card game. Now thinking about this a bit more, it seems apparent that much the same could be said…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Wolfen, iago, Ron Edwards, gobi, contracycle, simon_hibbs, RaconteurX.

8/14/2003 GB Steve: Expanding the franchise - MLwM the card game
Or, Turning art into moolah. MLwM would make a cracking card game. Each player would be a minion. In front of them on the table they would collect Villagers with…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes, John Harper, iago, Brian Leybourne.

8/12/2003 GB Steve: And it was going so well ...
A big step in my time at the Forge today, Ron and I agreed on something. I'm starting to think that many of the problems I've had here are down…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/6/2003 GB Steve: Going International - The Forge at Dragonmeet?
Will there be a Forge presence at Dragonmeet? Some of us UK fanzine editors, the boys and girls from Critical Miss, KMANT, the Black Seal, Demonground and Aus fanzine editors…
In Publishing
Participants: GB Steve, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs.

8/6/2003 GB Steve: Starchildren is the SteveCon III Game of the Con
SteveD introduced me to the charms of this game so we (actually I) decided to name it Game of the Con for SteveCon III. SteveCon III is the third in…
In XIG Games
Participants: GB Steve.

10/29/2002 GB Steve: Something for the Narrative pot
I've been reading the excellent Cambridge Intorduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott. It's pretty much an undergraduate text on the subject and covers most of the main points whilst…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, MK Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, Don Lag.

10/23/2002 GB Steve: [Sex & Sorcery] Male and female story types
Ron, Do you have anything more general on what you mean by "male" and "female" story concepts? I live with a sociologist and she's always interested in what people construct…
In Adept Press
Participants: GB Steve, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Tim C Koppang.

9/26/2002 GB Steve: The Evil Powers of Rock & Roll
I was at a gig last night, the Supersuckers (self titled 'Greatest Rock and Roll band in the World). They rawked! Also last week at SteveCon, Steve Darlington ran a…
In CRN Games
Participants: GB Steve, quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/4/2002 GB Steve: Diceless Hellboy (boy-hell for some)*.
I ran Hellboy at GCUK a couple of times. The first time I left everything to the dice. The second time I ran it, I only used the dice towards…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

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12/7/2004 GB Steve: Theory, or anecdotally supported opinion?
How much data is used to support roleplaying theory? And what level of proof is required? There's possibly some discussion about this here which I may have missed but I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Rich Forest, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, John Kim, Vaxalon, beingfrank.

1/13/2005 GB Steve: Narrative Engineering?
Has anyone ever heard of this? The Operational Research Society is offering a one day course in "Introduction to Story Telling" which includes:Narrative engineering changing organisations through storytelling promoting ideas…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

1/27/2005 GB Steve: Is gamism about facing the challenge or wanting the rewards?
Or both or neither? I'm a little confused. For example. 3e seems squarely aimed at ratcheting up challenges and giving just enough rewards so that those challenges stay interesting (i.e.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

4/5/2005 GB Steve: I hate the Forge less than I used to.
Since last year, the Forge has grown on me a bit more. I don't think that I've posted any more but I've steered clear of some of the more impenetrable…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Danny_K, Eva Deinum, Anonymous, Kit, Kat Miller, Victor Gijsbers, John Harper.

4/7/2005 GB Steve: After the Forge? A wiki?
Is this a suitable place to ask about future plans for the Forge? I know it's been said somewhere that it's not going to be around forever as a live…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, Trevis Martin.

5/3/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Tony
This Thursday is general election day in the UK, and it's also my gaming night. So I'm planning a session of My Life with Tony. The Master is Tony Blair,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Miskatonic.

5/3/2005 GB Steve: [Origins 2005] Who's going?
Is there a planned Forge or other indie presence at this Con? It will be my first US convention and whilst I would like to book a few mainstream games,…
In Conventions
Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, Mike Holmes, abzu, ergtide, minipainterUS.

6/10/2005 GB Steve: Buffalo Run - my first game.
I ran my first game last night. It went pretty well, although not as nicely a James Holloway's did last Saturday. For a start we had four players, two of…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, James Holloway, Wolfen, Simon Kamber.

6/13/2005 GB Steve: [DitV]Fort Lemon Rides again!
We played a first session of Fort Lemon tonight. We had the same players as the rather simpler Buffalo Run minus my wife who recuperating (from being ill, not from…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

7/24/2005 GB Steve: Les Dogs de la Vigne
So it was SteveCon Paris this weekend, organised by Ben with accomodation provided by Régis. I popped over from London for two nights which was long enough to play Enemy…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, bcook1971, jasonm, Andrew Norris.

7/25/2005 GB Steve: When does the conflict start - and why not roleplay it instead?
From this thread Capes Demo at DexCon 8: With the recent profusion of social resolution mechanics I've seen in a lot of indie games, I've been worried that they might…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Jack Aidley, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon Marks, simon_hibbs, greyorm, Gaerik, Matt Snyder, Bankuei, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Valamir, Mark Woodhouse.

8/2/2005 GB Steve: Diana Jones Award - Dogs has a nomination
I found this on John Kovalic's livejournal: FIFTH DIANA JONES AWARD SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED Annual award ‘for Excellence in Gaming’ to be presented 17th August London, 2nd August -- After much…
In Publishing
Participants: GB Steve, Miskatonic, lumpley, Uzzah.

8/14/2005 GB Steve: [DitV] Fort Lemon, again.
I ran Fort Lemon for the third time yesterday. This run was a Consternation in Cambridge for first time players. I didn't use the fort time because we only had…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm.

8/18/2005 GB Steve: Diana Jones Awards - Ticket to Ride wins!
Once again, John Kovalic is quicker with the news than the official website: http://www.livejournal.com/users/muskrat_john/78680.html Congratulations to Ticket to Ride, commiserations to Code of Unaris and Dogs in the Vineyard. Just…
In Publishing
Participants: GB Steve, Miskatonic, Old_Scratch.

9/2/2005 GB Steve: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Barker bites
So. Only three of us turned up to play last night which meant that we had to forgo our GURPS Gateway game and find something else to do. I had…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

9/5/2005 GB Steve: SteveCon games - Dogs & MLwM
I was planning to run the Roach and UTB but popular pressure prevailed and I ended up running Dogs and MLwM instead. I'm sure there will be other occasions to…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

9/7/2005 GB Steve: Connection problems
I had a hard time connecting just now. I kept getting a page with not much on except a short message at the top saying all the connections were busy.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Andrew Morris.

9/15/2005 GB Steve: The Devil is in the Details
With all the Dogs games I've run, Fort Lemon 5(ish) times + Buffalo Run, and in the game I played (I forget the name of the town), much of the…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Meguey, Blankshield, Frank T, jasonm, Andrew Morris, ptikachu, rrr, Miskatonic.

12/2/2005 GB Steve: D20gs in the Vineyard
Split off from this post which talks about how to run Dogs under d20 in response to players' fear of other systems. I suppose the first point is that if…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Vaxalon.

12/15/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Jesus
It was our annual Christmas MLwM game last night and so we went for a Christian theme. The game was played relatively straight, but not completely without gags. Jesus is…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Justin A Hamilton, Graham Walmsley.

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