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2/7/2002 Marco: Particles of Character Class
This is inspired by a discussion on the Scattershot Forum: Fang described his points in Scattershot as "particles of character class." I sort of disagreed with his definition--an indication to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, Le Joueur.

2/7/2002 Fabrice G.: Narrativism, player authoring and hooror story
Hi, i plan to do an horror rpg and i have this question: can you have an horror story with a lot of player authoring power ? In my experience,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Fabrice G., Bankuei, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, jburneko, hardcoremoose, amiel, contracycle, lumpley, Paul Czege.

2/7/2002 Ron Edwards: Yet again, The Questing Beast
Hello, The campus group met again, and the two games being played were AD&D2 and Macross (using Palladium). But one cry went up in a pitiful chorus: "I didn't get…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Manu, James V. West.

2/7/2002 Valamir: Invited Members
1) can moderators add new members to the private forum or only site administrators. I would assume moderators could, but when I clicked on the "you can moderate this list"…
In Moderators
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2002 Le Joueur: Roll the Videotape; by Request, an Early Play Example
Okay, example of play; roll tape. This details a recent short-run game we played with Scattershot. It ran probably for about 10-12 sessions and involved only one player. (I chose…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur.

2/7/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Rephrase: I was approached for publication and need advice
Hey guys, I got an email yesterday from a wellknown company asking me if I was willing to work with them to get my game SOAP published. They are a…
In Publishing
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, TheRef, GMSkarka, Bailey, Jack Spencer Jr, Dav.

2/7/2002 Bailywolf: A touchy issue: September 11
Will you address how september 11 alters New York and it's Underworld?
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Bailywolf, GMSkarka, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, TSL.

2/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Lightning Printing
Okay, I went to Lightning Printing's website to get a price quote http://www.lightningprinting.com/quotefrm.htm and I must say, I looked at the info they requested....and was confused. Being a neophyte to…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jack Spencer Jr, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Chris Passeno, GMSkarka, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/6/2002 Valamir: I feel old
I was just playing around with the new sorting features on the memberlist. Counting only those people who stuck around long enough to accumulate 50 posts or more, I was…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir.

2/6/2002 jburneko: The Pitch In Action
So, last night my weekly Tuesday gaming group met. We were about 2/3 of the way through the last part of the Freeport Trillogy and were expected to finish the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/6/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon Krawl
I know I haven't designed anything new since Urge - I've been lazy. So, I decided to start finishing my projects. The first finished: Donjon Krawl, a (hopefully) incredibly Gamist…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Marco, James V. West, DaR, Mike Holmes, lumpley, J B Bell.

2/6/2002 Marco: Topics should be seen
[Opionion sated as fact] Topics should be presented in bold face at the top of the post--It'll make 'em more relevant [/opionion stated as fact] -Marco
In Site Discussion
Participants: Marco.

2/6/2002 jburneko: Three Rounds of The Pitch
Hello, Okay, so tonight my regular Tuesday night gaming group shows up and we're in the middle of the last part of the Freeport Trillogy for D&D3E. Turns out that…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: jburneko.

2/6/2002 Tim Denee: Smurf smurf smurf
Godstruth, I just smurfed Smurf: the Smurfing. 'Smurf' has smurfed all meaning for me. Not that it had any meaning in the first smurf. I wish I could smurf what…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tim Denee, James V. West.

2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Historical Sorcerer
Another new post. Anyone mess with running Sorcerer in a historical setting? I've toyed with a sort of Pulp Sorcerer (inspired in no small part by Hellboy) in which an…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Blake Hutchins, Uncle Dark, Fabrice G., contracycle.

2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Combined Sorcerer and S&S games... and the Dreamlands
I just found out the CoC folks are producing a new (and quite heafty) Dreamlands book... which is suposed to have excised most of the Lumbly tot and gotten back…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Doc Midnight, Mike Holmes.

2/6/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Modern Things
Just to give y'all some background... a rush of ideas came to me this evening for a Sorceror supplement. Without giving too much away, a song by Bjork inspired…
In Adept Press
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, lumpley, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Bankuei, Manu.

2/6/2002 Epoch: More of the Same
My fanatical groupies (yeah, right), will notice that this is a concept that I've approached over and over again, looking for a good way to do it. This time, I'm…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Epoch, Tim Denee.

2/5/2002 Le Joueur: The Old UE Chart (that's Universal Equivalency Chart, son)
Here is the oft referred to UE Chart (the right third), in its current incarnation: Rating Bonus Subject Multi Info 1 +0 0 0 2 words 2 +0 0…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

2/5/2002 GreatWolf: Collaborative Roleplaying
Chalk up another point for Places to Go, People to Be. They posted this interview with Ian Millington on the concepts of collaborative roleplaying. His website is www.collaborativeroleplay.org.…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

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2/6/2002 Le Joueur: What Do You Think?
[quote="Marco"]Mike is right--if points are tokens of relevance (not, as you said, particles of character class), then you should simply pay some percentage (out of 100, probably) based on how…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Marco, Ron Edwards.

2/8/2002 lumpley: Drawing Conclusions in Public
In far distant Actual Play, Ron says So here I am, Narrativist player, "playing my character." Do I think, "What would he do?" Sure I do! In my case,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Marco, Jared A. Sorensen, Logan, contracycle, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, A.Neill, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, Emily Care, Le Joueur.

2/8/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon Krawl, first session ever
[i]I don't want to kill anybody. I just want to take their stuff.[/i] --Jules the Hedge Troll, as played by James Cunningham I'm more than proud to say that the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Zak Arntson, Bankuei.

2/8/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon 2002: Indie explosion
Each year, I think, "I should run some indie games at GenCon. Someone will show up." Each year, I end up with a few people who already like indie games…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Matt Gwinn, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, xiombarg.

2/8/2002 jburneko: The Spy Who Summoned Me
So with the release of AEG's Spycraft just around the corner I've been thinking about Spy Thriller RPGs. For a long while now I've been dying for a really good…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, erithromycin, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Bailywolf, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

2/10/2002 Matt Gwinn: Welfare Publishing
Ok, I really want to have copies of Kayfabe available for GENCON this year, but from the looks of things I won't have more than about $500 to put towards…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Dav, Adam.

2/10/2002 Bailywolf: Personalizing Humanity
Something occors to me. Much is made of defining Humanity for a given setting of sorcerer, but what I've come to think is more importiant is defining Humanity for each…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Clay, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Valamir.

2/11/2002 Tim Denee: Memento Mori d20 dungeon?
Hey! What happened to 'Memento Monte'? That was the coolest title on your site.
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Tim Denee, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis.

2/11/2002 Ron Edwards: philosophical musings (response to Gareth)
I've split this off from the thread about Historical Sorcerer. In there, I wrote: "My interest in Thirty Years War period as a specifically-Sorcerer setting stems in part from the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, contracycle.

2/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon, session 2
I was able to playtest Donjon yet again this weekend with Zak Arntson and his friend, Matthew. The game worked as before - I even ran the same adventure -…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

2/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon: Call for artists
I'm the forum administrator and I don't know where to put this. (Maybe a new forum for announcements is in order.) Anyway, I'm calling for art for Donjon, the game…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West.

2/11/2002 furashgf: Player Directorial Stance in Rules or Ad Hoc?
I was enjoying Jared's new OCTANE rpg, and noticed (obvious to everyone else) that players get directorial power based on rules w/ in the system. Elsewhere, people seem to say…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: furashgf, Ron Edwards, efindel.

2/11/2002 Silent Tamatama: Abashed Vanilliaism
Seen two new terms (new for me anyway) called Vanilla Narrativism and Abashed Narrativism can anyone fill me in on what they are?
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Silent Tamatama, Paul Czege, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, joe_llama, Knight.

2/12/2002 Balbinus: Soul reviewed
Just to let you all know that Kenneth Hite has now reviewed Soul, read all about it at http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php
In Adept Press
Participants: Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Ayrizale, Gordon C. Landis, james_west, contracycle, RogerEberhart, Le Joueur, Manu, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Emily Care, Valamir, J B Bell.

2/12/2002 Ian O'Rourke: PayPal - What's the skinny.
Okay, I'm not sure this is even the right forum, but it seems the closest to me :) I've noticed over time a lot of website and e-publishers using PayPal…
In Publishing
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, J B Bell, greyorm, Tim Gray.

2/13/2002 Eric: Hot glances through lowered lashes?
Hey – The back of S&S promises rules (or at least guidelines) for "Hot glances through lowered lashes." Sadly, I can’t find them. There are references to sensuousness and sexy…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Clay, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, GB Steve.

2/13/2002 lumpley: Disruptive and/or Stupid IIEE Question
So if roleplaying is like every other shared creative activity I can think of, it's built out of this kind of process: Proposal ] Negotiation, Amendment, Counter-proposal ] Acceptance Like…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

2/13/2002 Ron Edwards: InSpectres again! grrl version
Hi there, So I ran some more InSpectres last night, which for me was the first time using v. 2.0. The session had some interesting features: the players were all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/13/2002 J B Bell: 2nd Ed. Hero Wars?
Any word on how on-schedule (or not) HW 2nd ed. is? I'm absolutely stoked to give it a shot, but negative comments on the first edition's rules organization have kept…
In HeroQuest
Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir.

2/13/2002 Steve Dustin: In-and-Out of the Box
I've been lurking on these boards for about a week, and have decided to jump in. I don't think I'm quite up-to-speed on the jargon that gets thrown about here…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Steve Dustin, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Emily Care.

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