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12/6/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - system notes
So Galactic as I see it is setting-based narrativism, ideally. Therefore if there's a reward system, it comes from the players addressing the premise, which is again embedded in setting…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Tony Irwin.

12/6/2004 Matt Wilson: messing around with Otherkind, poking it with a sharp stick
I had this cards idea based on otherkind, sort of a cousiny generic kind of game. You get dealt X cards, at least three, maybe more via some character ability.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, nikola.

12/1/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - preview information
Since I've gotten at least a small amount of speculation about my next game in development, I thought I'd fill in some blanks. Galactic is intended to be an epic…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Jonas Larson, joshua neff, Valamir, greedo1379, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/20/2004 Matt Wilson: The Official Primetime Adventures Errata Thread
Like all print productions, Primetime Adventures has mistakes. And like all gamers, you've probably found one. Now's your chance.  Any mistakes you find, please post them in this thread, and…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Damocles, Chris Goodwin, azrianni, BlackSheep.

11/18/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - space adventure fortified with narrativism!
I'm really inspired right now by Clinton's unparalleled enthusiasm with his new game, so I'm gathering up all these ideas I've left lying around and starting work on a new…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Wilson, JamesDJIII, Technocrat13, Valamir, Alan, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Psuedopod, daMoose_Neo, greedo1379, johnzo.

11/18/2004 Matt Wilson: the shape of things
Sales of Primetime Adventures are going better than I'd anticipated. It's a month and a half or thereabouts since I put it up for sale, and I've sold about 40…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Paul Czege, Bob Goat.

11/1/2004 Matt Wilson: Primetime Adventures retroactively makes Gaming Guru list
In his latest LJ post, Robin Laws lists Primetime Adventures among his picks of new stand-out products at GenCon 2004, even though he got the book after the Gurus panel.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper.

10/12/2004 Matt Wilson: merchant alternatives to Paypal
Ever since I started selling Primetime Adventures I've had problems with Paypal. Over the last few days I've been unable to even access my account. As far as I can…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, M Jason Parent, Valamir, jdagna, Matt Snyder, Blankshield, Clay, indiedog.

10/11/2004 Matt Wilson: More shows worth emulating
Here's a thread where you can post new or old shows that you think are good role-model shows for Primetime Adventures, adding to the short and questionable list I included…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Meredith, Jonas Larson, rafial, pete_darby, Alan, Valamir, Mike Holmes, dunlaing, stingray20166, Caldis, kaotmus, azrianni, WarrenET2, joshua neff, Demada, Jaik, Chris Goodwin, ivan23.

10/7/2004 Matt Wilson: Books for sale
I have books, and you can buy 'em here.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, dyjoots, pfischer, joshua neff, lumpley, Technocrat13, LordSmerf, Drew Stevens, Shreyas Sampat, ScottM, skatay.

10/6/2004 Matt Wilson: shipping and packaging recommendations?
So it looks like I'll have the books in a day or two, and I need to figure out the best way to ship 'em. Mostly I'm concerned with packaging…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Malak, GregS, jdagna, abzu, Paul Czege.

8/25/2004 Matt Wilson: Welcome to the Doghouse
Welcome, and thanks for stopping by the Dog-eared Designs forum. Please abide by all the usual Forge policies while you're here. Please feel free to post about any topics pertaining…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Alan, WarrenET2.

8/8/2004 Matt Wilson: PTA: Proof copy
On Friday, as the movers were bringing our stuff in (I just moved to Milwaukee), the proof copy of Primetime Adventures arrived via FedEx. I chose Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc.…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, Andy Kitkowski, madelf, JSDiamond, Alex Johnson, Chris Passeno.

6/7/2004 Matt Wilson: PTA: revised budget and fan mail
Here's a fix to the current troubles I've had with awarding fan mail and maintaining a dice ecosystem. My primary concern is reward and dice systems that promote the right…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes.

5/3/2004 Matt Wilson: relocating a business to a different state
So at the end of July I'll be moving from Seattle to Milwaukee. I've already registered a sole proprietorship with King County and the city of Seattle. Anyone know where…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, semprebon.

4/27/2004 Matt Wilson: [PTA] Spacehunter: Episode 1, Femme Fatale in Spaaaace!
Some of this is going to be dated, what with my latest and hopefully last major change to the rules. Based on the stumbling blocks of the previous game, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan.

4/22/2004 Matt Wilson: [PTA] spacehunter, pilot episode and playtesting errata
Last week was the pilot episode of a PTA series that I'm pretty sure we're still calling "Spacehunter." This post is about the elements of the game in play, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan, John Harper, DannyK, Ian O'Rourke, pete_darby.

3/9/2004 Matt Wilson: Peregrine - mixing rpg and boardgame
There's been a few games I've seen recently that have made cool use of visual aids like a map, and they got me thinking about this vague concept I've had…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Mike Holmes, johnzo, xiombarg.

2/24/2004 Matt Wilson: [unipool] Horizon, a lethargic horror episode
Sunday we played another game of Horizon, the Firefly spinoff. For these sorts of heavy player input games I've been creating loose frameworks of people and a kickoff that includes…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, anonymouse.

2/20/2004 Matt Wilson: some confusion on dodging missiles
In last night's game, my character was generating missile pool to nail some guy with a thrown knife, and the guy actually launched a knife in return. So the rules…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Matt Wilson, Wolfen, Valamir, John Harper, Brian Leybourne, kenjib, Alan, Jake Norwood, Ben Lehman, Overdrive.

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1/10/2005 Matt Wilson: Dog Gone
It's the honeymoon at last! Only six months late. I'll be away on vacation from Jan 11 to Jan 18, and will be unavailable for product fulfillment or questions during…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson.

1/21/2005 Matt Wilson: Andrew Navaro not to head up Galactic Art
[b]Update:[/b] Andrew has just informed me that he's taken a very good job where freelance work is not allowed. Congrats to Andrew. Galactic artwork will wait for now. I'm still…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Bob Goat, azrianni.

2/16/2005 Matt Wilson: Preparing for TSOY
I'm part of a group that's pretty much limited to D&D, like nothing but D&D for all eternity. Except maybe once they played Deadlands. I gave them all a copy…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob Goat, Andy Kitkowski, James_Nostack.

2/24/2005 Matt Wilson: prep questions
So the game is tonight, and despite the fact that two players haven't given me much info about their characters, I'm prepping away. And that means I probably need to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Matt Wilson, Roger Eberhart, Andy Kitkowski.

2/28/2005 Matt Wilson: TSOY layout
So in the magical print edition, there's this nice touch where the top margin of every page has a blurb summarizing the page's contents, in Clinton's own way of describing…
In CRN Games
Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Bankuei.

3/4/2005 Matt Wilson: [TSOY] session 2 - trouble in Maldor
Tonight we played the second session of the TSOY game. They're starting to get the hang of the system, and there was a cool flurry of gift-dice giving near the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Bankuei.

3/4/2005 Matt Wilson: TSOY - BDTP situation
So here's something I could use some examples for, so that I can tell a player how a cliffhanger situation might be resolved next game session. There's this goblin in…
In CRN Games
Participants: Matt Wilson, Thierry Michel, Clinton R. Nixon, DaGreatJL, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, J B Bell, Bankuei.

3/11/2005 Matt Wilson: [TSOY] - session 3, gamist play in maldor
It's pretty clear to me after this third episode that I've got a dominant force of gamist preference at the table. The actions of the characters appear to be tripping…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Scripty.

3/23/2005 Matt Wilson: stepping out for a few days
Hey all. I'm heading back to Seattle until Sunday (which apparently is Easter, I didn't even know) and probably won't have much net access while I'm there. If you gots…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson.

3/29/2005 Matt Wilson: The Primetime Adventures PDF Wish List
Someday, far from now, the book will be revised, and it will have neat new things in it that everyone wishes were in it. But first it will be a…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Chris Goodwin, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Danny_K, JMendes, Emily Care, KingstonC, Yokiboy, Andy Kitkowski, Jasper Polane, Jonas Karlsson, xenopulse, Shiffer, Matthew Glover, IMAGinES.

4/6/2005 Matt Wilson: Primetime Adventures sales data
I really appreciated Paul putting up his sales figures, so I decided I'd do the same. As of the end of march, PTA has been available for sale for 6…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, xenopulse, Ben Lehman, JMendes, MarcoBrucale, Paul Czege, Valamir, Emily Care, inthisstyle, Andy Kitkowski.

5/3/2005 Matt Wilson: Updated Protagonist Sheet
There was some puzzlement recently about reading the info on the protagonist sheet, so I've revised it a bit. You can download it by doing the right-click on this link…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Yokiboy.

5/16/2005 Matt Wilson: looking for art
Hey: A project I'm working on needs two pieces, both about 4 x 3 inches, or in that neighborhood, in b/w. Anyone who has room enough to get them to…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Wilson, neoknocker.

5/19/2005 Matt Wilson: Dogs and advancement and its impact on play
Sadly, I can only ask about Dogs stuff from the outside, since I haven't got the chance to play it yet. Did I mention how sad that is? But this…
In lumpley games
Participants: Matt Wilson, lumpley, Technocrat13, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, neelk, nikola, Wolfen, Bankuei.

7/17/2005 Matt Wilson: the balance of power - brainstorming
Hey. So if you've ever played Primetime Adventures, you know about Budget, which is my response to what I always considered a daunting task as GM, which is providing the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Wilson, xenopulse, matthijs, timfire, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon, Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg, bcook1971, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, chadu, contracycle, Sean, Adam Dray, spawky, John Harper, M. J. Young.

7/25/2005 Matt Wilson: the next printing
I'm a hair's breadth from getting the next books printed. Just waiting on a couple edits to the cover. Any actual 'rules' changes will be available on the web site…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Miskatonic, xenopulse, John Harper, Bob Goat.

8/3/2005 Matt Wilson: be a billboard at GenCon
If anyone who's attending the show and working at the booth wants to be a walking billboard (a stylish walking billboard) for Primetime Adventures, let me know via PM. I'm…
In Conventions
Participants: Matt Wilson.

8/4/2005 Matt Wilson: New Books Update
I saw a proof of the new books just an hour ago, and they look great. Woo hoo!
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Rob Donoghue, Erik Ny, pfischer, Brand_Robins, IMAGinES.

8/9/2005 Matt Wilson: collaborative creation
Over in Actual Play, Wilhelm said: After everybody arrived and we navigated through the usual social chat, John handed us some character sheets and said "you should make some characters".…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, philaros.

8/26/2005 Matt Wilson: Revised Edition: Preorders
New books will be available to ship starting September 1. The price is $20 plus shipping and handling. However, if you can't wait until then to give me money, I'm…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson.

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