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2/15/2005 Paka: Regarding Accomplishments
I really dig this part of the game and I wanted to write a post about what I try to do with 'em when I run Dogs. 1) Have a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka.

2/14/2005 Paka: Dogs in the Convention Hall & Post Game Chat
I think I will be able to create characters and run 'em through a town in under 4 hours. I tried to test my theory this weekend when I ran…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Wolfen, Negilent, Michael S. Miller, lumpley, nikola, Tim Alexander.

2/11/2005 Paka: The Train Back East
The train winds through the hills and into the plains, until the desert lands of the Faithful are a distant memory, a white line on the horizon that is eaten…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, nikola, TonyLB.

2/6/2005 Paka: The After-School Program: What Happened? Cats & Githyank
In the end the kids who got together and played their own version of D&D never came and gamed with me when I announced that my project was a role-playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Vaxalon, Noon.

2/2/2005 Paka: 7 Sins
[b]Inspirations[/b]: Se7en, Hellblazer, more? [b]Humanity[/b] is the ability to lead a life in control of sin, rather than allowing them to control you and define who you are. [b]Humanity gain[/b]…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.

2/2/2005 Paka: Sorcerer Con Games
Michael put this idea in my head. I am sorry that I didn't get a chance to play Sorcerer at the Dreamation, just to see how it feels to be…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 Paka: Dime-Store Katana's
Yes, I know katana is a Japanese word and shouldn't be plural. Dime-Store Katana's is a game about fucked up people who solve problems with violence because they are deluded…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Brendan, Doug Ruff, Vaxalon, Ben Morgan, anonymouse, sirogit, tj333.

1/28/2005 Paka: Out of the Joint (Inspired by The Wire, The Corner and Oz)
[b]Inspirations[/b]: The Wire and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood and Oz will probably be in there too. You only ever role-play two days in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2005 Paka: Sorcerer for YA Fantasy Fiction
Inspirations: high fantasy young adult novels, The Golden Compass, Narnia and Harry Potter. Demons are: animal familiars summoned by wizards, apprentices and the gifted that are in fact manifestations of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

12/21/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Blood Simple '05
I e-mailed 'em: The New Year's Eve Weekend on the evening of New Year's Day we could game. I could run Sorcerer, which is neat because it is capable of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, RobNJ.

12/20/2004 Paka: Stepping Away from the United Party Mentality
I am about to run Blood Simple on New Year's Day, it looks like and we're in the preliminary e-mail stages, flirting with the game idea before any foreplay takes…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/16/2004 Paka: Sorcerer One-Sheet Preperation
I am not sure if these steps are exactly where I want them just yet but here is a rough guideline to making a one-sheet. Any feedback or disagreements are…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka.

12/15/2004 Paka: Some Dogs High Points
I'm not sure when or if I'll have time to write up the other DitV games I've run so I thought I'd write up a couple of high points of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Emily Care, lumpley.

12/15/2004 Paka: [Burning Wheel] One-shot with ole gaming buddies
I ran a BW game with two friends who have been doing nothing but d20 gaming recently. I can't count the number of times one of them said, "Thanks, Judd,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, abzu, Stigg, taepoong.

12/7/2004 Paka: Mystery Men
I've been flirting with how to do super-heroic Sorcerer and here is my most recent attempt. The starting Demon is something that happened to you that made you want to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, urbwar, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Bailywolf, Ben Morgan.

11/29/2004 Paka: Being a Game's Therapist
A friend of you e-mails and says their game isn't working. Something's wrong. Consider it an RPG intake call. What is it you ask? Whose playing and what are their…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, Nathan P., bcook1971, beingfrank.

11/23/2004 Paka: [BW] The Gift at GYGO-a-thon 1
The Gift is an odd adventure to me. Luke was kind enough to e-mail me the character sheets and some hints as to how to play it. I played it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud, abzu.

11/11/2004 Paka: School Days
[b]Influences[/b]: Freaks and Geeks, Battle Royale, School Daze, Buffy the Vampire Slayer?, Malcom in the Middle?, Dawson's Creek? [i]? = shows I'm either not sure of or haven't seen[/i] [b]Humanity[/b]…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, DannyK.

11/7/2004 Paka: Underworld: Werewolves vs. Vampires
I just played in a brilliant game by my buddy, Robert and the premise was that the trailer for Underworld was cool but the movie sucked, let's play it right.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Scripty, Sydney Freedberg, DannyK.

10/21/2004 Paka: [DiTV] Dogs One-Shot
A few friends are coming to visit from outta town and so we will be making up characters primarily through e-mail. Town creation will come later. For now, here are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, lumpley, RobNJ.

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2/22/2005 Paka: Other CoS Thoughts
[b]Nice[/b] I read the conflict resolution and combat today and I'm really thrilled. The game's combat looks like a TRoS lite and that makes me chortle with joy. Love the…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

2/26/2005 Paka: [DitV] Jericho Flats (Swamp Crew)
"My character is thinking...thinking about how in some dark places there doesn't seem to be a god at all and in those places HE must be god. That is what…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Latigo.

3/5/2005 Paka: Character Concept Brainstorm with my Girlfriend
All of my girlfriend's high school buddies gamed and she had a kind of shitty experience with D&D, being told her choices were wrong by the DM, etc. etc. I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Meguey, xenopulse.

3/11/2005 Paka: [CoS] The Screaming Saint - stickin' it to the man
CoS is an interesting system. It has a wiff of TRoS SA's in its Passion and Drive (which I think should be re-named) and is obviously inspired by TRoS combat.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

3/15/2005 Paka: Bridal Falls City
I've been thinking about a new city for first-time Dogs players and a possible town for a one-shot I might run in a few weeks. I got thinkin' big but…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Wolfen, beingfrank, Stigg.

3/18/2005 Paka: Sigil via Sorcerer
Reading the works of China Mieville has made me yearn for Planescape and I had a nice conversation with the fella who introduced me to GMing, back in the day.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, Bailywolf.

3/21/2005 Paka: Regarding Theme
I don't believe that themes are determined before play. Themes, to my mind, happen during play. They happen due to the players' choices. I played a game of TRoS set…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, lumpley, Marco, pete_darby, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

3/29/2005 Paka: NYC Crew meets Bridal Falls City
I met with a few old gaming buddies in NYC this weekend and we gamed us some DitV. Pete made up a former professor of Philosophy from Back East who…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Stigg.

4/3/2005 Paka: Inspiring Pictures: A Boy and his Demon
http://www.ashesandsnow.org/index2.html Check out the picture of the boy with the cheetah in the Images and Archives section. That's the one I saw in the NYT magazine and thought, "Wow, a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, sirogit, Selene Tan, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2005 Paka: Questions through Play
Okay, today I gamed with my wargamers. Don't get me wrong, they love a good story and role-play their hexes off but they all wargame and look at games with…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

4/4/2005 Paka: In Praise of Group Kickers
Wow, these rock. Kickers in general rock but having the cell's players come together and decide as a group where the game is going to start is just fantastic. I'm…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka.

4/6/2005 Paka: What's changed for me since the Forge.
I always knew I could run a great game but I wasn't sure what it took to make them consistently great. The greatness just happened, like mana from heaven. Some…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, Brand_Robins, Frank T, Nicolas Crost, Victor Gijsbers, James Holloway, hix, Jonathan Walton, Gaerik, Andrew Norris, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Andrew Morris, Marhault, pfischer, Tony Irwin, Wolfen, xenopulse, Brendan, Meguey, Jason13, neko ewen, Melinglor, J. Tuomas Harviainen, demiurgeastaroth, Thunder_God.

4/9/2005 Paka: Table & Text: Strange Bed-fellows
I have been going through some of the threads from the Forge Birthday topic, Best Threads of the Year. As a rabid writer of fiction and a rabid gamer, I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, groundhog, TonyLB, JMendes, John Kim, ScottM, Jason Mical, Paganini, bcook1971, Wolfen, Latigo, M. J. Young.

4/13/2005 Paka: System Examples of Scene Framing
I am thinking about scene framing and all I can think of for examples is MLwM where each scene contains one conflict roll. Is this even a tool of scene…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, JMendes, Alan, Eva Deinum, Trevis Martin, GB Steve.

5/6/2005 Paka: Using the Proto-NPC's
I haven't re-read the DitV rules in a while, so forgive me if this is spelled out Alright, when an NPC makes an appearance I roll and get a blank…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, nikola, demiurgeastaroth.

5/8/2005 Paka: Post Burning Wheel NYC Gathering
I have slept 2 hours all weekend. I am going to post my first impression thoughts, crash and hope that others who were there can fill in the holes: Wow,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud.

5/12/2005 Paka: Use This Book
Burning Wheel Classic, Book1 of 2, page 230 there is an essay entitled Don't Use This Book. No such essay in the revision. I could ask Luke why that is…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, Zachary The First.

5/16/2005 Paka: Burning Wheel: The King in Gray
We got together to play BW and one of the players just wasn't grokkin' it. The chunkiness of the system, the density of the rule-book, the two different books, everything…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud.

5/17/2005 Paka: Duel of Wits, negotiate between the players
I had a break-through moment much like when I realized that in Riddle of Steel, SA's are about what get's the player excited, not the character. We were negotiating a…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, abzu.

5/22/2005 Paka: One Day in Mu's Bed
We had our third Get Your Geek On-a-thon here in Ithaca, in a continuing effort to cross-pollinate our gaming groups and just game together apart from our weekly cliques. Some…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

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