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2/18/2005 lumpley: My Sad, Down Website
Yes, it's down, it's not just you. It does this sometimes. I don't know when it will be back. Soon, I'm sure! Pretty sure. Meanwhile we can have conversations here,…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, xenopulse, pfischer.

2/3/2005 lumpley: Theory Seminar [cont'd]
In my thread Roleplaying Theory in Person...Vincent, this isn't the first time you've done this sort of thing, right? Do you feel that non-Forgies 'get-it'? What types of questions do…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, timfire, Harlequin, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Bob Goat, M. J. Young.

2/2/2005 lumpley: Roleplaying Theory In Person
This is more Dreamation 2005 writeup. I had two hours on Sunday afternoon to talk about roleplaying theory. There were 3-6 other people there, depending on which bit of the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, ffilz, xenopulse, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, clehrich, timfire, Noon, Shawn De Arment, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Weeks, Storn, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 lumpley: 10 Dogs, 6 Ronin and Assorted Bombastic Aristos
Roleplaying is like sex, y'know? And I'm a hanging out getting to know each other, not on the first date kind of guy. So, yes, a gaming con, but I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paka, Eric Minton, RobNJ, nikola, Bob Goat, gains, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris.

12/7/2004 lumpley: A Design Checklist for FitM Conflict Resolution Rules
For Conflict Resolution - What does the winner get? - What does the loser get? - How do we know who's the winner and who's the loser? - What do…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Troy_Costisick.

11/19/2004 lumpley: Creating Towns
In another thread, DannyK wrote:Is it just me, or is town creation a lot tricker than it looks? I can create a whole pocket universe in Nobilis in a fraction…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, Blankshield, ivan23, Grover, jasonm, Mark D. Eddy, lelak, Paka, Leningrad, ScottM, Solamasa, urbanpagan.

10/21/2004 lumpley: Understanding Roleplaying - Outline
[quote="I"][b]Understanding Roleplaying[/b] Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of what really happens when you role-play, and we'll go from there.…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, matthijs, Jonathan Walton, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Piers Brown, pfischer, Roger, Paganini, nikola, kwill.

10/3/2004 lumpley: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology
Cyrus Dunn is walking among corpses. We see his shoes in black and white. As he steps between the corpses they're black and white too - except that on every…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Matt Wilson, Nazzi, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Valamir, Emily Care, Paul Czege, hanschristianandersen, Meguey, dunlaing.

10/1/2004 lumpley: UNY-Con Seminar: Understanding Roleplaying
I'm running a seminar at UNY-Con this fall. "Understanding Roleplaying," and here's the description:Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley.

9/30/2004 lumpley: Nat'l Protect Your Players Day
...Just for Ron. This isn't me moderating, it's me setting tone for the convo: Dogs can be a serious game that takes on no foolin' issues. I don't think we…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, MajorKiz, Ron Edwards, nikola.

9/25/2004 lumpley: Emergency Backup Website
Occasionally, septemberquestion.org goes down. That's life. I've put the Dogs in the Vineyard portion of lumpley games up on my old geocities site: http://www.geocities.com/lumpley/dogsources.html My blog and comment functions aren't…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

9/22/2004 lumpley: [kpfs] I was Rude to my Customers (graphic)
The conversation about safewords reminded me of this story. Here's some safeword-relevant context: I've run like a million demos of kill puppies for satan. What I do when I run…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, ErrathofKosh, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, abzu, Noon.

9/13/2004 lumpley: DitV: Saint's Rest
Here's Daniel Coffin's RPGnet post about his first town: dogs in the vineyard: saint's rest (my players, get lost). I'm pointing to it because the town hits me, as I…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, nikola, ScottM.

9/7/2004 lumpley: Are we as cool as Shakespeare?
This is my thousand and first Forge post! The weekend before GenCon, Meg and I went to As You Like It, performed by Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass. It…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson, John Kim, Ron Edwards, Noon, Ben Lehman, eef, Gordon C. Landis, Christopher Weeks, Matt Snyder, Erling Rognli, Person, Nathaniel, TonyLB, ffilz, Jonathan Walton, Walt Freitag, pete_darby, Silmenume, Emily Care.

9/3/2004 lumpley: Sad GenCon
I have never seen so many unhappy people in one place as at GenCon. What's up with that? You look at the people passing by and they frown all the…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, ffilz, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, JSDiamond, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Chris_Chambers, jdagna, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2004 lumpley: Making Before the Flood Playable
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/flood.html]Before the Flood[/url], as we all know, is broken or incomplete. [quote="Eric Minton"]The game needs structure, and I think the best way to give it that would be to introduce…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Emily Care, Eric Minton, nikola, Valamir.

9/2/2004 lumpley: A Big Important Addition to Dogs' Fallout
Add to the Long-term Fallout list: Rewrite your coat's description to include permanent damage. Reduce your coat's dice if it's called for. Add to the Reflection Fallout list: Rewrite your…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, jrs, inthisstyle.

9/2/2004 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet Picks Dogs
[url=http://www.jonathantweet.com/jotgamesgcpicks.html]Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon[/url] A few of you know just how psyched I am. [quote="Jonathan Tweet"]I almost didn't pick Dogs because I didn't want a game with characters that…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, ScottM, Matt Wilson, bluegargantua, hardcoremoose, DannyK.

9/2/2004 lumpley: A GenCon Story. Contains Swears.
GenCon '04. Here's a story: this guy comes to the Forge booth. It's Saturday before noon and he's already been drinking a bit and plus he's a real asshole. He…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, jrs, Ben Lehman, abzu, Satyrblade, Ed Cha.

8/28/2004 lumpley: [kpfs] A Startling Postscript
It's Friday, maybe, toward the end of the GenCon day. I'm standing around the booth not being too useful, and this guy comes up to me. He shakes my hand,…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley.

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3/1/2005 lumpley: Interview at Primeval Press
[url=http://primevalpress.com/articles/interviews/baker]Primeval Games Press Designer Interview: Vincent Baker[/url] So that's fun. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Wolfen, Paka, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, nikola, John Burdick, Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, pete_darby.

3/30/2005 lumpley: [PTA] a very good episode, a very hard session
Previously on Epidemonology: here and here. This time: The Collector. It's Cyrus Dunn's spotlight episode. His issue is grief, particularly for the death of his wife Helen. Emily plays him.…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Danny_K, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Sydney Freedberg, Meguey, nikola, Matt Wilson, Frank T.

3/30/2005 lumpley: Dogs: A Big GM Advice
As GM, you get to help establish stakes. If your player says "what's at stake is this" you can say "no, I don't dig that, how about what's at stake…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, TonyLB, bcook1971, Wolfen, Bankuei, Betsi-G.

4/5/2005 lumpley: Three Cheers
Happy b-day to the Forge and let's please hear it for Ron and Clinton, without whose enthusiasm, dedication, hard work and smart thinkery none of this goodness would be happening.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, TonyLB, Sean, Lxndr, pete_darby, Tobias, daMoose_Neo, Andrew Morris, Emily Care, xenopulse, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, bcook1971, Dave Panchyk, Paka, Meguey, Anonymous, ironick, Domhnall, Doug Ruff, Harlequin.

4/6/2005 lumpley: The Whole Point
The whole point for me, at least. Over on my blog, me and my friends and readers compiled a great list of things. It's still open, please feel free to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Gordon C. Landis.

4/12/2005 lumpley: Dogs in the Marketplace
Anybody's curious, I've just put a graph of my online sales up on my blog, here. It's not as slick as Matt's map. I have envy. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Paka, Chris Goodwin, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Bob Goat, Jasper Polane, nikola, Tobias, matthijs, The_Tim.

4/14/2005 lumpley: Walt Frietag: the LP in Solo CRPGs?
This is a very narrow, very focused post. I want to hear from Walt before anybody else, if that's possible? Here, Walt Frietag"]Yes, the Lumpley Principle does get in the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Walt Freitag, pete_darby, contracycle, Bankuei, Valamir, Gaerik, John Kim, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, C. Edwards, Wolfen, Noon, kenjib, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, Wysardry, James Holloway, Domhnall, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2005 lumpley: Polaris
I've been trying to figure out how to write about this. This is actually my ... fourth try. Meg, Emily, Ben and I played Polaris a second time, a couple…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Kesher, Emily Care, Paka, Selene Tan, Miskatonic, Bob the Fighter.

6/15/2005 lumpley: Website Back!
Now with comment previews! And searching! www.lumpley.com -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, ScottM.

6/20/2005 lumpley: Turtling Citation
Hey Ron or anybody, which article is "turtling" in? Is it even in an article? I've done an Edit > Find (on This Page)... in every article, no luck. I've…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Chris Goodwin, jrs, ethan_greer, Trevis Martin, contracycle, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes.

7/20/2005 lumpley: DitV2: New Rules!
The second edition upcoming has a new rule and a rule change in it. They're both about followup conflicts. The rule change I'm the GM. My NPCs take a stack…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, bluegargantua, Warren, Uzzah, demiurgeastaroth, Matt Wilson, immlass, mataglap, mtiru.

7/26/2005 lumpley: DitV2: New Text
...Well, new to the book. It won't be new to you. This appears at the end of the Conflict & Resolution chapter. GMing Conflicts I think of this as “second…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, John Harper.

7/27/2005 lumpley: Question for Chris Engle: Coptic Sewn?
Hey Chris! Place the booklets end up between the boards. Clamp them in. saw acros the spine to make the holes to sew through. Unclamp and sewn.…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege, Valamir.

8/15/2005 lumpley: We're Onto Something
This weekend I happened to have Under the Bed, The Mountain Witch, Polaris, and Breaking the Ice all at my house. They look good. They don't look like anything I've…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Andrew Morris, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.

8/25/2005 lumpley: My Favorite and Only puppies Demo
So somebody who shall remain nameless* comes up to me on Thursday and is all like, "I got this guy over here wants a kill puppies for satan demo" and…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Albert of Feh, Ron Edwards, Shiffer.

8/26/2005 lumpley: Can the Dogs Define Sin Away?
[quote author=Pôl Jackson link=topic=16439.msg175504#msg175504 date=1124950780] There's an idea in the game that I find problematic: that the Dogs can redefine sin so that it isn't sin anymore. But that's a…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Pol Jackson.

8/31/2005 lumpley: [UtB] Good, Disobedient and Heartbreaking
On Thursday night at GenCon I played Under the Bed with Danielle, Paul, Ben and Eric. It was the saddest game in the history of time. We took an extreme…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, nikola.

8/31/2005 lumpley: Dogs Review Podcast by Paul Tevis
[url=http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=16556]Have Games, Will Travel #6[/url]. Coolness! -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

9/13/2005 lumpley: Swords for Guns?
[quote author=Falc link=topic=16743.msg178443#msg178443 date=1126622081] I must say, it's indeed a bit unclear that the actual final step of escalation is weapons of any kind, and not just guns. That's not…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Falc, DamienNeil, Sean, nikola, Sydney Freedberg, cdr, epweissengruber, Trevis Martin.

10/2/2005 lumpley: Serenity Policy
THE LUMPLEY GAMES FORUM SERENITY POLICY Discussing Serenity is, as you'd guess, on-topic for this forum. However, it's impossible to discuss a movie without casually revealing details of what happens…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

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