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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.

4/4/2005 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.

4/3/2005 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.

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.

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.

3/18/2005 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.

3/15/2005 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.

3/11/2005 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.

3/5/2005 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.

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.

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.

2/21/2005 Paka: Conspiracy of the Deeps
A friend asked me what I would use to play a pirate game and while brainstorming different ideas the concept of using a pirate crew that has turned its back…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Matt-M-McElroy, Bob Goat.

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.

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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.

5/26/2005 Paka: Paka's Unofficial Gen Con Thread at RPG.net
If you are interested in play The King in Gray and/or The Dictionary of Mu at Gen Con, please sign up here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=4000794#post4000794
In Conventions
Participants: Paka.

5/30/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The One Bang Heist
The weekly Burning Wheel group got together this week. It was quite different from the Grief-laden Elven court succession game last week. This one was called Blood on the Cobblestones,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Tobias, abzu.

6/9/2005 Paka: [Paladin] Jedi Summer
The monthly gaming group I meet with is six gamers, three men and three women and 3 games in and we've all really begun to bond. People bring food to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, James_Nostack.

6/9/2005 Paka: Introducing Parents to the Hobby
My parents have always been very supportive of my gaming. They think its great that I use my imagination with my friends and always have. When a co-worker of my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jasper, abzu, Ben Lehman, nikola, Nathan P., Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, hix, StalkingBlue, Frank T, ScottM, cdr, Tobias.

6/9/2005 Paka: Eero's Ronin Difficulties
[quote="Eero Tuovinen"] By the by: I'm not too impressed with RONIN. Suggest considering sticking with the basic Dust Devils system. The ability definitions are awkward in RONIN, which makes it…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Paka, Eero Tuovinen.

7/5/2005 Paka: Impossible Thing Before Breakfast Question
[quote]Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, the "The GM is the author of the story and the players direct the actions of the protagonists." Widely repeated across many role-playing texts. Neither sub-clause…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, timfire, Selene Tan, Marco, contracycle, Gaerik, M. J. Young.

7/6/2005 Paka: [Otherkind] Gaming with the Guys
Anthony e-mailed me a month or more ago, saying that he was hurting for some gaming, heard I was gaming regularly and wondered why we never gamed together. I responded…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, rafial, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2005 Paka: Escalation
I was talking to Tony about the rules for escalation and we came to a descrepancy that I'd like to discuss.  I heard it was the subject of a thread…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Technocrat13, coffeestain, immlass, Wolfen, lumpley, Sean.

7/19/2005 Paka: Discussion with my GMing Mentor
Jim is my gaming Qui-Gon.  He got me to GM when I was 13. But here's the thing, when I told him I didn't know the rules well enough to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Technocrat13, LandonSuffered, Valamir, Bankuei, Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg, dyjoots, cruciel, Mencelus, contracycle, Andrew Norris, greyorm, Matt Snyder, Noon, Marco, Alan, Trevis Martin, Ria, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards.

8/2/2005 Paka: The Cult of Cults
[i]My group is gathering in New Vendelmark, a kind of New Amsterdam analogue in my Pirates Fight Lovecraftian Evil.  They have called a gathering of everyone unhappy with the people…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

8/15/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] Words, Ghosts and Mead in the Vault
Here's the thread in which the foundation for the campaign is laid: http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=949 I ran a series of one-shots with pre-made characters in order to get a grip on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, John Harper.

8/16/2005 Paka: Humanity Question: On the Edge of Zero Intervention
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=16375.msg174487#msg174487 date=1124147982] No, not at all. Humanity is a metagame concept, not an in-game, even when you roll it when the character tries to do something. It…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

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