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4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Why is marriage between two people?
Right, so last year we had this thread that's been continued. In it and elsewhere, I see lots of people supporting gay marriage but unabashedly assuming that marriage is still…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Sean, timfire, xenopulse, lumpley, Harlequin, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, joshua neff, Valamir, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, inthisstyle, Meguey, Matt Wilson, daMoose_Neo.

3/15/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Capes] Scenes and Characters III (indie-MN)
Four members of the Indie-MN group met at our local game shop Sunday and played our third session of Capes. We've already reported on the first and second sessions. I'll…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Grover, Shane Street, Sydney Freedberg.

2/4/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Town Tracker
Hey all, I'm writing an application that allows you to enter the towns you create for your Dogs to visit. I'm still tweaking things here and there, but if you…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, ScottM, Paka, inthisstyle, Yokiboy.

1/26/2005 Christopher Weeks: How much can I share the rules?
If I'm sitting at a table, explaining to people how to play Universalis, that's obviously cool. What about a virtual table on the internet? It seems like it's probably still…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/8/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Automatic NPC generation
I know it doesn't take forever and it isn't rocket science, but I cooked up an Excel spreadsheet that generates a batch of six NPCs as per Vincent's instructions in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley.

12/30/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Accomplishments
The book presents the only kind of improper accomplishments that a player can come up with as ones that invalidate the whole "dogness" (or survival) of the character. Is that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Nick Pagnucco, Technocrat13, jasonm, Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, nikola.

11/17/2004 Christopher Weeks: Minnesota indie-players wanted
I've just moved to Minnesota (near The Cities) and for a few months I've been finding MN-based Forge readers. I've just formed a Yahoo group -- indiemn for discussing opportunities…
In Connections
Participants: Christopher Weeks, greyorm.

9/13/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Appropriate reading?
Over here people mention a couple of books: A Study In Scarlet and Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 And I got to thinking that a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, Jason Durall, Ron Edwards, JasperN., Neal, Danny_K, avram, oreso, Noclue, Nathaniel, David Artman.

9/9/2004 Christopher Weeks: DiTV with Mormons and religiosity in gaming
I'm looking back over what I've written and I'm not sure if any of this is apropos. This is one of those notes that I might just back over and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, nikola, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, Brand_Robins, Valamir, MajorKiz, Paka, DannyK, inthisstyle.

9/7/2004 Christopher Weeks: The Challenge as a social karma investment instrument
[quote="Over in [URL=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12612]this thread[/url], Tony Irwin"]But when you challenge someone you're saying up front "Here's what I like, here's what I want. Show me what you want and how badly…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Tobias, Mike Holmes.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Re: Post Gen Con Website Update
[quote="Valamir"]read over the actual play demos, feel free to start up a discussion here.[/quote] Here, here? Or out there, here? (If the latter, feel free to do your moderator magic.)…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

9/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Edge Dice
Over in this thread, What I had also originally suggested (and I can't remember if it's in there or not) is that the player who gets the edge die…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks.

8/29/2004 Christopher Weeks: DitV comments
Bought it at GenCon. It was one of the games I didn't even have to think about. I knew it would be good, but Holy Cow! I should even be…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, nikola.

8/26/2004 Christopher Weeks: LEGOversalis
OK, So I screwed up my GenCon with too much responsibility for or dveotion to our (Game/LEGO User Group) track of LEGO games and didn't get to spend anywhere near…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Blankshield, Tobias, ffilz, Mike Holmes.

8/6/2004 Christopher Weeks: Are MMORPGs CRPGs?
So I've been following the current threads on CRPGs and whether or not they're RPGs and whether or not the employ an SIS. But I want to know if we're…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Blankshield, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Merten, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Gamskee, Lxndr, herrmess, JamesSterrett, Eric J., Comte, Troy_Costisick.

7/1/2004 Christopher Weeks: Who takes to Universalis with ease? (gamers or non-gamers?)
In the number of tenets thread, Given that my group includes two people who are new to gaming, the authority with which they approached plotting the game I found…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Nyrath, Bankuei, Paganini, Bob McNamee.

6/28/2004 Christopher Weeks: Universalis at GenCon?
Hiya, What are the chances of getting some Universalis veterans together at GenCon for a few hour game? I'd love the opportunity to play face to face with some of…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Mike Holmes.

6/18/2004 Christopher Weeks: Wiki Error?
Hi all, I PMed Clinton earlier, but I thought I'd put this into public light in case anyone else knows anything. If you look at the recent changes for the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Christopher Weeks.

6/17/2004 Christopher Weeks: Non-Print Formats
Why is PDF king? Why don't people sell HTML games instead? (I know, I know...people do, but why not more?) Printability is the only thing that's coming to mind, but…
In Publishing
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Bob Goat, quozl, ethan_greer, Michael S. Miller.

6/4/2004 Christopher Weeks: Name Generation
Hi all, I imagine that just about all of us have, at one time or another, invented fictitious linguistic trends with varying degrees of success for our games. We want…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Zak Arntson, Andrew Morris, Shreyas Sampat, b_bankhead, Bob McNamee, M. J. Young, greyorm, Pagrin, Tobias, Rob Carriere.

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4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Peak Oil
Someone referred to this issue in one of the other threads -- maybe the what do I hate thread. It's something that I've just recently been researching. What do you…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Bob Goat, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Andy Kitkowski, kenjib, Vaxalon, Walt Freitag, Harlequin.

4/7/2005 Christopher Weeks: Socialist? What are you doing about it?
Right, so there are a bunch of people here who are socialist-communist to some extent. I spent most of my life as an anarcho-capitalist, even before I knew those words.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Andy Kitkowski, lumpley, greyorm, J B Bell, Alan, Ben Lehman, Matt Snyder, Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers, pfischer, Yokiboy, joshua neff, C. Edwards, bastion-b, kenjib, Anonymous, Dave Panchyk.

6/8/2005 Christopher Weeks: Game at rpol
Hey, I just stumbled across a Uni game at rpol. Is anyone reading this involved? I particularly find it interesting to watch them stumble in the "Tenets - Proposals" thread.…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

6/13/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Universalis] And the war raged on...
Four of us from IndieMN (Steve, Larry, Shane and I) met yesterday and played Uni. We were an hour late getting started and I explained the rules from the two-page…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Grover, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Tobias.

9/19/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Two towns and no resolution
So, a few weeks ago I finally, finally ran a game of DitV.  I ran again today.  Each time we were down one player.  This wasn't a problem for the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

10/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: [WGP...] editing comments
Hi Michael and all, I'm reading through WGP... pretty carefully and I thought I'd start a place for me to note any comments, suggestions, etc as I hit them (so…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

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