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10/26/2004 Walt Freitag: Literary Comedy, Answered Premise, and Narrativism
Brought to a thread from private messages initiated by Tim Alexander: Hiya Walt, I was looking through the archives and in the midst of following a few threads I ended…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, contracycle, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, Victor Gijsbers, GaryTP.

10/19/2004 Walt Freitag: "Sim: Realizing the Ideal"? (split)
This is split from this thread in which Ron and Eric (Technocrat13) discuss "the thing Simulationism needs," the way Gamist needs Challenge and Narrativism needs Story Now. Where Eric chose…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Technocrat13.

5/16/2004 Walt Freitag: The Big Model: Unchallenged?
In Perceptions of Civility at the Forge, Chris Lerich wrote: D. I would like to see certain blocks of theory relentlessly challenged. If they're good, they should withstand it and…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, clehrich, cruciel, M. J. Young, Cadriel, DannyK, Ian Charvill, Ron Edwards, Sean, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Storn, Henri, C. Edwards, contracycle, talysman, Hunter Logan.

4/20/2004 Walt Freitag: Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy
[b]Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy[/b] Please let me know about any omissions, errors, broken links, etc. [color=darkblue]1. SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED GAMES[/color] [b]The Battle of Frozen Waste[/b] Eero Tuovinen…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Walt Freitag, Dav, Zak Arntson, Eero Tuovinen.

4/7/2004 Walt Freitag: Pointless Quiz Questions
Of all the products you can buy at a supermarket, which is the most frequently manufactured at home instead of purchased at the supermarket? (post your own, and/or answer) -…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Walt Freitag, Rich Forest, Dav, clehrich, Christopher Weeks, JamesSterrett, C. Edwards, jrs, Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson, coxcomb, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

4/6/2004 Walt Freitag: Morbid Topic
[b]Happy Birthday -- Uggh! -- Happy Birthday -- Uggh! Doom and gloom and deep despair People dying everywhere Happy Birthdday -- Ughh! -- Happy Birthday -- Uggh! When you reach…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Walt Freitag, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer.

4/4/2004 Walt Freitag: The Adventures of G, N, and (Prof.) S
As the pounding of the drums quickened in tempo, the lines of frenzied dancers parted like a curtain, revealing the sacrificial victim struggling in his bonds on the rough-hewn stone…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, DannyK, orbsmatt, Jasper.

4/4/2004 Walt Freitag: Spammed
Everyone, there are one or more new threads in each forum started by Optix. Each has a subject line designed -- albeit crudely -- to sound relevant to that forum.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Valamir, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2004 Walt Freitag: On the term "Interactive": A Rant
On this thread Doctor Xero wrote: But in the name of sanity, please make a comment which has nothing to do with the use of the term "interactive" in…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, Valamir, John Kim, clehrich, Doctor Xero, Alan, Tomas HVM, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Caldis.

2/13/2004 Walt Freitag: Zilchplay [split from "Understanding: the "it"
I'm splitting my response to several posts about so-called "zilchplay" in the thread Understanding: the "it" of Simulationism to a new thread, since the topic is a bit of a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, cruciel, ScottM, Silmenume, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

11/18/2003 Walt Freitag: Questioning the "few key decisions" paradigm
On the What's the Bugaboo About Out of Character Context? thread, Paganini wrote: Before we can identify Mode of Play X as being prioritized, Mode of Play X first has…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young.

10/18/2003 Walt Freitag: Origin of the phrase "Step On Up"
Is there some intrinsic meaning to the phrase "Step On Up" that the GNS usage with regard to Gamism builds on? I understand what the term is defined it to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Jeff Klein, Jack Spencer Jr.

6/3/2003 Walt Freitag: Exploration of System (split)
Split from the Beeg Horseshoe Revisited thread: This topic appeared unresolved but it's tangled among other topics in the original thread. This is an attempted rescue. I agree that "fidelity…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, clehrich, ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, Wormwood, Valamir, Mike Holmes, John Kim, cruciel, M. J. Young, Emily Care, lumpley.

5/19/2003 Walt Freitag: Index to Iron Game Chef - Simulationist
[quote="an Iron Game Chef competitor"]Chairman, allow me to honor you with this small gift.[/quote] [quote="The Chairman"]Thank you. Of course, you understand that this will have no effect on the judging.[/quote]…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Walt Freitag.

4/28/2003 Walt Freitag: A different perspective on the Demoralizing Day
The heart of Hyphz's problem on the Demoralizing Day thread was stated very eloquently in the last few paragraphs of the initial post: But the negative feeling I got afterwards…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, clehrich, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

4/4/2003 Walt Freitag: Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Hot Or Not?
[size=9px]OK, I was trying to come up with the least Forge-like topics I could think of. This was number -- well, actually, it was about number 158 on the list.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Anonymous, Julie, lumpley, wyrdlyng.

2/17/2003 Walt Freitag: Walt's Annoying Word Usage Rants
After months of soul-searching(1), I've decided to post this at the risk of being seen as the Aunt Jo (an actual aunt of mine, who really does write letters to…
In Publishing
Participants: Walt Freitag, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, cruciel, Le Joueur, Bob McNamee, quozl, Scorpio, Paganini, xiombarg, ethan_greer.

12/20/2002 Walt Freitag: Comedic Narrativism and the Arabian Nights LARP (long!)
I’m posting this description of the Arabian Nights LARP I’ve mentioned in some previous threads. For two reasons: I promised to do so many weeks ago on this pretty decent…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag.

11/29/2002 Walt Freitag: What does role playing gaming accomplish?
"What does role playing gaming accomplish?" No, I'm not looking for an answer. I'm pointing out an aspect of role playing gaming that influences the public perception of the activity.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, simon_hibbs, cruciel, thoth, jrients, Mike Holmes, Ziriel, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, JMendes, Price Check, RobMuadib, M. J. Young, damion, MK Snyder, joe_llama, contracycle, quozl, Emily Care.

11/23/2002 Walt Freitag: Citation analysis
It occurs to me that listing Forge threads in descending order of how many times each thread was linked to by another thread would make it easier to find some…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

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