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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.

4/4/2005 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.

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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.

8/22/2005 Paka: Gen Con: Between 8 and 12 at the Embassy Suites
I'm shocked no one has posted this yet. If you could put on a blindfold and throw a dart; you'd hit a table of people playing Inspectres, two forum regulars…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, drozdal, abzu, Technocrat13, Paul Czege, urbanpagan, Thor Olavsrud, Bob Goat, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, Meguey, Bankuei, rickr, Allan, Andy Kitkowski, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis, Andrew Morris, Gregor Hutton, thelostgm, HMT, Pauls Girl, Malcolm, Frank T, lumpley, Matt Wilson.

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