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4/7/2005 Gaerik: Tony's Wish Fullfillment
I'd like to co-write a game with an experienced designer. You pick the game. You provide artistic direction. You boss me around unmercifully (I'm ex-military. I like that.). I get…
In Connections
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

4/4/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Forgotten Realms Campaign part 3
We played our Forgotten Realms campaign again last night. It was a session that I thought went relatively well but that I'm still not completely settled on what I did…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Noon.

3/22/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Conflict Resolution and other Forgey things (l
My group played once again this weekend and I thought things went very well indeed. I must say that my time here at The Forge has really helped me run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Bankuei, TonyLB, John Kim, Valamir, Lee Short, gorckat, Matt Gwinn, Andrew Norris.

2/22/2005 Gaerik: GM-lite / GM-less Games
I'm not at all sure that this is the place to post this message but it concerns wanting to actually play, so I'll put it here. Ron can feel free…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, M. J. Young, daMoose_Neo, CPXB, JusticeZero, Andrew Morris.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: Problem with Link in Signature
This is just a small website problem I seem to be having. My signature contains a link to the website of a game I am working on, it isn't working…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, timfire, TonyLB.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Scene framing goodness
My group and I have been playing a D&D 3.5 campaign for the last several months and have been enjoying ourselves. The group is pretty Gamist by and large and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, TonyLB, ADGBoss, Noon, Valamir, StalkingBlue.

6/30/2004 Gaerik: Drifting, Rewards, Narrativism and D&D
My bi-weekly D&D campaign is typically Gamist and we have a lot of fun with it. Stepping on up has a certain thrill that we like and the 3rd Edition…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, Trevis Martin, Doctor Xero.

6/23/2004 Gaerik: [D&D] I need proactive protagonists...
I've got a nice little D&D game that has been running for 4 sessions now and I'm relatively pleased with how it is going. The majority of my players are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ADGBoss, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, greyorm, DannyK, Zak Arntson, Bankuei, MarktheAnimator, Noon, clehrich, Itse.

4/30/2004 Gaerik: [Alternity] A rambling bit of review... (longish)
Ron expressed a desire on another thread to see a review of the Alternity game done by someone who has or is currently playing the system. My gaming group is…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Zak Arntson, rafial, John Burdick, Matt Wilson, ghostwolf, johnzo, Autocrat.

4/21/2004 Gaerik: A Plentiful Plethora of Panoramic Premise
Okay, so my title for this topic is a little ostentatious. Sorry. My questions for the Narrativist experts out there multitudinous but they all revolve around having multiple premises in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, BPetroff93, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, GreatWolf, pete_darby, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: Earth of the Fourth Sun
I was just wondering if anyone had actually tried out The Earth of the Fourth Sun rpg by Thomas Slaughter. It looked interesting. He's got a pdf playtest version of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, M. J. Young.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: [The Pool] Jumping into the Pool (longish)
My group played the Pool for the first time Sunday afternoon with some mixed (mostly good) results as far as I'm concerned. I'll go over the players, the characters, the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/16/2004 Gaerik: Giving it a shot...
Okay, most of the members of my gaming group are going to be out of town or otherwise occupied on our normal day to play this week. Thus, I thought,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Paganini, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/7/2004 Gaerik: Railroading Fun
My question at it's simplest is "What constitutes Railroading?" Does any overarching plotline by the GM mean the players are being railroaded? If railroading is defined as the GM forcing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Alan, timfire, Nick Pagnucco, DannyK, Tomas HVM, Domhnall, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, jrs, contracycle, Henri, Seth L. Blumberg, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Noon, Valamir, Walt Freitag.

3/24/2004 Gaerik: Confused about Bangs...
In a recent thread, a debate occurred on the proper usage of the term Bang. Like the person I was disagreeing with, I like for my terms in these types…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, montag, Alan, Lisa Padol, beingfrank, Brother Adso, pete_darby.

3/24/2004 Gaerik: Bangs, bangs and more bangs!
In reading several threads about Bangs, I've noticed that people throw out ideas for them that are pretty independent of any specific group or game. I, personally, would find a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Alan, Blankshield, kwill, Andrew Norris, Lisa Padol, Valamir.

3/22/2004 Gaerik: Sim GM with Gamist Players
In an online group where I'm a player we have this situation. The GM is a pretty coherent Simulationist player. At least that is my observation from playing with him…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Noon.

3/19/2004 Gaerik: Mechanic for Narrative Control
With my current group of players in which we play either 3e D&D or Alternity things progress pretty much as I feel the authors of the game intended. Our group…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Norris, Valamir, clehrich, Green, TerroX.

3/18/2004 Gaerik: Sci Fi vs Fantasy
In another thread, I mentioned that I was currently GMing a Sci Fi game (Alternity) which wasn't my preferred genre and that I was having a hard time getting invested…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Mark Johnson, orbsmatt, John Kim, komradebob, brainwipe, Scourge108, quozl, rafial, GreatWolf, John Burdick, RaconteurX, Dev, Brother Adso, TerroX, Eric J., Mike Holmes.

3/18/2004 Gaerik: Disgruntled Parents...
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the proper forum to put this post but it is about my actual gaming group, so I'll just post it and trust…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Dev, Valamir, talysman, Jeph, Clay, orbsmatt, Technocrat13, Bankuei, Zathreyel, RaconteurX, Scourge108.

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4/26/2005 Gaerik: East Tennessee Gaming
I know that East Tennessee is not the gaming Mecca of the known universe but surely there are some Forgites besides myself in this area. If so, I'd love to…
In Connections
Participants: Gaerik.

4/29/2005 Gaerik: Got my copy... Get yours today!
Okay, I got my copy in the mail a week or so ago and have finished reading the rules and digesting them a bit. This is a really cool game!...…
In Universalis
Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/2/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Lack of Social Mechanics (long)
Greetings, My D&D 3.5 group played again this weekend with mixed results. Some things went well. Some things not as well. That's rather vague so I'll try to get to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Noon, John Burdick, jdagna.

5/16/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Kids in the game.
I ran my D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign this weekend. This is the second session since we brought in two very young players, Caitlin (9 year old girl) and Sean…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, ffilz, droog, Valamir, contracycle, Noon, Stickman, Zachary The First, matthijs, komradebob, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2005 Gaerik: GNS and Capes
If this post should go in another forum, please, move it. In this thread... Tony's Standard Rant Tony stated that Capes was a heavily Narrativist system. While I have not…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, jburneko, Miskatonic.

6/6/2005 Gaerik: My First Game.... with no name.
Okay, I'm going to post my current Game Text in segments. As the Subject says, this is my first attempt at game design so be gentle with the virgin, please.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ChrisJaxn.

6/8/2005 Gaerik: Help with D&D Campaign
Let me set up the current situation in my Forgotten Realms Campaign. The group is currently based in the Silver Marches area and near Silverymoon specifically. To those not up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Mike Holmes, NN, komradebob, Sean, Andrew Norris, Noon.

6/13/2005 Gaerik: [Andrew's Little Game] First Playtest
One of the normal players wasn't able to make it to play our regular D&D campaign this afternoon so I decided to whip out my game (which still doesn't have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik.

6/14/2005 Gaerik: [Andrew's Unnamed Game] Dice Mechanic
In my playtest, one of the slightly off things I noticed was that keeping up with how many and what type of dice to roll from the beginning of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, Jasper, Walt Freitag, Everspinner.

6/16/2005 Gaerik: Dual Resolution Systems
In one of Mike's Standard Rants, he bashes on systems that have more than one resolution system pretty hard. Especially ones that have 1 system for what are genereally called…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, Justin Marx, TonyLB, contracycle, Troy_Costisick.

6/24/2005 Gaerik: Collaborative Character Creation
In most of the games my players are used to playing, character creation is strictly a solitary process. In D&D, for example, the creation process is where everyone sits down…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Morris, timfire, John Harper, Paul Czege, Vaxalon, Andrew Norris, M. J. Young.

7/19/2005 Gaerik: Missing Functionality?
The old Forums had a function that allowed you to Save a Thread as a Favorite.  Then when you clicked on your Favorites link it showed all the Threads you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, Selene Tan.

8/2/2005 Gaerik: Including Social Issues in the Rulebook.
I've noticed that many "mainstream" RPGs tend to ignore the fact that role-playing is a social activity and that if the social context the game is built on is flawed…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, Adam Dray, Andrew Morris, Jack Aidley, Frank T, Miskatonic, btrc, Bankuei, xenopulse, AlexGrim, Alan, Jake Richmond, Marco, Joshua BishopRoby, James Holloway, timfire.

8/22/2005 Gaerik: GenCon, GNS and the Games I Played
Greetings fellow Forgites, GenCon was a blast.  I met lots of Forgites and found every one of them to be excellent folks.  If you haven't ever been to GenCon and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Mike Holmes, Yokiboy, rafial.

9/8/2005 Gaerik: 1 Player - 1 GM
Greetings, I'm wanting to play a game with my wife, who is not an avid gamer though she has played with my group from time to time.  However, she really…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, John Harper, Dumirik, Paka, Emily Care, Imperator, Nev the Deranged.

12/20/2005 Gaerik: A strategy question...
Bob, Fred and Bill are playing.  Bob sets down "Goal: Super Schmoo saves the day!"  Fred goes next and decides to pick up the red die and roll it.  He…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, Hans, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg, Sindyr.

1/14/2006 Gaerik: Woohoo!
I got my BW!  I got my BW! These are nice looking books, btw, Luke. Sorry...  I was just enthusiastic about my books arriving.
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Gaerik, abzu.

1/16/2006 Gaerik: [Capes Fantasy] Good times with Orcs and fire...
Lately with my role-playing group I've been somewhat dissatisfied with our gaming.  My thoughts were that the problem revolved around a real lack of investment in what was going on…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Morris, dunlaing, Vaettyr, Sydney Freedberg.

1/16/2006 Gaerik: [Capes Fantasy] Actual Play Post
I've put an Actual Play post up in the Actual Play forum.  Just thought I'd point to it here also.
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Gaerik.

2/6/2006 Gaerik: [FATE] Fate of the North...
A few weeks ago I posted about a game of Fantasy Capes I played using the Forgotten Realms as the setting.  One of my players really doesn't like Capes-style games…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik.

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