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6/13/2005 Valamir: [Polaris] Key Phrases
I've had this thought following a number of Polaris play posts. I haven't been able to study the game since the old outdated version, but the key phrases seem to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Bob Goat, Emily Care, Blankshield, Harlequin, Ben Lehman, Noon, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes.

6/8/2005 Valamir: Setting as Rules
In This Thread Its this sort of point of view that makes me think that certain setting elements are tantamount to system. If introducing elements into setting implies or compels,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, xenopulse, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, FzGhouL, Noon, Dauntless, SlurpeeMoney, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, pete_darby, Marhault.

5/24/2005 Valamir: Public Service Announcement - Paypal
I'm posting this here because I know a number of indie publishers use paypal to collect payment. I've been getting a number of spoof emails claiming to be from paypal…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Andrew Morris.

5/19/2005 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS COVER
Well, its my intention to have a sharp and spiffy new cover for the next printing of Universalis. Unfortuneately, I'm not going to be able to use the wonderful contest-winning…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Paul Czege, Chris Passeno, John Harper, ethan_greer.

5/15/2005 Valamir: First Fully Burned character, some questions
Ok so I sat down and Burned up my first BW character from scratch and wanted to run it it by some folks for tips and comments. I didn't do…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, Angaros, abzu, Mike Holmes, Yokiboy.

5/3/2005 Valamir: Achievement Question
I finally brow beat Seth into running some Dogs and we had our character creation session last week. My question involves the difference between simple achievements where I play what…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valamir, Wolfen, lumpley, GreatWolf, Trevis Martin.

5/2/2005 Valamir: Fun with math
So I was noodling around with some mechanics (I'll spare you the boring details) and hit upon an interesting relationship I thought some might find useful. We're all familiar with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Technocrat13, Victor Gijsbers, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, bcook1971, Ben Lehman, Eva Deinum.

4/22/2005 Valamir: Motivations to Create Conflicts
As these various threads have progressed its occured to me that that the game may actually demotivate you from creating conflicts that you want to win. Consider our favorite villain…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, jburneko, Grover, Chris Goodwin, Sydney Freedberg, Tymen, John Harper, hyphz, Doug Ruff.

4/15/2005 Valamir: Communication
[quote="TonyLB"]Ralph, not to go all Alex Trebek on you, but would any of that have been difficult to phrase as a question? I believe that you're in this to try…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB.

4/10/2005 Valamir: Paging John Harper
If anyone has an email address that they know is current for him and that he checks with some frequency please PM it to me. I've tried his Feng@shootingIron address…
In Connections
Participants: Valamir.

4/9/2005 Valamir: Universalis Sales Data
In the Spirit of My Life with Master and Prime Time Adventures I offer: Universalis Sales Chart Most of the categories are self explanatory. The Distribution Sales are all through…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, MatrixGamer, Michael S. Miller, Bob Goat.

4/8/2005 Valamir: Sneak Peak at new Robots & Rapiers art
Its a map...its an illustration...its REALLY cool Check it out (scroll down)
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Paka, abzu, James Holloway, Emily Care, Gaerik, Rob MacDougall, GreatWolf, quozl, TonyLB.

4/1/2005 Valamir: Birthday Forum
Its about that time, any plans to open it back up this year? I think there might be some folks jonesing to take the pink piggie stacking title...
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

3/12/2005 Valamir: RAMSHEAD ANNOUNCEMENTS
1) ART CONTEST WINNER: With 40% of the 77 votes cast, John Harper's image wins the contest and the $50 prize. Thanks to all who voted. Special thanks to…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

3/10/2005 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] 3 Problems...1 Solution
[b]A Lesson in Humility [/b] This is an exciting time for R&R development. Some pretty key system obstacles have been overcome and while there is a lot of work left…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, gorckat, bcook1971, Noon, Harlequin, Mike Holmes.

3/4/2005 Valamir: Proper convention Posting
There seems to be a little confusion about the proper sort of posts to have in this forum and why "Hey, I'm going to RandomCon, who else will be there"…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Andy Kitkowski.

3/2/2005 Valamir: Plausibility, Realism and game design goals [an essay]
In this thread Most traditional as well as most narration-based mechanics would be plausible but not realistic. There is no particular effort at simulation. The game designer/GM/player may…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Nicolas Crost, xenopulse, neelk, Marco, Gaerik, John Kim, Bankuei, John Burdick, LordSmerf, lev_lafayette, M. J. Young, Noon, Vaxalon, Dauntless, Nathan P., b_bankhead, Walt Freitag, Ian Charvill, Domhnall, Ben Terry, contracycle, James Holloway, JMendes, Sean.

2/15/2005 Valamir: Explaining how to create stories with Uni
In the discussions for this review Matthijs made the following really good observation that I wanted to open further discussion on Seems to me there's a lot of talking past…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, CPXB, Christopher Weeks, ethan_greer, bcook1971, komradebob, ffilz, Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, pete_darby.

2/14/2005 Valamir: The Problem With This Forum: Too much damn theory
This is a semi rant about a trend in this forum that I find rather disturbing. The theory in here has gotten REALLY thick. There was a time...or maybe its…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Harlequin, LordSmerf, clehrich, quozl, John Burdick, Jonathan Walton, CPXB, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, John Kim, Paul Czege.

1/10/2005 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS ART CONTEST VOTING For Entries #7-#11
[size=12px]In September of 2002, an early conversation about how to pronounce "Universalis" resulted in the "Universe Alice" art contest. We were looking for the image that best captured the spirit…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Sraporn, slowdin, Christopher Weeks.

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7/11/2005 Valamir: Conflict Question
This may just be a matter of my own personal preference, but I'm having a little trouble enjoying the multiple dogs in one conflict rules (assuming for this thread all…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valamir, Technocrat13, nikola, TonyLB, GreatWolf, Sean, lumpley, demiurgeastaroth.

7/18/2005 Valamir: Any new statistics options?
Thinking in terms of my quarterly statistics updates are there any other columns availabe for the Member List (or in another fashion). Off the top of my head I'd love…
In Moderators
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/18/2005 Valamir: Test
Testing new features. Nothing to see here
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

8/15/2005 Valamir: Final Cash Register Issues
I'm nailing down the final list now and have some questions and confirmations as I reprogram the machine Not returning to the booth this year and about to be deleted…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, hardcoremoose, Matt Wilson, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Blankshield, Paul Czege, Allan, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2005 Valamir: Forge Booth Triumphant 2005
[b]GenCon Sales Results and Comparison[/b] Click [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12402.0]here[/url] for last year's detail. In 2003 we had 287 separate customer transactions In 2004 we had 360 separate customer transactions (+73 Customers +25.4%)…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Nev the Deranged, Jürgen Mayer, abzu, iain, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Meguey.

9/28/2005 Valamir: Universalis Examples
I've decided to take the opportunity of the next print run of Uni to do some major revisions to the text.  These revisions are looking to wind up much more…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Stickman, Tobias, Jack Aidley, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks, Arturo G., demiurgeastaroth, matthijs, GreatWolf, daHob, Nev the Deranged.

9/29/2005 Valamir: Revised Chapter 1
The draft for the revised Chapter 1 can be found here See if this addresses the concerns raised in the examples thread. Ralph
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, pedyo, Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, Arturo G., Jack Aidley, demiurgeastaroth, Tony Irwin, Robotech_Master.

11/21/2005 Valamir: Wanted: Universalis Proofreader
I've been deep in the rewrite of Universalis for my next printing.  The rules haven't changed (with a few small exceptions) but the text has been reorganized, clarified, restructured, and…
In Connections
Participants: Valamir, Jonathan Walton, Kinana.

12/10/2005 Valamir: Book Industry Study Group
[url]http://www.bisg.org/publications/radar.html[/url] Just came across this particular organization...they asked me to take a survey on my experience as a book publisher believe it or not...of course their survey didn't have any…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Calithena, nikola.

1/4/2006 Valamir: Problems with Successes leading to Facts
In The Firestarter Feedback Thread Ron Spake Thusly: 3. Basing the system on the concept of "success = introduced fact" is a tricky issue, and I'm not really confident…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2006 Valamir: Single Best Gaming Moment since last year
Ok, so what was you single best moment (scene, part of a scene, line) RPGing since B-day 2005.  And I mean single best...if you wanna list more than one start…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, inthisstyle, GreatWolf, Alex Fradera, jasonm, Andy Kitkowski, Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, Nathan P., Eric Bennett, MikeSands, Ben Lehman, Paka, matthijs, GB Steve, Arturo G., Gaerik, Glendower, ScottM, LeSingeSavant, Frank T, Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, dindenver.

4/4/2006 Valamir: Vegetarianism - bah
In this thread folks are talking about accomodating herbivorous diets. Bah, I say.  Our ancestors didn't spend 100,000 years clawing their way to the top of the food chain so…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Thunder_God, greyorm, GreatWolf, Andy Kitkowski, Shreyas Sampat, Troy_Costisick, John Harper, c, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, joshua neff, Peter Nordstrand, matthijs, Ben Lehman, Marhault, ( o Y o ), Jason13.

4/5/2006 Valamir: More shameless self promotion
Check out the new Universalis Cover
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Miskatonic, matthijs, Thunder_God, Arturo G., Tony Irwin, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen.

4/25/2006 Valamir: New Supplement: Capes: The Internet Forum RPG
Seriously, check out This Thread and This Thread. Imagine the first posts of each as first Tony then Sindyr throwing down a Goal Conflict of "Prove my Point about X".…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, Zamiel.

5/25/2006 Valamir: Universalis Revised Update
The first pass at the layout is back from Matt Snyder.  I think it looks very sharp with some new graphical elements giving it a more updated look. Right now…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin, Aaron Smith, tetsujin28.

6/1/2006 Valamir: Tell me about the physical quality
I'm in the process of collecting quotes for the Universalis Revised print job.  So far one of the most competitive quotes is from the same shop that did the last…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Aaron Smith, Andrew Morris, Arturo G., tetsujin28.

7/15/2006 Valamir: Viktory looking for demo help at GenCon
I've mentioned Morrison Games here before as a fellow small press publisher, publishing Viktory: a faced paced wargame in the same category as Axis & Allies or Risk (but in…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir.

7/21/2006 Valamir: UNIVERSALIS REVISED NOW AVAILABLE !
The long wait is over at last.  The books came in from the printer last week and are now available for purchase. I'm pleased to announce that in addition to…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, hix, Nathan P., Aaron Smith, Tony Irwin, pigames, Zamiel, Nev the Deranged, oliof, Zatt, Valvorik.

7/24/2006 Valamir: Gen Con Cash Register
Once again I'm providing the cash register that will be used at GenCon.  This year, instead of being staffed by overworked underpaid volunteers, Brennan of IPR will be providing the…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Blankshield, Keith Senkowski, Matt Snyder, inthisstyle, iago, John Harper.

8/18/2006 Valamir: Forge Booth Triumphant 2006
[b]GenCon Sales Results and Comparison[/b] Click [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12402.0]here[/url] for 2004 detail. Click [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16573.0]here[/url] for 2005 detail In 2003 we had 287 separate customer transactions In 2004 we had 360 separate customer…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Blankshield, Lxndr, Justin D. Jacobson, timfire, Paka, iago, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes.

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