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12/24/2004 Lisa Padol: MLWM? -- on second thoughts, make that WGP
Time slipped by since the first MLWM playtest, and I looked at my calendar and realized that we only had one viable weekend day to try again. Beth was out…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Eero Tuovinen, mneme, LordSmerf, Michael S. Miller, Noon.

12/14/2004 Lisa Padol: Planning Tips Discovered In Play
1. If it's not a big deal, don't draw it out. I figured out this one while writing up a session from some time ago. There was an interrogation that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Stigg.

9/22/2004 Lisa Padol: MLWM First Session: Are We Doing This Right?
Apologies if this ought to be on the MLWM forum -- I didn't want to cross post, and it seemed closest to Actual Play. My Life With Master Attempt, First…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, timfire, Doyce, Sydney Freedberg, Erik Hanson, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

7/21/2004 Lisa Padol: Jamais Vu, Take Two
Oy. Haven't been keeping up with reading, much less writing, between work and prepping for JV, the re-run, at Dexcon. It went astonishingly well, considering we had 8 players for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Helvetian.

6/4/2004 Lisa Padol: A new look at an old thread
I mentioned the samurai refusing to kneel to his daimyo in the apa Alarums and Excursions. Lee Gold had some interesting thoughts: Well, I make it a practice…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2004 Lisa Padol: One Week to Larptime
I'm working with Stephen Tihor and Erik Hanson on a larp that we're running next week. Everyone's got amnesia at the start. It's a 4 hour larp. Plus, I was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, JamesSterrett, Walt Freitag, sirogit, Helvetian.

4/15/2004 Lisa Padol: Artemisian Bangs?
So, Avram, who plays Laura, technoshaman recently become a werewolf, decided to give me a heads up about what he's planning next session. He told me that Laura is going…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, TonyLB, clehrich, contracycle, Storn, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards.

4/7/2004 Lisa Padol: Birthday Present for Ron
Okay, Ron's asking for cool stuff that makes us go, "Yes! That's why we play!" Like, in this area, actual play, cuz it came from, like, actual play. Anything I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, lumpley.

4/6/2004 Lisa Padol: Any bangs for our buck?
So, I'm still confused about bangs. I just ran a reasonably successful session -- a couple of slow spots, a fair number of cool ones -- and I'm trying to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, FredGarber, DannyK, Alan, Malechi, Mike Holmes.

2/27/2004 Lisa Padol: Splitting the Party
I think two thinks are prompting this post, the Burning Wheel write up, Preparations for Winter (which sounds cool. Picked up BW at the Strategist along with a bunch of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Norris, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, RDU Neil, Mike Holmes, Storn, clehrich, Nuadha.

2/26/2004 Lisa Padol: R-Maps
So, what is the difference between an R-Map and a (possibly partial) family tree? -Lisa
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, jburneko, Andrew Norris, Malechi, Ron Edwards, james_west, John Kim, beingfrank, Bankuei, Valamir.

2/24/2004 Lisa Padol: Players Plotting against PCs
Beth runs a campaign based on the works of James H. Schmidt (which I've never read). My PC, Marius Lecks, is an empath. Stephen's PC, Ell Thorndike, is a Screamer.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol.

2/24/2004 Lisa Padol: When R-Maps Go...Complicated
Okay, so, I've read Sorcerer and the three supplements, and I've started stealing the cool bits as I can. I've had a lot of success with creative interpretations of fumbles…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

2/11/2004 Lisa Padol: Practical PC Butt Kicking 101
This past Cthulhupunk session went reasonably well. Oh, some bumps, of course, but lots of fights and info dumps, and a reasonable break point. And in two cases, a PC's…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol.

1/31/2004 Lisa Padol: Why We Do It
Some time ago, Naomi Rvikis was running her Altclair campaign, which has as players me and Joshua Kronengold, via email, as she is several states away. And I typed a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Alan, james_west, coxcomb, apeiron, arxhon, Wolfen, Librisia.

1/26/2004 Lisa Padol: Death Traps and Enemy Bases
So, yesterday, I ran Cthulhupunk. Parts of it went quite well, parts dragged cuz my pacing was off. One plot thread involved Evil Villain Master Mind Hanoi Xan (yes, -that-…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, John Kim, MachMoth, Mike Holmes, clehrich, contracycle, AnyaTheBlue, chadu.

11/18/2003 Lisa Padol: How Many Assassins?
Another part of Saturday's session involved the PCs learning that someone was trying to assassinate one of their number. Now, this is a band, Age of Consent, and the target…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, John Kim, Valamir, Walt Freitag.

11/17/2003 Lisa Padol: Martian Eyes Strike Again
Oy. Ran a larp with Josh and with Stephen Tihor last week. Utterly exhausting, but we did it. Meanwhile, I continue to be grateful for the examples in Sorcerer and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2003 Lisa Padol: Interpreting Fumbles
It's late enough at night that I'm forgetting which Sorcerer supplement had the useful suggestion that one not interpret failures / fumbles as failures on the particular action, but rather…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

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7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon PTA Game
This is appearing in Alarums & Excursions #360, the 30th AEnniversay issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies or misspellings -- if folks who were there tell me what I got…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, RobNJ, Shawn De Arment, Paka.

7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon MLWM Game
This write up is appearing in A&E #360, the 30th AEnniversary issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies and misspellings -- if folks who were there let me know what they…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, John Kim, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon Everway Game
This is appearing in Alarums & Excursions #360, the 30th AEnniversay issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies or misspellings -- if folks who were there tell me what I got…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Nev the Deranged, daMoose_Neo, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, mneme.

8/1/2005 Lisa Padol: Shopping List
I'm heading off to Scotland tomorrow, flying in the Wednesday of GenCon, then heading out for GenCon on Thursday. Having polled my friends, here is the Forge portion of my…
In Conventions
Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2005 Lisa Padol: Questions on Revised PTA
I picked up a few copies of 2nd ed PTA at GenCon and emailed Matt a couple of questions which he said to post here. (Note that my experience with…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lisa Padol, Matt Wilson, demiurgeastaroth, ricmadeira, Chris Goodwin, avram, John Harper.

8/31/2005 Lisa Padol: Demo How-To?
Okay, I've bemoaned the lack of longer-than-a-quick-demo things for me to get into. I'd like to be part of the solution. Picking just five games, I want to focus on…
In Conventions
Participants: Lisa Padol, Munkholt, TonyLB.

9/6/2005 Lisa Padol: More Questions
Okay, so, Avram, Beth, Josh, and I played 2 pilot eps of PTA this past weekend, with me as the producer both times. When 2 or more people have their…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lisa Padol, Matt Wilson, mneme, demiurgeastaroth, MarcoBrucale, John Harper, Blankshield, Rob Donoghue, Landon Darkwood, iago, Andrew Norris, Alan, avram.

9/20/2005 Lisa Padol: Getting Started
One of the games I want to get good at running over the next year is Sorcerer. (Josh was like, "Well, duh, of course it should be on your list.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Andrew Norris, Paka, Peter Nordstrand, cvandelinde, James_Nostack, Valamir, droog, jburneko, avram, Nev the Deranged, angelfromanotherpin, joshua neff.

9/26/2005 Lisa Padol: [PTA] Keruton Pilot
KerutonPilot PTA Write Up: Magical Undying Demon Hunter Keruton Background: In 1991, I started running a campaign I dubbed "CthulhuPunk". It ran for a while, maybe 8 years? Maybe 10?…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol.

10/13/2005 Lisa Padol: Bang Map?
I grok R-maps, or at least, I think I do. Bangs and Kickers, not so much. That is, I think I get it, and I'm not worrying about the details…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Mike Holmes, Paka.

10/14/2005 Lisa Padol: Munchkiny Play?
I'm not actually sure this is a problem, but I'm curious to know what folks think. In the second session of Keruton, Matt Stevens joined up and we worked with…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lisa Padol, Chris Goodwin, BlackSheep, Matt Wilson, Bret Gillan, MarcoBrucale, John Harper, Valamir.

10/16/2005 Lisa Padol: Sorcerer's Skull
I picked up a copy of The Sorcerer's Skull on Ron's recommendation. It's basically what he said it was, decent pulp, from the day when you could get a novel…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

10/23/2005 Lisa Padol: Is a Good Town a Good Idea?
I had an idea for a town pop into my head, and I'm wondering how viable it would be. Okay, I know 99% of the towns the Dogs visit should…
In lumpley games
Participants: Lisa Padol, Everspinner, Vaxalon, two_fishes, TonyLB, Wolfen, Pol Jackson, lumpley, Falc, Neal, Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, nikola, Andrew Morris, Brian Newman, Paka, dunlaing, Danny_K, Tindalos.

10/24/2005 Lisa Padol: Questions after looking at Quick Ref
Nev very kindly sent me his Quick Ref. I emailed him a couple of questions, and he suggested I post them here, as he'd like to know the answers as…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Beginning Character Creation
Table of contents for this rambly post: 1. Meeting, with notes about food 2. Characters 3. One sheet, third and current draft (with thanks to Jesse, Josh, Julian, Dave, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Trevis Martin, mneme, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2005 Lisa Padol: Calibrating NPCs
I need a bit of advice on NPCs -- not so much examples of individual NPCs, though those will be appreciated, as the principles to bear in mind while creating…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

11/12/2005 Lisa Padol: Odd Sorcerer Twink
While working on character generation, Josh noted that it's usually better to croc stats for faster advancement, e.g., going for a 1-2-7 or 1-3-6 spread, rather than a 3-3-4. This…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Paka, Ron Edwards, mneme.

11/29/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our first session: Part One: Player Characters and Demons
The actual write up will follow in the next post on this thread. Character: Andreas von Ouranenburg Player: Dave Demast Appearance: Normal, Average, Perfectly Non-descript Telltale: Small animals flee or…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen.

12/2/2005 Lisa Padol: Animal Passers and Bows
A couple of questions: 1. If I create a demon passing as an animal and give it the Cover ability, does this mean that I can dispense with buying things…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2005 Lisa Padol: Does Lore a Sorcerer Make?
We got in a second and a third session, and I'm hoping to post the write up of the second soon. One question came up about an NPC (or GMC…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Calithena, angelfromanotherpin, mneme.

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