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7/30/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Why This?
I've spent a couple of hours now paging through the theory discussions here.  I asked a question on design a week or so back, since I'm doing some.  But I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, Michael S. Miller, demiurgeastaroth, Miskatonic, Gaerik, daMoose_Neo, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Desire, Action, Effect
Okay, simple challenge.  Pick something you did to change your game, and write it up something like this: 1. The change I wanted in my game was: Name something that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, ephemere, Adam Dray, Nathan P..

8/24/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Physical Game Staging - Black Box LARP
I've been slowly building up my methodology for staging LARP events, and I feel that it could benefit from some critical analysis and any general thoughts others had. This is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, komradebob, Matt, Albert of Feh.

12/2/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Preparing to revise.
This is a game of mine which I'm thinking of revising again to make it more of an RPG again, and less of an Adventure game (the direction I was…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Malckuss, dindenver, sayter, TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Sean, J Tolson, FlameLover.

12/5/2005 Levi Kornelsen: [8-Bit Dungeon] First addition: Lamp, Coffers, Map
[url=http://members.shaw.ca/LeviK/8bitDungeon.pdf][b]This[/b] is the game I'm working on.  Based on some thinking of my own, and the advice I recieved in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17832.0]this thread[/url], I've started in with a change, and the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Sean, TonyLB, sayter, dindenver, Arpie, Hermes3.

12/6/2005 Levi Kornelsen: What kinds of games go here?
The design forums here are primarily for use in creation of independent games.  That's an awesome thing. I have a few games that I'm sure qualify, and a few that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, energy.

12/6/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Perfect 20: Goals And Achieving them
This is Perfect 20, my d20-based system.  It's forty pages, and relatively complete. My design goals here are as follows; the first few, I think I'm getting close to, the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, Mark Johnson.

12/7/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Live Dogs
Several friends of mine, having heard the basic premise for Dogs in the Vineyard, have told me that they'd love to see it run as a live-action game. Has this…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Blankshield, Ice Cream Emperor, Brendan, Graham Walmsley.

12/10/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Collecting Towns
Having read many of the threads on this board, I'm going to be wandering through this board, collecting the towns (or, at least, collecting the links to them).  Many, if…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, cpeterso, Technocrat13, Brendan, Calithena, Warren, 14thWarrior, xjermx, James Holloway, Transit, JMendes, Doyce, foucalt, lumpley, epweissengruber, Mark D. Eddy, oliof, Willow, memolith, Tindalos, lachek, Noclue, Peturabo.

12/12/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Building a Tempted Dog
So, chatting with my players about "what this game is about", in preparation for making characters, a question came up. One of my players was curious about demons.  Specifically, he…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, Andrew Morris, nikola, Vaxalon, Pol Jackson, Aman the Rejected, Lxndr.

12/18/2005 Levi Kornelsen: [DitV] The lights go on.
Three of my regular players made Dogs last night. It was easily among my top five game sessions of the year, and we did was make freaking characters. Here's the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, Calithena, Sydney Freedberg, Supplanter.

12/25/2005 Levi Kornelsen: A tentative rules structure for a Live Dogs game [Warning: Long]
Because these rules might wander into the general area of being, by it's very nature and the number of points of similarity, partly or wholly Vincent's property, I'm putting it…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, WhiteRat, Warren, Simon Kamber, Graham Walmsley, ladylakira.

1/9/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Scorched Earth in Crystalline
Yikes! Played this town last night - and my players ate it alive.  I kept Caedmon alive and and Heloise be sacrificed, as the tweaks I used. On the road…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, lumpley.

1/9/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Fallout for improvised helpers?
I had a kind of running gunfight in my game last night, and ran it a little differently.  I'm aware that this doesn't fit the rules as written quite right,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, lumpley, TheHappyAnarchist, Julian.

1/10/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Building towards Live Dogs - Opening the Parlour
Okay.  So, my current playgroup is quite interested in taking the game Live-Action...  However. Actually, a whole lot of "however".  The biggest two are that out model for play will…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen.

1/11/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Playing with Parables
My players and I want to generate some backstory for our Dogs game.  Specifically, we want to create some parables - "Sunday school stories", if you will.  So.  I have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Mike Sugarbaker, redivider, Graham Walmsley, komradebob, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, Matt.

1/15/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Making the First Coat.
So, my GF and I are making some Dogs coats as costume for taking our game Live. ...Yes, real ones. For the first one (kind of a prototype dry-run), we…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Adam Biltcliffe, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, rrr, TheHappyAnarchist, Wolfen, lumpley, ladylakira, DainXB, faerieloch.

1/20/2006 Levi Kornelsen: The Exchange
So, attempting to make notes on what a good narration-based version of several of my other rules sets would look like, I stumbled into writing a game engine. ...this is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Everspinner, Tommi Brander.

2/1/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Have theme, but no ideas.
One of my players has, as a character theme, the idea of inherited sin.  Also, his momma was a whore.  3d4. Next game is day-after-tomorrow. I want to put together…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Paka, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon.

2/4/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Little Details of your setting
The setting in Dogs gets fleshed up a little differently by each group that plays it, I think.  I'm going to put down some of the things my group has…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, TonyLB, Supplanter, Tindalos, Vaxalon, 14thWarrior, Alex Fradera, Andrew Morris, Transit, Warren, IMAGinES.

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