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6/21/2005 Paul Czege: [GenCon 2005] sponsor a Forge Booth chair!
Okay, over the weekend I bought twenty steel folding chairs. They're beige-grey. They were $9.99 each, plus tax. Tom will bring them to GenCon. He'll also store them in his…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, abzu, Matt Wilson, Matt Gwinn, Andy Kitkowski, GB Steve.

4/7/2005 Paul Czege: New Games Journalism
So, there's a bunch of computer games guys writing what they call "New Games Journalism." Here's an example. It's a reference to the "New Journalism" of Hunter S. Thompson…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski, Dave Panchyk, Sean, Rob MacDougall.

3/10/2005 Paul Czege: password security
Hey Clinton, The hack could have included a download of user information, right? Are user passwords insecure as a result (i.e. we should change them)? Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, Victor Gijsbers, Domhnall.

3/2/2005 Paul Czege: Empire of Satanis
Hey Darrick, I think definitely you've been successful at evoking Lovecraft and Ligotti with your setting. The Vahs-vra are fantastic. The Akturian Heads. The Vihm. The Aquatic Glyphs of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, darrick, Thor, hardcoremoose, daMoose_Neo.

2/28/2005 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press financial chart leaked to the web
Last time I did this, the CFO docked me a week's pay. But I just can't help myself. I was starved for exactly this kind of information back prior to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

2/7/2005 Paul Czege: the rpgmp3.com "Christmas Special"
Sometimes when I get an email requesting a postage quote for My Life with Master to an international address, I inquire how the person heard about the game. And most…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Roger Eberhart, GB Steve.

11/8/2004 Paul Czege: Genghis Con advertising
Heather Barnhorst, who recently wrote a review of My Life with Master, has asked me to extend an invitation to the Forge community. It seems that she runs Genghis…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/15/2004 Paul Czege: someone with an ISBN needs to do this
Google is apparently testing a new search product that works like Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book." From what I can tell, publishers send books to Google for scanning and…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Bob Goat.

10/12/2004 Paul Czege: pta: fan mail fixes dysfunctional narrativism
It's the second scene of our game. Matt Gwinn's Russian defector to the American space program just lost a dice roll against the Producer. And we all know that means…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, nikola.

8/18/2004 Paul Czege: taking this show on the road
Half Meme Press will be at the GenCon game convention through Sunday, August 22nd. Orders for My Life with Master books received in the interim will ship the week of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

7/1/2004 Paul Czege: Fear and Unrequited Love Comes To Finland
Hey everyone, Arkkikivi Publishing (kustannusyhtiö Arkkikivi), the joint publishing venture of Eero, Jari, and Markku Tuovinen will release their licensed Finnish translation of My Life with Master, Kätyrin…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Jason L Blair, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, vhirvela, newsalor.

6/29/2004 Paul Czege: rubbermaid-esque transparent storage boxes
Hey Ralph, On the Booth design and logistics thread, you wrote: A slightly off the wall suggestion would be to ask all sellers to purchase the…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Bob Goat, Christopher Weeks, smokewolf, btrc, alchemist, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder.

6/11/2004 Paul Czege: a message from the game
[size=18px] [quote="My Life with Master"]There are those who say this is the twilight of roleplaying, that there are more people leaving the hobby than joining it, and that with the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Morgan.

6/2/2004 Paul Czege: some otherworld
So... I've had several folks tell me privately they think My Life with Master is brilliant, but that they could never play it, because they are dealing with real life…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, Eero Tuovinen.

5/26/2004 Paul Czege: conspiracies
So... I've been thinking a lot lately about roleplaying that uses conspiracies as the basis of antagonism. And I'm interested in what folks might have to say on the following:Years…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, ethan_greer, Jere, talysman, contracycle, komradebob, Ben Morgan, Jack Spencer Jr, Praetor Judis, Doctor Xero, neelk, jeffd.

5/15/2004 Paul Czege: shelve with: counterculture erotica
Jonathan Woodward reviews My Life with Master in the second installment of his Exploding Dice review column at BlueBlood.net: www.blueblood.net/bb_55.html(cautionary note: Blue Blood has ads and links to some adult…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, RaconteurX.

5/14/2004 Paul Czege: intentionally risking the personal
Hey Chad, In your thread about your third Dead Inside playtest, you wrote: They all were slightly more amenable to *intentionally* exploring personal (that is, their own) psychological…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, matthijs, chadu, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue, Jack Spencer Jr, Noon.

4/28/2004 Paul Czege: before the after glows
Hey Ron, We've been having a pre-chargen email conversation about character ideas (for Sean's Afterglow). Just the big brush stuff at this stage, and focusing more at first on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, DannyK, Ben Lehman, Sean.

4/5/2004 Paul Czege: Jonathan Tweet plays My Life with Master...
...and reviews it here. Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, RaconteurX, Matt Wilson.

3/5/2004 Paul Czege: collecting data: Fear, Reason, etc. and length of game
So...I continue to get requests from folks for guidance in setting Fear and Reason, and about the allocation of starting Love, out of interest in configuring their games for a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, cthulahoops, kwill, Ron Edwards, Smithy, hix, Adam Dray, Warren.

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8/2/2005 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press First Annual Unplanned Contest
I just approved the proof of a roleplaying game. And the printer is tracking to have books to me for Gen Con. So I'm geeked, and decided to have a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, matthijs, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Uzzah, ejh, quozl, Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, GB Steve, lumpley, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Victor Gijsbers.

8/3/2005 Paul Czege: why I sell to retailers
On the Forge Booth: Price List thread, Matt Snyder wrote: No retailer discounts....I don't see how getting, say, a half dozen (or even a dozen) copies of our games into…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Valamir, gsoylent, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, MatrixGamer, abzu.

8/12/2005 Paul Czege: one player's quest to recapture the table-top RPG experience...
...in the medium of computer rpgs: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/4/31 I can't decide if I think he failed for the same reasons he thinks he failed. Paul
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Rob Carriere, Andrew Norris, Artanis, Sean, cruciel, Resonantg, TonyLB, Gaerik, Noon, contracycle, GB Steve, Miskatonic.

8/30/2005 Paul Czege: quenching your late summer thirst for madness and wine
[center][color=Purple][size=15pt][b]Bacchanal[/b][/size][/color][/center] Print copies of this year's most whispered about game are now available to those who missed it at GenCon. The book is 5.5" x 8.5", 12 pages, saddle stitched,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/7/2005 Paul Czege: Bacchic frenzy on the bitwaves
Paul Tevis talks about Bacchanal in the 7th installment of his Have Games, Will Travel podcast: http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=18642 The Bacchanal segment is about 15 minutes in, but you don't want to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/6/2005 Paul Czege: horror or not?
I try not to let questions about My Life with Master go unanswered. But RPG.net no longer has a working search engine. So now I look for threads where it…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Paka, Victor Gijsbers, Bob Goat, Arturo G., droog, Peter Nordstrand, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, joewolz, Bret Gillan, GB Steve.

10/12/2005 Paul Czege: fill your glass with wine...dice
Half Meme Press is pleased to now have a small quantity of Bacchanal dice sets for sale. The sets consist of: a purple d8, representing the god Bacchus a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Yokiboy, Nev the Deranged.

10/12/2005 Paul Czege: The Ken in Yellow
In reference to Bacchanal, in his latest Out of the Box column, Ken Hite writes: "I firmly believe that somewhere in here is the greatest King in Yellow game…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/30/2005 Paul Czege: Acts of Evil (playtest rules)
[size=13pt][b]Acts of Evil[/b][/size] a roleplaying game of occult ambition by Paul Czege [color=Maroon][b]Introduction[/b][/color] Player characters are new initiates to an occult tradition devoted to aggressive and competitive pursuit of personal…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/31/2005 Paul Czege: Welcome to the Acts of Evil playtest forum!
Welcome to the Acts of Evil playtest forum! Here's what's up: Although this is a hidden forum, participants and observers of the playtest I ran at this past GenCon are…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

11/4/2005 Paul Czege: storing/protecting the cards
My Under the Bed cards and rules are currently in an envelope. I've looked at dollar stores and hobby stores and art supply stores for a nice plastic box or…
In glyphpress
Participants: Paul Czege, nikola, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen.

11/6/2005 Paul Czege: the dice mechanics
It seems I need to consider alternative dice mechanics. The Utrecht group has demonstrated that the endeavors of beginning occultists lack drama due to an absence of mechanical adversity. I…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes.

11/14/2005 Paul Czege: edits have been made to the Acts of Evil playtest rules
Edits have been made to the Acts of Evil playtest rules: With the goal of resolving the adversity (lack of uncertainty to dice rolls) issue reported by the Utrecht group,…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

11/29/2005 Paul Czege: post-Utrecht reformulation
To recap, the Utrecht playtest focused my design attention as follows: On a need to make Teachers more effective as antagonists in the early game. On a need to increase…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Victor Gijsbers, Remko, Eero Tuovinen.

12/2/2005 Paul Czege: the tragedy of the commons
A major design objective for me with Acts of Evil is that the non-occultist NPCs have a chance to emerge via play as characters of interest, protagonists to the relatively…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes.

12/16/2005 Paul Czege: beyond the post-Utrecht reformulation
My current thinking is driven by these post-Utrecht concerns: On a need to make Teachers more effective as antagonists. On a need to increase the frequency of Humanizing across the…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

1/6/2006 Paul Czege: executive decisionmaking in action, and other influence games
Last week we played Executive Decision. Danielle was elected President. She appointed Scott as Sec. of Labor, Matt as Sec. of Defense, and me as Atty. General. We chose additional…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, cj.23, lumpley, Victor Gijsbers.

1/6/2006 Paul Czege: the epistle of an occultist
On Eero's advice, I've begun focusing on color text, written as advice from an occultist to his magickal progeny. Not being an occultist myself, it hasn't been an easy mindset…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, ejh.

1/10/2006 Paul Czege: updates to the playtest rules
The playtest rules have been updated. Important new passages are in dark red. And deprecated passages are crossed out. Mostly, the changes are what I laid out on the beyond…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

1/26/2006 Paul Czege: fun with evil
This past sabbath day we kicked off a planned multi-session playtest of Acts of Evil. And what can I say...I like it. We only had time for two scenes with…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Victor Gijsbers, hardcoremoose, Calithena.

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