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7/25/2005 GB Steve: When does the conflict start - and why not roleplay it instead?
From this thread Capes Demo at DexCon 8: With the recent profusion of social resolution mechanics I've seen in a lot of indie games, I've been worried that they might…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Jack Aidley, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon Marks, simon_hibbs, greyorm, Gaerik, Matt Snyder, Bankuei, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Valamir, Mark Woodhouse.

7/24/2005 GB Steve: Les Dogs de la Vigne
So it was SteveCon Paris this weekend, organised by Ben with accomodation provided by Régis. I popped over from London for two nights which was long enough to play Enemy…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, bcook1971, jasonm, Andrew Norris.

6/13/2005 GB Steve: [DitV]Fort Lemon Rides again!
We played a first session of Fort Lemon tonight. We had the same players as the rather simpler Buffalo Run minus my wife who recuperating (from being ill, not from…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

6/10/2005 GB Steve: Buffalo Run - my first game.
I ran my first game last night. It went pretty well, although not as nicely a James Holloway's did last Saturday. For a start we had four players, two of…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, James Holloway, Wolfen, Simon Kamber.

5/3/2005 GB Steve: [Origins 2005] Who's going?
Is there a planned Forge or other indie presence at this Con? It will be my first US convention and whilst I would like to book a few mainstream games,…
In Conventions
Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, Mike Holmes, abzu, ergtide, minipainterUS.

5/3/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Tony
This Thursday is general election day in the UK, and it's also my gaming night. So I'm planning a session of My Life with Tony. The Master is Tony Blair,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Miskatonic.

4/7/2005 GB Steve: After the Forge? A wiki?
Is this a suitable place to ask about future plans for the Forge? I know it's been said somewhere that it's not going to be around forever as a live…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, Trevis Martin.

4/5/2005 GB Steve: I hate the Forge less than I used to.
Since last year, the Forge has grown on me a bit more. I don't think that I've posted any more but I've steered clear of some of the more impenetrable…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Danny_K, Eva Deinum, Anonymous, Kit, Kat Miller, Victor Gijsbers, John Harper.

1/27/2005 GB Steve: Is gamism about facing the challenge or wanting the rewards?
Or both or neither? I'm a little confused. For example. 3e seems squarely aimed at ratcheting up challenges and giving just enough rewards so that those challenges stay interesting (i.e.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

1/13/2005 GB Steve: Narrative Engineering?
Has anyone ever heard of this? The Operational Research Society is offering a one day course in "Introduction to Story Telling" which includes:Narrative engineering changing organisations through storytelling promoting ideas…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

12/7/2004 GB Steve: Theory, or anecdotally supported opinion?
How much data is used to support roleplaying theory? And what level of proof is required? There's possibly some discussion about this here which I may have missed but I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Rich Forest, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, John Kim, Vaxalon, beingfrank.

12/6/2004 GB Steve: Still dreaming, or drifting?
I've been reading Ron's Simulationism: The Right to Dream. It's a lot of dense text to absorb, especially when I'm not a regular visitor to these shores. Anyway. I understand…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Noon, John Kim, Marco, Rob Carriere.

11/30/2004 GB Steve: A wild and an untamed thing - how literature refuses gaming
[url=http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?ey,viriconium,1]M. John Harrison's postion on roleplaying[/url], is that: [quote]"What would it be really like to live in the world of .... ?" is an inappropriate question, a category error. You…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Matt Snyder, Valamir, lumpley, ethan_greer, MR. Analytical, Alan, joshua neff, simon_hibbs, John Kim, Ben Lehman, Sean, M. J. Young, daMoose_Neo, madelf, neelk, greedo1379, Ian Charvill, Russell Impagliazzo, Mark Woodhouse, clehrich, Erling Rognli, SlurpeeMoney, Caldis.

11/26/2004 GB Steve: The purpose of play
An item of interest for theoreticians: This article By Monica Veinbergs presents a summary of this longer one by Lloyd P. Rieber and suggests that: Reiber proposes four types of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, contracycle, bcook1971.

11/9/2004 GB Steve: The state of play, or refute-o-matic
The next issue of Places to Go, People to Be is going to be carrying a small article by Balbinus. This is basically a reprint of a post to RPG.net…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, simon_hibbs, timfire, M. J. Young, Matt Wilson, Noon, John Kim, contracycle, clehrich, ffilz.

8/19/2004 GB Steve: Congratulations!
The Diana Jones Award and Indie Game of the Year, a well deserved sweep! What further delights can we expect from Half Meme in the coming year?
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers, Dev, joshua neff, ScottM, Sean, Paul Czege, Colin the Riot, Ed Cha.

4/6/2004 GB Steve: I hate the Forge!
Gets right up my nose, and long may it continue to do so.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, orbsmatt, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards.

2/15/2004 GB Steve: Re: The five percent
[quote="Clinton R. Nixon"]The Forge isn't for everyone. It's for those who love it, who love debate, who love new thought; those who love it enough to work with those who…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

2/3/2004 GB Steve: [MLwM] My Life with Headmaster - a short convention game.
It was SteveCon VII last weekend and in the first four hour slot we played Carry on up the Ring, which is something only thirty-something Brits would really appreciate. We…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Dave Panchyk, clehrich, Bob McNamee.

12/12/2003 GB Steve: [MLwM] Killing Puppies for Santa
I ran a mad game tonight and it was pretty brutal. We finished it in just over three hours with 3 1/2 players (one had to leave halfway through to…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, ethan_greer, Emily Care, Bob McNamee, abzu.

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8/14/2005 GB Steve: [DitV] Fort Lemon, again.
I ran Fort Lemon for the third time yesterday. This run was a Consternation in Cambridge for first time players. I didn't use the fort time because we only had…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm.

8/18/2005 GB Steve: Diana Jones Awards - Ticket to Ride wins!
Once again, John Kovalic is quicker with the news than the official website: http://www.livejournal.com/users/muskrat_john/78680.html Congratulations to Ticket to Ride, commiserations to Code of Unaris and Dogs in the Vineyard. Just…
In Publishing
Participants: GB Steve, Miskatonic, Old_Scratch.

9/2/2005 GB Steve: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Barker bites
So. Only three of us turned up to play last night which meant that we had to forgo our GURPS Gateway game and find something else to do. I had…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

9/5/2005 GB Steve: SteveCon games - Dogs & MLwM
I was planning to run the Roach and UTB but popular pressure prevailed and I ended up running Dogs and MLwM instead. I'm sure there will be other occasions to…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

9/7/2005 GB Steve: Connection problems
I had a hard time connecting just now. I kept getting a page with not much on except a short message at the top saying all the connections were busy.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Andrew Morris.

9/15/2005 GB Steve: The Devil is in the Details
With all the Dogs games I've run, Fort Lemon 5(ish) times + Buffalo Run, and in the game I played (I forget the name of the town), much of the…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Meguey, Blankshield, Frank T, jasonm, Andrew Morris, ptikachu, rrr, Miskatonic.

12/2/2005 GB Steve: D20gs in the Vineyard
Split off from this post which talks about how to run Dogs under d20 in response to players' fear of other systems. I suppose the first point is that if…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Vaxalon.

12/15/2005 GB Steve: My Life with Jesus
It was our annual Christmas MLwM game last night and so we went for a Christian theme. The game was played relatively straight, but not completely without gags. Jesus is…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Justin A Hamilton, Graham Walmsley.

4/5/2006 GB Steve: Reality mirrors art
We were obviously channeling something deep. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/04/jesus_maybe_walked_o.html An oceanographer suggests that Jesus could have walked not on liquid water but rather on an isolated patch of floating ice on…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve.

4/11/2006 GB Steve: [Polaris]French convention game
At SteveCon Paris this week we played a game of Polaris, in French. I'll ask the strangely named Squeeze to email his translations to Ben if he hasn't done so…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: GB Steve, Ben Lehman.

4/19/2006 GB Steve: [PTA] Animal Firm
We had a fine game of Prime Time Adventures this evening so here for your delight is a summary of play: Set in the town of Orville, Animal Firm charts…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve.

7/9/2006 GB Steve: Polaris by Christian Dior
[url=http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2006CTR/complete/slideshow/CDIOR?loop=0&event=show1503&designer=design_house27&trend=&iphoto=37&play=false&cnt=6]This [/url] shows something from Dior's latest collection that seems to be straight from the pages of Polaris.
In These Are Our Games
Participants: GB Steve, Artanis, Ben Lehman.

9/8/2006 GB Steve: [Mortal Coil] Twisted 50s
I've got the bug at the moment so we started a new game of Mortal Coil last night with me as GM. In this first post I'll talk about my…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Paka, Ice Cream Emperor, inthisstyle.

9/11/2006 GB Steve: Different responses to Mortal Coil
After publishing my Mortal Coil AP here, on rpg.net and Casus NO (a French rpg forum) I got very different responses. There wasn't a massive amount of discussion on any…
In Galileo Games
Participants: GB Steve, Eliarhiman6, inthisstyle, coffeestain, arete66, Steven Stewart.

9/28/2006 GB Steve: [1001 Nights] The camel, the monkey and the pirate with no name.
PCs Farouk (Simon) - Chronicler - old with disgusting hands - Ambition: have Sheherezade cure my hands Sheherezade (Paula) - Perfumer - young and vital with healing hands - Ambition:…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Meguey, Pelgrane, fon.

10/12/2006 GB Steve: Mortal Smackdown
So in last night's game, the continuation of Twisted Fifties, the PCs arrive mob-handed at the asylum to confront Dr Scolari, the twisted woman hater who seems to be at…
In Galileo Games
Participants: GB Steve, dyjoots, inthisstyle.

10/23/2006 GB Steve: Universalis spotted in Forbidden Planet
I was browsing in Forbidden Planet on Friday night. It's the largest comic book, DVD and genre fiction outlet in London. They have a selection of RPGs, about 3 IKEA…
In Universalis
Participants: GB Steve, Salar, Tony Irwin, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Alex Fradera.

10/31/2006 GB Steve: Can we have less beating the meat?
Is it necessary to have "wanking" in subject headers? S'all. Steve
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

11/6/2006 GB Steve: Network Visualisation
Does anyone have or know of good software for creating networks with user defined node?. I want to do something along the lines of mindmaps or relationship diagrams. Windows based…
In Connections
Participants: GB Steve, Matt, Graham Walmsley.

11/30/2006 GB Steve: 1001 converts
We had a couple of long-time gamer friends round on Tuesday and introduced them to 1001 Nights. They are familiar with other story games and have both played Once Upon…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: GB Steve, Meguey.

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