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8/7/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] Legends and Subterfuge
We finally got together for our second playtest version of FH8 tonight.  You can check out our first playtest thread here.  Lisa and I have been sick all week, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, urbanpagan, jasonm, Paideuma.

7/20/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] Bronze Age Lizardfolk and the Gods of the Dream World.
I had a very specific idea in mind before we sat down for what the setting and conflicts would be like.  FH8, true to it's design, injected so much collaboration…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, xenopulse, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Paideuma.

7/18/2005 Technocrat13: How I produced playtest hardcopies of FH8 with materials from around the house.
Ok, mostly with materials from around the house. Here's my list of materials and tools; My compy (my lappy to be exact) My crappy cheap-o HP printer where color replacement…
In Publishing
Participants: Technocrat13, MatrixGamer, Andrew Morris, John Harper, jasonm.

7/18/2005 Technocrat13: Hard Questions and Demons
I was reading Tony's Kettle Lake game and really got to thinking about how More Hard Choices tends to lead to More Entertaining Sessions.  I was also thinking of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, Wolfen, Warren, lumpley.

7/18/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] Playtest PDF online
You can find it here. While I'll enjoy and appreciate any kind of feedback there are a couple specific things I'd like to hear back from anyone who reads it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Technocrat13, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, greyorm, BigElvis.

7/6/2005 Technocrat13: [Origins 2005] Pirates, Zombies, and Rats. What a weekend.
Lisa and I managed to squeeze the time and money to go to Origins for Wednesday thru Saturday. Unfortunately we had to drive back home on Sunday and missed out…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Marhault, Mike Holmes, abzu.

7/4/2005 Technocrat13: [Indy GenCon '05] Too slow chicken marango!
Too slow for this cat! Okies. Lisa and I just got back from Origins and we're looking to jump right onto planning for GenCon. Apparenlty planning for one after the…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, Matt Gwinn, Allan, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, Smithy, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, Malcolm, Dave Panchyk, Mike Holmes, urbanpagan, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2005 Technocrat13: [Instant Publisher] Has anyone tried this site?
Hiya all. Feeling pretty good that I might actually get somewhere with FH8 led me to the fantasy that my next few games might actually be worthy of printing. Which…
In Publishing
Participants: Technocrat13, philreed, Andrew Morris, daMoose_Neo, Matt Gwinn.

6/14/2005 Technocrat13: I'll pay you to advertise your game at the cons.
So, my wife Lisa and I are actively planning our trips to GenCon and Origins this year. And we're contemplating what we wanna wear. We've pretty well settled on 'investing'…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

6/14/2005 Technocrat13: [Origins] What's for sale?
There's a slightly aged thread below about who's going to be at Origins, but with the event just two weeks away, I'm curious as to what indie games I'll be…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, Thor Olavsrud, MatrixGamer.

6/11/2005 Technocrat13: Setting and the SIS
As part of my own personal Fantasy Heartbreaker, I've been working on formalizing collaborative setting creation. I've had a few thoughts that I'd like to present here for discussion &…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Technocrat13, Jasper, Noon, Justin A Hamilton, Marco, xenopulse, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

5/30/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] The pacifist was shot
Well, we revisited Silent River last night and had a blast. A few different issues with the game came up that I'd like to share with everyone. First, the good…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, lumpley.

5/24/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] A nearly functional Fantasy Heartbreaker
This is my eighth attempt at creating a fantasy heartbreaker. It's taken me that many attempts to figure out that I needed to determine the point of the game long…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Technocrat13, xenopulse, Mike Holmes, MarkMeredith, ErrathofKosh.

5/7/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Dry Canyon Crossing
Hiya fellow Dogs-addicts. At the last minute, two of my fellow players decided to call me on my bragging that Dogs was easy and quick to set up. We're getting…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB.

4/26/2005 Technocrat13: [Dogs] Finally we prepare to play again
Well, way back in December I wrote up this little ditty of a town, but a bit of job training that took up all of January and a new job…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, Simon Kamber, jasonm, TonyLB, Wolfen.

4/19/2005 Technocrat13: Hardcover Dogs
Hiya all, A while back I'd writen to Vincent via email and asked him about the possiblity of publishing Dogs in hardcover, and how much that might cost the consumer.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, Bankuei, Wolfen, jasonm, lumpley, nikola, ironick, avram, hix, TickTock Man, Nev the Deranged, Ben Lehman.

12/16/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Looking for input on finishing this Town.
So, I started putting a town together for Dogs this afternoon. I had in mind two things; I'd like music to be at the heart of the problem, and I'd…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, Blankshield, inky, jasonm, olleolleolle.

11/17/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Re-approaching Clement's Patch
So, now that I've managed to twist some arms and get my core group to try a little Dogs, they're hooked, and my once indefinately delayed Town, Clement's Patch is…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13.

11/16/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Shifting gears makes for a bumpy ride.
After weeks of persistant arm-twisting, I finally managed to get two players to join me in a test drive of Dogs in the Vineyard, and I think it's had a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, ScottM, lumpley, urbanpagan, rafial.

10/21/2004 Technocrat13: No limitations on Dog's stuff?
Unfortunately, I still haven't had a chance to play yet, but this thread made me remember a question I had about character generation. Every category of dice pool in Dogs…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, lumpley, Valamir.

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8/24/2005 Technocrat13: Synchronizing scheduled events with sales.
On the plane ride back from GenCon I was thinking about my daytime gaming experience.  It was kinda lame.  My choices were indy games that were packed to the gills,…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Smithy, daMoose_Neo, Blankshield, Paka, Ben Lehman, cdr, abzu, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, Lisa Padol.

8/25/2005 Technocrat13: [GenCon/L5R] 5 minutes of fun packed tightly into 4 hours of dysfunction.
Well, I debated some about the usefulness of actually posting this account, but the entertainment value it had for Ron has convinced me to press on and tell you all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Gamskee, John Kim, Bankuei, JC, GB Steve, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, komradebob, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Gaerik, urbanpagan, StalkingBlue, jasonm, droog, C. Edwards.

8/30/2005 Technocrat13: [GenCon/tMW] First time up the mountain.
I've taken my time preparing to post about this session.  I don't think anyone else from that game has yet.  I hope not, because I really would have like to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Miskatonic, jasonm, Gordon C. Landis, Lisa Padol, Nev the Deranged, timfire, urbanpagan.

9/9/2005 Technocrat13: [tMW] The Fatman takes a bride.
It was such a great night I hardly know where to start.  I'm sure I won't get all the interesting bits down, but they'll come by eventually, if it takes…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, timfire.

9/15/2005 Technocrat13: [Villains of Safinubi] A courier, an engineer, an architect, and the Park.
Terribly exciting. We played our first session of Villains of Safinubi tonight and it went swimmingly.  I think I'd rate it a 7 on a scale of 1-10 for fun-osity. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm.

9/15/2005 Technocrat13: Appropriateness of other Message Icons
Ron or Clinton, While I was posting earlier today I noticed that little pull-down box below the subject line titled "Message Icon".  There's a bunch of icons there including smiley…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Artanis.

9/16/2005 Technocrat13: [Villains of Safinubi] Grabby situations on the quick.
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15502.0]FH8[/url] has emerged from it's chrysalis and is a heartbreaker no more.  You can find a link for the newest incarnation down there in my signature.  I'm pretty happy with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, majcher.

9/20/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] - A frozen town judged by cold-hearted Dogs.
The town of Five Crows is in the middle of a very hard winter.  And many of it's people want comfort in that hard winter despite the steward who wants…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, Nev the Deranged, Roger Eberhart.

10/6/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Creating PCs for Convention-run towns.
I'll be attending MACE in November and running two sessions of DitV while I'm there.  What's running through my head right now is how much, if any, character generation can…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, lumpley, Doug Ruff, Adam Dray, Paka, Frank T.

10/27/2005 Technocrat13: [MLWM] Weariness; Why do I want it again?
We got a chance to play our first session of MLWM tonight and had a great time.  Something that came up at the end of the session was that one…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Technocrat13, Paul Czege, theghost, Victor Gijsbers, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

11/1/2005 Technocrat13: [Shamble and Moan] I accidentally wrote a 24hr zombie game.
While I was working the other day I had a game idea jump from my noggin right to paper in no time flat.  It's inspired both by 80's zombie flicks…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, Darcy Burgess, majcher, Dumirik.

11/11/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] The First Sign of True Valley
Note:  If yer headed to MACE this weekend you'll might want to skip this thread 'till Monday. Hiya all.  Coming acha with yet another town to paruse.  The First Sign…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, Neal, oliof.

2/4/2006 Technocrat13: [Infected] Silent Hill meets The Wall meets The Ring. One step closer to groovy
We gathered at Andy K's place again last night for the third playtest of my monster-movie game, Infected.  The gathered players included myself, Lisa, Andy K, Remi, and Ullyses.  Lisa…
In Playtesting
Participants: Technocrat13, knicknevin.

2/5/2006 Technocrat13: [Infected] Reinvigorating the Agendas
We had a successful third playtest of Infected last night.  Among other issues it occurred to me that the PCs ended up with no more relationship to each other than...…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Technocrat13, dindenver, TonyLB, jasonm, knicknevin.

2/12/2006 Technocrat13: [Capes] A little frustrating and a little enlightening.
Tonight Remi, Jason M, Lisa, and I got together for our first Capes session.  Lisa and I had the pleasure of a single demonstration of the game from Tony LB…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Bankuei, urbanpagan, jasonm, Noon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg.

2/20/2006 Technocrat13: [Mountain Witch] Cold & Hot
We had a really interesting game of the Mountain Witch last night.  After looking over my notes from the game I have a few insights I'd like to share.  Boring…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Eero Tuovinen, urbanpagan, timfire.

5/2/2006 Technocrat13: [Red Box D&D] Module B4: The Lost City
A few months back I'd acquired a mint condition copy of the ol' Red Box edition of D&D.  After reading through it again for the first time in what must…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, James_Nostack, JamesDJIII, Miskatonic, Bryan Hansel, Ron Edwards, Noon, Calithena.

8/17/2006 Technocrat13: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] More murub, por favor.
So, I got to run two sessions of The Shab-al-Hiri Roach on the official books at GenCon this year.  It was, obviously, totally awesome.  The first session, which ran from…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm.

8/19/2006 Technocrat13: [theInfected2] Spiders of Phoenix
A few months back I hammered out a little zombie movie game I called Shamble and Moan.  By the time I got done with it I was calling it the…
In Playtesting
Participants: Technocrat13, Aman the Rejected, knicknevin.

8/30/2006 Technocrat13: [the Infected 2] Spanish Shadows
Last night Lisa and I got together with Mark and Remi for my second playtest of the Infected 2, my monster-movie game, inspired by a variety of zombie movies, but…
In Playtesting
Participants: Technocrat13, LeSingeSavant, jasonm.

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