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2/22/2002 Dav: The Eternal Twilight
Okay, I finally got around and motivated enough to begin work on my new concept. Working title: The Eternal Twilight. System: Well then, the experience mechanic is directly tied to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards, Matt, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, RobMuadib, Jared A. Sorensen, Kenway, erithromycin, Gordon C. Landis, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, contracycle.

1/31/2002 Dav: Price Setting in the Gaming World
Okay, before I begin, I just want to mention that I may, to some degree, break into crazy business terms and mathematics. I don't know, I haven't written anything yet.…
In Publishing
Participants: Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim Gray, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, GMSkarka, Valamir, J B Bell, woodelf, Bailey.

12/18/2001 Dav: Channel conflict with distribution-retailers-manfacturers
Taking the hint from Ron's last post regarding a new thread, here it is. Without further ado, I would like to throw out a few open questions to the collective…
In Publishing
Participants: Dav, contracycle, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, GMSkarka, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Ian O'Rourke, Ryan Ary.

10/8/2001 Dav: Little Fears
My Thursday night group has started Little Fears. First, let me say that the character sheet, more than almost anything else, truly helps the character development stage. Filling in the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/19/2001 Dav: Electric Ghosts
I'm just putting in the word. Though I will certainly have more formal and well-thought remarks (as much as my remarks ever are) later. I just finished Electric Ghosts on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dav, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2001 Dav: Human Wreckage
This one is for Scott Knipe: Human Wreckage was fun. But, as Ron mentions in the review, it needs an end-game. One of the alternative methods that was floating through…
In Review Discussion
Participants: Dav, hardcoremoose.

7/31/2001 Dav: Some whining and begging...
This may be humiliating for those of you reading this. If so, picture me writing it. I WANT TO READ THE OTHER MINI-SUPPLEMENTS!!!! I've got Jared's, which, if there are…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm.

7/18/2001 Dav: the Gamble and the Stake
I wanted to bring this theory up to the collective to see what happens with it. on and I were talking briefly about the stakes in games. My position is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Le Joueur.

7/17/2001 Dav: Kingdoms
Okay, so the whole evil thing banked left and screamed off into insanity, we can leave it there I am thinking. But looking at Kingdoms, you have a 16-page game…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Dav, John Wick.

7/11/2001 Dav: Reviews at Wicked Press
John: You said in one of your essays/columns that you were going to start reviewing things. Is this something that was carried over from another venue, or is it something…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Dav, John Wick.

6/12/2001 Dav: The Roots, The Radicals
Okay, There has been some recent discussion about fun in roleplaying. Fun being rather nebulous as a concept, I understand, but go with it. I've always enjoyed roleplaying. From my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Gordon C. Landis, gentrification.

6/11/2001 Dav: Orkworld... die like a pig!
Okay, the title may have been misleading. What I meant was that my character died like a true ork last Thursday. While I have you here, let me spin you…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, John Wick, Clay.

5/31/2001 Dav: Concerning stances
Okay, after much debate and great discussion... well, some other guy beat everyone to the punch for setting out to the unwashed masses. http://ptgptb.humbug.org.au/0017/roles.html A good article, and worth reading.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Dav.

5/25/2001 Dav: Cybercon response to indy rpg question
I'm very tired, but I wanted to post this, as I think it is a good sign that rpghost.com and Cybercon want to try to make things work: from email…
In Conventions
Participants: Dav, poppocabba, effie, Ron Edwards, rpghost.

5/23/2001 Dav: Metagame mechanics
Okay, so we've got a new forum, which is dandy. So, there seemed to be some question as to metagame mechanics, among other issues. I chose to just pull this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dav, GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, james_west, Ron Edwards, Logan, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Mytholder.

5/18/2001 Dav: Gygax is still alive?
The man should be caned. RPGNet: Beginning around the early 1990s, the roleplaying world experienced a "movement," the nature and definition of which is still up for furious debate, characterized…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Logan, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, james_west, Mytholder, Paul Czege.

5/15/2001 Dav: Actual (reading?)
Okay, so I haven't actually played the game, but I was just sent a comp. copy of "Mummy: The Quirky Subtitle". I'm reading through this and at first was rather…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, joshua neff.

5/8/2001 Dav: Minimalism vs. Half-booty
A brief open question: Sorcerer, as well as other games, have proven that a core concept as well as good, efficient mechanics can present a saleable item. No setting. Or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, james_west, Ron Edwards.

4/30/2001 Dav: Divinations
Ron: I was just wondering a few things. First, have you nailed down an "official" release date for the great tome? Second, I know Jared is down with the great…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

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3/26/2002 Dav: Unfortunate Destinies
Hey all; I just wanted to say that I have been on a creative blitz. To this end, my visuals guy (Jason Gunn) and I have set-up a new web-publishing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, Le Joueur, Clinton R. Nixon, Mytholder, Ron Edwards, Ace, Mike Holmes.

3/27/2002 Dav: C&C
All; Despite some concerns over the validity or point of the game, I have completed the Basic Edition of C&C. Anyone interested in a copy, email me at davharnish@hotmail.com, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, xiombarg, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle.

3/28/2002 Dav: Charts & Charts
We played a brief (oh so brief) round of C&C tonight before another onset of Violence Future. Let me just say that the game went as well as I expected…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2002 Dav: Godlike
Anybody; I have been hearing much fanfare regarding this game (and not just in the Profiling thread). I was wondering if anyone had played this game, and would take a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Matt Snyder, contracycle, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Clinton R. Nixon, hyphz.

4/9/2002 Dav: Bona fide celebrity!
To all; Look what Ron has gone and done: http://www.erstwhile.demon.co.uk/dianajones/ He's been holding-out on us... I had no idea that he was some sort of game designer ;) Dav Congrats!
In Adept Press
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

6/19/2002 Dav: Del Ray Diablo, New England (!!)
(Ron, I trust if you feel this is best served in Actual Play, you will move it and give me a swift backhand when next we meet) I just wanted…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

4/30/2003 Dav: Unfortunate Destinies... Violence Future
Yeah, yeah... I'm back. You can all hit me at least once, twice if you're cute, and three times if you're into it. Anyway, Violence Future should be up soon,…
In Publishing
Participants: Dav, Paul Czege, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

5/1/2003 Dav: Non-linear play and Sorcerer
All right. I tried something a bit different last night... and it worked! What we did was begin a game of Sorcerer. Everyone created their characters, then we roleplayed a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Brian Leybourne.

5/9/2003 Dav: Non-Linear Sorcerer (Part 2)
So I ran my second session of Hellbound Cops tonight. It was to be Monday, originally, but work intruded. Anyway, to the few who have played in a campaign of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

8/4/2003 Dav: You guys are nutz
Okay, so I've noticed something completely odd about you Forgite booth babes... You are odd. I mean that. No, really. With the exception of Jurgen (who is all sorts of…
In Publishing
Participants: Dav, iago, Adam, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, madelf, Heather Manley, Clay, hardcoremoose, jdagna.

4/4/2004 Dav: Things to despise...
So, I've been talking to a number of people "in the industry" lately (whatever the flying-fuck THAT means)... and I've seen this startling, and horrifying notion: people are still making…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Dav, coxcomb, Dev, Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, Andy Kitkowski, Michael S. Miller, Matt Wilson, BPetroff93.

4/6/2004 Dav: Sorcerer... ish
So... I ran a game of Sorcerer last night. I had a group, willing and able, all experienced, and all ready to try something different. Now, those who have played…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Bob McNamee, J B Bell, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2004 Dav: Art and graphic design
Artist Jason Gunn (www.jasongunn.com and www.apophisconsortium.com) recently let me know that he wants to freelance for some new games and companies. Anyone wanting graphic design work, cover (painted, rendered, drawn,…
In Connections
Participants: Dav, Mystique, darkvast666.

5/7/2004 Dav: Iron Game Chef -- The Publication!
Mike Holmes and I have been working through a plan to publish the current Iron Game Chef games in a single tome. While there are likely a few kinks to…
In Connections
Participants: Dav, Shreyas Sampat, Rich Forest, quozl, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, talysman, Christopher Weeks, Zak Arntson, Asrogoth, C. Edwards, Simon W, hanschristianandersen, Jack Aidley, Lxndr, Ben Lehman, greyorm, Walt Freitag, Palaskar, xiombarg, abzu, JamesSterrett, dalek_of_god, timfire, Dev, Jonathan Walton.

6/12/2006 Dav: Obsidian - The First Sunrise
Okay, I've got this Actual Play post, and I think it is actually actual play (as there was playing), but the questions that arise from this is probably more geared…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

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