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7/31/2005 Paganini: Social Functionality
In this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16180 Ron wrote: When games like The Great Ork Gods and The Mountain Witch are seen as revolutionary, whereas in fact they merely accord with the bare…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Noon, Jack Aidley, Justin A Hamilton, Ron Edwards.

7/30/2005 Paganini: Group vs. Individual CA
Over in Teaching Creative Agenda Ron wrote: Now then, individual vs. group. If this group concept of CA means, like, making a big list of the differences and…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Marco, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon.

7/27/2005 Paganini: Teaching Creative Agenda
Moving on from this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16126 I will admit up front that I am a bit peeved. I will be blunt. For the past four years I've watched this idea…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Alan, lumpley, ffilz, Bankuei.

6/10/2005 Paganini: Relationships
So, I'm going through the Revised Edition getting ready for some actual play, and something about Relationships caught my eye. Relationships tend to be expensive - the more interesting the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paganini, abzu.

5/4/2005 Paganini: Resources
So, I been working my way through Burning Wheel Revised and really digging it. Made a character and everything (she's up on my blog). But, then I got to the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paganini, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, Bankuei, Mulciber, Yokiboy, Angaros, taepoong, xenopulse.

4/25/2005 Paganini: Exploration Is *REALLY* King - or - System Doesn't Matter As
This was also posted on my LJ blog. A while back on IRC I said something along the lines of "I can enjoy any game, regardless of GNS, providing that…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, greyorm, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, groundhog, Gordon C. Landis, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Valamir, Paka, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, Simon Marks, John Kim, Walt Freitag, Silmenume, lev_lafayette.

2/27/2005 Paganini: Theory Without Jargon - Help for the Desparate - Number 3
Last time I ended up by talking about how most contributions are automatically accepted by the group, but that some contributions need to be arbitrated by an agreed-on mechanical method.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Emily Care.

2/8/2005 Paganini: Theory Without Jargon - Help for the Desparate - Number 2
(As you can see, the reason I've been enthusiasticaly participating in some of these recent threads is that they pertain directly to what I've been writing. Let's hear it for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Doctor Xero, clehrich, CPXB, greedo1379, kenjib, Wolfen.

2/8/2005 Paganini: Theory Without Jargon - Help for the Desparate - Number 1
Theory Without Jargon - Help for the Desperate - Number 1 Version 0 (Draft) The Forge is a place where people talk a lot about the theory of role-playing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, clehrich, CPXB, J. Tuomas Harviainen, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, Emily Care, sophist, LordSmerf, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen, John Kim, komradebob, timfire, greedo1379, Marco, Valamir, NOS.

10/13/2004 Paganini: Stance Theory: The Hegemony of One Character
So, Ben Lehman said this tonight: "It cleaves to close to the hegemony of one player corresponding to one character only, so much that only one category is made for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, Alan, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, timfire, Shreyas Sampat, greyorm, John Kim, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Blankshield, lumpley, simon_hibbs, clehrich.

9/26/2004 Paganini: A thread about writing
This thread is about applying existing writing skills to RPGs. This is not a thread about writing skills in general. Those are... not exactly easy to come by - you…
In Publishing
Participants: Paganini, clehrich, timfire, Nathan P., ChefKyle, LordSmerf, Green.

9/19/2004 Paganini: Writing for People
I'm putting this in Publishing, because I think it has a lot of general application, even though it originated in an Adept Press thread. Earlier today, Ron, writing about his…
In Publishing
Participants: Paganini, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, ChefKyle, LordSmerf, Michael S. Miller, timfire, clehrich, DannyK, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Blankshield, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski.

9/2/2004 Paganini: [Trollbabe - Vampires] End of adventure number 1 - L1000NG
Alternatively known as "Darkbabe" and "Nightbabe." Here's the transcript from the game, formatted up in a nice readable (I hope) stream. This is the first adventure, which took us 8…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paganini, John Harper, Bob McNamee, suffusionofyellow, b_bankhead.

8/18/2004 Paganini: Advancement Systems and D&D, Advancement Systems and Des
So, if you think about it, D&D advancement (of ANY incarnation) is basically a scaling / pacing mechanic. I think we've had that discussion before, but to do a basic…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, contracycle, Mark Johnson, NN, Marco, Shreyas Sampat, anonymouse, Russell Impagliazzo, Zak Arntson, Noon, Precious Villain, Eric J., M. J. Young, timfire.

7/27/2004 Paganini: System - what it is - a Rant
All this flap about system is really bugging me. So I will commence ranting. Also, last night on IRC, Vaxalon explained to me that he feels frustrated 'cos the Forge…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Vaxalon, xiombarg, John Kim, lumpley, contracycle, mindwanders, Nicolas Crost, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Apocalypse.

7/23/2004 Paganini: Player ignorance, Lumpley Principle, and Setting
So, according to the Lumpley Principle, System is the means by which the contents of the SiS is negotiated into place. The purpose of System is not to model the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Noon, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, John Kim, M. J. Young, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

7/6/2004 Paganini: [Narrativism] Premise and Stance
So, it occurs to me that a much simpler and clearer way of explaining and supporting what I've been saying all week has to do with the three Stances.Ron had…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, lumpley, clehrich, Marco, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, contracycle, C. Edwards.

7/3/2004 Paganini: Wushu and Fortune at the End
I'd never really encountered Fortune at the End in practice, until I bought Wushu. When I read about it in the GNS essay my response was basically "yeah, ok, that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, Andrew Martin, Shreyas Sampat, C. Edwards, Tony Irwin, hanschristianandersen, Dev, John Harper, ReverendBayn, Bob McNamee, Drew Stevens, ejh, MR. Analytical.

6/18/2004 Paganini: Narrativism: Theme under the microscope
It ocurred to me over the last couple of days as I've been reading and posting to these Narrativism threads that possibly a source of confusion has to do with…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, pfischer, contracycle.

6/16/2004 Paganini: [Trollbabe] Conflicts and Pace
One of the things that I've never understood about Trollbabe caught my attention again tonight. I'm getting ready to run it again (a vampire game, this time, in fact). The…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paganini, rafial, Ron Edwards.

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