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8/16/2005 Paka: Humanity Question: On the Edge of Zero Intervention
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=16375.msg174487#msg174487 date=1124147982] No, not at all. Humanity is a metagame concept, not an in-game, even when you roll it when the character tries to do something. It…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] Words, Ghosts and Mead in the Vault
Here's the thread in which the foundation for the campaign is laid: http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=949 I ran a series of one-shots with pre-made characters in order to get a grip on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, John Harper.

8/2/2005 Paka: The Cult of Cults
[i]My group is gathering in New Vendelmark, a kind of New Amsterdam analogue in my Pirates Fight Lovecraftian Evil.  They have called a gathering of everyone unhappy with the people…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

7/19/2005 Paka: Discussion with my GMing Mentor
Jim is my gaming Qui-Gon.  He got me to GM when I was 13. But here's the thing, when I told him I didn't know the rules well enough to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Technocrat13, LandonSuffered, Valamir, Bankuei, Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg, dyjoots, cruciel, Mencelus, contracycle, Andrew Norris, greyorm, Matt Snyder, Noon, Marco, Alan, Trevis Martin, Ria, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2005 Paka: Escalation
I was talking to Tony about the rules for escalation and we came to a descrepancy that I'd like to discuss.  I heard it was the subject of a thread…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Technocrat13, coffeestain, immlass, Wolfen, lumpley, Sean.

7/6/2005 Paka: [Otherkind] Gaming with the Guys
Anthony e-mailed me a month or more ago, saying that he was hurting for some gaming, heard I was gaming regularly and wondered why we never gamed together. I responded…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, rafial, Ron Edwards.

7/5/2005 Paka: Impossible Thing Before Breakfast Question
[quote]Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, the "The GM is the author of the story and the players direct the actions of the protagonists." Widely repeated across many role-playing texts. Neither sub-clause…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, timfire, Selene Tan, Marco, contracycle, Gaerik, M. J. Young.

6/9/2005 Paka: Eero's Ronin Difficulties
[quote="Eero Tuovinen"] By the by: I'm not too impressed with RONIN. Suggest considering sticking with the basic Dust Devils system. The ability definitions are awkward in RONIN, which makes it…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Paka, Eero Tuovinen.

6/9/2005 Paka: Introducing Parents to the Hobby
My parents have always been very supportive of my gaming. They think its great that I use my imagination with my friends and always have. When a co-worker of my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jasper, abzu, Ben Lehman, nikola, Nathan P., Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, hix, StalkingBlue, Frank T, ScottM, cdr, Tobias.

6/9/2005 Paka: [Paladin] Jedi Summer
The monthly gaming group I meet with is six gamers, three men and three women and 3 games in and we've all really begun to bond. People bring food to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, James_Nostack.

5/30/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The One Bang Heist
The weekly Burning Wheel group got together this week. It was quite different from the Grief-laden Elven court succession game last week. This one was called Blood on the Cobblestones,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Tobias, abzu.

5/26/2005 Paka: Paka's Unofficial Gen Con Thread at RPG.net
If you are interested in play The King in Gray and/or The Dictionary of Mu at Gen Con, please sign up here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=4000794#post4000794
In Conventions
Participants: Paka.

5/22/2005 Paka: One Day in Mu's Bed
We had our third Get Your Geek On-a-thon here in Ithaca, in a continuing effort to cross-pollinate our gaming groups and just game together apart from our weekly cliques. Some…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2005 Paka: Duel of Wits, negotiate between the players
I had a break-through moment much like when I realized that in Riddle of Steel, SA's are about what get's the player excited, not the character. We were negotiating a…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, abzu.

5/16/2005 Paka: Burning Wheel: The King in Gray
We got together to play BW and one of the players just wasn't grokkin' it. The chunkiness of the system, the density of the rule-book, the two different books, everything…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud.

5/12/2005 Paka: Use This Book
Burning Wheel Classic, Book1 of 2, page 230 there is an essay entitled Don't Use This Book. No such essay in the revision. I could ask Luke why that is…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, Zachary The First.

5/8/2005 Paka: Post Burning Wheel NYC Gathering
I have slept 2 hours all weekend. I am going to post my first impression thoughts, crash and hope that others who were there can fill in the holes: Wow,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud.

5/6/2005 Paka: Using the Proto-NPC's
I haven't re-read the DitV rules in a while, so forgive me if this is spelled out Alright, when an NPC makes an appearance I roll and get a blank…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, nikola, demiurgeastaroth.

4/13/2005 Paka: System Examples of Scene Framing
I am thinking about scene framing and all I can think of for examples is MLwM where each scene contains one conflict roll. Is this even a tool of scene…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, JMendes, Alan, Eva Deinum, Trevis Martin, GB Steve.

4/9/2005 Paka: Table & Text: Strange Bed-fellows
I have been going through some of the threads from the Forge Birthday topic, Best Threads of the Year. As a rabid writer of fiction and a rabid gamer, I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, groundhog, TonyLB, JMendes, John Kim, ScottM, Jason Mical, Paganini, bcook1971, Wolfen, Latigo, M. J. Young.

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8/26/2005 Paka: Demoed at Gen Con
I find the mark of a good demo is when I just want to keep on playing and see what happens next.  Having bought so many games this year, I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Emily Care.

8/27/2005 Paka: Trollbabe: Kissing Cousins with those Folk from the Vineyard
I made up a character with Janaki last night and I'm really impressed with this game and happy I purchased it.  The making of the character and its success is…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

8/28/2005 Paka: 2005 Gen Con Sessions: BW, Sorcerer & DitV
I ran three games this year, one off the books due to an RPG.netter asking me to run a game because my two on the books games were sold out. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Old_Scratch, RobNJ, Ron Edwards.

9/21/2005 Paka: At the Crossroads
[b]Sorcerers[/b] are people who went to the crossroads, met the devil and made a deal.  They got something from the deal and this is their demon. [b]Humanity[/b] is ? [b]Sorcery[/b]: …
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Jaik, MetalBard.

9/30/2005 Paka: Torturing the Youngest in the Group's PC
So, everyone else in the game has to be late and its just me and the youngest person in the group, Kolja.  He's a junior in high school and we've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Chris Geisel, Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, Andy Kitkowski, majcher, Noon, Storn.

10/17/2005 Paka: Another album for the Dogs in the Vineyard Soundtrack
I just picked it up on a whim, it is by two guys who make music under the band name, Earth. The album is called Hex: or Printing in the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, hix, foucalt, jasonm, lumpley, Neal, Clinton R. Nixon, jrs, Tindalos, Darcy Burgess, oliof, Matt Wilson, Iskander, Arvidos, cpeterso, Brian Newman, Leningrad, Call Me Curly, Ineti, Stefan, demiurgeastaroth, Dumirik, Calithena, reaction, ironick, David Coulter, Steven Stewart, Dustin of the Dead, TJ, sacredchao, Mandrake, TomTitTot, Manveru, Kordeth.

11/1/2005 Paka: Raise and See Dungeon Crawl
For some reason, it is late and I am fascinated with turning Dogs into some kind of mutant fantasy heartbreaker clone. Something is effing up the community and this evil…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Frank T, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon.

11/1/2005 Paka: The Shadow of Yesterday Revised
Clinton, You said in your Ogre Cave interview that the new edition was better.  What is different?  What is improved? Why are you happier with this one? Judd
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonas Karlsson.

11/2/2005 Paka: [P.T.A.] The Pitch and the Brainstorm Uncovers: Chronos Commandoes
I've been wanting to get these buddies together and Produce a game of PTA for months now and finally, tonight, the stars were right. I told them about the show…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, ScottM.

11/5/2005 Paka: [P.T.A.] Bounty...Hunters
We sat down, six people who had never gamed before and had a splendid game. Well, okay, a few had gamed together but only a few.  I put out an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Matt Wilson.

11/5/2005 Paka: Kvelling
[i]KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure, Jewish parents are prone to kvell over their children's achievements.[/i] I'm going to kvell over Primetime Adventures, after running it twice this week…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, John Harper, rafial, komradebob, Matt Wilson.

11/5/2005 Paka: TSoY: The Intro
The intro is so amazing.  I read it aloud to my girlfriend.  It did what I want gaming books to do; it turned me on, made me want to play.…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Twobirds.

11/9/2005 Paka: TSoY, one book on the table for the first game
It seems like cashing out Secrets and Keys to gain new ones and spending XP on the spot for what is happening in game is a big part of successful…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Vaxalon, Clinton R. Nixon, argology, Twobirds.

11/14/2005 Paka: [Primetime Adventures] Overtime Reunion
Looks like Ben is going to be at Dreamation this year. I propose an Overtime reunion. We could do this one of two ways, I reckon (possible third): 1) We…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, RobNJ, Andrew Morris, Lisa Padol, TonyLB.

11/16/2005 Paka: Controlled Keys
Has anyone given a list of controlled keys that players can buy for a given campaign or session in order to mantain a given tone in a game? It seems…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob Goat, Twobirds, Kaare Berg (Old).

12/1/2005 Paka: Gen Con SoCal Game Design Panel
Luke, Jared and John in all of their glory. Broken down into bite-sized chunks by Jeff. They're the ones clearly marked: Game Design Seminar. http://www.ithacagamers.com/sonsofkryos.html I have only listened to…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka.

12/2/2005 Paka: Theory at my Table
This post isn't about one night, it is about 4 years, my past four years with the Forge and its games and the game tables I have played at with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Michael S. Miller, jmac, Ron Edwards, Dantai, MetalBard, Arpie, Mike Holmes.

12/4/2005 Paka: Planescape Keys & Secrets
I'm fascinated with world-building via Secrets and Keys, really kind of guiding the game's tone through what the players have in front of them to choose from when they have…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Mike Lucas, Twobirds.

12/6/2005 Paka: A skill to cultivate: Setting Stakes
[url=http://dogdesign.blogspot.com/2005/12/theory-in-design-making-your.html"]This is all inspired by the link contained in this sentence to Matt Wilson's blog where we talked about stakes.[/url] I can remember the first time stakes became really clear…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Dev, Joshua BishopRoby, MetalBard, Bret Gillan, Thor Olavsrud, komradebob, Tim Alexander, Michael S. Miller, Bankuei, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Hastings, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Levi Kornelsen, Danny_K, Brand_Robins, Jason Newquist, Storn, contracycle, Supplanter, CPXB.

12/7/2005 Paka: Before Stakes: What is your intent?
This is an important step that takes place before stakes setting that is worthy of its own post. The Conspiracy of Shadow game's kicker was that the cell of PC…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Thor Olavsrud, Mark Woodhouse, Warren, mtiru, Brand_Robins, Joshua BishopRoby, John Kim, Myrmidon, Tim Alexander, hix, Noon, Angaros.

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