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8/26/2005 John Kim: John's Standard Rant #1: Freeform Traits
This is a general rant about freeform traits, prompted by some off-board discussion.  I'm not opposed to them in general, but I think that some designers choose them as a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Sean, gsoylent, Emily Care, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, greyorm, HMT, lumpley, chadu, Marco, Sydney Freedberg, cruciel, Noon, Troy_Costisick, Darcy Burgess, jaw6, Everspinner.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for Buffy at ConQuest
So my other game at ConQuest will be Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG.  I'll be running the third in a series of games I've been doing set in Santa Cruz,…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Mike Holmes.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for DitV at ConQuest
So I signed up to run a Dogs in the Vineyard game at ConQuest.  I've got six hours officially, but I expect to wrap up by five. Following Vincent's advice…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, cdr, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

7/7/2005 John Kim: Harnies play Dogs in the Vineyard
(Note: I don't have a big question here with this play report, but since a lot of people around here are interested in DitV, I thought I'd post it. I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Ian Charvill, Albert of Feh, Paul Czege, Sean.

7/7/2005 John Kim: Harnies play Dogs in the Vineyard
(Note: I don't have a big question here with this play report, but since a lot of people around here are interested in DitV, I thought I'd post it. I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim.

6/29/2005 John Kim: Models of Adventure Structure
So this is cross-posted with my blog. I'm pondering ideas about the development of the RPG adventure. This is something that isn't explicit in character creation and action resolution…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, TonyLB, Albert of Feh, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Troy_Costisick, Andrew Morris, gsoylent, Sydney Freedberg, Sean.

6/13/2005 John Kim: Known Cause and Conflict Resolution
OK, per Simon's request, I'm splitting this out of the recent thread Between-the-lines Conflict Resolution . What I'd like to talk about is the case of resolution which…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Valamir, xenopulse, Sean, TonyLB, Silmenume, Mike Holmes.

6/7/2005 John Kim: Types of Narrative Power
So I'd like to talk about narrative power. I'll break it down into different types and then discuss the impact of each. 1) Control of Characters 2) Influence over Resolution…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, TonyLB.

5/20/2005 John Kim: Is non-violence bad for Narrativism?
I am taking this to a theory thread, Non-violent Roleplaying. That thread is about how to support and encourage non-violent roleplaying. This thread is about whether it is a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, Mike Holmes, Noon, Troy_Costisick, Victor Gijsbers.

5/19/2005 John Kim: Non-violent Roleplaying
OK, so I recently came across some controversy on Vincent's blog, in his post on Paintball and little boy bullshit. This was followed up by Heroes Live, Cowards…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, TonyLB, lumpley, Justin A Hamilton, Noon, timfire, Trevis Martin, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Mikko Lehtinen, Marco, greyorm, Brendan, komradebob, Andrew Morris, J B Bell, MatrixGamer, Nathan P., Technocrat13, NN, Russell Impagliazzo, GB Steve, James Holloway, Mike Holmes, chadu, contracycle, Picador.

5/10/2005 John Kim: More on Task Resolution to facilitate Narrativism
OK, so this is split from Conflict vs Task Resolution to facilitate Narrativism. That topic was closed, but I think there were still a lot of issues and good…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, TonyLB, Valamir, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Lee Short, Silmenume, M. J. Young.

4/16/2005 John Kim: Role-playing Limits, or Do we need Molotov cocktails?
OK, so this is picking up from Walt Frietag: the LP in Solo CRPGs?. What I am curious about is a formulation of credibility which is inclusive of live-action…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, immlass, Alephnul, James Holloway, TonyLB, Wolfen, M. J. Young, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/15/2005 John Kim: Bad negotiating = Better character?
Hi, So I'm preparing for my first game of Dogs in the Vineyard, and I was wondering about an aspect of Fallout which caught my eye. So you have an…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Kim, Ben Lehman, Simon Kamber, nikola, Wolfen, cdr.

4/7/2005 John Kim: Since I Came to the Forge...
So, first of all, faux pas on Clinton's part: Welcome back! We're live and we thrive after three long years. Er, that's four long years for the Forge,…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: John Kim.

3/31/2005 John Kim: Running a con game of MLWM or DitV or what?
So, I'm pondering games to run for KublaCon, a Bay Area convention. I think I can only go for Sunday and Monday, but I'd like to run two games. One…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris.

3/29/2005 John Kim: The place of character sheet and die rolls within play
So I had an interesting conversation on Vincent's (aka lumpley) blog anyway: cf. "Strong stuff indeed". However, I'm afraid I may have overstepped or sidetracked discussion on there.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Andrew Norris, Alephnul, Bankuei, lumpley, jrs, Emily Care, M. J. Young, groundhog, contracycle, Jason Newquist.

3/16/2005 John Kim: Buffy and the Conflict-Shy GM
So I had another game of my Buffy RPG campaign on Friday night. It had been a while since the last session due to schedule conflicts, but everyone was pretty…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, Marco, Paul Czege, Liz Henry, Danny_K, Mike Holmes.

3/14/2005 John Kim: Lumpley's take on 3D Model
OK, I read a post on Vincent Baker's blog anyway: Simulationism, an Ordeal. He draws a diagram with three slices labeled "Thematic Play", "Competitive Play", and unlabeled. Then…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, Marco, Emily Care, timfire, lumpley, Shreyas Sampat.

2/9/2005 John Kim: Mechanics, Contribution, and Doug the Dice Guy
[quote="clehrich"]But mechanics carry baggage: they have particular places in complex systems which we have (as you put it) preloaded into the game, and furhermore they have strong ascribed values and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Sean, xenopulse, Valamir, LordSmerf, Marco, Paganini, M. J. Young, Simon Kamber, contracycle, Ian Charvill, sophist, ffilz, daMoose_Neo, clehrich, John Kirk, Erick Wujcik, timfire, Caldis.

2/8/2005 John Kim: Conflict Resolution and the Zeppo Effect
So a question came up on the 20x20 Room which I thought was interesting. Rob mentioned in his post you can see the Comedy is Easy, PTA is Hard.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Nicolas Crost, Rob MacDougall.

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9/13/2005 John Kim: [DitV] Dogs at ConQuest 2005 Report
Though I've run many games at conventions and played a number of indie games, this was my first time gamemastering a Forge-style indie game at a convention.  It went pretty…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, GB Steve, lumpley, cdr, Emily Care, John Harper.

9/13/2005 John Kim: Report on Buffy at ConQuest 2005
This was the third Buffy game I had done using roughly the same characters.  I had originally created the series concept (Fifties Slayer reincarnated in modern-day Santa Cruz) and characters…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim.

11/2/2005 John Kim: Channeling and GNS
In his recent thread on Simulationism Aside, Mike Holmes talked about "channeling".  This was a topic often discussed in rgfa as well as in other forums such as Interactive Fantasy. …
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, Marco, Noon, Ron Edwards, ewilen.

11/7/2005 John Kim: Clashes over Channeling?
OK, this is picking up from Channeling and GNS at Ron's request.  I'd like to discuss the overlap of conflicts -- having GNS Nar/Sim conflict within a game as well…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Joshua BishopRoby, Wormwood, ewilen, Marco, Mike Holmes, Mark Woodhouse, contracycle.

12/1/2005 John Kim: [A GNS STORY] The Stroll
Little Johnny looks around a grassy field.  He sees a bit of commotion over to his side.  Some other kids there have a nice-looking playground and forts which they built. …
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: John Kim, lumpley, Mark Woodhouse, Ron Edwards.

12/6/2005 John Kim: Techniques and my friend's 9 year old daughter
So I was reading komradebob's Minis, Narr Techniques, and my 9 year old daughter, and it was very close to a recent experience of mine.  However, since he is going…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, joshua neff, Allan, komradebob, James_Nostack, MatrixGamer.

12/31/2005 John Kim: [Polaris] The Grasping Dark over the holidays
So shortly before Christmas, we were short on players for the Buffy game due to the holidays, and we decided to try out Polaris.  So this was myself, Bill, Cynthia,…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, demiurgeastaroth, GreatWolf, Kesher, Ben Lehman.

2/6/2006 John Kim: [Buffy] A Little Role Reversal
The Friday before last, we played another episode of our Buffy the Vampire Slayer campaign, "Silicon Valley Slayage".  It was notable for the technique of role reversal which we used. …
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Matt-M-McElroy, TonyLB, whump, ScottM.

8/15/2006 John Kim: 2005 Indie RPG Award Winners
So the Indie Awards were announced on Friday live at GenCon, and I'm posting them now as I get back.  I'm updating the website with comments and pictures now --…
In Conventions
Participants: John Kim.

8/23/2006 John Kim: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Sweet innocence at GenCon
So I was interested by the thread on (The Shab-al-Hiri Roach) Disturbed at GenCon, and contrasted that with my own GenCon play of SAHR.  I played in a game of…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Technocrat13, jasonm, oliof, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray.

8/30/2006 John Kim: ConQuest SF 2006 this weekend
[url=http://www.avalonconventions.com/conquestsf/]Conquest San Francisco[/url] is this weekend.  We've got myself running Buffy and Polaris, Brian Williams and Carl Rigney running Dogs in the Vineyard, Craig Randall running Burning Wheel and Hong…
In Conventions
Participants: John Kim, thwaak.

10/1/2007 John Kim: Solmukohta 2008 Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for the Solmukohta 2008 book has just come out.  For those who don't know, Solmukohta is the Finnish round of the "Nodal Point" larp convention that…
In Conventions
Participants: John Kim.

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