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8/26/2005 jburneko: Strange Reaction to Trollbabe
I've shown Trollbabe to a lot of people.  I've encountered a lot of negative reactions.  A lot of guys don't want to play Trollbabe because they'd be personally uncomfortable with…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Sean, Bankuei, John Harper, Noon, Pol Jackson, Ron Edwards, Jacob.

8/16/2005 jburneko: Other Trollbabe Rules Changes
Hello Ron, So, I noticed in the other thread you mentioned one of the reasons that the print version of Trollbabe wasn't going to happen is that your desire to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

8/3/2005 jburneko: More Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Here are some straight forward rules questions that arose from last nights game. 1) The Free Claim you get at the top of a page is per player, not…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

7/27/2005 jburneko: [Capes] Most Revealing Game I've Played To Date
Hello, I've been playing Capes with my weeknight group.  We've had four sessions.  In the past I've tried to respect my fellow players' internet anonymity by only using their first…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Noon.

7/20/2005 jburneko: Capes Rules Questions
Hello We've run through a few capes sessions and I have some rules questions. 1) Can I stake debt on a side I'm not allied with? 2) Assuming there is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

7/4/2005 jburneko: Revised or Rewritten?
Hello, I've been comparing the material on the website under the Creative Commons section with the book I actually own. It appears to me that the game has been seriously…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: jburneko, Bob Goat.

6/7/2005 jburneko: An Experiment: Turning Capes into a More Traditional RPG
I was thinking about the entire debate about whether Capes is *really* an RPG or not. I, of course, think it IS an RPG. All the elements of a so-called…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

6/1/2005 jburneko: Portrait Play, a subset of The Dream?
Hello, I had started this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15488 over in Actual Play in an effort to get to the bottom of a particular player's behavior. Here are some choice quotes from…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Noon, Bret Gillan, Danny_K, Brand_Robins, timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray, komradebob, John Kim.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Audience/Author Duality of RPGs. Can it impact theme?
Hello Again, Something very very interesting is happening in my current 7th Sea game. The game is a sequal to a game we played over a year ago. Some of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, Frank T.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Is taking responsibility for your character really so hard?
My weekend group is now four or five sessions into a 7th Sea game. This game is a sequal to a game we played a year ago. Some of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Danny_K, Valamir, Sean, TonyLB, Alan, John Kim, Lee Short, bcook1971, James Holloway, Noon, Brand_Robins, Heraldic Game Design, Eric J., hyphz, Mike Holmes, Itse, Wolfen, komradebob, S'mon, Mandacaru.

4/29/2005 jburneko: Two Thoughts On Capes
There are two thoughts I've had about Capes from the very first time I read it. I was going to reserve these two thoughts until after I had some Actual…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB.

4/21/2005 jburneko: SIS Control Problem: A Concrete Example
I've been thinking about all the arguing about whether or not there's any causal substance in the SIS in Capes. I've seen the arguments on both sides. Here's a concrete…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Valamir, C. Edwards, Jinx, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Anders Gabrielsson, Gamskee, drnuncheon, Zamiel, Kintara, Hans, Keiko, Gaerik, James_Nostack.

4/15/2005 jburneko: Squabling Over Color?
I've been following the Capes discussions fairly closely and the central complaint seems to be that there's no mechanics for controling narrative color. And quite frankly, it's one of my…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Gaerik, Valamir, TonyLB.

4/13/2005 jburneko: Goal Ownership
Hello All, I've been following the many Capes discussions and I find the whole thing interesting. One thing that has caught my attention recently is the notion of a 'preventative'…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/5/2005 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Player Tactics That Affect Multiple Targets
Hello, I've been reviewing older rules question threads, sorting some things out and I'm trying to work out situations where a single player wants to prevent or hinder the actions…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Alan, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch.

3/21/2005 jburneko: Resource Ownership and Turn Order Expenditure
Hello Again, Do I have these right? 1) Players own Story Tokens 2) Characters own Inspiration. Examples: In scene A I play character X and earn 3 story tokens and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Miskatonic.

3/11/2005 jburneko: Drives Question
Hello, When talking about building characters it says, "Take five Heroic or Villainous Drives" which is kind of confusing since there are only 5 heroic and 5 villainous drives to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

1/20/2005 jburneko: [Elfs] RavenElfs First Session
Hello, So last night my group played our first session of Elfs. As a scenario I'm using an Elfified version of the original I6 Ravenloft module. First of all, I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, ADGBoss, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2005 jburneko: Elfs Question
Hello, My group requested that we play Elfs. So, I reread the rules and amazingly I only have one question. Regarding Magic Items. It says that one becomes available every…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

12/1/2004 jburneko: Silent Sound: A Game of Guilt and Judgement
Hello Everyone, I don't really fancy myself much of a game designer so I almost never post in this forum. I'm not posting much these days in general because life…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Jasper.

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9/7/2005 jburneko: Simple Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Just simple rules questions: 1) Can you introduce "Free Conflicts" for free on your actual turn or only at the top of a page. 2) When you have your…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

10/10/2005 jburneko: [& Sword] Source Material Question
Hello, I've been reading the material listed in Sorcerer & Sword pretty heavily recently.  I've read 4 out 5 of the Kane books.  I've re-read all the Conan stories I…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, talysman, Ron Edwards.

10/12/2005 jburneko: Creative Agenda In One Lesson
Hello There, This post could almost go in Actual Play but since it isn't about a role-playing game I'm putting it here.  I want to show  what happened while playing…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon.

10/20/2005 jburneko: Paul Wins!
Hello There, I ordered My Life With Master, Primetime Adventures and Dogs in the Vineyard all on the same day and My Life With Master was the first to arrive. …
In Half Meme Press
Participants: jburneko.

12/24/2005 jburneko: Wicked City and Demon Cops
Hello, I would like to discuss the relationship between Wicked City and Demon Cops.  I recently saw Wicked City and it was not what I was expecting.  It started a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

1/7/2006 jburneko: [Silent Sound] A Second Attempt
So once upon a time, I posted this game: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13529.0 I can't believe it's been over a year.  Where does the time go?  Anyway, all the Ronnies stuff has made…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko.

1/31/2006 jburneko: Looking For Advice On Longer Con Event
Hello, In mid-February I'm running Capes as a scheduled 4 hour event.  Since I have some time to play with, I'm wondering how much I should bring to the table…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Hans, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, ophidian_flux.

2/6/2006 jburneko: Do Dogs Ever Get Fired?
So, yesterday, I finally finished reading Dogs all the way through.  Now, the question I'm about to ask is going to earn me a long stay in hell but I…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, Brand_Robins, 14thWarrior, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Paka, Transit, coffeestain.

2/10/2006 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Why Group Conflict Is So Confusing...
Ron had this to say in an Actual Play thread about the common confusion over Sorcerer's group resolution process: What concerns me about the dice is that complex group…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, charlesperez, angelfromanotherpin, Gabe McKean.

2/21/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][Sorcerer] Winter of Discontent
Hello Everyone, So this weekend was OrcCon here in L.A. and it was the first con I've attended here in about three to four years.  I got to meet Paul…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby.

2/21/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][Capes] Eight People!
Hello, This is the second actual play post from my experiences at OrcCon this weekend.  I ran a session of Capes.  When I originally sent in the event I capped…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby, Hans, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, epweissengruber.

2/22/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][My Life with Master] Everyone got married so it must have been a comedy
Hello, This is the third and final actual play post from this weekend at OrcCon.  This one had another surprisingly large turn out.  I had a full load of six,…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg.

2/22/2006 jburneko: The Supernatural Dial
Hello, I'm very interested in how the supernatural dial generally gets set, in your game, and once set, how it ultimately affects your game.  This weekend I had the opportunity…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, ffilz, cdr, Iskander, Vaxalon, coffeestain, Levi Kornelsen, Supplanter, Ben Lehman, Alephnul, Wolfen, lumpley, ironick.

2/24/2006 jburneko: Multiple Named NPCs in a Conflict
I was reading a thread about Dogs today on RPG.net and I noticed that someone mentioned that the GM only ever rolls one single die pool in a conflict even…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, coffeestain.

3/15/2006 jburneko: Wording of Conflicts and Character Control
Hello, I've been following the whole 'character control' argument and I'm a little confused.  My understanding about how conflicts break down has always been this: Goals are things a character…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, Sindyr, TonyLB, Zamiel, Tuxboy, Hans, drnuncheon.

3/16/2006 jburneko: Goal Sniping.
Hello Again, While thinking about the whole narrative control thing, I remembered a condition of gameplay that *does* really irritate me.  I call the condition Goal Sniping.  Goal Sniping happens…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Zamiel, Sindyr, TonyLB, Adam Biltcliffe, Hans.

3/21/2006 jburneko: Breaking Down The Group, Overtly Changing Direction
Hello All, I thought I'd share with you the story of something rather drastic I did a few weeks ago.  For years now, I've run a weekday group.  The group…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Peter Nordstrand, Anders, joshua neff, Matt Kimball, cmnash, dunlaing, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/22/2006 jburneko: [DitV] The Sleepwell Canyon Branch
Hello All, So here's a complete writeup for the first town my new Dogs group has been through. Town: The Sleepwell Canyon Branch Pride: Brother Derrick thinks his daughter, Sister…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Matt Kimball, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley.

4/4/2006 jburneko: V for Vendetta & Alan Moore
Hello, This might be a fun topic for the Birthday Forum!  This last weekend I managed to both see the movie and read the book, V for Vendetta.  To be…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Emily Care, Melinglor, John Harper, jerry, Bankuei.

4/11/2006 jburneko: [The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach] They Ate His Heart Out.
Hello All, The other night one of my Dogs players had to leave a little early so the rest of us, Matt, myself and my wife Meghann decided to take…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Matt Kimball, jasonm.

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