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9/12/2005 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice first run selling out
Hello, I'm a bit amazed to be able to announce that the first print run of Breaking the Ice is about to sell out.  It is minus a bunch given…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Matt Wilson, TonyLB, Blankshield, coffeestain, JasperN., Bob Goat, Andrew Morris, Gregor Hutton, Ben Lehman, Shreyas Sampat, MatrixGamer, Andrew Norris, xenopulse.

9/8/2005 Emily Care: [PtA] Reading between Blue Lines (GenCon play)
Vincent, your wish is my demand:  So, it's Sunday night, last night of GenCon.  Allan, Joshua, Ben & I are up in our hotel room in the Embassy Suites.  Obviously…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Paka, Meguey, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Harlequin.

8/26/2005 Emily Care: [DitV]deconstructing dogs, gencon play
Hi Everybody, There’s been some talk about a certain game of Dogs in the Vineyard that happened at GenCon. It contained some serious and disturbing events that had happened in the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Meguey, Clinton R. Nixon, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Paka, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, cruciel, gsoylent, GB Steve, Miskatonic, Andrew Norris, Marco.

8/25/2005 Emily Care: Hello & Welcome
Hi there! This is the forum for Black & Green Games, bringing you Breaking the Ice as of Summer 2005 at GenCon Indy. I'm Emily Care Boss, the brains/shadowy figure…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Nev the Deranged.

4/15/2005 Emily Care: [shooting the moon] of mechanisms and fairy tales
The second of my games I got to playtest this weekend, thanks to Ben Lehman's help, was Shooting the Moon which is very much in development. This is the very…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer.

4/15/2005 Emily Care: [breaking the ice] latest playtest
What a great weekend for playtesting! Breaking the Ice and Shooting the Moon with Ben, and Polaris with him, Meg & Vincent. Completely affirmed again for me the necessity of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman, Andrew Norris, Frank T, Victor Gijsbers, xenopulse, Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic, Valamir, MatrixGamer.

4/1/2005 Emily Care: rpgs being designed by women
Hey there, I just took a gander at John Kim's bigass list of games and looking back year by year I was struck by how few women's names I saw.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Emily Care, Green, Bardsandsages, Vaxalon, Frank T, daMoose_Neo, Margaret, Zahtevnik, Kat Miller, Paul Czege, Meguey, Paul's Girl, itesser, daemonchild, MatrixGamer, nikola.

1/5/2005 Emily Care: how else to introduce setting
In his thread The Components of Setting To restate my problem with Setting in these new terms: Many RPGs provide a great deal of Potential Setting with no…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Roger, Matt Snyder.

11/8/2004 Emily Care: [Basic D&D]short and thus sweet
When I picked up an incomplete box set of basic D&D at a tag sale this summer, I never really expected to actually play it. Imagine my surprise to find…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, rafial, inthisstyle, Meguey.

10/19/2004 Emily Care: chapter and verse
Just read the latest write up of the dogs IRC campaign. Very cool stuff. It struck me that all these passages folks come up with make great copy. You could…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care.

10/15/2004 Emily Care: [Draft] "GMless" play article
Here's an outline/proposal. Input appreciated. I. intro to concept of alt gm-task distribution A. snappy examples of functional alt-gm play (Universalis, Soap), (contrast with trad. task dist.) B. examples of…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Jonathan Walton, Liz Henry, LordSmerf.

8/24/2004 Emily Care: Word getting out
Great thread about Dogs at rpg.net. --Em
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, nikola, Paka, lumpley, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes.

7/9/2004 Emily Care: [breaking the ice]Teahouse, bondage and cows, oh my!
Hello all, Tom (bluegargantua) was kind enough to help me do some playtest for Breaking the Ice this week. You may recall Vincent's post a ways back about Lines, Veils…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, bluegargantua, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg.

6/30/2004 Emily Care: game design and psychology
I've been thinking about this since I started poking around for examples of psychological examination type role-playing. My search lead me to think about psychological aspects of roleplaying all together,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Emily Care, Christopher Weeks, ADGBoss, TonyLB, JackBauer, lumpley, ZenDog.

5/19/2004 Emily Care: teaching theory
[quote="Mike Holmes"]So, at this point, I'm thinking we're back to talking about what makes something accessible. Anybody got any links on how to write less "theory" and more "instruction" oriented…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Emily Care.

5/11/2004 Emily Care: Perceptions of Civility at the Forge
Hey everyone, Lots of sparks are flying 'round here. Ethan, I think, rightly called for the end of the second Hubris thread. Can we take a moment and instead of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Emily Care, Adam Dray, clehrich, cruciel, Dav, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, xiombarg, M. J. Young, matthijs, Jonathan Walton, greyorm, AnyaTheBlue, Valamir, Jack Spencer Jr, Hunter Logan, Asrogoth.

4/19/2004 Emily Care: [Dogs in the Vineyard]a bump in my paradigm shift
So there I was, happily watching Meg conclude the character generation for her soon-to-be-Watchdog of God. I'm interested to see how this young man sent "Back East" for a college…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Gaerik.

4/16/2004 Emily Care: Describing Dogs
Hey there, There was some discussion here a while back about how to talk about Dogs. People can get all squicked out about the Mormon thang. With that in mind,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, lumpley.

4/15/2004 Emily Care: Rolling up some Dogs
Salutations, A Vacation in Godsland Taking a break from our main campaign, Vincent, Meguey and I did some playtesting of Dogs last night. We just did character creation. Meg promised…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, lumpley, nikola, Meguey, bluegargantua.

3/5/2004 Emily Care: exploration of self
Hello all, So, another creative agenda that's pretty common is therapeutic exploration of self. I'd say this occurs less frequently in recreational roleplaying, but could very easily be incorporated into…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Norris, WDFlores, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Scourge108, cruciel, AnyaTheBlue, M. J. Young, John Kim, clehrich, xiombarg.

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10/4/2005 Emily Care: TV done right
Just posted <i>my</i> ideal Thursday night lineup for the telly. http://lumpley.com/fairgame/ : ) best, Emily
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Emily Care, Adam Dray, Matt Wilson, Frank T, hix, ashmoo, Chris Goodwin.

10/6/2005 Emily Care: Actual Play Links
A place to post links to actual play of Breaking the Ice, and other B&G games.  Here are some recent threads: The ordeals of love Angels' Wings & Devils' Shards
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, GreatWolf.

10/9/2005 Emily Care: Out of the Box write-up
Good news: Ken Hite wrote about <i>Breaking the Ice</i> in his  latest Out of the Box column, along with many other great games including the Mountain Witch and Polaris. City…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers, Brand_Robins, Harlequin.

10/18/2005 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice second print run now available
The second printing of Breaking the Ice is now officially available.  Get it while it's hot!  My thanks to folks who helped me clean this printing up: Michael S. Miller,…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, TonyLB, Brand_Robins.

10/27/2005 Emily Care: international romance
Hey there, From the orders I'm getting, looks like lots of folks in Europe are discovering Breaking the Ice.  I'm sure Ben & Eero's trek across Finland for the Polaris…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Frank T, Blankshield, Arturo G., matthijs, JasperN., Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Matt Wilson, greuh, Artanis.

11/6/2005 Emily Care: [Bliss Stage playtest] on the edge of oblivion
Hey there, I did a playtest session of Bliss Stage last night with my intrepid housemate & co-conspirator, Phoebe.  To introduce the game, we played out what would likely be…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Blankshield.

11/29/2005 Emily Care: And what can Santa bring you, little girl?
Hola! The awesome folks at OgreCave have put out the first of their annual x-mas list of games for gifts, and <a href="http://www.blackgreengames.com">BtI</a> made the cut along with PtA revised…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Bret Gillan.

12/23/2005 Emily Care: Rethinking a response
Back in Jonas' actual play write up on the Forge a while back, he & his friend Helena ran into a creative clash: I chose to continue my turn…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

1/2/2006 Emily Care: New things in 2006
Hello all, Happy New Year! Things have been brewing at Black & Green, and are going into full swing in the New Year.  Thanks to the incomparable Andy K &…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Victor Gijsbers.

1/11/2006 Emily Care: Temporary outage
Hello, Looks like there will be a temporary outage at the Black & Green Games website.  I believe it will be out of service from 1/11-1/13/06, or thereabouts.  My apologies…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

1/17/2006 Emily Care: Just three words....
Broke Back Mountain I just saw this last night, coincidentally, as the Golden  Globe awards were going on.  It broke my heart and made me remember how powerful a medium…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

1/26/2006 Emily Care: [Everway Larp] at Dreamation
Hey there, Kat Miller and her friend Michelle ran an Everway Larp at Dreamation this past weekend.  It was a 4 hour session that kept us all guessing and going…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Supplanter, WhiteRat, Kat Miller, Andrew Morris, mneme, Lisa Padol, Graham Walmsley.

2/1/2006 Emily Care: A Sweetheart Deal
Hello! Happy February! In honor of the traditional significance of this month, I'm offering a special deal on Breaking the Ice.  All games ordered in the month of February will…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Keith Senkowski, urbanpagan, jasonm, Nathan P., Shreyas Sampat, Kat Miller, Selene Tan, Graham Walmsley.

2/5/2006 Emily Care: game of the month
Good news! I'm honored to be able to say that Breaking the Ice has been named game of the month on the French role playing site Guide du Roliste Galactique…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller.

2/13/2006 Emily Care: Character Sheet Musings
Over on his blog, Thomas has written an essay on the effects of character sheet layout on interpersonal interactions while role playing.  He analyzes the character sheets from Breaking the…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

2/21/2006 Emily Care: Breaking the Ice among the Pyramids
My thanks to Matthew Pook for reviewing Breaking the Ice.  His review was published in the Feb. 17 edition of <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=5800">Pyramid Magazine</a>. I'm very curious to see what the…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

2/21/2006 Emily Care: game bling
Hello all, I've been noticing more online stores with game related products cropping up. I mean t-shirts, hats etc. Joshua just put a site up for glyphpress. (go J!) Fan…
In Publishing
Participants: Emily Care, Czar Fnord, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Sydney Freedberg, talesien, abzu, inthisstyle, Clay, nikola.

2/23/2006 Emily Care: "most online" spike
Whoa, is it me or did that just double+ today? Wow.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2006 Emily Care: sin hierachy in pump up the volume
Okay, this may be a pretty frivolous thread, I admit it. I watched the 1990 movie Pump Up the Volume the other night. Unexpectedly, it didn't suck.  Christian Slater et…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Blankshield, Everspinner, lumpley.

2/25/2006 Emily Care: Group Conflicts
Hello there, It seems like the issue of how to deal with group conflicts is a common question. My friend Charles is running a game right now and ran into…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, Warren, Alephnul, Levi Kornelsen, Valamir, jlarke, lumpley, jburneko, coffeestain, ffilz, dunlaing.

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