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11/14/2005 jasonm: Streamlining combat
I finally got to play in one of those much-praised one hour Luke demos.  Thanks, dude!  It was fun and very informative.  I learned a lot from watching you -…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, abzu, Halzebier, Thor Olavsrud, mobuttu.

11/14/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Endgame and other issues
Hey all, Three games in two days later, I'm very tired but have a ton of Roach data to assimilate.  Many of the players were enthusiastic Forge geek types who…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Eero Tuovinen, Andy Kitkowski, Jonathan Hastings.

11/14/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Convention Play
I ran The Shab-al-Hiri Roach three times at MACE, our local gaming con in High Point, NC.  I'll save the mechanical feedback for another post in the design forum, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, Technocrat13, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, segedy, urbanpagan.

10/12/2005 jasonm: [Xochitlcozamalotl] Connecting bidding to narration
So about my Ronnies entry, Xochitlcozamalotl ... I knew when I submitted it that it was missing some important stuff.  As it sits it is primarily a bidding contest with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, Graham Walmsley, TonyPace, Sydney Freedberg, SPDuke, Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

10/12/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Control of NPCs
Hey Roach Slaves, I've been mulling over changing the rule on control of NPCs and I'd value your input.  My principal concern is the occasional awkwardness when a player frames…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, urbanpagan, Technocrat13, Jonathan Hastings.

10/11/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Eating Regina
Eric, Lisa, Steve, Joel and I had a very successful playtest of the Roach last night.  It went well and raised some interesting issues which I'm addressing in the game…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Technocrat13.

10/7/2005 jasonm: More Names, More Places
Hey Everybody, Dave Younce put together some Dog's-themed name generators for people and places and I posted the files on my site: http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/dogs/tools.html His names go way deeper than my…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, foucalt, Ben Lehman, Copperhead.

10/4/2005 jasonm: Shield
So I'm prepping for a campaign using BW and set in warring states China, or close enough.  I have a question on how to handle a couple of ideosyncratic items…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, taepoong, abzu.

9/30/2005 jasonm: Playing Card mock-up technique
I just read this as an aside on, of all places, an information architecture Website: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/understanding_powerpoint_special_deliverable_5.php Making a Deck of Cards PowerPoint may have its faults, but there’s no better…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Veritas Games, daMoose_Neo, Joshua BishopRoby, Technocrat13, talysman, Mike Holmes, Graham Walmsley, DavidBeoulve.

9/17/2005 jasonm: Small questions
Hi all, My friend and I sat down to try out Burning Wheel revised today and found it pretty frustrating.  Some small questions: If you are using the basic (non-scripted)…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, rafial, Bankuei, Paka, abzu, MetalBard, Thor Olavsrud.

9/17/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] PC Death
My recent playtest exposed the rules about PC death as problematic and I want to fix them, or get rid of them.  The good:  It is deliciously appropriate in theme…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, Artanis, Graham Walmsley, Dumirik, Jeph, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] The Horror in the Museum
We playtested the Shab-al-Hiri Roach last night and it went very well.  The principals were: Joseph Conolly (Tom), Assistant Professor of Geography.  His Enthusiasms were Deception and Manipulation, which Tom…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, IMAGinES.

9/8/2005 jasonm: Swedish Freeform and the Forge
[url=http://polyfem.blogspot.com/]Sven Holmström[/url] has some interesting things to say about the similarities and differences between narrativist games emerging from the Forge and nordic [i]friform[/i] gaming.  It was pointed out to me…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jasonm, Green, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Merten, Sven, JonasB.

9/2/2005 jasonm: Vi Åker Jeep
I'm friends with Olle Jonsson, who is a founding member of the Swedish freeform collective Vi Åker Jeep.  These guys are doing some very interesting things, and I really wanted…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jasonm, Joshua BishopRoby, Merten, Tobias Wrigstad.

8/31/2005 jasonm: [UtB] Sell me, dude
So ... Under the Bed gets a lot of buzz, and a lot of people I respect rave about it.  There are neat UtB ads in the back of cool…
In glyphpress
Participants: jasonm, nikola, GreatWolf, Technocrat13, Ben Lehman, MichaelCurry, Dumirik, Chanticrow, motherlessgoose.

8/31/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Revisions, Questions, Kušu Barultag
Hi everybody, I want to continue the discussion of The Shab-al-Hiri Roach that began here in Actual Play.  I'm in the process of revising this game, and my most current…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, jrs, Graham Walmsley, Technocrat13, IMAGinES.

8/19/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Coachwhip Cut-Off
Feedback encouraged!  Help me tighten this town up.  I took it all the way up to hate and murder, but am considering toning it down - what do you think>…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, ScottM, Pol Jackson.

8/17/2005 jasonm: [Fire Moon] Gradually ramping up disaster
So I'm revising one of my Game Chef entries, The Governor's Report Concerning the Doomed Assault on the Fire Moon.  You can see the revision here if interested:  http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/games/fire_moon/ One…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, TonyLB, Nathan P., Frank T.

7/6/2005 jasonm: [Skein] Playing a Family Across Generations
The design goal is to model things like the Laxdæla saga or the Godfather films, asian dynasties or fantasy monarchies, epic tales that span generations and encompass many heroes and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jasonm, contracycle, sayter, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Master Marx.

7/5/2005 jasonm: [Breaking the Ice] Return of the N00b
It's funny, I guess my wife isn't really a n00b any more, now that she's played both D&D and a cool indie game. I had a good time playing Breaking…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Emily Care.

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12/1/2005 jasonm: DoW Question
In my continuing effort to break myself on the wheel, last night I started our session with a kickin' duel of wits.  I ran into a big problem, though, and…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, abzu, MetalBard.

12/4/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Paint Creek Branch
Eric, Lisa, Andrew and I played Dogs in the Vineyard yesterday with mixed success.  I ran Paint Creek, a town I wrote up for the occasion.  I won’t go into…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Andrew Norris, Technocrat13, urbanpagan, Neal, lumpley, Lord_Steelhand.

12/9/2005 jasonm: Packaging cards
Some advice from those of you who have published any product with cards, please... The Shab-al-Hiri Roach will ship with a set of 40 cards, and I'm trying to figure…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Veritas Games, timfire, joepub, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola.

12/22/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Dark Goddess Regina
Another game of the Roach last night.  In case you were wondering, there was a wonderful conflict over who, among the 100% Roach-infested PCs, got to sacrifice Regina Sutton to…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, Technocrat13, Valamir, Mark Woodhouse, Myrmidon.

12/24/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Poisoner's Day
I played the Roach again last night with three non-gamers.  My wife Autumn, who is familiar with the game (she's copy editing it), has played Breaking the Ice once and…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13.

1/17/2006 jasonm: [FoA] Red Prophet, Black Prophet: I'm what?
[color=Red][fair warning, probably some hot button issues follow][/color] So we finished act III of our bizarro duellin' prophets of Islam Face of Angels game last night.  It began on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, urbanpagan.

1/25/2006 jasonm: September Dawn
Hey, I just read about this in the NYT:  September Dawn, an upcoming film about the Mountain Meadows massacre.  Here's what the Desert News has to say.  Looking forward to…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, Vaxalon.

2/9/2006 jasonm: [DitV] A Fistful of Dice
Last night our regular game group was a player short, so I seized the opportunity and ran Dogs for two of my friends.  I had a copy of Tony's town…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, lumpley, Technocrat13, segedy.

2/10/2006 jasonm: Review Copies
[i]I posted this query over at [url=http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=135&page=1#Item_23]story-games[/url], and Ben suggested bringing the conversation here as well.  [/i] The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, knock on wood, 2-3 weeks away from sitting in a…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Andy Kitkowski, guildofblades, nikola, daMoose_Neo, Clay, Artanis, Veritas Games, abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, andrew_kenrick.

2/11/2006 jasonm: Crossing Over: Reaching Non-Gamers
One of the questions I raised in this thread asked about using review copies to reach groups that may be interested in your game, but are not "mainstream" gamers.  I'd…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, mythusmage.

3/7/2006 jasonm: [Drowning and Falling] The Power 19
OK, here's the Power 19 for Drowning and Falling, a ridiculous game I'm working on.  At this point it is in solid shape and just needs some playtesting and tweaking. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: jasonm, Troy_Costisick, anders_larsen.

3/7/2006 jasonm: [Drowning and Falling] Falling from Grace
Me, Remi, and Clinton playtested Drowning and Falling last night and it went very well.  D&F is a charity project I'm working on, and I'm super excited about it.  Power…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Andy Kitkowski, Emily Care, TonyLB.

3/14/2006 jasonm: The Roach Report
Hi Everybody, This particular forum was a gold mine for me while preparing the Shab-al-Hiri Roach for publication, and I want to add to the available data pool and share…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, MikeSands, Andy Kitkowski, Peter Nordstrand, Frank T.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Welcome and ground rules
Welcome to the Bully Pulpit Games forum here at the Forge!  We're extremely pleased to be here, and hope to offer a space for useful discussion and commentary about our…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Roach Gameplay Questions
I got these excellent questions this morning.  If the author wants to be outed, he should reply here! 1) At the end of an Event do the cards that…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Particle_Man.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Who Are We?
It occurs to me that I ought to introduce myself and the rest of the BPG staff. I'm Jason Morningstar, and my duties at this point include writing games and…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Paul Czege, Emily Care, madirishman.

3/29/2006 jasonm: Errors and errata
Hey all, I'd like to hear from those of you who have published about your experience with errors.  We've found six in The Roach so far, including two that could…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, jeremycoatney, abzu, Matt, Czar Fnord.

4/3/2006 jasonm: [Drill] Invisible Knife
Ok, this is a little goofy but I think it is relevant.  I'm taking this improv class, and one of the little focus exercises we did was called "invisible knife". …
In Endeavor
Participants: jasonm, Thunder_God, Clinton R. Nixon, Zathreyel, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, timfire, majcher.

4/4/2006 jasonm: [Shooting the Moon] Volcano Goddesses of Dinosaur Island
We playtested Shooting the Moon last night and I wanted to provide some critical feedback.  Some stuff went very well and some didn't, which is to be expected.  We played…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant, Joshua BishopRoby.

4/4/2006 jasonm: Half a Sheet to the Wind
We're reprinting The Roach, and we've got half a sheet of cardstock that is currently unassigned - in other words, we've got 40 cards, which consume 3.5 sheets of 8.5"…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Shreyas Sampat, Technocrat13, jrs, segedy.

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