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11/22/2005 nikola: [Shock:] Livening up resolution
In a discussion with Vincent last weekend about resolution in Shock:, and we identified some problems, but not really any solutions. So I'd like some assistance. First off, if you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: nikola, Jonathan Hastings, Tim Alexander, TonyLB, lumpley.

11/18/2005 nikola: Pricing and marketing your games and mine
I have a hard time keeping it in my pants on others' threads, apparently, so I'll open this as a thread of my very own. Parden the splurge of questions…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, Ben Lehman, demiurgeastaroth, Joshua BishopRoby, talysman, Arturo G., jasonm, Victor Gijsbers, Iskander, daMoose_Neo, Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, Frank T, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Valamir, Blankshield, timfire, Roger, Graham Walmsley, greyorm, abzu, guildofblades, Malcolm, Jasper Polane.

11/15/2005 nikola: Shock: Bibliography
Here's the current Shock: bibliiography. I've only read so much stuff, and this is what's leapt to mind. If you have something you want to be in this bibliography, please…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, rafial, James_Nostack, Ben Lehman, pedyo, joepub, Kaare Berg (Old), Grover, Remko, Hisho, Old Man Qfwfq, TempvsMortis, lopes-gabriel.

10/27/2005 nikola: The Definition of Science Fiction
This is a damn fine definition of Science Fiction, complete with a discussion of the problems in the term. Hi Joshua, First off I think you…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, joepub, surecool73, goodwill221.

10/25/2005 nikola: [Shock:] Request for feedback
Shock: Social Science Fiction has just gotten to its coming out party at the tender age of 0.1.0. You can download it here</a>. I should very much like feedback on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, CSBone, Graham Walmsley, Paka, Everspinner, Jonathan Hastings, Spooky Fanboy, Negilent, Tim Alexander.

10/25/2005 nikola: Shock: playtest 0.1.0 thread
Download <a href=http://glyphpress.com/playtest/Shock0.1.0.pdf>Shock: version 0.1.0</a> and play it! Please post A.P. threads in Actual Play, but post questions about the system, typo reports, and other peripheral elements here! As each…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, James_Nostack, Tim Alexander.

9/23/2005 nikola: [Shock:] Digging for Mold in the Company town
The first campaign designed and played in Shock: Social Science Fiction is now underway. C. and Vincent played with me. There's a planet. It's called Eck-R-P30: a designation, not a…
In Actual Play
Participants: nikola, Meguey, lumpley, ScottM, joepub.

9/19/2005 nikola: The role of fortune
Why do we care about Fortune mechanics? Why does it matter that randomness has an effect on our games? What if it doesn't? For instance, Polaris has indeterminacy without randomness.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, MrSandman666, Andrew Morris, lumpley, HenryT, Bob Goat, LordSmerf, xenopulse, Green, Emily Care, Halzebier, Mudlock, contracycle, cruciel, simon_hibbs, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, talysman, ewilen, jmac, Marco, Garg, Doug Ruff, M. J. Young.

9/13/2005 nikola: Under the Bed Contest: I want your Actual Play!
I want to hear your Actual Play reports! To encourage you to do one, I'm offering a personally signed copy of Under The Bed to the person who writes the…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Emily Care.

9/7/2005 nikola: Some thoughts, at Vincent's behest, about GenCon 2005
Over at his blog, Vincent challenged me to write a couple of things up for the Forge. I've been putting it off until my computer gets back from the hospital,…
In Conventions
Participants: nikola, Emily Care, Michael S. Miller.

9/1/2005 nikola: Actual Play report
Vincent Baker, Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, Danielle (Paul's lady, whose surname I forgot), and Eric (whose last name I've confused with someone else), played in a UtB game at GenCon,…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola.

8/31/2005 nikola: [Shock]
I'm working on a science fiction RPG called Shock, about the collision of social issues with new technologies. The system has a few features, and a few, oh, let's say,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: nikola, M Jason Parent, Allan, iain, Graham Walmsley.

8/25/2005 nikola: Welcome to the glyphpress forum!
Welcome to the glyphpress, where failsafes are optional. Dangerous topics and language is encouraged as long as it's in the service of the games and stories they help you make.…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Ben Lehman, joshua neff, Karsten.

5/3/2005 nikola: Yay! Rules question (about reversing the blow in multi-way)
Joshua is the GM (playing Farmer Fub and his hands). Max (playing Mao), Jim (playing Osric), and Becky (playing Aviva) are players. Osric: I shoot Farmer Fub. (raise 4) Joshua:…
In lumpley games
Participants: nikola, bcook1971, lumpley, immlass, jasonm.

4/11/2005 nikola: Graphic Designers
Who are the graphic designers of the Forge? Are your services for sale to other Forgies? I'm one such designer and have worked with Lumpley and Timfire on their books.…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, Matt Snyder, jdagna, Jasper, abzu, greyorm, MisterPoppet, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, Bob Goat, Paul Czege.

4/9/2005 nikola: Card games: how do you get the damn things printed?
I've spoken to a couple of printers about my current project, Under the Bed. It uses unique cards, but they turn out to be very expensive to print. Currently, I'm…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, timfire, daMoose_Neo, Shawn De Arment, Valamir, guildofblades, Polaris, Walt Freitag.

4/8/2005 nikola: Narrativist wargaming
Here's something I've been wrestling with for a long time: In Henry V, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, and many, many others, the protagonists are involved in substantial battles. Part…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Bankuei, Gaerik, Michael S. Miller, Thierry Michel, James Holloway, Sydney Freedberg, Wolfen, Paka.

10/1/2004 nikola: Your religion
Hey, what religions do people here practice? There seem to be a disproportionate number of Jews, several Mormons, what else? I'm not asking about the nature of your specific practices…
In lumpley games
Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, Trevis Martin, lumpley, clehrich, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, johnmarron, DannyK, Christopher Kubasik, Bob Goat, MajorKiz, Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, Albert the Absentminded.

9/28/2004 nikola: Dogs' Rightitude
[quote]I think there's at least three separate meanings of the word "right" that need to be teased out here to discuss it -- right as in legally correct, right as…
In lumpley games
Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, DannyK.

7/23/2004 nikola: Comments & observations about short games
I've been working on a couple of games for a little while now, playing a few here and there too, and have some observations that I'd like to see refuted,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: nikola, M. J. Young, lumpley, dewey, bcook1971, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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12/1/2005 nikola: Lines vs. Authors
Several times in recent threads, store owners, large publishers, and distributors have pointed out that game lines sell, where single books don't. I'm not going to debate that. I think…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, GreatWolf, John Burdick, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, chadu, Blankshield, Adam, timfire, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, guildofblades, James Holloway, LloydBrown, Roger, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., Troy_Costisick, Jonathan Walton.

12/14/2005 nikola: Sky pie in the form of gaming clubs and community centers
There's been a lot of talk lately about gaming stores. Some people go so far as to say that we're killing them by selling off our websites. Piffle, I say.…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, JarrodHenry, Keith Senkowski, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, Thor Olavsrud, Iskander, jenskot, Marhault, Clinton R. Nixon, Chris Geisel, nerdnyc.

12/16/2005 nikola: Shock playtest 0.2.0
Hey, folks. Shock: Social Science Fiction has entered version 0.2.0. A lot's changed, so if you're planning on running your existing games with it (and I wholeheartedly recommend it), make…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Bret Gillan, Matt.

12/16/2005 nikola: [Shock:] 0.2.0 released
When I posted here about two months back, I got some profoundly excellent encouragement and feedback on Shock 0.1.0. Thank you all for such excellent help! The time has come…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: nikola, Kaare Berg (Old), joepub, Sydney Freedberg.

1/26/2006 nikola: [Shock:] 0.2.3 at Dreamation: Trash in the hopper
Dreamation does this horrible thing to you. It has a midnight to 4 AM slot that makes you think, "Oh, people play games at this time." That was the slot…
In Actual Play
Participants: nikola, Andy Kitkowski, Paka, Shawn De Arment.

2/19/2006 nikola: Under the Bed T-shirt now available!
Hey, everyone, the first bit of Under the Bed fanwear is now available over at the glyphpress store! Check out the other glyphpress goodies, too: Know Your Copyrights: a shirt…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola.

3/20/2006 nikola: Shock: pre-order the future!
[Edit: The game can now be pre-ordered from [url=http://glyphpress.com/shock/]the site[/url] directly!] I'm still hoping that Shock: will be done by the end of the month. I'm having some printing issues…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, Thunder_God.

3/26/2006 nikola: Ken Hollings Shocks the 20th century
A dude named Ken Hollings is making a series of podcasts called Welcome to Mars about the history of the 20th century through the eyes of science fiction. I've been…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola.

5/3/2006 nikola: Under the Bed is now back under your bed!
[url=http://glyphpress.com/UtB/]Under the Bed[/url], second edition is now available from the glyphpress site! The new cards are smaller (2.25" x 3.5") and some rules have been refined (The game now goes…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, b00jum, Artanis, matthijs.

7/28/2006 nikola: [GenCon] Posters: if you've got one, tell me about it.
I've been placed in charge of poster management at GenCon this year. We may have even less room for posters this year than last because we don't have a wall,…
In Conventions
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, joepub, timfire, Malcolm, Justin D. Jacobson, Paul Czege, abzu, Keith Senkowski.

9/2/2006 nikola: The Official glyphpress Discussion Forum
I've just gotten the glyphpress discussion board up over on the glyphpress site. On it, you can find discussion about the rules of Shock: and Under the Bed, including errata…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, greyorm.

11/22/2006 nikola: Shock: errata
Please check in on the Shock: errata thread over at Xenoglyph, the glyphpress discussion board before playing. I'm keeping up on weirdnesses and unclear or  incorrect rules over there. When…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Miskatonic, rafial.

11/22/2006 nikola: Alphagraphics (formerly RPI) negative experiences
Alphagraphics has been doing some serious ball-dropping with reprinting Shock: I was pretty happy with where we were at before, when they were RPI. I thought a reprint would be…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, jasonm, Ron Edwards, segedy, iago, Sane, MatrixGamer.

12/20/2006 nikola: Dreamation roll call
Hey, who all is going to be at Dreamation from this mob? I'll be there with Vincent Baker and Emily Care Boss with plans for great fun and enjoyments!
In Conventions
Participants: nikola, Paka, Ben Lehman, Kevin Allen Jr, Bill_White, gains, Valamir, iago, RobNJ, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2007 nikola: [Gencon 2007] Sharing experience
There are a bunch of things that every Forge egg will have to figure out. Let's share experience so we're not all running around and looking stuff up. Please post…
In Conventions
Participants: nikola, inthisstyle, Joshua BishopRoby, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/10/2007 nikola: [Gencon 2007] Sharing experience: Booth pricing and details
You can find all sorts of useful info over on the Gen Con exhibitor application, including booth pricing, advertizing, and a bunch of other administrivia.
In Conventions
Participants: nikola.

7/18/2007 nikola: Preorder Shock: 1.1
(Crossposted from Monkey Do, Monkey See) I’m not good at keeping my mouth shut, but I win a brownie for this one. Over the last 8 months or so while…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, rafial, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2007 nikola: Shock: 1.1 PDF for 1.0 early adopters
Folks, if you bought Shock: 1.0 before I started pre-orders for 1.1, you're entitled to a PDF of 1.1. Email me at joshua at glyphpress.com, let me know if you…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Eero Tuovinen.

7/2/2009 nikola: Recreating the Providence of the fiction of my youth
When I was 16 or so, probably around 1988 or 89, I had one of the best RPG experinces in my life. The following is told largely in fiction because…
In Actual Play
Participants: nikola, Jasper Flick, Paul Czege, Noon, jburneko, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

7/9/2009 nikola: A History of Play in Rhode Island, Part 1.
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=28249.msg266072#msg266072 date=1247160157] All right folks. I appreciate everyone lots and lots, and Joshua, that's the fuckin' awesome character of the year. You ought to post more about…
In Actual Play
Participants: nikola.

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