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1/17/2006 dunlaing: Things you want to avoid
What do you do if there are things you (and by "you" I mean your gaming group as a whole) want to avoid in Capes? The answer is definitely not…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

1/11/2006 dunlaing: Pegboy
One of my players wants to take a lifepath that requires the trait "pegboy," He was concerned though, because he doesn't want to have a peg leg, and he thought…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, Thor Olavsrud, Gaerik, Supplanter, Clinton R. Nixon, Iskander, abzu.

12/20/2005 dunlaing: Who is a Loser?
Let's say (for instance) that Player S creates a conflict like "Drive possessor of the chest mad,...Lovecraft-style!" and then never actually rolls it up (although it's pretty clear that Player…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB.

12/8/2005 dunlaing: Burning Wheel Rules Drift
One of my players wants to drift the Burning Wheel rules significantly: He is refusing to pay resource points for shoes and clothing. "I got shoes, I got clothes, and…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, mtiru, demiurgeastaroth, rafial, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, MetalBard, coriakin, drozdal, Eric Minton, Wolfen.

11/21/2005 dunlaing: Confused about tSoY
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I wanted to get The Shadow of Yesterday. Let us also say that I actually sort of prefer pdfs to hard copies.…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger.

11/7/2005 dunlaing: Is Capes Good For...
Is Capes good for two-player play? Is Capes good as a pick-up game or one-shot? If so, why? If not, why not and are there any specific rules changes that…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, MooseHole.

10/27/2005 dunlaing: [PTA] Hi, we're the Replacements!
So we finished up our Over the Edge campaign last night (I got the final line of the campaign..."Maybe I'll take them with me to Ottawa!"). We had decided earlier…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: dunlaing, Bret Gillan, Jonas Karlsson, Supplanter, BlackSheep, Clint, SabreCat.

10/16/2005 dunlaing: [Jedi] Words from the creator
"The idea of Jedi were (sic) that the Jedi are like Marshalls who come in and they're there to sort of settle disputes in the end." --George Lucas, in The…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon.

10/5/2005 dunlaing: Minor Quibble
My friend Jim pointed out that the click and locks are on the page in the opposite order of how you'd say them, and thought that that was backwards. For…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Anders Gabrielsson, Jack Aidley, Hans.

10/4/2005 dunlaing: Any progress on selling Click-n-locks?
I noticed that there was an old thread from April about using a die to cut them out and sell them in which Tony remarked about how if he could…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

9/30/2005 dunlaing: Multiple Characters
So, two friends and I decided to sit down and play Capes. None of us had ever played it before. I have the full version, but my friend Jim suggested…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

6/15/2005 dunlaing: Ordering from Key 20 Direct
To others who have ordered from Key20 Direct: does the Order Information update to indicate when it has shipped and what the tracking number is (if any)? I ordered on…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, Valamir, xenopulse, Thor Olavsrud, JasonV, jasonm.

2/2/2005 dunlaing: [Trollbabe]
I might be running Trollbabe tonight for three players (well, four if you count me). We finished up an adventure last session (the Trollbabes scared off the Troll shaman who…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Alan, joshua neff, Bret Gillan.

1/13/2005 dunlaing: Why I am going to buy Burning Wheel
In this thread, Thor Olavsrud wrote: It sounds like instincts are macros. And action-oriented play targets. Absolutely, that's one level. I think of that as the Mechanical level. In…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, mrjam, Roger Eberhart, Paganini, joshua neff.

12/2/2004 dunlaing: I ran [Trollbabe] last night for the first time!
We had a good time, although the majority of the session was spent introducing Trollbabe to two of the three players and character creation. I'll post the recap of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.

11/30/2004 dunlaing: [Trollbabe] A Question of Scale, or The Last Boy
I am planning to start up a Trollbabe campaign and was thinking about using the following set of Stakes and Circumstances for the first adventure. Once I started thinking about…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2004 dunlaing: Pacing
[quote="Michael S. Miller"]IIRC, Spider's battle against the Smiler could be seen as one long, slow Story Arc--or perhaps several. Perhaps you could place a limit like "only one card may…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller.

9/16/2004 dunlaing: Trollbabe role/goal II (split)
Sorry to resurrect this but,... I'm thinking about starting a Trollbabe campaign in early November and I thought that I had seen a post where Ron had agreed that it…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

9/13/2004 dunlaing: A Cool Idea From Hero Wars
Hero Wars (and the revision HeroQuest) has a cool idea for players that don't know what character they want to play yet. You define one keyword and start playing. The…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing, Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

9/8/2004 dunlaing: With Great Power Arrived Yesterday and Boy Is My Wrist Tired
With Great Power... showed up yesterday. Fortunately it was small enough to fit in my mailbox. Thank you for the extra-speedy order fulfillment. I did have a few comments/questions that…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing, Michael S. Miller, Alan.

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1/27/2006 dunlaing: Raises that ought to be Stakes of their own...
What do you do in a situation where someone makes a Raise that really ought to be the Stakes of another conflict? Here's my example: Brother Azaria and Brother Caleb…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Brendan, lumpley, Wolfen, Supplanter, Gugliandalf.

2/8/2006 dunlaing: Catchphrases
So I'm listening to "A Boy Named Sue" on my iPod and it starts with Johnny Cash saying "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" and a huge roar of applause which is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Technocrat13, TheCzech, Zamiel.

3/23/2006 dunlaing: Ganging Up
I'm playing in a play by post Capes game which is going pretty well and which I'm enjoying. One interesting thing is happening, though,...every scene ends up with just one…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Zamiel, Kintara, TheCzech.

3/30/2006 dunlaing: Dogs actual play
So, we're playing Dogs and my character, Br. Samson, is being fawned over by a hot young Mountain Person woman. I initiated a conflict with the Stakes that I would…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, Supplanter, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, lumpley, Paka, TheHappyAnarchist, neelk.

4/6/2006 dunlaing: New Character
Brother Solomon retired last night. He retired at the end of the session, so we didn't do character creation. Should I follow the "don't think about your character before the…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, lumpley, TheHappyAnarchist.

6/29/2006 dunlaing: Tactic: Use for low level Inspirations
I used to think Inspirations below 3 were utterly useless. Then I had way too much debt, a conflict I was likely to win that I wanted a lot of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Threlicus, Hans, Sindyr, TheCzech, TonyLB.

8/17/2006 dunlaing: [TPK] I Got to Play TPK With Actual Kids
I had a very interesting experience playing TPK (nice acronym) with actual kids. You can read more here: http://www.20by20room.com/2006/08/the_adventures_.html It was very interesting to me how little I missed Escalation.…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing.

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