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1/30/2006 Green: [split from Dramatikos thread in Design forum] Intimacy in cyberspace?
I'm currently revising and refining Dramatikos.  During this phase, one of the issues that came up was how various media (tabletop, LARP, chat, play-by-post) can work for or against the…
In Playtesting
Participants: Green, Andy Kitkowski, Adam Dray, Ice Cream Emperor, Brand_Robins, Joshua BishopRoby.

1/28/2006 Green: [Dramatikos] One game, several media
My game, Dramatikos, is entering the playtesting phase of development.  Although I designed it and imagined it as a tabletop game, one of my goals evolved to make it accessible…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

1/27/2006 Green: Introduce your game
I'm going to take my own advice and do my part to get more developing games noticed on the Forge.  Basically, it comes down to this: many people who would…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

1/7/2006 Green: introductory scenarios in rpg books
I've written a game I've named Dramatikos.  In short it is a narrative game of interactive drama.  I did my best to explain how to play very clearly, providing examples…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, dindenver, hix, MikeSands, Joshua BishopRoby, Andy Kitkowski, Ice Cream Emperor.

4/10/2005 Green: is CA game-dependent?
I suppose I should just jump down into it. A note before I start: When I say "game," I mean it in the context of the actual play of the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Green, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2005 Green: approaches to creating characters
When it comes to creating and playing campaigns, there are a lot of resources about setting, mechanics, and player dynamics, but relatively few dedicated to what is supposed to be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Green, M. J. Young, Danny_K.

2/9/2005 Green: Mythophany
What follows is the gist of the game I'm now calling Mythophany. It is an overhaul of a game I had been working on called Kathanaksaya. To those familiar with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Mike Holmes, matthijs, Brendan, J. Tuomas Harviainen, John Wick.

2/1/2005 Green: reconciling different CAs within a group
There has been a lot of talk at the Forge about how the system influences playing. As a result, a lot of the discussion of roleplaying has centered on roleplaying…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Green, Bankuei, Marco, Paul Czege.

1/22/2005 Green: fantasy settings and cultural pluralism
This is not going to be a thread that talks about how Eurocentric a lot of fantasy settings are. I think it's fairly obvious. With the exception of games based…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Green, Jasper, Ben Lehman, Bankuei, ffilz, Mark D. Eddy, clehrich, NN, greyorm, Mark Woodhouse, apparition13, CPXB.

12/1/2004 Green: [kathanaksaya] going back to the roots
I know you guys are probably sick of hearing about this game, but for some reason I cannot let it rest. I was reading Mercedes Lackey's The Fairy Godmother, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green.

11/6/2004 Green: need independent playtesters
I've been working on my game Kathanaksaya for a while, and right now I think I'm ready for some independent groups to playtest things to make sure that the rules…
In Connections
Participants: Green.

10/17/2004 Green: OTW: What can be done?
In this thread posters were asked to contribute their own stories of how their encounters with the One True Way mentality have affected their gaming experience. While I hope that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Green, John Kim.

10/13/2004 Green: [Kathanaksaya] Encouraging use of character elements
This is a sort of split from the punitive mechanics thread I started, but since this post will go in a different direction, I think a new thread is appropriate.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Shreyas Sampat.

10/12/2004 Green: Creating quick-start scenarios
It was once suggested to me in another thread that I make sample scenarios that really highlight my game Kathanaksaya. I tried thinking of one, but I never got very…
In Publishing
Participants: Green, timfire, GregS, LordSmerf.

10/5/2004 Green: Effects of One True Way on roleplaying experience
In a lot of online roleplaying communities, the concept of the One True Way to Roleplay gets a lot of criticism, but it's more or less based on the idea…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Green, Alan, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, greyorm, bcook1971, Marco, Doctor Xero, Ron Edwards, neelk, Sean, Mortaneus, ffilz, John Uckele, James Holloway, M. J. Young, simon_hibbs, Halzebier, Christopher Kubasik, clehrich, Cup of Iron, Jaik, Darksmith.

10/4/2004 Green: [Kathanaksaya] Puntitive mechanics: yay or nay?
For a while now, I've been toying with how to utilize the idea of Fading in Kathanaksaya, but I've been unable to determine something that could really work. Part of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Vaettyr, TonyLB, Jack Aidley, GregS, Shreyas Sampat.

8/12/2004 Green: it's that time again (kathanaksaya revisions)
I've just done a bit of revision on the specialties/skills and abilities as presented in Kathanaksaya, and I realized something about the character creation revision. Though I require that each…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green.

7/24/2004 Green: Between Design and Actual Play?
For a good little while now, I've been working on Kathanaksaya, but it seems that after the initial stages of design and revision are over, it seems the only way…
In Publishing
Participants: Green, Jasper, JSDiamond, Wilper, bcook1971, Jack Aidley.

6/16/2004 Green: rehashing character concepts (split from very old thread)
In the thread about introducing N players to S play, Paul Czege linked to a much older thread about making the same character over and over again. Since that particular…
In Actual Play
Participants: Green, Mojo, Tobias, Loki, Paul Czege, DannyK, gregkcubed, Mike Holmes, hanschristianandersen, Albert of Feh, Decurio, Nev the Deranged, neelk.

6/15/2004 Green: Narrativism without Pervy Mechanics?
Here's something I was thinking about as I was retooling some aspects of Kathanaksaya. I have read the Story Now article, and I looked over the glossary, but I can't…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Green, Alan, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, timfire, contracycle, Sean, M. J. Young.

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