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6/16/2006 lumpley: Mongoose contacted me
Matthew Sprange wrote me a little while back, offering to publish Dogs in the Vineyard under a new imprint that Mongoose is launching (or considering launching). I'd keep intellectual property…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Vaxalon, Andy Kitkowski, Pelgrane, Wart, Thunder_God, Adam Dray, abzu, nikola, Paul Czege, komradebob, Jake Richmond, David Chunn, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2006 lumpley: A funny moment from our Dogs game
J's running. Meg, Julia and I are the players. Meg: So we're agreed, right? We'll all stay back here in this car , get off in a…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paka, Ben Lehman, Meguey.

6/13/2006 lumpley: Monsters! Monsters!
I played Monsters! Monsters! with Meg and the kids, at Sebastian's request. Okay, so Sebastian's nine, and he's been devouring my game books, and that's cool but also a problem.…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Meguey.

5/19/2006 lumpley: [1001 Nights] Falconer, Midwife, Dancer, Master of Sword
So it's Emily, Julia, me and Meg, playing Meg's game in development 10001 Nights. We've set up and we're just starting play. My character's the Sultan's favorite dancer. He's a…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Emily Care.

3/10/2006 lumpley: A new contest
To go with the Iron Game Chef, the Ronnies, the Bennies, the Matties, the Murkies, the Monkies... The Gamie-Gamies! Discussion welcome here or there. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, Frank T.

3/10/2006 lumpley: Co-interviewing
Hey, anyone who's here who doesn't do the blog crawl: Clinton R. Nixon and I are interviewing one another at <a href="http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/comment.php?entry=43">Fair Game</a>. Check it out, it's a blast. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

3/3/2006 lumpley: Dogs at IPR
I've signed up with IPR! This is happy and exciting. lumpley games at IPR -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, coffeestain, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

1/19/2006 lumpley: Shock: 0.???.0 Playtest
I very briefly summarize my own PC's story and then go into theory, here. -Vincent
In glyphpress
Participants: lumpley, nikola.

1/12/2006 lumpley: Dogs in the Vineyard's sales to date
Everyone here reads the publishing forum, right? -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Vaxalon.

1/12/2006 lumpley: Dogs in the Vineyard's sales
In case anybody's interested, I've just posted a chart showing Dogs in the Vineyard's lifetime direct sales at my blog: Year-end sales chart. I welcome questions and comments, here or…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, MatrixGamer, JakeVanDam, Thunder_God, timopod.

1/4/2006 lumpley: Sorcery and the Supernatural Dial
[quote author=Iskander link=topic=18218.msg192569#msg192569 date=1136389143] For me (running my first, a one-shot), the limiting factor was that it seemed that right after [i]False Doctrine[/i], you're getting into [i]Sorcery[/i], and are immediately…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Iskander, Levi Kornelsen, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon, Warren.

1/3/2006 lumpley: Low-key towns for new players?
[quote author=Rossum link=topic=18217.msg192465#msg192465 date=1136322670] I specifically did not want to ramp up all the way to Hate and Murder. This was the first town (and the first game) for this…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Brand_Robins, Levi Kornelsen, Technocrat13, Arturo G., chriscrouch, Andrew Morris, Iskander, Rossum, Frank T.

1/3/2006 lumpley: Three kinds of character creation
Me, Meg and Emily. We're like, hey, I know, let's make characters for each of our games in development, see how they each work. So we did. All three were…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2005 lumpley: I'm going to be quiet for a bit...
...On account of having a new baby! Tovey Lynn Baker But you all are doing awesome with the forum here, I have no fear for its sake. Carry on! -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Levi Kornelsen, Technocrat13, Eric Minton, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, Parsolamew, Keith Senkowski, Blankshield, Tindalos, Gaerik, jasonm, zornwil.

11/25/2005 lumpley: The Very, Very Basics of Pricing Your Game
Hi. This comes mostly out of a conversation I had with my little brother (Drew Baker, and check out me namedropping) when I was deciding how much to charge for…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Roger, Troy_Costisick, Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, timfire, Victor Gijsbers, nikola, Joshua BishopRoby, Levi Kornelsen.

11/21/2005 lumpley: Saturday on PTA: Quicksilver
So I had the awesomest weekend ever. This game was part of it. Here's me, Clinton, Judd, and Joshua playing Formula De on Saturday afternoon, and Judd wins, and Clinton's…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Alex Fradera, Paka, nikola, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Matt Wilson.

11/1/2005 lumpley: Dogs' Sales to Date
On my blog, I've just posted a chart showing the last 15 months' Dogs sales: here. I welcome any discussion or questions, here or there. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, Neal, Blankshield, Paka, IMAGinES.

10/7/2005 lumpley: Whatever Functional Application of the Rules Text I Please
Spun off from The Role of Fortune What none of you've provided yet is the purely procedural function randomness serves in GURPS.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley.

10/7/2005 lumpley: Procedure of Play, Determined by Nothing but the Group
Spun off from The Role of Fortune Hi Ivan, welcome to the Forge! I'm Vincent. which is why we're discussing the roles…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Paka, ewilen, matthijs, cruciel, talysman, jmac, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/2/2005 lumpley: Serenity Policy
THE LUMPLEY GAMES FORUM SERENITY POLICY Discussing Serenity is, as you'd guess, on-topic for this forum. However, it's impossible to discuss a movie without casually revealing details of what happens…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

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7/28/2006 lumpley: GenCon Booth - Awards Banner
[quote author=abzu link=topic=20622.msg214869#msg214869 date=1154097391] Also, I think we* should put a display together similar to what Vincent had last year -- the hanging panels that described Dogs and its accolades.…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, abzu, Clinton R. Nixon, Justin D. Jacobson, Paka, Ron Edwards, Malcolm, Keith Senkowski, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, timfire, Nathan P., jasonm, Valamir, btrc, Paul Czege, Dantai, c, Emily Care, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

8/15/2006 lumpley: DitV town challenge: massive supernatural carnage
The rules: Create a town and post it in this thread. Crank the supernatural up as far as you can. If your towns are usually supernatural-high, crank this one up…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Vaxalon, iconoplast, oliof, Eliarhiman6, ffilz, David Laurence, jburneko.

2/26/2007 lumpley: Three things I'm really enjoying about my Mountain Witch character
Before I tell you the three things, this: instead of samurai, we're a high-end circus freak show, and instead of climbing Mt Fuji to kill the Mountain Witch, we're touring…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Parthenia, John Harper, Nev the Deranged, Simon C.

5/3/2007 lumpley: [psi run] cold and rainy in San Francisco
Meg, Emily, Julia and I played Psi Run last night. I GMed. Meg's character, Charlotte: What's in the box that's handcuffed to my wrist? Who is Donovan? Where are my…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Meguey, chris_moore, Caesar_X, Parthenia, michael lingner.

5/14/2007 lumpley: The new server: banned words
The Forge's new server, by default, disallows posts containing certain spam-common words. I don't know the exact list of words; all I know is that I just had a post…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.

7/27/2007 lumpley: Dogs fans: wanna see something cool?
[url=http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/comment.php?entry=117]Fair Game: Designing for Dogs[/url] -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, JC, David Artman, The Bane, Andrew Morris, Meguey, Ben Lehman.

8/22/2007 lumpley: non-nostalgic D&D
I never played D&D. I played some AD&D 2E in college but it was hardly even a thing, it was all GM handwaving and <i>role-</i>, not roll-. But now it's…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, rafael, James_Nostack, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Gugliandalf, TonyLB, Eliarhiman6, GreatWolf, Parthenia, greyorm, TwoCrows, GB Steve.

8/24/2007 lumpley: Poison'd errata and Q&A
I've just posted a cruel fortune change and some GM techniques on my blog, here, check it out. I welcome questions either here in the lumpley games forum or there…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, rafial, markus_cz, Temple, Willow, coffeestain, Ignotus, phargle.

9/4/2007 lumpley: GenCon Poison'd, but you don't get the whole story
Me, Rich, Julia, John, Matt. Some other people watching for some of it, Julie, Ben, Ram. I was the GM. If you weren't at the table with us, then some…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, John Harper, contracycle, Ron Edwards, drnuncheon, wreckage, Parthenia, Matt Wilson, Temple.

9/4/2007 lumpley: Tomato Judgment in the Garden Kingdom
(This is my last GenCon play writeup for the year. The others are non-nostalgic D&D, Ganakagok AP, and GenCon Poison'd, but you don't get the whole story.) Not…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, John Harper, Meguey, ironick, GB Steve, wunderllama, RobNJ, Elliott.

12/14/2007 lumpley: With combined race and class, choose from 7 unique character types!
I've been playing D&D with some kids, ages 7-12. It's fun, but, well, there are a couple of ways D&D works that I wish it worked differently. So I set…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Meguey, GreatWolf, jasonm, Nev the Deranged, Paul T, Elizabeth, Filip Luszczyk, Artanis, Tobias, John Harper.

12/28/2007 lumpley: [IaWA] A genetic nanopotion, mind tricks and Han Solo as a lesbian
Me, Emily, Julia and Rob Bohl played space opera In a Wicked Age last night. It was fun. It was set on this aquatic alien planet with increasingly bad relations…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Anders, RobNJ, Emily Care, foucalt.

1/2/2008 lumpley: In a Wicked Age now preorderable
Anybody feels like preordering In a Wicked Age, you can, here. Or you can click the link just to see the cover illustration. I'm proud of it. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Yokiboy, kallisti_dk, Nev the Deranged.

1/7/2008 lumpley: [Mispent Youth] Five predictions about Rebekah, Molly and Larry
Rebekah, 14, played by Julia: "new kid." Molly, 16, played by Meg: "hardened cynic." Larry, 16, played by Vincent: "den mother." Mispent Youth, GMed by Rob. Before the predictions, some…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Meguey, RobNJ, Paka, jenskot.

1/9/2008 lumpley: Mr foot, welcome to mouthville (an interview)
A couple weeks ago Rob Bohl interviewed me about In a Wicked Age, and now he's put the interview up online: The Independent Insurgency Episode 002. I'm happy to answer…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Nathaniel, John Harper, RobNJ, sirogit, GreatWolf, Wolfen, Artanis.

2/6/2008 lumpley: Persuasion rules
Here's an old friend of mine. He's speaking of In a Wicked Age but it's a great general topic across my games: So there's no mechanic…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Troels, PorterO, Valvorik, Aman the Rejected, David Artman.

2/11/2008 lumpley: [GenCon Indy 08] kicked out of the Forge Booth nest?
Don't panic. You can still be in a booth in the exhibitors' hall at GenCon if you want to. You have a couple of choices. Choice 1: make your own…
In Conventions
Participants: lumpley, iago, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

3/1/2008 lumpley: For Rafial: interesting play in Poison'd
Here's the conversation so far: Okay I had gotten as far as:  If the system is handing back results to the fiction, then if Dirty Pete…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, rafial.

3/5/2008 lumpley: [Poison'd] Burning down Cartegena
This is about a problem with Poison'd that Ralph raised, here. I have zero interest in talking right now about how well the text communicates. I'm going to go back…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Piers Brown, rafial.

3/13/2008 lumpley: Yikes! Zombies!
We played Eero's zombie game, whose official English title I can't remember. I'm going to call it Yikes! Zombies! even though I'm absolutely certain that's incorrect. Emily led us in…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Parthenia, Emily Care, newsalor.

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