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7/21/2006 Nathan P.: [Mortal Coil][DexCon]I Promised I Wouldn't Title This Thread That One Thing...
Let me preface this post by saying that Mortal Coil is my new favorite game. So, I played in the Old Gods playtest at Dreamation, and had a good time.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., thwaak, Iskander, inthisstyle, Shawn De Arment.

7/19/2006 Nathan P.: [Burning Empires] [DexCon] Demo feedback
The first part of the post is the summary of the demo; the second is my feedback for Luke in particular; and the third is general comments about convention demos.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., abzu.

6/9/2006 Nathan P.: Anyone Speak Dutch?
So there's a review of Timestream in Dutch, which I can't read. Is there an enterprising soul with some free time who could translate, or at least read it and…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P..

4/14/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Last Call for Playtesters!
Hiya, As of very soon, the "public" playtesting of Carry will be over, and I'll be communicating solely with those who have already played and given me feedback. This means…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P..

4/5/2006 Nathan P.: The Employment Thread
Let us harness the power of networking. If you need a job, now or in the near future, post your skills and general location, and lets see if anyone can…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Nathan P., Bryan Hansel, Andy Kitkowski, Chris Goodwin.

4/2/2006 Nathan P.: [Meetup Proposal] DeisCon, April 15-16 or 22-23
So I have an idea that I wanna float, and see if it would interest anyone. I have a big hunk o' break over Passover in which I will be…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P..

3/31/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] I-CON Game
Played Carry at I-CON with Dro, Thor and Mayuran. They called my game B&B (broken and boring), and I wept bitter tears. Seriously though, I couldn't ask for three more…
In Playtesting
Participants: Nathan P., mtiru.

3/8/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Those dern small dice
There are a couple of issues with Carry that have come up across playtests. The one that I'm having some trouble figuring out is something valuable to do with small…
In Playtesting
Participants: Nathan P., catmorbid, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/8/2006 Nathan P.: [InSpectres] Everybody should play InSpectres
I've played InSpectres four or five times now, with two different groups, and it is the most reliably fun game I've played. PTA runs a close second, but, thinking over…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., coffeestain, Michael S. Miller, Matt-M-McElroy, ( o Y o ), Arturo G., Scott Dorward, Frank T, Dennis O, John Harper.

2/27/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Sweet Decline
One of our group was out of town for our usual game night, so I ran Carry for the two remaining. The game was awesome and instructive. First, a quick…
In Playtesting
Participants: Nathan P..

1/30/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Revision 2 Complete. Readers, Artists & Playtesters Wanted.
I finished the latest revision of Carry, my soldiers-dealing-with-issues Vietnam game. You can download the zip file here. There's also this AP thread, which was very useful to me, and…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P., joepub.

1/27/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation] Building a 10-Minute Demo [Long]
[b]So this was a learning experience[/b] Hanging out with Brennan and Alexander on Saturday. Alexander talks me into trying to run a 15-minute demo of Timestream (keeping in mind that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., Iskander, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon.

1/23/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation: Carry] Ah, So This Is Why We Playtest...
Gah, long! This post is the description, the next will be the reflection. Intro Technically, I had a playtest game of Carry scheduled for Friday night at midnight, but it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., inthisstyle, RobNJ, Joshua BishopRoby, Doug Ruff, thelostgm, ubergeek2012, Asperity.

12/22/2005 Nathan P.: [Carry] Figuring Out Endgame
Hey all, Finally, the revision to Carry is done! Well, kinda. But mostly! For those unfamilier, heres some info. Feel free to skip to the substantive part below. --- Carry…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan P., Noon, joepub.

12/12/2005 Nathan P.: "Best Of" Collections
Apparently there's some interest in a new thread about this... In Lines vs. Authors I said Once a publisher has a number of titles out, even if they're published in…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris, Eero Tuovinen, FlameLover, komradebob, tj333, LordSmerf, JarrodHenry, Sydney Freedberg, nikola, Veritas Games, Ben Lehman.

9/28/2005 Nathan P.: [DitV] Half and half
First Half: ...I'm not gonna lie, I think this is really funny. Second Half: I had an interesting conversation last week when my group was deciding which of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nathan P., lumpley, Judaicdiablo, John Burdick, Vaxalon, IMAGinES, Particle_Man.

9/22/2005 Nathan P.: CDs as placeholders...
So it looks like I'm not going to be getting my hard copies of Timestream in time for Southern Exposure - live and learn. So here's my plan. Anyone who…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Paul Czege, Shreyas Sampat, ukgpublishing, Graham Walmsley.

9/15/2005 Nathan P.: [Timestream] Bricolage In Action
I've been playtesting my materials for the Timestream game I'll be running at Southern Exposure at the end of the month. Todays game was very fun, and provided some examples…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., Arturo G., Joshua BishopRoby, Emily Care, MatrixGamer, Silmenume, Bret Gillan.

8/25/2005 Nathan P.: Timestream: Cover For Critique
Heya, The stars have finally aligned, and Timestream is set to go. I would like to get some feedback on the front and back cover over the next day or…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P., matthijs, Kesher, TonyLB, StrongBadMun.

8/9/2005 Nathan P.: [Carry] Burdens
Carry was my Iron Game Chef 2005 entry. You can see the .pdf here and the first playtest thread here. I'm responding to some comments from that thread on this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan P., xenopulse.

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8/17/2006 Nathan P.: Hello and Welcome
Hi everybody! Welcome to the new Hamsterprophet Productions forum! I don't really have much more to say than that. All of the normal Forge rules for decorum apply, though I'm…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., jasonm, Meguey, mtiru, Kevin Allen Jr.

8/18/2006 Nathan P.: Ask A Frequent Question: Timestream
Hiya, This thread is for questions about Timestream, the game of cinematic time travel. I'll be updating this post to incoporate answers from downthread. What's up with all the formats?…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

8/18/2006 Nathan P.: Ask A Frequent Question: carry. a game about war.
Hiya, This thread is for questions about carry. a game about war. It's a game about the burden's and issue that soldiers bring with them into the Vietnam war. I'll…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Meguey, Rob MacDougall.

8/22/2006 Nathan P.: Ask Non-Frequent questions too!
It occurs to me that I may be shooting myself in the foot with all the stickies. The stickies are for big-picture questions/questions that I've already gotten multiple times about…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

8/22/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation 07] A Crazy Idea To Start Thinking About
At Dreamation 07, we* should organize an Indie Playtest Explosion, either formally or informally, part of the overall Indie Games Explosion or not. The basic point of it would be…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P., Andrew Morris, Bret Gillan, Bill_White, RobNJ, TonyLB, Paka, mtiru, Kat Miller, Shawn De Arment.

8/24/2006 Nathan P.: Dropping In & Out
Heya Meg, Just played 1001 Nights last night with DevP and Jonathon Walton, as the first installment in the Storygamers Boston thang that we're trying to get started. It was…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Nathan P., Meguey.

8/25/2006 Nathan P.: [carry. a game about war.] From Game Chef to Gen Con
I posted this in the HPP forum, but figured it was of more general interest, so I'm reposting it here as well (with a couple edits)! Below is the basic…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan P., joepub.

8/30/2006 Nathan P.: [Countdown] Want An Easy Game To Playtest?
Hey all, I've been thinking about my 2006 Game Chef entry, Countdown (available to download here), and I think it would be worth doing some playtesting. Here's the "easy" part:…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P..

9/9/2006 Nathan P.: StoryGames Boston
All who live in the general Boston area are totally invited to a weekly StoryGames game night, held at Pandemonium Books in Central Square. The info: StoryGames…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

9/17/2006 Nathan P.: [Timestream] GamingReport.com Review
Which can be read here. It's interesting to me that all (four) reviews of Timestream have been pretty consistent in terms of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the game,…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

9/27/2006 Nathan P.: Countdown Play Log: The Gifted
[b]Intro[/b] This thread is a cleaned up text log of the Countdown game I'm currently running, called The Gifted. Countdown is a specifically play-by-email game, and can be downloaded [url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Countdown.php]here[/url].…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

10/16/2006 Nathan P.: Carry Audio Demo
Jeff and Judd of the Sons of Kryos recorded a 15-minute demo of carry with me at Gen Con 06. Check it out on this page. And I don't sound…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Yokiboy.

10/23/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] NC Gameday AP-ish
Jeffrey Collyer, (forlorn1 on these boards) is a fine fellow that I've gamed with at Dreamation and Dex Con. He contacted me a couple of months ago about running carry…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Technocrat13.

11/8/2006 Nathan P.: Carry on Veterans Day
The blurb: Hamsterprophet Productions will be donating 15% of all sales of carry. a game about war. to the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in recognition of Veterans Day. Every…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

1/19/2007 Nathan P.: Carry Errata
Many thanks to everyone who's picked up a copy of carry. a game about war in the last several months. I'm almost out of stock, and it's time to do…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Ron Edwards, Yokiboy.

1/22/2007 Nathan P.: [Dreamation 07] Indie Games Explosion travel guide
(x-posted with Story Games) Hey all y'all. I put together a pamphlet with all of the info and event descriptions for the indie games explosion at Dreamation. It still needs…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P., Bret Gillan, Adam Dray, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris.

2/1/2007 Nathan P.: [carry] Dreamation Actual Play, Selling Out, & Other Fallout
I ran two games of carry at Dreamation 07, and both went very well. Here's a couple of posts of AP from various players. Dave gives an overview, and promises…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., jasonm.

2/1/2007 Nathan P.: [Dreamation 07] Attendance Analysis
Heya, I'm trying to collect the data on how many of our rediculously many games went off, and with how many players. I have almost all the info, but there's…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P..

2/3/2007 Nathan P.: The BibliOdyssey RPG Challenge
(x-posted with Story Games) Hey everyone! So I wanna run a challenge! This is one centers around..... (drumroll) ART! Specifically, old art that has been posted at the ever-wonderful BibliOdyssey…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nathan P..

5/16/2007 Nathan P.: carry is back in print
After an unforgivable wait, carry is back in print. It is currently available at Indie Press Revolution. I will also be selling direct through my website, once I'm done revamping…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Eliarhiman6.

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