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8/2/2006 abzu: Forge Booth Sticker Scheme
Hello, hello, So, based on our bad experiences at the Forge boothg in the past few years with repitching the same customers over and over again, I devised a simple…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Justin D. Jacobson.

7/26/2006 abzu: Thor Blogs about Burning Empires
Thor's writing an article about the production of BE on his blog: http://urdwell.blogspot.com/ Scroll down for Part 1. (Damn chronological blogs)
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, Matt, Durgil, Jason Coplen, Iskander.

7/13/2006 abzu: Forge Booth Menu
OK, it's time. Who's doing the menu of companies, products, prices and URLs? Fun, fun! -L
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Iskander, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Troy_Costisick, inthisstyle, Justin D. Jacobson.

6/9/2006 abzu: Burning World
http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burning_World Come and add your location to our Burning World! So cool! -Luke
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

5/28/2006 abzu: The Truth is Out There
From Ken Hite's latest Out of the Box essay. http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=190 Now for a little silver lining. One advantage that we have in the RPG market is that our customers --…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Ron Edwards, btrc.

5/23/2006 abzu: Burning Empires Preorders
http://www.burningempires.com/preorder.html Hello my peeps! As you may or may not know, I'm publishing a new game this summer called Burning Empires. It's kind of like Burning Wheel, but with…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, Thunder_God, jenskot, IMAGinES, Iskander.

5/10/2006 abzu: The One Game Policy
[quote]I've tried to closely follow the threads lead up to GenCon this year, as well as reviewing the threads about last year's booth and the rule about newbies only being…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Dav, Thunder_God, Thor Olavsrud, Jonathan Walton, inthisstyle, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Malcolm, Czar Fnord, Nathan P., Jasper the Mimbo, Ron Edwards.

5/9/2006 abzu: Forge Booth '06 for Monkeys, Volunteers and Supporters
Hello! If you love mutualism, support and small press publishing and you're interested in helping out at the Forge booth this year, please post in this thread: your name, the…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Clinton R. Nixon, Iskander, Emily Care, Michael S. Miller, joepub, Nev the Deranged, Matt-M-McElroy, jrs, nikola, Ben Lehman, Paka, Jasper the Mimbo, M. Voelker.

5/9/2006 abzu: Forge Booth '06 for Game Designers
The primary sponsors for this year's Forge booth are: Adept Press (Ron/Sorcerer), Lumpley Games (Vincent/Dogs), Timfire (Tim/Mountain Witch) and Burning Wheel (Luke/BW). The booth is a 4-booth penninsula and is…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Paka, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, Nathan P., Malcolm, Matt, Gregor Hutton, TonyLB, Dantai, btrc, jasonm, Keith Senkowski, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, Justin D. Jacobson, Emily Care, joepub, Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Tim C Koppang, Matt Wilson, Gordon C. Landis, Jonathan Walton, Larry Wickman, John Harper, Troy_Costisick, nikola, Clinton R. Nixon, Kevin Allen Jr, Ron Edwards.

4/10/2006 abzu: Forge Midwest Love
Where's the love? Is everyone still too exhausted to post? So, ye who attended, what did you think? Did you enjoy yourself? Would you come back again? What did you…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, Keith Senkowski, chris_moore, Thor Olavsrud, Jason L Blair, jenskot, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, c, jrs, Mike Holmes, Blankshield, Iskander, John Harper, Miskatonic, Paul Czege, Paka, tylure, ivan23, ptevis, Matt Snyder, mtiru, Kesher, Tim C Koppang, Andy Kitkowski, GregStolze, timfire, Dav, Nev the Deranged.

4/6/2006 abzu: Self Locking Old Threads?
Hello Clinton, In the wonderful fabulous Bday forum I have twice been tricked into posting into year-old threads. Is there any way to institute a mechanism that locks a thread…
In Site Discussion
Participants: abzu, Thunder_God, M. J. Young, Julian, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Lisa Padol, Nathan P., Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

3/14/2006 abzu: BW Sales and Income
Hi All, A long time ago, I promised to post my sales data and I never did. So here it is at long last! Between May 5th and December 31st…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, JakeVanDam, Bryan Hansel, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud.

2/11/2006 abzu: Playtesters Wanted for Luke's Current Super Secret Project
Want to help change the face of roleplaying games? Want to be in the burning inner circle? Want to see what the hell I've been doing for the past 6…
In Connections
Participants: abzu, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Kevin Allen Jr, Keith Senkowski, mtiru, Iskander, argology, Paka.

1/26/2006 abzu: Jared, Luke and Vincent at Vericon
Jared, Vincent and I will be giving a panel about designing games that don't suck at Vericon in Cambridge, Ma. The panel is Saturday at 2:30. Please come…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Troy_Costisick, Nathan P., Gaerik, Dev, inthisstyle, Thor Olavsrud, Blake T. Deakin, colinrego.

1/16/2006 abzu: Boston/Vericon at the End of the Month
Hey folks, I'll be at Vericon at the end of the month doing a panel with Vincent Baker and Jared Sorensen. Is there any interest in my running a game?…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

12/23/2005 abzu: Retailer Article on rpg.net
An article by Marcus King, owner of Titan Games and VP at GAMA. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/counter15dec05.html What's fascinating about this article is how little Mr King claims to know about how games…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam, LloydBrown, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, TitanGames.

12/5/2005 abzu: Small Cons, Small Press
I like small cons. In fact, I decided that for this con season, I was going to focus on hitting up a lot of small cons for the Saturday slot…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, drozdal, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Gregor Hutton, Malcolm, Merten, Mr Darran Sims, Troy_Costisick, mneme, Lisa Padol, Matt-M-McElroy, Kevin A. Ranson, Mike Holmes, Kurt Horner, Toren, First Age.

11/22/2005 abzu: SoCal afteraction report
I've been to a lot of cons in the past three years. SoCal was unlike any that I've attended so far. It was a gaming con, but slanted heavily toward…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, lampros, ScottM, ptevis, jburneko.

10/21/2005 abzu: GenCon SoCal 2005 -- Game Design Seminar
I posted this over on the news side, but I wanted to spread the word in case you don't head over there often. Jared, John and I will be …
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

9/27/2005 abzu: Anatomy of a Railroad
While moving some stuff around tonight, I uncovered a couple of dusty old notebooks. They appeared to be from my last year of highschool and first year of college. One…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, droog, TonyLB, Frank T, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, xenopulse, JasperN., Joshua BishopRoby, Arturo G., Nev the Deranged, Noon, Chris Geisel, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Sean, Brand_Robins, ffilz, NN, Ron Edwards.

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8/15/2006 abzu: In Praise of Brennan and Alexander
And Danielle, and Ralph, and Mike Miller. You all suffered for our greater glory and you made the booth so so so much better than it's ever been before. Three…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Iskander, inthisstyle, Jake Richmond, Malcolm, Meguey, Matt Wilson, Nathan P., Paka, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton, Dantai.

8/16/2006 abzu: Agon Sunday Night at GenCon
I was invited to play Agon with Dave Turner, Jared Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer, Thor Olavsrud and Matt Wilson on Sunday night. Dave had run the game once before, Thor had…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, Valamir, rafial, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, Thor Olavsrud.

4/27/2007 abzu: FORGE GAMA
I spent Sunday to Thursday in Las Vegas at GAMA. Overall, the show is small and sedate compared to Gencon and even Origins. GAMA is a "trade show" for RPGs,…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, jasonm, jdrakeh, Matt Wilson, Jake Richmond, inthisstyle, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, iago, Pelgrane, AngusA.

6/7/2007 abzu: Summer Secret Surprise 07 Hint
[url=http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?p=41456#post41456] [b]SUMMER SECRET SURPRISE 07[/b][/url] Once again, we're releasing a secret surprise project at GenCon. Preorders begin Monday, June 18th. [list] All preorders will be signed and numbered. [*]Preorderers will…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Marhault, WildElf, Gaerik, The Dragon Master, Thor Olavsrud.

4/1/2009 Luke: Full Color, 20¢ a page
Holy cow, has anyone seen or even used MagCloud yet? http://magcloud.com/ It's an endeavor by HP to create a Lulu-like service for short run, low page-count magazines. It seems utterly…
In Publishing
Participants: Luke, jasonm, mjbauer, Double King, Marhault.

7/18/2009 Luke: Kill Power 19
The so-called "Power 19" have been clogging up the design pipes here for too long. I'm here to kill the Power 19. These questions purport to consolidate nine years of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Luke, Vulpinoid, Lance D. Allen, Jonathan Walton, ShallowThoughts, mjbauer, anders_larsen, opsneakie, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski, sockmonkey, Wordman, Thor Olavsrud, Noclue, Garbados, JoyWriter, Librabys, Troy_Costisick, David C, Patrice, Frank Tarcikowski, brianbloodaxe, Ben Lehman, Mike Sugarbaker, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2010 Luke: Dreamation February 18-21st
Hiya Folks, Many of us will be at Dreamation in Morristown, NJ this weekend. There's a thread on Story Games, Dreamation, Who's Going? that contains a list of URLs to…
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Participants: Luke.

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