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3/25/2006 Victor Gijsbers: Bacchanal review at RPG.net
I am proud to present to you: review of Bacchanal.
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, ejh.

3/18/2006 Victor Gijsbers: [Bacchanal] A question on soldiers
Tonight, I will play my first game of Bacchanal, so I just reread the rules. They leave me wondering: if someone puts a soldier in my glass during the initial…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

12/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] The lady and the gardener
Last night, I finally had a chance to playtest the new version of my roleplaying game Shades. What is this game about? The best I can do is probably posting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

12/18/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [The Face of Angels] Playtest - Camera... lights... revolution!
We played our first session of Clinton's new game The Face of Angels yesterday. It rocked. It felt much more like playing a complete game than like playing a playtest…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger, Remko, Wilco Smits, Aman the Rejected, Paul Bakker.

11/22/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Adding words to the spell check
Clinton, can the administrator add words to the word list used for spell checking? If so, it might be a good idea if people submit some RPG-related words here that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/18/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Utrecht Evil] Second session
Using the updated rules, we had a second playtest yesterday evening. Was it better? Certainly. Was it good enough? Not yet. We did manage to play the game to official…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Remko, Eero Tuovinen, Eva Deinum, Paul Czege.

11/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: A Beast/Brain Master
Because the GM didn't have the time (or rather, peace of mind) to prepare for our usual (read: very infrequent) game of Trollbabe, it was decided that I would GM…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller.

11/4/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Utrecht Evil] First session
We played our first session of Acts of Evil yesterday evening, using the first beta draft. How did it go? Well enough to say: this game has potential! Badly enough…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

11/3/2005 Victor Gijsbers: How I plan to win the game in one round
I start the game with 1 Resistance, and no Used Capacity, as per the rules. When creating my occultist, I will put 12 dice in Ambition. When it's my turn,…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Small questions
[For small questions to Paul that do not deserve a seperate thread.] What happens when the dice pool contains no dice or only one die?
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: On circulation
Hello everyone! Paul, in your sticky you state: Please don't circulate What it the preferred procedure with my playtesters? Circulate the rules to them anyway, or ask…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eva Deinum, Remko.

10/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Dutch Translation
(Draft.) Bevroren momenten uit de stroom der tijd Eens, lang geleden, zo noordelijk als noord kan zijn, leefde de het hoogste volk dat de wereld ooit zal zien. Die mensen…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

10/4/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Breaking the Ice] The ordeals of love
In my first-ever IRC game, we were planning on playing Polaris; but when one of the four prospective players didn't turn up and the other had severe connection problems, Remko…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Meguey, Remko, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

9/13/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] Die Leiden des jungen Werthers - with a twist
Last thursday, I unexpectedly had to master a one-shot for two players. So I took My Life with Master from my bookshelf, grabbed a handful of d4s, and off we…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

8/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Congratulations are in order
Vincent, congratulations with carrying away the coveted Indie Game of the Year 2004 Award! And the one for Most Innovative RPG too, of course.
In lumpley games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, lumpley, lazarus.

7/9/2005 Victor Gijsbers: On rape in roleplaying games
[b]Introduction[/b] As is briefly related in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15911]this thread[/url], I recently had a very uncomfortable moment when the character I played was in the verge of being raped. I spoke out…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, TonyLB, Trevis Martin, Tobias, Jeroen, Ron Edwards, Sean, Asen G, StalkingBlue, Brand_Robins, Noon, cruciel, S'mon, contracycle, LandonSuffered, TheTris.

6/15/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Narrativism and Judgement
[b]Introduction[/b] Shirley Hawthorn has little contact with her two sisters and even less with her dying father, who was overly critical and quite unsympathetic to her during her youth. Now,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, TonyLB, Gaerik, Sean, pete_darby, John Kim, Troy_Costisick, Eva Deinum, Remko, Artanis, M. J. Young.

5/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] My Life as Adolf
Last weekend, I went to a meeting of the Dutch/Flemish RPG-forum Mandragon. I led a game of My Life with Master for four people, none of whom had ever played…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Remko, Tobias, Jeroen, Rimke, Borogove, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

4/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game
[b][u]Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game[/u] Or: What I did with Hungry Desperate and Alone[/b] Some time ago, I read Vincent's [url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/hungry.html]Hungry Desperate and Alone[/url], and was intrigued. It was…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Bob the Fighter, Eva Deinum, xenopulse, shaheddy, darrick, Ben Lehman, Tobias, daMoose_Neo, xiombarg, Jason Mical, The_Tim, pete_darby.

4/2/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Shared Imagined Space, Shared Text
In the Provisional Glossary, Shared Imagined Space is defined as: The fictional content of play as it is established among participants through role-playing interactions. This is open to different…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Noon, Vaxalon, lumpley, Alan, Ron Edwards, am, Sean, Jonathan Walton, JMendes, contracycle, Silmenume.

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