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9/6/2006 TonyLB: Will someone playtest "Roxie Racoon and the $@^*'d-Up Pancakes"?
Here's a mini-game, as best I've got it figured out.  It looks (to me) like it would run to completion in about ten to twenty minutes.  I'd love it if…
In Connections
Participants: TonyLB.

8/25/2006 TonyLB: Be good!
Okay, I'm probably not going to have net access until about Labor day. That means that if something goes wildfire out of control it better be the cool kind of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB.

8/25/2006 TonyLB: A worthwhile exercise
Check out this AP thread and then maybe this one and this one.  You know what they had in common?  They all started from a common ground of strong preparation,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, oreso, Gaerik, Technocrat13, Hans.

8/24/2006 TonyLB: [GenCon Capes] Family under a magnifying glass
At GenCon I gladly succumbed to requests that I play in a Capes game (I do not accept the notion that I "run" such events, for the obvious reasons).  So,…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Jasper the Mimbo, Lxndr.

8/23/2006 TonyLB: [Dreamation] The Indie Passport
This idea has been bandied about for years, and now the time has come.  It's a fun little invented reward for people to come hang around the booth ... and…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB, iago, Rob Donoghue, Ben Lehman, RobNJ, Technocrat13, Andrew Morris, Shawn De Arment, andrew_kenrick.

8/22/2006 TonyLB: [GenCon] How does the booth red-tape work?
[quote author=Clinton R. Nixon link=topic=21000.msg217798#msg217798 date=1156272771] If we could, on the other hand, build some sort of indie shanty-town of booths, well, that'd be amazing, but it's not going to…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB, Blankshield, Justin D. Jacobson, David Artman, LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, Troy_Costisick.

8/7/2006 TonyLB: New 15-minute demo could use review
Okay, after gruelling labor of hard, laborious work, I finished up the new version of the fifteen minute demo.  Here's the funky new features I intend to show off at…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Kai_lord, Ben Lehman, dunlaing, John Harper, Matthew Glover, Markku Tuovinen.

8/3/2006 TonyLB: Need conflicts for the 15-minute demo
I'm revamping the 15-minute demonstration in time for GenCon.  Lots of the changes are little craft-pieces that make it easier to transport and deploy:  for instance, swapping debt tokens out…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Hans, TheCzech, Threlicus, drnuncheon, Gaerik, Tuxboy, Vaxalon, JMendes.

8/1/2006 TonyLB: [DexCon] [Unistat] One Wing Dipped in Blood
So, final slot of DexCon ... Sunday, 2 - 6.  I know from experience that it's luck of the draw whether people show up for such a thing.  I also…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, John Harper, Andrew Morris, RobNJ, Rob Donoghue, Krista E, Sydney Freedberg, Shawn De Arment, xeperi.

7/31/2006 TonyLB: Is popcorn necessary?
So, our very own Hans coined the term "popcorn throwing" to generally cover any out-of-game social feedback of the "Oh, what you did totally sucks, take it back," variety.  And…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Bret Gillan, Hans, Valamir, Andrew Morris, Tuxboy, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

7/25/2006 TonyLB: [Theory] What goes into a plot thread?
Now I hope that most of us understand that an actual plot is something that will be ripped to shred by the demonic bacchantes that are players in Capes.  If…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Matthew Glover, Hans.

7/25/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] The impact of judgment
So, these days at conventions I play Capes in a competitive format.  I've actually got a formula (" ( ( Story Tokens * 2 ) - Debt ) * (Total…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Bret Gillan, drnuncheon, Hans, phredd, Asperity, Matthew Glover, Noon.

7/23/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] Owning your tragedy
More actual play from the DexCon Capes extravaganza.  This is still in that third session, and occurred directly after Fighting about what we're fighting about. I'm going to dump a…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, r_donato, Nathan P., dpetroski, Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, phredd.

7/21/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][Dexcon] Fighting about what we're fighting about
Ah, the DexCon Capes games.  This is the second of (probably) three AP posts about the third of these games.  It follows immediately after I don't save the people ...…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB.

7/20/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] I don't save the people ... the people save me
The final Capes session of DexCon.  And I actually had past events from a charged and coherent previous session.  That meant that I could start the new folks in media…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Nathan P., phredd, dpetroski.

7/20/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] Star-Spangled Barbed-Wire Punch
Okay!  The second Capes session at DexCon! I was stuck with a bit of a poser.  My original thinking, when I scheduled the three events, was that I would take…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Hans, drnuncheon, Sydney Freedberg, AATLEMIDRM, Valamir, Andrew Morris.

7/18/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] The Magical President of Magical Paraguay
This is one of the DexCon Capes games.  So, I rolled in to DexCon wednesday night and within a few hours I was playing Capes with a bunch of new…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, r_donato, Valamir.

7/18/2006 TonyLB: DexCon Games
I played in four games of Capes at DexCon, three I organized myself and one Andrew put together.  I'm going to be posting a lot of Actual Play about them,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB.

7/6/2006 TonyLB: DEXCON
Okay, people ... DexCon approaches like an oncoming freight train of Indie RPG goodness.  July 12th through the 16th, in East Brunswick, NJ, if you didn't know. You remember last…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman.

6/29/2006 TonyLB: Feedback: New info card
A year ago, for DexCon, I got myself together sufficietly to put together a tri-fold pamphlet of information for people about Capes.  Printed a hundred on my home laser printer,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Hans, TheCzech, Thunder_God, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Morris, Sindyr.

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9/14/2006 TonyLB: My Next Game System
In case there are folks here who are fans of me, to the extent that they think my next game will probably be cool too, I've just posted the first…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Bret Gillan.

10/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] K. I. S. S.
So, three weeks ago I had a game where you wrote down recurring conflicts on 3x5 cards, and hoped that they'd gel together, then you traded those 3x5 cards back…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, andrew_kenrick, marknau.

10/12/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] More people makes things tricky
So Misery Bubblegum has this system where you give each other your dice, and then people can use dice from other players to represent each having emotional influence over them.…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB.

10/25/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Character before conflict
So over on Story Games I had a discussion about the way that conflict structures a character ... more specifically, the pieces of a character which are not dependent upon…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Bill_White, Narf the Mouse, WhiteRat, Danny_K, Dumirik, Steven Stewart.

1/7/2007 TonyLB: Who will work for a sneak-peek at upcoming product?
Within the next day or so I will (barring substantial derailing ... excuse me while I go off and make some quick backups ... okay, back!) have the first draft…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen.

1/11/2007 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Talking about other characters
I spent a longer time than I should trying to "deduce" a formula for how to make a character appealing (at least to me) from first principles.  All of the…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Danny_K, Noon, Simon C, cdr, Filip Luszczyk, Emily Care, Jasper Flick.

8/6/2007 TonyLB: Go-Play, Go-Play ... gone!
I made Go-Play keychains, a while back.  Green means "Go," the sideways triangle means "Play".  Go Play! They've sold ... alright.  Not great, but alright.  That having been said, I've…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, oreso, Nev the Deranged, Gaerik.

9/25/2007 TonyLB: Playing Card Puzzles
Okay, I'm looking to make a puzzle that is played out with playing cards, during the course of a game.  So this is not a directly competitive "You both play…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TonyLB, dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman, Noon.

7/16/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum: Could use some help
So, as some folks know, I'm in (hopefully) the late phases of design on my next game, Misery Bubblegum.  It's going to be about sad, sweet, tear-jerking shoujo manga and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, 1of3, Filip Luszczyk.

7/28/2008 TonyLB: My project for GenCon: A Capes Scenario
Yeah, it's a little crazy to be doing final assembly this close to a convention, but what the hey ... all my other preparations were done, and I've had this…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, hix, 5niper9.

8/19/2008 TonyLB: GenCon: Misery Bubblegum 1/7
#1 of 7 games played at GenCon: I started out the weekend with a nice, small game with two other players.  I'm pretty dang sure that I know their names,…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Paka, Landon Darkwood.

8/19/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum Playtesters Wanted
I'm going to be trying "Playtest by Chain-letter" to get some blind-playtest mojo going.  Basically, this isn't a game that I can (or would) distribute to you electronically:  I gotta…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Myrmidon.

9/10/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum Playtesters wanted
I've got two decks of Misery Bubblegum cards out there in the world, doing their business.  Two sets of playtesters have had first crack at them, and when I sent…
In Connections
Participants: TonyLB, hix.

8/5/2009 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum: My New Game
So, some folks know that I've been working over three years now on my next game.  It's called Misery Bubblegum.  It's about sad, strong, vulnerable, glorious people trying to find…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Paul Czege, jrs, Paka, SaintandSinner.

7/6/2010 TonyLB: [DexCon] Who's going?
I ask with the virtuous purpose of figuring out who I'll be seeing in a few days, and with the wicked ulterior motive of seeking someone who can rent me…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB.

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