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6/26/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Continuum 2006] July 28 to 31, Leicester
[url=http://www.continuum.uk.net/]Continuum 2006[/url] is at Beaumont Hall, one of the Leicester University halls of residence, from July 28th to 31st. Looking through the site, there's an excellent line up of games:…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

5/21/2006 Graham Walmsley: Publishing wiki
I put this together over the last week. It links to old Forge threads (and some other resources) to answer common questions like: how do I create a PDF? How…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Willow.

4/30/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Nighttime Animals] Cat Mafia
A night in with the girlfriend tonight. I was meant to buy a Scrabble set over the weekend, but I couldn't find a cheap one. So, instead, I suggested that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Bryan Hansel, chris_moore.

4/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: Postcards from London
Often, when I read a book, I wish that there was a roleplaying game based on the author's work. For example, when I read Graham Greene books, I want a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Czar Fnord, pfischer, PrzeSzkoda.

4/3/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Drill] Boris
This is an improv game, by Keith Johnstone. It's great. One player mimes being hauled in by an invisible monster. The "monster" (who is called Boris) forces him into a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, timfire, majcher.

3/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Holmes and Watson] The Case of the Scattered Brains
We played through Troy Costisick's Game Chef entry, "The Holmes and Watson Committee", tonight. It was an extraordinarily fun night: more H P Lovecraft than Conan Doyle, but lots of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, Smithy, Joe Murphy (Broin).

2/26/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Breaking the Ice] She shares some of the dead body with him
I played Breaking the Ice with my Liz, my girlfriend, on Friday. She's not a gamer and has never particularly been attracted to RPGs. But, when I described BtI, she…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Emily Care.

2/16/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Heist] Stake-setting and sharing narration
For a long time, I've wanted to design a roleplaying game that was playable in a pub. Ideally,  you'd just get out a pack of cards and begin playing. So…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, Matthew Glover.

1/27/2006 Graham Walmsley: [DitV] Lone Willow Branch revisited
I played through Lone Willow Branch again last night, with two American friends, Tyler and Jamie. It was very satisfying but much harder going (for me) than before. Any comments…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, oliof, dunlaing.

1/3/2006 Graham Walmsley: Fir Tree Branch
There was a thread a while ago called <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17717.0">Holidays</a>. It got me thinking and this town is the result. I'm thinking of running it later this week. Could I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vaxalon, Everspinner, jasonm, Andrew Morris, daHob.

12/27/2005 Graham Walmsley: [TSoY] Live action
Over Christmas, I was reading The Shadow of Yesterday. And it occurred to me that it would work perfectly as a LARP. Now, I'm suspicious of LARP conversions for tabletop…
In CRN Games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, KingstonC.

12/12/2005 Graham Walmsley: [All Creatures Crazed and Feral] Letting players decide the story
At Dragonmeet, I ran "All Creatures Crazed And Feral", a werewolf LARP . It was about werewolves threatening a Yorkshire village. (If you know British television, then it was a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Levi Kornelsen, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, jasonm, Lig.

12/6/2005 Graham Walmsley: [The Drop] Live-action spying
This weekend, I ran a LARP and was reading Smiley's People by John Le Carre. It occurred to me that there's a very natural fit between live-action roleplaying and spying.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, joepub, WhiteRat, komradebob, mutex, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer, Arpie.

10/18/2005 Graham Walmsley: [Cosmos] Unofficial Ronnies feedback
Since I got feedback on my game, I wanted to pass the favour on. So here's some quick feedback on Owen Anderson's Cosmos, which was one of my personal favourites.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, resistor, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2005 Graham Walmsley: [DitV] Willow Tree Branch
I ran Dogs for the first time tonight, with two players: my brother, who hasn't played RPGs for years, and my LARP friend Rachel. The town was a variation on…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

9/30/2005 Graham Walmsley: [Get Out...] A less lame mechanic
I'm revising my Ronnies entry, "Get Out Get Away Get Wise Get Back Get Even". The game is about running for your life, taking its cue from movies like "The…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Smithy, Ron Edwards, rbingham2000, Sydney Freedberg.

9/11/2005 Graham Walmsley: [Crazed and Feral] Reward system
I'm currently designing a werewolf-themed LARP to run at a convention (probably in November). The setting is a country pub, and the game will start on a sedate note, with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Dumirik, Andrew Morris, WhiteRat, c, knicknevin, KingOfFarPoint.

8/29/2005 Graham Walmsley: The Creatives: First draft (was GroupThink)
I've spent a happy weekend writing and I have a first draft of The Creatives (as it's now called). As you might remember, this is an attempt at a simple…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

8/28/2005 Graham Walmsley: The GM as safety net
This is an idea that's currently interesting me. I'm hoping you guys will kick it around and tell me a. Whether it might work, b. Whether it's hopelessly naive and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Halzebier, TonyLB, demiurgeastaroth, Noon, MrSandman666, contracycle, c, GB Steve.

8/19/2005 Graham Walmsley: [GroupThink] Coin spinning
One idea that's been bugging me recently is that of setting a game in the murky world of corporate RPG design. I'm thinking of something like this: the PCs are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, matthijs, Noon, FzGhouL, Dumirik, Miskatonic, GB Steve.

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10/16/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Best Friends] Game in a pub
On Thursday, I met up with various forum people (Steve, Alex, Drew and Jukka) in a London pub. We had a quick game of Best Friends: which turned out to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, r_donato, Alex Fradera, Gregor Hutton, Merten, GB Steve.

10/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: Rabbit cartoons
I'd like some cartoons of a running rabbit (well, a hare, actually, but the idea's the same). They're for my website, which is at: http://www.catchyourhare.com/ As you can see, I've…
In Connections
Participants: Graham Walmsley, daMoose_Neo.

11/25/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Setting Design] Darker
I'm thinking about a setting for Jason's game, The Shab al-Hiri Roach. The setting is Darker College, an Oxford University college, in Victorian times. This is a first draft. If…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

11/27/2006 Graham Walmsley: Dragonmeet 2006
Dragonmeet is this Saturday, 2nd December, in Kensington Town Hall. The schedule isn't on the website yet, but there's a preliminary version on the Yahoo group. Here are some quick…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, oliof, Matt, andrew_kenrick, Geoff Hall, GB Steve, Malcolm, Gregor Hutton.

12/4/2006 Graham Walmsley: Dragonmeet: Customer feedback
I wanted to do this in a separate thread, so as not to get in the way of the Collective Endeavour counting their takings and laughing manically. If you were…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, GB Steve, Matt, Dantai.

12/6/2006 Graham Walmsley: Gay Recruitment card mechanic
I'm working on a card mechanic for The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!. I'm finding it difficult to explain, though, so I'd really appreciate some feedback. At this point in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, ocasta.

1/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: Lords and Ladies: Setting Challenge review
I really liked Lords and Ladies. It takes Dust Devils and, very successfully, transplants it to a Jane Austen-ish setting. It also blends immersionist LARPs with Dust Devils' conflict resolution:…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!, Ben Lehman.

1/7/2007 Graham Walmsley: The Legion Of SuperScience: Setting Challenge Review
I'm realising that there are two broad categories of entry in this competition: those which shoehorn a game into a completely different setting (Umlaut, Western Journeyers) and those which use…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!.

1/28/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Best Friends] At Dragonmeet
Best Friends went down a storm at Dragonmeet: five strangers randomly signed up and gelled quickly. Here's some notes on how it went (mainly for the reference of anyone else…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Emily Care, Paul King.

2/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Conception
We playtested <a href="http://www.catchyourhare.com/files/Recruitment4.pdf">The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!</a> at Conception. Including myself, there were five players, all experienced gamers and very enthusiastic. (I was very nervous, by the way:…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Malcolm, GB Steve, Scott Dorward, Rich Stokes, andrew_kenrick, contracycle, knicknevin.

3/26/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] Conpulsion playtest
Another playtest at Conpulsion. There were three players: the staff by the sign-up sheets were offering free fingers of Fudge to anyone signing up. It seemed thematically appropriate. I've, um,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, jasonm, Simon C, Bryan Hansel.

5/18/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Spodley Grange
This is the fourth playtest. The players are Malcolm, Janos and Andrew, all people I know from conventions and get on with. Oh, actually, I've just met Janos, but he…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, andrew_kenrick, Malcolm.

6/1/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Roach] With beers at SteveCon
At SteveCon, we had a go at the Roach. So there's four of us, in a pub: me, Adam and...God, I'm terrible at names...I know everyone was Biblical except for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

6/3/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Darker] Thank heaven for little girls
Darker is my setting for the Shab al-Hiri Roach: the Roach comes to Oxford University in Victorian times. We tested it today, after Sunday lunch. There's John, Alex, Adam and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

8/6/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Lacuna] Decoy Team
We played Lacuna yesterday, in the garden, in the blazing sunshine. What a superb little game. Five players, plus myself. In advance, I'd prepared this Static sheet. Note the theme:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Yokiboy, TomTancredi, The Dragon Master.

9/2/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Polaris] Question about Moon statement
Ben, apologies if you've answered this before. In our Polaris PBP game, a Moon has made a statement that I, as the Heart, naturally want to respond to by saying…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman, Garvey, Web_Weaver, yellowparis, Tanda.

9/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: I'd like a photo of a burning d20
It's to use as a book cover, so it'd need to look good. Preferably against a black background. An actual photo would be great. If not, a Photoshop thing might…
In Connections
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

10/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: Pictures in Publishing
I've recently made a game with custom dice. I'd like to post, in Publishing, about how I made them, where I got the various components and so on: one of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] Chastity
So, we played Poison’d yesterday, an afternoon-long game. I’m GMing and there’s Alex, Scott and Adam playing. We eat tuna nicoise before playing, very nautical. The first thing that happens:…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, agony, Ogremarco.

7/7/2008 Graham Walmsley: British Game Awards
In December, at Dragonmeet, we’ll present six awards to RPG-related things we think deserve more recognition. The winners will (depending on what they are) have happened, been active or been…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

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