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9/17/2006 Zathreyel: [The Mountain Witch] Angst Ascendant, pt. 1
Dan and I have been friends for a while.  A mutual love of Rebecca Borgstom brought us together in the dizzying bustle of Philadelphia, and our mutual love of all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zathreyel, timfire.

8/29/2006 Zathreyel: [Criminal Element] Playtesters Needed
Okay, everyone, I've never done this before.  So, bare with me.  My name is Michael O'Sullivan and you may have never heard of me.  For those of you that fall…
In Connections
Participants: Zathreyel, xenoss, Paka.

4/20/2006 Zathreyel: [Criminal Element] Buenos Aires: the Mendoza Job
I'd known about it for about a week.  My regular Tuesday night crew had become pretty irregular for a little while, so our regularly scheduled game of Nobilis had sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, CMWeck.

3/30/2006 Zathreyel: [Criminal Element] Reintroducing and Power 19, followed by questions
Some of you may remember a small little game from way back in the day called Criminal Element, created in the first batch of 24hour RPGs in 2003.  For those…
In Endeavor
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley.

12/2/2004 Zathreyel: (unnamed SF rpg) mechanics question
man, it has been a long time since i've posted here. hope everyone has been doing well. i should stop trolling once in a while, eh? anyway, on to the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, ethan_greer, greedo1379, Jason E Leigh, Kedamono.

8/18/2004 Zathreyel: [In Nomine Kitbash] Starting things off... really long post
Just in the interrest of putting this out there, i'm going to do a little write-up about the first session of a new campaign i'm running. It all started about…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zathreyel, b_bankhead, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2004 Zathreyel: The aftermath of the 24-hour RPG
Heya everybody. Plotdevice recently asked what he should do with his game, Sin/Zen, in this post over here,and i think it's a good enough question that maybe it should have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Jediblack, Lathan, philreed, Simon W, jdrakeh, PlotDevice.

6/12/2004 Zathreyel: (The Operation) humanity-type rules
heya guys, okay, i've been working on this game for a group of friends, a LeCarre or "Bourne" style espionage game, high action thriller type stuff. It's meant to be…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Ben Lehman, ethan_greer, buddha, Sydney Freedberg, Chris Lekas, Tobias.

5/7/2004 Zathreyel: [Bruise] character personality rules
okay, one more little bit of help to ask of you guys for my game, and then i'm done for the day, i swear! in my game bruise, a sci-fi/fantasy-ish…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Loki, Shreyas Sampat.

5/7/2004 Zathreyel: [Bruise] Skill and Combat question
okay, i'm making this rpg with a sort of epic style of gameplay, as was argued to death in the rpg theory section here. the game has a framework for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Nathan P., Shreyas Sampat.

3/19/2004 Zathreyel: "Epic" and "Saga" roleplaying
okay, over on the Actual Play board there's been a thead runnning discussing the use of a relationship map in Epic role-playing, and it just kinda started sprawling beyond…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Zathreyel, orbsmatt, Gaerik, Valamir, Paganini, taalyn, John Kim, Sean, komradebob, Caldis, M. J. Young, Ian Charvill, contracycle, Vodrilus, Rexfelis, montag, Matt Wilson, aplath, FredGarber.

2/20/2004 Zathreyel: [GenCon 2004] Questions
heya everyone! i'm planning on being at GC:Indy this year and would love to get involved with the ubertable that you guys have boiling up here. I'm hoping to have…
In Conventions
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, coxcomb, Jake Norwood, Trevis Martin, Matt Gwinn, daMoose_Neo, Lxndr, Tav_Behemoth, Valamir, Nev the Deranged, Wolfen, Mike Holmes.

2/19/2004 Zathreyel: (Criminal Element) back on the streets...
Heya everyone! i know it's been a while since this game was even mentioned here, or much of anywhere, but i've finally gotten to a place in my development of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Loki.

1/4/2004 Zathreyel: help with a conflict resolution mechanic
heya everyone. i've been working on this new game recently and i've got a conceptual question for the system. the game is sci-fi/fantasy that has a setting that emulates european…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Matt Snyder, Loki, failrate, octobernight, Deadboy, Ron Edwards.

6/27/2003 Zathreyel: Bruise: Sci-fi/ Fantasy in the Far Future (long post)
Heya guys, what’s going? Alright, so I was sitting around yesterday, working on a drawing for my pet project, something I mentioned here quite a while ago. It’s a game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Ben Morgan.

4/26/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element, expanded and evolving
okay, a quick post of an update. i have a friend of mine hosting the .pdf file of what i have doen so far for Criminal Element. it is lacking…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element: Genre Expectations
Okay, I’ve taken the time to read over some of the posts related to Genre Expectation and it was some damned interesting reading. It seems like a lot of thought…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob, Ron Edwards.

4/14/2003 Zathreyel: vs. Monsters
[quote="iago"] Aha. Nah, that means it's a rastered image, rather than a vector-based one (I'm talking like, Illustrator style). I wanted to be able to resize the image without loss…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, philreed.

8/25/2002 Zathreyel: Science fiction/ fantasy in the Metal Hurlant mold
Hey everyone. "long time listener, first time caller." I've been lurking this message board for the past month or two, reading all of the incredible insights that you guys have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Valamir, ks13, Evan Waters, Mike Holmes.

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2/2/2007 Zathreyel: A Call For Help
Everyone here at the Forge, My name is Michael O'Sullivan.  I've been a member here at the Forge for a number of years now, posting occasionally when I saw something…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Zathreyel.

7/1/2007 Zathreyel: (Criminal Element) On the Bullet Train
Alright, so I've had the chance to run some hardcore Criminal Element sessions recently.  It's good to get back under the hood of that thing.  Criminal Element, for those not…
In Playtesting
Participants: Zathreyel, Everspinner.

7/4/2007 Zathreyel: (Sorcerer) The Family Blood
Man did I just have a great session of Sorcerer and I'm all abuzz to share.  As some of you guys might know, I like dark things.  I like crime…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Tobaselly.

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