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8/24/2006 Vaxalon: Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Two: First Playtest
I held a micro-playtest with my friend Brenna last night.  We were trying out the conflict resolution rules. Here's the short version of the rules.  They cover only 1-1 conflicts. …
In Playtesting
Participants: Vaxalon.

8/18/2006 Vaxalon: Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part One: Power Nineteen
I've posted the Power Nineteen for the Amber manuscript I'm working on. Here's the link:  http://vaxalon.livejournal.com/2006/08/17/ Or we could discuss it here: The introductions have been made. I've started gathering…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vaxalon, JakeVanDam, stack0v3rflow, Troy_Costisick, Arturo G., c, demiurgeastaroth, Dotan Dimet.

7/27/2006 Vaxalon: My PC creation strategy
I like to play characters with complicated personal lives but I don't like to see them die. So when I make a Dogs PC, I assign d4 traits to things…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Gaerik.

7/12/2006 Vaxalon: Heroquest house rules rule!
Okay, so in my tuesday night IRC Heroquest game, I'm using two house rules: Goals -- http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20179 Dogs-like Advancement -- http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19969.0 Based on just a single session of play, I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Vaxalon, Melinglor, sebastianz.

6/20/2006 Vaxalon: A mechanic swiped from Nine Worlds: Goals
Some people already put traits on their character sheet that are goals.  "I want to kill my brother, Gold."  "I want to become a shaman."  "I want to rule the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Vaxalon, Latreya Sena, Mike Holmes, nichughes, Web_Weaver, Tim Ellis.

6/8/2006 Vaxalon: An alternative to Extended contests
I just got the book a little while ago (after playing in Mike's IRC game for months) and I can't see why anyone would want to run an extended contest. …
In HeroQuest
Participants: Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, CCW, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro.

6/7/2006 Vaxalon: Jedi Dogs recording
I managed to get a clean recording of a Jedi Dogs session. Warning: It's almost 100 megs.  It'll take a while to download. http://www.thesmerf.com/vaxalon/Jedi_Dogs.mp3
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Miskatonic.

4/24/2006 Vaxalon: What makes an extended contest fun and interesting?
First, read these two posts: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=601&page=1#Item_8 In my highly limited experience with extended contests in HQ, they have seemed fairly unnecessary. When do they work?
In HeroQuest
Participants: Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, mneme, Valamir, Ian Cooper, Web_Weaver, Der_Renegat.

4/11/2006 Vaxalon: Neel on Nine Worlds
Here's the link: http://www.20by20room.com/2006/04/more_about_nine.html Here's the part that caught my eye: However, the way conflicts work means that it's very difficult to get an interplay going between the players --…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Vaxalon, Matt Snyder, Valamir, ivan23, hive_mind, Ben Lehman, doogs19.

3/28/2006 Vaxalon: Jedi - Space conflicts
Okay, so let's say that a conflict is being played out in space. How does escalation go? "Just Talking" is easy, that's conversation and confrontation over communicators.  No big deal.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, Mark D. Eddy, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg.

3/6/2006 Vaxalon: Banthas in the Vineyard, preparing for play
Our game group will be switching from vanilla Dogs to Banthas in the Vineyard in a few weeks, and I'd like to see what people have done, out there, to…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, Danny_K, DanielT, dunlaing, Brendan, CCW, Transit, TheHappyAnarchist, nikola, Miskatonic.

2/22/2006 Vaxalon: DC area Forgeites
I'd like to get another Northern Virginia/DC area Forgeite meeting together.
In Conventions
Participants: Vaxalon, Adam Dray, D. Woolsey, Shawn De Arment.

2/20/2006 Vaxalon: Bridal Falls City
The Dogs in my game have decided that in order to Make Right What's Wrong for the town of Gospel Ridge, they need to escort Sister Azubah (a back-easter who…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, 14thWarrior, Paka.

2/17/2006 Vaxalon: What do your Dogs sound like?
I have noticed that many of my players, not only in my current game but in other FTF games I have run in the past, have affected a Texas drawl…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Levi Kornelsen, Adam Dray, Iskander, Technocrat13, Frank T, Arturo G., Ben Lehman, Blankshield, James Holloway, Krista E, drnuncheon, Graham Walmsley.

2/17/2006 Vaxalon: [DitV] Repentance Crossing
One of my players (the marvelous Dorothea Salo) posted a session summary to our private list today. Preface: The Dogs had discovered a town where the following events had occurred:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Vaxalon.

2/15/2006 Vaxalon: Initiation
It just struck me that Nine Worlds seems to be missing something... Initiation.... I mean, people arent' BORN Archons, right?  It seems to me that since PC's don't start play…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Vaxalon, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Valamir.

2/6/2006 Vaxalon: The Dogs totally blow it - then what?
What happens when the Demons get their way?  When "What the demons want" is what actually happens? Do you hold onto that town, on the offchance that the Dogs decide…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, Eero Tuovinen, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Levi Kornelsen, lumpley, Frank T, wunderllama, nikola, The_Tim, 14thWarrior, dunlaing, TonyLB.

2/2/2006 Vaxalon: Arete and Hubris... can the immortals tell?
As evidenced by the valor and pride stats, use of Arete and Hubris has an ongoing effect on a person. Can the immortals (that is, the Gods and the Titans)…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Vaxalon, Brand_Robins, Matt Snyder.

1/24/2006 Vaxalon: Proto-NPC's to NPC's before play
I realized, in a thread over on Vincent's blog, that I had mistaken my own way of doing NPC's for the book way. My bad. That being said, I'd like…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Arturo G..

1/24/2006 Vaxalon: Recorded Dogs game
I recorded three hours of Dogs play yesterday, but the files are a little noisy.  If anyone would like them, to try to pull out useful "actual play" examples to…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, coffeestain, pedyo, xjermx.

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