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6/1/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Influence of Soap on my actual playing in other games
As requested by Paul (Czege): ]Have you noticed that playing Soap changes ]the techniques a player uses in the more ]traditional games you've been playing ]recently? Well, truth be told,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

5/31/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: New game: storyboard
New to the board, perhaps not to the names ]:). I posted a new RPG on The BlackLight Bar. You''ll find it under Games-Free Games. It's largely concerned with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

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7/26/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Curiosity killed the freckled fritzhopper
I was wondering who out there has played Soap and what their experiences were. Ron wrote a very insightful review here that resulted in me making the winning mechanic optional…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, james_west.

8/7/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Spiel Essen (Europe's largest Con) - Anyone wanna be there i
I think the subject says it all. For once I have the opportunity to do something back for people who have advertised SOAP to the huddled masses (specifically Ron -…
In Connections
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

10/2/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Redesigning SOAP
The subject says it all, doesn't it? I want to revise, expand and update SOAP to reflect actual playtesting (which has been done extensively by you guys - you rule).…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/19/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Spiel Essen report
Hi Ron, A report from Spiel Essen here (as if the subject wasn't clear enough *sigh*). I'm happy to report I saw Sorcerer at no less than 4 different Germany-based…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Scene resolution instead of individual task resolution
I hope that, although I rarely post, when I do it is worth something. :smile: I was tinkering with several ideas for interesting core mechanics when I hite upon the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, James V. West, JSDiamond.

11/2/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Your thoughts on fatalistic roleplaying?
In the "scene resolution in lieu of task resolution" thread, I proposed a system in which players are fully aware of the outcome of a given situation and then play…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, unheilig, Paul Czege, Laurel, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn.

12/18/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: SOAP - restructuring and rebuilding
Hi there, After about three quarters of a year, I wanted to redo Soap and get some of its more problematic issues solved. It is up at for review: http://www.crayne.nl/test/soap-test.html…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes.

1/5/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: SOAP again
Hi people, Mike Holmes was the onlyone to react to my previous attempt at getting input from you guys, so I'm going to be an asshole and post again. :)…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ian Freeman.

2/7/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Rephrase: I was approached for publication and need advice
Hey guys, I got an email yesterday from a wellknown company asking me if I was willing to work with them to get my game SOAP published. They are a…
In Publishing
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, TheRef, GMSkarka, Bailey, Jack Spencer Jr, Dav.

2/22/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Ever played SOAP? Reply here please!
Strange topic I imagine, but I need to know the names of all the people on the Forge over the last 1½ years who play(test)ed SOAP. I'm about ready to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Dav, xiombarg.

3/12/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Suggestion
This may be something that has already been mentioned, but why is there no link from my Private Message Inbox to the Forum Index? At least, I didn't find it.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/26/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: The Path of Doom - fledgeling S&S game needs input
I was reading through an article about heroes in Sword & Sorcery style fantasy and I got the game design jitters. What I have at the moment is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Walt Freitag.

4/29/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Unknown Armies character creation session
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a few people (let's just name them, it's easier that way - Robin, Robert and Roy) who were looking to start a new…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/2/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Unknown Armies solo session 1: Mich Garcia
After character creation for my new Unknown Armies group (more on that in this thread), I made an appointment with each of my players for a solo session. Last night…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

8/14/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap: an extensive rewrite - help needed
[i]Note: I wasn't sure wether or not this post would now fall under the connection forum. If it needs to be moved, it needs to be moved...[/i] Soap has been…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, chaosvoyager.

9/6/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap feedback
First of all, my thanks go out to everyone who reacted to my call for feedback for your enthousiasm and interest. Now, on to the meat. I made some pretty…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

9/12/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Binding Donjon
Just a quick note to Clinton. I'm busy binding Donjon in a wooden cover, with a plethora of faux-tome accessories. I'll send you pics when it's done. *smile* Crayne
In CRN Games
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West, DaR.

9/12/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Cover design
I feel a bit awkward about this (mainly because I have no experience), but I would like to volunteer my services to anyone who needs a cool cover for their…
In Connections
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, S.Lonergan.

10/11/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Permission?
Heya Jared, I'm working on the concept for a game about Disposal Teams (Running Man, Judge Dredd and Hardcopy all rolled into one) and I think the idea of hogging…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, Gordon C. Landis, Paganini.

11/6/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap is out, but is it good?
Hi there, I recently put out my game Soap as a 31-page PDF file (I'd say about 23 pages of pure content, 3 ads, cover, introduction, dedication, toc and credits).…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

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