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5/14/2002 GreatWolf: Soliciting input on Nobilis in play
Okay. My copy of Nobilis should arrive any day now. (Pause to grumble about US Postal Service). I do know that there are some folks here who played the first…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Mytholder, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

5/8/2002 GreatWolf: Wishlist for the next "edition"
Due to my current state of upheaval preparatory to movin' out West (well, as far as Peoria), I know that I will not be able to do any significant Alyria…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

4/30/2002 GreatWolf: Character generation questions
One part of the Alyria rules have concerned me for a while, and that is the area of character generation. I have two concerns that I am trying to balance:…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Jürgen Mayer.

4/23/2002 GreatWolf: Money in the Citadel
In another message, I noted that a glaring lack in my current conception of the world of Alyria is a monetary system. At the very least, the Citadel needs one.…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/16/2002 GreatWolf: News update
This seems like a good time for a news update. (cue exciting music) First, development on Alyria does proceed, albeit slowly. Right now I have an Alyria game that is…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir.

4/10/2002 GreatWolf: Print-friendly screens?
This is just a thought that entered my head, not a gripe. Feel free to ignore this and/or tell me that I am cracked. Is it possible to have a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GreatWolf, Tim C Koppang, joe_llama, Clinton R. Nixon, Laurel, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

4/9/2002 GreatWolf: Whispering Vault in play
Hopefully that isn't a misleading title.... I'm actually looking for general comments, thoughts, etc. on Whispering Vault. I was in Peoria, IL this weekend preparing for the big move, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, Petter Sandelin, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer.

2/27/2002 GreatWolf: Pseudo-familial relationships on the relationship map
I'm posting this in a different thread than the recent relationship map thread because it represents a slight tangent, and besides, the other thread is getting too long. :-) Whilst…
In Adept Press
Participants: GreatWolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/5/2002 GreatWolf: Collaborative Roleplaying
Chalk up another point for Places to Go, People to Be. They posted this interview with Ian Millington on the concepts of collaborative roleplaying. His website is www.collaborativeroleplay.org.…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

1/9/2002 GreatWolf: The quick-start manuscript is finished!
At last! The quick-start rules are finished! I still need to work up a sample storymap, but for those of you who want to see the rules now can do…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Jason L Blair, Spooky Fanboy, arxhon, Yokiboy.

1/4/2002 GreatWolf: Time to Ride the Train
I had a thought bouncing around in my head, which I thought I would share with all of you. This was actually prompted by a comment of Jesse's. That…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

12/12/2001 GreatWolf: Need an artist
I am looking for an artist to do a very small project for me for free or cheap. Basically, I would like to have six stylized moon phases for my…
In Connections
Participants: GreatWolf.

12/12/2001 GreatWolf: I'm not dead yet! (aka News update)
Hmm. I look at the last post date on the forum and I see 9/10/2001. That seems particularly ill-omened for some reason, so I'm going to post in my own…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Time, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer.

9/4/2001 GreatWolf: Some thoughts on GMing in Alyria
[quote] Seth, I think that my earlier comment may have been out of line. That is to say that I think that given the distribution of authorial/directorial power as you've…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/28/2001 GreatWolf: Alyria announcement
(reposted from the Gaming Outpost for those of you without access) Okay, here is the promised Alyria announcement. Actually, this encompasses the future of Alyria production, so here goes. Item…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/22/2001 GreatWolf: Bloody Heat: A Tale of Alyria
Bloody Heat A Tale of Alyria It’s this bloody heat. It’s making it hard to think straight. I just want to write down what happened to me tonight so that…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

8/22/2001 GreatWolf: Writ on Water: A Tale of Alyria
Writ on Water A Tale of Alyria A flame flared in the darkness of the small hut. The paper caught and burned. “I was born twenty years ago today…” The…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

7/21/2001 GreatWolf: Little Fear in action
Last night I actually got to do some gaming! Woo-hoo! And it wasn't playtesting anything of my own. Instead, I ran Little Fears for part of my group (the rest…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, joshua neff, Knight, Laura Bishop, Ron Edwards, trelliz, Balbinus, Epoch, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Tyrant.

6/30/2001 GreatWolf: #Origins, anyone?
This seemed to be the best place to put this, so apologies for the off-topic bit. But.... Any of you going to be at Origins? I'd love to be able…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: GreatWolf, Jason L Blair, archangel_2, Ron Edwards.

6/28/2001 GreatWolf: Music for Alyria
Okay, this is very speculative, as it relies on a number of factors coming together that are mostly beyond my control. That being said.... I have begun to toy with…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, james_west.

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6/11/2002 GreatWolf: Off-line for a few days
In our house, we say, "Home is where the hard drive is." Tomorrow evening, I'm going off-line for a few days. After all, we have to pack the computer for…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

7/15/2002 GreatWolf: Playtest begins anew
Last Saturday, Ralph (Valamir) joined myself, my wife, and my sister to set up an Alyria storymap. Play is scheduled for next Saturday. I'll be sure to write up brief…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes.

8/6/2002 GreatWolf: Setting focus
I happened to be perusing the review of The Riddle of Steel in the review database when I came across this sentence. "I think it would have worked better for…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/14/2002 GreatWolf: Update (8/13/2002)
Well, with GenCon having come and gone and the Forge receiving a facelift, it seemed like a good time to post an update. So here goes. I started writing Legends…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2002 GreatWolf: Contemplated rules adjustments
As I have begun the process of considering Legends of Alyria and evaluating playtest feedback, I have been contemplating a few rules changes. So I thought that I would toss…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/30/2002 GreatWolf: Update (8/30/2002)
Here is the first of the promised updates. I have begun writing the Alyria manuscript. Currently I am working on describing the Citadel, which is definitely assuming a central role…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

9/18/2002 GreatWolf: Update (9/18/2002)
So, this is the point where I give you another update. I am due, after all. I've set myself the schedule (for now) of writing every Wednesday evening. I have…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Eddy Fate.

9/30/2002 GreatWolf: All right! All right! Jurgen, you win!
Just a quick note. I was working on a section of the Alyria manuscript that gives examples of setting improvisation. I included some random ideas that I had been planning…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer.

10/17/2002 GreatWolf: The Digger Paladins
Just to prove that it could be done, here is the (unedited) game text for the aardvark holy warriors. Ladies and gentlemen, the Digger Paladins. === The plague that created…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

10/17/2002 GreatWolf: Adept Press conversions to Alyria
Okay. It's late. I'm tired. I should be in bed. Instead I'm posting some conversion ideas that drifted into my demented little head. These are just for fun, but who…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

10/17/2002 GreatWolf: RPGnet review by Guy McLimore
[url]http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7364.html[/url] Way to go, Matt! Seth Ben-Ezra Great Wolf
In Chimera Creative
Participants: GreatWolf, Matt Snyder.

10/22/2002 GreatWolf: How do I play this mess?
One major addition to the quickstart rules (aside from the setting chapters, of course) is going to be a chapter on how to run Alyria. It seems to me that…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat.

10/30/2002 GreatWolf: Book recommendation
I just finished reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This is excellent reading for the Little Fears GM. It has everything: a child protagonist, an extension of Closetland, a monster masquerading…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: GreatWolf, paulmjessup.

11/11/2002 GreatWolf: Lord of the Rings thread on Adept Press forum
There is a discussion of Lord of the Rings going on over on the Adept Press forum. You can find the thread here. I wanted to link to it because…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair.

11/13/2002 GreatWolf: Uriel's story
I don't believe that I've cross-posted this over here. This is the account of a session of Alyria that I ran. The original thread (including questions) can be found at…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

11/13/2002 GreatWolf: The Forever Lost
Here's another session that I ran. Again, the original thread is here. =============================================== I also ran Alyria again for someone else. Two people who were coming to Rune night (Jason…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

11/23/2002 GreatWolf: Clownin' Around (session 1): Unknown Armies in actual play
Okay, here's the first Saturday morning report on my Unknown Armies game. Hopefully these will continue for the duration. The characters are as follows: Agent Sunshine Black, a no-nonsense collections…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, UnSub, Steve Dustin.

11/27/2002 GreatWolf: James Wallis on the state of the industry
First, read this interview with James Wallis. Now, this is not supposed to be a "bang the drum slowly" thread (but see footnotes 1 and 2). However, I wanted to…
In Publishing
Participants: GreatWolf, b_bankhead, Le Joueur, C. Edwards, gentrification, greyorm, John Wick, JSDiamond, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Reimer Behrends.

12/13/2002 GreatWolf: 12 Games of Christmas
From today until Christmas, there will be a new present to be "opened" at the Key 20 website. A couple of the presents are by me. You can decide if…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

12/20/2002 GreatWolf: Just a historical note
As far as I can recall, some of the initial Universalis seeds germinated here. I thought that some of you might appreciate the trip through history to see where it…
In Universalis
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Jason L Blair.

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