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1/23/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Setting Challenge] The Voting, Part 2
Dear Challengers! Though the Fates conspire to derail us, willing to take it out on innocent forum accounts, we are back on track and laughing in their faces. Here now,…
In Endeavor
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Malcolm, Everspinner, wunderllama, talysman.

2/13/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Champion
Challengers! Finally, with half a month’s delay, it is time to announce the Champion of the 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge! Aaaaaaand the winner iiiiiiiis: Thou Art But a Warrior…
In Endeavor
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Everspinner, wunderllama, Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, Ben Lehman, talysman.

2/26/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Agenda not yet emerging
A while back, Ron posted an interesting actual play about a TSoY game he ran. In Ron’s report, you can see how the World of Near becomes a powerful storytelling…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins.

3/20/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: Spiel Essen 07
Okay ladies, last year we've been moving late. Let's not make this mistake again. Spiel Essen (18 to 21 October 2007) is one of the largest gaming fairs in the…
In Conventions
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, oliof, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Matt, Ben Lehman, jasonm, Blankshield, Emily Care, iago, Meguey, inthisstyle, Justin D. Jacobson, Nathan P..

3/24/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [BARBAREN!] Artwork Preview
Really not much of a discussion issue, but a report on progress. There is now a galery on the BARBAREN! homepage with some of the artwork. The artists name is…
In Publishing
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, abzu, xenopulse.

4/10/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Aller Tage Abend] License to Tweak
Hi there! This morning I had a very good conversation about role-playing and the ever-problematic issue of “cheating”, or, more precisely, tweaking the dice. For my game in (early) development…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, anders_larsen, Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Ben Lehman.

4/30/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Artesia] Sons of the Spring Queens
I really wasn’t going to post about my Artesia game anywhere. I was going to savor it just for myself. Anyhow, here’s a bit that is just too cool. Well,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, Noon.

5/11/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [BARBAREN!] Finally, The Woman
Hi there! When I first posted about BARBAREN! on the Forge, more than two years ago, Ron Edwards suggested the following: I suggest that there be some mechanism for…
In Playtesting
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Emily Care, Noclue.

6/26/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [TSoY Prep] What is in the ancient Zaru capital?
So, in our World of Near, I am using Harald’s interpretation of the geography: The Zaru now live in the Zaru delta, but the peninsula to the north is the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Rob Alexander, oliof.

7/16/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Dread/Jenga] Heartbeat, slow down (long)
Thorsten is playing my character’s ex-wife on the phone and says, “Daniel, you shouldn’t have called me.” My character’s name is Andy, Daniel is the guy whose head got severed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, fjj, hix, FredGarber.

7/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: What TSoY really needs is a list of Zu syllables
Frankly. I know, the point is “make up your own”, but whenever I’m supposed to make up my own, I’m stuck for at least ten minutes. I toss it out…
In CRN Games
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

7/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [TSoY] An evil blade and emergent Simulationism
Some time ago, I posted about a TSoY game I had started, and about how Creative Agenda was not yet emerging, how the players were still toying around with the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski.

8/3/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: So, Mud Planet 2 Sorcerer?
I wrote this contribution to the Ronnies, Mud Planet. In his feedback thread, Ron suggested that the game would work well as a Sorcerer mini-supplement. Meanwhile I've had the chance…
In Endeavor
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: German Publishing Revolution
Hi, There is a pretty cool thing happening in Germany at the moment. I guess I’m just pointing it out to say, “look what can be done in RPG publishing”.…
In Publishing
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, oliof, jasonm, xenopulse, Grumpy.

11/15/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: Mud Planet: Ronnies almost-winner now ready for playtest as Sorcerer mini-supp.
Hi there! After some ado, I have chosen to try out my old Ronnies game Mud Planet as a Sorcerer mini-supplement. It’s been almost exactly two years since I entered…
In Playtesting
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski.

12/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: The players’ role in Participationist play
When Ron Edwards visited me in Hamburg two weeks ago, we were talking about my old games of Star Wars d6 and Ron asked me to post about something I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Caldis, Noon, masqueradeball.

1/25/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Dark Ages Vampire] Assessing Creative Agenda
Over in this thread, I talked about the relationship of Exploration, Techniques and Ephemera on the one hand and Creative Agenda on the other. Especially, how the former are not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Reithan, Caldis, contracycle.

2/6/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Das Schwarze Auge] Making the best of a pointless character death
This was originally posted over at the knife fight in a thread about character death, but I think it might be worth its own Forge thread, so here goes. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, LandonSuffered, Marshall Burns.

2/24/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: Special Damage Less Lethal
Okay, so in my group I've got four players with demons of power 6-9 and each has special damage (lethal). There's also lots of armor and protection around. If I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

3/2/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Polaris] Transcending the Rules
I just returned from another one of those German forum meet-ups. Yesterday’s Polaris game was a blast (what people call a homerun these days). Here are some highlights and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, oliof, Ben Lehman, ( o Y o ), Eliarhiman6, Troels, cydmab, Hendrik D..

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