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2/22/2007 rycanada: Is another edition of PTA coming?
I was just wondering if PTA is essentially "done" or if there was going to be another edition.  There's a few things that I find kind of tricky in reading…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: rycanada, Matt Wilson.

2/22/2007 rycanada: Getting ready to run PTA for the first time (advice?)
So, either next weekend or shortly thereafter I'll be "running" a game of PTA for a motley crew of friends, gamers, and maybe a coworker or two.  I'm definitely going…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: rycanada, LeSingeSavant, Ben Lehman, Paka, Matt Wilson.

3/16/2007 rycanada: Great map I found for Trollbabe
Called Ravennia, by a guy that goes by Cergorach at EN World. http://www.thehelix.nl/RavenniaBlank72dpiMed.jpg
In Adept Press
Participants: rycanada, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2007 rycanada: Best of Trollbabe threads
I'm looking at Trollbabe really closely these days, and I really enjoy reading about peoples' experiences trying various twists on the rules and what techniques they use in play.  Could…
In Adept Press
Participants: rycanada, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

3/20/2007 rycanada: What happened to Deep in the Game?
I went back to bankeui.blogspot.com and it was just pointing at advertising.  I know the blog was over - but is it just gone now, or is it mirrored somewhere…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, Ben Lehman.

5/27/2007 rycanada: Thanks to the Forge
Strange how some things can work out. This post is about Legends, a fast-paced vanilla nar game I've used on and off for years, but which I'm now trying to…
In Playtesting
Participants: rycanada, Ron Edwards.

6/22/2007 rycanada: Games that use difference?
The quick version: What games have used the difference between the "attacker" and "defender" actions to resolve the damage or tilt the stakes?  Were there pitfalls to this approach? The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, Vanoj, Alan, VoidDragon, Age of Fable, Justin D. Jacobson.

6/27/2007 rycanada: D&D ran like an indie rpg - almost
This all happened at the York D&D Meetup, about 20 people were in attendance.  I recently got tired of developing my own system so I made sure to come out…
In Actual Play
Participants: rycanada, GregStolze, Narf the Mouse, sarendt, Ben S., Valvorik, James_Nostack, Hans.

7/26/2007 rycanada: Jamming as a group on descriptive qualities
I've had this idea in my head for a while.  Imagine a game where the players picked descriptive qualities, but before the game started the whole group jammed on what…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, David Artman.

7/31/2007 rycanada: Rules light magic that doesn't get wacky?
I've had a hard time with really rules-light magic.  My instincts say "say yes" but then things get out of hand quite quickly; the players veer away from the style…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, Chris_Chinn, Hans, Eero Tuovinen, Age of Fable, Valamir, vikingmage, Christoffer Lernö.

8/16/2007 rycanada: Something I always wanted to do but couldn't find the system for
I always wanted to run a campaign - not just a one-shot - where the players and I could take the roles of deity-like beings and build a campaign world. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, Vulpinoid, Justin Nichol - BFG, Eliarhiman6, Primordia, David Artman.

8/25/2007 rycanada: Rules Gimmicks for a scribe?
My wife, who loves to host and listen in on games but hates playing them (strange and wonderful at the same time) is very interested in scribing for a game…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2007 rycanada: Shut up and Tenet
I finally (finally finally finally) got a physical copy of Universalis (so I don't have to go off of my recollections of others games and a few handouts anymore).  I…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Valvorik.

9/7/2007 rycanada: Two questions
Does there exist a master flowchart for the game?  I'm working on one to get my head around the flow, it's going to be quite large (but helpful for my…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, hix, Trevis Martin, Valamir.

9/14/2007 rycanada: Universalis Flow Charts
Well, here they are.  This is as far as I'm going to take the concept until I have an actual play session coming up. I hereby pass yon torch to…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, Mike Holmes.

9/15/2007 rycanada: Cutting to the villains?
In PTA, how do you do a scene where you cut to the villain, he describes a maniacal plot to his crony, and then you cut back?
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: rycanada, jburneko, scottdunphy, Alan, oliof.

9/15/2007 rycanada: Producerless games?
Has anyone (besides Ronaldo at the Story Games forum) has played PTA without a producer?
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: rycanada, lighthouse, scottdunphy, twilight, Pyromancer, Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy, Filip Luszczyk.

9/16/2007 rycanada: Card-based
I did the search and read the old thread on this, but I have a different idea for making Coins and Dice into cards. Here's the deal:  Facedown cards are…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, twilight, Valvorik, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2007 rycanada: Free but not worthless
My last two projects (E6 and Raising the Stakes) have received a lot of attention, at least for free .pdfs (perhaps two dozen groups either running E6 games now or…
In Publishing
Participants: rycanada, jasonm, Justin D. Jacobson, David Artman, Ron Edwards, iago, xenopulse, rekyl, Grumpy, Thunder_God.

10/22/2007 rycanada: Two kinds of conflict - what does them well?
I was in a project management course last week and one of the catchphrase like sayings that the instructor was using really stuck in my brain. It was along the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, RobNJ, Conteur, VoidDragon, Valamir, Noclue.

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