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3/16/2007 Caesar_X: [1001 Nights] The Sultan's Favor
I hosted a game of Meg Baker's excellent '1001 Nights' at our Thursday night Story Gaming at EndGame this week.  I will start by saying that the players were unanimous…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Meguey.

3/11/2007 Caesar_X: [Cat] Meredith's Big Night Out
One of my gaming goals for 2007 is to expose more non-gamers to Story Gaming in an attempt to understand more about what excites them from a gaming perspective.  So…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Noon, komradebob.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen (part two)
After the group killed "Train", several of them put on the uniforms of the SS Major and the two corporals they had killed and started walking up the road towards…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen minicon game
Last weekend at the EndGame Oakland Minicon I ran a modified version of The Mountain Witch in a 4-hour time slot for six players.  This was my first con game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

12/31/2006 Caesar_X: [The Princes' Kingdom] Playing with the niece and nephew (long but interesting)
For Xmas I gave The Princes' Kingdom to my 10-year old nephew, Sam.  To be honest, it was initially set aside in favor of PSP games and a clock radio…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Yokiboy.

12/6/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Gold Rush bareknuckle part 2
Tonight we got together to continue the story of bareknuckle boxing in 'Gold Rush'-era San Francisco.  I was pretty excited as I had played more recently in a 17th Century…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

11/27/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Flash of the Blades
I staked out a table on a cold and rainy Sunday at EndGame in Oakland and waited to see if anyone from the local gaming group would show up for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Mel_White, cpeterso, Dantai, andrew_kenrick, David Artman.

11/17/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Gold Rush bareknuckle
This week we got together for an eagerly awaited session of Contenders, Joe J Prince's boxing RPG.  This was only my second GM-less game (after The Shab-al-Hiri Roach), so I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, cpeterso, rafial, Dantai.

11/11/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Dry run generates some rules questions
I'm really looking forward to playing Contenders this upcoming week.  So coffee mug in hand and 'Eye of the Tiger' on the stereo, I sat down this morning to generate…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, rafial, Gregor Hutton, Malcolm.

10/28/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Traits and desperate acts
After analyzing my Touch of Noir playtest from the other night (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21915.0), I realized that I wanted to see character traits more defined during play instead of simply during character…
In Playtesting
Participants: Caesar_X, iain, JustinB, c, anders_larsen, Noon, Paul T.

10/25/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] The seedy underbelly
I finally got a chance to do a full playtest of the draft rules of 'Touch of Noir' tonight and I got some great information!  We broke the rules and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Caesar_X, cpeterso.

10/12/2006 Caesar_X: [Close Encounters] The 90-min RPG
This idea just came out of me tonight while I was trying to muddle my way through the Polaris rulebook in a reclined position.  As my mind wandered, I started…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, andrew_kenrick, TroyLovesRPG, Narf the Mouse, Call Me Curly, cpeterso.

9/24/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Bidding to define conflict resolution
In the Film Noir game I've been working on, I've been thinking more about how to define player vs. player conflict resolution.  Each character has certain stats such as "Face"…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, JustinB, Artanis, joepub, TroyLovesRPG.

9/20/2006 Caesar_X: [MLWM] Gloria Deschampes
My group had our first session of My Life With Master last night.  None of us had played the game before, so it was a trial of fire.  Overall I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Paul Czege, JJTMM.

8/23/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Plot and the Relationship Map
Last night I got together with my good friend (and long-time RPG player) Mark MacVicar to play through some of the concepts I have been working on for “Touch of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Caesar_X, Ron Edwards.

6/29/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Accumulated Guilt and The Downfall
"Shared guilt is often the only common bond amongst noir characters" (from this essay on the elements of noir): http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html I read the above quote again today and remembered a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, Zathreyel, oreso.

6/13/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Early draft of Noir rules
You can read the early draft of my Noir rules and game notes here: http://groups.google.com/group/Noir_RPG Noir is a story game that concentrates on the noir genre in film and literature. …
In Endeavor
Participants: Caesar_X, Jared A. Sorensen, Justin D. Jacobson, Andy Kitkowski, Krystalex, apeiron.

6/8/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Gameplay example to talk about mechanics (long)
I read a good Forge post recently that said a good way to start a game design was to imagine a game session and actually write it out.  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=1896.0 So…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, joepub, efindel, Czar Fnord.

6/2/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Flashback mechanics
I've just started work on a game to capture the flavor of Film Noir like The Maltese Falcon and LA Confidential.  One of the early mechanics I wanted to include…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, Adam Dray, jasonm, Czar Fnord, Dumirik.

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4/4/2007 Caesar_X: [PTA] TV Tropes Wiki
<Cross-posting from Story-Games> I was going through my del.icio.us subscriptions feed and saw that someone posted a site called TV Tropes. I've only taken a quick look, but this could…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Caesar_X, Matt Wilson.

8/20/2007 Caesar_X: [The Naked City] Prototype using index cards for scene generation
I returned from my honeymoon eager to get moving with The Naked City: a Game of Film Noir.  I've been working on this game off and on for almost a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Caesar_X, SpinachBaron, GreatWolf.

8/30/2007 Caesar_X: [Best Friends] Hard Times in Loveless Gulch
(cross-posted from S-G) Last night Malcolm Craig visited EndGame in Oakland, and some folks sat down for a pick-up game of Best Friends. This was the first time for all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Ron Edwards, komradebob, Gregor Hutton.

6/13/2008 Caesar_X: [IAWA] In a Noir Age
Tonight, Chris P., Robert and I sat down to playtest using IAWA with Film Noir content, since that is one of my big interests. Please note that this is not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

10/27/2008 Caesar_X: [DitV] Questions from a first-time GM
I ran Dogs for the first time this weekend, and had a fun time. But ended up with some questions about confusing issues or where I thought I might have…
In lumpley games
Participants: Caesar_X, Noclue, Warren, lumpley.

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