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3/16/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session Three
Last night my group wrapped up the Grey Ranks playtest with session three.  I'm am happy to report that they tore into it like starving hyenas and I saw some…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Valamir, segedy, Bryan Hansel, andrew_kenrick, GreatWolf.

3/9/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session Two
We had our second session last night and it went great.  It covered chapters four, five, and six, 2-7 August 1944, the high water mark of the Uprising.  Everyone returned…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, segedy.

3/6/2007 jasonm: [Contenders] New York, 1913
Clinton, Remi and I decided to play Contenders, based on our extremely positive play experience at Gen Con and the fun I had running it later at a local con. …
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, Caesar_X, Dantai, ShaneJackson, LeSingeSavant, Uruush.

3/2/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session One
I'm facilitating a local playtest of Grey Ranks and we had our first session last night.  The four players are members of my regular, long-time game group, and are all…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, madirishman, GreatWolf, Bryan Hansel.

2/26/2007 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Diagnosis playtest
So I'm working on this game called Medical Hospital.  The core conceit is that players create their own medicine-themed story by mashing together various mini-games, each of which takes 5-10…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Bryan Hansel, BabbageCliologic, Simon C.

2/21/2007 jasonm: Interview with Sons of Kryos
I got interviewed by the Sons of Kryos at Dreamation.  Thanks, Judd and Jeff!  My bit starts 34 some minutes in.
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Paka.

2/21/2007 jasonm: Blood Saga of the Viking Instructional Technologists
The other day I had an academic job interview.  They asked me to put together a presentation and teach them something, preferably in a hands-on way.  Being an inveterate geek,…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Ben S..

1/30/2007 jasonm: What-the-Hell-Con 2007
I've never been but it sounds great.  Greg Stolze will be there and has a pair of panels about game design and publishing.  There will be fire dancers as well,…
In Conventions
Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, GregStolze.

1/29/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Dreamation Playtests
If you played Grey Ranks at Dreamation I particularly invite your feedback here! I ran two sessions of Grey Ranks at Dreamation 2007, Friday and Saturday from 9AM to 1PM. …
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Bret Gillan, RobNJ, Mel_White, phredd, Emily Care.

1/19/2007 jasonm: [TSoY] Princess Hralroolimi's Betrayal
I ran my TSoY Bunnies and Burrows hack as a one-shot last night and it rocked the house.  We started from scratch - I had a little map and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm.

1/18/2007 jasonm: Watership TSoY
Hey friends, I'm going to use TSoY to run a Bunnies and Burrows event at Camp Nerdly One.* Here's a .pdf of the Abilities, Secrets, and Keys I'll be using. …
In CRN Games
Participants: jasonm, segedy, Clinton R. Nixon, crowyhead.

1/10/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Oakland Playtest
Mike Montesa organized a Grey Ranks playtest in California (I'll let the participants out themselves if they want to).  I asked for permission to re-post comments and suggestions I received;…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Mike Montesa, Paul Strack, Mychal.

1/2/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] The Thing You Hold Dear
OK, I need to make an important change in Grey Ranks (one of the last, I hope!) and I'd like some feedback.  Right now each character has a Thing They…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Hans, segedy.

12/30/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Act II Playtest
Steve, Clinton and I ran through Act II (Scenes 4, 5, and 6) of Grey Ranks today.  It went very well and exposed some interesting soft spots. Steve played Alicja…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, segedy.

12/13/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Collective Mission rolls
So in Grey Ranks, you've got a collective Mission in each Scene.  It's framed by a Mission Leader, which is a role that rotates from player to player per Scene. …
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Malcolm, two_fishes, Graham Walmsley, redivider.

12/13/2006 jasonm: Indexing
Hey friends, My next game is going to need an index.  Please give me advice on how to make that happen - can we leverage the tools in InDesign to…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, nystul, segedy, David Artman, GreatWolf, MatrixGamer, abzu, selvi.

12/3/2006 jasonm: [Business Solutions] First Playtest
Me, Shane, Ian and Andy playtested a little game I’m working on today.  It is called Business Solutions, and it is a comedic trifle about the lives and loves of…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Isbo, ShaneJackson.

12/3/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Playtesting Thread
I'm starting to playtest Grey Ranks, so if you are interested in that project check here for updates, as well as the BPG site and the Forge playtesting forum.  Here's…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

12/3/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Mechanical Playtest
Me, Shane, Ian and Andy had a day of playtesting today, and I’ll be posting about the two games we kicked around separately.  We set it up as a sort…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards.

11/29/2006 jasonm: Alphagraphics and card printing
Hey all, Just an update on Bully Pulpit Games and card printing - for The Roach we have a little deck of 40 cards that ship with the book, and…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, segedy, nikola, Troy_Costisick, Mike Sugarbaker, iain, daMoose_Neo.

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4/1/2007 jasonm: Roach LARP at KublaCon
If you're going to KublaCon in Burlingame, California, consider playing in the world's first Roach LARP. I can't wait to see how it turns out!  Anybody planning on attending?
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Caesar_X.

4/3/2007 jasonm: Roach Questions from Virginia
Thanks to Our Virginian Cousin for these: What happens if you drop to 0 reputation.  You've got nothing to wager, so can you still have a scene? "If you are…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

5/7/2007 jasonm: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Nauvoo Legion at Nerdly
This was probably the most interesting game I played at Camp Nerdly this past weekend, in terms of content.  Dave Y. ran a session of Dogs that was solidly grounded…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, foucalt, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Morris, lumpley, Brand_Robins, David Artman, spaceanddeath.

5/10/2007 jasonm: Minibooks
(cross-posted over at Story Games) I was reading a book about making zines (yeah, irony) and one of the formats it talked about was the minibook, a 32 page zine…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Thenomain, David Artman, Adam SBG, Grumpy, brainwipe, HighmoonMedia.

5/11/2007 jasonm: [TSOY] With Players New and Old
Remi was recently asked by some of the improvisers in his performing company to show them what roleplaying is all about.  He ended up running PTA for a few of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant.

6/8/2007 jasonm: [Ashes] Modeling Fight-or-Flight
So I'm working on this project that requires characters to constantly either run for their lives or fight tooth and nail.  Here's what I'm thinking: I’m imagining this as a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jasonm, hix, Darcy Burgess, David Artman.

6/17/2007 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Comedy of (Copier) Errors
Joel, Lisa, and Jon played Business Solutions yesterday at Mayacon, Andy Kitkowski's house-con devoted to playtesting.  Lisa posts around here as Urbanpagan.  Joel's in my weekly TSoY group.  Jon is…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Ben Lehman.

6/18/2007 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Arts and Crafts
I got to playtest Medical Hospital, my game about medicine and hospitals, ay Mayacon last Saturday.  It was pretty interesting.  Medical Hospital is going to be a modular game with…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Aman the Rejected.

7/10/2007 jasonm: [PTA] Deep in the Blue, Season Two
We started a second season of our PTA game (first season write-up is here).  That was over a year ago!  In the interim we've played a lot of games, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Matt Wilson, JoeStanton, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/22/2007 jasonm: [PTA] Chubby and Tubby's
Me, Remi, Mark, and Andy went to Go Play Southeast this weekend and, faced with a five hour car ride, decided to put it to good use playing Prime Time…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm.

7/24/2007 jasonm: Product Updates
[i]The Roach Returns[/i] is back from the printers (for the second time!) and looks great.  It'll premier at Gen Con and be available through IPR soon after.  This is a…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

8/3/2007 jasonm: [Gen Con 2007] Demo Planning
Hey, can we talk about our Forge booth demos?  Can we lay down the law regarding length and format?  How about pinning down the particulars of a pre-show demo session?…
In Conventions
Participants: jasonm, iago, Kevin Allen Jr, GreatWolf, btrc, GregStolze, Gregor Hutton, TomTancredi, Tim C Koppang, Robotech_Master, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2007 jasonm: BPG at Gen Con
Hey friends, The entire Bully Pulpit Games crew will be at Gen Con again this year, so please stop by the Forge booth and say hello if you are attending!…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Hans.

8/22/2007 jasonm: Gen Con post-mortem
Hey, let's talk about lessons learned and what we can do to improve the experience - by all measures - next year.  Also, let's celebrate!  I think everybody had a…
In Conventions
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, GreatWolf, Justin D. Jacobson, iago, abzu, Emily Care, Denise, Blankshield, Jasper the Mimbo, inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, GregStolze, Rob Donoghue, btrc, JustinB, Valamir, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, JasonWalters, Sydsquicious, TomTancredi, segedy, RobNJ, jrs.

9/6/2007 jasonm: Grey Ranks at Gateway
There's a nice thread about the Grey Ranks games at Strategicon in LA recently here.
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

9/8/2007 jasonm: [Contest] The Sight and Sound Game Design Challenge
I'm hosting the The Sight and Sound Game Design Challenge.  It's just me and a secret panel of judges doing this for fun, and I hope you'll consider taking part.…
In Endeavor
Participants: jasonm.

10/16/2007 jasonm: [Viking Con] A Day in the Life
On Friday night at Viking Con, me, Brian, Olle, and Luisa played Mikkel Baekgaard’s scenario A Day in the Life, run by Mikkel.  Thanks to my lack of Danish, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, pfischer, FredGarber, fjj, Jonas Karlsson, Sanne Harder Flamant.

12/9/2007 jasonm: [Business Solutions] "Delbert LeMond, you're fired"
So I playtested Business Solutions today.  The game has been developing in fits and starts for a while now, but it's picking up speed.  I wanted to run through the…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant.

1/10/2008 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Three Ladies
I got a chance to playtest Business Solutions last night with my regular Wednesday night group.  We were down by two due to childbirth and sickness respectively, so three guys…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, GreatWolf.

2/14/2008 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Update
Hey, if you are following Business Solutions at all, it's almost done.  It's out for an additional round of playtesting now.  If you aren't following Business Solutions, it's a game…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

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