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4/24/2007 Paul Czege: talking about ashcans, The Ashcan Front, and game design with Clyde L. Rhoer
Clyde and I had a very enjoyable and wide ranging conversation late last Friday evening at Forge Midwest that he recorded for his Theory From the Closet podcast. And it's…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

3/4/2007 Paul Czege: The Ashcan Front FAQ
Hey all, Matt Snyder and I are organizing a booth separate from the Forge booth for Gen Con this year. It will be a booth focused entirely on selling ashcans.…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Troy_Costisick, Mike Sugarbaker, daemonchild, Matt Snyder, Matt-M-McElroy, Kesher, Miskatonic, ptevis, Thor, chris_moore, thelostgm, somniturne, Mike Holmes, michael lingner, JasonWalters, Jason Walters.

2/23/2007 Paul Czege: excruciating
So last week I got a request from Michael S. Miller. Kat is working on a serial killer game. It's a cool concept, focusing on the investigation and the victims…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, c, Michael S. Miller.

1/26/2007 Paul Czege: Games Quarterly Catalog 62: The Great Purge
So, I've had Half Meme Press and <i>My Life with Master</i> in Games Quarterly Catalog since late 2004, using just the no-cost mini-listing. And I'm fairly certain that not a…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Justin D. Jacobson, Jake Richmond, guildofblades.

12/4/2006 Paul Czege: The Niche Engine (v. 0.1), for roleplaying that's about the setting
Hi all, Realizing that Frank Tarcikowski's 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge was formulated as just the right kind of stretch exercise for me--intimidating, because setting creation is by far the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paul Czege, Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, scorpio rising, David Artman, Calithena, Jared A. Sorensen, pells, Paul T.

12/1/2006 Paul Czege: The Rumors of My Master's Death...
After an unaccountable delay, the print edition of <i>My Life with Master</i> is again available. This run features a matte-laminated cover and the only revisions I've ever made to the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Marhault.

8/5/2006 Paul Czege: an attempt to deliver what the non-occultists need
I have posted a revised playtest rules text, with the following key changes: 1. Setting creation is streamlined, and no longer includes the creation of any NPCs. And the term…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Victor Gijsbers, Remko, hardcoremoose, timfire.

8/5/2006 Paul Czege: Acts of Evil, revised new evil playtest rules
[size=13pt][b]Acts of Evil[/b][/size] a roleplaying game of occult ambition by Paul Czege [color=Maroon][b]Introduction[/b][/color] Player characters are new initiates to an occult tradition devoted to aggressive and competitive pursuit of personal…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/3/2006 Paul Czege: what the non-occultists need
Playtesting has shown that non-occultist NPCs (Nobodies and Victims) don't emerge to capture our interest as protagonists in the narrative of play. As this was a primary design goal for…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, c.

6/13/2006 Paul Czege: [GenCon 2006] booth chairs
Last year's chair sponsorship program endowed us with twenty steel chairs, and saved us the non-trivial sum of money we'd have had to spend on renting cheap-ola chairs from the…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, abzu, btrc, Blankshield, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Keith Senkowski, Silent Tamatama, Tim C Koppang, Hans.

6/12/2006 Paul Czege: a scene of evil
Voyeurs of evil, I offer you this scene from the second session of the ongoing IRC playtest. The player character is Alexander Cherry's Heqa, who Alex has cast as the…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/5/2006 Paul Czege: character sheet contest: out sephiroth the designer
So I've been messing around with character sheet designs, taking graphical inspiration from the kabbalistic sephiroth and other occult and astrological sigils. And though I'm pretty pleased with how it's…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, chris_moore, c.

5/1/2006 Paul Czege: the evolution of evil
I'm interested in some conversation about the changes I've made to the rules. Of course I think they're improvements, that they make the game tighter, but I'm interested in doubts…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, chris_moore, c.

4/29/2006 Paul Czege: Acts of Evil, the new evil (revised playtest rules)
Alrighty, what we obviously need as basis for conversation and further playtesting is a game text as plain instructions, complete with all current rules in as few words as I…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

4/19/2006 Paul Czege: anyone interested in a small Keys project?
So, a few months ago I ran across the Skyknights RPG. And dang if the game's motivations wouldn't be an interesting fit if converted to TSOY Keys: http://www.skyknightsrpg.com/Ver2/motivation.htm Anyway, my…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paul Czege, Niko, Eero Tuovinen.

4/6/2006 Paul Czege: who's your unteacher
Western academic and corporate culture is infested with the idealization of a certain kind of mentorship: the mentor imparts skills and wisdom to the protege, who thereby develops and grows…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Thunder_God, Troy_Costisick, Matt Snyder, Brand_Robins, nikola, Calithena, Madheretic, Ben Lehman, Smithy, Frank T, Peter Nordstrand, droog, Graham Walmsley, Matt Wilson, joshua neff, Bryan Hansel, Doug Ruff, Gaerik, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

3/13/2006 Paul Czege: playtest at Forge Midwest
Anyone planning to attend Forge Midwest and interested in playtesting Acts of Evil during one of the Saturday slots? Paul
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, chris_moore, c, John Kirk.

2/19/2006 Paul Czege: needed: situation to start
After two sessions of playtest, I've been thinking Acts of Evil needs some kind of collaborative situation fabrication prior to play. (And Michael S. Miller's Arthurian enthusiasm post…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

1/30/2006 Paul Czege: cover experiment
Have a look. What do you think? (Eero, your brother Jari did the covers for your translations of My Life with Master and Dust Devils, didn't he? I'd be very…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Calithena, Victor Gijsbers, Eero Tuovinen, chris_moore.

1/26/2006 Paul Czege: fun with evil
This past sabbath day we kicked off a planned multi-session playtest of Acts of Evil. And what can I say...I like it. We only had time for two scenes with…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Victor Gijsbers, hardcoremoose, Calithena.

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5/4/2007 Paul Czege: [Chronicles of Babel] slaves in the hanging gardens
Well, the Sunday before Easter our occasional Sunday group was between games, and so I seized the day and ran a playtest of Paul Elliott's Chronicles of Babel. As a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Mithras, Noclue.

5/7/2007 Paul Czege: for the Acts of Evil ashcan: please fact-check my playtest history
One of the things that has me excited about doing an Acts of Evil ashcan is the opportunity it represents to really experiment with the form of a game text.…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, c, Eero Tuovinen, chris_moore.

5/18/2007 Paul Czege: the deadline for buying in to The Ashcan Front is Monday, June 4th.
Hey all, My mental tally of who's participating is the group of folks who've posted to this thread a couple of sentences describing the game they want to have as…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/21/2007 Paul Czege: the in absentia policy for having your game at The Ashcan Front booth
Hey all, Matt and I both want The Ashcan Front booth to support a small handful of folks (like maybe two or three) who can't, for whatever reason, be at…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

7/20/2007 Paul Czege: question about acrylic paint
I'm planning to do splatter painting and paint stamping with acrylic paint on the covers of my Acts of Evil ashcan books for Gen Con. And I've been thinking the…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, MatrixGamer, Darcy Burgess, David Artman.

8/1/2007 Paul Czege: the handicrafts of evil
So after Snyder leaked the very cool cover he designed for his 44 ashcan, I thought I'd follow through with a peek at what I'm doing for the Acts of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Nev the Deranged.

8/23/2007 Paul Czege: canned heat
At Gen Con The Ashcan Front moved 265 ashcans for feedback and playtesting, across 11 different games. A daily break-down: Thursday: 86 Friday: 40 Saturday: 50 Sunday: 89 Friday was…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Gregor Hutton.

8/24/2007 Paul Czege: how to buy the Acts of Evil ashcan
I have some left and just put up a page where you can order one if you'd like: http://www.halfmeme.com/buyevil.html Thanks, Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/8/2007 Paul Czege: [Infected] Children of the White Flies
Hey Eric, We playtested on Friday, September 28th. The playtest group was myself (as GM), Corinne Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my wife Danielle. We had fun, which isn't such a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Technocrat13, hardcoremoose.

1/10/2008 Paul Czege: My Life with Master: The Architecture of Protagonism
Hi all, The article I wrote about <i>My Life with Master</i> for <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083566">Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media</a> (MIT Press, 2007) is <a href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/protagonism">now up</a>…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

3/14/2008 Paul Czege: 72 Hours of Boinging
On Tuesday, Patrick Dugan posted a review of My Life with Master to Greg Costikyan's Play This Thing blog. The review was picked up by Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing blog…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, iago, Roger.

4/7/2008 Paul Czege: The Ashcan Front at Gen Con 2008
Hey all, Matt Snyder and I are organizing an Ashcan Front booth for Gen Con again this year. The main changes are: Gen Con raised its booth prices by quite…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, iago, alejandro, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Matt-M-McElroy, Justin D. Jacobson, Darcy Burgess, c.

6/17/2008 Paul Czege: who and what we're expecting at The Ashcan Front at Gen Con '08
Hey all, Here's who and what we're expecting at booth 2039: Ralph Mazza with Blood Red Sands Darcy Burgess with Black Cadillacs Justin Jacobson with Bullseye Grant Davis with Secrets…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/2/2008 Paul Czege: [The Rustbelt] Gen Con playtest feedback and questions
Hey Marshall, On the Thursday evening of Gen Con at The Embassy Suites I ran a playtest of The Rustbelt from your demo scenario, with Lance Allen, Tim Jensen, Kevin…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Krippler.

9/2/2008 Paul Czege: The Ashcan Front Gen Con 2008 post-mortem
This year The Ashcan Front had ten participating designers (plus Rob Bohl and Joshua A.C. Newman with ashcans on our shelves as part of our partnership with The Playcollective, and…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang.

9/15/2008 Paul Czege: the preservation of antagonism
I was thinking over the weekend about various ways that games preserve antagonism (in the form of significant antagonist NPCs) from untimely ruin. Of course not all games are concerned…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, agony, Eliarhiman6, Artanis, Michael S. Miller, Mel_White, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Frank Tarcikowski, jag, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, jburneko, contracycle, Thomas Lawrence, JoyWriter, Paul T, soundmasterj.

9/17/2008 Paul Czege: I got Craned at Origins
Luke Crane interviewed me at Origins this year as part of the Pelgrane Press See Page XX Interview Series he's been doing, and the interview <a href="http://www.pelgranepress.com/seepagexx/September2008-Luke.html">is now available</a> (along…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

11/26/2008 Paul Czege: [MSG] entering [++] and exiting [?] Situations
Hey Wood, I like MSG. I love the creative passion in your humor and writing. And I think the rush of player activity after the Company has explained the situation…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Wood.

12/18/2008 Paul Czege: [3:16] the betrayal of planet Girlfriend
I recently manufactured myself an opportunity to run 3:16, by prepping three planets prior to the December monthly open-house at a private boardgaming club, arranging to borrow some badass painted…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Thor, Eliarhiman6, Wolfen, Gregor Hutton, Pelgrane, agony, Graham Walmsley, greyorm, Valamir, matthijs, Tomas HVM, Ron Edwards, Noon, manatic.

12/22/2008 Paul Czege: use My Life with Master to introduce players to the hobby
Christian Lindke, in his December 17th <a href="http://cinerati.blogspot.com/2008/12/but-master-why-must-i-feed-children.html">review of <i>My Life with Master</i></a> on his pop culture blog Cinerati, suggests there's a difference between games "to use to introduce players"…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

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