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2/20/2007 Paka: Gamer: the Podcasting reviews Breaking the Ice
http://www.somniturne.com/gtp/GTP-E035.mp3
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Paka, Emily Care.

2/16/2007 Paka: [Dreamation] 1st Quest: World Tree Pack
[url=http://"http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?referrerid=&t=148797&highlight=world+tree+pack"]I had come up with the idea for the World Tree Pack in an old RPG.net thread inspired by Luke's Great Wolf lifepaths in the Monster Burner and it never…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, ShaneJackson, Thor Olavsrud, mtiru.

1/30/2007 Paka: [Dreamation '07] Dictionary of Mu
I ran the Dictionary of Mu for a few years while it was still just a word document with red ink on it.  It was at Dreamation that I met…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, ShaneJackson, James_Nostack, Uruush.

9/30/2006 Paka: Lions at the Gates, 3rd Session
This was the only game other than the pilot where it was no one spotlight episode.  I looked it at i on paper and was sure it would be a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Storn.

9/17/2006 Paka: The Season
After playing quite a few PTA one-shots and having a grand ole time at it, we've finally sat down to play a PTA season and I get to play, rather…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, Matt Wilson, Storn, Bret Gillan.

8/28/2006 Paka: Dictionary of Mu Available @ Indie Press Revolution
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=3506.msg33348#msg33348%22"]Four years since the first post where the idea was spawned[/url], the Dictionary of Mu, a setting supplement for Sorcerer, is now available at [url=http://www.indiepressrevolution.com"]Indie Press Revolution[/url]. Inspired by Howard's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, cpeterso, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, iago.

8/25/2006 Paka: Writing a Dictionary: so many people to thank
Inspired by: Brennan's Mortal Coil: From Concept to Product Thor's Making of Burning Empires One , Two.  ]Three. Four. and Five The Dictionary of Mu began with this: I am…
In Publishing
Participants: Paka, iago, Keith Senkowski, Andrew Craig, abzu, RobNJ, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Paka: Mortal Coil presents, Live in New Amsterdam, Flaming Taft!
Come Saturday night I was pretty beat.  My Forge Booth hat and the Sons of Kryos hat had both been immensely rewarding but had taken its toll.  On top of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, inthisstyle, GB Steve, nikola, c, LeSingeSavant, ptevis, RobNJ.

8/19/2006 Paka: Gave it a Go
It hasn't felt like I played yet; it felt like we gave it a go. When I read games, I have to read them over once or more, go play…
In one.seven design
Participants: Paka, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, Bret Gillan, Valamir.

8/3/2006 Paka: Gen Con Booth Newbie Visualization
I am trying to picture this weekend a little bit.  Allow me to visual here and let me know where I am off. I will arrive at the convention center…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, abzu, RobNJ, Justin D. Jacobson.

7/22/2006 Paka: The disappearance and re-appearance of Galileo Press forum
If I am not signed in, I can't see it.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paka.

7/22/2006 Paka: The Mortal Coil Weekend
[url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6058967#post6058967"]It has begun.[/url] This game absolutely rocks. If I had to travel from con to con, known as the GM-With-No-Name, I'd have to travel light.  I'd have PTA, Dogs in…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.

7/18/2006 Paka: The Dictionary of Mu at Dexcon 2006
The proof was in my hands and there is no better con to first show it around.  Dexcon and Dreamation have been important places for the Dictionary of Mu but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Andrew Morris, iago, RobNJ, Smithy.

7/17/2006 Paka: Dexcon 2006
When I first showed up to Dreamation in 2005 I had played a few indie RPG's but hadn't met that many of you all and if I did, it was…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, Jared A. Sorensen, Avie, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, Salvius, abzu, RobNJ, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Shawn De Arment, Gaerik, Thomas D, dpetroski, Helvetian.

6/2/2006 Paka: Quote from R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before
I'm only 74 pages into this novel and I'm not sure if I dig it yet. But this quote needed to be posted on this board, so here it is:…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Nev the Deranged, Calithena.

5/22/2006 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The End of Vault
I'm really great at running a one-shot that everyone wants to keep on playing.  A few pick up and play games among my friends have become years long campaigns, serendipity,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jim DelRosso, abzu, Storn.

5/15/2006 Paka: [Afraid] PC Nightmare
Who was at the table: Me:  I feel like the playtest of Luke's secret project filtered into this, in that the GM has this really well defined role as the…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paka, Marhault, lumpley, Ilmryn, Mark Woodhouse.

5/7/2006 Paka: Afraid: Madame Lamara Keene: Devourer of Dreams
A woman who reads people's dreams and tells them what they mean.  She loves hearing about their dreams.  She is a liar and a con artist but she truly loves…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Vaxalon, Rob MacDougall, Rustin.

5/5/2006 Paka: Burning Wheel: Elf vs. Orc
So, it is the weekly Burning Wheel group.  Excuse me while I kvell a bit. We took time off to playtest Luke's Sooper Seekrit Project but found out that one…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Storn, agony, taepoong.

4/18/2006 Paka: Ben and Tony, Stay Away: Blood Simple Play by Post kickers and bangs
I exchanged some e-mails with Tony and talked about play by post role-playing and he really did try to talk me out of it but still, we are and the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

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9/13/2007 Paka: [Shock:] The Collections Agent, the President of Earth and the Revolutionary
I knew that my roommates, Bret and Jeff (not Jeff "Sons of Kryos" Lower, a different Jeff) would be down for some Shock:, a game I was eager to play…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Bret Gillan, xenopulse, drnuncheon, Yokiboy.

12/20/2007 Paka: B to the W to the G to the N to the S
For whatever reason, I'm thinking about incoherence after an IM chat with Paul: Play which includes incompatible combinations of Creative Agendas among participants. Incoherent play is considered to contribute to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

1/28/2008 Paka: [Dreamation 2008] Shock: Overflow - The Clone Civil Wars
Joshua got a bunch of overflow for his Saturday night Shock: game and rather than turn people away he set up three other fellas to set up games.  We grabbed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Mel_White, JoeStanton, nikola, Dave Cleaver, lumpley.

2/26/2008 Paka: Learning to Game
I was IMing with Thor about different generations of gamers and how they learned to game and it made me think about how I learned to play RPG's.  This isn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Valamir, buzz, Nev the Deranged, greyorm, Ilmryn, Michael S. Miller, Kevin Smit.

3/7/2008 Paka: Amazing Series of Sorcerer Threads on SG
Links below: Conflict Subtleties http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5945&page=1#Item_15 Conflict & Inanimate Objects http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5952&page=1#Item_0 Social Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5950&page=1#Item_13 Sorcery as Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5956&page=1#Item_1 System & Narrative http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5955&page=1#Item_3
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Eliarhiman6, jburneko, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Yokiboy, greyorm.

8/20/2008 Paka: Dark Pages Imprint: Zeppelin City Set-up
A few friends of mine are moving back into town and I was excited to read that DarkPages prefers a GM and one or two players.  I have been enjoying…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paka, Jared A. Sorensen, Spooky Fanboy.

10/2/2008 Paka: Solar System's Demons: Sorcerer Science Fiction
The setting is the colonized solar system.  Pluto and some robot probes on Charon are as far as we've gotten.  Space travel is slow and clunky.  When you go to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Melinglor.

10/7/2008 Paka: How do you award Bonus Dice for role-playing?
I am not looking for an official ruling but am looking for different ways and methods folks use to award players Bonus Dice for role-playing.  I am re-reading the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski.

11/22/2008 Paka: Sorcerer Sci-fi: Demons of Mercury
I've got a bunch of Sorcerer setting ideas that I want to tinker with and this latest, set a few hundred years in the future, in a recently colonized solar…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, davidberg.

12/5/2008 Paka: The Last Watchdog Over the Faithful
A solo campaign in a wild west that never was and has moved on, starting off in a ghost-town called Bridal Falls, winding through what is left of the Desert…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, agony, Brand_Robins, Graham Walmsley, jefgodesky.

2/24/2009 Paka: Agon: The Kleos Cup, Dreamation '09
Ever since reading Agon I have thought it was tailor-made for convention tournaments, like competitive deals that you read about as jokes in Knights of the Dinner Table only in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, jefgodesky, Mel_White, John Harper, Valamir, Nathan P..

3/4/2009 Paka: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
I am late to the party, having just finished it tonight but man-oh-man is it a Sorcerer setting. The Sorcerers and their demons are pretty clearly spelled out. The demons…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, M. J. Young, LandonSuffered.

3/7/2009 Paka: The Slaughter at Corinthton, a Dogs in the Vineyard game
It was one of those Fridays where the regular game fell through but we knew it far enough ahead of time so that we could pick up the pieces and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, James_Nostack, Queen_of_Kryos, Noon, Eliarhiman6.

3/31/2009 Paka: Two Games When PTA Either Didn't Work or Only Kinda Worked
A few games of PTA have fallen really flat and I just wanted to take a gander at them. The most obvious one first: I hate television When someone says…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, exedore6, LeSingeSavant.

5/22/2009 Paka: Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things
I read a cute graphic novel called Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things by Ted Naifeh and it was adorable.  It had a spunky protagonist, a mysterious uncle, vapid yuppie…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, zediekiel.

5/29/2009 Paka: Revised Questions
I am reading over the revised edition and I like many of the changes, particularly the change of Magic Tokens for one-shots...very nice. We are thinking about a modern magic…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.

9/17/2009 Paka: Sorcerer 2289: Technological Demons in the Science Fiction Solar System
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.0]I posted this thread a while back. [/url] But nothing has come of it for a long while and I just [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28726.0;topicseen]saw this thread [/url]and listened to [url=http://glyphpress.com/talk/category/olmag/]Rob and Joshua…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, weaselheart.

9/19/2009 Paka: Wanting to Game with My Dad
My dad introduced me to science fiction, fantasy and comic books.  Growing up, I cannot remember a time when he didn't have a science fiction novel on his night table…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Noon.

3/6/2010 Paka: The Looking Glass, the Cyclone, the Wardrobe and the Second Star to the Right
What happens to those kids who have been to otherworlds when they grow up? One sorcerous theory: http://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/the-looking-glass-the-cyclone-the-wardrobe-and-the-second-star-to-the-right/
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, greyorm, The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2010 Paka: Down with Paka
Could my name be changed from Paka to Judd without too much trouble?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paka, lumpley.

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