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5/4/2007 Peter Nordstrand: Playingcardsonly/playingcardsindia
Hi there! Long time no see. I've been preoccupied with ... things. Nevermind. Here's the question Have any of you used, or considered using, playingcardsindia.com (apparently they are the same…
In Publishing
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, cambridgegames, Thenomain, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, darnest.

4/29/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Anal Retentive Me
Hi, Is bumping old threads permitted in Connections? I am asking because I have seen it done several times with no moderator visibly moderating. I'm just, you know, wondering. Peace,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Entering Convention Mode
Hi Roach-players, I am hoping to play the Roach a lot this friday on GothCon. It is a drop-in event, and I intend to attract hordes of innocent players. At…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Alex Fradera, jasonm, Technocrat13, LeSingeSavant, Sydney Freedberg.

4/4/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Breaking News: The Nordic Tradition is a Lie
I'm going to tell you straight up: There is no "Nordic tradition", or whatever those Fins and that Norwegian guy Erik Flatsomething is talking about. I know, this is probably…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, rafial, Bryan Hansel, Shreyas Sampat, c, Valamir, greyorm, Miskatonic, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Ben Lehman, talysman, matthijs, Merten, Thunder_God.

3/29/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Roaring Drunk
Hi there, If you resist the Roach, you cannot act on the Opportunity of the Card you drew for the current Event. Makes sense. He narrates…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, jasonm, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, segedy.

3/19/2006 Peter Nordstrand: The Uchtman Factor: An Overview
See the end of this post for specific questions. The Uchtman Factor The Uchtman Factor is a narration game for three players and one game master. Players take turns playing…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Artanis, Mister Six, c, Ken, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm, Czar Fnord, Thunder_God.

3/9/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Day of Dupes 3
[b]Previous threads[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18564.0]Character generation[/url] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18712.0]First play session[/url] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18833.0]Second session[/url] See our [url=http://nordstrand.pbwiki.com/]wiki[/url] for character sheets and … stuff. [b]General Observations[/b] I didn't prep a lot this time. I came up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Lisa Padol, Jonas Karlsson.

2/24/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Sweden: A Study Course in Gaming
Hi, If you want to study games full time for two years and live in Sweden, check out this link (in Swedish). It is a course for people who want…
In Connections
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, LordSmerf.

2/22/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Day of Dupes 2
We are playing the Day of Dupes scenario from Sorcerer's Soul. Previous threads: Character Generation, Session 1. Go to our wiki, for complete player character and demon writeups, as well…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Combatr combat combat
Hi there, I'm going to put up a couple of combat examples here to discuss or study. I'm having a devil of a time figuring rollover…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Julian, Ron Edwards, Paka, Valamir, ubergeek2012, ijonchrist, Hisho, angelfromanotherpin.

2/12/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer]Day of Dupes
Previous threads regarding this game can be found here and here. Also, check out our wiki, to see complete player character and demon writeups as well as the current version…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Jonas Karlsson, Lisa Padol, bcook1971.

1/30/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Day of Dupes]Post-Chargen Question
[b][color=Maroon]Important: Jonas, Johan, and Kristoffer, this thread is not for you. Please go away.[/color][/b] Everyone else, please stay. I have some specific question this time. We've finished chargen for our…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, Roger.

1/22/2006 Peter Nordstrand: La Journée des Dupes
I've wanted to run a game using Day of Dupes from Sorcerer's Soul ever since I first read the scenario. I just couldn't quite figure out how to handle it.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

10/11/2005 Peter Nordstrand: My Life with My Life with Master
I'm playing the game on wednesday. Three players are expected join me (including Jonas Karlsson, who I am looking forward to meeting for the first time). Questions: The guidelines for…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G., Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Nev the Deranged, Eero Tuovinen.

9/24/2005 Peter Nordstrand: [Guilt and Frustration]
Welcome to the first thread about Guilt and Frustration. This first post will be a general introduction to the game. Following posts will include specific questions. You can download the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Jasper, tygertyger.

3/2/2005 Peter Nordstrand: Practices, Traditions and other Animist Terminology
Mike and I began discussing the animist rules in this thread. I don't want to hijack Jesse's Eberron HeroQuest topic, so I started a new topic. Hi Mike, You need…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Mike Holmes, James Holloway, Der_Renegat, Bryan_T.

2/8/2005 Peter Nordstrand: [HeroQuest]A Hero's Dilemma: Session 1
First session of my new HeroQuest campaign is over. I'll bring up a few points. The Players Johan was in my Well of Souls game, my Sorcerer game and has…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, Mandacaru, Ron Edwards.

1/30/2005 Peter Nordstrand: Good Mike -- Bad Mike
I saw that Mike Holmes' has put up another piece of narrator advice on Issaries' website: http://www.glorantha.com/support/na_heresies.html These are nine very good points (although some of them would probably benefit…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, soru, Bankuei, Brand_Robins, Scripty, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2005 Peter Nordstrand: [HeroQuest]A Hero's Dilemma: Prep and chargen
[list]"How can this be healed?" asked Orlanth. "It cannot be," Chalana said. "This is a grief without limits. There can be no balancing in this, only sorrow."[/list:u]Here follows a brief…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, cappadocius, Mike Holmes, newsalor, Different Games.

1/2/2005 Peter Nordstrand: Hero Points for Scene Framing
Hi, Ordinarily I tend to remove rules from HeroQuest when playing. The core rules are such a well-oiled and beautiful machinery that additions, such as the redundant Wealth rules or…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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11/23/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] Character Generation
I am designing this game. It is called While We Were Fighting. I've scheduled two playtest sessions next week with different groups. Problem is that character generation is flawed. I'll…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, hix.

11/27/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] A Bad Day for the Gherardini Family
I've had a first playtest of While We Were Fighting. (See this thread for first thoughts on character generation.) Over all the playtest went very well. I had a lot…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, hix, Måns.

12/22/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting]A Board Roleplaying Game
Is While We Were Fighting (see here and here) a boardgame or a roleplaying game? Apparently this is something that makes a lot of people nervous. As if there was…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

2/22/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] Scene Framing the Renaissance
So we played While We Were Fighting at OmniCon, and it went really well. (See footnote for a description of WWWF.) I learned a lot from this session, but I'll…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Marshall Burns, Anders.

3/25/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] GM Dice Pool
[i]While We Were Fighting[/i] is a game about powerful people intriguing in a fictional Italian renaissance city. It is a decidedly narrativist game, drawing inspiration from such perennial favourites as…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Anders, Marshall Burns.

5/10/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Mind Games
Måns wanted to play Sorcerer, so I called Johan, and the three of us got together last Tuesday for character generation. Måns had mentioned Philip K. Dick, and I came…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, pfischer.

8/13/2008 Peter Nordstrand: While We Were Fighting — Ties of Blood?
I have friends whose excellent and very funny cardgame Spank the Monkey turned out to be almost unsellable in the US, while it is a great commercial success in the…
In Publishing
Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

10/12/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] Sodomizing the Renaissance
I played While We Were Fighting at Stockholms spelkonvent. (Yes, the game is still called While We Were Fighting.) I played with a group of four young men, all in…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Tunnels & Trolls advice
I'm about to start a Tunnels & Trolls campaign. I've wanted to try it out ever since Ron published his actual play reports a few years back. We are aiming…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Ante, rafial, Noon, Finarvyn, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Prepping Tunnels & Trolls
I am preparing a Tunnels & Trolls game for the first time, trying to follow the good advice I got in the thread apltly named Tunnels & Trolls advice. Are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Noon, Ante.

10/23/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Traits in While We Were Fighting
I've thought a bit about how traits are used in While We Were Fighting (here's the link, but don't tell anyone), especially after reading the thread called "Can someone explain…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Noon, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting]Playtesting With Strangers
I've done a number of playtests with strangers, people at conventions that ended up playing my game without really knowing anything about it. I've discovered a few things that seem…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Altaem.

11/4/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Lovecraft, copyrights, trademarks, and other horrors
If I wanted to make a game based on Lovecraft's fiction, could I do that? Or are his stories still covered by copyrights? What about trademarks and such, such as…
In Publishing
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Dementia Games, Graham Walmsley, Pelgrane.

11/21/2008 Peter Nordstrand: While We Were Fighting Q&A
Altaem (what's your name?) asked me some questions about While We Were Fighting in another thread: Do player characters gain resources by stealing them from each other, or are NPCs…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Altaem.

12/18/2008 Peter Nordstrand: While We Were Fighting Video Chat Demo
I am thinking about running a short demo of While We Were Fighting, and am looking for participants. It will be a video chat, and I intend to record the…
In Connections
Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

1/17/2009 Peter Nordstrand: Mechaton Heaven?
I saw this article at Film Roster and immediately thought of Mechaton. ”Mark Borlase has built a 5' x 10' Hoth base diorama consisting of between 55,000 to 60,000 pieces…
In lumpley games
Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

4/14/2009 Peter Nordstrand: Instructing many people
Hi Ron, I believe that on at least one occasion, you have taught Spione to many people at once. They were then divided into smaller groups to play the game.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

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