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4/28/2007 Levi Kornelsen: [Prophets] Is my series going to get stale?
I have this LARP I'm running; it's very much based on design principles that are visible in theatresports and in a fistful of games from around these parts.  Game materials,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Troy_Costisick, Noon, Miskatonic, Blankshield.

10/12/2006 Levi Kornelsen: [The Exchange] Considering Revisions
So, since my last chat with Ron, I've been playing around with loose revision ideas for The Exchange, one of my little "freebie" game things.  You can see the second…
In Playtesting
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Alan, Ron Edwards, TonyLB.

9/22/2006 Levi Kornelsen: [The Pulse] Puzzling.
So.  This is something I spun off a few months ago, a playtest / demo kit for The Pulse, intending to expand it up to a full game one step…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, knicknevin, Graham Walmsley, sean2099.

9/21/2006 Levi Kornelsen: [Frostfolk, ] Carrying on
Note: This is a continuation of a conversation between Ron and myself.  If you'd like to look up the specific characters and situations, I'll be searching up a link and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Ron Edwards, Alan, Caldis, Melinglor.

8/2/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Kingdom question.
I've got a LOT of nieces, nephews, and cousins.  Many are of around the target age for this game. My extended family is very, very Christian, and *will* read anything…
In CRN Games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/31/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Frostfolk and GNS aggravation.
(Please note: I'm hoping to use this thread as the opening point of a discussion, rather than as a straight report). --- Of late, I've taken a lot of time…
In Actual Play
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Ron Edwards, r_donato, Precious Villain, Caldis, Christopher Kubasik, Melinglor.

5/10/2006 Levi Kornelsen: I got to be the audience.
Had a Dogs game last night where my players decided to have their characters sort out their internal problems.  They spent all night, and fought like... ...Well, like Dogs. I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Vaxalon, oreso, khelek, greyorm, Dev.

2/24/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Demo on Sunday... Need Characters
So.  Sunday, myself and and one of my players will be running demo games of Dogs at the grand opening of our newest FLGS.  We're expecting about 12-30 players over…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, cdr, ffilz.

2/22/2006 Levi Kornelsen: [The Pulse] Playtest Kit
Several of my other projects has undergo a kind of recombination, and are becoming a single project. That project is The Pulse. I've got a rough version of the playtest…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, Sempiternity, xenopulse.

2/4/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Little Details of your setting
The setting in Dogs gets fleshed up a little differently by each group that plays it, I think.  I'm going to put down some of the things my group has…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, TonyLB, Supplanter, Tindalos, Vaxalon, 14thWarrior, Alex Fradera, Andrew Morris, Transit, Warren, IMAGinES.

2/1/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Have theme, but no ideas.
One of my players has, as a character theme, the idea of inherited sin.  Also, his momma was a whore.  3d4. Next game is day-after-tomorrow. I want to put together…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Paka, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon.

1/20/2006 Levi Kornelsen: The Exchange
So, attempting to make notes on what a good narration-based version of several of my other rules sets would look like, I stumbled into writing a game engine. ...this is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Everspinner, Tommi Brander.

1/15/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Making the First Coat.
So, my GF and I are making some Dogs coats as costume for taking our game Live. ...Yes, real ones. For the first one (kind of a prototype dry-run), we…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Adam Biltcliffe, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, rrr, TheHappyAnarchist, Wolfen, lumpley, ladylakira, DainXB, faerieloch.

1/11/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Playing with Parables
My players and I want to generate some backstory for our Dogs game.  Specifically, we want to create some parables - "Sunday school stories", if you will.  So.  I have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Mike Sugarbaker, redivider, Graham Walmsley, komradebob, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, Matt.

1/10/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Building towards Live Dogs - Opening the Parlour
Okay.  So, my current playgroup is quite interested in taking the game Live-Action...  However. Actually, a whole lot of "however".  The biggest two are that out model for play will…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen.

1/9/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Fallout for improvised helpers?
I had a kind of running gunfight in my game last night, and ran it a little differently.  I'm aware that this doesn't fit the rules as written quite right,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, lumpley, TheHappyAnarchist, Julian.

1/9/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Scorched Earth in Crystalline
Yikes! Played this town last night - and my players ate it alive.  I kept Caedmon alive and and Heloise be sacrificed, as the tweaks I used. On the road…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, lumpley.

12/25/2005 Levi Kornelsen: A tentative rules structure for a Live Dogs game [Warning: Long]
Because these rules might wander into the general area of being, by it's very nature and the number of points of similarity, partly or wholly Vincent's property, I'm putting it…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, WhiteRat, Warren, Simon Kamber, Graham Walmsley, ladylakira.

12/18/2005 Levi Kornelsen: [DitV] The lights go on.
Three of my regular players made Dogs last night. It was easily among my top five game sessions of the year, and we did was make freaking characters. Here's the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, Calithena, Sydney Freedberg, Supplanter.

12/12/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Building a Tempted Dog
So, chatting with my players about "what this game is about", in preparation for making characters, a question came up. One of my players was curious about demons.  Specifically, he…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, Andrew Morris, nikola, Vaxalon, Pol Jackson, Aman the Rejected, Lxndr.

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