Previous Topics 8/29/2007 Meguey: [In A Wicked Age] Chapter 1: The Prophet of No Self Control, plus strawberries
Ever have one of those characters that's so unlike your regular characters that it's totally freeing? That's what I got last night. Vincent's game in the works, In A Wicked…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis, Emily Care, Anders, Parthenia, tonyd, lumpley, Marhault, GreatWolf, Archer5280, Kairos, The Bane, John Harper.
8/27/2007 Meguey: What the YLQs are up to
I had a really great clarifying conversation about YLQ last week. It's not just a fluffy game, it's got some meat at the depths. Now I have to pretty much…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
8/21/2007 Meguey: [Poison'd] Not quite outrunning the King's ships
Vincent, Emily and I sat down to play Vincent's new game, <a href="http://goplaynow.org/?p=14">Poison'd</a>. This was awhile back, so I can't give you the exact names and sins of my pirate,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Piers Brown.
6/17/2007 Meguey: [Psi Run] One game right after another!
Last Thursday we finished up our first Psi Run, as per this thread, with Vincent running for Emily, Julia, and me. It was fantastic! I got to break my lock-box…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Parthenia, michael lingner, chris_moore, lumpley.
2/17/2007 Meguey: Where the hell have I been???
Short answer: Buying a house.
Slightly longer answer: My last grandfather died the Sunday before Thanksgiving, then the holidays hit, and on Dec. 29, we decided to buy a house,…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
12/27/2006 Meguey: [Sorcerer New England Style] Harriet's Diary
Oct 15, Sunday
Well, this has certainly been an eventful month.
My tag-sale customers are trickling off for the season, so it's time to get the winter pies going. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Artanis, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, Parthenia, Ron Edwards, lumpley, pedyo.
9/28/2006 Meguey: [Sign In Stranger] File clerk, some typing
This is Emily Care Boss' game in developement. Joshua, Emily, Vincent, Julia, and I all created worlds in private to start. We had a choice of planet size, and we…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Emily Care, andrew_kenrick, nikola.
9/11/2006 Meguey: YLQ
I'm now officially working on a new game (yes, you may laugh now, those of you who heard my protestations at GenCon).
It's called Miss Schiffer's School for Young Ladies…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey, Iskander, komradebob.
8/24/2006 Meguey: Buying 1001 Nights, the where and how.
My game is available from me at http://www.nightskygames.com/. When time permits, I'll have a .pdf up as well. I currently have no plans to sell through key20 or IPR, and…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey, oliof.
8/24/2006 Meguey: The Sultan's Court - share your Courtiers!
There are a lot of people at Court. Let's put them here. Names are optional, but make sure to include the role (Cook, Dancer, etc.) If it's ok for someone…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
8/21/2006 Meguey: GenCon AP: Bacchanal, carry, Primitive, Roach, and more
Rather than starting seven separate threads for my actual play at GenCon, it's mostly all here.
I played a Bacchanal demo with Ron and two other men while Tovey was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.
8/21/2006 Meguey: In which we say hello, and rules are disclosed
Hey, thanks for visiting Night Sky Games, home of 1001 Nights and whatever else happens. I'm Meguey Baker, 35, Pisces, married for 15 years, mother of three boys, Unitarian Universalist,…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
4/9/2006 Meguey: What else are you geeky about?
I have this theory that everyone is secretly a geek, which in my book (or at least for the purpose of this thread) is someone who knows waaaay too much…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Meguey, xenopulse, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, droog, Eric J-D, jasonm, Bryan Hansel, James_Nostack, talysman, Graham Walmsley, anders_larsen, Thunder_God, Miskatonic, Shreyas Sampat, lumpley, ironick, Michael S. Miller.
2/24/2006 Meguey: [PTA] Erie Nights
Ok, so my friend Julia who lives behind me brought over the big glossy hardcover 'Buffy:the role-playing game'a few weeks back and said "Hey I want to play this, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Paka, Emily Care, Frank T, Glendower, Matt Wilson.
11/27/2005 Meguey: GenCon 05 picture plea!
Ok, I know this is waaaay late, and slant-wise from topic, but I beg indulgence. I'm putting together the scrapbook for the baby Baker due any day now. I took…
In Conventions
Participants: Meguey.
9/30/2005 Meguey: Art imitates life imitates art
I was looking over a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, detailing the fall line-up of TV shows returnign and new. I think someone's been reading PTA actual play threads, 'cause…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Meguey, Andrew Morris.
9/5/2005 Meguey: [The Big Night] Sheckleton's Sacrifice
As promised, I ran The Big Night for my sons Sebastian (~9) and Elliot (5.5), and also Emily, Carrie, Joshua, and Vincent last night. We started a bit late, around…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, nikola, lumpley, John Harper, Allan, Troy_Costisick, xenopulse.
9/1/2005 Meguey: Ritual and Gaming/Game Design
All the recent discussion in Actual Play of Dogs, Under the Bed, Barbaren, and Bacchanal got me thinking. Here's what I thought:
I have been creating ritual for groups from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Meguey, lumpley, Artanis, Silmenume, cruciel, Joshua BishopRoby, Paka, Ben Lehman, Adam Dray, Blankshield, Emily Care, ivan23.
9/15/2002 Meguey: Romantic Partners who game
Over in Actual Play about Puppies, Paul Czege said:Romantic partners who game, and who are fiercely supportive of your design efforts...despite discomfort from circumstance or subject matter. Don't get no…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Meguey, M. J. Young, Le Joueur, kevin671, Bob McNamee, jdagna, greyorm, Maurice Forrester, wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, damion, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, Paul's Girl, Emily Care, Doc Midnight, Walt Freitag, lumpley.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 9/11/2007 Meguey: [Galactic] Character creation for Seb's new game!
Sebastian is 10, almost 11. He's read Galactic about 5 times since he found it on the couch when Vincent returned from GenCon 07. He said casually last week that…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, lumpley.
9/30/2007 Meguey: Intertwined, a game of lives and lovers
Over on the Knife Fight, Kleenstar called me out
I want Meg to write a two-player game which explicitly encourages the players to engage with each other sexually, in a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Meguey, SpinachBaron, Eero Tuovinen, chris_moore, Paul Czege, TomTitTot, Simon C, humis, RobNJ, Noon, BigElvis.
12/9/2007 Meguey: 1001 Nights in Italian!
So I've been approached about having 1001 Nights translated into Italian, by the same folks who worked with Ben on Polaris. I'm still waiting for a final contract to look…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey, GB Steve.
12/9/2007 Meguey: Hacks and LARPS!
Matt Webber is writing a 1001 Nights LARP, and Elizabeth Shoemaker has written a hack of it called <i>The Midnight Club</i> "about a group of teenagers dying of terminal diseases…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey, fernando.
12/11/2007 Meguey: Perhaps the largest group playing one role-playing game, ever.
Evan and Kat are basing their "we're getting married - time to party!" weekend around 1001 Nights. I dropped off their signed copy this morning, and they are currently looking…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
12/11/2007 Meguey: Further thoughts on Intertwined
To recap: It's a game for two players, with a overt goal being to arouse and be aroused, sensually. There's lots of touching hands, but players otherwise don't really touch,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Elizabeth, David Artman.
4/14/2008 Meguey: Mist-robed Gate, on Mars!
Last night I got to play the most fun game of the year, thus far. Shreyas ran his game in development Mist-Robed Gate for 10(!) of us Western Massive/Story Games…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Elizabeth, FrankBrunner, Shreyas Sampat.
10/16/2008 Meguey: [Storming the Wizard's Tower] Times 10!
I'm running a game for 10 6th graders. Except I'm not. I'm teaching 10 6th graders how to run their own game.
Ok, start at the beginning. Our oldest son…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Vulpinoid, hoefer, Peter Nordstrand, davidberg, Paul T.
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