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12/1/2002 Victor Gijsbers: Some thoughts on the Karma/Fortune distinction
This might be nothing new, but I hope you'll forgive me for not checking every thread ever written here in order to find out. :) I just realised that Karma,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] A prelimiary discussion
Wondering about the extent to which character creation could be changed from a pre-game to an in-game activity, if you'll forgive me the terminology, I developed the outline of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, Tobias.

8/14/2004 Victor Gijsbers: Dethroning the SIS
[b][u]Introduction[/u][/b] In this post, I will critically discuss the notion of Shared Imagined Space and its relation to Creative Agendas. I will claim that: * [i]The Shared Imagined Space (SIS)…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Sean, Marco, Valamir, lumpley, M. J. Young, Alan, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

8/17/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Actual Play] My life with roses
I recently bought My Life with Master, and have started a game today which I will tell about here. Set-up session In 1798, in a part of Prussia which is…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, rafial, Mike Holmes.

11/3/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] Way over the edge
While playtesting the game Shades I'm working on, I had a strange roleplaying experience which I'd like to share with you. The Sorcerer book mentions Jonathan Tweet's concept of 'over…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

2/6/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Otherkind] Questions and Ideas
I'm planning to start a short campaign of Otherkind beginning next thursday. Both the theme and the dice-allocation mechanic really appeal to me, and I look forward to seeing this…
In lumpley games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Paganini, Valamir, xiombarg.

2/17/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Great Ork Gods] Bloody wedding
As our previous Sorcerer game had ended and we were still waiting for Universalis to arrive, my regular gaming group decided to try a game of Great Ork Gods to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Otherkind] A tale of two sessions (one bad, one good)
I played my second sessions of Otherkind last thursday; the first session was the friday before; rules talk, setting design and character creation the week before that. The first did…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, lumpley, Valamir.

4/2/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Shared Imagined Space, Shared Text
In the Provisional Glossary, Shared Imagined Space is defined as: The fictional content of play as it is established among participants through role-playing interactions. This is open to different…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Noon, Vaxalon, lumpley, Alan, Ron Edwards, am, Sean, Jonathan Walton, JMendes, contracycle, Silmenume.

4/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game
[b][u]Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game[/u] Or: What I did with Hungry Desperate and Alone[/b] Some time ago, I read Vincent's [url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/hungry.html]Hungry Desperate and Alone[/url], and was intrigued. It was…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Bob the Fighter, Eva Deinum, xenopulse, shaheddy, darrick, Ben Lehman, Tobias, daMoose_Neo, xiombarg, Jason Mical, The_Tim, pete_darby.

5/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] My Life as Adolf
Last weekend, I went to a meeting of the Dutch/Flemish RPG-forum Mandragon. I led a game of My Life with Master for four people, none of whom had ever played…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Remko, Tobias, Jeroen, Rimke, Borogove, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

6/15/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Narrativism and Judgement
[b]Introduction[/b] Shirley Hawthorn has little contact with her two sisters and even less with her dying father, who was overly critical and quite unsympathetic to her during her youth. Now,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, TonyLB, Gaerik, Sean, pete_darby, John Kim, Troy_Costisick, Eva Deinum, Remko, Artanis, M. J. Young.

7/9/2005 Victor Gijsbers: On rape in roleplaying games
[b]Introduction[/b] As is briefly related in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15911]this thread[/url], I recently had a very uncomfortable moment when the character I played was in the verge of being raped. I spoke out…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, TonyLB, Trevis Martin, Tobias, Jeroen, Ron Edwards, Sean, Asen G, StalkingBlue, Brand_Robins, Noon, cruciel, S'mon, contracycle, LandonSuffered, TheTris.

8/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Congratulations are in order
Vincent, congratulations with carrying away the coveted Indie Game of the Year 2004 Award! And the one for Most Innovative RPG too, of course.
In lumpley games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, lumpley, lazarus.

9/13/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] Die Leiden des jungen Werthers - with a twist
Last thursday, I unexpectedly had to master a one-shot for two players. So I took My Life with Master from my bookshelf, grabbed a handful of d4s, and off we…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

10/4/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Breaking the Ice] The ordeals of love
In my first-ever IRC game, we were planning on playing Polaris; but when one of the four prospective players didn't turn up and the other had severe connection problems, Remko…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Meguey, Remko, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

10/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Dutch Translation
(Draft.) Bevroren momenten uit de stroom der tijd Eens, lang geleden, zo noordelijk als noord kan zijn, leefde de het hoogste volk dat de wereld ooit zal zien. Die mensen…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: On circulation
Hello everyone! Paul, in your sticky you state: Please don't circulate What it the preferred procedure with my playtesters? Circulate the rules to them anyway, or ask…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eva Deinum, Remko.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Small questions
[For small questions to Paul that do not deserve a seperate thread.] What happens when the dice pool contains no dice or only one die?
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

11/3/2005 Victor Gijsbers: How I plan to win the game in one round
I start the game with 1 Resistance, and no Used Capacity, as per the rules. When creating my occultist, I will put 12 dice in Ambition. When it's my turn,…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

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