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2/6/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Near-Definite Setting Compendium
I was skiing yesterday, and a publishing project came to me. For those who don't know, I'm much more accomplished as an indie publisher than as an indie game designer;…
In CRN Games
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, shadowcourt, Troels, sabbatregent, Frank Tarcikowski, oliof.

1/15/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Runeslayers] Pirates of Naples
It seems that my friendship with Sami Koponen inspires me to play all kinds of games that my lethargic nature would have me postpone indefinitely. The last time we met…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2007 Eero Tuovinen: Mainstream friendly, small games for compilated publication
If you were publishing a mainstream book for bookstores about roleplaying, with the intent to inspire further exploration of the subject, would you have some particular games that you'd like…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, Noclue, Blankshield, matthijs, Ron Edwards.

12/4/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Dead of Night] Hair
[i]A week and a half ago I was in Oulu as part of a cross-cultural gaming convention thing set up by the local talent round there. A thing about Oulu…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Artanis, andrew_kenrick, Sam!.

11/11/2007 Eero Tuovinen: System suggestions for Call of Cthulhu?
I'm going to play a one-shot of "Call of Cthulhu", or at least something similar, come Tuesday. Our usual Acts of Evil group couldn't get together, so we're playing something…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk, contracycle, Darcy Burgess, Troels, Paul T, Web_Weaver, Artanis, Snowden, GB Steve, fjj.

8/25/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombies at the Door!] Publishing a boardgame
OK, now that I have a spare moment, here's the story of how I published my indie roleplaying boardgame last month. I'll also discuss the difficulties of repeating the process…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, hix, Emily Care, MatrixGamer, Veritas Games.

8/2/2007 Eero Tuovinen: Games for my Finnish retail
It's again that time of the year, Gencon time. As the old-timers know, I run a small retail operation here in Finland in the interest of making the best of…
In Connections
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Matt.

3/26/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombies at the Door!] Introduction to my fine zombie boardgame.
As some of you might know, my current big project, as far as my own game design goes, is Eleanor's Dream, a story-telling game for parents and children. Eleanor has…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Bryan Hansel, contracycle, newsalor, Sam!.

3/21/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Bliss Stage] Drunking, the Finnish national sport
My experiments with Bliss Stage by Ben Lehman continue. Last Saturday we did chargen with me + four eager pilots, of which two were with me in our one-shot test…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

3/10/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Bliss Stage] Jury-rigged ANIMa in the outback
So, I've been slowly going through games published last year. One of the crop was Shock: Social Science Fiction, which has found great response from a selective clientele, my teenage…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

12/20/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Niche Engine] goes Burning Empires
So, playtested Paul's Niche Engine. There were four of us, me and three teenagers. Haven't had strictly regular gaming lately, so I've just called the teens to set something up…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

12/16/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Eleanor's Dream] Playtesting with an 8-year old
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21681.0]Eleanor's Dream[/url] is my game for children and adults. It's totally the ultimate mainstreaming effort based on up-to-date theory and praxis. [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22342.0]My last playtest was here.[/url] This time (a couple…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Simon C.

11/30/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Eleanor's Dream] Playtesting with a 6-year old
Eleanor's Dream is my current big rpg project. I introduced the project here. I got my Finnish dream book (a central play component) for Eleanor's Dream translated last week, and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, pells, Matt.

10/14/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spiel Essen] Demoing MLwM
This one took a bit of typing, but I thought it better to put my MLwM demo up here for checkup. I created this one in the spring of 2005,…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, ocasta.

10/6/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spien Essen] Demoing Universalis
So I heard from Ralph that Universalis doesn't traditionally have a very elaborate demo, and usually he just does a bit of tenets and a first scene as a demo.…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

10/1/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Eleanor's Dream] Project Introduction and preliminary playtests
This is something I didn't plan on doing; I've been developing my game Eleanor's Dream on and off since the beginning of -05, and while I've been chatting about it…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spiel Essen] Demoing a d20 product
OK, so I've been fiddling with a demo for Dawning Star, a d20 scifi setting book. Parameters as usual for conventions: 15 minutes energetic show with a focus on finding…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, Frank T, oliof.

9/29/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spiel Essen] Preparing sales material
OK, here's what I got: Essen Forge Directory. It still lacks a front page, I'll figure out something appropriate later. It's one sheet per game, with a picture, short description,…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, Frank T, Matt, Ron Edwards, ocasta, segedy, oliof, Markku Tuovinen, jasonm.

9/6/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [funny anecdote] MLwM and assorted other games in school
So I never get around to writing actual play accounts anymore, and what little I write tends to happen at the Finnish forums, where they're needed. Instead of an actual…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, ( o Y o ), nikola, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Glendower.

7/19/2006 Eero Tuovinen: Shipping games from Gencon to Finland
It's that time of the year again: I'd like to buy a big bunch of indie games at retail prices and mail them here to Finland, to be sold by…
In Connections
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

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2/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Primitive] Such glorious incoherency
I've played two sessions of Primitive after getting a bunch of copies in a recent batch of indie games from America. The game looks rather striking and it's cheap, so…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Artanis.

5/6/2008 Eero Tuovinen: My plans for new TSOY products
A while back Clinton R. Nixon, the creator of The Shadow of Yesterday and other fine games, decided to curtail his involvement in the online rpg scene. Here's the thread…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, OnnoTasler, segedy, rafial, oliof, pfischer, Willow, HighmoonMedia, The Tweaker, dindenver, Manveru.

5/7/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Solar System] Dragonriders & Demagogues
So I'm working on a new, "refreshed" edition of the Solar System, as I mentioned in the other thread. I'm saying "refreshed" because updating would imply some kind of need…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, newsalor, segedy, Valamir.

5/12/2008 Eero Tuovinen: A little question about artist's supplies
I'm making that zombie game, and one component I'm thinking of is a suitably sized (4"x6" or so) canvas panel like this. (I'm using them in making cheap game boards…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Will, preludetotheend.

5/12/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Producing game cards
Continuing with my zombie game production theme of tonight: I'm quite sure that at least two separate parties have been writing here about their new card manufacturing methods. One is…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades.

6/3/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Solar System] Communal Vignette Writing
There's a call for help buried several paragraphs down. If you've played The Shadow of Yesterday and don't mind helping me out a bit, then read on: what I'm doing…
In Connections
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

7/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombie Cinema] Writing really short rules
[url=http://isabout.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/zombie-cinema-rules-critique/]Here[/url] I have the rules for my game, [i]Zombie Cinema[/i]. I explain the backgrounds a bit out there in my blog, but the basic proposition is that the game is…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

8/7/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Using Wordpress for a company website
I had to make a new, English-language website for my company, as we're trying to sell some games to the English-speaking world now. The conditions were hardly ideal, as I'm…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, segedy, iago, Kerin.

8/25/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Forum Diary] I get my own rules!
Ah, the fulfillment of my ambition! Seriously, though, my primary reason for asking for a Forge forum was to get a new place to make chit-chat about the Solar System…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

9/9/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Solar System] Link Directory
As you already probably know, I'm going to be writing a new edition of the Shadow of Yesterday one of these days. The current schedule is a bit fluid in…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

10/29/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Poison'd] About action and choice
We had bit of an impromptu house convention last week here in Sonkajärvi, as all the university students got a period break at the same time and swarmed here. Among…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Graham Walmsley.

11/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Solar System PDF now available
After we published the new Solar System booklet at Gencon, people started asking for a pdf version. At the time I didn't have any thoughts on the matter - I'd…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Corvus69, simonjberger.

12/11/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [TSOY 2nd] Name of the game?
Well well, it seems that I'm going to start the actual writing of the TSoY book tonight. A question that's been plaguing me, perhaps somebody has insight for me: Should…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, rafial, oliof, Rafu, Rich F, Paul Czege, JTColeman, Graham Walmsley, Brand_Robins, hix.

12/13/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [To Playtest] Colonization of Qek
In the new TSOY book I'm going to have these things I call "campaign frameworks", essentially short articles on how to kick up a specific sort of campaign based in…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, JackTheOwner, oliof, dindenver, Sam!, shadowcourt.

12/13/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [TSOY 2nd] Campaign Frameworks
I've explained this to several people during the last couple of months, and it seems I have the concept worked out pretty well now. I'll put the explanation up here,…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, oliof, dindenver.

12/15/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Free-ranging attributes of Near
Something Harald mentioned here reminded me of this thing I've been meaning to write about: Near has some questions that are not answered very comprehensively in the canonical texts. This…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, oliof, Brand_Robins, shadowcourt.

1/1/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [To Playtest] War in Khale
As a sort of sibling thread for Colonization of Qek, here's another Ammeni campaign framework about the war in Khale. The war is already present in Clinton's treatment of Khale-Ammeni…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Paul T, shadowcourt.

1/6/2009 Eero Tuovinen: Early planning for Spiel Essen 2009
I'm thinking that we should prepare to have a Forge booth at Spiel Essen this year to sell and promote independent roleplaying. I have several reasons:I'm quite ready for exhibiting…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Matt, Daniela Nicklas, Matthias, oliof, fjj, Artanis.

1/11/2009 Eero Tuovinen: I'm reading about David C's game
David's been starting some rather interesting threads about his fantasy adventure game here during the last several months. Those threads have provided us glimpses at a well-mechanized fantasy adventure game…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, davidberg, David C.

1/17/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Goblin crunch
While reviewing goblins I decided that I don't actually like the Secret of Addiction at all. It is bad on several levels: - Of course counting days is just wacky…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, oliof.

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