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4/28/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] Chastity
So, we played Poison’d yesterday, an afternoon-long game. I’m GMing and there’s Alex, Scott and Adam playing. We eat tuna nicoise before playing, very nautical. The first thing that happens:…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, agony, Ogremarco.

10/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: Pictures in Publishing
I've recently made a game with custom dice. I'd like to post, in Publishing, about how I made them, where I got the various components and so on: one of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: I'd like a photo of a burning d20
It's to use as a book cover, so it'd need to look good. Preferably against a black background. An actual photo would be great. If not, a Photoshop thing might…
In Connections
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

9/2/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Polaris] Question about Moon statement
Ben, apologies if you've answered this before. In our Polaris PBP game, a Moon has made a statement that I, as the Heart, naturally want to respond to by saying…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman, Garvey, Web_Weaver, yellowparis, Tanda.

8/6/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Lacuna] Decoy Team
We played Lacuna yesterday, in the garden, in the blazing sunshine. What a superb little game. Five players, plus myself. In advance, I'd prepared this Static sheet. Note the theme:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Yokiboy, TomTancredi, The Dragon Master.

6/3/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Darker] Thank heaven for little girls
Darker is my setting for the Shab al-Hiri Roach: the Roach comes to Oxford University in Victorian times. We tested it today, after Sunday lunch. There's John, Alex, Adam and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Roach] With beers at SteveCon
At SteveCon, we had a go at the Roach. So there's four of us, in a pub: me, Adam and...God, I'm terrible at names...I know everyone was Biblical except for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

5/18/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Spodley Grange
This is the fourth playtest. The players are Malcolm, Janos and Andrew, all people I know from conventions and get on with. Oh, actually, I've just met Janos, but he…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, andrew_kenrick, Malcolm.

3/26/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] Conpulsion playtest
Another playtest at Conpulsion. There were three players: the staff by the sign-up sheets were offering free fingers of Fudge to anyone signing up. It seemed thematically appropriate. I've, um,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, jasonm, Simon C, Bryan Hansel.

2/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Conception
We playtested <a href="http://www.catchyourhare.com/files/Recruitment4.pdf">The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!</a> at Conception. Including myself, there were five players, all experienced gamers and very enthusiastic. (I was very nervous, by the way:…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Malcolm, GB Steve, Scott Dorward, Rich Stokes, andrew_kenrick, contracycle, knicknevin.

1/28/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Best Friends] At Dragonmeet
Best Friends went down a storm at Dragonmeet: five strangers randomly signed up and gelled quickly. Here's some notes on how it went (mainly for the reference of anyone else…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Emily Care, Paul King.

1/7/2007 Graham Walmsley: The Legion Of SuperScience: Setting Challenge Review
I'm realising that there are two broad categories of entry in this competition: those which shoehorn a game into a completely different setting (Umlaut, Western Journeyers) and those which use…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!.

1/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: Lords and Ladies: Setting Challenge review
I really liked Lords and Ladies. It takes Dust Devils and, very successfully, transplants it to a Jane Austen-ish setting. It also blends immersionist LARPs with Dust Devils' conflict resolution:…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!, Ben Lehman.

12/6/2006 Graham Walmsley: Gay Recruitment card mechanic
I'm working on a card mechanic for The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!. I'm finding it difficult to explain, though, so I'd really appreciate some feedback. At this point in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, ocasta.

12/4/2006 Graham Walmsley: Dragonmeet: Customer feedback
I wanted to do this in a separate thread, so as not to get in the way of the Collective Endeavour counting their takings and laughing manically. If you were…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, GB Steve, Matt, Dantai.

11/27/2006 Graham Walmsley: Dragonmeet 2006
Dragonmeet is this Saturday, 2nd December, in Kensington Town Hall. The schedule isn't on the website yet, but there's a preliminary version on the Yahoo group. Here are some quick…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, oliof, Matt, andrew_kenrick, Geoff Hall, GB Steve, Malcolm, Gregor Hutton.

11/25/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Setting Design] Darker
I'm thinking about a setting for Jason's game, The Shab al-Hiri Roach. The setting is Darker College, an Oxford University college, in Victorian times. This is a first draft. If…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

10/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: Rabbit cartoons
I'd like some cartoons of a running rabbit (well, a hare, actually, but the idea's the same). They're for my website, which is at: http://www.catchyourhare.com/ As you can see, I've…
In Connections
Participants: Graham Walmsley, daMoose_Neo.

10/16/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Best Friends] Game in a pub
On Thursday, I met up with various forum people (Steve, Alex, Drew and Jukka) in a London pub. We had a quick game of Best Friends: which turned out to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, r_donato, Alex Fradera, Gregor Hutton, Merten, GB Steve.

9/14/2006 Graham Walmsley: [BtI online] Uptight English and American pirates
Jason and I played BtI last night, using a web application I've been working on. So, basically, Jason's sitting in North Carolina and I'm sitting in London. We're talking using…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Emily Care, jasonm, xenoss.

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7/16/2008 Graham Walmsley: Price targetting
Someone asked me about price targetting, so I thought I'd explain. It's rather fascinating. I'm not an expert in this, you understand: I've read a book on it, which I…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, David Artman, Thunder_God, Double King, iago.

7/16/2008 Graham Walmsley: How not to lose your voice during a convention
In the run-up to Gen Con, here's some quick advice on how not to lose your voice if you're on a stall and talking all day. (I'm an actor, in…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, GreatWolf, Eero Tuovinen, Capulet, Denise.

8/26/2008 Graham Walmsley: Poison'd: Some thoughts on violence
The new GM advice section has helped me a great deal. It's cleared up some problems I had in GMing Poison'd. Here are a couple of thoughts/questions. 1. If you…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

9/1/2008 Graham Walmsley: Games on Demand
I wondered if anyone had thoughts about how Games On Demand worked this year? I have thoughts myself, but I'm in a motel with limited Internet access, so I'll add…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Darcy Burgess, jasonm, ejh, Wolfen.

10/21/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] I don't use NPC Brinkmanship
The only thing NPC Brinkmanship does is decide whether the GM can escalate, right? The rules, as written, are: 1. Roll two dice. Take the higher for Brinkmanship. 2. If…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Arturo G., Eero Tuovinen, watergoesred.

10/21/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] An assisting rule
Poison'd went well on Saturday night, and I have stories about that, but there was grumbling about the lack of an "assist" rule. If you're fighting the Captain, and I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

11/11/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] More simple questions
1. What do I do when a player says: "I want to talk to the crew and incite a mutiny"? What he really wants is to be Captain without a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

11/22/2008 Graham Walmsley: Google Books and partnership
Has anyone considered partnering with Google Books, to make limited previews of their books available? I'd welcome comments from anyone who's considered it; or anyone who, having looked at the…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Matt, Eero Tuovinen.

2/7/2009 Graham Walmsley: Apocalypse World
We started Apocalypse World on Wednesday. From my point of view, it was successful, with the MC rules especially working well. Character creation went smoothly: everyone did it from their…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Everspinner.

2/19/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] What's wrong with this and how might I fix it?
Second session, tonight, with changes in the group: Steve, the hardholder, and Wai Kien, the hocus, couldn't make it. Replacing them we got Adrian, a driver, and Sean, a savvyhead.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Dionysus, lumpley.

3/12/2009 Graham Walmsley: Publishers' Graphics: Apparently they're a file storage facility, now
A rather odd email from Publishers' Graphics. Dear Graham, March 9, 2009 We are updating our data-file storage system, and have added new procedures to our safeguards to insure that…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

3/22/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] I just care too much
Some quick notes on our third session of Apocalypse World. A good session, this. We're heading towards a zombie ending, so this week, we had one or two zombies. They…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, agony, Everspinner, lumpley, Krippler, Matt Wilson.

3/24/2009 Graham Walmsley: Little Game Chef
[url=http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=8959]Little Game Chef[/url] is now in progress and the deadline's this Sunday. It's a miniature version of Game Chef that I started because I wanted to kick around a particular…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vulpinoid, David Artman.

4/16/2009 Graham Walmsley: Apocalypse World last night
It was kind of like this. http://www.catchyourhare.com/images/cloud-to-dice.jpg G
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Supplanter, Everspinner.

4/16/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] Apocalypse averted
We finished our four-session game of Apocalypse World last night. Our heroes flew to the headquarters of Panacea, one of the fronts. There were lots of zombies about. Panacea switched…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, GB Steve.

5/11/2009 Graham Walmsley: Could someone help me out with PDF printing problems?
I'm having real problems printing a PDF through Lulu. I submit a PDF, they send me an anonymous error message. I submit a new PDF, they send me the same…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Paul Czege, btrc, visioNationstudios, Carnifex, David Artman.

8/30/2009 Graham Walmsley: Ribbon Drive: Fuckknows, VA
We played Ribbon Drive in my garden yesterday. There were Steve, Paula and I, who were fairly experienced gamers, and Sebastian and Lucy, whom I think had played things like…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, joepub, GB Steve, xenopulse, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

9/23/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Misspent Youth] F**king motherf**ker's on our f**cking tail
We played Misspent Youth last week. Character and world creation was a blast. We were fighting against...oh...I don't know...a corporation of some sort. The advice about choosing things that genuinely…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, RobNJ, Paka.

6/21/2010 Graham Walmsley: Announcing Little Game Chef 2010
Jason, Eero and I are running another round of Little Game Chef. This time, the theme is comedy. Full details on Story Games Graham
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

8/31/2010 Graham Walmsley: I choose you, Sorcerer
On the way to GenCon, I talked to some guy called Vincent about Sorcerer. He suggested that Sorcerer often gets seen as an excessively serious game: a gut-wrenching emotional fest,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, jburneko, lumpley, The Dragon Master.

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