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9/2/2008 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Socially robust
Hello There's a point I want to make about Eero Tuovinen's new game Zombie Cinema (a.k.a. Zombeja! Ovella!). It has taken me days of textually shuffling my feet around in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis.

6/20/2008 Artanis: Carnival Bizarre (Sorcerer)
[i][b]The Carnival Bizarre[/b][/i] [b]Introduction[/b] I'm preparing for my first sessions ever of [i]Sorcerer[/i] and would appreciate some advice about the robustness and adequacy of this prep. Especially in the way…
In Adept Press
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

3/3/2008 Artanis: [IaWA] Tossing Particular strengths around
Disclaimer: I'm suspecting a major case of thickness is hiding under this post, I just can't find the relevant game text. I remember in AG&G that you could give mastery…
In lumpley games
Participants: Artanis, lumpley, Piers Brown.

2/10/2008 Artanis: [DS] Questions on the violence sequence
Hi Seth and Co.! A few technical questions: on page 55 it says that the Authority gains a bonus investigation sequence if he or she inflicts 3 Violence on the…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

1/15/2008 Artanis: Forge-sponsored games?
I was reading the Dreamtion 2008 web-page where I read that there would be "DOZENS of Independently Published Role Playing Games Sponsored by The Forge as part of the Indie…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2007 Artanis: [Zombeja! Ovella!] This time with vampires
Hello Yesterday evening a few friends and I went out to this smoky alternative bar, where some guy was having a board-game night and we thought that this would be…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/25/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Hospitals are dangerous
So this is a humorous observation on my three times playing the game. Each time, I play, there is a Violence scene in a hospital. Always because the investigator had…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

12/24/2007 Artanis: Killing Characters
In my last session we narrate a last scene that goes roughly like this. All characters are Characters. Julien (Authority framing the scene): The Investigator arrives at her apartment, the…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

10/19/2007 Artanis: Questions on dirty dice
Hi Seth Some questions and probably a typo: p. 53: "The Authority opens the bidding if this is the first Exchange" versus p.55: "You may not Push a Violence…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

10/17/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Don't touch my baby
Hi, This Saturday at the local con I played a new favourite of mine: Dirty Secrets! Only two players signed up, my friends Zarina and Cyril. I had played Polaris…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, jburneko.

10/15/2007 Artanis: [Zombeja! Ovella!] No brain, no pain!
Hi reader, I had the pleasure of playing Eero Tuovinen's new game Zombeja! Ovella! at a local con this Saturday. My five co-players were all relatively young boys whom I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

6/25/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Club 138
[b]Setup[/b] Gaétan (Investigator), Jérôme, Julien, Xavier and myself tested Seth Ben-Ezra's game friday a fortnight ago. In a word, it was: great! I actually didn't understand the rules very well…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, Valamir.

4/8/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] A look at the "We owe" list after three chapters
We played a follow-up session to our two chapters with Zangdar's yellow gem. My brother didn't play again, but my friend Julien joined in with Romain and Jérôme, while I…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis.

2/11/2007 Artanis: [Polaris] Experience for non-Heart protagonists in a scene
Hello, A rule question for those having encountered similar situations: What happens when a protagonist is brought into a scene of which his player is not the Heart, and that…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

2/5/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] Conflict questions
Hi Vincent! Here are my remaining questions that arose from the two sessions I played with my group and which were not answered in Hans' thread I'm not sure…
In lumpley games
Participants: Artanis, lumpley.

1/22/2007 Artanis: FindPlay down?
Hello Clinton I was suggesting a registration on FindPlay to somebody today but the code doesn't seem to work any more, I get the following error when I try to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Artanis.

1/20/2007 Artanis: Moons and Mistaken character control
Hello! A rule question popped up last time I played. Do Moon characters move to the Mistaken part of the Cosmos when the Mistaken follows a suggestion with "we shall…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

1/3/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] There is no circus in Istak...
This evening we played In a Wicked Age... I have too few words to describe my enthusiasm, so I'll just do an AP. We played with the playtest rules to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis, Valamir, lumpley, Emily Care, timfire.

12/9/2006 Artanis: [Iä! Iä! Ph'iles] Pot-smoking cavemen on TV!
Hi guys! This is me raving about my mystery game, please hop along. We got to play the Iä! Iä! Ph'iles this Wednesday and laughed our asses off. Check it…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis, Emily Care.

9/24/2006 Artanis: [Iä! Iä! Ph'iles] Twisting the plot
Hello, This is an idea submitted by my friend Julien for my game The Iä! iä! Ph'iles, a game of prep- and GM-less investigation with an attempt to include dramatic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Artanis, pells, GreatWolf.

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9/2/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] Welcome to the Carnival Bizarre
Hi My friends and I got together to play our first session of the Carnival Bizarre. We had only two and a half hours at our disposal, so my aim…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, FredGarber, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] Getting involved in the Carnival Bizarre
Hello all At last we got around to meet and give a follow-up to the first session. First thing, we agreed with Thomas that Alice was just a woman that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, kwelndar.

11/7/2008 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Yummy rules questions for Seth and others
Hi! I just finished a 5-hour short story yesterday evening (we played in two evenings). We had quite a few Sex/Romance Revelations. At first, we declared the relationships as strictly…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

11/12/2008 Artanis: [Dust Devils] Content and Revelation authority vs Narrator Privileges
Hi everyone This is going to be a technical thread I believe, even though I could rave on about the beauty and the tragedy of in-game events! I need to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

12/9/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] A Night at the Opera Bizarre
Hey! This is session number three from our on-going Carnival Bizarre game. Last session was about getting involved in the Carnival Bizarre, this session is about taking the bull by…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2009 Artanis: [Sorcerer] A bizarre feeling
Hi gals and guys! Quick status report on the Carnival Bizarre. Last session was a night at the opera bizarre and was mighty successful in my view. This time we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis.

4/13/2009 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Some rules questions
Hi Eero I have a series of questions that cropped up after reading the "new" rules and comparing them to my play according to the "home-made edition" rules. I…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

7/9/2009 Artanis: [Lacuna] Getting a handle on the pace of the game
Hi reader This is my first time masterizing (btw, is that the verb for "being GM" in English too?) Lacuna. I've just moved (geographically) closer to some friends who I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, agony, Danny_K, Ron Edwards, The Dragon Master, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/18/2009 Artanis: Preparing an indie booth for Nancy, France
Hi there On November 7th and 8th, a couple of friends and I are going to the game festival Les Joutes du Téméraire, in Nancy (that's a city, please), France.…
In Conventions
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P..

9/25/2009 Artanis: [Lacuna] Minimal prep, maximal impact
Hello Following up on the last session, one player dropped out (going abroad for a year), another came in. The two are brothers, Titus and Maurus. We quickly rolled up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis.

10/11/2009 Artanis: [Theory] Let's have a good look at Colour, again
Hello A fair warning: this thread is going to be heavy on the theory. A little bit of history I like putting up links and give a general context when…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Noon, Simon C, greyorm, Ben Lehman, JoyWriter, FredGarber, Silmenume, Caldis, chance.thirteen, kuzuk, Marshall Burns, Troy_Costisick, Ashlin_Evenstar, HeTeleports, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2009 Artanis: [Sorcerer] Curtain on the carnival bizarre
Hello Last saturday we played the last session of the Carnival Bizarre. It was the second instalment after this report. Story In two sessions, the player characters essentially got together,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Noclue.

3/23/2010 Artanis: [Poison'd] Ambitions and 2on1 fights
Hello Vincent We had a very uncouth session of Poison'd the other week, and I have some questions as this was our first time playing. 1.) So this guy Flint…
In lumpley games
Participants: Artanis, yellowparis, lumpley.

7/19/2010 Artanis: [DitV] Relationship coming for help
Hello I did a search for this question and haven't been able to locate any thread talking about it, so here goes: A friend of mine played DitV and complained…
In lumpley games
Participants: Artanis, lumpley.

9/20/2010 Artanis: [Zombie Cinema] Idea for slowing down conflicts
Hello Eero and all Sometimes Zombie Cinema gets heavy on the conflict, people just going into the conflict for conflict's sake. On the one hand, I think it's just a…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

10/14/2010 Artanis: Demoing Trollbabe
Hello Ron and other Trollbabe aficionados I'll be attending Spiel Essen, slavishly monkeying for Eero. The booth will be offering Trollbabe and we'll be demoing it. Except, I just read…
In Adept Press
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

11/8/2010 Artanis: [BtI] Rules clarification
Hello Emily I've played Breaking the Ice two and two thirds times, and have played the first date of a new story with my girlfriend (with whom I've already played…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Artanis, Emily Care.

11/17/2010 Artanis: [Unspeakable] Abashed or anti Czege principle?
Hello all I've been toiling away at a game based on my group's chaotic play of Call of Cthulhu of years past. After two years of development in French, I…
In Game Development
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

12/14/2010 Artanis: [S/lay w/me] Questions of a swiss rules lawyer
Hello Ron I've been playing S/lay w/me with my girlfriend Sylvie over the last few months (interspersed with some Breaking the Ice and soon Sweet Agatha). We've played two adventures…
In Adept Press
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

12/15/2010 Artanis: [Breaking the Ice] Bringing in drama
Hello Recently we played Breaking the Ice with my girlfriend Sylvie. It's our second time playing, the first time around some scenes had dragged out because I had not understood…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

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