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12/18/2008 Paul Czege: [3:16] the betrayal of planet Girlfriend
I recently manufactured myself an opportunity to run 3:16, by prepping three planets prior to the December monthly open-house at a private boardgaming club, arranging to borrow some badass painted…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Thor, Eliarhiman6, Wolfen, Gregor Hutton, Pelgrane, agony, Graham Walmsley, greyorm, Valamir, matthijs, Tomas HVM, Ron Edwards, Noon, manatic.

11/26/2008 Paul Czege: [MSG] entering [++] and exiting [?] Situations
Hey Wood, I like MSG. I love the creative passion in your humor and writing. And I think the rush of player activity after the Company has explained the situation…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Wood.

9/17/2008 Paul Czege: I got Craned at Origins
Luke Crane interviewed me at Origins this year as part of the Pelgrane Press See Page XX Interview Series he's been doing, and the interview <a href="http://www.pelgranepress.com/seepagexx/September2008-Luke.html">is now available</a> (along…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/15/2008 Paul Czege: the preservation of antagonism
I was thinking over the weekend about various ways that games preserve antagonism (in the form of significant antagonist NPCs) from untimely ruin. Of course not all games are concerned…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, agony, Eliarhiman6, Artanis, Michael S. Miller, Mel_White, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Frank Tarcikowski, jag, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, jburneko, contracycle, Thomas Lawrence, JoyWriter, Paul T, soundmasterj.

9/2/2008 Paul Czege: The Ashcan Front Gen Con 2008 post-mortem
This year The Ashcan Front had ten participating designers (plus Rob Bohl and Joshua A.C. Newman with ashcans on our shelves as part of our partnership with The Playcollective, and…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang.

9/2/2008 Paul Czege: [The Rustbelt] Gen Con playtest feedback and questions
Hey Marshall, On the Thursday evening of Gen Con at The Embassy Suites I ran a playtest of The Rustbelt from your demo scenario, with Lance Allen, Tim Jensen, Kevin…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Krippler.

6/17/2008 Paul Czege: who and what we're expecting at The Ashcan Front at Gen Con '08
Hey all, Here's who and what we're expecting at booth 2039: Ralph Mazza with Blood Red Sands Darcy Burgess with Black Cadillacs Justin Jacobson with Bullseye Grant Davis with Secrets…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

4/7/2008 Paul Czege: The Ashcan Front at Gen Con 2008
Hey all, Matt Snyder and I are organizing an Ashcan Front booth for Gen Con again this year. The main changes are: Gen Con raised its booth prices by quite…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, iago, alejandro, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Matt-M-McElroy, Justin D. Jacobson, Darcy Burgess, c.

3/14/2008 Paul Czege: 72 Hours of Boinging
On Tuesday, Patrick Dugan posted a review of My Life with Master to Greg Costikyan's Play This Thing blog. The review was picked up by Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing blog…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, iago, Roger.

1/10/2008 Paul Czege: My Life with Master: The Architecture of Protagonism
Hi all, The article I wrote about <i>My Life with Master</i> for <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083566">Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media</a> (MIT Press, 2007) is <a href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/protagonism">now up</a>…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/8/2007 Paul Czege: [Infected] Children of the White Flies
Hey Eric, We playtested on Friday, September 28th. The playtest group was myself (as GM), Corinne Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my wife Danielle. We had fun, which isn't such a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Technocrat13, hardcoremoose.

8/24/2007 Paul Czege: how to buy the Acts of Evil ashcan
I have some left and just put up a page where you can order one if you'd like: http://www.halfmeme.com/buyevil.html Thanks, Paul
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/23/2007 Paul Czege: canned heat
At Gen Con The Ashcan Front moved 265 ashcans for feedback and playtesting, across 11 different games. A daily break-down: Thursday: 86 Friday: 40 Saturday: 50 Sunday: 89 Friday was…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Gregor Hutton.

8/1/2007 Paul Czege: the handicrafts of evil
So after Snyder leaked the very cool cover he designed for his 44 ashcan, I thought I'd follow through with a peek at what I'm doing for the Acts of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Nev the Deranged.

7/20/2007 Paul Czege: question about acrylic paint
I'm planning to do splatter painting and paint stamping with acrylic paint on the covers of my Acts of Evil ashcan books for Gen Con. And I've been thinking the…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, MatrixGamer, Darcy Burgess, David Artman.

5/21/2007 Paul Czege: the in absentia policy for having your game at The Ashcan Front booth
Hey all, Matt and I both want The Ashcan Front booth to support a small handful of folks (like maybe two or three) who can't, for whatever reason, be at…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/18/2007 Paul Czege: the deadline for buying in to The Ashcan Front is Monday, June 4th.
Hey all, My mental tally of who's participating is the group of folks who've posted to this thread a couple of sentences describing the game they want to have as…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/7/2007 Paul Czege: for the Acts of Evil ashcan: please fact-check my playtest history
One of the things that has me excited about doing an Acts of Evil ashcan is the opportunity it represents to really experiment with the form of a game text.…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, c, Eero Tuovinen, chris_moore.

5/4/2007 Paul Czege: [Chronicles of Babel] slaves in the hanging gardens
Well, the Sunday before Easter our occasional Sunday group was between games, and so I seized the day and ran a playtest of Paul Elliott's Chronicles of Babel. As a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Mithras, Noclue.

4/29/2007 Paul Czege: 2006 sales of My Life with Master charted against prior years
Most recent post at halfmeme.com. But for fun, first ask yourself what impact you'd expect from the game being out of print for the Saturday and Sunday of Gen Con…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

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12/29/2008 Paul Czege: Come to STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo in Austin, TX, on March 7, 2009
Half Meme Press will have a table at <a href="http://www.staple-austin.org/">STAPLE!</a> The Independent Media Expo, on Saturday March 7th, at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, Texas. I'll be sharing a…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Darcy Burgess.

1/26/2009 Paul Czege: It damn near killed me...
...but between January 8th and today I completed an indie entry to Jared Sorensen's <a href="http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=8258&page=1">Indie Game Company Game Design Challenge</a>. System design, playtesting, fixing the broken stuff, art direction…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Adam Dray, Thor Olavsrud, Artanis, Graham Walmsley, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen.

1/30/2009 Paul Czege: [Thy Vernal Chieftains] frequently asked questions
One effect of personally emailing a pdf to purchasers is also personally receiving questions about it by email. So I thought I'd do some of the frequent ones as a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

3/23/2009 Paul Czege: STAPLE! 2009 report
[url=http://www.staple-austin.org/]STAPLE![/url], The Independent Media Expo, was Saturday, March 7th, at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, Texas, from 10:00 to 7:00. The whole damn thing, from pre-party Friday night through…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, ejh, ModusVivendi.

4/7/2009 Paul Czege: questions and comments on Spirited
Hey Graham, I really like your use of language in Spirited: "gentleman," "lady." And the vision you have for the social experience of play: players "who are very special to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, madunkieg, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley.

5/19/2009 Paul Czege: he's the decider
Barack Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304718.html?sub=AR">plays</a> <a href="http://www.gregstolze.com/ExecutiveDecision.zip">Executive Decision</a>. Love the hack where the game ends with the President dictating on the spot the text of the announcement of his decision. Paul
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege.

6/29/2009 Paul Czege: [S/Lay w/Me] the Lover and the liquids
Danielle and I playtested S/Lay w/Me last week. She was the adventurer and I was the situation and the Lover. I was holding off posting about it until we'd played…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Pauls Girl, Ron Edwards, MacLeod.

7/20/2009 Paul Czege: playtest Acts of Evil with me at Gen Con 2009
I want to run a playtest of Acts of Evil on Thursday, August 13th, at Gen Con, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. I've made a number of rules refinements…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/16/2009 Paul Czege: I'll be at U-Con in Ann Arbor, MI on Saturday, November 14th
I'll be at the University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.ucon-gaming.org/">U-Con</a> gaming convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday, November 14th. The convention actually runs from Friday the 13th through Sunday the…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

11/30/2009 Paul Czege: be at STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo, in Austin, TX, March 6th, 2010
This past March <a href="http://www.halfmeme.com/">Half Meme Press</a> and <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/creamaliengames/">Cream Alien Games</a> did a table together at <a href="http://www.staple-austin.org/">STAPLE!</a> The Independent Media Expo, in Austin, Texas. And we had so…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

12/10/2009 Paul Czege: [Spectre of the Beast] rules questions
Hey Joel, Alrighty, we're scheduled to playtest this weekend. Mostly I think I'm clear on the game from the text of the ashcan, but I have a just few questions:…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Melinglor, Darcy Burgess.

4/27/2010 Paul Czege: to purchasers of the Acts of Evil ashcan
As an original purchaser of the Acts of Evil ashcan, you are hereby granted a license to create your own game based on the text of the ashcan. The license…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Graham Walmsley, Ignotus, Filip Luszczyk.

4/27/2010 Paul Czege: do you understand currency (commodity, fiat, and representative money systems)?
I'm working on a game setting with perhaps the need for monetary currency with a unique value basis, and I'm having trouble figuring out how it could work. I'd love…
In Connections
Participants: Paul Czege.

6/14/2010 Paul Czege: is there a Sufi in the house?
Hi, I'm working on a game setting and have a small concern that adherents of Sufism might find something I'm considering irritating or offensive. If you can comment as Sufist,…
In Connections
Participants: Paul Czege, Parthenia.

7/23/2010 Paul Czege: Half Meme Press and Cream Alien Games at SMACC this coming weekend
If you're within driving distance of southeast Michigan this weekend, <a href="http://halfmeme.com/">Half Meme Press</a> and <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/creamaliengames/">Cream Alien Games</a> will be running a table at the first ever <a href="http://idea-men.us/smacc/guests.html">Southern…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/26/2010 Paul Czege: broadcasting, listening, channels, clouds, dice, arrows, and moves
Vincent, if you were to explain Moves to video game guy Randy Smith, knowing his concerns from this article, how would you explain them? Paul
In lumpley games
Participants: Paul Czege, Marshall Burns, stingray20166.

1/31/2011 Paul Czege: some kind of mathematical notation?
My current game design project has resolution mechanics that involve drawing tokens of various types from a bowl, and interpreting the combinations against a menu of possible outcomes. Some of…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2011 Paul Czege: Ronnies participants, I'm curious
Ronnies participants, What did you learn from your participation (completion and submission of a game) in either round one or two of the Ronnies this year? I'm curious. Paul
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Paul Czege, Bret Gillan, Paolo D., whduryea, davidberg, Troy_Costisick, Willow, Ben Lehman, Cliff H, Elizabeth, Ghostlight Games, jburneko, Vulpinoid.

3/4/2011 Paul Czege: head games
My current secret design project is a rich setting RPG aimed at longer term play. Thirteen sessions into internal playtesting I'm noticing a vague pattern of player behavior which I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Caldis, Chris_Chinn, Cliff H, davidberg, jburneko, Ron Edwards, stefoid, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, Alfryd, Jeff B, Ben Lehman, contracycle, Paka, C. Edwards.

3/8/2011 Paul Czege: Guy Shalev's The Friendship Game, with mechanics like real friendship
After a bit of boardgaming this past Saturday a group of us switched to roleplaying with a stab at Guy Shalev's <a href="http://craniumrats.pbworks.com/f/The%20Friendship%20Game%20V2.pdf">The Friendship Game (v. 2)</a>. It was me,…
In Game Development
Participants: Paul Czege, Thunder_God, d.anderson.

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