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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.

1/6/2009 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.

1/1/2009 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.

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.

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.

12/13/2008 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.

12/11/2008 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

5/7/2008 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.

5/6/2008 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.

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.

2/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: Last Year's Indie Games
It took a while for the latest batch of indie games I ordered from the US to reach our distant shores, but now they're finally here, and just in time…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, iago.

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1/24/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Zombie Cinema] Animallball podcast reviews the game
This here: Animalcast podcast Episode 74 I'd never heard of this podcast, and I don't generally listen to podcasts at all, but I liked it! Of course the topic has…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

3/30/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Tunnels & Trolls] Colonizing goblin lands
Man, all of my best gaming seems to happen in Oulu. I live something like 300 kilometers from the city, but I visit a couple of times per year for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Artanis, newsalor.

4/10/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Myths of Near
Musing on my TSoY rewrite: While writing about the Skyfire I decided that I'm just going to lift Clinton's original legend of the Skyfire and put it in the book…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, oliof, dindenver.

5/9/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Maps of Near
So, we're doing cartography, and I have difficulty finding all the variant maps that've been created for Near. Could anybody link me to any they know of? For example, I…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy, oliof.

7/9/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Eyeballs for my text
I'm doing pretty well with my new TSoY book, although I can't quite say if it's going to be finished for Gencon; it'll be tight, certainly. So tight, in fact,…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, JMendes, dindenver, oliof.

7/14/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Capes] Gamism and Narrativism
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=28247.msg266224#msg266224 date=1247536708] I am still interested in someone posting about Capes in these terms, because as far as I can tell, Capes does not promote Narrativist play…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Alan, C. Edwards, Jasper Flick, jburneko, Melinglor, Noon, Bret Gillan.

7/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] The last crunchy bits
I'm almost finished with my TSoY book. This is good, as I'm supposed to go to print with it next week. However, I have a bit of room in my…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Heikki Hallamaa, dindenver, chance.thirteen.

7/30/2009 Eero Tuovinen: Ha ha haa, I finished my TSoY book after all
I haven't worked this hard since 2005, but we did manage to put the book together complete and ready for print after all. I posted the cover and table of…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Patrice, Nick Pagnucco.

9/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [People's Hero] A first stab at saving USSR from itself
I haven't been playing much of anything lately, but luckily the gaming train runs on schedule around here nowadays, whisking me with it even without much initiative on my part.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Ron Edwards.

1/13/2010 Eero Tuovinen: A quick question about the Indie RPG Bookshelf
I'm finally laying out my World of Near in pdf form, and at this point it seems that the pdf file will be somewhat too large for distribution as a…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Eliarhiman6, Ben Lehman.

2/25/2010 Eero Tuovinen: [SS] Adapting Exalted
I'm putting some preliminary thoughts on adapting Exalted for Solar System here for Dave's benefit. My perspective on Exalted is from rather early in the game's run - I've read…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Domon, d.anderson, Klaus_Welten, vellu82.

3/15/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Asian printers and who knows anything about them
I have some vague memory of one or two people around here having tried out Chinese printers for their rpg products. I have a non-rpg hardcover book in the pipeline,…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, hix, Gregor Hutton.

4/1/2010 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY] The coolest magic item ever
So, World of Near - I've been waiting for some new art before we publish a pdf version. Who knows how long that'll be, yet. Meanwhile the paper book has…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, noahtrammell, Heikki Hallamaa.

4/7/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Advice on dealing with new users and ill-fitting threads
I've noticed lately that we're getting new faces here at the Forge. An obvious consequence is that aside from new ideas and viewpoints we're also getting forum chatter: threads that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Luminous, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Spiel Essen 2010 Forge booth
OK, once more with feeling! History Ever since 2005 or so we've been speculating about a Forge booth at Spiel Essen, the largest tabletop gaming convention in the world. The…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton, Frank Tarcikowski, Teppich, Markku Tuovinen, destruktivekritik, Matt, PiHalbe.

5/14/2010 Eero Tuovinen: I need a German translation of my game for Spiel Essen
Related to my Spiel project, Jari reminded me that we should get the rules of Zombie Cinema translated into German. Most rpg fans at the Spiel will probably have workable…
In Connections
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Teppich, Artanis, xenopulse.

10/26/2010 Eero Tuovinen: Spiel Essen 2010 report and afterthoughts
As discussed in the earlier thread, we did set up a Forge booth for Spiel Essen this year; I just returned from Germany yesterday and am still waiting for our…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, mreuther, Frank Tarcikowski, Artanis, PiHalbe.

5/3/2011 Eero Tuovinen: Spiel Essen 2011 Forge Booth
As the Forge forums don't do conventions anymore (that is, there's no appropriate subform for it), I've started a discussion about this year's Essen Spiel planning at Story Games. Feel…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

10/31/2011 Eero Tuovinen: Spam problems of late
The Forge's had quite a lot of spamming over the last week or so, more than usually if I'm any judge. Maybe something special going on in spammer-land, like they…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Artanis, lumpley.

2/2/2012 Eero Tuovinen: [Mars Colony] The Man Out of Time
Maracon is a great gaming convention for me, being as how it's small enough to ensure that I don't work all through it. This time around it was small enough,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Tim C Koppang.

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