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6/5/2009 jburneko: Sex & Sorcery At The Table
Hello, Sex and Sorcery is certainly the most unusual of the Sorcerer supplements.  In many ways its content is a big, "well DUH" but the way it's presented is certainly…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, AXUM, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Abkajud, Finarvyn.

5/6/2009 jburneko: Question About Liches From Sorcerer & Sword
I was looking at the How To Become An Undead section of Sorcerer & Sword.  So the way I understand it is that you effectively become a demon.  But when…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, AXUM, greyorm.

4/7/2009 jburneko: [Silent Sound] Problem with Flashbacks and Memories
I'm don't know if this is the right forum for this.  What I'm about to discuss came out of play testing experience but it concerns unplaytested components arising from a…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Artanis.

3/10/2009 jburneko: Total Defense: One More Time From The Top
So, I'm doing what is now basically man annual cover to cover read through of Sorcerer (one of the pages is loose, damn it).  And I'm STILL seeing stuff I've…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Greymorn, Alan, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, greyorm, The Dragon Master.

2/17/2009 jburneko: [Dirty Secrets] How I Accidentally Playtested Dirty Cities.
Hello, So this weekend at OrcCon I played a very awesome but highly unusual Dirty Secrets game.  It was my intension to experiment with recording all my sessions this con…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf.

12/15/2008 jburneko: [Play Challenge] Movies That Didn't Get Made
So earlier this year the idea of creating "play challenges" rather than "design challenges" got floated around on Story Games. That resulted in the rather awesome setting/system cross over play…
In Endeavor
Participants: jburneko.

12/5/2008 jburneko: System Transforms Situation... And Situation Informs System?
We talk a lot about how System transforms Situation.  What we don’t talk a lot about is how Situation limits or informs our choices about how to employ the System. …
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Noon, Adrian F., Artanis, davidberg, JoyWriter, GreatWolf, masqueradeball, Caldis.

11/26/2008 jburneko: [Silent Sound] Mechanics Flowing In The Wrong Direction
This is a follow up to the original thread regarding my game in progress: Silent Sound.  The original thread can be found here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=27077.0 Last night we played the first…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko.

11/18/2008 jburneko: The Situation In Silent Sound
So I finally got over my terror and pulled together some people to play test my game Silent Sound.  The game is inspired by much of the color and thematics…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Eric Heisserer, Christopher Kubasik.

11/12/2008 jburneko: [Analise] Traits with One Coin
So, yesterday I read through Analise and so far I like what I see.  I have only one initial question.  How do Moments work when a player has only one…
In ndp design
Participants: jburneko, Nathan P..

11/4/2008 jburneko: Sorcerer: The Book That Rewrites Itself While You Sleep
So, up in Actual Play in a thread about texts Ron wrote this: "(I should make a parody Sorcerer text of what the game would be like based on accounts…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Peter Nordstrand.

8/7/2008 jburneko: SP 1 and Scene Requests
I just saw in another thread that if your Screen Presence is 1 that you don't get to request scenes.  Is that correct?  Is that in the book?  Page Number?…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: jburneko, Eliarhiman6, Matt Wilson.

4/29/2008 jburneko: [IAWA] Answerer & The Dice
This is mainly directed to Vincent's analogy about the Answerer in a round and Block/Dodge vs. Taking The Blow in Dogs.  In a couple of threads Vincent has talked about…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, lumpley, David Artman.

4/16/2008 jburneko: [Dirty Secrets] Simple Rules Question
Hello, Simple rules question.  Do you still set goals in Violence scenes?  The rules say Violence scenes work like Investigation scenes "except" and "don't set goals" isn't listed among those…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Linnaeus, Ron Edwards.

4/7/2008 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Quickie Rules Question
This is something that I've been meaning to ask about and keep forgetting. Let's say Alice and Bob are fighting each other. Alice goes first and Bob doesn't abort and…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, pfischer, Ron Edwards, Paul T, Peter Nordstrand.

4/4/2008 jburneko: SIS Control Take 3, EUREKA!
I just totally had an epiphany!  Conflict declaration in Capes is backwards from almost all other RPGs. In most games a player declares an action and then either someone steps…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

4/2/2008 jburneko: [In A Wicked Age...] Social Conflict Subtlety
I've seen it said that there is no social conflict resolution in In A Wicked Age... However, given my reading of the text I think I see a subtlety in…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, Brand_Robins, Valvorik, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

2/20/2008 jburneko: [OrcCon 2008][Spione] Hey, it worked again!
So, I ran Spione in the 8pm Sunday slot of OrcCon here in Los Angeles.  It worked out really well again.  Hey, that's two successful runs of a Ron Edwards…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

2/5/2008 jburneko: Spione Dry Run For OrcCon
Hello, Allow me a moment of angst.  Sometimes I feel like I have no "right" to run Spione which I know is absurd.  I bought the book.  I'm free to…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, WillH, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Eliarhiman6.

1/3/2008 jburneko: The Social Mandate
There's a phrase I want to push into the gaming lexicon: The Social Mandate.  I can't remember if Ron uses this phrase in the text of Spione or not.  The…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Noon, Eliarhiman6, Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, davidberg, Ben Lehman, contracycle.

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7/20/2009 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?
So, there’s this common fear that if you throw overt demons and sorcerers into a “Dogs in the Vineyard” game it will detract from the moral issues.  I’ve never found…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Noon, Noclue.

7/22/2009 jburneko: The Demonic Plague Scenario
So, as promised here is my Demonic Plague scenario that CK affectionately refers to my "demonic venereal disease story".  Enjoy! The Humanity definition for this scenario is: Love.  Love is…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

7/28/2009 jburneko: Basic Contain Mechanic Question
Hello, In the text it says that you can make a series of Lore vs. Stamina tests while constructing a Contain to generate bonus dice that will eventually add to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2009 jburneko: Breaking Binding Question
The text has information about what happens if a demon wants to break a binding.  What happens if a Sorcerer wants to break a binding? In specific I had a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, lachek.

9/17/2009 jburneko: Trollbabe: Question and Comment
So last night I finished reading the new version of Trollbabe.  I can't help but wonder what the me of 10 years ago would have thought of it.  I did…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, John Stephens.

11/3/2009 jburneko: [Thornes] Issues with Ego.
Last night I play tested a game I wrote called Thornes.  I describe Thornes as a swashbuckling film noir about sex and violence dressed up in lace and steel.  Aesthetically…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Simon C, Marshall Burns, Noclue, JoyWriter.

1/22/2010 jburneko: [Burning Empires/Primetime Adventures] RPG Weight Training
Hello Everyone, So right now I'm GMing Burning Empires.  It's a massive undertaking and it's very demanding.  We're four maneuvers into the Infiltration phase.  I'm really struggling with the game…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, pfischer, davidberg, Welkerfan.

2/17/2010 jburneko: [Thornes] OrcCon 2010 Playtest
I got brave and took my game Thornes to OrcCon.  Previous discussion of the game is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28949.0 This was the first time I've run the game with multiple people. …
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Noclue.

2/23/2010 jburneko: Sex & Sorcery and Houses of the Blooded LARP
Okay, so this is my attempt to collect my thoughts on the material in Sex & Sorcery, and Houses of the Blooded LARP.  Let me start off by explaining the…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Roger, The Dragon Master.

3/3/2010 jburneko: The Drifter's Escape Purchasing Problem
Hello, I left a comment on the TAO Games blog about this but maybe that didn't get through.  I've been trying to buy The Drifter's Escape for a couple of…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: jburneko, Ben Lehman.

3/20/2010 jburneko: A Very Dogs Like Quote
A couple of weeks ago I was watching the film Doubt.  As I was watching there was a line uttered by Meryl Streep that made me jump up and get…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, Simon C.

3/29/2010 jburneko: [S/lay w/ Me] The Cowboy and The Clockwork Hacker
So I had the opportunity to play S/lay w/ Me.  For a while I had been trying to convince Laura to the play the game with me but she found…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Savage Slacker, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick, bayonder, hix.

4/8/2010 jburneko: Differences between Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020
So, I feel like this should be a legitimate Forge question but I'm uncertain how to ground it in AP.  So I'll ask my question then share some experiences and…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, d.anderson, Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, contracycle.

4/15/2010 jburneko: Quick Angel Question
Hey Ron, The Abilities that Angels have in Sorcerer's Soul: Was the idea that this list of Abilities is what Angels can do *instead of* the list for Demons or…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, fernando.

8/25/2010 jburneko: [Apocalypse World] Specialized Language
Over on twitter I made a comment about Apocalypse World and Vincent asked me to "say more."  I figured here is a good place.  First, understand that I have not…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, lumpley, Paka, Chris_Chinn.

1/21/2011 jburneko: Doctor Chaos Thoughts and Questions
Hello, So, I might have a chance to play Doctor Chaos this weekend and if I don't then I'm thinking of putting it on the schedule at OrcCon in February. …
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2011 jburneko: [Doctor Chaos] OrcCon 2011
At OrcCon this weekend I had the opportunity to play Doctor Chaos.  Overall the game was very successful.  I'll go over some of the highlights. First the social context.  There…
In Game Development
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2011 jburneko: [Nine] A Game of Covert Operations
Over on Story-Games there was a thread about writing a whole game in a single paragraph.  I took a couple of minutes to scribble some notes and came up with…
In Game Development
Participants: jburneko.

6/1/2011 jburneko: [The Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor] Automated Relationship Drama
At Gamex 2011 I ran a game of The Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor (which itself is a version of Monsters & Other Childish Things). What I want to know…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, stefoid, Vulpinoid, Noclue.

6/27/2011 jburneko: [Silent Sound] Revisiting My White Whale
So I thinker with game design from time to time.  I admit I'm not crazy serious about it but there is one project I keep revisiting.  It is very much…
In Game Development
Participants: jburneko, hix, Chris_Chinn, Noon.

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