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8/18/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] 2nd day in July 4th '06 week of play.
The following morning (if one considers two PM to be morning) I find that I am the last to rise.  I bleary my way downstairs to find that some Team…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Valamir, Precious Villain, Caldis, Ron Edwards.

7/20/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] 1st day in July 4th '06 week of play.
So it has come to pass that the (nearly) annual July 4th gaming retreat came together this year and it was a smokin’ blast!  About 2 months ago the decision…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Calithena.

4/9/2006 Silmenume: Thanks
Just wanted to say, “Thank you,” to everyone who has sweat blood and tears to make this a real “functioning” place in the ether where solid attempts to understand our…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Silmenume, Latreya Sena, Meguey.

3/19/2006 Silmenume: Dragon Magazine uses - "Gamism, Narrativism and Simulation" in an article
I just thought I would point out that some of the concepts that are the backbone of the theory here have found themselves in, for what passes for mass media…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, coffeestain, Miskatonic, Kitanin, Czar Fnord, Thunder_God, Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon, Julian, c, Ron Edwards, Gaerik.

3/8/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - a "new" player's perspective.
The following was an email sent to my GM by a player who is relatively new to our table. We had the usual cast of players plus 3 irregulars. Chuck…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, contracycle, jrs, Walt Freitag, JMendes, Precious Villain.

1/23/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - A really bad game night.
A couple of weeks ago, in my regular game I had one the crappiest times – ever.  The post mortem, however, was utterly fascinating. But first, some background. The game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, CSBone, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, Tommi Brander, Noon, NN, contracycle, Walt Freitag, Marco, Liminaut, Glendower, Precious Villain, Rob Carriere, James Holloway, jlarke, Caldis, dunlaing, Mark Woodhouse, LandonSuffered.

12/19/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - A first, another group with the same play style!
What I had started to despair as the impossible has been demonstrated to me to be utterly possible!  Through a strange and convoluted series of incidents my GM and I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Supplanter, Noon, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, beingfrank, RDU Neil.

10/28/2005 Silmenume: Enumerating Lists
Hi Clinton, You probably have a real life beyond the Forge here, but I thought I would put this out. I remember in the prior software we were able to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume.

10/25/2005 Silmenume: "Situation Creation" mechanics - and Sim
Hey Everyone! The other day in my AP thread Vincent (Lumpley) made the following assertion in response to my claim – Situation creation Mechanics…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Silmenume, Bankuei, Joshua BishopRoby, talysman, contracycle, Shreyas Sampat, lumpley, John Kim, cruciel, ewilen, Mike Holmes, Noon, timfire, Marco, M. J. Young, LordSmerf, Valamir, Supplanter.

10/8/2005 Silmenume: [DitV] - I am an incompetent Narrativist!
I am an incompetent Narrativist!  …But what a fascinating examination of the differences between Nar and Sim through contrast! Last night I met a couple of Forge-ites for the first…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Bankuei, bcook1971, demiurgeastaroth, Kintara, WhiteRat, cruciel, Blankshield, Marco, Vaxalon, Noon, lumpley, John Harper, Eero Tuovinen, Brian Newman, Mike Holmes, John Burdick, contracycle, Jaik, ewilen, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2005 Silmenume: Searching for old links by message number -
Is there a way to search the forums by message number?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes.

8/26/2005 Silmenume: Searching for Threads started by a poster...
Is there a way to search for all Threads started by a poster? The wild card does not seem to work in the "search for" field. Thanks
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, TonyLB, Valamir.

8/25/2005 Silmenume: Exploration does not equal Bricolage.
I broke this off from Xenopulse’s (Christian) thread Complications Instead of Failure as I felt this would be too far out of the original subject matter.  A link to the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Silmenume, ewilen, cruciel.

8/4/2005 Silmenume: Missing graphic -
I've noticed that the graphic star under Ron's name is rendered as a box with the windows place maker for an image with a tiny text asterisk next to it…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Miskatonic.

8/2/2005 Silmenume: Regarding the "actual moment(s)” of Role-play.
Looking at the Big ModelTM we note that “play” is said to have actually commenced at the level described as “Exploration.”  So what has changed when the players switch from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Silmenume, Alan, Nathan P., Justin A Hamilton, Simon Marks, Ron Edwards, Caldis, Joshua BishopRoby.

6/10/2005 Silmenume: Strange URL and header appearing when at The Forge
At the top of the web pages while I am at The Forge this "header" for lack of a better term appears on every page - On the first line…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Clinton R. Nixon, xiombarg.

5/20/2005 Silmenume: sloooooooooow email notifications
Recently I've noticed that the email notifications I've been receiving of posting activity to subcribed threads is lagging by over 12 hours or more. Is this standard or is it…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Valamir, Andrew Morris, xiombarg, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2005 Silmenume: The Creation and Birth of a Character
For the last couple of months the GM in the game I play in and I have been, for lack of a better term, flirting with me getting some sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes, Sean, jdagna, Ron Edwards, James Holloway, droog.

5/7/2005 Silmenume: Strategicon - Los Angeles
I am going to be giving a "seminar" on role-play theory at the up coming Strategicon in Los Angeles over the Memorial Day Weekend. I have several questions to ask.…
In Conventions
Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes, Trish2.

4/17/2005 Silmenume: Apostrophes showing up as Question marks.
So I'm reading through the Provisional Glossary and I'm noticing something rather curious. Certain symbols aren't being displayed properly on my computer. For Example - Whiff FactorThe effect of a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, J B Bell.

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