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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12/22/2008 Paul Czege: use My Life with Master to introduce players to the hobby
Christian Lindke, in his December 17th <a href="http://cinerati.blogspot.com/2008/12/but-master-why-must-i-feed-children.html">review of <i>My Life with Master</i></a> on his pop culture blog Cinerati, suggests there's a difference between games "to use to introduce players"…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

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6/8/2011 Paul Czege: anxieties about death at the core of Ophite
Ron, Now seeing the text of Ophite again I remember what I wanted to say about it. As a former, more anxious than inspired Catholic who's now an atheist of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2011 Paul Czege: I seem to have designed a waiting game...
Hey all, One of my two primary RPG design projects is a game for exactly four players. It has four pre-generated characters who are locked in a mutually unresolvable situation.…
In Game Development
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Warrior Monk, Frank Tarcikowski, Chris_Chinn, davide.losito, Noon.

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