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10/29/2010 M. J. Young: Ubercon XIII
I'm planning to be there next weekend, if all goes well.  I don't know if anyone else here will be, but I'm usually pretty prominent.  I don't yet have my…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young.

4/24/2008 M. J. Young: Ubercon X, Edison NJ
I am at this moment expecting (98% certainty) to be at Ubercon X in Secaucus this weekend.  If anyone is going to be there, look me up--I'll be running Multiverser…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young.

7/12/2007 M. J. Young: Congratulations to Dark Omen Games...
...for being on the nominees list for Best Publisher in the ENnies. Best of grace in this. --M. J. Young
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

12/14/2006 M. J. Young: Theory 101 Third Article Posted
I neglected to mention it last week as I've been pretty preoccupied with other matters, and I apologize because it should have been a priority. The new issue of Places…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young.

5/19/2006 M. J. Young: Origins?
Just yesterday someone was pressuring me to commit to appearing at Origins, and it suddenly occurred to me that I don't recall anyone here ever saying anything about selling games…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, inthisstyle, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Dav, Lisa Padol.

11/3/2005 M. J. Young: Reward Cycle II: Cycle Sans System
There were some excellent points made in the recent thread Reward Cycle; as I read it, though, I was brought back in my thinking to the problem that I've had…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Vaxalon, timfire, talysman, Frank T, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/20/2005 M. J. Young: Clarifying Participationism
Over in Illusionism etc there has been some discussion of illusionism versus participationism. Hal, to extend your metaphor, the theoretical functional illusionism is where your wife…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Joshua BishopRoby, timfire, Noon, Marco, JasonPalenske, Halzebier, Caldis, Silmenume.

8/19/2005 M. J. Young: A Model for a CRPG?
Recently I was corresponding with someone whose understanding of The Big Model is rather incomplete. In the course of our discussion he portrayed his dream of designing a CRPG with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Noon, Warren, Adam Dray, contracycle, JamesSterrett, Eric J..

8/4/2005 M. J. Young: What's Not to Like?
I don't like change. That's a given. I think too many times people change things for the worse, or at least make changes that don't improve anything but only make…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, jrs, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Alan.

8/4/2005 M. J. Young: Ubercon VI
Anyone who is planning, hoping, or thinking to go to Ubercon VI this fall not as a vendor or special guest: please contact me privately. I'm a guest of the…
In Conventions
Participants: M. J. Young, Adam Dray.

8/4/2005 M. J. Young: After Reading Cruciel's Dice Riddle
Cruciel's A Dice Mechanic Riddle got me thinking a bit, and although this lacks a few of the factors he wanted to include it struck me as an interesting mechanic…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, ffilz.

7/1/2005 M. J. Young: Theory 101: The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast posted
For those following the series, Places to Go, People to Be has released the next issue, containing the second of the theory series, Theory 101: The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Albert of Feh, John Kim, Andrew Morris, Ian Charvill, timfire, Sean, Paul Czege, cruciel, ewilen, greyorm, Silmenume, 1of3, contracycle, Marco, Noon, brainwipe, Vaxalon, Mortaneus, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2005 M. J. Young: Stance as Credibility Distribution
O.K., I'm actually sort of puzzling over something I wrote, and I thought I'd initiate some discussion on this to see if I'm off my rocker. I took a long…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, TonyLB, timfire, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, John Kim, Mike Holmes.

5/12/2005 M. J. Young: Perpetuating Sing-Sex Play Groups
[quote="In [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15305"]Do RPGS allow for diverse participation/discourse?[/a] Julie"]One of these days I'd like to see someone address the issue of why gamers perpetuate the existance of single sex play…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, xenopulse, Noon, jrs, James Holloway, Bret Gillan, Gordon C. Landis, Paka, komradebob, BrennaLaRosa, Emily Care, GameLoft, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Walt Freitag.

5/6/2005 M. J. Young: Character, Sheet, and Play Revisited
In The relationship between character, sheet, and play Fred (Vaxalon) wrote of character secrets not being part of the shared imagined space. I disagree. I'm very sorry I missed this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Troy_Costisick, 1of3, MatrixGamer, Valamir, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, John Kim, C. Edwards, xenopulse, contracycle.

4/1/2005 M. J. Young: Introduction to Theory article posted
In response to inquiries from Places to Go, People to Be, I have submitted a three-part miniseries attempting to summarize the basics of role playing game theory as discussed here…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, timfire, Kit, Dobamine, GB Steve.

3/18/2005 M. J. Young: Cookie Clearing
It is sometimes the case that someone's problem with The Forge relates to cookies. Just recently I was on some similar forum and noticed in passing a link/button that indicated…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, ffilz.

2/1/2005 M. J. Young: On Story in CRPG Design
I followed a link earlier today to an article in Slate entitled Oughtta Stay Out of Pictures: Why video games shouldn't be like the movies.. Clive Thompson was complaining…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, inky, Marco, shlo, contracycle, Wysardry, Noon, NN.

1/28/2005 M. J. Young: Participationism with an Agendum
O.K., this happens to me periodically, as I'm responding to a post and then discover the thread has been closed. This is a continuation of the discussion over in Celebrating…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Silmenume, Marco, Caldis, contracycle, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

12/27/2004 M. J. Young: Sim approach to speculative, short story-based sci-fi?
[quote="In the [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13725"][i]Breaking the Heart of the Universe[/i][/a] thread, Snowden"]I'd be curious to hear more about your Multiverser experience, which sounds like you were taking a sim approach to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Snowden, Jeph, Caldis, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Marco, b_bankhead.

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