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7/10/2011 Eliarhiman6: [DitV] Relationship dice: a form of content authority?
Hi! I often encounter Internet posts that propagate a specific misconception about the use of Relationship Dice in DitV.  The last case, that prompted me to write this post, was…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

6/26/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] Hocus cult, PC cultist in stupor and other questions
Hi! This is a question about the effects of being in a cult Character Creation, first session. Snake is a Hocus, his cult contain followers involved in successful commerce, they…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

5/18/2011 Eliarhiman6: [DitV] Escalating in dice but not in the fiction
I was reading this recent thread:  questions on Raises and Sees, and that made me think again about the "seeing a specific arena means escalating to it" rule (it's…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Noclue, Artanis.

3/22/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe vs Trollbabe
A question that did come up in the Italian forum: Two Trollbabes are fighting against each other. The situation is the one addressed in page 83 (page 132 of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions V: conflicts and authority
Other questions! (I used two thread to be able to use a more descriptive thread subject) 1) Often, it' not simple to judge the right Action Type.  Sometimes there is…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions IV: places, scenes and turns
New questions! Places: 1) What IS the map of Trollabe? It's the map of the entire world? So the entire world is made "of fjords, mists, twisted trees, and frozen…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

3/16/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe Barrage of Questions III: backstory and content authority
Hi Ron! I am still mulling over the last reply in the "Barrage II" thread, but meanwhile, let's attack the backlog of question that surfaced in play... In this thread,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe barrage II (split)
New questions! 1) A Trollbabe can be harmed only by a failed reroll. But what about a Relationship? Can the well-being (or even the liberty or the life) of a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe GM prep: public, private or neither?
Hi! I am posting this in a different thread because I think it merit a separate discussion. I was asked recently if the map the GM create in preparation of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

12/28/2010 Eliarhiman6: [DiTV] NPC healing a PC
Hi! Today in the Italian DitV forum someone asked about a wounded Dog (fallout > 16) healed by a NPC. I quoted the rule at page 65 of the DitV…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

12/1/2010 Eliarhiman6: GM-full Trollbabe
Hi! Recently, my gaming group played Trollbabe again. I wanted to play a trollbabe this time and another player wanted to try play in the GM's role. But to avoid…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2010 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe barrage of questions: help!
Hi! The Italian edition of Trollbabe was published ten days ago, translated by me, and now people are asking all kind of questions in our forum about the rules. Some…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

11/2/2010 Eliarhiman6: The forge will close down (info & background)
Following the announcement of the starting of the winter phase in the the thread The Winter of the Forge looms near, for the people baffled about the concept, I am…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

8/31/2010 Eliarhiman6: Murk, or beating down confusion
Hi! I am compiling a little "reading guide" on the concept of "Murk" for a Italian forum, prompted by Ron's recent postings and by the absence of that word from…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

8/28/2010 Eliarhiman6: Ron Edwards Vs Tobias Wrigstad at InterNosCon 2010!
Hi! I already posted these links in other forums, but I waited before posting them at the Forge because I didn't know where to post them, in what sub-forum. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Rafu, Ron Edwards, Noon, ShallowThoughts, greyorm.

8/17/2010 Eliarhiman6: Link in the Archive, to the Archive, don't work
There is a problem in the Forge Archive when there is a link to another thread in the Archive. For example, this post there is a link to another previous…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

7/25/2010 Eliarhiman6: The lumpley principle
First, a little grammar lesson: it's written "lumpley principle". Smallcaps. Then, about this thread... searching for posts about the shared imagined space I found these, at it was a pity…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

7/21/2010 Eliarhiman6: Who REALLY coined "Shared Imagined Space"?
Hi! I was arguing in another forum with a guy who was using Fang Langford definition of "Shared Imaginary Space" as the "original" one on which the Big Model definition…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Miskatonic, Paul Czege, jburneko, Artanis.

6/24/2010 Eliarhiman6: [Blowback] Dentists and Night Clubs at Miami
Hi! I recently discovered the TV series "Burn Notice" (I am still in the middle of the second season, so please no spoilers). I wouldn't call myself really a "fan"…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Elizabeth.

3/6/2010 Eliarhiman6: Le Mille e una Notte (1001 Nights in Italian)
Today the first pictures of the printer's proofs for "Le mille e una notte", the Italian edition of 1001 Nights, were posted online. You can see them here The book's…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

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8/1/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] Hocus and insight
I have some doubts about the "Insight" move. The Hocus player make his roll at the beginning of the session, and he get insight. This is a finite resource (like…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

8/1/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] Sex and the Battlebabe
Another question. I think I already did read the answer somewhere, but i don't remember it - it was months ago - and I can't find it now, so I'm…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

8/3/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] No doctor. What can you do?
Hi! In the AW book the "healing" chapter talks about the healing moves and rolls you do when you play an Angel.  Then, it suggest three alternative solutions with NPCs…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

8/17/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] Barter counting?
I am having some difficulties understanding how Barter works in Apocalypse World. I am used to having money (or wealth in general) treated in two kind of manners in rpgs:…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen.

8/22/2011 Eliarhiman6: [DitV] initiation for the already initiated player?
For various reasons I am reading again the DitV game manual these days, and reading again the chapter about the initiation conflict made me think about the utility of that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen.

10/8/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] one gun, some guns, all the guns?
Reading the gunlugger playbook.  Page 53 The Silencer option in "serious guns". Says "remove loud from any of your guns" It means "from one gun of my choice"? Or "from…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Miskatonic.

10/9/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] a blood-crazed NTBFW gunlugger
If a Gunlugger is fighting like a gang (the "Not to be fucked with" move) does he still get the +1harm from "Bloodcrazed"? (4-harm instead of 3-harm)? More in general:…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

10/11/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] I want to be what you were
At the start of the game, everyone choose one booklet. No duplicates. OK, that's easy. Let's say that I am playing an Angel, and my friend is playing a Hardholder. …
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

11/4/2011 Eliarhiman6: Story before: the real culprits?
Hello! In a email to Ron, I wrote something about his selecting Shadowrun as the cause of all evil (as in "story before" evil) in the thread Setting and emergent…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2011 Eliarhiman6: [AW] leverage: kill me
Hi Vincent! There is a way to use the "Manipulate" move that I used in a example and it was contested, so I am checking it with you to be…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, lumpley, way.

3/12/2012 Eliarhiman6: Distribution, the three-tier system, sales, and poison pages
A friend of mine asked me about some links about the problems and failures of the "traditional" distribution system.  Instead of sending the by email I thought that it would…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

4/9/2012 Eliarhiman6: My choice threads about Creative Agenda
For years, most of the theory threads here were about the Creative Agenda concept.  What almost stopped these discussions here at the Forge was the requirement, after the closing of…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

4/24/2012 Eliarhiman6: The Big "Stakes" Controversy
It's a FAQ, or at least it should be. Because I can't count the times I did read some actual play reports about games with explicit stake-setting before the conflicts...…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

5/7/2012 Eliarhiman6: A few threads about... PRIMETIME ADVENTURES
Hello! One of my long-standing projects was to write a series of posts with a "best threads compilation" for a indie rpg.  None of these compilation is at this time…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Miskatonic.

5/8/2012 Eliarhiman6: A few threads about... IT WAS A MUTUAL DECISION
Hello! One of my long-standing projects was to write a series of posts with a "best threads compilation" for a indie rpg.  None of these compilation is at this time…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

5/25/2012 Eliarhiman6: A few threads about... MY LIFE WITH MASTER
Hello! One of my long-standing projects was to write a series of posts with a "best threads compilation" for a indie rpg.  None of these compilation is at this time…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

5/28/2012 Eliarhiman6: The Infamous Five
This post is easy. Ron already did the work of listing all the links, in 2004... ...and then left that list in the Forge Archive without copying it in this…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

5/28/2012 Eliarhiman6: How it did happen? Why all this theory? And why "Indie"?
When people ask me what is all the fuss about "indie games" at the Forge, I point them to an essay and three threads. The essay is The Nuked Apple…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

5/30/2012 Eliarhiman6: [Ronnies] Summary Threads
This is another of the summaries that Ron wrote that were left at the archive, this one is HERE and was written in 2006 I am adding at the end…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

5/31/2012 Eliarhiman6: When you point to the Moon, rpg culture hears only "Brain Damage"
A polemic subject this time. I was not sure about tackling it into a summary thread: this is not the place to add new content or discussions. But I decided…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Karl.

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