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1/18/2011 Filip Luszczyk: My Favorite Rule
In Carcassonne the rule is: when you draw a tile that you can’t legally place, you return it and draw again. I played Carcassonne maybe about 150 times. Exactly 123…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, contracycle, Caldis.

9/28/2010 Filip Luszczyk: Rising Hero and uborn children
I'm playing Rising Hero and the other player's pilot has just learned his girlfriend is pregnant. How does my special ability interact with this situation? My guess is that my…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

6/30/2010 Filip Luszczyk: Advancement mechanics
I'm interested in advancement mechanics that meet the following criteria: * Self-balancing. System automatically compensates mechanical difficulty with adequate mechanical rewards. * No empty tests. Every instance of resolution should…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Aaron Baker, horomancer, contracycle, opsneakie, davidvs, dugfromthearth.

5/2/2010 Filip Luszczyk: How difficult is a task?
In many trad games the in-game difficulty of various tasks is represented mechanically via target numbers, modifiers or other means. Outside a few detailed subsystems (e.g. combat), this is often…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Vulpinoid, jprussell, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T, dindenver, SageThe13th, Egonblaidd, JoyWriter, spotvice29.

4/19/2010 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Hacking healing conflicts
I've been thinking today how for every strong healing conflict, I've seen two repetitive ones. Sometimes they just feel like a formality on the one hand, but on the other…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

3/3/2010 Filip Luszczyk: I hate compromises
I hate compromises. I immediately started to hate compromises the first and the last time I played Burning Empires. We've spent 40 minutes or so playing out DoW. Then, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Frank Tarcikowski, jburneko, Luke, Noon, Paka, greyorm, JoyWriter, Ben Lehman, Brendan Day, contracycle, ThoughtBubble, CedricP, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Jeff B, ShallowThoughts, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2010 Filip Luszczyk: Controlling PDF Accessibility
Is there a way to display PDF files online without making it possible to save the file itself? That is, impossible without resorting to some m4d h4ck1ng sk1llz, obviously... The…
In Publishing
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, greyorm, Jasper Flick, Mike Sugarbaker, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

12/26/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Misery Bubblegum] It hurts!
Last session, I've cut my finger with the box. It hurt. Thusly, it was the first time I experienced actual pain when playing a game. I mean, how silly is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

12/26/2009 Filip Luszczyk: The GM should stop me!
I've found this situation intriguing. The game in question handles character effectiveness primarily via player <-> player permissions. I'm in the middle of running a campaign, and our last session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Eliarhiman6, Noon, contracycle, ShallowThoughts.

11/22/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Misery Bubblegum] First Game Questions
So, we've just finished our first session like half an hour ago. While the rules generally seem clear (I'm really fond of the slick non-linear presentation), and the game feels…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley.

10/14/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Misery Bubblegum] Vassal Module?
So, my Misery Bubblegum has just arrived today and now I'm considering my options for online play. I recall reading something about MB Vassal module. Does it exist, or do…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

9/29/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Bliss Stage] Rising Hero's special
It says to add one Trust to all relationships with other pilots. Do we still subtract one Trust, as normal? Or does the special supercede the default rule, resulting in…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman.

5/31/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [LoA] I/C ties
The original clarification comes from this thread. The situation: two player characters are in a conflict, both have no Inspiration and both have some Corruption. Both players want to…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, M. J. Young, GreatWolf.

2/19/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] The text
In the other thread Joe Murphy wrote: I didn't think it was clear, no. Because the text is so genial and conversational, and refers to 'you' all the time. As…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, 5niper9, lumpley, Axhead.

2/2/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Bliss Stage] Anchor's Safety
Interim Stage, p. 107: If the pilot has a broken relationship with his anchor (...) add a new category for dice in the climax: Anchor's Safety. What exactly constitutes "a…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman.

1/6/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination!] Session closure procedure problems
I'm in the middle of writing the new playtest version of my game. I'm stuck. There's this "what if" thing that bugs me. It's something that cropped up in my…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Spooky Fanboy, JoyWriter.

12/19/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Bliss Stage] Automatic minus and Anchor abilities
Does the automatic minus in a category (resulting from not having enough dice to assign) count as a die that can be rerolled?
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman.

11/26/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Polaris] Amber hack?
In every group I've played with so far there was at most a single other player who knew Zelazny's books (and one would think he's a popular author). So far…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman, demiurgeastaroth.

11/13/2008 Filip Luszczyk: MLWM - still available?
So, I made this big (and likely final) order at IPR yesterday, and I couldn't find MLWM there. I don't see it in that new indie non-store where IPR stuff…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

11/6/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Shooting UFOs and escalations
In our last game we had the following situation: The conflict was about the community's trust in the Sorcerer. We've already "opened" Just Talking and Physical arenas, it was still…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Warren, lumpley, David Artman, Paul T.

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