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9/5/2002 svenlein: Parrying a punch with a sword
This is a question I asked earlier but the thread died Guy tries to punch me. I parry with my sword. As an added bonus to him not hitting me,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Valamir, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking.

9/5/2002 Paka: Relinquishing Control in Dust Devils
I have got to admit that the mechanic in Dust Devils in which the player takes over narrative control of a scene until conflict is resolved troubles me. The game…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paka, Mike Holmes, Valamir, jburneko, Matt Snyder.

9/5/2002 S.Lonergan: Monkey fall down, Go boom
Is it possible to have my username changed please..... to just S.Lonergan, Thanks! - Seamus
In Site Discussion
Participants: S.Lonergan, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/5/2002 Paka: Excited to see this game work.
I have given alot of thought about what makes a game work and what makes it fail but I had not ever thought about the narrative structure underlying our hobby…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Eddy Fate, Jared A. Sorensen, mahoux, xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2002 Jeremy Cole: is it the slice of the pie, or the size of the piece
It seems to me that some systems better meet gamism, simulationism and narratavism goals than other systems. While in game design you must have a focus, and must to some…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Jeremy Cole, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, damion, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, M. J. Young.

9/5/2002 Harry: Ideas for a game
This Halloween, my fellow gamers are expecting a creepy Little Fears game hosted by me, as they tend to think I'm the most disturbing person they know. I have two…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Harry, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2002 greyorm: Indie Netgaming Monday: Orx
We played Orx this past Monday, Labor Day, via the usual IRC channel. This was the first time any of us had played it, myself included. For anyone who has…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, efindel, Bob McNamee.

9/5/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: OK. Who's the Guardian?
You know, that big black cat who won't let you log in to the Sorcerer community when you've forgotten your password. Just wondering.
In Adept Press
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Clay.

9/4/2002 Ron Edwards: "Sorcerer" - not in English
Hey, I learned neat things at GenCon, like how to say "Sorcerer" in different languages. Zauberer (German) (thanks to Juergen) Czarodziej (Polish) (thanks to Jake) I figure "Brujo" (male witch;…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, GB Steve, Ace.

9/4/2002 GB Steve: Diceless Hellboy (boy-hell for some)*.
I ran Hellboy at GCUK a couple of times. The first time I left everything to the dice. The second time I ran it, I only used the dice towards…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

9/4/2002 Matt Gwinn: Less Than Human options
Scott and I were driving home after our game on Monday and I started to think about our characters' "Less Than Human" traits and realized something. As far as I…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

9/4/2002 xiombarg: Paladin: Comedy Knights
When I was at a SF con in Minnesota, I saw a comdey troupe called "Soylent Theatre", "A Theatre Troop Made of People". They did a series of sketches on…
In CRN Games
Participants: xiombarg.

9/4/2002 lumpley: Not-very-pointful Sorcerer Things
1. Do you know Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer's song "41 Thunderer"? It's about a demon. He sings of his gun, his Colt, that she was "a cool yankee belle…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Voidwalker, Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2002 Balbinus: Making Star Wars suck
Or, why simulationism is sometimes an error. Ok, Star Wars is a highly popular universe for gaming. The Star Wars game is a big seller for WotC. I'm willing to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Balbinus, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Marco, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Yup, Clinton and I have the same birthday - today. I'm 38. Makes you just look up at the starry sky and say, "H'm," doesn't it? At least it would…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon, Ferry Bazelmans, Le Joueur, GreatWolf, xiombarg, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, C. Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Adam, wyrdlyng, greyorm, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, Eric J., Jason L Blair.

9/4/2002 Noah Wan: Another Alternate Idea
[color=darkred]Good Morrow, If I remember correctly I have brought this up with Lael durring one of our Universalis sessions. I'd like any comments I can get on the idea. I…
In Universalis
Participants: Noah Wan, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ayrizale.

9/4/2002 S.Lonergan: Artwork needed, "Designer"
Continuing the ongoing trend of asking for art for free, unfortunatly I cant offer you anything more than a credit, as the game is free, and im not going to…
In Connections
Participants: S.Lonergan, rafael, Arashi.

9/4/2002 Christoffer Lernö: De-characterizing Effects of Currency
I've been touching on this in my recent threads. In an attempt to discuss it a little more focuse I start up a new thread here. Let's start with an…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, contracycle, Jasper, Le Joueur, Valamir, ADGBoss, C. Edwards, Bailey, Ace, Robert K Beckett, Jeremy Cole, ks13.

9/4/2002 Jeremy Cole: yes, but would anyone like it?
Newbie with game concerns. I am writing a game with a hardcore character focus. Basically the focus in the rules is 1) Encouraging players to develop characters with meaningful personalities…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeremy Cole, Jasper, Valamir, Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2002 Roy: Roy's First Game -- The End
Well, we ended up finishing the game tonight instead of last night. We just got finished and it was a blast! I'm just going to post the scenes we created…
In Universalis
Participants: Roy, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

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9/5/2002 ShaneNINE: Indulge me for a minute
My gaming group is currently playing Exalted. I think it's cool. The other players and the GM are giddy stupid happy over it. So when it's my turn to run…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2002 Nick Pagnucco: War question
I haven't seen a fun socio-political question in a while, so...... If I remember correctly, there are two major military conflicts starting up just as the official campaign year hits.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Mike Holmes, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, contracycle, Thirsty Viking.

9/5/2002 jdagna: Broken Article Links
Is it just me, or is the link to the GNS article (and a couple of others) broken? I managed to get through Chapter 4 when I first started reading…
In Site Discussion
Participants: jdagna, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/5/2002 Matt Snyder: Riddle of Steel: Myria
I'm chompin' at the bit here at work. Tonight I'm Riddle of Steel with a new group. Er, actually an old group. Oh, nevermind. A _different_ group than my usual…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Snyder, contracycle.

9/5/2002 Paul Czege: rule or analysis? More/Less than Humans in MLwM
Hey, Geez there's been some good discussion on these More/Less than Human threads. I'm hesitant to even respond to one of them for fear of stifling it. Mike, your examples…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2002 jdagna: Incoherency and Sales
The GNS article pretty well avoids addressing how game sales relate to their GNS focus (or lack thereof). It seems to me that many of the most successful products have…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jdagna, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Le Joueur, damion, contracycle, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Jeremy Cole.

9/5/2002 Mike Holmes: Setting Shift
OK, so I'm putting together a Hero Wars game, but I want to do something terrible with it. I've never been a fan of the Glorantha setting, you see. Well,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards.

9/5/2002 mahoux: Automated emails for URLs
I have a question. KOTR is online and I have had some great response in a little over one week. My question arises from my PDF clients. Is there a…
In Publishing
Participants: mahoux, Clinton R. Nixon, quozl.

9/5/2002 unodiablo: Zombie / Horror artists sought - with pay!
Hey Forgites, I got plenty of Playtester replies for Dead Meat 2, but I haven't gotten any replies from artists. Rather than bury the post in the new Destroy All…
In Connections
Participants: unodiablo, Arashi, Colin the Riot, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/6/2002 Noah Wan: Universalis "Starter Box"
[color=darkred] Hello All, I'm either cracked or I like this game very very much. I went out today and bought index cards and an Index Card Box (hence 'Starter Box').…
In Universalis
Participants: Noah Wan, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ayrizale, Bob McNamee.

9/6/2002 xiombarg: playtest and questions for Clinton
I just ran a quick pick-up game of Paladin with James and Emily (the same couple I ran Wuthering Heights for, the first time I ran it). It underlined something…
In CRN Games
Participants: xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege.

9/6/2002 Eric J.: "Pyron's Woes"- take 37
I have been getting fed up as a GM for the past few months... "Bring interesting scenerios, verbose discriptions, player control, don't invite my brother, invite me, and f**k off,"…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., kaworuiskool, Andrew Martin, wyrdlyng, mahoux, Walt Freitag.

9/6/2002 Demonspahn: A thought on IRC
Hi everyone. It just occurred to me (while reading the Orx post among others) that this site would be ideal for soliciting players for online/IRC games---not thinking campaigns here but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Demonspahn.

9/6/2002 Marco: Participationism?
From a quote by Mike Holmes in the Actual Play group. Oh, if this was not participatinism, then I think that most likely it was Illusionism (but, hey, who…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Le Joueur, GB Steve, damion, Valamir.

9/6/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap feedback
First of all, my thanks go out to everyone who reacted to my call for feedback for your enthousiasm and interest. Now, on to the meat. I made some pretty…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

9/6/2002 Valamir: Universalis Art Contest
Due to certain logistics issues, we are extending the "Universe Alice" Art Contest. Ron Edwards of Adept Press has graciously offered a $50.00 prize to the winner. The rules are…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Jason L Blair, Bob McNamee.

9/6/2002 Valamir: Universalis Art Contest
Artists interested in $50.00 in prize money can check out the contest here
In Connections
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag.

9/6/2002 svenlein: compilation of house rules
A while back Jake said he was going to put up all the house rules that have been developed on this list, I am really looking forward to this. If…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, viktor_haag, Mike Holmes, Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax.

9/6/2002 quozl: Supplements
I was just wondering what you had in mind for supplements. I have a game that I'm working on which may or may not be a good supplement for Donjon.…
In CRN Games
Participants: quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/6/2002 Grex: Elfs in Copenhagen
Yesterday some old friends came by my place, and we decided to play a session of Elfs, by Ron E. I had a printed copy, and had read it once…
In Actual Play
Participants: Grex, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Seth L. Blumberg.

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