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9/11/2002 Paul Czege: Attor's hand
Matt Gwinn made quite an interesting suggestion last week related to the eventual layout and presentation of My Life with Master: that the game text be enhanced by the presence…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

9/11/2002 Paul Czege: where are the Game Designer's Journals now?
Hey, This morning I found myself browsing some old threads on Gaming Outpost and had a strange thought: the heyday of the Game Designer's Journal has come and gone.…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Jack Spencer Jr, GreatWolf.

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.

9/3/2002 Paul Czege: getting the phrase you want
So...I'm in the midst of fleshing out the section of the rules about Connections, and acting on them, and getting Love. And I'm realizing just how much I detest my…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

8/29/2002 Paul Czege: proposal: two new categories for the Resource Library
Hey, I propose we get two new categories in the Resource Library: 1) Indie RPG Fan Support, which would collect links to things like Ralph's Orkworld stuff, and the recently…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/27/2002 Paul Czege: character vs. character: dealer-room demos at GenCon
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about the demos I played at GenCon over the past couple of days, the ones with pre-generated characters, Jake's Riddle of Steel demo,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Rich Ranallo.

8/26/2002 Paul Czege: In Utero con play recap
Hey Ron, I'm interested in any responses from people who got a chance to play the In Utero scenario at GenCon. I have a question. How many times have…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

8/26/2002 Paul Czege: broken thread
Hey Clinton, The "Dice roll : an attempt at something new " thread in Indie Game Design seems broken in a weird way. There are more posts to it than…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/23/2002 Paul Czege: Danielle says to work on the More/Less than Human mechanics
In each of the three chargen sessions I've hosted, the biggest gravel patch for the players has been coming up with the More than Human and Less than Human descriptors…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: an infinity of eight: Master Type/Aspect combinations
So, you know that part of creating a Master is deciding on Type and Aspect, and that the Types are Feeder, Breeder, Collector, and Teacher, and the Aspects are Brain…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: a curious endeavor: Master creation
Wherein is detailed the curious endeavor of five otherwise good tempered individuals: 1. The group, consisting of myself, in the role of gamemaster, Tom, Scott Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2002 Paul Czege: Welcome!
Welcome! What you're seeing here is the archived My Life with Master playtest forum. It was active from late August, 2002, to early August, 2003, and at its peak had…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/12/2002 Paul Czege: Matt freakin' Gwinn
After four days at GenCon, this I gotta say. If you are ever in the position of planning for the sale of your game at a convention, Matt Gwinn is…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

7/29/2002 Paul Czege: strangeness
Hey Clinton, I just posted to the "You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!" thread in Indie Game Design. It gave me a cryptic error that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/27/2002 Paul Czege: The Rest of Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, Here's the remainder of my comments and reactions to Synthesis, all crammed into one big post. Text in red is from the game document. Bold text subheads…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Syphon, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Second-guessing Self in Synthesis
Mike, JB, So, I've been reading Synthesis. And I have to say, I literally can't envision how Self will play out during an actual scenario. PCs always have a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Social Contract and Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, On the X-Games back in the Pool thread, Ron wrote: Related to that, regarding the Social Contract issue (and I recognize that "social contract" is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Valamir, Le Joueur.

6/26/2002 Paul Czege: nicotine girls, smoking again
So, Ralph's deconstruction of my mechanics for Nicotine Girls was a painful heads-up to me that I probably needed to get a hell of a lot more serious…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Stuart DJ Purdie, xiombarg.

6/19/2002 Paul Czege: the mortification of the world, the flesh, and the devil
If you have never playtested a game of your own design, let me tell you, it is humbling beyond your capacity to imagine. Yesterday I ran my second session of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Buddha Nature, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: what makes me saturated?
Hey, On the island of misfit games thread, as a way of voting in favor of Clinton's game(s)-of-the-month idea, Laurel wrote: ...would probably help diminish the "spread too…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Ace, Zak Arntson, Eric J., Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

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9/17/2002 Paul Czege: fantastic scenes from actual play
Hey, This thread is my effort to expose some of the tone and feel of gameplay produced by the My Life with Master mechanics, by describing great scenes from actual…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paul's Girl.

9/17/2002 Paul Czege: I may have created a monster
So...I have a social concern. As it turns out, Claudia Repton, who Tom's character Hiram murdered in our game session yesterday, was one of Danielle's character Ambrose's Connections. And…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/19/2002 Paul Czege: creating a reputation we don't want to have
In the Experimental mechanic (context-free) thread, Nadav wrote: Here's a half-baked idea that fell on me last night just before I went to sleep. It's quite possible someone…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, deadpanbob, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, Christoffer Lernö.

9/25/2002 Paul Czege: on NPC Minions
Hey Mike, BTW, I mentioned to Josh that I thought that we should work up the other minions. I've mentioned this before. I felt during our test that it…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/4/2002 Paul Czege: stumbling toward an introduction
It's one thing to do a good job writing an RPG document like the Nicotine Girls rules, detailing character creation, conflict resolution mechanics, and ancillary instructions. I'm realizing it's…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Seth L. Blumberg.

10/22/2002 Paul Czege: ongoing development of the Alyria game mechanics?
Hey Seth, I know Scarlet Jester has had a role in the development of the Alyria mechanics. Is that an ongoing involvement on his part? Are there as-yet-unrevealed expanded or…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Paul Czege, GreatWolf.

10/25/2002 Paul Czege: the Master loves his dice mechanics
On the Blake's playtest game thread, Mike wrote: BTW, if it's not clear, I was the one who designed a lot of the die mechanics. And he absolutely…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2002 Paul Czege: so it is written
Hey everyone, I'm disinclined to publicly stir the pot further on Matt's "fear" thread, but as the descendent of prophets I somehow can't help but stand behind my prediction: if…
In Moderators
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jake Norwood.

10/31/2002 Paul Czege: the missing
Hey Clinton, Can we get Cynthia Celeste Miller, unodiablo, Matt Gwinn, and Michael Hopcroft added to the Moderators usergroup? Paul
In Moderators
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

11/2/2002 Paul Czege: I just ordered...
...this: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/kane.html Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2002 Paul Czege: what to do when you're feeling icky
Last Monday, after five sessions of play, Matt's horrific playwright character Gideon was rolling something like 16 dice of Self-Loathing. And I can't help but think it wasn't far from…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

12/12/2002 Paul Czege: the importance of Sim-like gameplay to the Narrativist
So, after roughly eighteen months of fairly intensive Narrativist play, I find myself recently thinking an awful lot about Sim. And quite surprisingly, I find myself increasingly convinced that the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, contracycle, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, JMendes, lumpley, Le Joueur, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Emily Care.

12/16/2002 Paul Czege: takin' care of business with Wraiths and The Window
So, a few weeks ago, with much excitement on my part, we did a setup session for Ian Millington's Wraiths, which is a collaborative, GM-less roleplaying game in a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/20/2003 Paul Czege: "Everyone should write a Heartbreaker"
Hey, In a Dimension Syncopatic with Ours, a short tour of my fantasy heartbreaker, written two decades ago. I was itching to do it up like this after Ron's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Andrew Martin, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, talysman, clehrich, Shreyas Sampat, Henry Fitch, jrients.

1/31/2003 Paul Czege: precursors to AD&D2
Hey Rob, ...if discussion moves to the impact of Dragonlance, Unearthed Arcana, and other late 1980s books on AD&D, I will jump in with abandon. I'd love to hear…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, Walt Freitag, Jack Spencer Jr, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Maurice Forrester, clehrich, talysman, Mike Holmes, arxhon, Kester Pelagius, xiombarg.

2/5/2003 Paul Czege: brighter color for links?
Hey Clinton, Can we get a slightly brighter color for links within posts? The current dark red is damn near invisible amid surrounding black text. Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/8/2003 Paul Czege: request: play that revealed a big secret in a published game
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about the big secrets in games like Engel and Blue Planet, the ones meant to be kept from the players until they can…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, jdagna, Stuart DJ Purdie, clehrich, Bankuei, ThreeGee, Valamir, Ian Charvill, xiombarg, Mytholder, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, contracycle, Mortaneus.

2/13/2003 Paul Czege: building community via blog
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about Nathan's recent call to arms for indie folks to start promoting themselves better. And he's right, Jared really is outpacing most…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Le Joueur.

2/19/2003 Paul Czege: your last chance for despair
This week I began writing My Life with Master up for publication. So I've been working my way through feedback from private messages and threads in this forum to make…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paul's Girl.

3/3/2003 Paul Czege: # of review copies
Hey everyone, This is a question for folks who gave out review copies of their printed games at conventions last year. As I go forward with plans for a small…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Gwinn, geekspeakweekly.

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