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9/11/2002 lumpley: Another bit about InSpectres Greenfield
(Um, here's the original description, such as it is.) But hey! It was gamism! The competition was: whose ideas are funniest? A la that guy, I was the referee. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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.

9/1/2002 lumpley: InSpectres Greenfield
Hey. We had gamer geek friends from out of town last night, so I ran InSpectres. There's not much to say about it, it was three or so hours of…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

8/24/2002 lumpley: a kill puppies for satan development
...I presume. I just got my first piece of hate mail ever! Apparently I'm going to pay for my crimes in hell one day. -Vincent (What she doesn't know is…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Jack Spencer Jr, S.Lonergan, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2002 lumpley: OtherKind
Hey. We played a first session of OtherKind and it went pretty well. We took it nice and easy. I GMed. Meguey and Emily made their characters there at the…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/12/2002 lumpley: Sorcerer & Sword in Greenfield, MA
I saw Sorcerer & Sword in Griffon Games in Greenfield, MA, my new hometown. I bought it. The fngs guy said it was a special order and he'd ordered a…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley.

7/22/2002 lumpley: Static vs. Dynamic Setting
Meguey's and Emily's and my Ars Magica game is setting-intensive. 180 named characters or so, twenty covenants (A covenant is a house of wizards, like a monastery), a history of…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

7/8/2002 lumpley: Shadows
My 5-year-old Sebastian and I have been playing Shadows. (Uh, let's see: Shadows.) We're playing it without tokens, just very simply with the two dice. We've played two sessions. He…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Zak Arntson, Emily Care.

7/3/2002 lumpley: OtherKind-ish Mechanics in Action
So we played our Ars Magica game last night, and it was the big battle. We had a GM, which is unusual for us, but none of my characters were…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, contracycle, Bankuei.

6/10/2002 lumpley: OtherKind Non-Combat Results
Over in Actual Play, Andrew Martin suggests that I give OtherKind non-combat mechanics. I personally don't think that the mechanics as they exist are only and exclusively combat mechanics, but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Nathan, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

5/31/2002 lumpley: OtherKind
Hey. So I'm working on this fantasy game, and it's in a good shareable state: OtherKind My goal was to make a fantasy game where the fantasy peoples mean something,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, Jake Norwood, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Andrew Martin, Xeno, Zak Arntson, Seth L. Blumberg.

5/3/2002 lumpley: A Third Metagame Goal
Hey. My Ars Magica crew's been talking a fair bit about Gamism, Narrativism and Simulationism, and I think we're doing something else. Narrativism is about building a story. You set…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis.

4/18/2002 lumpley: Party Games
Know what I want on my game shelf? The Forge Book of Party Games. A stack of 2-5 page games that a. you can play ten minutes from now, with…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, J B Bell, Matt, Nathan, Jason L Blair, Henry Fitch.

4/10/2002 lumpley: Forum Policy Question
This comes out of the Mystic Monks thread below, where Ron says not to talk about Star Wars the RPG made good this time, invoking policy. My question: how come?…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Nathan, Clinton R. Nixon, Walt Freitag, J B Bell, Tim C Koppang.

3/5/2002 lumpley: Making The World, the Flesh, and the Devil Drive a Premise
I love The World, the Flesh, and the Devil with all my heart, but I'm going to express it by waylaying it, clubbing it, and dragging it off to do…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege.

2/23/2002 lumpley: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
subtitle: But again with the vampires! Meguey, Emily Care and I played the World, the Flesh, and the Devil last night. It was cool. We'd made characters sometime in the…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, furashgf, hardcoremoose.

2/20/2002 lumpley: Currency and Metagame &c vs. a Complete RPG
(There's been talk before about when and whether a game's complete, like Actually Finishing your RPG here.) So I've been designing some games and I've got some questions. I'll…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

2/19/2002 lumpley: Another Sad Little Narrativist Vampire Game
This one looks very similar to the previous, but little changes in the stat names and relationships make a big (well, small, but still) difference in Premise. The two…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Bailywolf.

2/13/2002 lumpley: Disruptive and/or Stupid IIEE Question
So if roleplaying is like every other shared creative activity I can think of, it's built out of this kind of process: Proposal ] Negotiation, Amendment, Counter-proposal ] Acceptance Like…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

2/8/2002 lumpley: Drawing Conclusions in Public
In far distant Actual Play, Ron says So here I am, Narrativist player, "playing my character." Do I think, "What would he do?" Sure I do! In my case,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Marco, Jared A. Sorensen, Logan, contracycle, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, A.Neill, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, Emily Care, Le Joueur.

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10/4/2002 lumpley: Vincent's Standard Rant: Power, Credibility and Assent
I call the power in a roleplaying game Credibility. As in, whose statements about what happens are Credible? If I say that I shoot you, and you say the gun…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Zak Arntson, Andrew Martin, Paganini, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, contracycle.

10/18/2002 lumpley: Iron Chef Gamist Congrats
John: Kick ass. The rest of us: Kick slightly less ass. We're a game designin' force to be reckoned with. I don't have anything substantive to say yet cuz I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, talysman, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, joshua neff, Maurice Forrester, greyorm.

10/18/2002 lumpley: Random Vampire Game Mechanic Thoughts
...so that we don't keep cluttering up this thread with them. So the starving vampire would be more likely to not have narrative control...meaning the GM is free to narrate…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, talysman, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

11/19/2002 lumpley: Pervy in My Head
This would just be clutter in Ron's thread. The way I think of pervy: high Exploration of System would be kinky. A pervy gamer would a. only like kinky games…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, jrs, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, RobMuadib.

11/21/2002 lumpley: Meg, Emily & Vincent's Playtest
Our Master: Pharus Oriens (Collector Brain) Let's see. Pharus believes that he's the Antichrist, destined to rule the Earth in apocolyptic fury. He's the third son of a like fundy…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Emily Care, xiombarg, Paul's Girl, hardcoremoose.

11/29/2002 lumpley: Pervy Sim, Points of Contact, Accessibility: an example game
Hey. I used to play in this game with Sarah Kahn and them, and holy cow were they pervs. The philosophy: 1. No game mechanics can be as good a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/3/2002 lumpley: Party at My Place
It's our annual winter solstice party, coming up here the 21st, from sunset on Saturday to sunrise on Sunday. If you're in or can get to Western Mass that weekend,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.

12/30/2002 lumpley: Egri & the "Lumpley Principle"
I just finished the Art of Dramatic Writing and Egri says: you get a story when you take a strong, driven, dynamic character at a turning point, add balanced opposition,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Drew Stevens, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Paganini, bluegargantua, Steve Dustin, Alan, Christopher Kubasik, M. J. Young.

1/5/2003 lumpley: Backstory vs. Strong Character Creation
Spawned right outta Egri & Me. Hi! What separates the backstory from the story is a turning point in the character. Em's character Soraya was abused by her master Severin.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Paganini, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Emily Care, Jack Spencer Jr, bluegargantua, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle.

1/22/2003 lumpley: We Killed Us Some Puppies
So okay, so it's me, Meg, Trav, Jay, Kev, and Jenn. I'm the GM, everybody else kills puppies for Satan. Meg is George Brady No Relation, who writes for Guns…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, jrients, Ron Edwards, Marco, clehrich, contracycle, szilard.

2/3/2003 lumpley: "Likely" Characters (Sim essay)
This is a non-biggie. Ron's Sim Essay"]Layering may be employed to establish and identify the character's plausibility in terms of the game-world itself. For a look at the historical differences…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, clehrich, John Kim, JMendes, xiombarg, Valamir, Balbinus, Rob MacDougall, Walt Freitag, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, contracycle, Emily Care.

3/10/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Comic, probs?
Yes, it's only 9:30 Monday morning, and yes, I could wait and check back later in the day to see if it's all fine, and yes, I expect Ron you…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, ejh, Valamir.

5/9/2003 lumpley: The Nighttime Animals Save the World
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/tnaplay.html]The Nighttime Animals Save the World[/url] I've only playtested with 2 players (one being the GM), so I don't know if the mechanics will get weird with more. With 4…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson, Delmer Esau.

5/19/2003 lumpley: Missing the Lumpley Principle Boat
Hey, I just wanna pop in and defend my little principle. Fang, I'm with you ab-so-lutely when it comes to participation and inspiration. The only reason to play with mechanics…
In Scattershot
Participants: lumpley, Le Joueur, ejh.

6/2/2003 lumpley: Fidelity vs. Integrity
Here's an attempt to break apart and clarify this newfangled "fidelity" word. Characters, Settings, Systems, and probably the other two have integrity. Integrity is something you either uphold or compromise…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, C. Edwards, John Kim, cruciel, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Cassidy.

7/1/2003 lumpley: Forge-like Forum, but for non-RPGs?
So I've designed a couplea non-RPG games, board and card games and whatnot, and I wonder, does anybody know of a good online forum for discussing such things? Something indie…
In Connections
Participants: lumpley, xiombarg, Kester Pelagius.

8/1/2003 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon
I think everybody at the booth knew that this was going to happen. Congrats, Paul! -Vincent
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, ejh, Rob MacDougall, Jürgen Mayer.

8/2/2003 lumpley: Side-scrolling Anthropomorphic Limbo Universalis!
Last night was the time of anthropomorphic animals competing in the world limbo championship, side-scrolling video game style. It was tons of fun. I'm going to zoom in on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

9/10/2003 lumpley: Character and Our Weird Gamer Friends
At the risk of bringing the Forge's fearsome analytical powers to bear on, y'know, us: Read this thread: Who cares? and this one: And now, Plato. Know what I think?…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, MachMoth, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Weeks, pete_darby, cruciel, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, Wormwood, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr.

9/10/2003 lumpley: Soothsaying
So it's a few Julys ago and I'm at an enormous pagan festival on the NY-PA border. Ellen Kushner is soothsaying. She's in the center of a circle of us…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, ethan_greer, John, Perrina, Cemendur, ejh, MachMoth, contracycle, Meguey.

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