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7/31/2001 james_west: My first sorceror session (sort of).
I ran a session Saturday the 28th that mostly used Sorceror rules and genre, although I threw in a whole bunch of other stylistic weirdness. For instance, scenes were rarely…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Paul Czege, Dav, hardcoremoose, Ferry Bazelmans, greyorm.

7/5/2001 james_west: Favorite things I've learned
Favorite things I’ve learned from reading this site: (1) Facilitating the creation of good stories as an explicit design goal. This is from the GNS discussions. Previously, I’d only thought…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, joshua neff, John Wick.

7/2/2001 james_west: The Undertoad
Hey - When is this going to be available through stores? Are you doing online sales? I've had a series of interesting ideas about this sort of game since I…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: james_west, Jason L Blair.

6/22/2001 james_west: A Mechanic for Other Plot Types?
In Relationship Maps, Edwards has done a very good job of producing a concrete mechanic for running scenarios based on the style of plot found in mysteries and a lot…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Uncle Dark.

6/22/2001 james_west: Example scenario
I'm thinking when you release the alpha, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an example scenario, to give people an idea of the sort of story you had…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: james_west, GreatWolf.

6/16/2001 james_west: Relationship maps
I have to preface this by saying that reading Sorceror's Soul made me feel like Saul on the road to Damascus. It solved a fundamental problem I didn't even know…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, joshua neff, Paul Czege, greyorm, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Dav, Uncle Dark.

6/6/2001 james_west: Fiduciary responsibility?
[I]:: Warning: This essay is going to seem elitist and egotistical, but it is genuinely something I wonder about. I'm honestly not trying to troll. ::[/I] When you look into…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, John Wick, JSDiamond, gentrification, greyorm, Nathan, Gordon C. Landis, Ian Freeman, James V. West.

6/3/2001 james_west: strong player directorial power
To me, games with strong, continuous player directorial power seem to as different from traditional RPGs as RPGs are from boardgames. I'm thinking Baron Munchhausen, Crayne's Storyboard or SOAP, Clinton's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

5/31/2001 james_west: Following advice
My posting rate has dropped dramatically in the past week or so; the reason for this is that I did decide to stop talking about it and start doing it.…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Supplanter.

5/31/2001 james_west: FAQ
This forum clearly needs a FAQ. I suggest it contains: (1) A set of definitions (or paradigms, or whatever) of G/N/S (2) An explanation of what it is supposed to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Logan, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/24/2001 james_west: The right level of self-confidence
I was having a conversation with my wife yesterday (whose artistic inclinations tend in different directions) which seemed extremely relevant to this forum. It boils down to: Strong creativity happens…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: james_west, JSDiamond.

5/23/2001 james_west: zombie squirrel
There's a place in the Soul of the Sorceror supplement in which it says that perhaps demons are evil the way squirrels are cute. I, apparently, have a zombie squirrel…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Dav, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Clay.

5/19/2001 james_west: core rules freely downloadable
If anyone's interested in this game but doesn't have a copy, chapters 1-3 of Hero Wars are on issaries' web site, as well as everything important in chapter 4 as…
In HeroQuest
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2001 james_west: Why They Tanked
I'm going to boldly post a list of just about all the attempts at multiple-scenario games I've been in for the past three years, and why they tanked (in order…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Zak Arntson, Mytholder.

5/16/2001 james_west: strong vs weak narrativism
(I apologize in advance for any possible mangling of others' words or meanings.) I've seen a lot of apparently quite different definitions of narrativism in this forum. Upon reflection, however,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

5/11/2001 james_west: friendlier G/N/S definitions
I've been thinking about a less confrontational set of G/N/S definitions: see what you think. Put this way, I think most people would call themselves Gamist ... note that by…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Logan, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, greyorm, joshua neff, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

5/10/2001 james_west: theoretical game spaces (17k in images)
I'd not heard of the narrativist/gamist/simulationist axes before looking over this website a few days ago. However, I've looked over not only the material here but related material on other…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 james_west: An exercise in vanity ? (Mildly communist ...)
Having read over this forum, one thing I'm not clear on is the -REASON- for charging for your .pdf As Ron Edwards is quick to point out, the amount of…
In Publishing
Participants: james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Mytholder, He who is Q, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege.

5/5/2001 james_west: Included pictures ?
Some forums like this have a way that This is a test to see if inline images will work in this forum system.
In Site Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

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8/21/2001 james_west: Running Elfs at a con ...
I've got a convention coming up in two weeks, and I've got two sessions of Elfs in the schedule. One in which I'm planning on running a perversion of Keep…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/21/2001 james_west: S.O.A.P. at a con ...
I'm planning on running (presenting? whatever) SOAP at a Con in about two weeks, and I'm wondering if anyone's ever come up with more examples/transcripts for me to give the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: james_west, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/24/2001 james_west: selling like hotcakes.
I had my local game store order a couple copies a while back, and when I went down yesterday not only had they sold both of them, the ones due…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: james_west, Jason L Blair, unterhund, Tyrant, Uratoh.

1/28/2002 james_west: Ron's Essay
I've been busy - hadn't got around to reading Ron's essay before now. So, my take on it: First, it's marvelously well written - very rigorous. Even if you don't…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

1/30/2004 james_west: My experience using Forge arcana
I was very active on the Forge for a bit right after it started (I just looked - I'm member #26), learning about GNS, stance, scene framing, relationship maps, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Christopher Weeks, Alan.

1/31/2004 james_west: ... simulationism is less common than I thought.
I've been reading Ron's set of recent essays, and I had a minor epiphany. One of my pet peeves with a lot of different games I've been in over the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Valamir, Ron Edwards, coxcomb.

1/31/2004 james_west: Gamism's hard question
Going back a few pages, I didn't see another thread on this; sorry if I missed it. Here's my answer: I have always been a competitive person, but simultaneously, I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2004 james_west: more than one trollbabe in a conflict
I can't figure out how more than one trollbabe on the same side of a conflict works; do you run them as parallel conflicts? do they both roll? what happens…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Alan, Ron Edwards.

2/4/2004 james_west: Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games
I've just read Lehrich's new article, "Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games." The thesis of the article appears to be that Role-Playing Games are ritual in nature, that their primary social…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, clehrich, John Kim, Walt Freitag, RDU Neil, contracycle, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, chadu, Librisia.

2/6/2004 james_west: Game prep for Trollbabe
It seems implied by the descriptions of play and by the rules that this meant to be a low prep time game (for instance, the Trollbabe picking out where she…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

2/9/2004 james_west: [MLwM] The Kindest Torch-Wielding Mob Ever
We played My Life with Master yesterday. Four players (two men, two women) plus me, over a course of about six hours play time. Our game centered around the mind-bogglingly…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Mike Holmes.

2/11/2004 james_west: Feminist Game Design [split from Religion in Role-Playing]
Hello, all ! Some discussion in the 'more on religion and role-playing' thread made me think about what a game meant to address feminist/race issues would look like. I surveyed…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Nick Pagnucco, Bankuei, timfire, John Kim, GB Steve, Doctor Xero, sirogit, pete_darby, Thuringwaethiel, inthisstyle, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, clehrich, lumpley, KingstonC, Librisia, contracycle, Christopher Weeks, Itse, AnyaTheBlue.

2/14/2004 james_west: Feminist game design?
[b]The Stranger, or [i]Feedback[/i][/b] [i]This is a game I wrote before breakfast this morning, based on the 'feminist game design' thread in RPG theory. I'm not sure if it's feminist…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: james_west, Matt Wilson, clehrich, Mark D. Eddy, Ravien, Scourge108, Paul Czege, Doctor Xero, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Zathreyel, jrs, aplath.

3/20/2004 james_west: Personality is impolite
[quote="Raymond Chandler, in [i]The Lady in the Lake[/i]"]Two guys will meet on a park bench and start talking about God. Did you ever notice that? Guys that wouldn't talk about…
In Adept Press
Participants: james_west, Trevis Martin, Christopher Weeks, Sean, Ron Edwards.

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