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9/5/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Player power in the MoV
In Ron's review of The Pool he said this: The discussion of the Monologue of Victory seems driven by paranoia that the player will destroy any logic or content…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Supplanter.

9/26/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Filling The Pool :)
This is related to the current topic "No Islands in The Pool". What bothers me most about the conclusions in that thread is the idea that, from a statistical perspective,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

11/6/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Monologue of Defeat
I had a different idea for adding a "Monologue of Defeat" (I guess it is an inevitable name). A character can take a certain number of flaws , quirks, or…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins.

11/13/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Just whose pool is it?
In my theorizing about The Pool I've come to consider the dice pool as a player resource rather than a character resource, meaning that a large pool represents a greater…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Bankuei.

1/5/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: For math geeks
Here are some statistics I've worked up for Questing Beast. The first table is the odds per the number of dice rolled. ========================================================== Dice MoV GM MoF 0 0.0…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

7/10/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: Sorcerer in play, some things worked, some didn't
It has been literally years since I've had a good roleplaying experience. In the past year I've made two attempts: an Everway group that played for about three sessions before…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, J B Bell.

8/21/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: Paladin Q's
I just d/l'ed and printed Paladin yesterday, and have read through it twice now, and am very excited to play (when I can talk my wife into it). A couple…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Valamir, Bob McNamee, xiombarg, Michael Bowman.

6/3/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Love, Demons, and a Desparate Cry for Help
Howdy, I'm starting up a Sorcerer game with my wife. We've done it before, but I'm having a sad case of creative block this time around. Anyhow, I'm going to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Nev the Deranged.

6/16/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Actual Play: Love, Demons, and a Desparate Cry for Help
We played this over the weekend. Here is how things turned out. Summary The demon Moebius showed up begging Maggie to support its breaking from its master, who was, it…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: The Tale of the Unwilling Trollbabe
I think that my wife and I will continue her Trollbabe's saga this weekend. I'd like to run some things by you folks. Here is the basic situation -- I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Jared A. Sorensen, Alan, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, quozl, John Harper.

6/30/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Hot Trollbabe Action!
We played this over the weekend. Things went pretty well. We continued for about two hours before stopping. Here are some details. Cast Me: The GM. Bridget (my wife): Player…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Bob McNamee.

9/3/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: More on initiative and aborts
On page 105 in the Sorcerer text we have ... if a character is acted already but is then hit in combat, he or she simply rolls full Stamina…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards.

9/5/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Lemuria - &Sword one sheet
I've got a few friends who want to try out Sorcerer & Sword with me. I've put together a basic setting. It's very generic S&S, which is what I wanted.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards.

9/11/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Dealing with wonky character concepts
Hey folks, This is in reference to Ron's comments here, specifically in regards to character creation. One thing that interests me is his comment that he did not challenge Frank's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, erithromycin, Ron Edwards.

9/12/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: When Sorcery Goes Poof
Following the general "nothing never happens" policy, when a player fails a sorcery roll, the ritual shouldn't just fizzle out. A failed contact gets the wrong demon; a failed summon…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mikko Lehtinen, Mike Holmes.

9/15/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: A couple more rules questions
I have a couple more questions. Hold Let's see if I'm right on how the Hold ability works. The demon attacks using its Power. The target can defend normally using…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: [Heroquest] In store demo
I finally got to play Heroquest. This game was billed as a short in store demo to illustrate the rules. The participants were David (the GM), my wife Bridget, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, daMoose_Neo, dcboatright, Brand_Robins, Scripty, Mike Holmes.

6/20/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: Should players know about Humanity risks?
Do you let a player know before hand what actions might risk Humanity loss for her character? In our current game we have a character who started out with just…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Danny_K, Shreyas Sampat, TonyLB, sirogit, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

12/19/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: Length of game
The rules point out that it takes and average of 27 experience rolls to complete the cycle of a character, and the fast game option roughly halves that.  The folks…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ben Lehman, Frank T, GreatWolf.

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