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12/16/2002 jburneko: Seperate Scenarios
This is the second thread I'm starting that spun off from Backstory Revisited. In that thread Ron phrased the issue like so: "How do I run several different player-characters in…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2002 jburneko: Le Mon Mouri - Anyone Played This?
I came across this on my computer yesterday. I totally forgot that I had purchased this little download. Unfortunately, I find it very hard to read. I think it's the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, sdemory.

12/11/2002 jburneko: Borderline Demon Types - Evil Pinnochio
There are two kinds of monsters in horror litterature that I hold a deep facination for, Zombies and Killer Puppets. Just the other day I was thinking about what a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2002 jburneko: Obvious Choices
Okay, this discussion is broken off from Backstory Revisited Ron pointed out that my hash-out thread seemed to really be about three seperate things at once. So, I'll…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud, greyorm, talysman, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, epweissengruber.

12/3/2002 jburneko: LARPing For Fun & Profit
Hello All, I'm putting this in actual play because to some extent it's about someone else's actual play. But it might belong in either Theory or even Publishing. Please move…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, xiombarg.

11/26/2002 jburneko: Backstory Revisited
This thread is part of my on going quest to become comfortable in distinguishing between "meaningful choice" and "railroading", "bang" and "random encounter" from a Narrativist and particularly Sorcerer perspective.…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Clay, Ron Edwards.

11/22/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Final Session)
Hello All, How Things Turned Out: The Sherif teamed up with his outlaw father. They made one last push in an attempt to pre-empt the planned bandit raid on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead.

11/8/2002 jburneko: Reactions To Trollbabe Comic
Hello, So, I think personally the jury is still out for me on what I think of the first Trollbabe story. However, I have been showing the strip to a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, wyrdlyng, joshua neff, Bankuei, ethan_greer, Uncle Dark.

10/22/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Sessions 2 - 3)
Hello All, Well, two more sessions of our Space-Western Sorcerer game has gone by and everyone is having a riot of a time. Now that all the character names have…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/16/2002 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Rules Questions
Hello Again, These are just some simple rules questions. 1) Can demons spot telltales with the usual Lore roll? I couldn't find anything specific in the books. 2) When you…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2002 jburneko: Let's Talk About "Meaningful" Choice
Hello, I almost put this in RPG Theory or even GNS but I'm going to be talking almost entirely in terms of Adept Press products and I don't mind responses…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, GreatWolf, joshua neff, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, talysman.

10/8/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Session 1)
Hello All, The first session of my Space-Western Sorcerer game has come and gone. I took a really bold step with this one. I came to the table armed only…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns and Sorcery
Well, it finally happened, my weekday group collapsed under the weight of the clashing gaming styles and preferences it was trying to support. Thankfully, we only lost two players. So…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Bailywolf, Bogie_71, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik.

9/18/2002 jburneko: Erm... Why Trollbabe?
Okay, no doubt there is some really subtle point about natural human social interactions that I'm missing here but... Why Trollbabe? Let me explain. Since having now bought and read…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Yasha, Eric, Bankuei, Henry Fitch, Le Joueur.

9/10/2002 jburneko: Spycraft, Gamism, & Relationship-Maps
Hello All, I had an experience I thought I would share. So, my weeknight group is playing Spycraft. Now, I consider Spycraft to be a fairly Gamist facilitating game. From…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, TrizzlWizzl, hyphz.

9/3/2002 jburneko: What Impresses Me Most
Hello All, I'd just like to note that what impresses me most about Universalis is that it finally gives us a "storytelling" game that: A) Really IS a storytelling game.…
In Universalis
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Roy.

9/2/2002 jburneko: L.A. Con Report
Hello All, Well, the latest L.A. Con has come and gone. Out of the three local cons I have attended in the last year I certainly enjoyed this one the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, WildElf, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Marco, etnduroix.

8/5/2002 jburneko: Lincoln High Sorcerer Demo
So, I ran the Lincoln High demo for a subset of my weekend group. The results were well, revealing. This post is divided into two parts. The first are my…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, A.Neill, Uncle Dark.

8/2/2002 jburneko: Something I just noticed....
Hello, In the Reunion Demo and all the scenarios (I think) in Sorcerer's Soul the "villain" at the heart of each Scenario is always a demon. Usually a demon who's…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2002 jburneko: Advice Needed -- Retooling Gothic Fantasy For a Con
Hello All, Imagine my surprise when I was perusing the event schedule of my local con and I see someone is running Sorcerer & Sword. Then I read the description…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, J B Bell.

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12/20/2002 jburneko: Prepping For Dust Devils/Deathwish: How much is too much?
Hello, I'd like a word of advice from those of you who have played Dust Devils concerning how much pre-play prep to do. I've played low director stance games like…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Matt Snyder.

1/13/2003 jburneko: Internal States & Humanity
Hello, In another thread Ron wrote, "Again, to be perfectly clear, I strongly recommend never defining Humanity according to an internal state of a character." This struck a cord with…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2003 jburneko: Managing Time Scale Between Players
Hello, Here's another one of my How To, threads. So, last time I asked how do you handle games where the players are in completely disconnected locales/situations. Now, I'm asking…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

1/23/2003 jburneko: Natural Demons & Humanity
This thought stems from the "Sorcerer without 'demons'" thread but I felt it was distinct enough to warent its own topic. Since reading Sorcerer and Sword, I've been reading a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, szilard, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

1/29/2003 jburneko: Gothic Knights - A Setting Of Faith, Passion and Madness
So, someone of you know about my love for Ravenloft-esq settings. I've done this setting write up for Sorcerer but one idea that has always intregued me is the concept…
In CRN Games
Participants: jburneko, b_bankhead, joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

2/5/2003 jburneko: The Role of Theme; Simulationism vs. Narrativism
These two paragraphs in Ron's new essay really caught my attention: The key word is "genre," which in this case refers to a certain combination of the five elements…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, xiombarg, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2003 jburneko: Setting-Premise Nar. vs. Setting Exploration Sim.
Hello Again, Very simple question. I really like this passage from Ron's latest essay: The simple one: Consider the behavioral parameters of a samurai player-character in Sorcerer and in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, clehrich, contracycle, Paul Czege, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, John Kim, Paganini.

2/10/2003 jburneko: 7th Sea and Last Minute Prep
Hello All, When I was in High School and College I noticed a funny trend concerning my writing skills. If I procrastinated and waited until the last possible minute to…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Brian Leybourne, Jeph, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, clehrich, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Valamir.

2/13/2003 jburneko: Revisiting Relationship Between Humanity and Premise
I was just rereading Christopher's description of Biliomania and a very weird thought occured to me. Doesn't defining Humanity simultaneously define the Premise AND Answer it? Obviously, the answer is…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Alan, Michael S. Miller, Le Joueur, clehrich, szilard, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Ian Charvill.

2/19/2003 jburneko: Cons And The Psuedo-Campaign
There's a rather strange phenomenon I've noticed at my con that I don't know if it's local to this con or if it happens at other cons. That phenomenon is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee.

2/28/2003 jburneko: Not-Here, Not Here-And-Now Plus Demons, and NaN.
First Ron talks about some funky place called Not-Here which is pretty much defined as The Place You Can't Define. And now down in the Character Ideas thread he's talking…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Bankuei, Drew Stevens, clehrich, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, random.

3/8/2003 jburneko: Question About Sex & Sorcerery Content Overview
Hey Ron, your ad copy for Adept Press products is getting better. I just saw the Sex & Sorcerery content overview and I got very excited. It sounds like a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

3/12/2003 jburneko: Birthroot Ending
Okay, so I've finally seen the Birthroot ending. In a word: "GAH!" What is that; somekind of freaky Trollbabe-Sorcerer cross-over ending? That was definitely the best story and most certainly…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

3/14/2003 jburneko: Questions About How To Read The Descriptions of Demon Powers
Okay, so in another thread Ron wrote this: "Consider Perception, Transport, and Psychic Force, and you can actually bring people, unwillingly, to yourself from afar, striking them unconscious." This is…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Tor Erickson, Bailywolf, Jeffrey Straszheim.

3/24/2003 jburneko: PC v. PC In Dust Devils/Deathwish
Hello, I have a question regarding PC v. PC Conflict. I'm working up a Deathwish Scenario and I'm thinking of allowing PCs to be CIA, MI-6 or KGB. This puts…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: jburneko, Matt Snyder.

3/25/2003 jburneko: Deathwish: Internal Affairs
Hello All, So, in a bold move I signed up to run the Deathwish varient rules for Dust Devil at upcoming con in May. I was a little nervous because…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder.

3/25/2003 jburneko: Roleplaying The Short Story
Hello All, I have to admit that I really enjoy the classic four hour con event. I find the thrill of playing with (mostly) strangers in a brief effort to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

3/27/2003 jburneko: More Sorcerer Questions Prompted By Willard
So, last night I saw Willard. I saw the original a LONG time a go and frankly, I don't remember it disturbing me as much as this version did. I…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

4/10/2003 jburneko: Social Conflict Resolution
I've been wanting to discuss this for a while but haven't been able to construct a working example that demonstrated my question yet. Then, about a week ago, I was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young, quozl, Harlequin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

4/25/2003 jburneko: About A Player
All this talk about "No Myth" has made me start to think more about this one particular player I have. Over all, I LIKE playing with guy for two reasons:…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Valamir, Enoch, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Blake Hutchins.

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