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12/14/2002 Clay: New Group for Dust Devils
I played Dust Devils with my regular group last night. The game was a great success, and we have added it to our permanent repetoir of games. We played the…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder.

11/26/2002 Clay: New Article at Lazarus Notes
This one may be a bit off topic, but I know that there are at least a few web application developers out there, and that you're using them for your…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

11/3/2002 Clay: Call of Cthulhu: The Hastur Mythos
I rounded up the boys (which includes roughly 50% women) for a Halloween Call of Cthulhu session, and decided to run Night Floors, from the Hastur Mythos as set forth…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, rabidchyld.

10/18/2002 Clay: Web Design/Development Journal
It's something that I've been tossing around in my head for over a year now, and I finally started to put the components together. I have started an online journal…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Matt.

10/1/2002 Clay: Relationship map as core mechanic
I've been tossing the idea around for a year or so to create a game where the relationships between characters (PC and NPC) is a core mechanic. My models are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clay, Mike Holmes, Henry Fitch, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2002 Clay: Dust Devils arrived
I picked up my copy of Dust Devils last night. The rules expansions and the appearance of the printed product are great. It's great to find a game this complete…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Clay, Tim Denee, Matt Snyder.

9/17/2002 Clay: story-game.com domain name for sale
I have two domain names, story-game.com and story-game.net which I am not putting to any effective use any more. Right now they're acting as neat support sites for currently-running games.…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

7/30/2002 Clay: Non-mainstream alternative
Clinton, I've done some very nice work using the free tools that come with most UNIX systems. LaTeX handles type like a dream, and if it's coupled with the Hyperref…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay.

7/15/2002 Clay: Lilo & Stitch as Sorcerer
We took the kids to see Lilo and Stitch yesterday, and after laughing my posterior off for the entire length of the movie, it occurred to me that this was…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clay, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

7/1/2002 Clay: Web Site Hosting
This may not be relevant to everyone, but it's something that's come up for me and could hit other people down the road. The hosting company that is hosting a…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Victor Gijsbers.

5/21/2002 Clay: Attack and Order of Attacks
In reading these examples, and then flipping through the book again, something occurs to me that hadn't before: When that first roll in a combat round is made for proactive…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clay, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, A.Neill.

4/22/2002 Clay: Dust Devils Session II
My fledgling group played its second session of Dust Devils tonight. If you recall my earlier posting on it, I said that the group was having some problems with getting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2002 Clay: Web Publishing Tools
I've made some of the tools that I use for developing web sites available at http://www.lazarusid.com. These tools are the raw program files that I use for the back-end of…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

4/7/2002 Clay: Dust Devils Play
I played Dust Devils for the first time last night. We hit a few snags, but none of them related to the system. Overall we really liked the narration mechanic,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2002 Clay: Cheap PDF Solution
I just found a great solution for PDFs that doesn't require too much technical know-how. It does, however, require that you have access to a UNIX machine with kde and…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay, Clinton R. Nixon, Buddha Nature, Reimer Behrends, Chris Passeno, Valamir.

3/19/2002 Clay: Three Cheers for Bailywolf
I just spent a little bit of time cruising the Sorcerer database, and found Bailywolf's very impressive array of sorcerers and demons. He has made excellent use of the online…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clay, Bailywolf, Petter Sandelin.

8/19/2001 Clay: Mini-supplement Sales
I have some questions about the mini-supplements. First, how have sales been? From what I hear on these forums, at least some people are buying them. Have sales numbers reached…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Dav, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

7/22/2001 Clay: Well armed, large breasted women put people off games?
I'm interested in taking up this thread about how women are depicted in gaming. In particular, I want to assert that it may at times be appropriate to show some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clay, Damocles, greyorm, James V. West, Jack Spencer Jr, Uncle Dark, contracycle, Fletch, GreatWolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Logan, Supplanter, Cameron, james_west, Levekius, gizem, John Wick.

5/23/2001 Clay: Micro Wars - The simple war game
Somebody in another forum complained that there didn't seem to be any gamist action here. To counteract that trend, I've put up my web site for Micro Wars, a simple…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clay.

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3/10/2003 Clay: Some lessons for Internet Publishing
I just put a new article up at Lazarus Notes that I think is directly relevant to people publishing on the Internet. The article, "How Not to Publish a Product,"…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Marco.

8/4/2003 Clay: Silly Cardboard Cutout Castle
I have a cool paper cutout castle available for download from my web site at www.obrienscafe.com/games/castle.html.
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

8/6/2003 Clay: After School: Ready for playtest
After more than a year of dithering about with system, and trying to figure out what my game was about, I finally have a playable product that's ready to go.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clay, Andrew Martin, ghostwolf, Walt Freitag, pete_darby, Little_Rat.

2/18/2004 Clay: Web site software for free
Hey folks, thought I would drop a line. I've got a piece of blogging software that I wrote for my own use, that's getting ready to go commercial. For the…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay.

3/4/2004 Clay: Website Software testers wanted
I have written a significant upgrade to my Newsreel news publishing package. It is my belief that it is nearly perfect for campaign logs and game designers' journals. I've already…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, quozl, andy.

5/10/2004 Clay: A simple tool for RPG sites
This last week I put a little time in building an ingenious tool for maintaining web sites. It's has the features that I think a little independent game publisher needs:…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

7/12/2004 Clay: Paypal Warning - non-notification of sales
I know that a lot of you out there are selling products via paypal. I was made aware of a Paypal problem today by a client, and discovered that I…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay, Valamir, Brett M. Bernstein, Erick Wujcik, JSDiamond.

10/18/2004 Clay: Successful Sorcerer Quickie
I am very happy to report a successful sorcerer session run tonight using a short one-off scenario of my own demented design and inspired by Installing Linux on a Dead…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clay.

10/24/2004 Clay: Scribus, or beating dead horses
Over a year ago the Linux DTP package Scribus was mentioned in these fora as a tool not ready for prime time. In that year Scribus has come a long…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay, efindel, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/23/2005 Clay: Publishing Tool Available
Thought I'd drop a note that I've got a tool available that might be useful for people needing to get a web site up quickly at http://www.ceamus.com.  CeaMuS is a…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay.

1/5/2006 Clay: [TSOY] A new character sheet
My regular group isn't overly receptive to new games. We've been burned too many times by the Great New Thing, invested lots of money in books, only to have the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clay, Tancred, barna284.

1/6/2006 Clay: [TSoY] Making Fudge Dice
I recently made a set of dice to give to a friend when I gave him TSoY for Christmas.  I cut them from some scrap ash that I had kicking…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clay, Vaxalon, Twobirds, Paka, Brian Newman, Bankuei, cpeterso, John Harper, Paul Czege.

5/15/2006 Clay: [Serenity] The Value of Preparation
This past Saturday I took over as the game master for my group's Serenity game.  The previous game master had been stretched a bit thin between work and home, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, Tommi Brander, khelek, Kai_lord.

7/5/2006 Clay: Forum Software available
For those of you looking to add very simple forums to your own site, I've got a little forum package that I originally created as a proof of concept for…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

12/27/2006 Clay: [TSoY] Hardcover with the new cover?
I'd like to buy a hardcover version of the book, but I'd strongly prefer the new cover with what certainly looks like Jennifer Rodgers' art.  That cover conveys more of…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clay.

7/27/2007 Clay: TSOY Supplements
Clinton, A couple of years back, you mentioned that you were at work on a TSOY supplement, something to do with religious groups and cults in TSOY.  Did that go…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clay, oliof.

8/31/2007 Clay: Looking to split a web hosting server
I have a couple of websites that I'm currently hosting on my home machine.  I want to change that situation, and I'd like to move those sites to a virtual…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Eero Tuovinen.

9/8/2007 Clay: TSoY Resource for Weapons & Armor
I've got a game coming up on Sunday, and I realized as I was going over my prep that I don't really have a uniform way to deal with weapons…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clay, Eero Tuovinen.

9/10/2007 Clay: The Shadow of Yesterday - Jonre Campaign
Wanted to give everyone here a quick summary of my latest TSoY session.  This is the first that I've played a full game under second edition rules, even though I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, James_Nostack.

12/27/2007 Clay: Looking to split a web server
I am looking for somebody to share the cost of a web server with me.  The cost will be $15/month, on a reliable host.  For your money you get the…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

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