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12/5/2002 Matt Gwinn: Image Gallery
Many gamers (me in particular) need a visual stimulus to really get into a character. Having a picture of your wrestler makes it a lot easier to envision how a…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

12/5/2002 Matt Gwinn: Sold Out!
Well, I finally sold out of print copies of Kayfabe. The PDF is still available on my site and hopefully the Old School supplement will be available soon (Any word…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2002 Matt Gwinn: More Shows Posted
Just wanted to let everyone know that the last two weeks' shows are poted on my site along with some behind the scene's news/gossip. Feel free to let me know…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

10/14/2002 Matt Gwinn: Results for the first show are in
Hey everyone, Well, we had our first online session of Kayfabe and with the exception of some technical difficulties with ICW and Yahoo, it went rather well. As I predicted…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

9/23/2002 Matt Gwinn: Online Kayfabe Game!
Ok, it's come to my attention over the last few months that a lot of people have been having trouble getting their gaming group to play Kayfabe or their wrestling…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

9/7/2002 Matt Gwinn: Universalis, D20 and The Wheel of Time
For the last month or so my Friday gaming group has been playing The Wheel of Time. Things where not very exciting and we didn't accomplish very much in the…
In Universalis
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin.

9/4/2002 Matt Gwinn: Less Than Human options
Scott and I were driving home after our game on Monday and I started to think about our characters' "Less Than Human" traits and realized something. As far as I…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

8/30/2002 Matt Gwinn: Character Flavor
My Minion for our upcoming game is and actor/playwrite who was stabbed in the head during a performance of Hamlet. The injury rendering him unable to speak properly, but like…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes.

8/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Promotor's Handbook Ideas
Well, I've finally gotten started on the promotor's handbook and I have a few ideas I'd like to run past everyone to kind of gauge interest. I'm working on adding…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, cerebralassassin, mahoux, hardcoremoose.

8/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Welcome
Welcome to the Errant Knight Games forum. Feel free to discuss different aspects of all of my games including Kayfabe, Cats and Mind Body and Soul. They can all be…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, x0x_Armani_x0x.

8/23/2002 Matt Gwinn: More GenCon Pics
I put up my pics of GENCON if anyone is interested in looking at them. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/errantknight/gencon.html ,Matt G.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, Adam, Jared A. Sorensen, Chris Passeno, Jürgen Mayer, C. Edwards.

8/21/2002 Matt Gwinn: coincidence?
As some of you know, my mionion has the less than human quality of not being able to express himself unless quoting shakespeare. I went online this morning to find…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

8/14/2002 Matt Gwinn: Game design and your resume
I am on the verge of quiting my current job and have started to rework my resume. I would like to include my game design experience, but I am not…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clay, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt, Eugene Zee, Zak Arntson, talespinnerstudios, Dav, Ben Morgan.

8/5/2002 Matt Gwinn: GENCON Flyers
I'm trying to work up a Kayfabe flyer for GENCON. Which do you think is more effective: - big pictures with minimal text about the game - minimal pictures with…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/1/2002 Matt Gwinn: Need Sorcerer Logo
I'm doing the layout for Charnel Gods, but I don't have the font used for the sorcerer logo. Can someone hook me up with a hi-res B&W image of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay, Chris Passeno.

7/22/2002 Matt Gwinn: Precog
Something that has always eluded me is being able to successfully implement precognition into a game. In order to use it properly you need to predict what the PCs are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, damion, Valamir, Bailywolf, Kenway, Le Joueur, Jesse Paulsen, Balbinus, Stuart DJ Purdie.

7/21/2002 Matt Gwinn: CAH in print?
I'm gett'in antsy. Is CAH gonna be in print by GENCON?
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Eddy Fate.

7/11/2002 Matt Gwinn: Distribution Question
I just received an email from Esdevium Games Limited, an RPG distributor in the UK. One of their customers asked about Kayfabe, so they asked for my terms and such.…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Eugene Zee, Matt, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.

6/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Last post viewed
Clinton, There is currently an option to go directly to the most recent post of a thread. Is there any way to set it up so it will take you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, Seth L. Blumberg, Paganini, Gordon C. Landis.

6/25/2002 Matt Gwinn: First Kayfabe Print Run
I hope this doesn't hurt my sales. I got my copies of Kayfabe today and I have to admit that I am not 100% satisfied with the way it turned…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, pigames, Chris Passeno, Paul Czege, Eugene Zee, Walt Freitag, Seth L. Blumberg, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

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1/17/2003 Matt Gwinn: Doubling Up On Art
Here's the scenario: You pick up a game at your local RPG shop and it looks great, really cool art and a good system. then you grab the supplement which…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Matt Snyder, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, quozl, contracycle.

1/17/2003 Matt Gwinn: Begging for Art
I'm working on new Kayfabe stuff and I'm desparate for some supplemental art. I already have a primary artist lined up, but I suspect my money will run out before…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Arashi.

1/28/2003 Matt Gwinn: Indie Effects on Existing Industry
I had a recent debate on another forum that stemmed from CafePress' decision to do print on demand publishing. The debate basicly revolved around how that will effect the current…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Valamir, talysman, Jack Spencer Jr, Clinton R. Nixon, Pramas, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, greyorm, wyrdlyng, Michael Hopcroft, clehrich, jrs, Ben Morgan, contracycle, cruciel.

1/29/2003 Matt Gwinn: Marketing Forum?
I was wondering if there has ever been any thought about opening up a Marketing forum on the Forge? We really don't have a place to discuss different avenues of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

1/29/2003 Matt Gwinn: Does running at GENCON sell games?
The game submission forms are up at the GenCon web site and I've been contemplating submiting a couple sessions of Kayfabe. My problem is that I'm not sure if it's…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jack Spencer Jr, Adam, Michael S. Miller, wraeththu, Pramas, Michael Hopcroft, Dan Geyer.

1/31/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON 2003 Tidbit
I was just over at GenCon.com looking over the game submission information and discovered an interesting tidbit. As most of you know, GenCon reimburses you for your badge if you…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

2/4/2003 Matt Gwinn: hotel room conundrum
I have a question about alternate hotel rooms. Gencon.com has its registration system up and running, but there is no way to get a hotel room through the system without…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Michael Hopcroft, Matt Wilson.

2/10/2003 Matt Gwinn: How has gaming effected your life?
I have no doubt that certain people are drawn to roleplaying games and there has always been an association between roleplaying games and geekdom. Scott and I were driving the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, clehrich, M. J. Young, C. Edwards, arxhon, Mike Holmes, ThunderCheetah, Bogie_71, Le Joueur, John Kim, ThreeGee, contracycle, Ian Charvill, Meguey, quozl, Ron Edwards, Jeremy Cole.

2/20/2003 Matt Gwinn: Kayfabe Adventure Style
I'm working on some new stuff for Kayfabe and had an interesting idea I'd like people's opinion on. I want to give players the option to play Kayfabe like a…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

2/26/2003 Matt Gwinn: Miniatures, props and other visual aids
Over the years I've found that I've used a variety of visual aids in my roleplaying. Maps and miniatures are the most common, but I've gone as far as taking…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Gwinn, clehrich, Jack Spencer Jr, Kester Pelagius, Walt Freitag, cruciel, arxhon, M. J. Young, James Holloway.

2/28/2003 Matt Gwinn: Alternate Kung Fu Setting
Hey everyone, I'm hard at work putting together what looks to be 24 to 32 pages of new material for Kayfabe and I was thinking about adding a small section…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Bogie_71.

3/2/2003 Matt Gwinn: Ebay
I was wondering how many of you sell your games on ebay. If so, how have your sales been through that option? I've been thinking about selling Kayfabe through ebay…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Arashi, Paul Czege, quozl, szilard, Chris Passeno, Treves.

3/3/2003 Matt Gwinn: 3E Character Creation Session
Once again, I tried to introduce my D&D group to something I picked up here at the Forge...the Character Creation Session. First off, we had been playing the same D&D…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clay, Bankuei, Valamir, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, jdagna, Steve Dustin.

3/3/2003 Matt Gwinn: Kazaa, Piracy & Your PDF game
I was recently introduced to Kazaa Lite, which is a file sharing program similar to napster. I've found that you can find nearly everything on there that is in a…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Stuart DJ Purdie, Ryan Wynne, talysman, yellow_skeleton, quozl, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Paganini, GMSkarka, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, iago, contracycle, Quixotica.

3/3/2003 Matt Gwinn: Who Uses the Forge the most?
[b]The Forge[/b] has continues to grow by leaps and bounds over the past year, but I haven't really noticed a huge swell in posts. As of this post, we have…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mark Johnson, Trevis Martin, Jack Spencer Jr, Jürgen Mayer, dalek_of_god, Valamir, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Piratecat, Pyske, Psycho42, Jeph.

4/13/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON Registered Games
I was checking out the registered games over at theGENCON site and noticed that there are very few indie games registered. Unless I missed some, it looks like the following…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, samdowning, rafael, Michael S. Miller.

4/16/2003 Matt Gwinn: New Material
Well, I'm still hard at work trying to get the next run of Kayfabe ready for GENCON. I managed to get ahold of some new art and have more coming…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, J. Backman.

5/1/2003 Matt Gwinn: It keeps getting Bigger!
I was working on the Promoter's Handbook today and I noticed something...my page count was passing the 32 page mark I needed to fill. Now I'm thinking that I might…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

5/1/2003 Matt Gwinn: Circus Wrestlers
I'm working on adding some material to the Promoter's Handbook about wrestling for the circus. Professional wrestling started out as part of the side show and I feel obligated to…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Garbanzo, Paul Czege.

5/7/2003 Matt Gwinn: Player's Guide Update
Just wanted to keep everyone updated on what's happening with the Player's Guide. I just wrote some rules for Steroid Use, Pain Killers & Addiction and Surgery. I'm pretty pleased…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Bogie_71.

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