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2/19/2003 Paul Czege: your last chance for despair
This week I began writing My Life with Master up for publication. So I've been working my way through feedback from private messages and threads in this forum to make…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paul's Girl.

2/13/2003 Paul Czege: building community via blog
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about Nathan's recent call to arms for indie folks to start promoting themselves better. And he's right, Jared really is outpacing most…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Le Joueur.

2/8/2003 Paul Czege: request: play that revealed a big secret in a published game
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about the big secrets in games like Engel and Blue Planet, the ones meant to be kept from the players until they can…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, jdagna, Stuart DJ Purdie, clehrich, Bankuei, ThreeGee, Valamir, Ian Charvill, xiombarg, Mytholder, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, contracycle, Mortaneus.

2/5/2003 Paul Czege: brighter color for links?
Hey Clinton, Can we get a slightly brighter color for links within posts? The current dark red is damn near invisible amid surrounding black text. Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/31/2003 Paul Czege: precursors to AD&D2
Hey Rob, ...if discussion moves to the impact of Dragonlance, Unearthed Arcana, and other late 1980s books on AD&D, I will jump in with abandon. I'd love to hear…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, Walt Freitag, Jack Spencer Jr, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Maurice Forrester, clehrich, talysman, Mike Holmes, arxhon, Kester Pelagius, xiombarg.

1/20/2003 Paul Czege: "Everyone should write a Heartbreaker"
Hey, In a Dimension Syncopatic with Ours, a short tour of my fantasy heartbreaker, written two decades ago. I was itching to do it up like this after Ron's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Andrew Martin, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, talysman, clehrich, Shreyas Sampat, Henry Fitch, jrients.

12/16/2002 Paul Czege: takin' care of business with Wraiths and The Window
So, a few weeks ago, with much excitement on my part, we did a setup session for Ian Millington's Wraiths, which is a collaborative, GM-less roleplaying game in a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2002 Paul Czege: the importance of Sim-like gameplay to the Narrativist
So, after roughly eighteen months of fairly intensive Narrativist play, I find myself recently thinking an awful lot about Sim. And quite surprisingly, I find myself increasingly convinced that the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, contracycle, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, JMendes, lumpley, Le Joueur, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Emily Care.

11/4/2002 Paul Czege: what to do when you're feeling icky
Last Monday, after five sessions of play, Matt's horrific playwright character Gideon was rolling something like 16 dice of Self-Loathing. And I can't help but think it wasn't far from…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

11/2/2002 Paul Czege: I just ordered...
...this: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/kane.html Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

10/31/2002 Paul Czege: the missing
Hey Clinton, Can we get Cynthia Celeste Miller, unodiablo, Matt Gwinn, and Michael Hopcroft added to the Moderators usergroup? Paul
In Moderators
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2002 Paul Czege: so it is written
Hey everyone, I'm disinclined to publicly stir the pot further on Matt's "fear" thread, but as the descendent of prophets I somehow can't help but stand behind my prediction: if…
In Moderators
Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jake Norwood.

10/25/2002 Paul Czege: the Master loves his dice mechanics
On the Blake's playtest game thread, Mike wrote: BTW, if it's not clear, I was the one who designed a lot of the die mechanics. And he absolutely…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

10/22/2002 Paul Czege: ongoing development of the Alyria game mechanics?
Hey Seth, I know Scarlet Jester has had a role in the development of the Alyria mechanics. Is that an ongoing involvement on his part? Are there as-yet-unrevealed expanded or…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Paul Czege, GreatWolf.

10/4/2002 Paul Czege: stumbling toward an introduction
It's one thing to do a good job writing an RPG document like the Nicotine Girls rules, detailing character creation, conflict resolution mechanics, and ancillary instructions. I'm realizing it's…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Seth L. Blumberg.

9/25/2002 Paul Czege: on NPC Minions
Hey Mike, BTW, I mentioned to Josh that I thought that we should work up the other minions. I've mentioned this before. I felt during our test that it…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

9/19/2002 Paul Czege: creating a reputation we don't want to have
In the Experimental mechanic (context-free) thread, Nadav wrote: Here's a half-baked idea that fell on me last night just before I went to sleep. It's quite possible someone…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, deadpanbob, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, Christoffer Lernö.

9/17/2002 Paul Czege: I may have created a monster
So...I have a social concern. As it turns out, Claudia Repton, who Tom's character Hiram murdered in our game session yesterday, was one of Danielle's character Ambrose's Connections. And…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/17/2002 Paul Czege: fantastic scenes from actual play
Hey, This thread is my effort to expose some of the tone and feel of gameplay produced by the My Life with Master mechanics, by describing great scenes from actual…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paul's Girl.

9/12/2002 Paul Czege: do I want Carlotta?
In my opinion, the essential text on the subject of a coherent and effective linkage across rule examples, color text, and illustrations is Le Mon Mouri. So I've been thinking…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

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3/13/2003 Paul Czege: where do sales come from?
Hey everyone, On the Most popular RPG genre... thread there was some discussion of whether a designer should concern himself with the popular interests of the gamer public. Kirt…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2003 Paul Czege: the playtester credits
Okay, strictly business, I need people who playtested the game to tell me on this thread how they want their name listed in the playtester credits, and also how their…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, Silent Tamatama.

4/3/2003 Paul Czege: not just what you want, but who to do it
One of the common thread-starts in online game forums is someone describing a concept they wish had been made into a game. Often the idea is for the game realization…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, C. Edwards, xiombarg, jburneko, Spooky Fanboy, kregmosier, Gordon C. Landis, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Jonathan Walton, Shreyas Sampat, talysman, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Kester Pelagius, Julie, Michael S. Miller.

4/4/2003 Paul Czege: if you've never posted to The Forge...
...post for the first time here. There's a Forge tradition of doing these threads we call "profiling" a few times a year. On this thread only, lets have a mini…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Julie, ScottM, Bob McNamee, Blake Hutchins, Trevis Martin, hix, TheLHF, Wolfen, David Laurence, Doyce, Brian Leybourne, brainwipe, Rich Forest, O Dinas Powys, Alex Johnson.

4/8/2003 Paul Czege: non-narrativist "protagonized" forms of play
Hey Marco, On the Pre-Breakfast Possibilities thread, you wrote: The Impossible Thing was (IIRC) created when there was much debate about whether non-narrativist "protagonized" forms of play were…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, clehrich, Marco, Ian Charvill, Mike Holmes, Bruce Baugh, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis.

4/10/2003 Paul Czege: saddle-stitching and page counts
Hey, Can anyone tell me maximum reasonable page counts for saddle-stitch bindings? I'm trying to determine if I need to adjust my page design to reduce page count. Thanks, Paul
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Clay, Ron Edwards, jrs, quozl, Chris Passeno.

5/9/2003 Paul Czege: The Valedictorian's Death
Okay...since Tom let the cat out of the bag on the Profiling, spring 2003 thread, here it is: The Valedictorian's Death This is the game that took over…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Emily Care, jburneko, Tim Alexander, xiombarg, Bellman, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

5/9/2003 Paul Czege: too many Agent Smiths
So, I just did a quick Google looking for a link to Red, White, and Blue (for my post here), and I discovered that the web is teeming with…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/10/2003 Paul Czege: some of Colin's art is seen
Hey everyone, If you're curious, part of one of Colin's awesome illustrations can be seen incorporated into my brand new splashy placeholder page here. The slice you're seeing is…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

5/27/2003 Paul Czege: it was a double shot of my baby's love
Hey everyone, So, Sunday we had a double-feature with a common theme, one game of Vincent's Matchmaker, and one of My Love for You Is Way Out of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, lumpley, deidzoeb.

6/11/2003 Paul Czege: staring into the black fire
[FONT COLOR="RED"]I'm calling the setting Czegara....The body of the slain god actually lies across the landscape. That is, it's not physically present, but metaphysically, outlined in real space in the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Jared A. Sorensen, Alan.

7/7/2003 Paul Czege: MLwM demo henchmen
Hey...if you've played My Life with Master, will be attending GenCon, and are interested in running a demo or two of the game at the booth, please let me know.…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis.

7/10/2003 Paul Czege: incubating a GenCon demo
Hey Mike, Paul, are you coming up with a demo pack for this? That is, pregens and master and all worked out before hand? This is what I want…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Paul's Girl, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

7/12/2003 Paul Czege: the Master is in transit...
...on his way from Nashville to Livonia by next Tuesday. Be very afraid. Paul
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/30/2003 Paul Czege: making My Life with Master a sellable pdf
Hey everyone, So, I'm getting things situated for selling My Life with Master as a pdf download. And what I'm starting with are the files I delivered to my printer:…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, Chris Passeno, sben, Matt Wilson, Matt, Trevis Martin, Matt Gwinn, Matt Snyder, szilard, abzu, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, samdowning.

8/5/2003 Paul Czege: how to start living with the master
The life of a minion is a hard one. The horrific things you do make it difficult to feel good about yourself. If only someone loved you... Half Meme Press…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/5/2003 Paul Czege: underbuzz
A collection of mini-quotes and links from folks who have something to say about My Life with Master:"'My Life with Master' is bizarre, twisted, and brilliant; incredibly dark but, in…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Bryant.

8/6/2003 Paul Czege: yes, but I never inhaled
So...we played Nicotine Girls on Monday night. It was a return to gaming for us, after four months of movie nights and me being too busy working on My…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paul's Girl.

8/21/2003 Paul Czege: imagining Brigadoon
So, I've been mulling the "Brigadoon Store" concept for some time. In fact, part of my motivation for building the Indie RPG display unit for GenCon was that maybe…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/26/2003 Paul Czege: while supplies last...
Those of you who missed out on the GenCon print run of My Life with Master, and who don't buy pdfs, your wait is over. Half Meme Press is proud…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg.

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