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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.

5/1/2003 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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

3/2/2003 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.

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.

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.

2/20/2003 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.

2/10/2003 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.

2/4/2003 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.

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.

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.

1/29/2003 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.

1/28/2003 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.

1/17/2003 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.

1/17/2003 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.

1/16/2003 Matt Gwinn: Second Edition or Supplement
I've gotten back to work on Kayfabe and have run into a conflict. I'm trying to deside whether or not to do a supplement or a second edition of the…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Bogie_71.

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5/8/2003 Matt Gwinn: Gamer Mailing List
The recent topic "The Dancey Ratio and the Strange Case of the Missing Gamers" has got me thinking. The company I work for derives a great deal of business from…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Matt Snyder, Matt, Mike Holmes, quozl, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Clay, C. Edwards, ace pilot, Valamir, clehrich, talysman.

5/23/2003 Matt Gwinn: Promoter's Handbook Nearly Finished!
Hey everyone I'm nearly done with the Promoter's Handbook. I may or may not design a Promotion Sheet, but other than that, it just needs editing a a couple more…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

5/26/2003 Matt Gwinn: Promoter's Handbook Cover
I put together a potential cover for the Promoter's Handbook. I'm interested in hearing what people think of it. You can look at it HERE ,Matt
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Gene Pool, Paul Czege.

5/28/2003 Matt Gwinn: How many words is your game?
The other day Paul asked me how many words my last printing of Kayfabe was. I wasn't sure, so I checked. It came out to be 22, 237 words with…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, clehrich, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Miller, jdagna, Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson, samdowning, ADGBoss, chadu, abzu, Michael Hopcroft, Adam.

5/29/2003 Matt Gwinn: Cheaters & GNS
This may also fit into theory. I was wondering where cheating fits into GNS. What style of play encourages or facilitates fudging die rolls, changing stats, etc.? I suspect it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, cruciel, C. Edwards, Wormwood, Valamir, John Kim, Alan, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Scratchware.

6/7/2003 Matt Gwinn: We are all elitist pigs!
Last week I nearly walked out of my D&D game. I was getting overly frustrated with players keeping secrets about their characters from other players (not characters). What started it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Enoch, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Cassidy, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Jeph.

6/8/2003 Matt Gwinn: Wide Angle Gaming
In this post HERE I brought up the question of elitism in gaming. The example I used degenerated the thread into a discussion on keeping secrets from other players. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Alan, Lxndr, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr, ADGBoss, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, lumpley.

6/12/2003 Matt Gwinn: Kayfabe Cover
I'm thinking about using that new cover for the promoter's handbook for the new printing of the main rules and using something different for the PDF. I did up a…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Lxndr.

6/16/2003 Matt Gwinn: New Web Site
Errant Knight Games has relocated to errantknightgames.com Please update your bookmarks ,Matt
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

6/16/2003 Matt Gwinn: Indexing
At what point does it become necessary to include an index in your game? The expanded edition of Kayfabe is about ready to go to print. I have a page…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, busling, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Fabrice G., Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2003 Matt Gwinn: New Supplements availble now!
Errant Knight Games is proud to announce the release of two new supplements for Kayfabe: The Inside Wrestling Game. The Promoter’s Handbook expands the world of Kayfabe into teh business…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

6/26/2003 Matt Gwinn: PDF Download Accounts
Well, I started selling the PDFs of my Kayfabe supplements and the new expanded edition. The files ended up being pretty big, so I'm using an account system so buyers…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, ethan_greer, Clay, rpghost, Emmett, Mike Holmes, WDFlores.

7/2/2003 Matt Gwinn: Soliciting reviews
Does anyone want to write a review for the expanded edition of Kayfabe? ,Matt Gwinn
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

7/14/2003 Matt Gwinn: Printed copies now available!!
The print copies of Kayfabe are finally here and are ready to be shipped!!! You can order it at http://errantknightgames.com/kayfabe/buy.html ,Matt Gwinn Errant Knight Games
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

7/28/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON 2003 Pics & Video
I have some pics of Gencon on my web site. there are quite a few so be patient when waiting for them to load. There are also so videos (some…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Gwinn, kregmosier, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, taepoong, drozdal, Matt Wilson, Jake Norwood, John Harper.

7/29/2003 Matt Gwinn: Review, Gencon Report & More
Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new Kayfabe review up at http://www.realms.org.uk/cms/articles/kayfabe Kayfabe scored a 4 out of 5 which I consider to be pretty good.…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, ethan_greer.

8/5/2003 Matt Gwinn: Purgatory: An RPG About Regret
Hey everyone, I finally got off my ass and started work on a new RPG. It was originally titled "4th Edition" and was about D&D style character that sought redemption…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Gwinn, iago, kamikaze, jdrakeh.

8/19/2003 Matt Gwinn: Cover Band
I wrote this game on my way home from work a couple weeks ago. It's still a little rough around the edges, in fact this is the first time I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Jack Spencer Jr.

2/23/2004 Matt Gwinn: Special Gencon Request
Gencon this year is going to be a little different for me and my fiance; We will technically be on our honeymoon (Getting married on the 14th). I'd really like…
In Conventions
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Dav, Bob McNamee.

4/6/2004 Matt Gwinn: Translations
Hey, I just received an offer to have my game Kayfabe translated into Italian and publish it in Italy. I was wondering if anyone else has received such an offer…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, montag, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer, Dav, Matt Wilson, Andy Kitkowski, edomaur.

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