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9/10/2003 lumpley: Soothsaying
So it's a few Julys ago and I'm at an enormous pagan festival on the NY-PA border. Ellen Kushner is soothsaying. She's in the center of a circle of us…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, ethan_greer, John, Perrina, Cemendur, ejh, MachMoth, contracycle, Meguey.

9/10/2003 lumpley: Character and Our Weird Gamer Friends
At the risk of bringing the Forge's fearsome analytical powers to bear on, y'know, us: Read this thread: Who cares? and this one: And now, Plato. Know what I think?…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, MachMoth, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Weeks, pete_darby, cruciel, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, Wormwood, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/2/2003 lumpley: Side-scrolling Anthropomorphic Limbo Universalis!
Last night was the time of anthropomorphic animals competing in the world limbo championship, side-scrolling video game style. It was tons of fun. I'm going to zoom in on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/1/2003 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon
I think everybody at the booth knew that this was going to happen. Congrats, Paul! -Vincent
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, ejh, Rob MacDougall, Jürgen Mayer.

7/1/2003 lumpley: Forge-like Forum, but for non-RPGs?
So I've designed a couplea non-RPG games, board and card games and whatnot, and I wonder, does anybody know of a good online forum for discussing such things? Something indie…
In Connections
Participants: lumpley, xiombarg, Kester Pelagius.

6/2/2003 lumpley: Fidelity vs. Integrity
Here's an attempt to break apart and clarify this newfangled "fidelity" word. Characters, Settings, Systems, and probably the other two have integrity. Integrity is something you either uphold or compromise…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, C. Edwards, John Kim, cruciel, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Cassidy.

5/19/2003 lumpley: Missing the Lumpley Principle Boat
Hey, I just wanna pop in and defend my little principle. Fang, I'm with you ab-so-lutely when it comes to participation and inspiration. The only reason to play with mechanics…
In Scattershot
Participants: lumpley, Le Joueur, ejh.

5/9/2003 lumpley: The Nighttime Animals Save the World
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/tnaplay.html]The Nighttime Animals Save the World[/url] I've only playtested with 2 players (one being the GM), so I don't know if the mechanics will get weird with more. With 4…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson, Delmer Esau.

3/10/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Comic, probs?
Yes, it's only 9:30 Monday morning, and yes, I could wait and check back later in the day to see if it's all fine, and yes, I expect Ron you…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, ejh, Valamir.

2/3/2003 lumpley: "Likely" Characters (Sim essay)
This is a non-biggie. Ron's Sim Essay"]Layering may be employed to establish and identify the character's plausibility in terms of the game-world itself. For a look at the historical differences…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, clehrich, John Kim, JMendes, xiombarg, Valamir, Balbinus, Rob MacDougall, Walt Freitag, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, contracycle, Emily Care.

1/22/2003 lumpley: We Killed Us Some Puppies
So okay, so it's me, Meg, Trav, Jay, Kev, and Jenn. I'm the GM, everybody else kills puppies for Satan. Meg is George Brady No Relation, who writes for Guns…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, jrients, Ron Edwards, Marco, clehrich, contracycle, szilard.

1/5/2003 lumpley: Backstory vs. Strong Character Creation
Spawned right outta Egri & Me. Hi! What separates the backstory from the story is a turning point in the character. Em's character Soraya was abused by her master Severin.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Paganini, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Emily Care, Jack Spencer Jr, bluegargantua, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle.

12/30/2002 lumpley: Egri & the "Lumpley Principle"
I just finished the Art of Dramatic Writing and Egri says: you get a story when you take a strong, driven, dynamic character at a turning point, add balanced opposition,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Drew Stevens, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Paganini, bluegargantua, Steve Dustin, Alan, Christopher Kubasik, M. J. Young.

12/3/2002 lumpley: Party at My Place
It's our annual winter solstice party, coming up here the 21st, from sunset on Saturday to sunrise on Sunday. If you're in or can get to Western Mass that weekend,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.

11/29/2002 lumpley: Pervy Sim, Points of Contact, Accessibility: an example game
Hey. I used to play in this game with Sarah Kahn and them, and holy cow were they pervs. The philosophy: 1. No game mechanics can be as good a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

11/21/2002 lumpley: Meg, Emily & Vincent's Playtest
Our Master: Pharus Oriens (Collector Brain) Let's see. Pharus believes that he's the Antichrist, destined to rule the Earth in apocolyptic fury. He's the third son of a like fundy…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Emily Care, xiombarg, Paul's Girl, hardcoremoose.

11/19/2002 lumpley: Pervy in My Head
This would just be clutter in Ron's thread. The way I think of pervy: high Exploration of System would be kinky. A pervy gamer would a. only like kinky games…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, jrs, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, RobMuadib.

10/18/2002 lumpley: Random Vampire Game Mechanic Thoughts
...so that we don't keep cluttering up this thread with them. So the starving vampire would be more likely to not have narrative control...meaning the GM is free to narrate…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, talysman, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

10/18/2002 lumpley: Iron Chef Gamist Congrats
John: Kick ass. The rest of us: Kick slightly less ass. We're a game designin' force to be reckoned with. I don't have anything substantive to say yet cuz I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, talysman, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, joshua neff, Maurice Forrester, greyorm.

10/4/2002 lumpley: Vincent's Standard Rant: Power, Credibility and Assent
I call the power in a roleplaying game Credibility. As in, whose statements about what happens are Credible? If I say that I shoot you, and you say the gun…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Zak Arntson, Andrew Martin, Paganini, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, contracycle.

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9/15/2003 lumpley: Personal Relevance and Multi-PC Play
Up in Character and Our Weird Gamer Friends, Clinton wroteDoing this myself, I have specific characters that are: - Sad-About-Divorce Clinton - Really-Pissed-Off-Now-About-Divorce Clinton - Attracted-to-Friend's-Wife Clinton - Wishing-to-Enact-Justice-on-Loony-Parents Clinton…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, cruciel.

9/23/2003 lumpley: I finally got IIEE!
Occasionally my job requires me to sit quietly under very boring and technical circumstances. I was doing that the other day and BAM! So you have some people talking about…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, kalyptein, ethan_greer, pete_darby, cruciel, LordSmerf.

9/29/2003 lumpley: Speaking of Trollbabe Comics...
There hasn't been a new one since the end of Avatar is Plenty. I'm jonesin'. -Vincent
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, jrs.

10/3/2003 lumpley: Adventures in Improvised System
My guy fucks corpses. It's okay, I mean he's the son of Lucere, one of the three old men of Tremere, and Lucere raised him to be the Antichrist, which…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, Paul Czege, Tim Alexander, Meguey, cruciel, bluegargantua, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman.

10/20/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Tragedy!
My workplace's netnanny, Websense, just put the boot on Trollbabe: The Websense category "Sex" is filtered. My Mondays are gonna be even lamer than before. Have you ever considered an…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

12/7/2003 lumpley: Adventures in Shared Character Vision
[b]It's over a year ago...[/b] "Hey, has everybody else noticed that Vincent's not playing any of the covenfolk?" Meg says. "Y'know, I had noticed that," says Emily. "I've been wondering…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Meguey, Matt Wilson, bluegargantua, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Gordon C. Landis.

12/9/2003 lumpley: Further More Adventures in Improvised System
Here's one that went really well! Our characters are young, inexperienced, politically radical outsider mages we've never played before. We brainstorm: they're Gypsies, they've turned their back on the Order…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

12/31/2003 lumpley: Adventures in RGFA Simulationism
This is a long time ago, like a couple years, but there's a lull in the game. Something resolved, we sit back and what's next? "Well-" Meg says. "I climb…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley.

1/9/2004 lumpley: More Adventures in Shared Character Vision
We're talking about the three Old Men of Tremere - my Lucere, Em's Unamo and Meg's Lachesis Mutus - and I'm whiny. "...like I mean," I'm saying, "you all just…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Emily Care, Ian Charvill, cruciel, Meguey.

2/3/2004 lumpley: GMs: What's Wrong
[b]Stewardship[/b] The Faith's organization is made of nested domains of spiritual authority, called Stewardship. It looks like this, where "}" means "falls under the Stewardship of": [i]Local Families } Local…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

2/3/2004 lumpley: GMs: Creating Scenarios
Rules: SETUP Draw a circle. Put a dot and arrow in it for each PC plus one for the Territorial Authority plus one for the Faith. Leave room; you can…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, bluegargantua, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle.

2/3/2004 lumpley: Current Game Text
Dogs' working text lives here, in .doc form: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/outline.doc Soon it will live here, in .pdf form: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/pdfs/outline.pdf So that's good.
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, drozdal.

2/3/2004 lumpley: Welcome!
This here's Dogs in the Vineyard's super-secret hidden playtest forum. The game's not a secret, but, like Paul and his My Life with Master playtest, I'd just as soon keep…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley.

2/3/2004 lumpley: A Gigantic Favor
Anybody who has a few free minutes, would you do me a gigantic favor? Check out the scenario creation procedure and make a town? As though you were going to…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, bluegargantua, nikola, ScottM, inthisstyle.

2/12/2004 lumpley: A Hitch in Character Creation
Tom pointed this out to me at VeriCon and a character creation session last night drove it well home. When you create your character, you say something that you hope…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Emily Care, bluegargantua.

2/12/2004 lumpley: An Important Lesson to Learn
If you're explaining and you say "you know, like in a western," and your (potential) players just keep staring at you blankly? Dogs is going to be a hard sell.…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Emily Care, bluegargantua, nikola, Jake Norwood, Jonathan Walton.

2/26/2004 lumpley: Prydain, the Hobbit, Pendragon ... Fun for Kids!
Sebastian, my 7yo, read the back of my big Pendragon book. He explained it to me last night at dinner. "It's like Universalis," he said, "only you have to have…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Simon W, GreatWolf, Zak Arntson, Christopher Weeks, Andrew Norris, Jeph, WDFlores, RaconteurX, Doyce, DannyK, Zathreyel.

3/2/2004 lumpley: Sitch -> Sitch in Gamism & Sim
I said this somewhere else:After setup, what a game's rules do is control how you resolve one situation into the next. If you're designing a Narrativist game, what you need…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young.

4/5/2004 lumpley: The Me Principle
So this is kind of self-involved and pointless, but if I can't post it drunk at the birthday party when can I? I didn't name the Lumpley Principle. I wouldn't'a…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Andy Kitkowski, Gordon C. Landis.

4/6/2004 lumpley: Adventures in Dramatic Drama
Climactic session last night. It'll take some telling, so. So You Know I play Acanthus, Meg plays Damwild, Emily plays Soraya. When I say "us" or "ours," I mean these…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Emily Care.

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