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9/29/2003 jburneko: On Telltales
Hello, Telltales are conceptually very awkward things for me. I have a particularly difficult time understanding the relationship between Telltales, Lore rolls, and non-Sorcerers. Consider this telltale: In my Space-Western…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2003 jburneko: Player-Character Seperation and Ninja Burger
Hello All, So, up in the Theory forum there has been a lot of discussion recently about the whole Player vs. Character issue and it suddenly occured to me that…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Rod Anderson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, quozl, Andrew Norris.

9/12/2003 jburneko: The Asylum: A First Pass Sorcerer One Sheet
Hello All, My Sorcerer ideas are a dime a dozen and I generally don't post them here unless I think I might actually get a chance to develop them. Well…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Ben Morgan, Christopher Kubasik, Lxndr, Nev the Deranged.

8/21/2003 jburneko: [InSpectres] Sam Spaderman, Supernatural Private Eye
Hello, So, the other night I was talking to a friend of mine that I've been out of touch with for a while and I talked about my change in…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, WDFlores, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2003 jburneko: My Life With Master Rules Question
Hello, Okay, so I bought My Life With Master and I LOVE it! But something struck me a bit odd. It seems that stats only ever go up. I don't…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim.

7/21/2003 jburneko: Sorcerer Game Concept
A few days ago I saw a British mini-series called Ultraviolet. It was more or less a serious crime drama that just happened to include vampires. It wasn't really a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, erithromycin, Ron Edwards.

6/19/2003 jburneko: Trollbabe Comic Stuck?
Is my computer just being weird or has the Trollbabe comic not updated at all this week? Jesse
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, lumpley, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2003 jburneko: 7th Sea: Children of the Withered Rose
Hello All, I've been kind of quiet in Actual Play for a while. Both of my regular groups are still rolling along but I wanted to let both games simmer…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege.

6/13/2003 jburneko: Sorcerer Diceless
I was reading the new Marvel game and I kept getting this weird idea. I kept thinking, "This is similar to what would happen if you tried to play Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Trevis Martin.

6/5/2003 jburneko: Demon Cops: Best Sorcerer "How To" Yet
I'd been holding off on purchasing Demon Cops because it was Anime based and quite frankly, I'm not an Anime fan. However, when I ordered Sex and Sorcery I threw…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

6/4/2003 jburneko: Question About Demons Confering Abilities.
This question is prompted by Mind Control Redux thread but since this isn't specifically about mind control I thought I'd put it in its own thread. There were some examples…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Valamir, Lxndr.

5/27/2003 jburneko: Bad News from the L.A. Con
Hello, I have some rather bad news concerning the L.A. Con. Deathwish was offered three different times and three different times I got ZERO players. Friday and Saturday night no…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: jburneko, Matt Snyder.

5/21/2003 jburneko: Requesting Con Poster Feedback for Deathwish
Hello, So, I'm running my Deathwish scenario at the local con this weekend. Since it seems that Christopher Kubasik's poster helped promote his Sorcerer game at the last con I…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, marknau, Matt Snyder, Bankuei, Walt Freitag, Valamir.

5/21/2003 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery Revisited (Sort of)
Hello Again, One of my players put up a kind of in-character journal for the Space-Western Sorcerer game we played a few months back. It can be found here: http://users.adelphia.net/~ppilati/games/space/space.html…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2003 jburneko: Diplomacy In Trollbabe
Hello, This is a problem I encounter in almost ALL Fortune-In-The-Middle based systems but I want to discuse it in a Trollbabe context because the mechanics are the simplest and…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, talysman, Tim C Koppang, Rod Anderson, GreatWolf, rafial, greyorm.

5/9/2003 jburneko: Mind Control Revisited
Hello Again, So, after reading some of demon building excerises I've realized that Psychic Forces is a VERY interesting ability and is sort of your catch all, "I just want…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/1/2003 jburneko: A Trollbabe Idea
I had a very neat idea for Trollbabe. Is there anyway to produce and distribute or at least distribute so that we can produce a poster-sized version of the world…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Matt Snyder, Ben Morgan, Rod Anderson.

4/30/2003 jburneko: Trollbabe Questions & Comments
Hello, With all the Trollbabe playing going on I reread the game last night. I'm still trying to figure out how to convince my group to give this a try…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, rafial, Bob McNamee.

4/25/2003 jburneko: About A Player
All this talk about "No Myth" has made me start to think more about this one particular player I have. Over all, I LIKE playing with guy for two reasons:…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Valamir, Enoch, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Blake Hutchins.

4/10/2003 jburneko: Social Conflict Resolution
I've been wanting to discuss this for a while but haven't been able to construct a working example that demonstrated my question yet. Then, about a week ago, I was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young, quozl, Harlequin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

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10/20/2003 jburneko: Elfs and Modules
Hello, Ron, have you considered opening up a mini-supplement program for Elfs? I was thinking that having a supply of modules for sale would not only allow people to profit…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, Paganini, greyorm.

11/11/2003 jburneko: [7th Sea] A Harlequin Romance
Someone on RPG.net once started a very amusing thread where people listed what they thought various RPGs would be if they weren't RPGs. Someone posted, "7th Sea: If it wasn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ian Charvill.

11/20/2003 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Dialogue and Combat
Okay, dialogue in a combat situation is a massive problem for me. In most traditional "linear" initiative systems, I'm very inconsistant with how I run dialogue. Sometimes It's a free…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

1/14/2004 jburneko: [The Pool] Eden Falls
Hello All, So, my weekday group concluded the Ravenloft game I was running just before the Hollidays and we started up a fresh game last night. For a while, I'd…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Tim Alexander, Blake Hutchins.

1/23/2004 jburneko: Swimming in The Pool is quite refreshing.
Hello Again, As mentioned in a previous post I've decided to use The Pool as the system behind the latest game my weekday group is playing. I thought that donig…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jeph, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

1/26/2004 jburneko: Thoughts From a Player
Hello, Allright, so I've had three gaming sessions since the new year. Character Creation + First Session of Play for my Eden Falls game using The Pool and a Character…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, John Kim, Matt Snyder, bcook1971, Christopher Kubasik, pete_darby, Paganini, clehrich.

2/6/2004 jburneko: Demons as Primary Antagonist
Hello, I'm not sure if the subject of this post fully captures what I'm about to talk about so please bear with me if this wanders a bit. I've been…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

2/10/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] In A House of Madness
So character creation plus the first actual play session for my Socerer game set in an asylum has come and gone. And the results were.... unexpected. A bit of background.…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, clehrich, Christopher Kubasik, newsalor, Ron Edwards.

2/12/2004 jburneko: More on Social Conflict
Hello, This thread was sparked by the Trollbabe thread on Social Injury. I admit that my grasp of Social Conflict as it applies to Trollbabe and Sorcerer wavers in and…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Dav, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2004 jburneko: [The Pool] Eden Falls - Find a Villain
I've been wanting to post about my religious-flavored "superhero" game for some time now. The game is now in it's sixth or seventh session and is going incredibly well. When…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

3/4/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More On Complex Conflict
I don't know what it is about this Asylum game I'm running but I'm really beginning to see that for all my intellectual understanding I really suck at this whole…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

3/12/2004 jburneko: [The Pool/Eden Falls] Book 1, Final Chapter
So, on Tuesday, the curent Eden Falls scenario came to a conclusion. As usual I offered up the option to either keep playing with these characters in this setting with…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

3/25/2004 jburneko: Structural Aesthetics vs. Story Now
Hello All, This will get around to Actual Play eventually, if it evolves too much into more theoretical GNS discussion, feel free to move it. Structural Aesthetics play a HUGE…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, pete_darby, GreatWolf, DannyK, Dev, cruciel, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, clehrich, joshua neff, hix, Valamir, Sean.

3/30/2004 jburneko: Sorcerer Reference, "lighter" Demons and Humanity
So, anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really a big anime fan. But a couple of months ago a friend of mine suggested that I check out a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, sirogit, Ace, xiombarg, jrs, Bankuei.

4/5/2004 jburneko: Yet, More On Conflict
Hello, In another thread Ron wrote: There's really no such thing as rolling against "no defense." If there's truly no defense, then the only constraint on the announced action…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

4/12/2004 jburneko: Small Sorcery Question
Hello, I've owned TROS for some time now and I've read parts of it in bits and pieces but only recently took the plunge and read the entire book cover…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: jburneko, Edge.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] Simple Rules Question
Hello, My weekday group has started a My Life With Master game. I'll post more details in Actual Play but I wanted to put some simple rules questions here. They…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount.
Hello All, Long time, no post. My weekday group has started a game of My Life With Master. During master/character creation one player suggested doing something related to the French…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Tobias, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, Nev the Deranged.

6/24/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount Part II.
So, last night was the second session of the My Life With Master game. I took the advice most of you put forth and played the master with more cruelty…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Dumirik, CPXB, Nicolas Crost, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mojo, GB Steve.

9/26/2004 jburneko: Social Contract and Automation
Hello Everyone, It's been a while since I posted. Most of that is due to the fact that I'm getting married at the end of October and because I have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, Noon.

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