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9/29/2003 ejh: Scott McCloud's Four Tribes
I got to hear comic artist Scott McCloud speak earlier this week and as an aside, in response to a question somebody asked, he threw out a fourfold classification of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, Ben Lehman, Windthin, SumDood, Jasper, Trevis Martin, Alan, John Kim.

9/24/2003 ejh: Plagiarism. Good plagiarism.
I remember reading in a Different Worlds article the phrase "the first rule of game design is plagiarism." That article went on to talk about ripping off the Resistance Table…
In Publishing
Participants: ejh, AnyaTheBlue, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Dev, Ben Lehman, Lxndr.

8/29/2003 ejh: Penny Arcade comic for Sorcerer players
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-8-29&res=l :)
In Adept Press
Participants: ejh, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

8/16/2003 ejh: Solitaire "RPGs" e.g. "Oraculum"
I'd like to start a new thread to talk about some things Mark Johnson and I brought up in this thread. (Hmm... BBCode seems to be totally failing for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Mark Johnson.

8/5/2003 ejh: System and the Lumpley Principle (split)
I notice also that in this particular formulation of the Lumpley Principle, game rules as written in a book are a subset of System. And in this formulation, the Lumpley…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Jack Spencer Jr, lumpley, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Alan, Cemendur.

7/30/2003 ejh: Towards a Semiotics of Roleplaying Games
I tried to work this out years ago but there was no Forge then. I'm going back to it now in my blog. Please feel free to comment, but don't…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Hunter Logan, Gordon C. Landis, Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Valamir, John Kim, GB Steve, Cemendur.

7/30/2003 ejh: My Life With Master: The Alienist.
First report on gaming over lunch with guys from work. The Master is a Brain and a Teacher/Feeder. He is a mad psychiatrist who uses bizarre equipment to suck initiative…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Brian Leybourne, iago.

7/28/2003 ejh: My Life With Master at GenCon
In this blog entry I discuss the pickup game of My Life With Master I played with a few friends, the evening after I bought it and demoed it. In…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, nate, Paul Czege.

7/28/2003 ejh: Why I Didn't Buy TroS at GenCon
So it's Sunday, I'm at GenCon, and I've bought all the "first tier/gotta have" games I have on my list, and I'm ready to spend a few more bucks on…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ejh, grot, Stephen, kenjib, 6inTruder, Draigh, Morfedel, mrgrimm, Ben Lehman, Lxndr, Caz, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, Wolfen, Valamir, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen, toli.

7/14/2003 ejh: Free Art for your Game! some ideas I'm tossing round
I've been thinking it might be fun to make a site/blog/something like that where I offered art under a creative commons license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ ) that would be amenable to…
In Connections
Participants: ejh, Urandal, Ron Edwards, Menace, Pelinderian, Hardpoint.

6/15/2003 ejh: Giving Teeth to Topos, based on Mike Holmes' comments
Topos is described in the thread "Ed Designs a Game: Topos" and a copy of the rules is available at http://www.remove-this-part-lostthoughts.org/phpwiki/index.html/Topos . IMHO, it has evolved to a point where…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 ejh: Artistically Inclined Playtesters?
I have this crazy-ass idea.... What if we did a game of Topos where people were allowed and encouraged to post comic panels or strips instead of paragraphs? (reference for…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

5/8/2003 ejh: The Lumpley Principle?
Can someone summarize this for me, and point me to the threads it comes from? It's gotten to the point that Ron is using it without defining it in essays,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

5/7/2003 ejh: Ed Designs A Game: Topos
Well, y'all may remember that I've posted in the past about creating a "Universalis Lite" or something like that. I finally done gone and did it, and got some poor…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Wolfen, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Bill_White, efindel, dunlaing, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, Thierry Michel.

1/3/2003 ejh: scene record keeping
I mentioned this in another thread but would like to see people's input... would anyone care to show off what their "scene records" look like? I'm interested in an idealized,…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Shieldage, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.

12/30/2002 ejh: There and Back (split)
hmm... both "ohne" and the RPG referred to here by Clinton are no longer apparent on the web... no, wait, Clinton's RPG is still there as "There and Back," just…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

12/30/2002 ejh: Uni Light?.... Unisynthesis?
I'm trying to think about directions I could jump from Universalis... I like the game and have had some success playing it but it seems to operate at a fairly…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

11/8/2002 ejh: Quick Complication question
OK, trying to understand the rules here... Basic rules: 1. Complication with two Targets, therefore a total of three Dice Pools. The Targets win, the Complication does not succeed in…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, J B Bell, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Paganini.

10/26/2002 ejh: first uni game
Just finished playing my first (very short) game of Universalis. Really just did the background design and one scene. Even just doing the background design was a lot of fun…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/22/2002 ejh: Vague Thoughts On Simulation & Solos & Stuff
My first roleplaying game was Tunnels & Trolls (back in a time called the Nineteen Hundred and Seventies). It had a wonderfully simple game system, especially for the time, and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Kester Pelagius, RobMuadib, Jack Spencer Jr, talysman.

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12/1/2003 ejh: Artist available
Hey, if anybody would like some art, give me a buzz and we'll talk. You may know me from the "Birthroot Bargain" Trollbabe comic, and soon the cover of the…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

4/5/2004 ejh: Ed's Art Blog, CC-Licensed
Hey, I finally got around to putting up a web site for my art. It's in blog format. I'm looking for a better name than "Ed's Artwork Blog" -- suggestions…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

8/11/2004 ejh: GNS Analogy From Art
Just posted the following at my blog. Would appreciate comment, esp. on whether people see it as accurate. I have three friends who are all artists -- all concern…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: ejh, ErrathofKosh, John Kim, Hunter Logan.

10/2/2004 ejh: [Nine Worlds] The Jovian Candidate
Maxwell Chime was a menial functionary in an industrial nation on Earth, who was on the verge of being Enlightened by Prometheus, when Somebody kidnapped him. That Somebody brainwashed him…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

10/7/2004 ejh: Stealing Your Rules! What do you think?
I understand that you cannot copyright game rules as such, only the particular written expressions thereof. But I'm thinking about courtesy and respect, not the law. I have a bee…
In Publishing
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, Vaxalon, madelf, greyorm, Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, Tav_Behemoth, woodelf.

12/7/2004 ejh: In Terras Incognitas
So I have a spiffy idea nagging at me for an RPG, and I thought I'd share it at this totally embryonic stage, to see if either I get some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, ethan_greer, lumpley, inky, Simon Kamber, Vaxalon, Paul Czege, arete66.

1/21/2005 ejh: Example Rules Query & Big Suggestion For Next Edition/Er
Here's an example of the kind of question I have been bugging Lxndr with in instant messages (I haven't asked him this one yet, it's new) -- * If someone…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: ejh, Lxndr.

1/22/2005 ejh: [FastLane] Cyberpunks Of The Carribean
Fastlane actual play: People agreed on Cyberpunk as a genre. In order to get some kind of unity we tried to think of some geographical location we could play besides…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, Miskatonic, Dev.

1/24/2005 ejh: BoingBoing Plug
[a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/22/another_rpg_publishe.html"]Nice plug[/a] on BoingBoing. Sadly, they seem not to have bothered to post a plug I submitted for the Forge Bookshelf in general. But good to see indie games…
In CRN Games
Participants: ejh, joshua neff.

1/24/2005 ejh: Monica the Sorcerer -- Wapsi Square
I've recently become a big fan of the webcomic "Wapsi Square" http://www.wapsisquare.com/. It's a drama series (with a nod towards daily punchlines, but it's really more story than funny) about…
In Adept Press
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2005 ejh: [DitV] The Steward of Respite
Posted at a little gaming blog Joe and I have put together, here's my impressions of my first game of Dogs: I played Dogs in the Vineyard Friday…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, lumpley, Valamir.

6/8/2005 ejh: Fiduciary responsibility (split)
Holy cow. I never realized that 'james_west' wasn't 'James V. West.' Big brainshift reading that. I have a small and tangentially related response at my gaming blog, which references a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, contracycle, Mike Holmes, John Kim, groundhog, Marco, Ben Lehman, Walt Freitag, cruciel.

9/5/2005 ejh: Ed Heil Illustrations
I finally got me a website for all this illustrationing shiznit. http://edsillos.nfshost.com/ :)
In Connections
Participants: ejh, Emily Care, Jake Richmond.

10/11/2005 ejh: Cat and Caedmon
Quick <a href="http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/2005/10/cat-and-caedmon-breaking-ice.html">link</a> to a blogged actual play writeup of my first full series of 3 dates in BtI. Brought up some observations/questions about how Turns end.  Emily, forgive me…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: ejh, Emily Care, jporrett.

11/4/2005 ejh: "fetishizing"
I could use more detail on "fetishizing" your character.  I think I have some intuitive grasp of what it means but I'm not sure.  The example given in the text…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: ejh, Paul Czege.

1/21/2006 ejh: Brief Gesture In The Direction of Playtest
OK, I got the boys to give it a spin tonight. Not ideal conditions, I had only kinda scanned the rules and kept flipping back and forth through them during…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: ejh, Paul Czege.

8/28/2008 ejh: GM Prep for a Game of Trollbabe
Somebody confirm that I understand this correctly: you as a GM do not prep for games of trollbabe, cause you don't even know where they're going to happen before they…
In Adept Press
Participants: ejh, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/1/2009 ejh: [S/Lay w/Me] actual play - Asad at the Monastery
Written up at Esoteric Murmurs -- http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/2009/09/slay-wme-actual-play-asad-at-monastery.html copied here for your convenience. :) ====== OK, I wrote this up over several days, so it may not flow very well. So…
In Adept Press
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

3/29/2010 ejh: Horribly unprofessional artist seeks advice.
Hey folks.  If you don't know me, I've been hanging around here for a while.  I'm just a guy who has drawn a lot, and has occasionally through some good…
In Connections
Participants: ejh, greyorm.

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