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10/30/2003 Calithena: Premise Revisited - Educate Me
I get stance, and the actor/author stance distinction has been one of the most fertile ideas I've gotten for thinking about my gaming in a long, long time. I think…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, Ian Charvill, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Valamir, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Marco, C. Edwards, lumpley, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young, Paganini.

10/29/2003 Paul Czege: Greg Costikyan's list of 300 Games
In his weblog last Sunday, Greg Costikyan wrote:The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know I've been thinking about writing a book with this title. There are several…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, anonymouse, Ian Charvill, AnyaTheBlue, Mike Holmes, jdagna, John Kim, Calithena, Ron Edwards, Adam, Clinton R. Nixon, Cemendur, adamsmith, ross_winn.

10/29/2003 Loki: weapon master
While it sounds like the character this guy plays isn't very fleshed out, he does have a character kernel here: his character is someone who in the real world would…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Brian Leybourne, Lxndr.

10/29/2003 Jonathan Walton: Sports RPGs: A Match Made in Heaven?
[quote="Marco"]So yeah, a good fantasy ("mmm...rich sports hero") doesn't necessiarily make for a good troop-style game.[/quote] I beg to differ. This has been on my mind for years now. Roleplaying…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, quozl, Lxndr, Marco, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Comte, Jack Spencer Jr, Dev, Ben Lehman, Andrew Norris, Michael S. Miller.

10/29/2003 Deacon Blues: Experience and SAs - New GM's Concerns
Being a veteran GM and a fan of AEG's 7th Sea, I'm a big fan of rewarding players for having their character's follow their destiny. In fact, the "Background" system…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Deacon Blues, Caz, Valamir, Lxndr, Anthony I, Spartan, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Vanguard, Tywin Lannister, Noon, Dan Sellars.

10/29/2003 Loki: the Riddle of d20 conversion
Hey all, I've been running a low-magic game for about a year now using d20, and my group has become increasingly unhappy with the built-in powergaming of the system--so we're…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Caz, kenjib, Ville, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Stephen.

10/29/2003 The GM: Gaming On Purpose
Aight, here's a follow up to my other thread. Basically, I felt like it wasn't getting anywhere, even though there were some nuggets of info that made me think 'aaaah,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: The GM, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

10/29/2003 Calithena: [Sorcery & Sword] Humanity Trading
I'm sure this has come up before, but I couldn't find an old thread. So I'll just ask. I decide I want to play a strongman type character. Really strong,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Valamir, scorpio rising, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/29/2003 sirogit: Ron Edwards' Current prjects
Excus eme if there's some obvious place where I can find this information, but I wanted to ask Ron a few things Are you currently working on any new RPGs?…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Valamir, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, Paka, xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall.

10/29/2003 RobMuadib: M:COTEC - State Of The Game & More Trait Design
Greetings starfighters For our new viewers, I'd thought I'd provide a state of the game address defining the basic outline of the game as it stands, which will hopefully provide…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes.

10/28/2003 Philippe Tromeur: Talking about The Forge on a French radio
In my weekly radio show, "La Terre est Plate Comme une Orange" ( http://ltpco.tk/ ) on a local radio last Monday, I've talked briefly about the Forge. The part in…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, joshua neff.

10/28/2003 C. Edwards: Confirmation of Cool
(From Popular and Damaging) Rules-lite, just pick a few key stats and the rest is description: Unsatisfying. As a mass market newbie role player, it's not enough for the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: C. Edwards, Marco, Walt Freitag, Jonathan Walton, sirogit, Michael S. Miller.

10/28/2003 Mike Holmes: Credibility for the Player
It's assumed that in most traditional power split games that the player has control over his own character. And I think that's true, but simplifies things too much. I think…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mike Holmes, Marco, jdagna, gobi, M. J. Young, Calithena, A.Neill, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, fusangite, Noon, Harlequin, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2003 Thanaeon: David Gemmell... Anyone familiar with him?
As the topic name says... Are you people familiar with the British fantasy author David Gemmell? The reason I'm asking is because reading TRoS I couldn't help thinking every other…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Thanaeon, Brian Leybourne, Bloodstryke, Snikwas, Caz.

10/28/2003 abzu: Pandemonium Books in Boston
check out what I found at Pandemonium Books in Boston! http://www.burningwheel.org/images/pandemonium_display.jpg The owner, Tyler, is very friendly and open to indies. We spent a good hour talking about BW, GAMA,…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, HinterWelt, madelf, Paul Czege, Cynthia Celeste Miller, taepoong.

10/28/2003 Ron Edwards: Slavery, morality, and changing times
Hi there, This thread is picking up from the final two posts in Humakt, Rashoran, and justice. The first of the post was still fairly-well integrated with the original thread,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, Donald, Ian Cooper, simon_hibbs, Mac Logo, Valamir, bluegargantua, Peter Nordstrand, simondale, newsalor, epweissengruber, soru.

10/28/2003 Matt Wilson: Lifepath question
Hey Luke: Wilhelm "rafial" is talking about running a game of BW coming up in the rotation, so I've been trying out a couple lifepaths to see how things work.…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Matt Wilson, abzu, rafial.

10/28/2003 abzu: I play Burning Wheel
So I'm bored at work and I thought i'd post some actual play for BW -- since there is absolutely none out there. Let me see if I can illustrate…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, joshua neff, Lxndr, A.Neill, rafial, taepoong, drozdal.

10/28/2003 greyorm: GNS & Inclusiveness?
Over here MJ Young said:...the answer of the simulationist is, "You're exploring the wrong thing. You have prioritized specific aspects of the world to explore. We're not doing that; we…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, fusangite, Matt Snyder, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Alan.

10/28/2003 abzu: GAMA?
Ron (or another wise old soul), can you enlighten us about the perils, pleasures, benefits and detriments of the much touted GAMA trade show? The early registration deadline has passed,…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, Valamir, AdAstraGames.

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10/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for opportunties for expansion
I'm looking to expand Seraphim guard's product line even beyond games. Sounds silly, doesn't it? But one of the people I'm working with has just offered to write me a…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

10/30/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Would-be Novelist Wanted
As a game publisher trying to rbanch out into the fields of novels and manga, I find I could use writers for several projects. I pay in a percentage royalty,…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

10/30/2003 Tomas HVM: The four main forms of roleplaying games
I'm concerned in making criteria that includes all forms of roleplaying. To divide between different forms of roleplaying is another task. So I take these thoughts on the forms from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tomas HVM, Lxndr, John Kim, James Holloway, Jack Aidley.

10/30/2003 Spooky Fanboy: 9 Worlds: Hubris/Arete question
Originally, in the 9 Worlds playtest, if you declared one of these sacrosanct, the other attribute was put in danger. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't wrap my…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder, Valamir.

10/30/2003 JamesDJIII: MACE - High Point, NC
Is any one from the Forge going to show up and run games? http://www.justusproductions.com/ Lookes like they could use an indie game injection.
In Conventions
Participants: JamesDJIII, xiombarg.

10/30/2003 Calithena: DERPG and GNS
I'm jumping ahead to the next step here, but I want to pose a basic question and see how people answer it. I think that the Dying Earth RPG is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, gentrification.

10/30/2003 Ron Edwards: [Elfs] Serpent cultists and repressed priestesses
Hello, I've been wanting to play Elfs for lots and lots of people at once for a long time. This time, we had six, and it works great! What a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Anthony I, Valamir.

10/30/2003 Calithena: Mu's Bed II
Paka, my money is in your pocket the second any version of this hits pdf or the stores. This stuff rocks the HOUSE! Probably you've read her stuff already long…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, Paka.

10/30/2003 MachMoth: Shared Action Resolution
To be honest, I never put to much thought into shared narration. I like the idea, but most of the people I play with don't. The seperation of character and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MachMoth, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf.

10/30/2003 gregkcubed: where to buy...
Hi, new to the forum.. we've got a nerd group here in NYC and we've been playing a low magic Crom style game. We've been playing D&D d20 and frankly…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: gregkcubed, Brian Leybourne, Caz.

10/30/2003 Paul Czege: pitching to a retailer
So...Luke's photo of OctaNe, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, and Shades of Earth on display at Pandemonium Books in Boston got me thinking about how I might directly pitch local retailers…
In Publishing
Participants: Paul Czege, jdagna, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Valamir, abzu.

10/30/2003 mikemunsil: I too...
I too am tryng to start a group, but I'm not as far along as Caitlin as I haven't identified anyone to play with. Also, I'm not overly familiar with…
In Actual Play
Participants: mikemunsil, Ron Edwards, Delta1.

10/31/2003 Grimbot: World Design
I just got my book and I'm really looking forward to starting up my first session. After a few practice sessions I think I'm going to try to get my…
In Universalis
Participants: Grimbot, Valamir, GreatWolf.

10/31/2003 Tim C Koppang: Rule Nebulas
Out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone has ever done anything like this when designing their game? I call it a rule nebulas. Basically, I think it's a nice…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tim C Koppang, Andrew Martin, Cemendur, Jasper, Jack Spencer Jr.

10/31/2003 Ron Edwards: [Arrowflight] Pixies, poison, and duty
Hello, This post is way overdue; we played a single-session game of Arrowflight at a meeting of our campus club almost four weeks ago. I'll start right off by saying…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Matt Wilson.

10/31/2003 Ron Edwards: [Orbit] Rock rock, rock-and-roll future
This game is way fun, both in making characters and setting up a situation. I could make up Orbit characters just to amuse myself, and the cool thing is that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, JSDiamond.

10/31/2003 dragon_of_colour: Our first game
Hello all, Tried out Uni for the first time last weekend. Our first game was really a hit-and-miss affair, but we had fun and hammered out the rules between us.…
In Universalis
Participants: dragon_of_colour, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Brian Leybourne.

10/31/2003 sirogit: Playing with the idea of "Lineage" in Sorcerer
One of the concepts for something to do in Sorcerer is playing around with the idea of "Lineage", which I will define as, the sense of the supernatural descending from…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Paka.

10/31/2003 Brassel: Challenge during Resolution of Complication?
We just played our first universal story, and boy, we had some fun! There'll be a sequel soon, I'm sure. We found the rules to be very well understandable and…
In Universalis
Participants: Brassel, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 Calithena: GNS: Theses, Claims, Comments, and Questions
1. Gamism, simulationism, and narratism are modes of play for games. (Question: is there some principled reason for thinking that these are all there are? What is it? Or is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, M. J. Young, Ian Charvill, Mike Holmes.

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