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1/4/2004 Lxndr: Flexible Priorities and Insight
Okay, I've searched and haven't found this - I've seen threads with people talking about making priorities more flexible, but I've yet to see anything concrete. So, here's a short…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lxndr, kidar, Draigh, Ashren Va'Hale, Ian Charvill, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Ingenious, Bob McNamee, Tim Alexander.

1/1/2004 Lxndr: A Possible Setting for Burning Wheel
I've got a number of homegrown fantasy settings sitting around (who doesn't, right?), and it's occurred to me that Burning Wheel might be the right home for one of them.…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, abzu, drozdal, taepoong.

1/1/2004 Lxndr: Called Shots
Okay, on page 150, Burning Wheel has a rather nice, simple set of Called Shots rules. But there seems to be too little reward - is the only benefit of…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, abzu, taepoong.

12/29/2003 Lxndr: What is Dead Meat?
What is Dead Meat? Can it be acquired? Where is the author? Does anyone play or run the game?
In Destroy All Games
Participants: Lxndr, Paul Czege.

12/25/2003 Lxndr: A funny thing happened on my way to my character...
Well, not really funny. But I decided I'd try to make myself a character, and then I realized - you know, I really don't like doing stuff by hand. Years…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, Kaare Berg, abzu.

12/21/2003 Lxndr: Random BW Questions
I've poked through here, and I've poked through the forums on your site, as well as looking through the book. Here are questions I couldn't find answered. If they were,…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, abzu, rafial.

11/21/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Playing Without a Croupier
For months now, the idea of playing Fastlane without a specific croupier has been rattling around my head. I'm rather fond of the traditional GM/Player split, and the "core" Fastlane…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

11/18/2003 Lxndr: Art: Does It Matter?
I intially posted here, in the Connections forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8700 looking for someone who could do art and layout, and the conversation sort of took a left turn, and an interesting…
In Publishing
Participants: Lxndr, Matt Snyder, Valamir, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, quozl, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, matthijs, madelf, A.B.W, Funksaw.

11/16/2003 Lxndr: Art, Layout, Etc. (someone to do it)
I'm fairly convinced that Fastlane is pretty close to being ready for pdf publishing (I want at least an ashcan physical product ready for Indy, but a pdf seems appropriate…
In Connections
Participants: Lxndr, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf, ejh, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, Bob McNamee, greyorm, Trevis Martin, Funksaw, abzu.

11/6/2003 Lxndr: Publishing Snowball
Up to this point, I've offered Snowball free from the Twisted Confessions website. I have no plans to stop doing that. However, I am also tempted to submit it to…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Lxndr, James V. West, abzu.

11/4/2003 Lxndr: [Shangri-la] Dice Mechanics and Related Foo
[b]Shangri-La[/b] is meant to be the 2nd major project of [color=blue]Twisted Confessions[/color]. It was originally a hacked-out FUDGE variant that I used in a pbem/chat combination game, but that game…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Walt Freitag.

11/3/2003 Lxndr: Fastlane Playtesters Wanted
I'm looking for a group who'd be willing to do at least a one-shot playtest of the rules, to see how well they work in a group that doesn't have…
In Connections
Participants: Lxndr.

10/27/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Sample Settings
I have decided, for better or for worse, to include a number of sample settings in Fastlane. Each setting should take up no more than a few pages, just a…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, C. Edwards, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

10/22/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Character "Death"
So it occurs to me that, perhaps, it's too difficult to have a protagonist "burn out" in Fastlane, and thus be taken out of the game. Currently, the rules state…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, anonymouse, Wolfen.

10/15/2003 Lxndr: Fastlane: Demigods
[b]Session the Zero[/b] We had a really good Actual Play Setting-and-Character-Generation session last night over on Indie-Netgaming, and I thought it'd be good to share it with y'all. Our players…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lxndr, Bob McNamee.

10/5/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Adventures in Ezra
We played Fastlane today in my in-person gaming group. Used american dice instead of the wheel (the motorcycle is not an easy thing to carry a roulette wheel on). I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lxndr, Wolfen.

10/1/2003 Lxndr: [Fastlane]: Facets and Styles
I am considering a new addition to the Fastlane rules (which can be downloaded at www.twistedconfessions.com), but I'm wondering whether or not I'm making the game needlessly complex by adding…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, RaconteurX, Wolfen.

9/24/2003 Lxndr: "Missing" About the Forge items?
For those who don't know, or haven't checked it in a while, there is this really nifty "about the forge" link up at the top of the page. It discusses…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/22/2003 Lxndr: QuIRC - GMless Timestamp IRC Roleplaying
The resolution mechanic that I've been toying with for weeks, using the IRC timestamp for conflict resolution, finally bubbled up last night when I should have been sleeping. The following…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, C. Edwards, MachMoth.

9/12/2003 Lxndr: [MLwM] For Those Of Us D4-Deprived
I own maybe three d4s, less than any other single die except the weird ones (d5, d7, etc). My fellow gamers, I believe, own even less (I'm kind of a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, Bob McNamee, mortmere, RdGkA, Paul Czege, Adam Dray.

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1/12/2004 Lxndr: Hidden Forums
I've been wondering this for a while, but only now have bothered to ask about it: The MLwM playtest forum operated under the noses of a lot of Forge members…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jeph, Michael S. Miller.

1/13/2004 Lxndr: Swordsman Question
Okay, this has been bugging me for some time: why are swordsmen so pitifully, horribly bad at Body Language? They get the Body Language skill at +3 as a part…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lxndr, Ingenious, Brian Leybourne, Paganini, Salamander, Wolfen, toli, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Bob Richter.

1/21/2004 Lxndr: Burning Wheel Site Hacked
At least, as far as I can tell, someone fucked over Luke by hacking his website. Ugh. Sorry, Luke. I hope the data's recoverable. :(
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, abzu, rafial, Sammael99, Kaare Berg.

1/25/2004 Lxndr: My Setting In Play - Character Creation
(Burning Wheel needs someone as good as Brian Leybourne to wander in and create a character creation/advancement/storage program that'll print out the characters on a real-looking sheet.) I thought aboust…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Lxndr, taepoong, abzu.

4/4/2004 Lxndr: Happy Birthday '04!
Happy birthday Forge! Oh, and... first non-moderator post of the year!
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Lxndr, Jeph, C. Edwards, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, Shreyas Sampat, clehrich, gobi, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, BPetroff93, Emily Care, Rich Forest, greyorm.

4/13/2004 Lxndr: GenCon Business/Tax Questions
If I go to GenCon as "Alexander Cherry, Sole Proprietor of Twisted Confessions" instead of as "Private Citizen Alexander Cherry", what sorts of things are generally considered deductible? (Yeah yeah,…
In Conventions
Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Bob Goat, jdagna, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege.

4/13/2004 Lxndr: Character Improvement in Sorcerer, or What Is Lxndr Missing?
Reading through the Sorcerer main book, character improvement seems to be tied to "the end of a story" (which may or may not have anything to do with a kicker).…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Sean, jburneko.

4/18/2004 Lxndr: [Iron Games Past] Where are they now?
(I considered posting this in Connections, as it might be more appropriate there - but my gut told me IGD. Ron & Clinton, if this is the wrong forum, I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Simon W, greyorm, ethan_greer, talysman, Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

4/24/2004 Lxndr: Snowball
Twisted Confessions was down for a while, making Snowball more-or-less unavailable online. It's back up now. I apologize for any problems anyone had attempting to access it in the meanwhile.
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Lxndr, nuanarpoq.

5/10/2004 Lxndr: Drama Resolution Mechanics
Yes, I'm aware that most (all) resolution mechanics in games are some combination of Drama, Fortune and Karma as they're defined here on the Forge. What I'm looking for are…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Lxndr, Shreyas Sampat, Emily Care, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Dav, dragongrace, Sean, Michael S. Miller, Hunter Logan, Cemendur, M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, pete_darby.

5/12/2004 Lxndr: [GenCon] Fastlane Raffle?
I've been kicking this idea around in my mind, and have even allocated some budget to the concept and found a local Indianapolis retailer that could help meet my needs…
In Conventions
Participants: Lxndr, Bob Goat, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/14/2004 Lxndr: [Frigid Bitch] First Playtest Ever
Well, it's the first playtest as far as I'm aware. For all I know, someone has played it on the sly and never told me about it. But that's not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Valamir, Nev the Deranged, Bob McNamee, talysman, sirogit.

6/15/2004 Lxndr: Twisted Confessions Forum Sticky - Please Read
Hello, and welcome to the discussion forum for Twisted Confessions Game Design and the various games associated with that label, both those published and those slated for future development. Also…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr.

6/18/2004 Lxndr: Subscribe to Forum?
You can be notified when a reply is posted to a given thread... but is there a way to do a similar thing for a whole forum? "Notify me whenever…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Dev.

6/20/2004 Lxndr: [Shangri-la] An attempt to overview
Shangri-la has gone quite a bizarre and remarkable distance from its first manifestation as a simple FUDGE rip. The die system I am planning to use can be found here:…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Jonathan Walton.

7/19/2004 Lxndr: [Fastlane] In Preparation for GenCon, Questions
My first game, Fastlane, hasn't sold well so far (10 sales over 2 months). It's a niche product, using a roulette wheel and all, and I understand that, and I…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee.

12/9/2004 Lxndr: Online Sales
Since May of 2004, Fastlane's online sales have been... well, dismal. In total, since May 1st, I've sold 8 copies of the print version of Fastlane through Lulu (including one…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, ethan_greer, Yokiboy, Eero Tuovinen, Dev, matthijs, inthisstyle.

1/3/2005 Lxndr: Dice
How many 4 siders, 6 siders, 8 siders, and ten siders would you suggest I have if I wanted to supply a full group of (say) 4 + myself, out…
In lumpley games
Participants: Lxndr, Paka, nikola.

1/20/2005 Lxndr: Twisted News
Hi! This is the Twisted Confessions news/updates/announcements thread, which is long overdue. I don't plan on being a one-and-a-half hit wonder, and while upheavals in my life (motorcycle theft, job…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr.

3/16/2005 Lxndr: [Shangri-La] A New Project #1
This is the first of several posts I hope to make over the next few days about things that are boiling in the Twisted Confessions background. So, here goes... ----…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr, gorckat, Valamir, Mike Holmes, TonyLB.

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