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1/7/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Ill Met in Tarshish
The fourth session of our Tarshish campaign was possibly the most productive, as it brought Darius and "that damn Dwarf" Kvardo togther, and saw the beginning of Cpt Jessup's spy…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, taepoong, johnzo, Valamir.

12/31/2003 rafial: Monopoly vs. RPGs, rule evolution, and the social contract
I was inspired with the following thought based on Christopher Kubasik's thread on clarity in rule writing, and his choice of Monopoly as an iconic game to represent the world…
In RPG Theory
Participants: rafial, Noon, jdagna, contracycle, Jack Aidley, Bill_White.

12/20/2003 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Fear and Loathing in Tarshish
I used our third session of BW to address the "intimidation" regarding the combat system that several players had expressed in the previous thread. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8985 After framing some opening scenes…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, abzu, Alan, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

12/15/2003 rafial: BW and No Myth
In my Tarshish game, I've been seeking to follow the "No Myth" style of GMing, in so far as I understand that concept as it has been presented at the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, joshua neff, abzu.

12/12/2003 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Hard Times in Tarshish
Our Burning Wheel campaign at UGX is now in its third session, of a planned eight. The first session was joint setting and character creation, the second and third sessions…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, johnzo, Yasha, abzu.

9/20/2003 rafial: Savage Gamism
While one faction of UGAX (Ultimate Gamer Assembly X) walks the beat in ancient Rome, the rest of us have decided to give Savage Worlds a test drive by playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Hafaza, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

9/9/2003 rafial: Frightening the Horses
There have been numerous postings lately from folks who have become frustrated in trying to introduce "Forge ideas" into their regular play group, whether it be new games, GNS terminology,…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, John Kim.

8/22/2003 rafial: Attribute pools at 0. Any effect?
So I'm fighting this intelligent lobster riding in a mechanical spider chair, see, and I'd like to knock out the chair (or at least render it incapable of moving) so…
In CRN Games
Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Catalyst.

7/2/2003 rafial: Re: Revised Artha Rules
[quote="abzu"] also, a revised character sheet to accomodate the new info: [/quote] Hey, a quick note on the single page character sheet. Under armor, it has separate spaces for upper…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, abzu.

6/27/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel: von Goten Redeux
I reran the BW demo adventure (von Goten's Predicament) for a different audience last night. Again, I had two players (James and Matt), this time they selected the Dwarf and…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, drozdal.

6/24/2003 rafial: A question of Faith
This is a followup from my game report in Actual Play. One of the players in the demo used the Priest, and in play we found that it was almost…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, taepoong.

6/24/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel in Actual Play
I report on my first experience running BW in the Actual Play forum.
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial.

6/24/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel: von Goten's Predicament
I took my first chance to spin The Wheel tonight, running the demo adventure available from the website (and kindly included in printed form with my copy of the game).…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Jack Spencer Jr, abzu, amnesiack.

6/19/2003 rafial: FoRKs in Melee
So I've noticed that all the melee weapons skills list brawling, martial arts and each other as FoRKs. Does this mean that if I have both Sword skill and Brawling…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, taepoong, nebulous menace, abzu.

6/18/2003 rafial: Why script Block?
Here's my latest head scratcher. Why would you ever want to script Block, as opposed to Counterstrike? Counterstrike works against all the things that Block works against, and a lot…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, taepoong, abzu, nebulous menace, inthisstyle.

6/15/2003 rafial: Why are trainings listed with roots?
Unless I've badly misread the rules, trainings are skills you either have or you don't, there is no rating associated with the skill. Yet I note in the list, trainings…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial, abzu, taepoong.

6/11/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 5 & coda]
The last installment of our planned 5 session Trollbabe campaign has come and gone. It was a relatively short session, a little over 2 hours, as the players chose to…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial.

6/4/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 4]
Session 4 of our Trollbabe campaign was our smoothest yet (the players are of course free to disagree). The only shortcoming from my perspective is that I went into this…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, John Harper.

5/27/2003 rafial: Shared narrative vs. Exploration of Character in Trollbabe
I'd like to discuss an issue which I believe has been an undercurrent of tension in the Trollbabe campaign I am currently running. The issue is the possible negative impact…
In Adept Press
Participants: rafial, Jeffrey Straszheim, Bob McNamee, Alan, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

5/26/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 3]
Our Trollbabe campaign has proceeded to its third session, which I'm happy to report was, at least in my eyes, much more satisfying than our second. The campaign is now…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, John Harper, Valamir.

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3/28/2004 rafial: TROS, Calvinball, and IIEE
So we just completed Alan's Fire upon Fenwyck campaign which was one of the side by side TROS games that made up the latest round at UGX. And while I…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, ZenDog, Alan, Hafaza, Noon, Jake Norwood, Valamir.

3/31/2004 rafial: Rules suggestions for NDG Pirates
This thread is continuation of the game design issues brought up in a previous thread which is now closed. Since I am responding to a question regarding future directions of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: rafial.

5/10/2004 rafial: Mechanical Gender Differences III (I'm Embarrassed)
Okay, so let me out myself on the real reason I think mechanically enshrining gender in RPG mechanics just doesn't work for me. I find it embarrassing. Here I am,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: rafial, Jack Aidley, Maarzan, Ravien, AnyaTheBlue, John Harper, Andrew Martin, Matt Wilson, Thuringwaethiel, greyorm, xiombarg, Halzebier, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Ian Charvill, Lxndr.

5/31/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Poisonous Ambition
Poisonous Ambition (Luke's PvP con scenario, available from the BW website) was run for 4 players at Clinton Con, as part of our "all Orc day" (it was back to…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, abzu, joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, Thor Olavsrud, urbwar.

8/15/2004 rafial: Indie game storm Dragonflight
Just a quick note to say that indie games have been doing really well at Dragonflight this weekend. Alan Barclay ran Sorcerer to postive reviews, and I have both eyewitness…
In Conventions
Participants: rafial.

8/17/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Running Before the Storm
This weekend saw a good showing for Indie RPG's at Dragonflight, the annual Seattle based gaming convention. For my part, I ran a four hour (well, closer to five as…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, abzu, taepoong, s3kt0r, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, eef, John Harper.

9/1/2004 rafial: NPA (split)
Well, it was being sold at GenCon. Key20 has quietly added it to their product page: http://www.key20direct.com/index.php?module=pncommerce&func=categoryview&CategoryID=11 I ordered from there, but have not yet received it (it's only been…
In Publishing
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards.

9/29/2004 rafial: Escalation
So I've got a rules clarification question prompted by Hans Christian Andersen's actual play report: Moving beyond that, watching a desperate opponent Escalate from Words to Guns, and beating him…
In lumpley games
Participants: rafial, Brand_Robins, Valamir, lumpley.

11/19/2004 rafial: [Star Wars D6] Mooncloud Fugitive
It seems like activity in Actual Play has been low recently, so I thought I'd chip in with a write up of our current game. It's called "Mooncloud Refugee" and…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Alan, Negilent, johnzo, greedo1379.

12/13/2004 rafial: Automatic Ron (a software suggestion)
So given that newbies post to old threads on a fairly regular basis, leading to Ron posting a "we don't do that here" message, it occured to me that the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: rafial, jc_madden, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

1/20/2005 rafial: DitV wins Outie
The King of Life (and Ken Hite) have smiled upon DitV, giving it the Best RPG Outie for 2004. Congrats Vincent!
In lumpley games
Participants: rafial, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, Yokiboy, Mike Holmes, Bob Goat, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, beingfrank, nikola, Wolfen, ScottM.

8/9/2005 rafial: [Stranger Things] Heartbreak in the City of Forgotten Gods
[quote="John Harper, in a strange subworld"] I ran a game yesterday for Phil, Tony, and Wilhelm. It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping to convince Wil to write it…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, philaros, John Harper, tonyd, Matt Wilson, johnzo, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, Clinton R. Nixon, GaryTP, Miskatonic.

12/8/2005 rafial: Conquest NW
It seems that the folks that do Conquest LA and Conquest SF are expanding northwest, and are doing Conquest NW in the Seattle/Tacoma area in February: http://avalonconventions.com/conquestnw/ Are there any…
In Conventions
Participants: rafial, ptevis, Allan, Danny_K.

3/29/2006 rafial: Ability Advance Costs: comment
So the question came up in play last night as to whether the costs to increase abilities from the chart on page 18 from TSOY 2nd edition are simple or…
In CRN Games
Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/18/2006 rafial: [Mechaton] Spotting Questions
Alright, I finally got to sit down and read through the Mechaton rule I got at GenCon.  Most of it looks very straightforward, but I do have a few questions…
In lumpley games
Participants: rafial, lumpley.

9/8/2006 rafial: One Shot Scoring
Here's my suggestion for scoring Agon sessions that are deliberate one shots: http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/OneShotScoring It's designed to put a little bit more tension onto the urge to blow through your Fate.
In one.seven design
Participants: rafial.

9/8/2006 rafial: Buffing armor penetration
I've been considering experimenting with a house rule to say that each success spent on armor penetration gives -2 to the armor die roll, instead of -1.  My gut feeling…
In one.seven design
Participants: rafial, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth.

3/8/2007 rafial: Rocket Red
Hey, I realized I'm totally empowered to just make something up, but I'm wondering if Rocket Red had any kind of "incognito" identity in the campaign where she originally appeared…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: rafial, iago.

6/25/2007 rafial: [Tunnels & Trolls] Vaults of the Skolari
To anyone who thought that Ron might have been hallucinating when he talked up Tunnels & Trolls a couple years back, you need only check in with one of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Simon C, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, joepub.

7/16/2009 rafial: Re: Buying my games (split - no posting here please)
[quote]Coming soon: Trollbabe[/quote] [i]faints in silent glee[/i] edited to un-sticky - RE
In Adept Press
Participants: rafial, pfischer, James_Nostack, Spooky Fanboy.

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