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1/22/2004 Valamir: Axes Knives and Swords
Just saw this special on the History Channel tonight. Pretty good accurate information. They had some scenes of sword fighting, and as I'm watching I'm thinking "hey, those guys actually…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Salamander, Jake Norwood, toli, Poleaxe.

1/1/2004 Valamir: Bad Roleplaying? I blame Tolkien.
Ok, after several aborted attempts at rereading LotR, I decided to get the books on CD and have them read to me on my long long long drives over the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Mark Johnson, Lxndr, LordSmerf, Paganini, Trevis Martin, Brian Leybourne, M. J. Young, quozl, John Kim, Endoperez, Eero Tuovinen, xechnao, Troy_Costisick, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, mark2v, Dr. Velocity, jdagna, Noon, ethan_greer, Calithena, Andrew Norris, b_bankhead, Gordon C. Landis, Caldis, C. Edwards, s3kt0r, apeiron, Matt Wilson, Ozymandias, Taina, Bob McNamee, contracycle, Halzebier, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers: Design Change ideas
Had an opportunity to do some more playtesting this weekend. Conceptually the game is pretty tight, and I'm mostly happy with the mechanics except for two areas. 1) Handling time.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, montag, hix, gobi.

11/26/2003 Valamir: Journal of the Mail Society
Hey folks, don't know if you've seen this yet, but Erik Schmid's got his Journal of the Mail Society available through RPGMall now. I'll take a little credit for having…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir.

11/11/2003 Valamir: Robots & Rapiers Adventure and Pregen Characters availab
Alright. It took a good bit longer to finish than I'd anticipated, but the much awaited sample adventure and pregenerated characters are available here. This is a 30 page adventure…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Jack Aidley, sirogit, DaGreatJL.

10/2/2003 Valamir: Bucanneers & Bokar
Now that S&B is finally out I'm looking forward to continued voodoo pirate goodness in B&B. I gather the free pdf adventure planned for September got pushed back; any firmer…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Valamir, GMSkarka, quinchris, TSL.

9/19/2003 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Announcing Ramshead's new RPG
Ramshead Publishing invites you to review and playtest our next RPG, Robots and Rapiers. You can find the 130+ page pdf alpha version on the Universalis website. I expect…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Marco, John Harper, gobi, Thierry Michel, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Sylus Thane.

9/2/2003 Valamir: Universalis as a Training Tool
As those of you who dilligently follow all of the Univeralis website updates undoubtably know...and I'm sure that's everybody, of course ;-) Universalis has been being carried at Adams &…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, kwill, Mike Holmes, Christopher Weeks.

8/28/2003 Valamir: Yup, looks like it needs to be said again
Lots of new folks posting to this forum. Welcome and glad to have you. Please take the time to read the sticky threads at the top of this forum. Unlike…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Plenz, gobi, JW Carroll, simon_hibbs, Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards.

8/8/2003 Valamir: Gen Con 2003 Spreadsheet summary
Ok, I finally finished digging through the various receipts and cash sheets and cobbling together a master spreadsheet of GenCon 2003 Forge Sales. I will make it available to anyone…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, jrs, Ron Edwards, Armin D. Sykes.

7/29/2003 Valamir: Mini Combat Tourney at Gen Con
Warning: this post contains pointless bragging and celebratory dancing. A few of us decided to do a little TROS combat tourney during a lull in the booth at GenCon. We…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Jake Norwood.

7/19/2003 Valamir: Actual Play thread on lines, veils, and Facts as "ratin
for reference http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=75875#75875
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

7/15/2003 Valamir: Harn and Columbia Games
Well, theres a big thread on RPG.net (as well as the Harn forums) about disputes between the Publisher of Harn (Columbia Games) and the Creator of Harn (Robin Crossby). Regardless…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, greyorm, HinterWelt.

6/11/2003 Valamir: Reference, Homage, Inspiration and Thievery
Oh, one last thing that I suspect you already understand but wanted to make sure is absolutely clear; all of the mentioning of these other games that Chris and I…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Valamir, Bankuei, abzu, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, inthisstyle, Zebulon.

5/29/2003 Valamir: I need a Button
Over on RPG Mall, they have the option of supplying a button which is entered into a regular rotation with other buttons as a way of advertising a game (essentially…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead.

5/19/2003 Valamir: Another RPGNet TROS thread
This one currently has a somewhat "big whoop" negative flavor to it so a few well placed comments might be a good idea. I'd caution against any bum rush of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Eamon Voss, Durgil, Furious D, Ashren Va'Hale, Bankuei, Thorbrin, Wolfen, Balbinus, toli, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

4/23/2003 Valamir: Columbia Games dumps distributors
Columbia games, publishers of Harn, some d20 stuff and a lot of block wargames just announced that they are going 100% direct via web and phone mail order only. details…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Michael Hopcroft.

4/20/2003 Valamir: Ramshead Clarification
Mike asked me to publically clarify his role with Universalis and Ramshead. Ramshead is a sole proprietorship belonging to me. Mike and I went in on the first print run…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Jonathan Walton.

4/11/2003 Valamir: Back?
An error, or is Adamant ramping up again? Does this mean Appolyton Noir is nearing critical mass?
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Valamir, quozl, GMSkarka, Mike Holmes, Nick Pagnucco, TSL, grafspee, Thomas Tamblyn, soundwave, Tim Gray.

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1/30/2004 Valamir: Shooting the Sacred Cow
I was going to post this in Indie Design, but then I decided to talk more in generalities than about the specific application to my on going Robots & Rapiers…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Matt Wilson, ethan_greer, Matt Snyder, Jonathan Walton, Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, Doctor Xero, C. Edwards, clehrich, Rob MacDougall.

2/1/2004 Valamir: Riddle of Prydain
On the topic of interesting settings for use with TRoS, I hit upon the idea of a journey to Prydain last night. Seems well suited. Fairly low magic loads of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Half-Baked.

2/10/2004 Valamir: Extreme Vengeance
I hate to be the sort to post links like this. But Extreme Vengeance is one of those games that gets frequent props here and its quite hard to find.…
In Connections
Participants: Valamir.

2/16/2004 Valamir: swings vs thrusts
Take a weapon like an Arming Sword or Long Sword. Both of these weapons are designed to both cut and thrust. They are better at cutting (which is why they…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Ingenious, Caz, Brian Leybourne, Richard_Strey, Muggins, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Edge, Malechi, Overdrive, Salamander, bergh, Turin, Ben Lehman, lokdu, Tash.

2/25/2004 Valamir: Power (split)
[quote]For example, the players in my James Bond 007 game are mostly (2 out of 3) accustomed to Illusionist play. However, they pretty instantly got into taking charge to a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Noon, pete_darby, contracycle, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Ben Lehman.

3/18/2004 Valamir: SA dice by roll or CP
An interesting question came up in the SA survey thread regarding whether groups added dice from SAs into each exchange or into the Combat Pool total. I was astonished by…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Malechi, Stephen, Ian Charvill, Edge, Ian.Plumb, Alan, Ingenious, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Thanaeon, nsruf, Irmo, thomcat.

3/23/2004 Valamir: Trust and the Boink moment
So as not to clutter this cool glorantha thread Why is that such a "boink" insight for gamers, as opposed to the "duh"-obvious requirement for everyone else, for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, clehrich, ethan_greer, pete_darby, Matt Wilson, Blankshield, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, Itse, M. J. Young, Noon.

3/28/2004 Valamir: What does a city in Wyerth look like?
Well, check out this site One of the coolest web resources I've ever seen. Over 3 dozen dutch city maps from 1652 in Gif and Jpeg. Actual period maps showing…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, ZenDog, Ian.Plumb, Irmo, Bob McNamee, MrGeneHa.

4/2/2004 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Contacts, Favors, and Influence
I'm busily at work getting R&R ready for the next round of testing and thought I'd throw out a concept I'm pretty excited about. Contacts. Contacts are all of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, montag, Jack Aidley, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2004 Valamir: Minimilist Trait use
Split from Universalis Drinking Game Second follow up question: Has anyone run into problems in games due to minimalist play style issues for some things with rather more expanded descriptions…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Bob McNamee, komradebob, Christopher Weeks.

4/8/2004 Valamir: Last Word
The last (non moderator) member to post here before the forum closes wins bragging rights till next year. Who will win...I take an early lead.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, Paganini, taalyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Eva Deinum, Marhault, Chris Goodwin, Miskatonic, Dave Panchyk, Domhnall, ADGConscience, GreatWolf, Brendan, xenopulse.

4/17/2004 Valamir: Record number of users
I find it interesting that the record number of simultaneous users reported at the bottom of the Main Page used to adjust every couple of months to a new level,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Asrogoth, Emily Care.

4/19/2004 Valamir: Lessons from Iron Chef
Eero asked such a great question at the end of the Son of Iron Chef thread that I took the liberty of transposing it over here where it won't get…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Jonathan Walton, quozl, hanschristianandersen, Shreyas Sampat, talysman, Bill_White, John Kim, Eero Tuovinen, Emily Care, Bob McNamee, Dav, Jack Spencer Jr, Asrogoth, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, JamesSterrett, Zak Arntson, John Harper, Noon, Lxndr, Jack Aidley, dalek_of_god, Alan.

4/27/2004 Valamir: Another Departure from GAMA
Jonathan Albin resigns as Marketing Director for GAMA. Problems in the GAMA hierarchy...what else is new. I received this as part of an email broadcast. As it is definitely industry…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, xiombarg, Dav, Andy Kitkowski.

4/28/2004 Valamir: Welcome Christopher Hammock
Congratulations. You are member #3000! <insert balloons and confetti falling from the ceiling here> There is no prize, I'm afraid, but it seemed like too big a milestone to let…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards, Jeph, ethan_greer, clehrich, Bankuei.

4/29/2004 Valamir: Access Announcement
Well, it finally happened. They said it was coming and it finally caught up with me. The corporate net nanny just blocked indie-rpgs. They'd already blocked rpg.net a few months…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, cruciel, joshua neff, talysman, Jürgen Mayer.

5/10/2004 Valamir: Mechanics that reflect Setting
I split this off from this thread because I thought it was particularly interesting topic in its own right, and only tangental to the purpose of that thread. …
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, neelk, Christopher Kubasik, John Kim, Lxndr, Emily Care, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Noon, pete_darby, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton.

5/19/2004 Valamir: Full time game designers
In this thread When you underprice your product vs. what the market would pay and is paying for similar works, you're hurting everyone who is making those other works…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, John Burdick, Dev, daMoose_Neo, wakingjohn, mearls, contracycle, Jack Aidley, abzu, Bankuei, Dav, John Kim, ryand, Ron Edwards, Sean, Olibarro, Andrew Morris.

5/24/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine
The premier issue of GQM is out, a companion magazine for the retailer's bible Games Quarterly Catalog. Its primarily full of advertisements aimed at retailers but there are a number…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Matt Snyder, daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski.

6/4/2004 Valamir: Games Quarterly Magazine Ads
Hey folks. Issue #2 of GQM is due out in time for GenCon. It is scheduled to include a column by Peter Adkison featuring (at least in part) the Forge…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Paul Czege, abzu, Matt Snyder, Christopher Weeks, Tobias.