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12/7/2001 jburneko: Stances In Actual Play
I'm not sure if that subject line is completely correct but it was the best I could do. I was wondering if anyone else, especially those of you who dabble…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

12/5/2001 jburneko: Name That Style
Hello All, There's a style of role-playing that I've found to be far more common among gamers than I originally thought. Personally, I'm having trouble understanding it mainly because I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bret, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon, James Holloway, Paul Czege.

12/4/2001 jburneko: Deadlands and Trial
Hello All, So, Saturday was my monthly Deadlands game. Somewhere around here there is a post about the previous session. We're still involved in the same scenario using the same…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Tor Erickson.

11/27/2001 jburneko: Valid Premises
This was said down in the "big three you never see thread." I have a question about it that I thought deserved its own thread. I *DO NOT* want this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Epoch, Marco, joshua neff, Ben Morgan, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

11/15/2001 jburneko: Railroading With Dice, A Core Mechanic
So, I'm looking over the RPG that I'm working on and while the actual document is not done I think I'd like some feedback on the idea behind the core…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, contracycle, unodiablo, Paul Czege, Bankuei, mahoux, greyorm.

11/13/2001 jburneko: An Experiment In The Ordinary
There's an idea I've been mulling over for a while now. It's something that's been brought up before on various game sites but never really addressed in an interesting way.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Epoch, Laurel, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Marco, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, mahoux, Le Joueur.

11/9/2001 jburneko: Metaplot and Story Creation
The planets must be aligned funky or something. Today seems to be an idea day for me. Anyway, down in the Immersion & Co-Authoring thread Ron reasserted his claim that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Ian O'Rourke, contracycle, Mytholder, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Matt, Ben Morgan, Laurel, joshua neff, Nathan.

11/9/2001 jburneko: Incharacter Play vs. co-Author
I have a feeling here that I'm going to open up a huge can of worms. You have been warned. In Ron's new review of Little Fears he talks about…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Marco.

11/8/2001 jburneko: Role-Playing Object Demons
My players seem to have really gotten into Object demons. I have at least two so far. One is a pair of glasses that allow it's master to see into…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

11/6/2001 jburneko: Cut-Scenes In RPGs
As I've been watching various TV Shows and Movies I've noticed something that whole exists in those mediums and does not exist in RPGs. That element is that the audience…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, contracycle, Ian O'Rourke.

11/6/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Sighting
I CAN'T believe it took me this long to post this. I just completely forgot. So, you'll never guess in a MILLION YEARS where I saw a copy of Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, furashgf, Jared A. Sorensen, DaR, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, greyorm, erithromycin, Julian Kelsey, contracycle, kwill.

10/31/2001 jburneko: Vanilla Narrativism vs. Simulationism
Hello All, Given the discussion down in the Bobby G thread and the Vanillia Narrativism thread there seems to be some confusion over what exactly the differences are between Vanilla…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Marco, Mike Holmes.

10/29/2001 jburneko: Vanilla Narrativism In Action
I find it sort of funny that Ron should post about Vanilla Narrativism the same weekend I happen to run just such a game. Saturday was my monthly Deadlands game…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege, Clay, Ron Edwards.

10/25/2001 jburneko: Rule Sets
Hello All, So, I've been thinking about rule sets and complexity. Most people talk about systems being either rules-light or rules-heavy which ultimately isn't very useful because we can go…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Mithras, Don Lag, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/19/2001 jburneko: Is GNS Good For GMs?
Hello All, Over the last few days TrzzlWzzl (sp?) has been expressing his distaste for the GNS model as it pertains to System Design and GMs. What you are seeing…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Laurel, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, TrizzlWizzl, Marco.

10/10/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Not Suited To One Shots?
Hello Again, Up in the Actual Play forum Ron made the comment about Sorcerer not being suited for one shots. I marvel at this statement and it only feeds my…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Combat
Hello There, This might end up to be one of my thinking out loud posts. So, I ran a session of my monthly Deadlands (yes, this will get around to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/19/2001 jburneko: The Accidental Narrativist
Hello, It's been a while since I've posted anything with substance and anything I have posted has been rather short and curt. The reason being that my gaming experiences of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, lumpley, Paul Czege, Epoch, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, unodiablo, Mike Holmes, Knight, joshua neff.

9/10/2001 jburneko: Not Roleplaying vs Not Role Playing How I Like
Ron, said something that caught my attention in the "Taking It All Too Seriously Thread" I wanted to explore it a little and so I thought it deserved it's own…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Marco, james_west, Ian O'Rourke, TrizzlWizzl, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2001 jburneko: Layout Question
So, my hardcover copy of Sorcerer arrived and I've been reading it over the last few days and there's something about the organization that I just don't get. Many reviews…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

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12/10/2001 jburneko: Narrativist Missions
Hello All, I've had one of those weekends where I had a lot of ideas that generated nothing but questions. Some of these ideas and questions are a bit unfocused…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, gentrification, xiombarg, contracycle, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Marco, Daredevil.

12/10/2001 jburneko: New Forum In Order
Hello All, This is just a thought that occured to me. We have the GNS forum for discussing the GNS model directly. Then we have the RPG Theory forum which…
In Site Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2001 jburneko: Gamism In Action or Why I Hate Arts and Crafts
Hello All, First off, I'd like to state that this post is an account of my personal experiences as filtered through my personal biases. Nothing I am about to say…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Epoch, Garbanzo, Eric.Brennan, Ben Morgan.

12/13/2001 jburneko: Little Fears Art
Hello, Well, I FINALLY own a copy of Little Fears thanks to an early Holiday gift from one of my players. I haven't read it thuroughly but what I've loved…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, GreatWolf.

12/18/2001 jburneko: The Litterary Gamers Guide To...
Once again, I find myself with a topic that doesn't really fit a specific forum. This time I find myself torn between Indie Game Design and Publishing. What I want…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Joe Murphy (Broin), Le Joueur, Marco.

12/29/2001 jburneko: Concatenating Relationship Maps
Hello, Has anyone here experimented with concatenating more than one relationship map together. That is, reading say, three novels, and linking the maps together via extra links to create one…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/10/2002 jburneko: Crayola Roleplay
Hello All, So, I've been thinking about the five basic elements of role-playing as Ron puts them: Character, Situation, System, Setting, and Color. And I've determined that I'm very good…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon, Garbanzo, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2002 jburneko: Healing System Needed
Hello All, So, I've finally gotten around to working on my game Isolation, again. The previous thread on this project can be found here. Briefly, the game is designed to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Marco, Jack Spencer Jr, Zak Arntson, Bill_White, Garbanzo, Joe Murphy (Broin), Paganini, Skippy.

1/18/2002 jburneko: Really Stupid Telltale Question
Hello, Okay, I have a REALLY stupid telltale question. I can't determine if the spotting telltale rolls are meant to be an 'in-game' thing such that if the opportunity to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, J B Bell, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2002 jburneko: Odd Kicker Question
Hello Again, So a couple players who have been away from one of my games for a long while are coming back. Rather than trying to squeeze them back in…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, efindel, contracycle.

1/29/2002 jburneko: Sorcerer & Sword PBeM
Hello All, Well, for a while now Mike Holmes has been trying to talk me into running a PBeM of some kind, particularly using a more Narrativist friendly system. I've…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko.

2/1/2002 jburneko: Is 'Railroading' A Useful Term
Hello All, So, I was having a discussion with one of my players about various play styles and we seem to be constantly bumping heads about the meaning of the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, furashgf, Marco, xiombarg, amiel, TrizzlWizzl.

2/6/2002 jburneko: Three Rounds of The Pitch
Hello, Okay, so tonight my regular Tuesday night gaming group shows up and we're in the middle of the last part of the Freeport Trillogy for D&D3E. Turns out that…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: jburneko.

2/6/2002 jburneko: The Pitch In Action
So, last night my weekly Tuesday gaming group met. We were about 2/3 of the way through the last part of the Freeport Trillogy and were expected to finish the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/8/2002 jburneko: The Spy Who Summoned Me
So with the release of AEG's Spycraft just around the corner I've been thinking about Spy Thriller RPGs. For a long while now I've been dying for a really good…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, erithromycin, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Bailywolf, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

2/15/2002 jburneko: Relating Sorcerer's Soul and Sorcerer & Sword
This is kind of an off-shoot of the relationship map stuff being discussed down in the Soul Reviewed thread. I'm probably making the 'Nothing-But' mistake that Ron mentions in his…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, RogerEberhart, Ron Edwards, efindel, erithromycin, J B Bell, Thor Olavsrud, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/20/2002 jburneko: Abstract Premises
First off I'm using Premise in the narrow Narrativist Sense. I was thinking about Science Fiction and how it often has rather abstract Premises. One of the things that gets…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Seth L. Blumberg, contracycle, joshua neff.

2/26/2002 jburneko: More SLA Industries or Jesse Loses a Point of Humanity
So, most of you know I have this funny ethic about using the system that comes with a given setting come hell or high water. This stems from a resentment…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, erithromycin, contracycle, Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang.

3/6/2002 jburneko: Isolation: First Pass
Hello All, Well, I've completed the first draft of Isolation. It can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/devil_bunnys/Isolation.htm I have many more ideas for advanced and optional rules but I consider this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, TrizzlWizzl, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

3/7/2002 jburneko: Character Simulationism & Narrativism
This is an extention of my ever changing quest to clearly define the lines between certain brands of 'story oriented' simulationism and Narrativism. I think I've finally nailed the difference…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

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