Subsequent Topics 12/26/2002 rafial: Avoiding inflation
Well, I've played in two games of Universalis so far, and while I enjoyed both experiences, I did notice that both times, the game eventually degenerated into some final catacylsm…
In Universalis
Participants: rafial, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, Alan, Mike Holmes, Valamir.
1/7/2003 rafial: Ronin: Stone Hearts, Stone Memories
Well, here it is, what I believe is the first actual play report for Ronin (the feudal Japan adaptation of the Dust Devils rules). I'll try to play to all…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, J. Backman, Jason L Blair.
3/12/2003 rafial: Group Traits & Master Components
I've been studying the example at the bottom of page 70/top of page 71 in the rule book, which shows two shock troopers (which draw from a master component), which…
In Universalis
Participants: rafial, Valamir, Mike Holmes.
3/21/2003 rafial: Pantheon
At our Monday night "Indie RPGs" group, we tried the Narrative Cage Match rules from Pantheon. The scenario we played was the undersea horror one, entitled "Grave and Watery." I…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.
4/14/2003 rafial: Writing your own songs
I'm going to run Starchildren tomorrow at SGA's indie gaming night (Hopefully I'll have a report for Actual Play). I'll be testing out some rules I came up for for…
In XIG Games
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Rich Ranallo.
4/15/2003 rafial: Starchildren - Hallo Spaceboy/girl
Borrowing shamelessly and freely from Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Wild Zero, Tommy, Max Headroom and no doubt a few other things wedged in my subconscious I unleashed a demo…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Thomas Tamblyn, Rich Ranallo.
4/15/2003 rafial: Starchildren report in Actual Play...
...Push Your Hands!
In XIG Games
Participants: rafial.
4/18/2003 rafial: Errata
One item Rich mentioned in the actual play thread was that you get three extra damage points per boost when hitting someone in Melee. I figured I'd cross posts it…
In XIG Games
Participants: rafial, Rich Ranallo.
5/11/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 1]
Have gotten a taste via a number of Clinton's Trollbabe one-shots at SGA monday gaming nights, a group of us have decided to take the plunge and try for a…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Alan.
5/13/2003 rafial: Trollbabe injury
I'm bringing a question and followup over from the Tale of Three Trollbabes thread in Actual Play, since it represents a digression into some detailed rules hashing. There, it was…
In Adept Press
Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob McNamee.
5/23/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 2]
We had our second session of what we are hoping may be a four or five session Trollbabe campaign. Unfortunately, due to player illness we were one babe short, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Alan, Bankuei.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6/15/2003 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.
6/18/2003 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.
6/19/2003 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.
6/24/2003 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.
6/24/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel in Actual Play
I report on my first experience running BW in the Actual Play forum.
In Burning Wheel
Participants: rafial.
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