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9/7/2001 GB Steve: Actor without Immersion
Hi Guys! I'm geeting into GNS nitty gritty today. I looked at the FAQ. Here are the relevant sections: In Actor Stance, the player is actually playing his character in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Supplanter, Logan, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, kwill, jburneko, contracycle, Mytholder.

9/7/2001 GB Steve: Dune
Just a quickie really to note that we are playing Dune at the moment using the Hero Wars rules. It works OK, except of course where we have to fudge…
In HeroQuest
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

9/10/2001 GB Steve: Screwy Dates
I was looking at the Beeg Horseshoe thread in the GNS forum and the dates are all wrong. Also I just posted to Indie Game Design and my message is…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve.

9/11/2001 GB Steve: New Dying Earth Stuff
I'm not sure where I should post this, if at all but I thought, given the high concentration of Dying Earth fans here, that I should tell you that the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2001 GB Steve: Game Balance
I'm writing an article for the next issue of Places To Go People to be on the delicate issue of game balance. I'm certainly not looking for people to write…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mytholder, Ron Edwards, Wart, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Gordon C. Landis, Marco.

3/12/2002 GB Steve: (Split from "Seven Misconceptions") Cult of GNS
[quote="joshua neff"] [i]Citing a point Ron made by starting a sentence with "Ron said..." is not slavish & cultish devotion, but merely citation. Also, agreeing with something someone (for example,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Clinton R. Nixon, Steve Dustin, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Matt Snyder, Christopher Kubasik, Laurel.

9/2/2002 GB Steve: Thanks Ron!
I'm not sure where to post this and this seems as good a place as any. I picked up Sorcerer for £2 at Gen Con UK this weekend. I guess…
In Adept Press
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

9/4/2002 GB Steve: Diceless Hellboy (boy-hell for some)*.
I ran Hellboy at GCUK a couple of times. The first time I left everything to the dice. The second time I ran it, I only used the dice towards…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

9/26/2002 GB Steve: The Evil Powers of Rock & Roll
I was at a gig last night, the Supersuckers (self titled 'Greatest Rock and Roll band in the World). They rawked! Also last week at SteveCon, Steve Darlington ran a…
In CRN Games
Participants: GB Steve, quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/23/2002 GB Steve: [Sex & Sorcery] Male and female story types
Ron, Do you have anything more general on what you mean by "male" and "female" story concepts? I live with a sociologist and she's always interested in what people construct…
In Adept Press
Participants: GB Steve, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Tim C Koppang.

10/29/2002 GB Steve: Something for the Narrative pot
I've been reading the excellent Cambridge Intorduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott. It's pretty much an undergraduate text on the subject and covers most of the main points whilst…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, MK Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, Don Lag.

8/6/2003 GB Steve: Starchildren is the SteveCon III Game of the Con
SteveD introduced me to the charms of this game so we (actually I) decided to name it Game of the Con for SteveCon III. SteveCon III is the third in…
In XIG Games
Participants: GB Steve.

8/6/2003 GB Steve: Going International - The Forge at Dragonmeet?
Will there be a Forge presence at Dragonmeet? Some of us UK fanzine editors, the boys and girls from Critical Miss, KMANT, the Black Seal, Demonground and Aus fanzine editors…
In Publishing
Participants: GB Steve, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs.

8/12/2003 GB Steve: And it was going so well ...
A big step in my time at the Forge today, Ron and I agreed on something. I'm starting to think that many of the problems I've had here are down…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/14/2003 GB Steve: Expanding the franchise - MLwM the card game
Or, Turning art into moolah. MLwM would make a cracking card game. Each player would be a minion. In front of them on the table they would collect Villagers with…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes, John Harper, iago, Brian Leybourne.

8/14/2003 GB Steve: Narrative rpgs make good card games
In this thread, I propose that MLwM would make a cracking card game. Now thinking about this a bit more, it seems apparent that much the same could be said…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Wolfen, iago, Ron Edwards, gobi, contracycle, simon_hibbs, RaconteurX.

9/28/2003 GB Steve: My LARP with Master
I'd like to run this game as a LARP. I had thought of My Life with Masters - all the players are the minions of Phil Masters at a British…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

10/3/2003 GB Steve: SteveCon V - hi octaNe
I'm organising SteveCon V in London on, or about October 28th. Since SteveCon III, I've decided that I'll feature an indie game as my game of the Con to run.…
In Conventions
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2003 GB Steve: octaNe at SteveCon V
I decided to keep it silly so the game was psychotronic. The characters I made up too, to save time but the players added in the extra skills. We had:…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve.

12/12/2003 GB Steve: [MLwM] Killing Puppies for Santa
I ran a mad game tonight and it was pretty brutal. We finished it in just over three hours with 3 1/2 players (one had to leave halfway through to…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, ethan_greer, Emily Care, Bob McNamee, abzu.

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