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8/26/2003 hix: Covering Your Bases
Complications played a big part in our second session of Uni last night. However, at one point, one of the players controlled both a component that was building a dice…
In Universalis
Participants: hix, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin.

9/6/2003 hix: ... So you've won a Complication
There's been some real eye-opening discussion for me on the "Covering Your Bases" thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7751). It makes me realise I have one other point to clarify. In our previous session,…
In Universalis
Participants: hix, Bob McNamee.

10/21/2003 hix: Actual Play: A Russian Fairytale
We recently played a five session game of Universalis. Fun, competitive behaviour, stretching the rules, despair, elation and more fun. I experimented with a bunch of different strategies throughout the…
In Universalis
Participants: hix, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/7/2003 hix: Kickers in the Tenets
Reading 'The Pregnant Pope' and thinking about my two games of Uni so far, I've found that there's always a Tenet that defined and focused the story we were about…
In Universalis
Participants: hix.

11/16/2003 hix: Kicker without a Home
So I'm about to start running my first game using Relationship Maps and Kickers. Very exciting and so far all the Kickers are working well. However, one player has presented…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hix, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2004 hix: International Orders
Thinking of ordering a copy of Sorceror from New Zealand while the exchange rate's good. I couldn't find any shipping charge info on the Adept Press site, and Paypal didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards, montag, Peter Nordstrand.

3/6/2004 hix: Establishing a Social Contract
A couple of recent threads here and in the Heroquest forum have started me thinking about the preparation phase for a game. Assuming that everyone in a hypothetical group was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/6/2004 hix: When did You 'Belong' to the Forge
Okay, so you discovered this place however long ago and you got involved with everyone doing the whole posting and debating thing. But when and why did you first really…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: hix, Lxndr, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Rich Forest, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, orbsmatt, Marhault, xiombarg, gobi, ScottM, lumpley, jrs, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Trevis Martin, RDU Neil, GreatWolf, Anonymous, Jeph, JamesSterrett.

4/6/2004 hix: Any Kiwi Forgers?
Just trying to get a handle on how many of us are hanging out in these parts. I think there's Brian up in Auckland and Andrew in Napier. Me, I'm…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: hix, Walt Freitag, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis.

4/7/2004 hix: Would the last one to leave ...
Okay, 's n'hour ta go <hic>. The highlight from this year? Alex Johnston explaining that the correct pronunication of "Forge" is "Four-shzay". Cheers, Steve.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: hix.

5/25/2004 hix: [Nobilis] 2 Stories
We’re three sessions into a new Nobilis game. First time for most of us (including the GM). By the end of session 1, 3 of the 4 players had agreed…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, bluegargantua, DannyK, Minx.

6/15/2004 hix: How do I ... do stuff?
Hi, I have a couple of coding questions that I couldn’t finding answers to by searching. I’d appreciate any help. 1) When I quote someone, how do I make the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: hix, Christopher Weeks, jrs, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Rob Carriere.

7/2/2004 hix: Who Sorcerised Roger Rabbit?
[b]Demons[/b] are Toons. They want to play with humans, entertain (and be entertained) and most of all they want humans to use Toon Logic with them. [b]Humanity[/b] is Logic, Reason…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, greyorm, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Sydney Freedberg, pete_darby.

8/4/2004 hix: Can you recommend: one-shot, Inspectres-esque game?
Hi (and I hope this is the right forum). Our group's had a gaming slot open up for next week. Does anybody know any games that are being (or have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hix, Trevis Martin, Jack Aidley, timfire, Michael S. Miller, xiombarg, Zak Arntson.

8/27/2004 hix: Metal Opera: A One Night Band
We played Metal Opera three weeks ago as a fill-in one shot game while a player was away. Thanks to everyone for their help in this thread. The group decided…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2004 hix: The Pool: Capes vs. Tentacles
Finally after 2 years, I get round to running the Pool. We played Paganini style (see this thread): a group designed setting and each player providing kickers. Quick decision to…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, DannyK, Trevis Martin.

8/29/2004 hix: Actual Play: The Cat who could End the World
This continues an Actual Play write-up from about ten months ago A Russian Fairytale. That thread has the first two chapters. In this one, I’ll post the last three. Our…
In Universalis
Participants: hix, Mike Holmes, Tobias, Valamir.

9/9/2004 hix: Relationship Maps: Your Story or Their Story?
I've had fun drawing players into relationship maps during a Buffy mini-series and a pick-up game of The Pool. But now I'm thinking about running Sorceror for the first time,…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, sirogit, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, matthijs.

10/25/2004 hix: [Sorc] Prepping for Toons
Remember this thread? It's about running a Sorceror game in the 'Roger Rabbit' universe. Tonight I'll be taking this to my group for a character-gen session - and in a…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Paka.

12/11/2004 hix: InSpectres Wellington: Heavy Caseload
I was really looking forward to running InSpectres … but nervous too. This was our group’s third experience running a system encouraging Director Stance: Universalis, Metal Opera, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, Eero Tuovinen.

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