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11/24/2004 Solamasa: [DitV] Simple Conflict Question
The rules stipulate that if you can't See a Raise, you have to Give. But who Gives when you can See just fine, but neither you nor your opponent(s) can…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, lumpley, Vagabond, nikola.

2/11/2005 Solamasa: How Dogs made me reform my wicked ways
I've always been a maniac for character back-story. A real maniac. I'm one of those types GMs complain about: I'm the guy who writes page after page of purple prose.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, lumpley, Bankuei.

2/25/2005 Solamasa: Washing the blood off our hands
I was struggling this morning with how best to memorialize the end of our Dogs in the Vineyard game. A memorial was surely justified, I reasoned, as last night's session…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, xenopulse, nikola, lumpley, ironick, LordSmerf, urbwar, Valamir, Bankuei, FruitSmack!.

6/1/2005 Solamasa: [Otherkind] Moonlight value
In anticipation of a potential up-coming Otherkind game: Does the numerical value of a person's Moonlight have a use outside of determining if that person will be unhappy in an…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, lumpley.

7/13/2005 Solamasa: Regarding blood, iron, and rotting dead elk
(Solamasa's wife here) Several weeks ago we played a game of Otherkind that wound up spanning two sessions. These are the notes from the first session. (Yes yes, they're too…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, lumpley, Ron Edwards, FruitSmack!, ironick.

9/9/2005 Solamasa: [MLwM] Question on Commands and those Tricky, Tricky Minions
Hello, A question regarding commands from the Master.  On page 27, the text states: If the Master wins, the minion is obliged to carry out the command ... And to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Solamasa, GB Steve, Adam Dray, Michael S. Miller, Victor Gijsbers, Eero Tuovinen.

10/15/2005 Solamasa: Problems with registration emails
I have no idea if this is the appropriate place, but half an hour of searching has not yielded me the email of the site admin, so I'm just going…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Solamasa.

10/15/2005 Solamasa: flashinated Dogs badassery
Some of you may remember my threats from a few months ago to create a Flash animation based on a Dogs campaign that I played with an awesome group of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Trevis Martin, Technocrat13, hix, rafial, IMAGinES, Ben Lehman, lumpley, jasonm, John Harper.

11/8/2005 Solamasa: [Polaris] Treachery at the Utmost North
Last night we played Polaris for the second time.  If our game sessions were musical pieces, last night would have been a Queen power anthem, with the bass undulating like…
In Actual Play
Participants: Solamasa, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, GreatWolf.

4/20/2006 Solamasa: [Dogs] Existential angst
Five towns and eleven sessions in and I think I've got a great GMing rhythm going.  But Pride goeth before Injustice, as they say, and I ran headlong into an…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Vaxalon, Wolfen, Blankshield, Tindalos.

7/12/2006 Solamasa: Commanding demons and the like
I have questions pursuant to an upcoming Sorcerer game; these then aren't questions from actual play, but I can reasonably expect to have to address them, and I'm not sure…
In Adept Press
Participants: Solamasa, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Solamasa: [Mechaton] Assorted questions
Vincent, I have a few questions in the wake of two games and hours of explodey-mecha fun: 1.  A mech being attacked doesn't yet have a defence number, so goes…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Valamir, lumpley, Ben Lehman, rafial.

9/22/2006 Solamasa: Making Devastated hero aspects suffer
On page 99 of the rule book, "Suffering--It Just Keeps Coming", three ways are listed for the GM to increase the Suffering of a Devastated hero aspect:  "In enrichment scenes,…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Solamasa.

10/5/2006 Solamasa: [WGP] Are our heroes doomed to failure?
Hello, We finished a great first issue of With Great Power... this week!  I'll leave the Actual Play report to Anna, but I have a couple of troublesome questions. Question…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Solamasa, Kat Miller, Ludanto.

9/18/2007 Solamasa: [Grey Ranks] Feh! You mean nothing to me!
I’ve been delinquent in typing up my Grey Ranks summaries for my group (q.v. Playtest over Skype).  This is not really due to procrastination (although I’m certainly a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Solamasa, segedy, jasonm, ironick, FruitSmack!, Bret Gillan, wunderllama, FredGarber, travisfarber.

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