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3/14/2003 Dotan Dimet: Two Hour Demo Games? How? Explain!
I've seen posts here about demo games and cons with two-hour long slots, and since my only experience is with the standard 4-hours-dragging-on-to-6 convention rounds, I'd really like to hear…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Jake Norwood, jdagna.

3/15/2003 Dotan Dimet: The Forge dialectic - how do I boil this down?
Hi, The community wherin I operate (organized Israeli gamerdom) has a strong simulationist-illusionist attitude. They've read the books, they believe in The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, Deep Roleplay and GM-as-Storyteller…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Bankuei, Marco, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

3/19/2003 Dotan Dimet: Wise in the ways of the Force
[i]Sorry this is a new post, it should actualy be a response to [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5529"]Co-GMing[/a].[/i] My players call this The Jedi Mind Trick, for obvious reasons... From last night's session:…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet.

4/12/2003 Dotan Dimet: Daniel Pond's Wushu
Has anyone taken a look at Daniel Pond's Wushu system? The idea is really similar to "giving extra dice for good description", which also appears in Sorcerer. The big difference…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Mark Johnson, johnmarron, Jeph, Bruce Baugh.

11/23/2003 Dotan Dimet: A few things to add
Edit: this is really supposed to be in the international gaming thread. Oops. A few bits to add to Mark's summary: * Israel has practically no gaming stores, but the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

11/25/2003 Dotan Dimet: Races and "races" in literature and RPGs
Re: the RPG-Orc thing, the weirdest case of symbolic stand-ins IMO was in the Underground RPG, where psychotic superpowered discharged vets (the PCs of the futuristic setting) play a literary…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Ron Edwards, James Holloway.

11/26/2003 Dotan Dimet: Just Desserts (clarify Reward techniques, please)
Forge newbie ramble. Please bear with me. In The Whole Model, Ron writes: I consider the two most important Techniques to be reward system and IIEE. Now, I understood…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, MachMoth, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

4/26/2004 Dotan Dimet: [Empire of Doors] Space Opera/Science Fantasy
Last session, my gaming group destroyed the world. So this week, we started a new campaign. We'd brainstormed last session and in the begining of this session. Sword & Sorcery,…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Dev, b_bankhead, Alan, FredGarber, ScottM, Nev the Deranged.

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