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10/22/2002 ejh: Vague Thoughts On Simulation & Solos & Stuff
My first roleplaying game was Tunnels & Trolls (back in a time called the Nineteen Hundred and Seventies). It had a wonderfully simple game system, especially for the time, and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Kester Pelagius, RobMuadib, Jack Spencer Jr, talysman.

10/26/2002 ejh: first uni game
Just finished playing my first (very short) game of Universalis. Really just did the background design and one scene. Even just doing the background design was a lot of fun…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/8/2002 ejh: Quick Complication question
OK, trying to understand the rules here... Basic rules: 1. Complication with two Targets, therefore a total of three Dice Pools. The Targets win, the Complication does not succeed in…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, J B Bell, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Paganini.

12/30/2002 ejh: Uni Light?.... Unisynthesis?
I'm trying to think about directions I could jump from Universalis... I like the game and have had some success playing it but it seems to operate at a fairly…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

12/30/2002 ejh: There and Back (split)
hmm... both "ohne" and the RPG referred to here by Clinton are no longer apparent on the web... no, wait, Clinton's RPG is still there as "There and Back," just…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2003 ejh: scene record keeping
I mentioned this in another thread but would like to see people's input... would anyone care to show off what their "scene records" look like? I'm interested in an idealized,…
In Universalis
Participants: ejh, Shieldage, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.

5/7/2003 ejh: Ed Designs A Game: Topos
Well, y'all may remember that I've posted in the past about creating a "Universalis Lite" or something like that. I finally done gone and did it, and got some poor…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Wolfen, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Bill_White, efindel, dunlaing, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, Thierry Michel.

5/8/2003 ejh: The Lumpley Principle?
Can someone summarize this for me, and point me to the threads it comes from? It's gotten to the point that Ron is using it without defining it in essays,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

6/6/2003 ejh: Artistically Inclined Playtesters?
I have this crazy-ass idea.... What if we did a game of Topos where people were allowed and encouraged to post comic panels or strips instead of paragraphs? (reference for…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

6/15/2003 ejh: Giving Teeth to Topos, based on Mike Holmes' comments
Topos is described in the thread "Ed Designs a Game: Topos" and a copy of the rules is available at http://www.remove-this-part-lostthoughts.org/phpwiki/index.html/Topos . IMHO, it has evolved to a point where…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.

7/14/2003 ejh: Free Art for your Game! some ideas I'm tossing round
I've been thinking it might be fun to make a site/blog/something like that where I offered art under a creative commons license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ ) that would be amenable to…
In Connections
Participants: ejh, Urandal, Ron Edwards, Menace, Pelinderian, Hardpoint.

7/28/2003 ejh: Why I Didn't Buy TroS at GenCon
So it's Sunday, I'm at GenCon, and I've bought all the "first tier/gotta have" games I have on my list, and I'm ready to spend a few more bucks on…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ejh, grot, Stephen, kenjib, 6inTruder, Draigh, Morfedel, mrgrimm, Ben Lehman, Lxndr, Caz, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, Wolfen, Valamir, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen, toli.

7/28/2003 ejh: My Life With Master at GenCon
In this blog entry I discuss the pickup game of My Life With Master I played with a few friends, the evening after I bought it and demoed it. In…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, nate, Paul Czege.

7/30/2003 ejh: My Life With Master: The Alienist.
First report on gaming over lunch with guys from work. The Master is a Brain and a Teacher/Feeder. He is a mad psychiatrist who uses bizarre equipment to suck initiative…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Brian Leybourne, iago.

7/30/2003 ejh: Towards a Semiotics of Roleplaying Games
I tried to work this out years ago but there was no Forge then. I'm going back to it now in my blog. Please feel free to comment, but don't…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Hunter Logan, Gordon C. Landis, Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Valamir, John Kim, GB Steve, Cemendur.

8/5/2003 ejh: System and the Lumpley Principle (split)
I notice also that in this particular formulation of the Lumpley Principle, game rules as written in a book are a subset of System. And in this formulation, the Lumpley…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Jack Spencer Jr, lumpley, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Alan, Cemendur.

8/16/2003 ejh: Solitaire "RPGs" e.g. "Oraculum"
I'd like to start a new thread to talk about some things Mark Johnson and I brought up in this thread. (Hmm... BBCode seems to be totally failing for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ejh, Mark Johnson.

8/29/2003 ejh: Penny Arcade comic for Sorcerer players
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-8-29&res=l :)
In Adept Press
Participants: ejh, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2003 ejh: Plagiarism. Good plagiarism.
I remember reading in a Different Worlds article the phrase "the first rule of game design is plagiarism." That article went on to talk about ripping off the Resistance Table…
In Publishing
Participants: ejh, AnyaTheBlue, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Dev, Ben Lehman, Lxndr.

9/29/2003 ejh: Scott McCloud's Four Tribes
I got to hear comic artist Scott McCloud speak earlier this week and as an aside, in response to a question somebody asked, he threw out a fourfold classification of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, Ben Lehman, Windthin, SumDood, Jasper, Trevis Martin, Alan, John Kim.

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