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ONE THOUSAND ONE: October 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Um, yeah. I've decided to create a giant chakra for all of Creation, representing the entire Loom of Fate woven by the Pattern Spiders. It is called, of course, "World-Encompassing Spider Pattern.". Alchemicals (metal), and Fair Folk (Graces). I'm still unsure about the Lunar and Sideral Castemarks and how to incorperate them. The problem with the Lunars is the Castes and Marks don't match the actual lunar phases very well. There are 8 major lunar phases:. Ideally, I'd a...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: February 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Since last year's Game Chef competition, I've worked on three short games that have a somewhat similar design philosophy. They're all two-player games about China that are written to be very supportive of online chat-based play, and the stories that they tell are limited to a single scene. I've been really interested in constraining the number of players a game supports ever since Ben Lehman and Emily Care Boss blazed that trail with. An instructional book for children a...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: June 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Doggone in 60 Seconds. So I'm living in Somerville MA (outside of Boston) now. Push. Is mostly done. Just have to add Brand's comments and, hopefully, Mo's comments if she gets them to me soon. The book looks very pretty and awesome. I'm super-excited. I've been working off and on on my Avatar. Based game, Four Nations. So I was thinking about a quick mod for doing another genre. I said, "Maybe Firefly. They said, "Maybe 24. Since you might get kicked out of your home tu...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: May 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. I just stumbled across this amazing quote by Imre Galambos in Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. Awesome. Not sure what this means for The Game I Can't Write Yet. But it's definitely closely related. Posted by Jonathan Walton at 9:40 PM. Traits Become Keys: Dharma Paths. Jason Morningstar wanted to see a filled in sheet for the Avatar. Details I'm still working out:. Dharma Paths can change type too. There's an episode where Aan...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: November 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Setting Contest 2: Planet Football. So I finally have a real setting, brainstormed on the subway. In the beginning, there were no pigs to skin. No, humanity's ancestors had to risk their lives wrestling megafauna to the ground. In stone coliseums dedicated to evil pagan gods, homo sapiens eventually overcame the Neanderthals by perfecting the halfback option. The existence of football proves that there is an intelligent creator. Posted by Jonathan Walton at 10:29 PM.

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: April 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Final Bits of Push Text (1 of 4). Is a group effort and they deserve much credit. Each issue also features running "guest commentary" in the margins. Our Guest Commentators are hand-selected by me, the Lead Editor, for their previous contributions to roleplaying thought, as well as the intelligence and clarity of their writing. They also have to be really fun people! Community will continue to grow in size and the diversity of backgrounds. Finally, each volume of Push.

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: July 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Push is Go for Launch. I am very pleased to announce (having just recieved the final, beautiful copies from the UPS man) that Push. Vol 1 is now available. Copies can be purchased from the fine folks at Lulu for $17 (it'll probably be around $20, with shipping). You can find a link to our Lulu site on the menu bar of the new Push. I'll try to mail off a copy to Ken Hite and Paul Tevis today, to start the hype machine running. We did it, folks. Booyeah. Article describes ...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: January 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Nobilis IRC: Steampunk Starchild. Josh, Shreyas, and I are playing Nobilis. Over IRC. We're doing an interesting GM-less thing where we each take turns framing a scene and we've just finished the first round of three scenes. Hopefully, we'll get to the next three pretty soon. The edited log of play is available here:. Http:/ 100flowers.indie-rpgs.com/session-1.htm. Posted by Jonathan Walton at 1:34 PM. Kazekami Kyoko Kills Kublai Khan. This is all Shreyas' fault. I spent...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: March 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Those Who Tarry at the Door. So I've entered the big Game Chef contest again this year. I love these things. They tend to push me to make really interesting design choices that I wouldn't normally have considered, since I always choose overly-ambitious concepts and then spend a week trying to figure out how to make them possible. This year is definitely the most ambitious yet. Anyway, there's a big design thread for my entry. Posted by Jonathan Walton at 1:44 PM. Yeah, i...

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ONE THOUSAND ONE: September 2006

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Roleplaying and everything after. Famous Among the Barns. If you haven't noticed, the Exalted hack. Has gotten much longer and more complete now. Not all the way done yet, but we playtested it last night and now I have some new ideas for finishing it up. (At least until we play it a lot more, which will inevitably lead to more tweaks). I'm gonna keep editing and expanding the original thread, but I'll also post new messages occasionally to let people know what's going on. Last Updated Sept 17 2006. I'm g...