http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/ Solipsist RPGs Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:17:30 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/143 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/143 In the sense that defeating the Shadow by becoming more like it is preferable to reaching your own personal nirvana ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:15:22 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/142 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/142 ... Ah, I'd missed that. You're right, that does make it seem preferable in the late game, when Tears are getting too high. -- Jay Shaffstall RPG Editor for Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:48:00 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/141 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/141 ... Pushing gives you a Tear, Embracing gives you a level of Shadow Taint While the taint may be worse seeming than a Tear it takes far longer to take yourself Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:42 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/140 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/140 Embracing the Shadow and Pushing during a change both lower the difficulty by 5, so I've been trying to work out why a player might choose to Embrace rather Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:50:15 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/139 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/139 I've updated the Errata page to try and include the various suggested changes in a usable format. Take a look and see if these make sense. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:43 GMT Tsanuri http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/138 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/138 Hi guys,   Personally I find that every game usually has a "knack" needed for running it in some way. We have prob all came accross *the* GM to run X for most Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:17:47 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/137 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/137 ... *laugh* I did tell them about the mailing list, and the email game, but I don't think any of them have jumped on here yet. It's hard enough to get them Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:31:28 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/136 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/136 ... Well it's only you saying you aren't :) Get some of your players on here and see what they say :D David Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:21:03 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/135 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/135 ... That's the interesting bit for me...I'd felt prepared to run Solipsist, because my normal GMing style is very much ad-hoc, going with where the characters Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:49 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/134 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/134 ... Well of course that's hardly a technique restricted to Solipsist, but it has a special flavour here, because compromising what you want / need to get what Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:33:04 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/133 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/133 ... That just clicked with me...I haven't been doing a good job of putting my players into situations where what they need to do to succeed might be worse than Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:20:58 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/132 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/132 First thing first, thank you to everyone who participated in the game ... it was long and drawn out, difficult in places, due to the painful process of doing Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:02 GMT Jay Shaffstall http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/131 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/131 After having GMed the game several times, and played in the recent pbem game, I had some thoughts to share. First, the potential of this game is amazing, and Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:24:49 GMT David Donachie http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/130 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/130 ... I made that mistake during playtesting. Being a GM of a traditionalist outlook I tried to plan out my sessions in what I thought was a loose style, sketch Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:50:08 GMT Peter http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/129 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist/message/129 Thanks for the swift reply - I'm hoping to get time to play in the next couple of weeks. I read your article about the trams as a background theme for a game