Are there any plans for another freeform writing weekend next year? I'll point this one toward Sue, since you usually organise these.... Or is the January...
Oh no - Peaky will go ahead as normal, but just trying to work out now how to fit it into the schedule :) I was only talking about it on Saturday. Will let you...
It's looking pretty much definite we'll be running this at GenCon, so here's details. California, 1889 John D Rockefeller glowed at his newspaper and the...
Sounds good! Are you accepting bookings for this now? Regards, Steve Hill ... so ... than ... locomotive. ... and ... wanted ... be ... reconciliation ... of ...
Anyone old enough or wargaming backgrounded to know what I eman by a committee game? I picked up a copy of Tarsh War recently, billed as a Gloranthan (Greg...
I think freeforms have a variety of roots - everything from educational simulation games, through murder mystery games, rule-light LARPS, tabletop games and...
... A good question! Who's our resident freeform historian? (My first freeform as a player was with the group that later became Near Death Experiences, at a...
... As I recall, when we were at Superbia, we had been advised to tell the staff that we were there "for the Murder Mystery weekend" just because it was a...
WRG were running 'here si the character sheet of your General' style wargames in the 70's, but my understanding was that modern freeforming was born in present...
I played two freeforms at Gamesfair UK in 86 - one was a rule-less tabletop game and the other was a murder mystery. I don't think either of these games were...
The wikipedia entry is a bit sparse. Anyone care to update it? I am simply not knowledgeable enough! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_role-playing_game...
... Prebookings have to go through GenCon, I'm afraid - but if people are going to preregister please note the important clause at the bottom of the game...
More and more interesting! OK, so when was the term frst used? Anyone have any pre-1990 Freeforming Memories. Lucya's experiences in Kent certainly sound like...
... I wonder if that was the same one I first played in -- was it to do with the death of a record company guy who'd previously been in a band, do you ...
... I'm pretty sure Lucya played in the one you mention (as did I), but I don't think that was as early as '86; I'm reasonably sure the first Gamesfair I went...
Melanie Dymond Harper
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Aug 3, 2005 11:49 am
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As a former drama student freeforms very much take the line of improvisation exercises that we did but with much more character background added....
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Aug 3, 2005 11:57 am
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I remember the one you mean - it was my first free form. I played Minnie, and Steve Snelgrove played Micky. We had a whale of a time bouncing around, signing...
... light ... freeform I remember playing a 'global politics' game which was very freeform-y as part of a United Nations initiative when I was at school maybe...
I think the first freeform I played in was in about 1992/1993 at either Gamesfair or Gencon (it's all a blur). The game was one of Doc Williams' 'murder...
... That was the second Epic game, at one of the early UK GenCons (can't have been the very first one, but I don't recall exactly which year it ran);...
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... They ran it at two Gamesfairs a few years apart, just to be confusing. (I was the male heir in the first one, and similarly had a great time, although I...
... Countdown to Doom was winter of 93. (Fall-of Kar-Dernath had been in the spring of that year -- I remember DT played in that, any others who are still with...
The first freeform I took part in was in the early 1990's and was something that developed out of Live Action as a natural progression. It would seem that the...
Thought this might be of interest to anyone writing freeforms. Paul just bought a CD rom entitled "Write your own Novel" as he thought it might be quite useful...
The first freeform that I played in was probably "Home of the Bold" at the first Convulsion in 1992. (However, it just might have been "Once Upon a Time", the...
Dragonmeet would be delighted to host a freeform from the early evening onwards at Kensington High Street. Please respond to me at alison.rider-hill@......
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