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5/4/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Do what thou wilt
Ron mentioned he'd like a forum like this, and I think it's a good idea. Do whatever thy ass wanteth, but here's some great examples of what you might discuss:…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair.

5/4/2001 Ron Edwards: Orkworld in action
Oh boy! Well, I ran our first run of Orkworld last night. Another run or so, and I can do a review. The plan is four or five sessions for…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Dav.

5/4/2001 Paul Czege: Theatrix in action
This is going to be partly a paste of something I wrote on G.O. about the first session of the awesome superhero game, using Theatrix rules, that one of the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, greyorm, james_west, GreatWolf, Clay, Pyske, Supplanter.

5/8/2001 hardcoremoose: NIGHTWATCH/InSpectres playtest
Something amazing happened tonight. I got my grizzled gaming buddies together, as per usual on Monday nights. They were expecting the next installment in their D&D campaign. No doubt they…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/9/2001 poppocabba: use of blindfolds/sound in rpgs
I am interested if anyone has ever used blind folds in their games, and also of hearing about any experiences with gaming foley artistry. I am really out to create…
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Participants: poppocabba, DonQuixote, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Ben Morgan, Mytholder.

5/14/2001 JSDiamond: Role-playing *is* alive and strong
I'm going to tell you something, on occasion I feel like I'm wasting my time writing and drawing. A "pearls before swine" epiphany emerges every now and again. You know…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Clay.

5/15/2001 joshua neff: playing in the band
so, my group just finished up playing a short d20 "star wars" story...overall it went well, but i had a few problems w/ the way my friend ran it (which…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav, james_west.

5/15/2001 Dav: Actual (reading?)
Okay, so I haven't actually played the game, but I was just sent a comp. copy of "Mummy: The Quirky Subtitle". I'm reading through this and at first was rather…
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Participants: Dav, joshua neff.

5/18/2001 james_west: Why They Tanked
I'm going to boldly post a list of just about all the attempts at multiple-scenario games I've been in for the past three years, and why they tanked (in order…
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Participants: james_west, Zak Arntson, Mytholder.

5/21/2001 Zak Arntson: RPG System for Kids
I take in a 7 and 10 year old every few weekends, and try to get some roleplaying into them. Not only is it fun to play with kids, but…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, james_west, Ron Edwards, greyorm, GreatWolf.

5/23/2001 poppocabba: use of parliamentary procedure in gaming/game design
i am running a game set in the enlightenment, and I was thinking of incorporating robert's rules of order/parliamentary procedure into the game to give players a fell for the…
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Participants: poppocabba, Mytholder, Blake Hutchins.

5/31/2001 james_west: Following advice
My posting rate has dropped dramatically in the past week or so; the reason for this is that I did decide to stop talking about it and start doing it.…
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Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Supplanter.

5/31/2001 Zak Arntson: D&D
Okay, guess what I just played ... But, it went okay. There's a bunch of newer players (including the DM) who seem to be pretty happy with learning the game,…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Clay, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/1/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Don't violate expectations
OK, so I've been diving into the theory etc. discussions kinda heavy, and I feel the need to get a little more down to earth. Here's an incident from a…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, james_west, Mytholder, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Influence of Soap on my actual playing in other games
As requested by Paul (Czege): ]Have you noticed that playing Soap changes ]the techniques a player uses in the more ]traditional games you've been playing ]recently? Well, truth be told,…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

6/4/2001 Paul Czege: Soap in action
I have to say that our two sessions of Soap on Saturday, separated by pizza in between, made it painfully obvious to us how very stunted our Narrativist skills are.…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Logan, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Valamir, George Pletz.

6/7/2001 Mytholder: I get to go to this con and you don't...
Ok, I'm being mean, and shameless plugging something...but it isn't my con for once, and it's bloody cool. Take a lot at this timetable: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~areal/page2.html and behold! Sorcerer. Idoru. And…
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Participants: Mytholder, Ron Edwards.

6/8/2001 joshua neff: hooking the players
NOT selling them for money (i just had an image of jared in a fur coat w/ a cane), but keeping them from getting bored during the first session... i…
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Participants: joshua neff, John Wick, Mytholder, Pyske, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis.

6/8/2001 Mike Holmes: Rune
A lot of people had mentioned that they were going to try Rune. I rudely suggested that I felt that the game might not balance well, without even reading the…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, james_west, Levekius, GreatWolf.

6/11/2001 Dav: Orkworld... die like a pig!
Okay, the title may have been misleading. What I meant was that my character died like a true ork last Thursday. While I have you here, let me spin you…
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Participants: Dav, John Wick, Clay.

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