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3/18/2004 Gaerik: Sci Fi vs Fantasy
In another thread, I mentioned that I was currently GMing a Sci Fi game (Alternity) which wasn't my preferred genre and that I was having a hard time getting invested…
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Participants: Gaerik, Mark Johnson, orbsmatt, John Kim, komradebob, brainwipe, Scourge108, quozl, rafial, GreatWolf, John Burdick, RaconteurX, Dev, Brother Adso, TerroX, Eric J., Mike Holmes.

3/18/2004 Gaerik: Disgruntled Parents...
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the proper forum to put this post but it is about my actual gaming group, so I'll just post it and trust…
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Participants: Gaerik, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Dev, Valamir, talysman, Jeph, Clay, orbsmatt, Technocrat13, Bankuei, Zathreyel, RaconteurX, Scourge108.

3/16/2004 Eric Minton: amber: kill puppies for chaos
Hey there! This is my first post to the Forge, though I've browsed for some time now. Now, the subject of this post isn't Actual Play yet, but it will…
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Participants: Eric Minton, clehrich, Andrew Norris, lumpley, beingfrank, jrients.

3/16/2004 bastion-b: Epic r-mapping?
First of all, I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right forum as the topic doesn't really directly relate to any actual play experience of my own. However, I'm…
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Participants: bastion-b, Halzebier, DannyK, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Lisa Padol, clehrich, Zathreyel, John Kim, Valamir.

3/16/2004 tetsujin28: [Sorcerer and Sword] and Solomon Kane
So, does anyone have any idea what the PCs' personal demons in Sorcerer might be, if they were, say, 17th-century witch/demon hunters? I'm thinking Solomon Kane meets The Blood on…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Ron Edwards.

3/16/2004 adamsmith: [Fading Suns] How to help a disconnected player
In our Fading Suns campaign, one of the players has a priest (Eskatonic) but he increasingly seems to be at variance with the character type. I've provided all sorts of…
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Participants: adamsmith, Lisa Padol, tetsujin28, Negilent, Pyske, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

3/14/2004 Geoff Wilkerson: My Grand Attempt at GMing- need help!
Greetings friends. I am in the process of creating background and plot for a campaign that will be played 6-7 months from now. I'm playing with a group of close…
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Participants: Geoff Wilkerson, Trevis Martin, komradebob, Paul Czege, aplath.

3/14/2004 xiombarg: Pretender: Eat Me
Okay, I ran a one-shot of Pretender, with Dana and Ben. Dana reprised her mechancal were-dinosaur role, and Ben provided us with punk attitude. Here are the logs: http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender2_ooc.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/pretender2_nar.txt…
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Participants: xiombarg.

3/13/2004 inuyasha: i need help with sorcerer
Man will some1 please tell me this... i have absolutely no idea on how to use this sorcerer-online thing . The whole idea about summoning demons got me excited but…
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Participants: inuyasha, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2004 Kitsune: The dreaded first game...
I'm looking down the barrel of the first session of the first game I've run in years. I've never had a hugely successful GMing session before, primarily because I tend…
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Participants: Kitsune, brainwipe, Christopher Weeks, Alan, Itse, Dev, silburnl.

3/12/2004 jburneko: [The Pool/Eden Falls] Book 1, Final Chapter
So, on Tuesday, the curent Eden Falls scenario came to a conclusion. As usual I offered up the option to either keep playing with these characters in this setting with…
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Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

3/12/2004 Drifter Bob: What is this game?
I am being driven slowly mad because I can't remember the name of this game that I played a few months ago. I'm hoping y'all can identify it for me.…
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Participants: Drifter Bob, ethan_greer, Alan.

3/11/2004 Doyce: Software for R-Maps
By feeding PieSpy (an IRC bot used to visualize social networks) with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in…
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Participants: Doyce, GreatWolf, Paul Czege, age_of_dissent, Trevis Martin, Malechi, Christopher Weeks, Ville Takanen, Norbert G. Mataus, alexandre santos, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2004 brainwipe: [Icar] Star Enfocer Setting
Last night was the first session of the Star Enforcer Setting. It was going to be the usual fair of character creation and a quick Case. However, many of my…
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Participants: brainwipe.

3/10/2004 montag: [Trollbabe] If my sister 's in trouble ...
I got the chance to play Trollbabe with my girlfriend tonight. In fact, I bought the game especially to play with her, since the game seemed ideal for one on…
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Participants: montag, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Alan, Bob McNamee.

3/9/2004 Thierry Michel: (anti)HeroQuest: the count must die!
I finally ran a one-shot historical HQ last week - it was my first GMing in 15 years or so. I had made pre-gens for the 3 players (ruthless warrior,…
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Participants: Thierry Michel, Brand_Robins.

3/8/2004 arxhon: Why i stepped down from the GM's chair
I recently stepped down from the GM's chair for a game of Solar Exalted. The reasons for this are two fold: 1. I am swamped with college homework stuff 2.…
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Participants: arxhon, Matt Wilson, Aman the Rejected, WDFlores, stingray20166, Malechi, Valamir.

3/7/2004 Jeph: [Exemplar] Play-Test of Wraiths
So, I'm going to be running Exemplar for the first time later today. (The link to the rules is in my sig.) Originally it was going to be a D&D…
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Participants: Jeph, Dev.

3/5/2004 amel: [Schismatic Puddle] Game setup
We are playing a game of Schism (Sorcerer mini-supplement) and used a modified version of The Puddle (a variation of The Pool) which can be found here. The Situation I…
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Participants: amel, Lisa Padol.

3/4/2004 montag: [Inspectres] King Kong meets Octopussy
I've recently tried to move our group a little more into a narrativist mode of play, partly out of curiosity and partly to satisfy a personal inclination towards that mode.…
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Participants: montag, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Valamir.

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3/19/2004 Gaerik: Mechanic for Narrative Control
With my current group of players in which we play either 3e D&D or Alternity things progress pretty much as I feel the authors of the game intended. Our group…
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Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Norris, Valamir, clehrich, Green, TerroX.

3/19/2004 Eric Minton: kill puppies for elvis
so, there's these two guys. they kill puppies for satan. scrobulor works at the dairy queen up on oak and lexington. he digs heavy metal. he lives in his moms…
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Participants: Eric Minton, Andrew Norris, BPetroff93, james_west, Jeph, Jürgen Mayer, jrients.

3/20/2004 ZenDog: [TRoS] The Saga of Varghoss Redbeard
The Saga of Varghoss Redbeard I’ve been out of the hobby for about a decade and when I got back I decide to look around for a game that pushed…
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Participants: ZenDog, BPetroff93, Sigurth, Valamir, rafial, bergh, Emiricol.

3/21/2004 Alan: [TROS] Fire Upon Fenwyk
[b][size=18px]Fire Upon Fenwyk[/size][/b] [b][size=14px]Riddle of Steel Actual Play Report with Commentary[/size][/b] [i]After 5 weeks and four sessions of play, I've finally got the time and inspiration to write up our…
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Participants: Alan, rafial, ZenDog, Sigurth, Matt Wilson.

3/22/2004 Dreams_of_Cats: From a Simulationist into a Narrativist. Need tips!
Hi - I've lurked a lot, and have decided to take the plunge and actually ask for an opinion on something. I used to be quite the simulationist, and now…
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Participants: Dreams_of_Cats, Alan, Ian Charvill, Trevis Martin, joshua neff, hix, jburneko, pete_darby, clehrich.

3/22/2004 sirogit: [TROS]Sea of Fallen Gods: coming up with bangs.
It's been about two weeks since my last TROS game, due to Spring Break, and when it restarts this wednesday, I want this session to go with a BANG So,…
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Participants: sirogit, ZenDog, Malechi, John Kim.

3/23/2004 timfire: [E.rpg] Alpha playtest
Well, over the weekend I finally got my friends together to playtest my project E.rpg, my old fantasy heartbreaker that I'm reworking. I ran 2 sessions. The first session had…
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Participants: timfire.

3/23/2004 Peter Nordstrand: [HeroQuest] Temertain is Dead!
Hi, Here's a (very) brief actual play report for those who are interested. Purpose of session: To playtest "The Assassin" a convention scenario I've been working on. # of players:…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, Bankuei.

3/23/2004 TonyLB: Bangs and Narrativism... I -so- need help
Okay, so I've run SO many failed PBeMs that it's got to be me. And they all fail the same way. And my newest one is doing exactly the same…
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Participants: TonyLB, Valamir, clehrich, quozl, coxcomb, montag, John Kim, joshua neff, Noon, Alan, Lisa Padol, Trevis Martin, Michael S. Miller, Itse, neelk, DannyK, Blankshield, ptevis, Clay, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2004 Gaerik: Bangs, bangs and more bangs!
In reading several threads about Bangs, I've noticed that people throw out ideas for them that are pretty independent of any specific group or game. I, personally, would find a…
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Participants: Gaerik, Alan, Blankshield, kwill, Andrew Norris, Lisa Padol, Valamir.

3/25/2004 Christopher Weeks: The Universalis Arena
Hi all, Several of us have been playing an asynchronous game of Universalis on Clinton's RPG Laboratory site for a few months, under the name The Universalis Arena. Over the…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, ScottM, james_west, Bob McNamee.

3/25/2004 jburneko: Structural Aesthetics vs. Story Now
Hello All, This will get around to Actual Play eventually, if it evolves too much into more theoretical GNS discussion, feel free to move it. Structural Aesthetics play a HUGE…
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Participants: jburneko, pete_darby, GreatWolf, DannyK, Dev, cruciel, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, clehrich, joshua neff, hix, Valamir, Sean.

3/26/2004 Bifi: [Little Fears] Minor Tweaks and Thoughts
Hi there, I purchased LF recently and am thinking about running a ca. 6 sessions long adventure set in Warsaw. The current time is around '85, with the communist government…
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Participants: Bifi, Ron Edwards, Dav.

3/26/2004 johnmarron: [TROS] Situation Driven TROS in Westeros
I’m gearing up to run The Riddle of Steel for the first time, and thought I would make some actual play posts covering the game setup and how it runs.…
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Participants: johnmarron, Valamir, Steven Bishop, CPXB, Adrienne, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards.

3/26/2004 S'mon: [Conan] anyone else playing Conan with Sorcerer & Sword?
OK, not strictly an indie game, but Mongoose's Conan RPG shows a strong Forge influence. A d20 game, it advocates a vastly more Narrativist style than standard d20-Gamism. While it…
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Participants: S'mon, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Ian Sturrock, joshua neff, StalkingBlue, Storn, RDU Neil, Bifi, John Kim, 6inTruder, Alan, Scripty.

3/27/2004 coxcomb: [Trollbabe] A first adventure
Yesterday my play group was missing the key player for our in-progress adventure, so I suggested we give Trollbabe a try. I had read through the rules, and was excited…
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Participants: coxcomb, Ron Edwards.

3/27/2004 Zak Arntson: [Gallant] Well swackle my bush (playtest)
A week ago I played in Jay Loomis' Gallant. a game of swashbuckling adventure. Now, swashbuckling is a loaded term, so I'll stop using it right ... now. We engaged…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, coxcomb, clehrich, Mark D. Eddy, Andrew Norris, Scourge108.

3/28/2004 rafial: TROS, Calvinball, and IIEE
So we just completed Alan's Fire upon Fenwyck campaign which was one of the side by side TROS games that made up the latest round at UGX. And while I…
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Participants: rafial, ZenDog, Alan, Hafaza, Noon, Jake Norwood, Valamir.

3/28/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] First Date: Characters (session to follow)
So, with half of my inner posse out of town for the second weekend in a row I found myself starting to suffering from gaming DTs. (You can't just cold-turkey…
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Participants: Doyce, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Mulciber, Ron Edwards.

3/28/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] First Date: The Session
(See also my previous post detailing the PCs.) With the Sorcerer characters completed no later than 8pm (!), I wanted to do something that would introduce us to all aspects…
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Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

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