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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.

3/27/2004 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.

3/27/2004 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.

3/26/2004 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.

3/26/2004 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 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.

3/25/2004 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.

3/25/2004 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.

3/24/2004 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.

3/23/2004 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.

3/23/2004 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 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.

3/22/2004 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.

3/22/2004 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.

3/21/2004 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.

3/20/2004 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.

3/19/2004 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.

3/19/2004 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 JamesDJIII: Those D*mned Laptops!
I've noticed that when our group runs a game, there's a lot of people who like to read rulebooks (for other games and the current one) and have their laptops…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Matt, Scourge108, rafial, Bob McNamee, Bankuei, Malechi, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Sean, Andrew Norris.

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.

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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.

3/29/2004 myripad: Looking for a system that I hope exists
I'm pretty sure that this is the forum where I should be posting this, and I know how concerned most of you are about cross-posting, so I'll only put this…
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Participants: myripad, Eric J., Malechi, Andrew Norris, Sean, Ron Edwards, Hugin, Dav, murazor, S'mon.

3/30/2004 TonyLB: Learning to use Scene Agendas
I'm running a play-by-post game which makes liberal use of scene agendas. So for each major scene, I'm trying to get people to say (or, worst case, accept my judgment…
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Participants: TonyLB, Valamir, clehrich, jdagna, Matt Wilson, orbsmatt, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, DannyK.

3/30/2004 Malechi: [InSpectres] More Ghastly Endeavours in Ft. Lauderdale
Well..we've had our second and indeed third jobs now..and boy did things get strange. Some background: these next two jobs were GM'd by two different GMs who were in turn…
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Participants: Malechi, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Bob McNamee.

3/30/2004 Sigurth: [TROS] The Riddle of Harn (continued)
[b]The Serpent's Path, part II[/b] "Sergeant Bleda!" yelled the legionare captain. The sergeant came running out from one of the upper rooms of the [i]Pilgrim's Rest[/i], the only inn in…
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Participants: Sigurth, Ron Edwards.

3/31/2004 xiombarg: [unsung] FINALE -- opinions, please
So, yeah, I'm putting Unsung:SWAT on hiatus so I can work on the full version of the Unsung manuscript. So here's the thread about our latest, and possibly last, playtest…
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Participants: xiombarg, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, suffusionofyellow.

4/1/2004 Malechi: [TROS] Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Last night we wrapped up the first story arc in our TROS Midnight game. I'm still thinking about how amazing the game was over the entire six sessions. With the…
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Participants: Malechi.

4/1/2004 GreatWolf: [InSpectres] Winger Paranormal, or Winging InSpectres
Heard during play: "Do you know how hard it is to think when a dog is licking your fingers?"-Keith Sears 6 March 2004: Winger Paranormal Investigations announces a brand new…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Heraldic Game Design, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/1/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Humanity Definitions and Premise
Over in this actual play post, I commented that the two characters in my test run each had a different definition of Humanity. Ron said: Interesting ... are you permitting…
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Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

4/2/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] The end of a beginning
[b]The end of a beginning.[/b] Its been a long time, but here is my latest foray into roleplaying with the forgite twist. As my game stand now, some of the…
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Participants: Negilent, abzu, taepoong.

4/5/2004 montag: Prep-Advice for Whispering Vault wanted
as the title indicates, actual play hasn't happened yet, but I wanted to ask for some advice on running Whispering Vault beforehand. It's unlikely that we'll play a longer campaign…
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Participants: montag, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

4/5/2004 ChefKyle: How to deal with GM-players?
I'm sure plenty of you have experienced this: the guy who's usually the GM, says, "sure, have a go at a one-off, I'll enjoy playing for a while." Then he…
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Participants: ChefKyle, Bob McNamee, sirogit, jdagna, Doyce, Ron Edwards, S'mon, Lisa Padol, clehrich, mstrand, Jasper, Scripty, Rich Forest, Green, tryscer.

4/5/2004 apeiron: Piratic Inquiry: What games work for Pirate Play?
@ Just watch PotC:CotBP for the 3rd time, and that got me wondering. @ What games and supplements replicate the romantic pirate life? i've noticed someone mention a game called…
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Participants: apeiron, suffusionofyellow, DannyK.

4/5/2004 Paka: [Dust Devils] Wyrd West - On the Trail of Bastards
[i]The following is an e-mail I sent to the gamers. A friend is coming in from outta town and I reckoned this'd be a good game ta run:[/i] [b]The Adventure:[/b]…
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Participants: Paka, Dev, Ben Lehman, Nev the Deranged, RobNJ.

4/5/2004 Ron Edwards: [The Great Ork Gods] Nothing but mayhem
Hello, I should preface this by mentioning that I and the others in this group have played, within the last year, extensive games of: - kill puppies for satan -…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jack Aidley, jrs, Tod Olson.

4/5/2004 Demada: R-Maps, defined, explained
Where are R-maps defined and explained? I gleaned that they were part of Sorcerer (of the roleplaying advice sections, not the rules), but I cannot find mention of them in…
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Participants: Demada, montag.

4/6/2004 C. Edwards: False Prophets (Indie-Netgaming)
This is a pick-up game we started in the Indie-Netgaming irc channel tonight. As often happens we used a very system-lite game (game mechanic, actually), Jared Sorensen’s Clockworx. We also…
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Participants: C. Edwards, Lxndr, suffusionofyellow, Shreyas Sampat.

4/6/2004 Dav: Sorcerer... ish
So... I ran a game of Sorcerer last night. I had a group, willing and able, all experienced, and all ready to try something different. Now, those who have played…
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Participants: Dav, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Bob McNamee, J B Bell, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2004 Jasper: How I bowed out
I'd just like to relate my recent experience with bowing out of what would have been a regular gaming night.... So this one guy who I know invites me to…
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Participants: Jasper, Valamir, silburnl, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Peter Hollinghurst, Andrew Norris.

4/6/2004 lumpley: Adventures in Dramatic Drama
Climactic session last night. It'll take some telling, so. So You Know I play Acanthus, Meg plays Damwild, Emily plays Soraya. When I say "us" or "ours," I mean these…
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Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Emily Care.

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