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4/13/2004 montag: [Whispering vault] unsatisfying first session
Short-version: So I ran my first game of Whispering Vault and it sucked. IMO that is, players said it was ok. I take most of the blame, though I think…
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Participants: montag, Valamir, GreatWolf.

4/13/2004 GreatWolf: [InSpectres] Winging InSpectres, Part 2
Well, the third session of InSpectres went much better. The advice from the previous thread helped greatly. In addition to rolling up the client for the week, I came up…
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Participants: GreatWolf, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 TonyLB: Cascading ambiguity
Okay, so I'm running a game where I've give folks the right to write for the NPCs, and to frame and describe scenes their character would know nothing about. Additionally,…
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Participants: TonyLB, clehrich, Bob McNamee, Paganini, StalkingBlue, Mike Holmes, Peter Hollinghurst.

4/12/2004 timfire: GM's creating PC backgrounds...
I thought I would share a quick story about my brother's rpg'ing group. My brother, who only recently got interested in rpg's (specifically DnD), plays typical Illusionist Sim/Gam-stuff. His group…
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Participants: timfire, Lxndr, BPetroff93, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Henri, jdagna, coxcomb, Paul Watson, Storn, StalkingBlue, Neylana, herrmess.

4/11/2004 Trevis Martin: TROS: Crashing and Burning in Middle-Earth (long)
By consensus my play group ended our fledgling first time TROS game last night and I thought I'd post a small post mortem here. Let me state up front that…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Second Session: The Things on the Doorstep
Hello all, here's the actual play from our second session of Sorcerer. The Premise as defined by the group is, roughly, "What would you give up for Knowledge? Who or…
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Participants: Doyce, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paka, Lisa Padol.

4/10/2004 greyorm: Braving the Wrath of Dav
Ok, even fearing that Dav is someday going to come over, kick my door in, and eviscerate me for talking about my D&D game on the Forge, as promised on…
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Participants: greyorm.

4/10/2004 Alan: [PrimeTime Adventures]: Spacehunter
[b][i]UXG Production Co. to air Spacehunter in prime Thursday night slot![/i][/b] The night of April 8, four of us here in Seattle played the first of seven sessions. PTA divides…
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Participants: Alan, Matt Wilson.

4/8/2004 Paka: E-mail as a Table-Top Game Tool
I've used e-mails to schedule games, send in-game letters to player characters, to manage character generation and kibbitzed on the direction of the table top game. Sometimes we have even…
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Participants: Paka, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Sean, Paul Czege, Doyce, beingfrank, Neylana.

4/7/2004 Jeph: Player Authorship
So, thus far I've run two sessions of Exemplar, a brief and poorly initiated discussion of which may be found here. But what this post is concerned with is player…
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Participants: Jeph, coxcomb, Andrew Norris, Doyce, Bankuei, DannyK, BPetroff93.

4/7/2004 Doyce: Being the GM & letting go in Narr play
Over here, we have an interesting thread, which produced: I think the thing you're objecting to (or at least find unusual) is players injecting objects that have the potential to…
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Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Bankuei, joshua neff, coxcomb, DannyK, Brand_Robins, John Harper, hanschristianandersen, hix, Scripty, Sigurth, lightcastle, clehrich, greyorm, Green.

4/7/2004 Lisa Padol: Birthday Present for Ron
Okay, Ron's asking for cool stuff that makes us go, "Yes! That's why we play!" Like, in this area, actual play, cuz it came from, like, actual play. Anything I…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, lumpley.

4/6/2004 Lisa Padol: Any bangs for our buck?
So, I'm still confused about bangs. I just ran a reasonably successful session -- a couple of slow spots, a fair number of cool ones -- and I'm trying to…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, FredGarber, DannyK, Alan, Malechi, Mike Holmes.

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.

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 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 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.

4/5/2004 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.

4/5/2004 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 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.

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4/14/2004 ptevis: [Unknown Armies] Am I driving with Bangs?
So recalling that Bangs are Introducing events into the game which make a thematically-significant or at least evocative choice necessary for a player, I'm wondering whether or not I've…
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Participants: ptevis, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Lisa Padol, TonyLB.

4/15/2004 Lisa Padol: Artemisian Bangs?
So, Avram, who plays Laura, technoshaman recently become a werewolf, decided to give me a heads up about what he's planning next session. He told me that Laura is going…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, TonyLB, clehrich, contracycle, Storn, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2004 Dev: [PUNK] CyberBiblePunk in Judea:20X6!!
I sat down with three friends, we played PUNK. (This post is a ruse to distract Gobi from Iron Game Chef.) Picking Genre: First, we picked the genre. Biblepunk won…
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Participants: Dev, gobi.

4/15/2004 Ron Edwards: [Great Ork Gods] Gunch! Squish! Arrgh!
Hello, This time it was with the campus group, including a new fellow. Same scenario, from the current rules. 1. Much to my pleasure, the players didn't notice the halfling…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Ben Morgan, Jack Aidley, MattIndeed, Paul Czege.

4/15/2004 Ben Morgan: Director Stance
Reposted from my Livejournal upon Xiombarg's advice: Just taking a moment to read posts on The Forge, and a memory popped in my head. This was about a year and…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, C. Edwards, Emily Care, orbsmatt, Emiricol, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Andrew Norris.

4/16/2004 clehrich: Age of Paranoia -- test and setup run
I hope Jere and Rob will jump in here and explicate, but I’ll give it a brief go. Please comment freely on any part. Tonight we had the first session…
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Participants: clehrich, Jere, bluegargantua, Bryant, Emily Care, Rob MacDougall.

4/16/2004 Eszed: Another Birthday Gift for Ron
Ron wants stories of favorite characters and cool role-playing moments, so I'll tell you all about Eszed and Szilvasi, the greatest double-act in history. Two friends introduced me to Ars…
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Participants: Eszed, Ron Edwards, Neylana, Lisa Padol, Gaerik, Emily Care, DannyK, Eric J-D, pete_darby, Zathreyel.

4/16/2004 Gaerik: Giving it a shot...
Okay, most of the members of my gaming group are going to be out of town or otherwise occupied on our normal day to play this week. Thus, I thought,…
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Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Paganini, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/16/2004 b_bankhead: Of Ghost towns and Ghost babies : PALADIN actual play
My attempts a playing Paladin actually got off the ground on Tuesday on the indie-netgaming group, I was only able to intrigue Doyce Testerman to actually play (some of the…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Doyce, Tony Irwin.

4/16/2004 greyorm: Pseudo-TROS SA's in D&D
I wasn't sure where to put this one, but I figured since this involves a real, actual game, in real, actual play, as well as the actual discussion of our…
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Participants: greyorm, xiombarg, Ante, Andy Kitkowski, Jake Norwood, Noon.

4/16/2004 John Kim: Conan Test Run
OK, so I decided to run some games at KublaCon, and ended up deciding on a HERO System Star Trek game and a Conan RPG game. (I feel…
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Participants: John Kim, StalkingBlue, Ron Edwards, Caldis, Eszed, Henri, Bifi, hawklord2112, S'mon, Brand_Robins, Bankuei.

4/18/2004 Lisa Padol: One Week to Larptime
I'm working with Stephen Tihor and Erik Hanson on a larp that we're running next week. Everyone's got amnesia at the start. It's a 4 hour larp. Plus, I was…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, JamesSterrett, Walt Freitag, sirogit, Helvetian.

4/18/2004 Andrew Norris: Director Stance enters "The Comfort Zone"
I've been running this D20 Modern campaign called "Comfort Zone" for five sessions now, and it's Saturday afternoon, and the game's starting in a while. I'm sitting there thinking how…
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Participants: Andrew Norris, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2004 TonyLB: Pitching rules for narrativism
So I'm running an Amber game with heavy mechanics of narrativism added in. And people like the idea of having a lot of input into the story their characters are…
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Participants: TonyLB, greyorm, Bankuei, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2004 Sean: [Great Ork Gods] The Fruit of Woe
I played an interesting scenario with a neat group of people today. I hope the GM may post on the game in fuller detail here, but I wanted to get…
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Participants: Sean, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, jrs, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

4/19/2004 lumpley: again with the killing puppies!
I ran kill puppies for satan at OurCon this weekend, for 5 undergrad students and 1 grad student, 4 women 2 men, with two romantic couples present, I believe -…
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Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, hawklord2112.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: [The Pool] Jumping into the Pool (longish)
My group played the Pool for the first time Sunday afternoon with some mixed (mostly good) results as far as I'm concerned. I'll go over the players, the characters, the…
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Participants: Gaerik, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/19/2004 Emily Care: [Dogs in the Vineyard]a bump in my paradigm shift
So there I was, happily watching Meg conclude the character generation for her soon-to-be-Watchdog of God. I'm interested to see how this young man sent "Back East" for a college…
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Participants: Emily Care, Gaerik.

4/20/2004 coxcomb: [Gallant] Hubbub at the Royal Hole (chargen)
We got together last Saturday to try a second run of my game, Gallant. I have yet to make any rule postings here, but Zak wrote an actual play entry…
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Participants: coxcomb, Zak Arntson, jdagna.

4/20/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Clicking Sands Actual Play
Okay, after putting this off far too long, I have to get it down or I'm going to forget what happened (it's been all of 5 days now), so forgive…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Valamir.

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