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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.

4/18/2004 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.

4/18/2004 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.

4/16/2004 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.

4/16/2004 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 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 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 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 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.

4/15/2004 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.

4/15/2004 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 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 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.

4/14/2004 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.

4/13/2004 stingray20166: "Old Schol D&D"
Played real "old schol D&D" the other night. And yeah, that is misspelled -- at one point in the game my fellow Forge reader and I just looked at each…
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Participants: stingray20166, DannyK, clehrich, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, CPXB, kwill, greyorm, John Kim, jrients.

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.

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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.

4/21/2004 Ron Edwards: [Elfs] It's about the aspis queen
Hello, I never did follow up on our completion of the Elfs game based on the A1 AD&D module "Slave Pits of the Under-City." Since that game had a big…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

4/22/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Sorcerer]Urban Squalor--1st Session
This is the first of the Urban Squalor game, character creation of which was here. We played on 3/14/04. We had a RL problem just before the first session. Michele,…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paka, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

4/22/2004 Jeph: Gamist Play: This one's MINE!
So here's a phenomenon that's happened a few times recently. In Peter C's D&D game, I play this awesome diviner/alienist. Peter K plays a simple Paladin, Argonath the Good. Curran…
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Participants: Jeph, Sean, FredGarber, ethan_greer, Noon, contracycle, abzu, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski.

4/22/2004 Matt Wilson: [PTA] spacehunter, pilot episode and playtesting errata
Last week was the pilot episode of a PTA series that I'm pretty sure we're still calling "Spacehunter." This post is about the elements of the game in play, and…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan, John Harper, DannyK, Ian O'Rourke, pete_darby.

4/22/2004 Arashi: Online gaming
Well, it seems as though I have a hard time finding playersAt least the players that want to play what I do...So I was thinking about maybe a nrrative type…
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Participants: Arashi, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks.

4/23/2004 coxcomb: [Gallant] Hubbub at the Royal Hole (play)
This is a continuation of the character generation post for the latest test of my game, Gallant. So we’re all done with characters and ready to go. Part of the…
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Participants: coxcomb, Zak Arntson, jdagna, trechriron.

4/23/2004 RaconteurX: Campaign relaunch, hzzah!
With four new players out of five, two of whom are new to Pendragon, and entirely new characters, my campaign based in Leicester has been accorded a second life. Our…
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Participants: RaconteurX, Sean.

4/25/2004 redwalker: [Sorcerer] I'm a clueless newbie with broad questions
Hi there. I'm a clueless newbie. Since I don't see a forum labelled "clueless newbies post here" I'll discuss my cluelessness about the char-gen process in what seems to be…
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Participants: redwalker, DannyK, TonyLB, neelk, Trevis Martin, John Burdick, b_bankhead, Sean, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, Alan, hardcoremoose, Jaik, greyorm, FredGarber, Andrew Norris.

4/26/2004 Dotan Dimet: [Empire of Doors] Space Opera/Science Fantasy
Last session, my gaming group destroyed the world. So this week, we started a new campaign. We'd brainstormed last session and in the begining of this session. Sword & Sorcery,…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Dev, b_bankhead, Alan, FredGarber, ScottM, Nev the Deranged.

4/26/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Third Session: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Our third session of Sorcerer, which normally runs on alternating Friday nights, was preempted by previous commitments. Unwilling to give up the game momentum for another two weeks, I asked…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Paka, redwalker.

4/26/2004 bluegargantua: [Great Ork Gods] Oh that poor little goblin!
Hey, So let's see. For players we've got: Vincent, Emily and Corrie. We also had Bryant, but he showed up late and got to watch (I mean, we could've let…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, Eszed.

4/26/2004 Eszed: [Great Ork Gods]
I've been meaning to write this up for the last month; Tom's post here finally tipped the balance. We had a typically outrageous back-stabbing fun time, the tone of which…
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Participants: Eszed, Valamir, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Sean, Emily Care.

4/26/2004 Neylana: A beautiful moment in Rifts Earth
So, a friend of mine is running a Rifts game, where all the characters are in the military of a non-Coalition State that at the beginning of the game was…
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Participants: Neylana, Noon, pete_darby, tigermuppetcut, Mike Holmes.

4/27/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Return to Mu's Bed (Julie and Jeff)
Jeff and Julie are a married couple and we did character generation tonight and will play on Saturday. Jeff runs the local fantasy LARP and Julie has experience gaming there.…
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Participants: Paka, joshua neff, Malechi, Ron Edwards.

4/27/2004 Matt Wilson: [PTA] Spacehunter: Episode 1, Femme Fatale in Spaaaace!
Some of this is going to be dated, what with my latest and hopefully last major change to the rules. Based on the stumbling blocks of the previous game, and…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan.

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