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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.

4/22/2004 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 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 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.

4/21/2004 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.

4/20/2004 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.

4/20/2004 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.

4/19/2004 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.

4/19/2004 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 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 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 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.

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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.

4/27/2004 GreatWolf: [Inspectres] Fighting Slime (or, Winging InSpectres, Part 3)
And the carnage continues. That’s right! Time for another update on Winger Paranormal Investigations. (The previous actual play threads are here and here.) Somehow, our group seems to have established…
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Participants: GreatWolf, TonyLB, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Lxndr.

4/29/2004 cthulahoops: [Great Ork Gods] Eating people.
Hi, So, I gathered four suitably orkish types after scifi yesterday and went off to try this out. Firstly, God breakdown. MM: Slashing and Slaying, Flailing Limbs. J: Obscurer of…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Jack Aidley, Neylana, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2004 arxhon: [Great Orc Gods] Comment on lack of "Character" sh
All this kerfuffle about Great Ork Gods has caused me to download the current .zip (v2) and print it off. It looks great and the actual play sounds like hilarious…
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Participants: arxhon, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Walt Freitag, Jack Aidley, contracycle, Neylana, Ben Morgan, Valamir.

4/29/2004 lumpley: Lines, Veils, Breaking the Ice
(Anybody who happens to not know, "lines and veils" is a way to talk about players' comfort with in-game material. Ron introduced the terms in Sex and Sorcery.) Emily Care…
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Participants: lumpley, cruciel, DannyK, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Doyce, talysman, C. Edwards, bluegargantua, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Noon, Nev the Deranged, quozl, John Harper.

4/29/2004 Tomas HVM: [Fabula] Test your heroes!
[b]A scene in todays roleplaying game:[/b] The human characters contrived to capture two orc-NPCs. The humans are convinced the orcs were after their great magical ring (actually it is a…
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Participants: Tomas HVM, Noon, Loki.

4/30/2004 Eric J.: [D&D: 3E] A game in time plays 9.
You can't get rid of me Anyway- Update: My brother (Ryan) is now allowed to play D&D and I live in Nebraska again. Yay for me. Anyway- Well Ryan and…
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Participants: Eric J., ethan_greer, Andrew Norris.

4/30/2004 Gaerik: [Alternity] A rambling bit of review... (longish)
Ron expressed a desire on another thread to see a review of the Alternity game done by someone who has or is currently playing the system. My gaming group is…
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Participants: Gaerik, Zak Arntson, rafial, John Burdick, Matt Wilson, ghostwolf, johnzo, Autocrat.

5/2/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] First Campaign (SPOILER)
Finished running the first session of my first Sorcerer campaign this night/morning. My group created characters last week at the end of our second TROS campaign, run by Zazielsrephraim. That…
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Participants: bcook1971, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Bob McNamee, hardcoremoose, Trevis Martin.

5/3/2004 jeffd: Shooting Stars - 5/1/04
Ron wanted more actual play. Here's some. background: Shooting stars is run by my friend Jim. The premise of the game is that it's a sci-fi TV show, inspired by…
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Participants: jeffd, Zak Arntson.

5/3/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Summary and Sacrifice
Ok, its been a while. And the following post is from an eight+ hours session, so it is long. There were however some rather interesting moments so I think it…
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Participants: Negilent, abzu, Thor Olavsrud.

5/3/2004 Bifi: [Sorcerer] Questions on Combat Mechanics
Hi all, we started to play Sorcerer and met the following issues: 1. If a NPC/monster has more total penalties than, let's say, its Stamina, is it allowed to act?…
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Participants: Bifi, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall.

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