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5/8/2004 ZenDog: Inserting R-Maps into an already up and running game.
I haven’t got sorcerer yet (too many games, not enough cash, I’m tempted to get Sorcerer & Sword first anyway, but that’s another story), but I have a vague idea…
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Participants: ZenDog, ScottM, Roy, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2004 TonyLB: [Amber] Jonesing for constraint
So the saga of attempting narrativism in Amber DRPG continues... We're at an interesting phase. The players have gotten past the novelty of being able to take over some of…
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Participants: TonyLB, Noon, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes.

5/4/2004 Thor Olavsrud: [Sorcerer] Urban Squalor
This past weekend, I played in my first Sorcerer game: Mike M.'s Urban Squalor scenario at A Gazebo of Games. As I expected, we got some nice meaty play out…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, urbwar, Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller.

5/4/2004 beingfrank: [kpfs] A first rampage
Does a kpfs example really need a warning for content or language? Consider yourself warned. so my regular gaming group has been trying to get me to run fucking vampire…
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Participants: beingfrank, ethan_greer, lumpley, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.

5/3/2004 johnzo: [Savage Worlds] X-Com: rattling the characters
While the PTA people in Feng's front room have been working through their feelings, the back room crew has been getting its hands dirty against Martian terrorists. The aliens…
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Participants: johnzo, John Harper, rafial, JamesSterrett, ZenDog, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Nev the Deranged, contracycle, DannyK.

5/3/2004 Neylana: [Great Ork Gods] Sci-Fi Mayhem
I posted this on Jack's feedback forum, but I'll post it here for everyone's enjoyment. Yesterday, I ran Great Ork Gods for my usual gaming group. Player lowdown: Donald Edwards:…
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Participants: Neylana, Valamir, Ron Edwards, quozl, Jack Aidley.

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.

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 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.

5/2/2004 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.

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.

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.

4/29/2004 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.

4/29/2004 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 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 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.

4/27/2004 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.

4/27/2004 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 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.

4/26/2004 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.

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5/8/2004 ZenDog: [TRoS] Varghoss Redbeard (split/continued)
The Saga of Varghoss - Aftermath Varghoss is awoken by the warms sensation of the wolf cub pissing on his face and the sound of his new Jarl's gleeful laughter.…
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Participants: ZenDog, Sigurth, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Intrigue in Mu's Bed (Paula and Robert)
Using the same Relationship Map as I did for my other game with Jeff, Julie and JJ, I have begun another Mu's Bed Sword and Sorcerer game with two new…
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Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Ron Edwards, stingray20166.

5/12/2004 chadu: [Dead Inside] Prelim Playtest #3 (Very Long)
ACTUAL PLAY: Prelim Playtest #3 for DEAD INSIDE: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME OF LOSS & REDEMPTION Per Ron's request, I'll attempt to reformulate the third preliminary playtest session for DEAD INSIDE.…
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Participants: chadu, Andrew Norris, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, neelk, DannyK.

5/12/2004 Tav_Behemoth: [D&D] Why I Like Metagaming
A disclaimer: I'm not fully up to speed with the Forge theoretical framework yet, and I may omit or misuse the appropriate terms of art. I hope to learn by…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, ethan_greer.

5/12/2004 EGG Fu Young: [L5R] The White Flowers of Spring
This is the first session of our new Legend of the Five Rings campaign. Its entitled “The White Flowers of Spring”. The characters are all starting characters, with the only…
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Participants: EGG Fu Young, rafial.

5/12/2004 quozl: My favorite RPG session
It was in 1991 and I was 18-19 years old. I was at the computer lab at UW chatting on IRC with a few people about RPGs when a stranger…
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Participants: quozl, DannyK, Andy Kitkowski, dyjoots, Jeph, gentrification, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Noon, Mike Holmes, S'mon.

5/13/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Write & Run Demons from the Hell-side of Town
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822 The Above is the link to the setting I'm going to be putting the finishing touches on and running. Character generation is next Monday and the game is next…
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Participants: Paka, Andrew Norris, ScottM, DannyK, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2004 Ron Edwards: [The Mountain Witch] Playtest comments #1
Hello, Last night we played The Mountain Witch at the campus club meeting. I GM'd with four players. First news? Massive positive response; afterwards, one person pointed out that we'd…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Emily Care.

5/13/2004 Jere: [Age of PAranoia] First Session
Last night we did the first session to Age of Paranoia, an espionage game based on Chris Lehrich's Shadows in the Fog. We did the character introductions and ran two…
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Participants: Jere, clehrich, bluegargantua, Bryant, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 Bankuei: Trollbabe makes good Streetfighter
Hi folks, A few weeks ago, I picked up Big Eyes, Small Mouth D20, and have been watching tons of Japanese and Korean movies lately. So, my roommate and I…
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Participants: Bankuei, Rich Forest, contracycle.

5/14/2004 Lxndr: [Frigid Bitch] First Playtest Ever
Well, it's the first playtest as far as I'm aware. For all I know, someone has played it on the sly and never told me about it. But that's not…
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Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Valamir, Nev the Deranged, Bob McNamee, talysman, sirogit.

5/15/2004 Alan McVey: [Fudge: Collectors] The first playtest
The Fudge setting, Collectors: The Burning House, has been out for a while now, but I thought it was time for a reminder of just how good it can be.…
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Participants: Alan McVey, ethan_greer.

5/16/2004 jeffd: Shooting Stars 5/14/04 - Dysfunction, Dysfunction
See Shooting Stars 5/1/04 for my last play summary and slice, as well as character breakdown and all. Play tonight was characterized by not one but two instances of pretty…
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Participants: jeffd, TonyLB, Dev.

5/16/2004 RobbieTaylor: Finally did it - a time-jumping session!
I've always wanted to do a time-jumping session, where the players move back and forth between their own future and past, complete with changes in their abilities. I knew that…
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Participants: RobbieTaylor, Simon W.

5/17/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] The City is on Fire
I've been running a Burning Wheel campaign that began in February. Characters are all four or five lifepaths and were all destined to be part of a rebel insurgent cell…
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Participants: abzu, AndyAction, Negilent, taepoong.

5/17/2004 Doyce: Triangulating on a replacement system
Calling on the Power of the Forge. Okay, posting a question to everyone. The situation: a friend of mine is running a (reasonably fun) Spycraft game using d20 in his…
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Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Matt, Andrew Norris, DannyK, contracycle, chadu, ethan_greer, Jere, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, RaconteurX, Grex, b_bankhead.

5/17/2004 JamesDJIII: When You Can See the Rails
I played last Thursday in a Star Trek RPG, run by one of our rotating GMs. I must admit, the game had a lot going against it (from my perspective).…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Bankuei, Eric J., coxcomb, DannyK, neelk.

5/18/2004 hawklord2112: ... i couldn't resist
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7370305/ i'm a Visio Junkie. and a character Sheet junkie. and being at work, i have no 3x5 cards. :(
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Participants: hawklord2112, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

5/20/2004 hanschristianandersen: [Musketeers!] Playtest - Ruffians, Spies, and… Nuns?
With the twin distractions of Iron Game Chef and Big Work Deadline out of the way, I rounded up three friends, Monte, Thea, and Gordon, to test-drive an early version…
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Participants: hanschristianandersen, Jeph, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Matt, Valamir.

5/22/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Session Five (Bibliophage): Complex Conflict
Hello folks. We had our fifth session of Sorcerer last night. The whole campaign thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was a really interesting and challenging…
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Participants: Doyce, Sydney Freedberg.

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