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6/14/2004 captain_bateson: [Long] GM Refusal to Explain Ruling
Long time lurker, first time poster. I am going to try to present this as objectively as I can, in order to (hopefully) get some useful feedback. I am in…
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Participants: captain_bateson, greedo1379, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Valamir, jeffd, Noon, TonyLB, ethan_greer, montag, Loki, Walt Freitag, DannyK, Eszed, MarktheAnimator, Mike Holmes, John Kim, calebros, Miskatonic, Christopher Weeks.

6/12/2004 Mark Johnson: [D&D] Integrating Newbies and Veterans
Greetings, I recently returned to my old stomping grounds (Tucson, AZ) for a short vacation. I was getting together with two couples that I used to hang out with. We…
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Participants: Mark Johnson, Caldis.

6/11/2004 JamesDJIII: We Can Laugh About It Now
Last night I GM'd for our gaming group. We were doin' Fantasy Hero. At one point, the players realized that the game had deviated from a predetermined path (in this…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, ethan_greer, DannyK.

6/9/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] First Campaign III of IV (SPOILER)
(Session I. Session II.) "This was the best one yet." That's what my players told me. I've been having trouble keeping the group focused, so I switched sites to my…
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Participants: bcook1971, Paka, sirogit, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

6/9/2004 oversoul01: First Dice Chucker Playtest!!!!!
The playtest went very well! To start with the whole playing session lasted about 3 and half to four hours. I had three willing monkeywrenchers, each with a very diffrent…
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Participants: oversoul01.

6/8/2004 Mike Holmes: [God Lore] Ambrosia Theft Playtest
Scheduling made doing a one shot a good idea last Saturday, so I suggested that we playtest one of the IGC games that I felt needed playtesting. The group agreed,…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Asrogoth, joshua neff.

6/8/2004 urizenhh: What to do with the unhappy gamer? (long)
Hi there! This place being the most interesting self-help group for frustrated gamers and gms I shall present you with my problen, either to get help or just to share...…
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Participants: urizenhh, Loki, Clay, Nicolas Crost, Bankuei, jdagna.

6/8/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Gun-fu Ghost Story
This game is something of a mess. The concept was written up by a buddy of mine, the Thursday Night 7th Sea GM, who hasn't ever played Sorcerer before. The…
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Participants: Paka, John Harper.

6/7/2004 humis: [Snow Day!] another actual play report
Seeing the other actual play report about Snow Day! got me to post this report: Last thursday, me and my three friends played a session of Fort Joey Must Fall!…
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Participants: humis, hanschristianandersen, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes.

6/7/2004 hanschristianandersen: [Snow Day!] First actual play report - long
I got a pleasant surprise in my email inbox this afternoon, when my brother sent me emails linking to some accounts of an actual game of Snow Day that his…
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Participants: hanschristianandersen, Mike Holmes.

6/7/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Session Five (Bibliophage): The Big Chill
We had our sixth session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer story Friday night. The whole thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was an interesting session, mostly because…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2004 Loki: [d20] scene framing blues
Hey Folks, I ran the 2nd of two d20 fantasy sessions tonight and had some unexpected behavior from one of my players that I think might be related to scene…
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Participants: Loki, hix, Andrew Norris, ADGBoss, John Kim.

6/4/2004 Lisa Padol: A new look at an old thread
I mentioned the samurai refusing to kneel to his daimyo in the apa Alarums and Excursions. Lee Gold had some interesting thoughts: Well, I make it a practice…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

6/3/2004 Old_Scratch: [Sorcerer S&S Charnel Gods] As the hands turn...
I'm currently putting together a S&S setting, but to ease my players into the new game, I'm going to start them off with a Charnel Gods game, which seems to…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, Paul's Girl, John Harper, hardcoremoose, b_bankhead, Matt, Paka, Nev the Deranged, DannyK, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, rafial, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

6/2/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: [The Shadow of Yesterday] The Sea of Teeth
This last weekend, I had a few friends down to New Orleans for ClintonCon 2004, my sometimes-annual home convention. We played a ton of great games - see our Burning…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, ethan_greer, xiombarg, rafial, joshua neff.

6/2/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Sorcerer] Urban Squalor Session Two
Here’s what happened in the second session of the Urban Squalor game. We played on 04/25/04. The write-up of session one is here. The stuff I fretted about in that…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Lisa Padol.

6/1/2004 Jacob Ossar: [Donjon] Silly allegory, anyone?
Here are some highlights from a session of Donjon I played with James Sterrett over the phone. I was DM; the name of the adventure is Rendezvous with Rana.…
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Participants: Jacob Ossar, Simon W, JamesSterrett, Bob McNamee.

6/1/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Grimm Therapy: Another gradeschool sorcerers riff
(First off, props: the following set up is all a result of Judd's great grade-school sorcerer's idea, which I shamelessly ripped off and used. The events of play are obviously…
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Participants: Doyce, Paka, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2004 wyrm: favorite RPG session (split)
My favourite Session was ... when I met the first girl gamer I've ever met. She's my girlfriend now ;-)
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Participants: wyrm, Ron Edwards, clehrich.

6/1/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Sacrifice
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. We just finished our latest episode of our City on Fire campaign. I think the premise is actually starting to form, to become clear. Sacrifice. What…
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Participants: abzu, AndyAction.

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6/16/2004 Rob MacDougall: Starchildren setting, HeroQuest rules.
Hi, folks: I'm about to run a game set in the Starchildren world of glam alien rock stars versus a crushing conformist state, but using HeroQuest as the system. This…
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Participants: Rob MacDougall, Scripty, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, RaconteurX, neelk, Bryant.

6/16/2004 Luke Sineath: Early Role-Playing Experiences
I can't remember how I got into roleplaying games. It happened somehow...the earliest games I remember playing are Top Secret, S.I., and MERP. However, these aren't the games I want…
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Participants: Luke Sineath, quozl, greyorm, Andrew Norris, ethan_greer, Paul's Girl, komradebob, Mike Holmes, efindel, Sean, Nev the Deranged, pfischer.

6/16/2004 Green: rehashing character concepts (split from very old thread)
In the thread about introducing N players to S play, Paul Czege linked to a much older thread about making the same character over and over again. Since that particular…
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Participants: Green, Mojo, Tobias, Loki, Paul Czege, DannyK, gregkcubed, Mike Holmes, hanschristianandersen, Albert of Feh, Decurio, Nev the Deranged, neelk.

6/17/2004 urbwar: [Sorcerer] Heavenly Kung Fu!
With much thanks to Paka! So, following Paka's Heavenly Kung Fu thread, He sent me some stuff on his ideas, and I decided to see how well Sorcerer works…
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Participants: urbwar, Paka.

6/17/2004 John Kim: Conan Test Run Results
OK, so I ran the Conan RPG one-shot at KublaCon a few weeks ago and thought I would report on it. I had an earlier thread about it where I…
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Participants: John Kim, Paka, Mike Holmes, Henri.

6/17/2004 Bob Goat: Off Screen Action
Hi, The game group I play with on Thursdays (at least most Thursdays) are on the verge of experimenting with off screen action. However we really are stuck on how…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris, Grex, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Alan.

6/17/2004 inthisstyle: Intraparty Conflict
This is a question inspired by the basic conflict described in this thread: Long] GM Refusal to Explain Ruling I am not making any comment on the actual discussion on…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, abzu, xiombarg, Eric J., captain_bateson, DannyK.

6/17/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount.
Hello All, Long time, no post. My weekday group has started a game of My Life With Master. During master/character creation one player suggested doing something related to the French…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Tobias, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, Nev the Deranged.

6/18/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] The Force of Compassion
As my understanding of the GNS theory grows, so does my awareness of what goes on in my games. Where my last two game-sessions were about Compassion, this post will…
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Participants: Negilent, rafial, abzu.

6/19/2004 TonyLB: [Amber] Playing with Strict Karma
[ Spawned from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=124226#124226]this thread[/url] ] I've taken on, largely through foolhardiness, the interesting task of running Narrativist Amber. And here we are with some more running commentary on its…
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Participants: TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Mark D. Eddy, captain_bateson, Jonathan Walton, John Kim, Mark Johnson, Simon W, Andrew Norris, Noon, Valamir, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Erick Wujcik, Halzebier, Ron Edwards, Arref, hanschristianandersen, RaconteurX.

6/19/2004 Halzebier: [InSpectres] First franchise (long)
Hi there! Our group played its first game of InSpectres yesterday. This also happened to be our first narrativist endeavour, though none of the guys is familiar with any RPG…
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Participants: Halzebier, Michael S. Miller, beingfrank, Raskir.

6/20/2004 Eric J.: [Star Wars D6] 10 months and Still Going Strong
A small while ago I recapped my campaign which I now call Sins of the Father and I figured that I'd post it here on the thread since it took…
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Participants: Eric J., JamesDJIII.

6/20/2004 ethan_greer: [Savage Worlds] Roleplaying with newbs
So. Friday I did some Savage Worlds gaming, with a twist. When I got there, I learned that three of the neighborhood kids Andy the GM hangs out with were…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Tobias, Jeph, ZenDog, Sydney Freedberg.

6/21/2004 Rexfelis: [D&D] Drifting
I'm working on a mystic space opera game called dominion, in fits and starts. What to do in the meantime? I proposed to my group an epic fantasy mini-campaign. We…
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Participants: Rexfelis, Zak Arntson.

6/23/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] End Game
The session I want to describe is a bit complicated, bear with me please as I am still a bit close to it. First, there were two metagame agendas playing…
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Participants: abzu, Tobias, taepoong, Thor Olavsrud.

6/23/2004 Gaerik: [D&D] I need proactive protagonists...
I've got a nice little D&D game that has been running for 4 sessions now and I'm relatively pleased with how it is going. The majority of my players are…
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Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ADGBoss, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, greyorm, DannyK, Zak Arntson, Bankuei, MarktheAnimator, Noon, clehrich, Itse.

6/24/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount Part II.
So, last night was the second session of the My Life With Master game. I took the advice most of you put forth and played the master with more cruelty…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Dumirik, CPXB, Nicolas Crost, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mojo, GB Steve.

6/24/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action
I decided to drop my M&M game on Wednesdays and replace it with Universalis. My players were all for this and we played. We came up with these tenets: Tenets…
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Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

6/24/2004 Henri: [Demon Cops] Session 1
For characters, see this thread. In order to create the anime mood, I began the "show" with an intro in which I described the forging of the sword Murumasa and…
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Participants: Henri.

6/25/2004 Andrew Martin: Knights of the New Republic (Zac's Shadows)
[quote="Zac"][quote="Andrew"]For example, two weekends ago, I ran Zac's Shadows game for two other players, where the PCs were Jedi Masters or Apprentices. As the GM I said that play should…
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Participants: Andrew Martin, Zak Arntson, Mithras.

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