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6/29/2004 Luke Sineath: [Donjon] Abortive First Attempt
First of all, we used d6s, because we didnt' have d20s in quantity (I have one). d6s really do not work! One of the players was my girlfriend, who has…
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Participants: Luke Sineath, Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Noon.

6/28/2004 Jinx: [InSpectres] Space Cadets!
My gaming group has a four-year-running tradition of playing a silly, anime-style game ala Teenagers From Outer Space over the summer. After becoming familiar with The Forge and all the…
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Participants: Jinx, Dev, DannyK, Mike Holmes.

6/28/2004 Doyce: [UA variant] Using Conflict Resolution & Dealing w/Whiff
Hey folks, This weekend, I had a chance to play-test a Firefly game using a stripped-down version of Unknown Armies 2nd edition. (Details on chargen are over here, but basically…
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Participants: Doyce, DannyK, Valamir, GreatWolf, montag, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

6/26/2004 montag: [Dark Age:Fae] Hack and Slash
We played White Wolf's Dark Age: Fae the other day and had great fun. Character-generation took a whole evening, since we had trouble getting a good grasp of the setting,…
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Participants: montag.

6/26/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] The Third Time This Week
I played a lot of Univeralis this week, hehe. I think I blunted the worst of the cravings and the once a week game I have going will be sufficient…
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Participants: CPXB, Bob McNamee.

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.

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.

6/24/2004 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 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.

6/23/2004 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.

6/23/2004 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.

6/21/2004 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.

6/20/2004 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.

6/20/2004 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.

6/19/2004 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.

6/19/2004 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.

6/18/2004 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.

6/17/2004 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.

6/17/2004 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 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.

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6/30/2004 John Kim: Water-Uphill-World: Virtuality Examined
OK, at Vincent (aka lumpley's) request, I am splitting off from "Sacrificing Character Integrity" - a Rant. In it, Vincent (aka lumpley) and Matt had some questions about…
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Participants: John Kim, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Marco, Caldis, Matt Snyder, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Rob Carriere.

7/1/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 2
This was actually the most difficult Universalis game I've had to date. During the tenets phase of the first session, we didn't actually bother to come up with any antagonists.…
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Participants: CPXB, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

7/1/2004 Kushiel: [HELP] Intro Scenario For New Group
A group of people who I've never played with, and who've never played with each other, have somehow elected me to run a game of Vampire for them. No problem.…
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Participants: Kushiel, TonyLB, Tobias, komradebob, JackBauer.

7/1/2004 JamesSterrett: Homebrew LARP - now played!
I'd asked for ideas about this earlier (Player Death and Eliciting player input. It ran on Sunday, 20 June.... The overall scenario: Nearly everybody boards Atagonia Airways 314i, a blimp.…
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Participants: JamesSterrett, LordSmerf.

7/1/2004 Dev: [IGC:Dance & Dawn] First Playtest!
I playtested the Dance and the Dawn, finally! (It's short-form finite RPG about waltzing and fairy-tales and stuff. See also: original IGC post, prettier PDF version.) Quirks We were in…
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Participants: Dev, Ben Lehman.

7/2/2004 Henri: [Demon Cops] Session II
Last night we had our second session of Demon Cops, and everyone had a good time. I think my telling of the previous session must have been lame, so I'll…
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Participants: Henri.

7/4/2004 Jinx: [InSpectres] Space Cadets! Episode 1
So, we played our first session of Space Cadets! yesterday. I think it went well, given that nobody (including myself) was familiar with the InSpectres system or, in fact, anything…
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Participants: Jinx, Dev.

7/6/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Bibliophage Seven: Whiteout
We had our seventh session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer story Friday night. The whole thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was an interesting, but kind of…
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Participants: Doyce, Rob Carriere, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

7/7/2004 Tim C Koppang: Sorcerer "Boot Camp" Applied (MLWM & DD)
[i]Note: I actually wrote most of this last week, but 4th of July plans postponed my posting until today. Since, I've run another very powerful Dust Devils session--last night in…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Yokiboy, Matt Snyder.

7/7/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Seeking a Shrine
This post was originally intended to cover my two last games, and the difference between the two. This would however take up too much space and seeing as I am…
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Participants: Negilent.

7/8/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 3
Session 3 A good session, but a little short, again. Universalis takes a lot out of a person. We started the game by talking about it a little bit, and…
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Participants: CPXB, Mike Holmes.

7/8/2004 Zak Arntson: [Shadows] A Noise at the Cabin
I spent the Fourth of July holiday with some family, so I figured I'd play some Shadows. Since we didn't have much time, I skipped the actual Shadow generation part.…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Paganini, Andrew Martin.

7/9/2004 Emily Care: [breaking the ice]Teahouse, bondage and cows, oh my!
Hello all, Tom (bluegargantua) was kind enough to help me do some playtest for Breaking the Ice this week. You may recall Vincent's post a ways back about Lines, Veils…
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Participants: Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, bluegargantua, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg.

7/11/2004 Bill C. Cook: [Sorcerer] First Campaign IV of IV
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11031&highlight=]Session I[/url]. [url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11330&highlight=]Session II[/url]. [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11533&highlight=sorcerer+campaign]Session III[/url]. I should explain: I updated the e-mail in my bcook1971 profile and am unable to log in. I sent a number of requests to…
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Participants: Bill C. Cook, Ron Edwards, Ingenious.

7/12/2004 Dumirik: [Scarlet Wake] A couple of sessions... [long]
This is the same post that I made at the Scarlet Wake playtest forum, and it focusses mostly on the issues that we had and how to fix them, but…
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Participants: Dumirik.

7/12/2004 Tobias: [Your Gods are Dead] First session - Murder at the Inn
Ran the first-ever session of YGAD with my fresh new playgroup yesterday. Quick overview of the dramatis personae: Ciska playing Dalena - 15yr old girl grown up on a 1870…
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Participants: Tobias, Jasper.

7/12/2004 ethan_greer: D&D and the Strategy Guide concept
So, after a couple of months hiatus, my biweekly D&D group got together on Saturday. We're going through the Adventure Path modules and are currently tackling Lord of the Iron…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Ben Lehman, NN, ErrathofKosh, b_bankhead, Bankuei, Bill C. Cook, Ron Edwards, Grover, Mike Holmes, Sean, DannyK, Halzebier, Noon, Vaxalon, hanschristianandersen, epweissengruber, inky.

7/12/2004 Bankuei: Trollbabe and Mythos
Hi folks, My roommate and I have been alternating between GMing and playing one on one Trollbabe for a while now. Both of us have been reading Nameless Cults, a…
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Participants: Bankuei.

7/15/2004 marcus: Reports of Two Contrasting Games: MLWM and Donjon
Over the last 9 months, I have acquired a variety of the games that are promoted and discussed through the Forge Forums. I thought, at first, that I might deal…
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Participants: marcus, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, JamesSterrett, Paul Czege, Rich Forest.

7/15/2004 beingfrank: Trying to resolve different aims, or at least coexist
This is not exactly an example of actual play, but it's an example of actual discussion between roleplayers about game issues. It's come about from a discussion between my GM…
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Participants: beingfrank, Emily Care, Jaik, Paul Watson, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Loki, Valamir, Noon.

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