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7/16/2004 Grex: Multi-GM Trollbabe possible!
(this post is written more or less stream-of-consciousness just after a great game, so there's bound to be plenty of splelng erors and grammar mistakes -- please bear with me)…
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Participants: Grex.

7/15/2004 Bailywolf: [TROLLBABE] Lillian and the Sacred Peaches
I ran Trollbabe last night for my wife while the Challah baked in the oven. She is pretty much a non-gamer who rarely ‘gets’ the experience, but I thought Trollbabe…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

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.

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.

7/12/2004 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.

7/12/2004 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 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 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.

7/11/2004 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.

7/9/2004 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.

7/8/2004 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.

7/8/2004 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.

7/7/2004 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.

7/7/2004 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.

7/6/2004 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.

7/4/2004 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.

7/2/2004 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.

7/1/2004 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.

7/1/2004 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 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.

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7/16/2004 Loki: help with group apathy
Hey all, I hope this is the correct forum for this post. I'm having a problem with apathy in my game group, and I'm really not sure how to deal…
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Participants: Loki, Ron Edwards, Noon, jdagna.

7/16/2004 greyorm: Thank God for NPCs: More Frickin' 3E
Alright, after numerous starts and stops due to players missing, leading to cancellations, we've finally gotten through what should (I swear) have been a one or (at most) two session…
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Participants: greyorm, John Kim, Noon.

7/17/2004 Yokiboy: Playing NAR for the First Time
Hello, I am about to try a NAR campaign for the very first time, Sorcerer specifically. What suggestions do you have for me, of things I must keep in mind?…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Trevis Martin, JamesDJIII.

7/18/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Danger from the Shadows
So we played Capes tonight. I had a lot of fun, especially considering its half-finished state. A little background: We had three players with me as the GM. We've all…
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Participants: LordSmerf, TonyLB.

7/19/2004 Tobias: [YGAD]2nd session - Fear, Loathing, Leaving the Healing Pool
Ran the second session of YGAD yesterday. Had to cut it after four hours due to headache/sleepiness of one of the players. That's a second time this has happened. There…
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Participants: Tobias.

7/20/2004 Eric J.: Character Points and Conservativism
I think I'm having some system troubles for a change. As you may or may not know, I'm still GMing a Star Wars D6 game for me and my friends…
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Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, ErrathofKosh, Clinton R. Nixon, John Kim, Valamir.

7/20/2004 Marco: Weekend Game Analysis [LONG]
This is a description of a game I ran this past weekend (using a point-based Simulationst system similar to GURPS)--since I'm heading back to the UK for 3wks, I'd told…
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Participants: Marco, John Kim.

7/21/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Playtest
[ WARNING: Long Post! ] I ran Capes for the first time tonight. What a strange, strange experience to see the game in action, after having tinkered so much. It's…
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Participants: TonyLB.

7/21/2004 Lisa Padol: Jamais Vu, Take Two
Oy. Haven't been keeping up with reading, much less writing, between work and prepping for JV, the re-run, at Dexcon. It went astonishingly well, considering we had 8 players for…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Helvetian.

7/22/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 4
Unfortunately, Lyz dropped out of the game. She didn't actually tell me this, but passed along the information through another player, hehe. Because I haven't spoken to her – and…
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Participants: CPXB, Mike Holmes.

7/22/2004 Andy Kitkowski: 'Scandanavian Gaming Culture' ???
Hey all- I noticed that in the Diana Jones award shortlist was listed "Scandanavian Gamer Culture" or something to that extent. I came upon two more references to the Scandanavians…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Tim C Koppang, Merten, DongMaster, newsalor, Eamon, CPXB, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action 5
Session 5 This was mostly a continuation from Wednesday's shortened session. IMO, it went really well and we got a lot of things done, not so much in game but…
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Participants: CPXB.

7/27/2004 Valamir: Motocaust: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Had an opportunity to play some Motocaust this weekend with some other assorted Forgites. They may well chime in with some of their own view points. THE GOOD With somewhat…
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Participants: Valamir, montag, Jake Norwood, philreed, Ron Edwards, jrs, Jasper.

7/27/2004 ADGBoss: D&D3.5: Eberron Setting First Session: Info Dump
I am going to cover a wide range of ground here, some history, some conjecture, and obviously some actual play. I am going to try and stay professional and intend…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, Marco, NN.

7/29/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] IRC playtest, 1st scene
For the last month or so I've been trying to run a playtest of the Mountain Witch over IRC with the indie-netgaming folks. Scheduling keeps being an issue, so sessions…
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Participants: timfire.

8/1/2004 Alan: Black Altar of Tramath
Hello, I'm preparing a con demo of the game Conan d20. The demo is intended for 4 players and a GM over a 4 hour period. I play tested it…
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Participants: Alan, Noon, rafial, screenmonkey, John Harper.

8/1/2004 bcook1971: [Traveller] I'm Just Here for the Celery
My group played its first session of our Traveller campaign. A few points are worth sharing. Jason (our GM) walked the first three players to arrive through the rules, with…
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Participants: bcook1971, rafial.

8/2/2004 Ben Lehman: [Riddle of Steel, Chorus] Scythe's Edge, session 1
Aka: Sometimes you have to make *sacrifices* to get what you want. That was a pun. *sigh* My players can stop reading this now, if they feel like it. It…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, rafial, Malechi, Jasper the Mimbo, Ron Edwards.

8/2/2004 Jack Aidley: Gaming with Minatures
I've always had something of a love/hate relationship with D&D and it's bastard spawn. There's something about it's primitive class/level system that leads to interesting games and constantly involved characters,…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, ErrathofKosh, Doyce, John Kim, S'mon, StalkingBlue.

8/2/2004 Frank T: [The Pool] What went wrong? (long)
Last weekend we met with a bunch of people from my German fantasy forum. Some of us wanted to try out The Pool and had a little session. We didn’t…
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Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, aplath, Paganini, Bob McNamee, CPXB, S'mon.

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