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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.

7/22/2004 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.

7/21/2004 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.

7/21/2004 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.

7/20/2004 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.

7/20/2004 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.

7/19/2004 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.

7/18/2004 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.

7/17/2004 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.

7/16/2004 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.

7/16/2004 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 VisionaryEntertainment: Soothsaying II (split)
[quote="John"] I find Bonewits to be tiresome and not terribly worth reading. I wish there was more useful reading on this topic. The oddest thing I've ever seen relating anything…
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Participants: VisionaryEntertainment, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

8/3/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Experiment Seems a Success
Hi, I decided a few months ago to try a new approach to running a game and so far it has been successful. In the past my regular groups games…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

8/3/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Bibliophage Eight: Final Negotiations
So, Friday the 30th was the last session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer campaign. There was gunplay. There were demons. Candelabras were swung in anger. Some people even used naughty words.…
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Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII.

8/4/2004 Vaxalon: Game logs?
Is it okay to post IRC game logs here?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Valamir, Paganini, b_bankhead.

8/4/2004 Vaxalon: Trollbabe Post-apocalyptic game log (long)
This session had just one player. Interestingly enough, the dice only got rolled once, when X'hara was trying to convince the humans to allow her to carry the child. Session…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Marco, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee.

8/5/2004 johnmarron: [The Puddle] Middle Earth game and rules questions
I was going to make an actual play post about the Middle Earth Puddle game I'm running at the moment, but one of the players (Chris - CPXB here) made…
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Participants: johnmarron, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, CPXB, Cassidy, Sean, MarcoBrucale, Mike Holmes.

8/6/2004 Ron Edwards: [RuneQuest: Slayers] Skulls, blood, other body fluids
Hello, Jake Norwood and I got some chances for role-playing together last week, which included my long-awaited try with RuneQuest: Slayers. BACKGROUND For those who don't know the history, the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, ErrathofKosh, Sean, John Burdick, Ben Lehman, Noon, ADGBoss.

8/7/2004 tk421: Pulp Donjon Actual Play- The Dark Hunger Castle
(This is a cross-post from a thread I started on RPG.net. Just thought I'd share the love and get this info to a forum dedicated to this sort of thing.)…
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Participants: tk421, Ron Edwards, aplath, Zak Arntson.

8/9/2004 Morrius: Your experiences with Story Engine?
A while back I tried running a l'il homebrewed setting using the late Hubris Games Story Engine. I found it to be a bit of a mixed bag. My group…
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Participants: Morrius, Tim C Koppang, bcook1971, Ron Edwards.

8/9/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dramatic Drama II (split)
[quote="Emily Care"]From my experiences in this game, I think it would probably be easier to integrate someone else into the negotiation of events than one might think: it's actually pretty…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

8/9/2004 Sean: The Grognard Speaks: System and Step on Up in OD&D
There was something I really loved about 'old school' D&D that I think I just got a little clearer on. This may not make much sense to you if you…
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Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards, ErrathofKosh, rafial, Noon, kenjib, efindel.

8/9/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Dog Day Afternoon
Hi, So Thursday last night we ran through Episode 003, Dog Day Afternoon, of Season One of Conspiracy of Shadows. You can read about the Episodes and the Pilot that…
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Participants: Bob Goat.

8/17/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Running Before the Storm
This weekend saw a good showing for Indie RPG's at Dragonflight, the annual Seattle based gaming convention. For my part, I ran a four hour (well, closer to five as…
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Participants: rafial, abzu, taepoong, s3kt0r, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, eef, John Harper.

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