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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.

8/4/2004 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.

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

8/3/2004 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.

8/3/2004 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.

8/2/2004 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.

8/2/2004 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 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.

8/1/2004 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.

8/1/2004 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.

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.

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.

7/27/2004 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.

7/25/2004 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.

7/22/2004 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.

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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.

8/18/2004 Zathreyel: [In Nomine Kitbash] Starting things off... really long post
Just in the interrest of putting this out there, i'm going to do a little write-up about the first session of a new campaign i'm running. It all started about…
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Participants: Zathreyel, b_bankhead, Ron Edwards.

8/19/2004 eef: Why I Play (long)
Who am I? In real life, I am very careful, planning, introverted, somewhat closed off. What would it be like if I was a person that took more risks? That…
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Participants: eef, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, bcook1971.

8/20/2004 Albert of Feh: [Burning Wheel] Troubled in Tokyo (longish)
Dear Forge, Last night was the second real session of my Burning Wheel game. Congrats, Luke, BW, has officially been run in Japan. A lot of things are going superlatively,…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, eef, Dev, Doug Ruff, rafial, taepoong.

8/20/2004 StalkingBlue: Turtle player - advice?
This quote from one of Ron Edwards's GNS articles made me shiver, it is so precisely a description of one of the players in my DnD Midnight game: "I have…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, TonyLB, hix, eef, bcook1971, Walt Freitag, Lee Short, dalek_of_god, Ron Edwards, JamesSterrett, S'mon, Jaik, andy, ffilz, DannyK.

8/21/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Class Struggle
So we played Capes again. We had fun, but things went much differently from last time. We took for our inspiration this game the Justice League International of the mid…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Jinx, Sydney Freedberg.

8/21/2004 mindwanders: [FATE] Orcs In Space!!! first session
Hi folks, I just thought I'd post up a few comments about the first session of my goblinoid spelljammer game that I'm running with the FATE system. I was running…
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Participants: mindwanders, iago, xiombarg.

8/21/2004 ks13: What makes a solid game demo/playtest session?
I am preparing to gather a small group of players to run a playtest of a game I have been designing. Because this will not be a regular gaming group…
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Participants: ks13, Zathreyel, jdagna, ffilz.

8/22/2004 bcook1971: [Traveller] Writing Myself into the Back-Story
I just had a euphoric gaming session. This continues from I'm Just Here for the Celery, and what a contrast! People were literally jumping up and down and clapping. Some…
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Participants: bcook1971, ScottM.

8/22/2004 plosiguant: [Universalis]They Only Come Out at Night 1 (Very Long)
Here is a transcript of the Universalis session I ran on Friday, I will post some of my thoughts about it a bit later, in another post. Players: Nenad Adam…
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Participants: plosiguant, kwill, Valamir.

8/23/2004 StalkingBlue: Write NPCs into a game - tools and techniques wanted
I've always liked to get player input in when I GM. I currently run a DnD Midnight game - hence a system that doesn't support plot input from players. This…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, Bogie_71, DannyK, aplath.

8/23/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Liars, Swords & Money: Part One
Hi, Before GenCon we played part one of this three Episode story. You can read about the Episodes that came before it here. This one layed the groundwork for the…
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Participants: Bob Goat.

8/24/2004 Darcy Burgess: Campaign Seed -- is this the place to post?
I'm working up a campaign for a Star Wars game (using The Riddle of Steel as a mechanic). I've posted over at the new RoS forum, but traffic is very…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards.

8/24/2004 Aman the Rejected: [D&D 3.5e] Changing GM styles met with resistance
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10095&highlight=]My group[/url] is a fairly gamist group. I recently began a second setting with them because I was tired of what I will call 'bad decision baggage'. Briefly, to describe,…
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Participants: Aman the Rejected, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, StalkingBlue, ADGBoss, Russell Impagliazzo, DannyK, Scripty, dalek_of_god.

8/25/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Mutants and Snitfits
I playtested Capes again last night. Details of how the rules worked out can be found in a much longer post here. What I found fascinating in terms of the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

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