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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.

8/21/2004 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 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.

8/20/2004 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.

8/20/2004 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.

8/19/2004 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.

8/18/2004 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.

8/17/2004 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.

8/9/2004 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.

8/9/2004 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 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 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.

8/7/2004 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.

8/6/2004 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.

8/5/2004 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.

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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.

8/25/2004 Paka: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Eden's Prophet
This game ambushed me at Gen Con and this Thursday I'll get to play it. A gaming buddy from ye olde D&D game is visiting and so we're getting together…
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Participants: Paka, lumpley, bluegargantua, Manicrack, Grover, nikola, DannyK.

8/27/2004 lumpley: Prime Time Adventures: Moose in the City
I've been telling and telling this story. Usually I save it for the end of my GenCon story telling because it's so good. I guess I'm going to lead with…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Matt Wilson, Calder_Johnson, anonymouse, Caldis, Gordon C. Landis, b_bankhead, Meguey, John Harper, Mike Holmes, nikola, Lisa Padol.

8/27/2004 ffilz: How to describe my play style
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this...If it isn't and a moderator wants to move it, or whatever, please feel free to do so... I've been…
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Participants: ffilz, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, Sean.

8/27/2004 hix: Metal Opera: A One Night Band
We played Metal Opera three weeks ago as a fill-in one shot game while a player was away. Thanks to everyone for their help in this thread. The group decided…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2004 hix: The Pool: Capes vs. Tentacles
Finally after 2 years, I get round to running the Pool. We played Paganini style (see this thread): a group designed setting and each player providing kickers. Quick decision to…
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Participants: hix, DannyK, Trevis Martin.

8/28/2004 lumpley: [kpfs] A Startling Postscript
It's Friday, maybe, toward the end of the GenCon day. I'm standing around the booth not being too useful, and this guy comes up to me. He shakes my hand,…
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Participants: lumpley.

8/29/2004 bluegargantua: Breaking the Ice -- Double Dating in the Dome [LONG]
Hey, I can speak without fear of contradiction when I say that Friday night I participated in the weirdest game of Breaking the ice ever. Bryant, you're very sorry you…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Jere, Emily Care.

8/29/2004 Tobias: [Universalis] - Finally, a first session...
Unexpectedly, I finally got to run my first game of Uni yesterday. It was my birthday, some people were over, and we had somewhere between one and two hours to…
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Participants: Tobias, ScottM, Valamir.

8/29/2004 LordSmerf: [D&D 3.5] Looking back and seeing yourself behind you
So, with school and work it has been more and more difficult to make time to play around my area with the regular group. I ended up looking up the…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Tobias, Vaxalon, ffilz, Alan, Doug Ruff, eef, Ian O'Rourke.

8/30/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Breaking the Fellowship
This summer social commitents and work kept my game shedule at an all time low. Then this game happened and it was at first to painful to post, I threw…
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Participants: Negilent, abzu, Ron Edwards, stingray20166.

8/30/2004 TheLHF: Writing the end game. Or: How do you write a good ending?
I've been struggling for a bit now with question for writing a good end for games I GM. If you're playing a clasic dungeon crawl, do you end the game…
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Participants: TheLHF, Paka, jdagna, DannyK, Jasper, S'mon, Negilent, StalkingBlue, Bob Goat.

8/31/2004 Mikko Lehtinen: Playing Trollbabe and missing Kicker
Hello. I will be gamemastering Trollbabe sometime in the near future with a new group. There will be two or three other players, and I will probably be the only…
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Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, Ron Edwards.

8/31/2004 plosiguant: [Universalis] They Only Come out at night (part 2)
We started off a bit later than last time, but the following things happened... The whole session pretty much consisted of a single scene. We added the following tenets: We…
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Participants: plosiguant, Mike Holmes.

9/1/2004 Lee Short: The Azeel Campaign
In this thread, Ron said M.J., when your "decentralized Simulationist" play does acquire theme through the decisions of the people involved, then it's Narrativist play. I've got…
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Participants: Lee Short, Ron Edwards, Marco, Sydney Freedberg.

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