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1/14/2002 Ron Edwards: The Dying Earth: real pleasure and real pain
Hello, Well, I've started this thread about four times now and given it up each time. P'haps this one will do. You see, I am a Jack Vance fanatic. Not…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Laurel, Rod Anderson, Bankuei, Zak Arntson, Balbinus, Damocles, Uncle Dark, Blake Hutchins.

1/14/2002 AndyGuest: Relationship Maps and other fun stuff
(I think this should be under Actual Play, if not I apologise) I'm trying to put some stuff together for a game I'm planning on running for our group. The…
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Participants: AndyGuest, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/13/2002 Eric.Brennan: Secondary Characters
Hello all, after the wonderful advice I got for my Vampire game I've decided to come back for a second helping. I'm running a very fun Exalted game at the…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/13/2002 Bankuei: Game within a game
I just had a very interesting experience today running my D&D3E game today. Two of the players had playoffs in mind, one had just exposed me to Final Fantasy X,…
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Participants: Bankuei, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Joe Murphy (Broin), Matt Snyder, Marco.

1/10/2002 jburneko: Crayola Roleplay
Hello All, So, I've been thinking about the five basic elements of role-playing as Ron puts them: Character, Situation, System, Setting, and Color. And I've determined that I'm very good…
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Participants: jburneko, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon, Garbanzo, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

1/9/2002 Marco: A game over the holidays
This holiday I played in two excellent games. This is an analysis of the second. There were three kingdoms. This is the fourth. Mars is baren. Europa has huge,…
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Participants: Marco.

1/9/2002 Paul Czege: how we played Chalk Outlines
Hey Vincent, everyone The title is how we played Chalk Outlines because I want to allow the possibility that we did a disservice to the game, by playing the whole…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, hardcoremoose, lumpley, contracycle.

1/8/2002 J B Bell: Examples of Fortune-in-the-Middle?
Hello all, I've had one character-making session with my players for our spanking-new Sorcerer game, and it went really swimmingly. The players surprised me with their innovativeness, not to mention…
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Participants: J B Bell, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, contracycle.

1/4/2002 GreatWolf: Time to Ride the Train
I had a thought bouncing around in my head, which I thought I would share with all of you. This was actually prompted by a comment of Jesse's. That…
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Participants: GreatWolf, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

1/3/2002 Ben Morgan: Profiling, Part Two
Okay, here's a good one: What's the most influential game you've ever played? Or the two most? And in what way(s)? What game(s) were (or still are) most Important(tm) to…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, unodiablo, Mike Holmes, Marco, Laurel, Blake Hutchins.

12/28/2001 lumpley: My Firstest Ever Relationship Map Bears Fruit
So there I was and I wrote one new name on the map and drew two little lines and thereby created a rich, intense chapter of backstory full of sex,…
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Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes.

12/28/2001 Uncle Dark: Everway, Cult of Ron style (LONG)
I learned a lot about setting up and running games just by reading Ron's Sorcerer PDFs. Mind you, a lot of this learning consisted of finding a vocabulary for thinking…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Laurel.

12/27/2001 Bankuei: Campaign focus: Group vs. events
I was thinking about some of the ideas about gaming group dynamics. Particularly after reading one of the threads about Zombie movies being about the interaction of the characters, not…
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Participants: Bankuei, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

12/20/2001 Blake Hutchins: X-Games temporarily stalled
Hey all, I've had a few kind inquiries regarding the next X-Games update. Thanks for the interest and encouragement. I'd love to be posting, but unfortunately, my group's schedule and…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/17/2001 Matt Snyder: Rewarding story/plot threads
Here's a notion I thought I'd share with you all. A while ago, I posted a message about conducting a survey for my game group to better assess the reasons…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Osric, Uncle Dark.

12/17/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried Sorcerer, the Final Act
(this continues two earlier posts in Actual Play: Southern Fried Sorcerer, parts 1 and 2. There's also some system posts down in the Sorcerer forum). Southern Fried Sorcerer took 5…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/16/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Top 5 RPGs by Ron Edwards
Ron's entry into the Top 5 RPG's series has been submitted to Fandomlife.net. A different approach is taken again. The article can be found at http://www.fandomlife.net. On a side note,…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose.

12/14/2001 Eric.Brennan: Preparation Advice Sought
Hi, long-time lurker, first time poster. I’m starting a Vampire Revised game, with a small group of people (3) I normally don’t play with. My game-mastering experience in the last…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, Marco, Mike Holmes, erithromycin, Paul Czege, Ranko, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Tor Erickson.

12/12/2001 jburneko: Gamism In Action or Why I Hate Arts and Crafts
Hello All, First off, I'd like to state that this post is an account of my personal experiences as filtered through my personal biases. Nothing I am about to say…
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Participants: jburneko, Epoch, Garbanzo, Eric.Brennan, Ben Morgan.

12/11/2001 Tor Erickson: Observers to role-playing
Hi All, For three of our Sorcerer sessions so far we've had an outside observer sitting in. Other than the occasional comment they do just that: observe. What I'm finding…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, Paul Czege, gentrification, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Evan Torner, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Osric, Ron Edwards.

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1/20/2002 furashgf: Vampire's are Killing Me!
I found a great group of guys to game with locally, and, as usual, they picked the "best game they know of that doesn't suck" - VtM. As many others…
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Participants: furashgf, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, hardcoremoose, Bankuei, AndyGuest, Laurel, Uncle Dark, BPetroff93, Seth L. Blumberg, xiombarg, Epoch, contracycle.

1/22/2002 Tim Denee: My first con
I had my firstest ever con last weekend. It was also the first time I've had a chance to actually play in a year or so. And yesterday I got…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Ron Edwards.

1/23/2002 Ron Edwards: The Beast Released I
Hi there, So last night was Questing Beast night! I'm setting up two threads about it, one here about play and content, and another in the Random Order Creations forum…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West.

1/24/2002 Matt Snyder: Great session
This morning I shared with Ron a message about how my most recent RPG session was a great success for me, and he asked I share the experience, so here…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Marco, Valamir.

1/25/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): First fumbling steps
Yesterday, my 4 players and I had our first meeting to decide what game I'll be running for the next ~6 months. And lo, it was good. I do have…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), contracycle, AndrewDucker, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Manu, Paul Czege, Fabrice G., Tim Denee, Gordon, joshua neff, Ian O'Rourke, Valamir.

1/26/2002 Ian O'Rourke: What makes a good Kicker?
Well, the question above really - what makes a good kicker? I want to introduce the idea as part of character creation in my Adventure game.
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, Tim Denee, Valamir, Petter Sandelin, Blake Hutchins.

2/1/2002 wyrdlyng: Suggestions For Drawing Players Out
Synopsis: I play in a Sunday D&D game run by my wife and featuring my cousin, his girlfriend and another friend. The GF is new to roleplaying but shows great…
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Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, jburneko.

2/5/2002 hardcoremoose: Scene Framing and octaNe
There have been a couple requests for practical scene framing guidelines. I know some of this stuff has been hashed over before, but it seems like a good time to…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, James V. West, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim C Koppang, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, contracycle.

2/6/2002 jburneko: The Pitch In Action
So, last night my weekly Tuesday gaming group met. We were about 2/3 of the way through the last part of the Freeport Trillogy and were expected to finish the…
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Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/7/2002 Ron Edwards: Yet again, The Questing Beast
Hello, The campus group met again, and the two games being played were AD&D2 and Macross (using Palladium). But one cry went up in a pitiful chorus: "I didn't get…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Manu, James V. West.

2/8/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon 2002: Indie explosion
Each year, I think, "I should run some indie games at GenCon. Someone will show up." Each year, I end up with a few people who already like indie games…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Matt Gwinn, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, xiombarg.

2/13/2002 Ron Edwards: InSpectres again! grrl version
Hi there, So I ran some more InSpectres last night, which for me was the first time using v. 2.0. The session had some interesting features: the players were all…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/14/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Retrofitting
Hi. First time posting. Not being involved in the process of game design (except insofar as customizing a set of printed rules to fit the needs of a particular scenario…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, james_west.

2/15/2002 contracycle: Nothing
I'm posting this in actual play for lack of anywhere else; its just a topic that might be of interest to the world-builders and scene-designers and so forth, and becuase…
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Participants: contracycle, Mike Holmes, Marco.

2/16/2002 hyphz: Major retrospective: narrativism vs. clueless newbie
Well, I thought I'd post this in case anyone cares for some reason. It was the result of me trying to run what I (only now) realise is considered a…
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Participants: hyphz, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis.

2/16/2002 J B Bell: The Last Girl on Earth: a Sorcerer game
I have a somewhat similar problem to hyphz's, though hopefully less intense. I think most of this is due to being new to classically-Narrativist techniques and especially to sharing more…
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Participants: J B Bell.

2/16/2002 Matt Gwinn: True Villainie
I start my new D&D 3E campaign next weekend and I have a pretty interesting . The main nemesis for the campaign is the Cult of The Dragon which is…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Joe Murphy (Broin).

2/18/2002 Balbinus: Feedback on CoC game background sheet wanted
Hi there, I'm planning to give the following sheet to my players prior to chargen for my next Cthulhu game. Anyone notice anything which seems odd or obviously isn't covered?…
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

2/19/2002 Valamir: My Dungeon Krawl Session
Ok, got a chance to play some Donjon Krawl this weekend. Wasn't a very long session but it did confirm for me that this is definitely a game with a…
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Participants: Valamir, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/22/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Ever played SOAP? Reply here please!
Strange topic I imagine, but I need to know the names of all the people on the Forge over the last 1½ years who play(test)ed SOAP. I'm about ready to…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Dav, xiombarg.

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