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In Actual Play 9/13/2004 ffilz: How to recruit players
Well, here I am back again...
A couple weeks of thought, campaign prep, and "character creation session" and I've reached the conclusion that I really don't have a gaming group.…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, jdagna, Christopher Weeks, Vaxalon, mindwanders, Madeline, Ron Edwards.
9/12/2004 arxhon: [D&D 3.5] World's Largest Dungeon: "Gamism lite&quo
I am in a group of 4 people, including the GM, and we're playing through the World's Largest Dungeon from AEG. This isn't going to be a critique of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: arxhon, greedo1379.
9/12/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Skater X and letting go
Had an impromptu playtest last night, which meant I had about five minutes to prepare villains and plot. Turns out not to have mattered much.
Two players, Danny and Seth.…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Bill_White.
9/12/2004 LordSmerf: [Universalis] Short, sweet, and what's the point?
So Friday evening, as we were waiting for the rest of the group to show up, two of us played a game of Universalis. It was a rather interesting game…
In Actual Play
Participants: LordSmerf, Valamir, Tony Irwin, Mulciber.
9/12/2004 Ron Edwards: [Code of Unaris] Don't miss this one
Hello,
I met Gary Pratt at GenCon, and it's kind of an amusing story if you know me. Julie (jrs) and I were waiting for the doors to open at…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, GaryTP, Trevis Martin, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Noon, Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Andy Kitkowski.
9/12/2004 Jeph: "Why d20 Modern Kicks Ass" and other stories
So today I went over to Peter's to play D&D. Peter is my old time gaming buddy--since 6th grade 4 years ago we've puzzled through and played rpgs together. In…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeph, jeffwik, hix, Aman the Rejected.
9/10/2004 Bankuei: Crescent Skies (D&D 3.5, Drift to Nar)
Hi folks,
I recently ran the first of (hopefully) a continuing series of D&D 3.5 games, with some serious System Drifts to support Nar play. Without going into all the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, StalkingBlue.
9/10/2004 stingray20166: [Elfs] Just a short bit
With all of the great advice Ron was giving me on this thread:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12577
I thought I at least owed an Actual Play post even though things didn’t go quite…
In Actual Play
Participants: stingray20166, Ron Edwards.
9/10/2004 Ron Edwards: [Burning Wheel] Bat-things, Spite, love, and God
Hello,
Continuing from Bad-ass elves in action, we played our second session! I was pretty well-loaded for this one, in terms of numerical prep.
The bad news from…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, abzu, Paka, jrs, Bob Goat.
9/10/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Rocking Mu's Bed, Finale with Paula and Robert
[u][b]Out of Game[/b][/u]
Getting together to make up Kickers is a nice little half-session activity that I find is best done over lunch or dinner.
We're gearing up for the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.
9/10/2004 Dr. Velocity: Running a Forum-Based RPG
I've done this before, long ago, and asked for help from some of you helpful folks, because of a couple of problems I was having, mostly with one player who…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dr. Velocity, TonyLB, Lxndr, DannyK, greedo1379.
9/9/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Liars, Swords & Money: Part 3
Hey,
So a day early and a dollar short we concluded our little story arc. On a whole it was a successful enterprise and the Players enjoyed themselves. We also…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.
9/7/2004 ffilz: Crisis of faith in what I'm doing to prep for my campaign
So after spending a long weekend preparing for my Fudge Tekumel campaign, I've having a crisis of faith. I'm feeling like I'm doing the wrong thing.
I'm not even sure…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Alan, jdagna.
9/7/2004 Michael S. Miller: [DitV] Sins of BoxElder Canyon
It was Labor Day, and a gamer friend of ours had come over for the afternoon. We were discussing the merits of Puerto RIco versus Cities & Knights of Catan…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, lumpley, Paka, Emily Care.
9/7/2004 TonyLB: [Amber] The Trap of Self-Sufficiency
The ongoing, possibly-doomed, experiment in Amber Narrativism continues!
When last we joined our persistent playing group, they had finally sidestepped the tangled ways in which the game mechanic itself undercuts…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, inthisstyle, Vaxalon, Blankshield, Grover, Marco, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol, jdagna.
9/7/2004 sirogit: What have you done with incoherent games?
Its a fairly common claim to say that incoherent games are popular because of their incoherency, that it allows the game to be whatever the players of it desire.
I…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit, Mark D. Eddy, Frank T, Marco, Ron Edwards, contracycle.
9/4/2004 Marco: [JAGS] After The War
A GM I like came down for the weekend and we agreed to run a two or three day game using most of the available time (dawn-through-dusk).Here are the results:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Marco, JamesSterrett, Tobias, Ron Edwards, AlHazred.
9/3/2004 Lee Short: The Reformation in Surt
Thinking about The Azeel Campaign and some others like it that I've run, brought to mind the following campaign. I picked this example because I can very vividly remember…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lee Short, Ron Edwards, DannyK, John Kim.
9/3/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Liars, Swords & Money: Part 2 (L
Hey,
So with GenCon and RPG burnout because of it, we finally got around to playing Part 2 of Liars, Swords & Money. It was all about choices and how…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.
9/3/2004 Dr. Velocity: My 21 Hour D&D Session Summary
If this is in the wrong place, I apologize, but it is an actual play summary.
Aug 31, 2004
"Tabletop" Role-Playing Games. Yes, some of my friends actually got the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dr. Velocity, Tobias, rafial, Ron Edwards, Noon, Eric Minton.
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In Actual Play 9/14/2004 Bob Goat: Two Games, One Story
Hey,
My group and I are about to embark on a little experiment. We are playing one game of Conspiracy of Shadows face to face and we are about to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob Goat, abzu, Valamir, ffilz.
9/15/2004 Paka: BW - The Sorcerer is Dead, Now What?
I'm going to run this one-shot twice, once on Friday and once again on Tuesday with two different groups and pre-made characters.
Here's the concept, then the characters and then…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka.
9/16/2004 Paka: 3 BW Games in 5 Days
Agent BW517-MB108 reporting for duty.
Friday night I will run a game with pre-made characters, my girlfriend, an old buddy who was manager at a gaming store I worked at…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, bcook1971, taepoong, rafial.
9/17/2004 Nathan P.: [Scarlet Wake] ...and Wacky Hijinks Ensued
Warning: fairly long post. This one's going to be a synopsis, with a second post for analysis.
So Scarlet Wake has been…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., Ron Edwards, Ravien.
9/17/2004 ffilz: [RuneQuest] a demo session
Earlier this summer I ran a RuneQuest demo session for two of my players to give them the opportunity to weigh in on their interest. I felt this session went…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards.
9/18/2004 ffilz: [Fudge] why I am reluctant to be a player
Sugar and spice, I thought I'd relate a bad gaming experience also.
One of my players invited our gaming group to a Fudge playtest session with here room mates. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, clehrich, jdagna, Ron Edwards, Marco.
9/18/2004 matthijs: [Improvised game] Drug kids on the moon
Improvised game run at Arcon
This is written from memory, which in my case means it’s full of great big holes and errors. Still...
Gaute, Haakon and I have a…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, HOT, Noon.
9/19/2004 jdagna: In search of a satisfying ending...
There's a general issue here as well as some actual play, so I'll start with the play example first.
My regular group has been taking a break from Pax Draconis…
In Actual Play
Participants: jdagna, komradebob, Ron Edwards.
9/20/2004 Tobias: [YGAD/Universalis] Actual play causes YGAD delay... :)
Yesterday we played a game of Universalis as an intermezzo between normal YGAD sessions.
The reason: we were getting a new player (K), and we wanted to 'level' the playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tobias, Valamir.
9/20/2004 ErrathofKosh: [Star Wars] The Day my Style Changed....
My reason for posting this session of play is that I am curious to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. So here goes...
The Players
Brian, Dave,…
In Actual Play
Participants: ErrathofKosh, bcook1971.
9/21/2004 hanschristianandersen: [The Pool] A very satisfying first attempt.
(This is my "First attempt at The Pool post". There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
A few months ago, I was back in California visiting with…
In Actual Play
Participants: hanschristianandersen, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Paka, Caynreth.
9/21/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] "Outrun the pain"
Greatest in-character line (by far, IMHO) of a very satisfying game of IRC Capes last night.
Anyone who is convinced that giving players narrative authority will lead to them favoring…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf.
9/21/2004 inthisstyle: [Fading Suns d10] Smell the Dysfunction
The game was a White Wolf rules (d10 dice pools) Fading Suns game. I had been asked to sit in by the running GM, mostly because he knew his group…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, Ron Edwards, DannyK, greedo1379, Madeline, Marco, Roger, contracycle.
9/22/2004 Lisa Padol: MLWM First Session: Are We Doing This Right?
Apologies if this ought to be on the MLWM forum -- I didn't want to cross post, and it seemed closest to Actual Play.
My Life With Master Attempt, First…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, timfire, Doyce, Sydney Freedberg, Erik Hanson, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.
9/22/2004 Jere: [Age of Paranoia] Moving to 1974
For my Age of Paranoia game (see here and here and here) we’ve recently jumped ahead in time 3 years from May 1971 to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jere.
9/22/2004 lumpley: [kpfs] I was Rude to my Customers (graphic)
The conversation about safewords reminded me of this story.
Here's some safeword-relevant context: I've run like a million demos of kill puppies for satan. What I do when I run…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, ErrathofKosh, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, abzu, Noon.
9/24/2004 Paka: So now I work in an elementary school after-school program
I am working part-time in an elementary after-school program with kindergartners through fifth graders. There are a few fifth grade boys who do what they call playing D&D. Essentially, this…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Walt Freitag, abzu, RobNJ, Noon, eef, Manicrack, StalkingBlue, greyorm, Sean, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, komradebob, WhiteRat, ErrathofKosh, Ron Edwards, ffilz.
9/24/2004 Paka: [Monkeywrench] Solo Space Monkey
Today I ran a 4th grader on my maiden run of Zak Arnston's Monkeywrench.
On Friday the kids are allowed to bring in their Gameboys. A gaggle of usually imaginative,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat, Noon, Zak Arntson.
9/27/2004 John Kim: [My Life With Master] Roszakabad
OK, I recently played the second and final session of a MLWM game. The Master was Dr. Charlus, French/German physician and natural philosopher. He runs a sanitorium in this remote…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Paul Czege, Valamir.
9/27/2004 hyphz: Abuse of the need to have fun
We've been playing D&D (hey, I don't pick 'em) on and off a bit now with several different DMs, but we've just switched back to the DM who was originally…
In Actual Play
Participants: hyphz, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, clehrich, John Kim, Noon, jdagna, Precious Villain, beingfrank, DannyK, StalkingBlue, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, S'mon, Vaxalon, NN.
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