Previous Topics
In Actual Play 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.
9/17/2004 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.
9/17/2004 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.
9/16/2004 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.
9/15/2004 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.
9/14/2004 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.
9/14/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Conversation is combat
Had another Capes session tonight, this time over IRC. I've posted an in-character transcript and an interlaced transcript with both IC and OOC comments.
The experience of play itself was…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf.
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.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics
In Actual Play 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.
9/28/2004 hanschristianandersen: [DitV] "Goin' to war? On a Sunday???"
DitV turns out to be quite the crowd-pleaser.
The Big Thing that everyone latched onto was the ability to win a conflict without raising a hand against your opponent. Most…
In Actual Play
Participants: hanschristianandersen, Doyce, lumpley, Vaxalon, Jonathan Walton.
9/28/2004 Tim Mahan: First Sorcerer session - I should have known better.
A few months ago I ran a one-shot game of Sorcerer with the gaming club at my old college. Actually, I attempted to run a one-shot game but fell quite…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Mahan, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei, Ravien, Adorame, Paganini.
9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Getting whooped but good
Played Capes over IRC again on monday. I've posted a transcript again, mostly because it's easy.
Fun, unexpected session. Our heroes got trounced. Seriously, it is hard to describe the…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Noon.
9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Spandex Soap-opera
So I had the first session of my face-to-face Capes campaign last night. Some good stuff and some bad stuff.
The good stuff: Once characters were created, they quickly lined…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf.
10/1/2004 TonyLB: [TFOS] Years gone by....
I'm interested to see if there are insights that Forge-think can bring to roleplaying stories from (in this case) more than a decade ago. I've got several stories from a…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, bcook1971, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon.
10/2/2004 ejh: [Nine Worlds] The Jovian Candidate
Maxwell Chime was a menial functionary in an industrial nation on Earth, who was on the verge of being Enlightened by Prometheus, when Somebody kidnapped him. That Somebody brainwashed him…
In Actual Play
Participants: ejh, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.
10/3/2004 Coleslaw: My First Pool Session (Warning: Very, very long)
Hello, everyone. I finally got a bunch of my friends to try The Pool with me. After telling everyone a little about the game and having everyone read the very…
In Actual Play
Participants: Coleslaw.
more subsequent topics >> |