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10/5/2004 Vaxalon: [Nobilis] "So, did everyone have fun?"
One of the basic mechanics of Nobilis is that at the end of every play session, the Familia (associated PC's) get a Dynasty Point (or DP, generic do-anything divine energy)…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Scripty, DannyK, suffusionofyellow, Shreyas Sampat.

10/5/2004 pfischer: [DitV] Three Dogs in Three Mills
I shouted out an offer to run a DitV game to my local area, which is basically a group of roleplayers playing at public places every Saturday and a group…
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Participants: pfischer, mindwanders, lumpley.

10/4/2004 mindwanders: Establishing social contract from invite onwards
After my last attempt at a campaign had some social contract issues, I started looking at possible ways to establish the social contract with people as early as possible. The…
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Participants: mindwanders, Ron Edwards, clehrich, ffilz, Jere, jdagna, aganauton.

10/3/2004 lumpley: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology
Cyrus Dunn is walking among corpses. We see his shoes in black and white. As he steps between the corpses they're black and white too - except that on every…
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Participants: lumpley, Matt Wilson, Nazzi, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Valamir, Emily Care, Paul Czege, hanschristianandersen, Meguey, dunlaing.

10/3/2004 TonyLB: Earliest I've ever had conflict in a game
Danny's running a short game set in the Stargate: SG-1 universe, a month from now. He's recruited me and a bunch of the folks who play in another game I…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ravien, Matt Wilson, clehrich, hanschristianandersen, Noon, Alan.

10/3/2004 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] 1st day in July 4 week of play.
Hullo – I have been posting here at the Forge for about a year. After much strenuous encouragement I have decided to post a portion of a play session. I’m…
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Participants: Silmenume, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Walt Freitag, joshua neff, clehrich, ErrathofKosh, hanschristianandersen, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, ffilz.

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…
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Participants: Coleslaw.

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…
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Participants: ejh, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

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…
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Participants: TonyLB, bcook1971, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon.

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…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf.

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…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Noon.

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…
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Participants: Tim Mahan, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei, Ravien, Adorame, Paganini.

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…
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Participants: hanschristianandersen, Doyce, lumpley, Vaxalon, Jonathan Walton.

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…
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Participants: hyphz, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, clehrich, John Kim, Noon, jdagna, Precious Villain, beingfrank, DannyK, StalkingBlue, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, S'mon, Vaxalon, NN.

9/27/2004 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…
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Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Paul Czege, Valamir.

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,…
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Participants: Paka, Bob Goat, Noon, Zak Arntson.

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…
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Participants: Paka, Walt Freitag, abzu, RobNJ, Noon, eef, Manicrack, StalkingBlue, greyorm, Sean, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, komradebob, WhiteRat, ErrathofKosh, Ron Edwards, ffilz.

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…
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Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, ErrathofKosh, clehrich, Rob MacDougall, beingfrank, Ron Edwards, abzu, Noon.

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…
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Participants: Jere.

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…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, timfire, Doyce, Sydney Freedberg, Erik Hanson, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

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10/6/2004 Tony Irwin: Shoujo Story: Actual Play
[i][b]Background[/b] [url=http://apricot-ink.co.uk]Shoujo Story[/url] is a playing card based roleplaying game centred on the world of shoujo manga and anime. The game's influences include [url=http://universalis.actionroll.com/]Universalis[/url] for Gm responsibilties flowing back and…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, TonyLB.

10/6/2004 jeffd: Shooting Stars 10/2/04: successful play!
I've posted about this game before, mainly about the dysfunction I've encountered in it. Namely here and then again here Briefly: Shooting Stars is an RPG premised around a sci-fi…
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Participants: jeffd.

10/6/2004 scidhuv: RPG World Online
Hey all, just thought I would quickly mention an RPG game I have played a lot recently - its free to play, its made in Visual Basic. Graphics are 2d,…
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Participants: scidhuv, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards.

10/7/2004 Thelenius: [Universalis] Introductory game
I recently hosted a introductory game of Universalis in order to get people in our University role playing club to know the game and find players who would be interested…
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Participants: Thelenius, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/7/2004 ffilz: Marathon Play
Over in this thread LordSmurf asked about others experiences with marathon play. My most vidid marathon play example was back in college in a Cold Iron (home brew system…
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Participants: ffilz, C. Edwards, TonyLB, b_bankhead, Rob Carriere, nellist, Marco, jdagna, ErrathofKosh, bcook1971, beingfrank.

10/8/2004 stingray20166: [Sorcerer] First Session -- unnamed as yet
Finally got to try Sorcerer! I've been trying to set this game up since March and various issues kept interfering. In a way this was good because it gave me…
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Participants: stingray20166, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards.

10/8/2004 Marco: My character wouldn't do that!
Once upon a time we all made fantasy characters. I made a paladin. This guy had (it was Fantasy Hero) a powerful forcefield (so he could be all cool in…
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Participants: Marco, TonyLB, jdagna, Eero Tuovinen, Lee Short, ffilz, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

10/8/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Rough Justice #4 - Unmasked!
For those who have been following our adventure in Rough Justice, the most recent (and final) session can be found here (In Character) and here (Out of Character). One interesting…
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Participants: LordSmerf.

10/9/2004 bluegargantua: [DitV] One-on-One Session
Hi, So I had a Friday night free and decided to play me some Dogs. Only my friend Lucas was free. So we just did a one-on-one session. So here's…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Rob MacDougall.

10/10/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] First session tomorrow morning
Hiya all. I've just gotten finished working out the basics of my first town for Dogs, and I'd love it if I could get any feedback before our first session…
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Participants: Technocrat13, lumpley, Meguey, humis.

9/25/2004 greyorm: [Code of Unaris] More about chat as medium
[quote="GaryTP"]From what I've found, most diehard tabletoppers tend to think of chat as a loose form of roleplay that they'll only touch if all other game choices are unavailable. Mostly,…
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Participants: greyorm, GaryTP.

10/11/2004 jrs: [The Mountain Witch] A playtest
We've played three sessions of the Mountain Witch and it seems appropriate to present a write-up of the action so far. The players are Ron (GM), Tim (the creator), Tod,…
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Participants: jrs, Ron Edwards, timfire, Christopher Kubasik, Maura Byrne.

10/12/2004 John Kim: Medicinal Soap
So I played Soap for the first time a few weeks ago, with my friends Bill, Russell, and Liz. We decided on a show about a teaching hospital, where the…
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Participants: John Kim.

10/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC - Initiations
Okay, I'm going to post the entire transcipt online (for Vincent and people who like reading all the Peanut Gallery comments), but here's the quick-and-dirty version of the first session…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, beingfrank, lumpley, ScottM, Ben Lehman, DannyK.

10/12/2004 alexandria2000: Hi, I'm A2K, and I'm a 'turtle'.
Hi. Long time lurker, and I don't think I've ever posted. I'm better known over on RPGnet. But an old thread here in Actual Play slapped me in the face…
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Participants: alexandria2000, Alan, Doug Ruff, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, Marco, jdagna, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Kubasik, Matt Snyder, Precious Villain, bcook1971, apparition13, hyphz, John Burdick, dyjoots, DannyK.

10/12/2004 Paul Czege: pta: fan mail fixes dysfunctional narrativism
It's the second scene of our game. Matt Gwinn's Russian defector to the American space program just lost a dice roll against the Producer. And we all know that means…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, nikola.

10/12/2004 Paul's Girl: PTA: On the Shoulders of Giants
Last night we played our pilot episode of our PTA game, On the Shoulders of Giants. The premise is mid 60s Space Race, after JFK and before 1st man on…
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Participants: Paul's Girl, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Matt Wilson.

10/12/2004 Matt Snyder: [HeroQuest] Fields of Freedom
[b]Note:[/b] This first [i]long[/i] post discusses HeroQuest in general, but "Fields of Freedom" not at all. Rather, it focuses on my group's makeup, our recent gaming history, and a profile…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, The GM, Asaraludu, Mark D. Eddy, nellist, TonyLB, inky, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Flash.

10/13/2004 bcook1971: [Traveller] Vargar Hijinx
We played our last session of the campaign. The first two sessions were two-parters. The third wrapped up antecedents of the main story arc and in the last third, plotted…
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Participants: bcook1971.

10/13/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] The City's Demons and the Wild's Untamed Spirits
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=139350#139350 The above link is the thread in which this setting was created and fleshed out. Jeff, JJ and I have been running one shots in various systems and Jeff…
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Participants: Paka.

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