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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.

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.

10/10/2004 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.

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.

10/8/2004 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.

10/8/2004 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 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.

10/7/2004 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.

10/7/2004 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.

10/6/2004 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.

10/6/2004 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 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 Noon: Player pitching the GM some nar?
This is a Rifts PBEM game but I don't believe the Rifts mechanics contributed to this. http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=1961&gn=Rifts:+Australian+Lightening&threadnum=11&date=1096994760 (Look for "You must also decide the fate of your captor." down the…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

10/13/2004 Tony Irwin: [Wonderful Imaginary] First play
I had a lot of fun playing Wonderful Imaginary on Monday night. Delisha had noticed it lying out in my living room and we ran through the world creation and…
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Participants: Tony Irwin.

10/14/2004 The_Confessor: [OctaNe] Art House Ideas...
So, after finally getting my grubby little paws on a copy of OctaNe, I've decided to run an Art House style game. Now, before I even got into the details…
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Participants: The_Confessor, xiombarg.

10/15/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] Beginning in Fresno
Dogs seems to be a game that blurs the line a bit between actual play and prep. Here's the chargen session from last Friday, up through the end of initiatory…
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Participants: ScottM, lumpley.

10/17/2004 ffilz: More Bad Play Experiences
I've been trying to think about some of the play experiences that have led to my mostly refusing to be a normal player instead of GMing. I'm not sure what…
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Participants: ffilz, Precious Villain, NN, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Noon.

10/17/2004 LordSmerf: [Primetime Adventure] Dharma Thieves - Hastalakala
So last night in IRC Ben Lehman asks: "What is the topic of conversation tonight?" Jonathan Walton responds with "None so far." so Ben asks "What do you want to…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, Jonathan Walton, C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, John Harper, Vaxalon.

10/18/2004 TonyLB: No-Myth junky cries out for help
As I look back over the patterns of games I have run, one thing leaps out at me. I don't prep story lines. At all. Now, I do prep. I…
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Participants: TonyLB, eef, anonymouse, Adrienne, Ron Edwards, inky, clehrich, dredd_funk, Valamir, jdagna, Walt Freitag, Cemendur, contracycle.

10/18/2004 Ravien: [Scarlet Wake] Endgame
So we've finished our first game of Scarlet Wake. All up it took 6 weekly sessions, with a few weeks missed here and there due to unforeseen complications. Sessions were…
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Participants: Ravien.

10/18/2004 LordSmerf: [Great Ork Gods] One night stand
So I met with the local University gaming group (more on that here). We had an hour or so to kill before the latecomers would arrive, so I convinced the…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley.

10/19/2004 Paka: [Monkeywrench] Monkeys on Mars
Monkeywrench is the kids' RPG in which the players are monkeys on board a space station trying to get free. Conflict resolution is a simple d6 roll, 4, 5, and…
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Participants: Paka, Shreyas Sampat.

10/19/2004 Blankshield: Dogs in the IRC: Sorrow, part I
[quote]<jwalton> By the way, the town's called "Sorrow."[/quote] Dogs: Jezebel (me) Hosea Laurent (Michael) Esau (Danny) Cyrus (Ben) Jared (Claire) Dogs in the IRC characters can be found [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12898]here[/url]. Character…
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Participants: Blankshield, Emily Care, ScottM, Jonathan Walton, beingfrank, DannyK.

10/19/2004 efindel: [Capes] A Day in the Life of Zip
So, we played Capes in the indie-netgaming IRC again last night. With two of the three original players gone now, and no new players having joined yet, that made it…
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Participants: efindel, LordSmerf.

10/20/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Conclusion of 4-session Playtest
The Big Playtest of Capes finished up last night. Wacky, wacky stuff. I had originally had ambitions to do a "villain of the week" each week, starting with an attack…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

10/20/2004 SlurpeeMoney: The Benefits of GM Fiat
Ron requested that I post an my style of play, as I am a rather large proponent of Game Master Fiat in gaming, and this seems to be rather the…
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Participants: SlurpeeMoney, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, abzu, GreatWolf, Michael S. Miller.

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