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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.

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.

10/19/2004 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.

10/19/2004 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 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.

10/18/2004 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.

10/18/2004 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 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.

10/17/2004 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.

10/17/2004 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.

10/15/2004 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.

10/14/2004 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.

10/13/2004 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.

10/13/2004 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 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.

10/12/2004 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.

10/12/2004 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 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 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 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.

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10/22/2004 Alan: How (and What) do New GMs Learn?
Hi all, We had an interesting discussion last night about how one learns to game master. We were playing a pre-generated adventure from the Unknown Armies book. The adventure was…
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Participants: Alan, John Harper, TonyLB, Bankuei, TheLHF, hyphz.

10/23/2004 greyorm: Frustrations with 3E
Note that you will not find much "story-update" in this post, since the situations I am going to discuss transcend any particular set of events or decisions. Mainly this is…
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Participants: greyorm, DannyK, Bankuei, Valamir, Noon, NN, Vaxalon, Rob Carriere, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray.

10/24/2004 anonymouse: Looking for Continuum AP stories.
Okay, so this is a weird game. And I've tried writing a kind of intro to this post to explain where I'm coming from three or four times, and it's…
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Participants: anonymouse, Jonathan Walton, Michael S. Miller.

10/24/2004 DannyK: [Nobilis] Stopping to ask for directions (long)
OK, so I've been running a forum game of Nobilis on RPG.net for almost 5 months. (The IC thread may be found here for those who are curious. RPG.net registration…
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Participants: DannyK.

10/25/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Continuum] Crashed & Burned
This is in response to Michael Goins' request for Continuum Actual Play accounts. I ran Continuum at GenCon 1999 (where it debuted--I had gotten the preview edition the autumn before).…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, xiombarg.

10/26/2004 Eero Tuovinen: [long] Indiana Jones and the Antitower of Euthomios Kopris
I don't usually write these actual play posts here, mainly because I tend to be quite independent in my rpg work - unless it's to help somebody else, I rarely…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greedo1379.

10/26/2004 anonymouse: [DITV] Dogs in the IRC: Sorrow part II
Session 1/initation here. Session 2/Sorrow I here. So, as we'll see, I (the player) took a long-ass time to take care of my scene; and as such, I'll be your…
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Participants: anonymouse.

10/26/2004 Michael S. Miller: Profiling, Fall 2004
It's been over a year since the last profiling thread. Let's go again. To recap, the questions are: What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played?…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, anonymouse, Kat Miller, C. Edwards, TonyLB, drozdal, joshua neff, Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, hanschristianandersen, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, ffilz, Ben Lehman, hix, Rich Forest, Dev, bcook1971, Chris Goodwin, Eero Tuovinen, John Harper, A.Neill, Jack Aidley, ricmadeira, nellist, humis, pfischer, johnmarron, Jeph, James Holloway, timfire, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Simon W, jrients, Emily Care, Mark Woodhouse, jeffd, Lee Short, Jaik, Blake Hutchins, clehrich, Chris Passeno, jdagna, ScottM, John Kim, Thor Olavsrud, CCW, LordSmerf, jrs, lumpley, Sydney Freedberg, Sean, xiombarg, DannyK, Nathan P., Fabrice G., abzu, sirogit, rafial, beingfrank, Negilent, Trevis Martin, Marhault, Halzebier, Tobias, MichaelCurry, Tony Irwin, Doug Ruff, Silent Tamatama, neelk, Bryant, Peter Nordstrand, matthijs, Yokiboy, Alan, GaryTP, Shreyas Sampat, Lisa Padol, SlurpeeMoney, b_bankhead, Caynreth, cappadocius, Zathreyel, ptevis, Andrew Morris, Dumirik, Jason L Blair, Bob Goat, newsalor, Doyce, friartuck, Ville Takanen.

10/28/2004 Yokiboy: [FATE] Sword & Sorcery - The Letter
Hello, The subject of this post could have said Sorcerer & Sword instead of Sword & Sorcery, as my inspiration comes for the Sorcerer supplement by that name (it's a…
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Participants: Yokiboy, angelopampalone, ScottM, iago.

10/28/2004 bcook1971: Critical Group Mass / Key Player Phenomenon
Lately, limited availability has caused some instances of late play or no-shows for certain members of my group. Partial starts and below quorum play has revealled some interesting dynamics. (I…
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Participants: bcook1971, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

10/29/2004 apparition13: Shadows and aquariums
Actual play, huh. Well, let’s see… Started playing: 1979. Played regularly until: 1984 Played irregularly until: 1989? Haven’t played since. So what the heck am I doing here? I stopped…
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Participants: apparition13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

10/29/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] Fresno Group: Destiny Branch
This is a continuation-- the Dogs in our ongoing game moved on to the next branch. This is the the crunchy & town planning end, while this is the…
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Participants: ScottM.

10/29/2004 Tim Alexander: [Sorcerer] Ordinary Tragedies Prep Session
Hey Folks, Last night was the prep session for my new Sorcerer game. The players are all friends, but they're folks who I haven't done any gaming with. I've been…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Mike Holmes.

11/2/2004 Nathan P.: [Scarlet Wake] The Other Extreme
So I finally got to play Scarlet Wake again. You can see the results of my first attempt here, if you care to. This time I was playing with just…
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Participants: Nathan P., Ravien.

11/3/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Breakin' the rules
So, we played Capes tonight at my local university RPG club. The group was small (me and two others). The club itself is decently sized, but attendence is pretty bad.…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

11/3/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] Way over the edge
While playtesting the game Shades I'm working on, I had a strange roleplaying experience which I'd like to share with you. The Sorcerer book mentions Jonathan Tweet's concept of 'over…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

11/5/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] New Gidea (the Fresno group)
There are several threads related to this one; I used Paka's New Gidea this time. I had a few reasons, among them raw curiosity-- would the way my players…
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Participants: ScottM.

11/8/2004 sirogit: (Sorcerer)Psychic Residue - Actual Play
This saturday was the character-generation session for my Psychic Residue Sorcerer game http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13099 Here's the Characters I got Name: Carter Jenkins Player Name: Chris H Appearance: Handomse, naive, well…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

11/8/2004 Emily Care: [Basic D&D]short and thus sweet
When I picked up an incomplete box set of basic D&D at a tag sale this summer, I never really expected to actually play it. Imagine my surprise to find…
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Participants: Emily Care, rafial, inthisstyle, Meguey.

11/9/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] up from the ashes
This is a long over due follow up from my last post which had left my group in a bit of a slump. We worked our way out of this,…
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Participants: Negilent, taepoong, bcook1971.

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