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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.

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.

11/8/2004 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.

11/5/2004 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.

11/3/2004 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.

11/3/2004 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.

11/2/2004 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.

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.

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 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.

10/28/2004 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.

10/28/2004 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.

10/26/2004 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.

10/26/2004 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 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.

10/25/2004 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.

10/24/2004 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.

10/24/2004 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.

10/23/2004 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.

10/22/2004 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.

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11/11/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies]So much fun its illegal!
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13336][Dungeons/Dummies] Monsters & Adventurers[/url] - Current D/D Development thread Okay, so that was my lisence plates (expired and forgotten about, pulled over on the way home from playing, lol). First,…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias, Dumirik, Nathan P..

11/11/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Losing Control
So I've had the pleasure of playing in two Capes playtests in two days. The first (hereafter "Chambarra Capes") was on IRC with Doug (hi Doug!) The second (hereafter "Ensemble…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Vaxalon, Doug Ruff, TheCzech.

11/12/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Aftermath, Complete
This is a copy of the in character log for the session that Travis and I finally got to play through. Timestamps included, the out of character stuff is available…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Vaxalon, John Kim.

11/13/2004 Rob MacDougall: Foolish Samurai! (a new Mountain Witch playtest)
Our gaming group played The Mountain Witch last night, using the beta playtest rules. Thanks, Tim, for the game, and thanks Jeff, Mike, Jeremiah, Jessica, and Bryant for trusting me…
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Participants: Rob MacDougall, Bryant, timfire, jeffwik, Jere, Ron Edwards, clehrich, mgrasso, Emily Care.

11/16/2004 RobNJ: Resources on open session design
I'm sure they're somewhere around here, but I don't know where. I'm looking for a way to incorporate some of the session design ideas that are more open and player-centric…
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Participants: RobNJ, ScottM.

11/16/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Shifting gears makes for a bumpy ride.
After weeks of persistant arm-twisting, I finally managed to get two players to join me in a test drive of Dogs in the Vineyard, and I think it's had a…
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Participants: Technocrat13, ScottM, lumpley, urbanpagan, rafial.

11/17/2004 RobNJ: [WoD 2.0] Why the Supernatural? Why Now?
So, the characters in my Freak Jersey series have been investigating the paranormal for several years. I've decided to open the story by having them come up with Kickers, events…
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Participants: RobNJ, greedo1379, Trevis Martin, contracycle, clehrich, Jaik, Technocrat13, DannyK, Sydney Freedberg, Lisa Padol, Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards, Monosodium Glutamate.

11/17/2004 RobNJ: [WoD 2.0] Freak Jersey: An attempt at open session design
This is relating to my Freak Jersey chronicle, set in the new World of Darkness game. Ordinarily when I plan out sessions I write up what I expect to happen…
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Participants: RobNJ, Trevis Martin, Paka, Ron Edwards.

11/17/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Re-approaching Clement's Patch
So, now that I've managed to twist some arms and get my core group to try a little Dogs, they're hooked, and my once indefinately delayed Town, Clement's Patch is…
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Participants: Technocrat13.

11/18/2004 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] A Better Playtest Session
I have made a habit of posting a lot of horror stories here, so I thought it would be nice to post an actual play breakdown that worked well. The…
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Participants: inthisstyle.

11/19/2004 rafial: [Star Wars D6] Mooncloud Fugitive
It seems like activity in Actual Play has been low recently, so I thought I'd chip in with a write up of our current game. It's called "Mooncloud Refugee" and…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Alan, Negilent, johnzo, greedo1379.

11/19/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Conflict of interests
This is the second session that I've run for the local university gaming group. The first session is detailed in Breaking the rules. This session saw the introduction of…
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Participants: LordSmerf, TonyLB.

11/20/2004 humis: [The Mountain Witch] Another playtest
I've been taking sporadic interest in The Mountain Witch on The Forge ever since its entry into the IGC. Now, the recent threads about the trust mechanic again sparked my…
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Participants: humis, timfire, Rob MacDougall.

11/22/2004 Ron Edwards: [Metal Opera] That's with an umlaut, ja baby!
Hello, We've just concluded a three-session run of Metal Opera (umlaut goes over the O), one of the many games published by Zak Arntson a while back. I think it's…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire.

11/23/2004 Paka: [BW] The Gift at GYGO-a-thon 1
The Gift is an odd adventure to me. Luke was kind enough to e-mail me the character sheets and some hints as to how to play it. I played it…
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Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud, abzu.

11/24/2004 MojoMan: [Conan RPG] No Honour (prep & 1st Session)
I wanted to put up a Game prep before my game kicked off…but we know how THAT goes… SO what follows is My Game prep, then the 1st Session of…
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Participants: MojoMan, stingray20166, rafial, Alan.

11/24/2004 RobNJ: [WoD 2.0] Freak Jersey, Actual Play
You can see the Story Hour for my first session of this chronicle at the chronicle's website. I've been told that Story Hours are not popular to post here, so…
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Participants: RobNJ, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, DannyK, Paka, Sydney Freedberg.

11/26/2004 James_Nostack: [Alternity] Dice mechanic
This is my first post to the Forge; forgive me if I'm do anything wrong. In this thread, Ron Edwards wrote... I'm glad you mentioned Alternity - I've always wanted…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Precious Villain, demiurgeastaroth, Matt Wilson, johnzo.

11/26/2004 Finvara: GM/ST A snafu in my plan...
Hope this is the right forum... I find I seem to have a problem in many of the sessions I run that leaves me more than a little embarrassed. I…
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Participants: Finvara, TonyLB, Noon, Nathan P..

11/27/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: [Sorcerer - Demon Cops] Bound and Tide
It's celebration time: a new Actual Play thread from Clinton! (I've been trying to get a solid group together for a little while now.) I'm playing Sorcerer with the Demon…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, sirogit, pfischer, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards.

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