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2/12/2005 Joe Dizzy: [Primetime Adventures] Urlaubsreif! (Lost meets The Office)
This is my first proper AP report so please bear with me. I ran two episodes of Primetime Adventure at our local con today. This is the first one, which…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, Matt Wilson, ScottM.

2/10/2005 Roger Eberhart: [MLwM] Swampy Joe gets blamed for everything
Despite only two players showing up, we still had fun. If we were playing a canned adventure, which is what I've generally done in the past (for shame), the session…
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, Valamir, Michael S. Miller, Cleo, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, Paka.

2/10/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Wanting to win
So, I had an increasinglg familiar experience in our first Capes session last night, and would like advice about how to make it more familiar still. Everyone was agreed that…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, coxcomb, inthisstyle, Sydney Freedberg, TheCzech, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf.

2/9/2005 Michael S. Miller: [With Great Power...] From a Certain Point of View
My wife gave me a gift. She ran With Great Power... for me. That's right, I got to play my own game as a player. The reason I call it…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, timfire, inthisstyle, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Kat Miller, daMoose_Neo.

2/8/2005 Peter Nordstrand: [HeroQuest]A Hero's Dilemma: Session 1
First session of my new HeroQuest campaign is over. I'll bring up a few points. The Players Johan was in my Well of Souls game, my Sorcerer game and has…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, Mandacaru, Ron Edwards.

2/8/2005 JamesM: Sound effects for Movie Making
I highly recommend www.sounddogs.com . No suggestions for improvement. I think the site is great.I discovered the site due a google search for sound effects. Several came up and sounddogs.com…
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Participants: JamesM, Jake Norwood, Bankuei.

2/8/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [DitV] A Chinese Ghost Story
[b]Notes[/b] This post builds on the two previous play sessions of [i]Dogs in the Vineyard[/i] that I have run with my group, [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13881&highlight=]Wisdom's Ghost[/url] and [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13991&highlight=]Whores and flapjacks[/url]. Brief key…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Tim Alexander, lumpley, Nyarly, catzmiyow, Frank T.

2/8/2005 droog: [HQ] Forge education
I don't quite know where the best place is to post this, but since it concerns actual play, I'm putting it here. It concerns a long-running Gloranthan game and the…
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Participants: droog, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, gorckat.

2/7/2005 Charles Warren: [Primetime Adventures] Ghost Town
My gaming group is gearing up to try out Primetime Adventures. Very excited about this. We've been pitching ideas for a TV series by email and we've come up with…
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Participants: Charles Warren, Matt Wilson, Bret Gillan.

2/7/2005 Selene Tan: [InSpectres] First try at Narrativism
InSpectres -- first try at Narrativism I've been wanting to try Narrativism for a while, and after some reading at the Forge decided that InSpectres was probably the best game…
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Participants: Selene Tan, Ron Edwards, Valamir, jburneko, Michael S. Miller, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, hix, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2005 John Kim: Buffy and the Mirror Universe
OK, So I thought I'd talk about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG campaign that I've been running/playing in for a while. So I originally was a player in "Season…
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Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

2/7/2005 TonyLB: [DitV] Dry Gulch Branch
Having gotten a serious good-roleplaying high from Dogs at Dreamation, I gathered together some friends in my gaming group to start the buzz going locally. Those who managed to attend…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, TheCzech, lumpley.

2/6/2005 bcook1971: [Burning Wheel] 2005 Late Winter Campaign: I of IV
I had a great time tonight, launching my big, fat BW campaign. The group has really come along in their interest and understanding of the system. They still complain about…
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Participants: bcook1971, abzu, ZazielsRephaim, Ingenious, Negilent, Jaycenn.

2/6/2005 Paka: The After-School Program: What Happened? Cats & Githyank
In the end the kids who got together and played their own version of D&D never came and gamed with me when I announced that my project was a role-playing…
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Participants: Paka, Vaxalon, Noon.

2/4/2005 LordSmerf: The wonder of indecision
Last night in Mike Holmes's IRC HeroQuest game I had one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in role playing: Mike presented me with a Bang, and I was…
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Participants: LordSmerf, xenopulse, James_Nostack, Sydney Freedberg, Wolfen, Roger Eberhart, TonyLB, matthijs.

2/4/2005 Michael S. Miller: [Discernment] A word from the Scholar Emeritus
(Note: I started this write-up before the new guidelines. I hope my Monday-morning-quarterbacking at the bottom will meet the criteria of "a point.") I also got to play Discernment at…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris.

2/3/2005 Yokiboy: A Reflection - Simulationist Turns into a Narrativist
Hello, We met up last night to create characters for The Riddle of Steel. I asked the players what type of character concepts intrigued them and thought we could jazz…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Ron Edwards.

2/3/2005 Tim Alexander: Preparing for, and posting to, Actual Play
Hey Folks, There are near constant references to how posting to Actual Play gives context to pretty much all the other theory stuff that goes on at the Forge. I…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Bankuei, Mark Woodhouse, Ron Edwards, clehrich, Frank T.

2/2/2005 Svend: [InSpectres] Operation Icebox
I was asked to bring along a game to run at a recent local RPG-con (Kapcon 14), just in case they had a few slots they needed to fill. Five…
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Participants: Svend, clehrich, hix, Jared A. Sorensen, Yokiboy.

2/2/2005 TonyLB: [Universalis] Furry Sixties
So Dreamation was winding down, and Michael gathered us all around for a game of Universalis. I wish I could remember everyone's name, but I can't. Here's where we went:…
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Participants: TonyLB, CPXB, Michael S. Miller, Shawn De Arment, Valamir, Tony Irwin.

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2/14/2005 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] New Roleplayer's First Session
Hey there. I'm going to try and write up some of my notes and thoughts on my first game session for a new roleplayer, Sarah. Some prep work and fishing…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, GreatWolf, Rob MacDougall, Paka, Eero Tuovinen, Trevis Martin, James Holloway, jagardner, Ron Edwards.

2/14/2005 etheruk: [Prime Time Adventures] Mind Games
Just completed the first session of PTA, deciding on the show. I had asked them to come up with pitches before they arrived but only half of them had managed…
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Participants: etheruk, ScottM, Matt Wilson, Nev the Deranged, John Harper, Frank T.

2/14/2005 Nathan P.: Playtesting: A How-To?
I see a gap between "Here's the game I'm playtesting" over at the Design forum and "Here's how the playtest session went" over here that I think would be a…
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Participants: Nathan P., Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, Valamir, bcook1971, Green, jdagna, lev_lafayette.

2/14/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [The Mountain Witch] Standing on Giants
Long ago, in a magical place called Seattle, I ran a weekly one-shot that got so popular that tens of people would come and lots of us would run one-shots…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, timfire.

2/15/2005 Lee Short: [SitF] Second Session in St Paul
The game did not have an auspicious beginning. I hadn't slept well, Aaron had to beg off at the last minute because he had a sick baby, and the player…
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Participants: Lee Short, Clinton R. Nixon, Silmenume, clehrich.

2/15/2005 Ron Edwards: [Nine Worlds] Slow and careful rules and examples
Hello, This is the first of three basic topics which, I think, illuminate Nine Worlds play in general as well as highlight a serious structural and procedural problem with the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Eero Tuovinen, jrs.

2/15/2005 Zak Arntson: [Sorcerer] The Seas of Cimmeria
I'm finally getting off my ass and writing this thing up (this session happened over a month ago). I played Sorcerer! My brothers and a high-school buddy were all back…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, Sean, Paka, Ben Morgan.

2/15/2005 inthisstyle: The Winter of My Discontent
I have come to a realization. I am an annoying and demanding player. I get bored easily, and when bored I wander off, ignore the game, or engage in destructive…
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Participants: inthisstyle, TonyLB, Wolfen, Matt Snyder, Noon, Bankuei, John Burdick, Ben Lehman, Gaerik.

2/15/2005 TonyLB: [NASTW] Proto-roleplay
I do errands with my young children (oldest just turned four). So when I went to discover my friendly-local-gaming-store today, I had kids in tow. And when I was ready…
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Participants: TonyLB, lumpley.

2/16/2005 zach20: [Dogs in The Vineyard] New Newriver Ravens tale part 1
Aw hell, I will at least do a something here, and Lance I am not doing the whole thing but just what I remember and from Ravens point of view.…
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Participants: zach20, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Tim Alexander, lumpley, Vaxalon, TonyLB, xenopulse, Lxndr.

2/16/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] The Roller Coaster
On Saturday we had our fourth session of Cold Iron (see First session of Tekumel campaign and Another Tekumel session for the previous writeups). The more I play this campaign,…
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Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

2/16/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Heroquest] Well of Souls in China, part the second
So, my game of Heroquest continues. Been a couple of sessions since I last wrote about it. The game is going wonderfully well: the lethargy of the first sessions has…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, Paul T.

2/16/2005 Matt Wilson: Preparing for TSOY
I'm part of a group that's pretty much limited to D&D, like nothing but D&D for all eternity. Except maybe once they played Deadlands. I gave them all a copy…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob Goat, Andy Kitkowski, James_Nostack.

2/16/2005 ptevis: Is this Forcing?
Last night was the end of my group's Nobilis game, and while it ended the way I wanted, I'm not entirely sure if I'm happy with how it got there.…
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Participants: ptevis, Ron Edwards, Noon, Marco, Wolfen, Paul Czege, Ian Charvill, ADGBoss, Bankuei, Madeline.

2/16/2005 Noon: [D&D w/circumstance mod] Icecream Hotdog
This was a pleasant dungeon excursion with my five yo, no set GM role. I've run a few games with him before (about eight or so), so this isn't an…
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Participants: Noon.

2/17/2005 matthijs: [Draug] Three posts in one
Chris' recent post about applied Bricolage got me thinking about a few things, one of which is a not-so-recent episode in my Draug campaign. And then, when I started thinking,…
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Participants: matthijs.

2/17/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Great Ork Gods] Bloody wedding
As our previous Sorcerer game had ended and we were still waiting for Universalis to arrive, my regular gaming group decided to try a game of Great Ork Gods to…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2005 coxcomb: [Capes!] The first session
So my first try of Capes! took place on Tuesday. It was me and three other players: * Lyle, who has many years of roleplaying experience under his belt *…
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Participants: coxcomb, TonyLB, Miskatonic.

2/18/2005 Negilent: [HQ:SW] Moments and Delusions of Grandeur.
As a part of my mental prep for tonights HQ:SW Game: Broken Silence, and spurred on by the Lightsaber thread in the HQ forum, I figured I was going to…
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Participants: Negilent, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Andy's TSOY game experience
While we're doing the rolling narrative of TSOY experiences, mind if I jump in and lay out what happened at my session last night? PREAMBLE: It was VERY quick. Essentially…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Matt Wilson, Bob Goat, Bankuei, James_Nostack.

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