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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.

2/15/2005 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 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 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 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.

2/14/2005 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.

2/14/2005 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 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 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 Grover: Capes - Scenes and characters
We played Capes today, and had a lot of fun - this game rocks :) This post is gonna just be record keeping (since I got tagged with record-keeper). I'll…
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Participants: Grover, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, Sydney Freedberg, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Shane Street.

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.

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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.

2/18/2005 Tim Alexander: [Sorcerer] Ordinary Tragedies, flashpoint play
Hey Folks, We played another session of our ongoing Sorcerer game last night, and I made a lot of effort to try and use Ron's "flashpoint" technique during play. I've…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Peter Nordstrand.

2/19/2005 StalkingBlue: [Midnight HeroQuest] A Dornish Crown 3
This was our third session since we converted our ongoing campaign from D&D to HeroQuest. (The first and second sessions of this scenario were solos for Lucy.) Both Lucy…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, randomling, Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

2/20/2005 James_Nostack: [Alternity] Conflict Resolution saved my game!
My campaign was dying a slow, slow death... until Conflict Resolution brought it back to life! Hallelujah! Examples to follow, when I have time. My campaign has mostly been a…
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Participants: James_Nostack, TonyLB, Jasper, Noon, Scripty.

2/21/2005 JMendes: [Legend of the Five Rings] GNS on display
Hey, all, :) First off, this is my first post after an absence of just about two years. I'm coming back because I've been meeting other roleplayers and they too…
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Participants: JMendes, TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

2/21/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Scene framing goodness
My group and I have been playing a D&D 3.5 campaign for the last several months and have been enjoying ourselves. The group is pretty Gamist by and large and…
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Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, TonyLB, ADGBoss, Noon, Valamir, StalkingBlue.

2/21/2005 jporrett: [Prime Time Adventures] Unseen
Last Friday I ran the pilot episode of my PTA game. The show is called Unseen, and if you want to read the long and tiring write up I did…
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Participants: jporrett, Frank T, Emily Care.

2/22/2005 James_Nostack: [Paladin Xe] Masonic Snipers
(this is crossposted from the Indie Netgaming Yahoo Group) We're going with a secret order of Gnostic heretics operating under the shadow of the Church and the Monarchy during the…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Joshua Tompkins, Roger, LordSmerf, Bob McNamee.

2/22/2005 Stickman: [Capes] Angels and Demons
So after frothing at the mouth about Capes for the last month or so, I ran our first session at the weekend. We had five players, all with a lot…
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Participants: Stickman, Jack Aidley, TonyLB.

2/22/2005 Bret Gillan: [Capes] Metahuman Detectives
The night before last I got together two other players to try out Capes so I could give it a test run and see if I wanted to run it…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Stickman.

2/22/2005 StalkingBlue: One turtle puzzle solved
About half a year ago I posted in this thread asking for advice regarding a player who was causing some grief in our group by playing turtle. Much interesting advice…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Noon.

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