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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.

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 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 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.

2/21/2005 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.

2/21/2005 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 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.

2/20/2005 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.

2/19/2005 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.

2/18/2005 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.

2/18/2005 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 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 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.

2/17/2005 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.

2/17/2005 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.

2/16/2005 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.

2/16/2005 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 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 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 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.

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2/23/2005 Shael Riley: [WOD 3.0] Borrowing Techniques from Sorceror
Just about the best tabletop game I've ever played was a two-session campaign of Sorceror over this past summer. It worked amazingly well for our group for many, many reasons…
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Participants: Shael Riley, Mike Holmes.

2/23/2005 Dev: Report: Firefly LARP / Active Karma
[i]See also: [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13866&highlight=firefly+larp]Active Karma system[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13762&highlight=firefly+larp]Firefly LARP concepts[/url][/i] So, the Firefly LARP went well enough (and if you google for [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=firefly+larp]"firefly larp"[/url], my game comes up!). The problematic stuff going…
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Participants: Dev, Andrew Morris.

2/24/2005 Jack Aidley: [Snowball(ish)] Nope, no heroes here.
A few weeks back, in another break from the theoretically on-going campaign I've been running I pursuaded Dave to run a short one-off (we had been going to play Capes,…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes.

2/24/2005 lumpley: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology ep2
Here's the pilot episode's thread: Primetime Adventures: Epidemonology. The pilot episode was (retroactively) called "Hello, Hell." Somehow I didn't manage to post about episode 1. I have half a writeup…
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Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, contracycle, Danny_K.

2/24/2005 Tymen: As Above, So Below Playtest
I ran my As Above, So Below play-test with Adam, James and Suzanne. (I will post those later, under Indie Game Design. First we chatted for a bit and then…
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Participants: Tymen.

2/25/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - last week.
Hey Everyone, This is only my second foray into the Actual Play forum. Once again I am faced with the issue of how to proceed. I have read the sticky…
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Participants: Silmenume, Andrew Norris.

2/25/2005 Tobias: [schrodingers war] - playtest Prep
Sydney, Andrew and I are prepping a SW playtest. It's not completely done yet, but we're likely to arrive at the following Prep results (I will not be on for…
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Participants: Tobias.

2/25/2005 coxcomb: [Capes!] Artifact of power
Our first session is written up here. This time, Lyle was out sick. Mike started off the session with a scene in the offices of Archer Robotics (the creators of…
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Participants: coxcomb, TonyLB.

2/26/2005 Paka: [DitV] Jericho Flats (Swamp Crew)
"My character is thinking...thinking about how in some dark places there doesn't seem to be a god at all and in those places HE must be god. That is what…
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Participants: Paka, Latigo.

2/26/2005 JMendes: [Sorcerer] First time woes
Ahey, :) So, I finally got a chance to try out Sorcerer last night. Not long ago, I met a guy who is big on Indie games and has some…
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Participants: JMendes, Valamir, Danny_K, Bankuei, ricmadeira, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Paka.

2/27/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Otherkind] A tale of two sessions (one bad, one good)
I played my second sessions of Otherkind last thursday; the first session was the friday before; rules talk, setting design and character creation the week before that. The first did…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, lumpley, Valamir.

2/28/2005 Stigg: [Burning Wheel] Learned Opinions
Greetings all, I am formulating a steampunk campaign and I would like to use the Burning Wheel system for it. In your humble opinions, is this a wise idea? Are…
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Participants: Stigg, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2005 ejh: [DitV] The Steward of Respite
Posted at a little gaming blog Joe and I have put together, here's my impressions of my first game of Dogs: I played Dogs in the Vineyard Friday…
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Participants: ejh, lumpley, Valamir.

2/28/2005 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] A call to Arms
It has been over a year since I began my Miranna campaign and inspired by threads here on playing Epics and so forth I began with ambitions of multiple story…
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Participants: Negilent, bcook1971, abzu.

2/28/2005 xenopulse: Incoherence
This is one of those posts about an "a-ha" moment that I think people will be able to relate to, and I understand the sticky to say that those kind…
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Participants: xenopulse, John Burdick, eef, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Miskatonic, contracycle, NN, Noon.

2/28/2005 ADGBoss: MMORPG - world of Warcraft: "This is an RP Server...&am
I realise that Actual Play and indeed the Forge are 99.99999% about table top, P& RPGs. The topic of talking about CRPG in general and MMORPGs in particular has been…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Danny_K, Andrew Norris, Roger Eberhart, zobmie, Wolfen, Noon, Victor Gijsbers, Christopher Weeks, hyphz.

3/1/2005 yellow-sign: [Puddle] Middle Earth game (split)
As a player in John's first Lord of the Rings game, I can say that this system was a heck of a thing. It wasn't really until the third of…
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Participants: yellow-sign, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2005 T'oma: Reflections on a PBeM : An Essay
(... this perhaps should have been posted in Theory: you be the Judge...) The Great Experiment Has Begun: I'm in the deep-End of CyberSpace with my commitment to GM a…
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Participants: T'oma, lev_lafayette, immlass, nellist, Mandacaru.

3/2/2005 morgue: [Paladin] Knights of Marduk
We started prepping a game of Paladin last night. There are five of us, me, Steve, Brian, David and Lucy. The four guys were all in the “Providence Summer 1961”…
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Participants: morgue.

3/2/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [PTA] Johnny Depp is... Jesus Christ
So, it was again the day for our weekly HQ. That game's done well, but I'll tell about that after we finish the Well of Souls scenario, probably next session.…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Danny_K, Ron Edwards, Jason Newquist, b_bankhead, Frank T.

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