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3/16/2005 Ron Edwards: [Nine Worlds] Uppity Archons
Nine Worlds Events and current conflicts of play A tremendously significant Atlantean-Armada alliance is under way, courtesy of the character Gelons. He now has a developing sea-god (Nereus/Glaucus) under his…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder.

3/16/2005 John Kim: Buffy and the Conflict-Shy GM
So I had another game of my Buffy RPG campaign on Friday night. It had been a while since the last session due to schedule conflicts, but everyone was pretty…
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Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, Marco, Paul Czege, Liz Henry, Danny_K, Mike Holmes.

3/16/2005 bcook1971: [Burning Wheel] Mass Combat Playtesting
Had the chance to playtest a mass combat variant for Burning Wheel at a roleplayers meetup group tonight. Two guys played. Both were organizers, no less. One played Orcs; the…
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Participants: bcook1971.

3/16/2005 greyorm: Dealing with Simulationism
During our last 3E session, one of the players revealed to me that he doesn't care about XP, which is why he has not been using the TROS-based XP system…
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Participants: greyorm, Bankuei, John Kim, Silmenume, Ron Edwards, Marco, komradebob, apparition13, giblfiz, Kat Miller.

3/16/2005 James_Nostack: Conflict Resolution and Conspiracies
Split from this thread about Conflict Resolution: How do you handle risk in the "free and clear" phase, when the GM would like the some of the risk to be…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Stickman.

3/15/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Capes] Scenes and Characters III (indie-MN)
Four members of the Indie-MN group met at our local game shop Sunday and played our third session of Capes. We've already reported on the first and second sessions. I'll…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Grover, Shane Street, Sydney Freedberg.

3/15/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] More Tekumel
I have some more Cold Iron play since the last post. I'm really starting to think this campaign just isn't going to fly. Our last session started late due to…
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Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards, Stickman, Gaerik, JusticeZero.

3/14/2005 beingfrank: [DitV] Playing Dogs in a Gamist Pawn stance
I’m unsure whether this will make Vincent cry or exclaim with joy. This is very long, but it's written to give an account of the interactions between the players in…
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Participants: beingfrank, TonyLB, immlass, Tobias, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Simon Kamber, Harlequin, Wolfen, John Kim, matthijs, lumpley.

3/13/2005 Noon: [D&D 3.0] Illusionist sim all the way through
My character is a level 9 cleric, Daniel's is level 10 rogue or so, earned all the way from level 1. Mathew, Daniels younger brother, is GM. Close friends of…
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Participants: Noon, bcook1971, Halzebier, StalkingBlue, John Burdick, James Holloway, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - Good fun, some problems, a call for help
Hey, all, :) So, yesterday was roleplayers meetup night here in Lisbon. We had arranged to finish up our previous session of Sorcerer afterwards, but one of the players didn't…
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Participants: JMendes, Chris Goodwin, ricmadeira, joshua neff.

3/12/2005 xenopulse: [Legacy of Horutep] indie-informed freeform
I just finished running my first session, as GM, of my new freeform chat game set in Ancient Egypt (or rather, a more mystical and sinister Alternate Ancient Egypt). Now,…
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Participants: xenopulse, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Following the system
Chrysalis is the space-station at the end of time, from which our characters travel back into the past for our various reasons. Eric got totally on his "presenting adversity" game,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/11/2005 coxcomb: [DitV] Character creation
My group got together last night to play Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time. We took the whole session to make characters and get them through their accomplishments,…
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Participants: coxcomb, ScottM, Jason Newquist, ironick, Wolfen.

3/11/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Imps vs the Big Blue Guy
Okay, so here I was, all excited about my latest run of the Imp Game and Forge goes down! So sucky :P BUT, I can share the insanity now :D…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.

3/11/2005 Matt Wilson: [TSOY] - session 3, gamist play in maldor
It's pretty clear to me after this third episode that I've got a dominant force of gamist preference at the table. The actions of the characters appear to be tripping…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Scripty.

3/11/2005 Paka: [CoS] The Screaming Saint - stickin' it to the man
CoS is an interesting system. It has a wiff of TRoS SA's in its Passion and Drive (which I think should be re-named) and is obviously inspired by TRoS combat.…
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Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

3/10/2005 bcook1971: [Burning Wheel] 2005 Late Winter Campaign: II of IV
See session I here. Transcript Orcish Envoy to the Reyan Citadel A party of orcs arrived at the Reyan Citadel, representing the invaders at Pollee, bearing a token of Etharch…
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Participants: bcook1971, Ingenious.

3/10/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - last week - Repost
(Apparently this post was lost in the hack attack, so I am reposting it. Yeah for writing and saving posts in Word! At any rate I know that one person…
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Participants: Silmenume, Marco, Noon, James Holloway, LordSmerf, ffilz, contracycle, Lee Short, StalkingBlue, Gordon C. Landis.

3/6/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Stretching Description in Conflict Resolution
I just got through doing character creation for a couple of my players. Karri and Joey are friends of mine. Karri is about 33 and Joey is 17. They were…
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Participants: Trevis Martin.

3/5/2005 Paka: Character Concept Brainstorm with my Girlfriend
All of my girlfriend's high school buddies gamed and she had a kind of shitty experience with D&D, being told her choices were wrong by the DM, etc. etc. I've…
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Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Meguey, xenopulse.

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3/16/2005 Marco: Get my character out of prison!
I just finished up a game where the characters were in prison. I hadn't planned it that way, it happened like this: 1. I solicited ideas from the group for…
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Participants: Marco, Valamir.

3/17/2005 Noon: [D&D] Gamism, the whole way through
This one starts before the game does, so bear with me if that's not your thing. Okay, I'm sitting in the kitchen eating some take away at their table. Chris…
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Participants: Noon, Ian Charvill, StalkingBlue, ffilz, contracycle.

3/18/2005 abzu: [BW] Anatomy of A Disaster
I should probably post the AP thread about the exultant end to the Must Kill Wizard game, but I thought it'd be fun to talk about the darker side of…
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Participants: abzu, Noon, Miskatonic, BirdMan, Thor Olavsrud, Bankuei, bcook1971, Kesher, Andy Kitkowski.

3/19/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game]The Bunny King in the Sky and Jeff Foxworthy
The shortest Imp Game yet! Played an hour and twenty minutes, including character generation for a set of three Imps. Completed objective and two of three Imps reasonably assumed dead.…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.

3/19/2005 matthijs: [Capes and impro] Not getting it / making it work
We tried Capes last night. Setting: Students at Megapolis High School. In a physics lab experiment gone wrong, three students get super powers. First scene: Detention! Professor Williams tells us…
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Participants: matthijs, Garbanzo, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Miskatonic, jburneko, John Kim, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Noon.

3/21/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - Fun, but oddly unsatisfying play
Hey, :) Welp, last Friday, we finally got to conclude the pilot episode, which took us the better part of two hours. It left us all with a sense of…
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Participants: JMendes, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Andrew Norris, Tymen, Frank T, jburneko, hix, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Nicolas Crost, Bankuei.

3/21/2005 Gethyn: InSpectres Opens a Coventry (UK) Branch!
Hi! Well, the stars aligned on Friday night for a totally spur-of-the-moment game of InSpectres. And it was a blast. The players were initially not certain about it - we're…
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Participants: Gethyn, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

3/22/2005 Tobias: [SW playtest] - first conflicts happening.
Ok, so after the previous actual play post, Sydney made a bold leader type guy, and Andrew made an obedient follower type. Sydney wanted to affect the Pillar of Obedience,…
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Participants: Tobias, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff.

3/22/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Our First Session(s): Char Creation and Cedar Falls
Hi everyone. I've been reading the Forge for a while now but this is my first post. I just bought my copy of Dogs last week, and immediately got some…
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Participants: BrendanC, lumpley, Paka, TonyLB, lupis42.

3/22/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Conflict Resolution and other Forgey things (l
My group played once again this weekend and I thought things went very well indeed. I must say that my time here at The Forge has really helped me run…
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Participants: Gaerik, Bankuei, TonyLB, John Kim, Valamir, Lee Short, gorckat, Matt Gwinn, Andrew Norris.

3/22/2005 Frank T: [PtA Prep] Tough Missionary Business
Okay, I have played pervy narrativist games before. I have even introduced new players to it. But those were mostly players who had a tendency toward vanilla narrativism anyhow, and…
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Participants: Frank T, Danny_K, TonyLB.

3/24/2005 The_Confessor: Group Dynamics, Player Expectations, Different Gaming Styles
So, I have a quandry in my local group, aka The Swedish Gaming Society is having problems and I'm at a loss of what to do. So let me give…
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Participants: The_Confessor, Bankuei, Mandacaru, John Burdick, Noon.

3/24/2005 matthijs: [DitV - Colorado City Branch] Running out of steam
[b]Characters[/b] Isaiah (cynic, intuitive, tough, street urchin, liar, dog) Jezebel (good shot, unfazed, pious, dog who inspires shame and purity, well-read, hasn't forgiven father) Zillah (intuitive, strong willed, daredevil, strong…
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Participants: matthijs, Simon Kamber, Paka, TonyLB, Lxndr, lumpley, Betsi-G.

3/24/2005 Betsi-G: [DitV] Our Second Session: Redlake Branch
Last night I was the second game of Dogs in the Vineyard I've played, and my first time being the GM. The chargen and the first town can be found…
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Participants: Betsi-G, Wolfen.

3/25/2005 ffilz: Trailblazing or not?
Prompted by the GMless D20 thread, I've been doing a lot of thinking. M.J.'s suggestion of Trailblazing for my GMing style seems to have some validity, but I'm not sure.…
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Participants: ffilz, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.

3/26/2005 lupis42: [DitV] Our Third Session - Oak Bluffs
The thing that struck most about tonight's town was the degree to which the characters behaved in completely unexpected ways, even mine. (Some of you may know that I was…
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Participants: lupis42.

3/28/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - POP goes the Hood!! (warning: long)
Hey, all, :) Yep. Last Friday was the day when PtA suddenly came together for us! If you want background info on this, go read this thread about our first…
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Participants: JMendes, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, ivan23, ricmadeira, Matt Wilson, B0rg, Valamir, Frank T.

3/28/2005 Aman the Rejected: Don't Step On My Gamism
Not enough people showed up to our game last night (03/27). I got some different reactions from my normal games, we had a blast, and I wanted to share due…
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Participants: Aman the Rejected, Noon, hyphz, Miskatonic.

3/29/2005 Paka: NYC Crew meets Bridal Falls City
I met with a few old gaming buddies in NYC this weekend and we gamed us some DitV. Pete made up a former professor of Philosophy from Back East who…
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Participants: Paka, Stigg.

3/29/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] Two Tales of Six Knights
I played the new Polaris twice. Thoughts: General Thoughts 1) Both times, it was a really good game. The game I played with Vincent and Meg was excellent, but very…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

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