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In Actual Play 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.…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Betsi-G, Wolfen.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, Simon Kamber, Paka, TonyLB, Lxndr, lumpley, Betsi-G.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: The_Confessor, Bankuei, Mandacaru, John Burdick, Noon.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Danny_K, TonyLB.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Bankuei, TonyLB, John Kim, Valamir, Lee Short, gorckat, Matt Gwinn, Andrew Norris.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: BrendanC, lumpley, Paka, TonyLB, lupis42.
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,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tobias, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gethyn, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Andrew Norris, Tymen, Frank T, jburneko, hix, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Nicolas Crost, Bankuei.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, Garbanzo, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Miskatonic, jburneko, John Kim, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Noon.
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.…
In Actual Play
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, Noon, Miskatonic, BirdMan, Thor Olavsrud, Bankuei, bcook1971, Kesher, Andy Kitkowski.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, Ian Charvill, StalkingBlue, ffilz, contracycle.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Marco, Valamir.
3/16/2005 Michael S. Miller: [MLwM, InSpectres, WGP] Ubercon Spring 2005
At UberCon this past weekend, I ran four sessions: 2 sessions of With Great Power..., 1 of InSpectres, 1 of My Life with Master. All of them rocked. A few…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Thor Olavsrud, Victor Gijsbers.
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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Bankuei, John Kim, Silmenume, Ron Edwards, Marco, komradebob, apparition13, giblfiz, Kat Miller.
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In Actual Play 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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.
3/29/2005 Matt Gwinn: Creating a Survey
hey everyone. I just hooked up with a bunch of gamers in Ann Arbor through dnd.meetup.com. Well, we have quite a few people in the group with a wide variety…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, Simon Kamber, Danny_K.
3/30/2005 lumpley: [PTA] a very good episode, a very hard session
Previously on Epidemonology: here and here.
This time: The Collector.
It's Cyrus Dunn's spotlight episode. His issue is grief, particularly for the death of his wife Helen. Emily plays him.…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Danny_K, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Sydney Freedberg, Meguey, nikola, Matt Wilson, Frank T.
3/31/2005 John Kim: Running a con game of MLWM or DitV or what?
So, I'm pondering games to run for KublaCon, a Bay Area convention. I think I can only go for Sunday and Monday, but I'd like to run two games. One…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris.
4/1/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Shadetree Branch
So we started to play this town on Wednesday, but it quickly fell apart. After 20 minutes or so I had to stop and evaluate what went wrong. Partly, I…
In Actual Play
Participants: BrendanC, TonyLB, lumpley.
4/2/2005 Miskatonic: [MLWM] My Easter With Master
I had originally joked that we would be playing "Kill Puppies For Satan" on Easter Sunday. While no one was seriously interested in KPFS, the idea of some kind of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Kesher, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Shane Street, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, TonyLB.
4/2/2005 joshua neff: [DitV] Old Habits Die Hard
Our regular gaming group took a break for a couple of months, while I wrote a novel and dealt with school. We started up again last night. I ran Dogs…
In Actual Play
Participants: joshua neff, Jason Newquist, jasonm.
4/2/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]First town
We played Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time today. Played with three people, which turned out to work pretty well. After having introduced the third player to the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon Kamber, Ul.
4/3/2005 bcook1971: [BW] The Racism Campaign III of IV
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14211&highlight=]Session I[/url]. [url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14612&highlight=]Session II[/url].
Apologies to my players reading this, expecting a similar format to last session; that was a bit of a lark and not something I could sustain.…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971.
4/3/2005 KingstonC: [PtA] Flux!
This was my first session with PtA. The show "FLUX!" was a combination of 30's hard-boiled detective fiction and the pulpish science fiction of the era. The players were detectives…
In Actual Play
Participants: KingstonC, JMendes.
4/3/2005 James_Nostack: [Pool] Coldblood & Dr. Mulberry
I ran my first session of the Pool last night! We didn't want to continue our regular science-fiction game because we were short a player, so we decided to explore…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, aplath.
4/4/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Forgotten Realms Campaign part 3
We played our Forgotten Realms campaign again last night. It was a session that I thought went relatively well but that I'm still not completely settled on what I did…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Noon.
4/5/2005 Noon: GM facing some inadvertant illusionism from player
Recently in a PBP game I'm running, I used the old 'Okay, now you the player decide what happens if you fail the roll' by posting the following.
What sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon.
4/5/2005 Chris Geisel: [TSOY] a slow start...
We just finished our first two-hour session of TSOY, played over IRC. I'm the Storyguide, and two of the players are long-time members of my old gaming group, playing over…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris Geisel, Thor Olavsrud, Andrew Norris, James_Nostack.
4/5/2005 Mike Holmes: [TSOY]Easter Sunday Shadow
So I get this mail that says that Paul Czege is coming to town with Danielle to, amongst other things, do some RPG play with Josh and myself. We discuss…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.
4/6/2005 craytonc: [PTA] Endgame - pilot episode and first time experiment...
This last weekend marked the pilot episode of our new game, “Endgame.” Overall I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how the session went, though there was definitely…
In Actual Play
Participants: craytonc, ScottM, JMendes, Yokiboy.
4/6/2005 inthisstyle: [TSOY] Working the Kinks Out
The Warlords of Maldor campaign got started last night. For a recap (setup details in the Anvilwerks forum here), we have six players:
- Swann, a female human Maldorian warlord…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, James_Nostack.
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