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4/9/2005 ( o Y o ): My Life with RPG's! (long post)
Hi everyone, this is my first post ever in any forum! This is going to be long. So be patient with me. Thank you. I am 29 years old and…
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Participants: ( o Y o ), Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, John Kim, JasperN., Brand_Robins, Paganini, Sean, NN, David Bapst, Frank T, Rob Carriere, drozdal, Bryan_T, olleolleolle.


4/9/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Hellfire, chaos, & cows
You'd think this was a game of Diablo 2 going on! Again, "Twilight" turned to "Imps!", which rocked. Crew: Myself, Jon, and Ian, a Twilight player new to Imps Character…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.


4/8/2005 Adam Dray: [MLwM] The Evil Artifact of Dr. Forrester
I ran a game of My Life with Master last Saturday. It went well and we had a lot of fun. This was the first time anyone of us had…
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Participants: Adam Dray, Danny_K, GB Steve, Paul Czege.


4/8/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Let's get conflicted!
I got the great pleasure of running Capes at TerpCon (thanks Josh!) out at U-MD last weekend. It was a hoot. Publishers: Do not let yourself get trapped…
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Participants: TonyLB, Noon, Piers Brown, Sydney Freedberg.


4/8/2005 vismaior1411: D&D play (split - point about spam)
Clinton R. Nixon I agree with you.
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Participants: vismaior1411, James Holloway, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards.


4/8/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] Live Playtest
Right now, four people are playtesting polaris and I am live blogging. Players are Dav, Ted, Henri and Heather. Dev: And so it was that the knight Corvus (Henri) was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, Paka, Valamir, Sydney Freedberg, Harlequin.


4/7/2005 Yokiboy: Paka's The Vault
Here's the intro to our new TROS campaign. Many thanks to Paka, who came up with the idea. In the center of the great continent Ecal-Pémos there rests a metropolis,…
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Participants: Yokiboy, BrendanC, Paka, Negilent.


4/7/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - A Spotlight Episode (again, long)
Hey, :) (I've been meaning to write this up since it happened, last Saturday, but irregular sleep and connectivity problems have precluded it...) Last Saturday, we had another episode of…
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Participants: JMendes, Andrew Norris.


4/6/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: [Heroquest] In store demo
I finally got to play Heroquest. This game was billed as a short in store demo to illustrate the rules. The participants were David (the GM), my wife Bridget, and…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, daMoose_Neo, dcboatright, Brand_Robins, Scripty, Mike Holmes.


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…
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Participants: inthisstyle, James_Nostack.


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…
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Participants: craytonc, ScottM, JMendes, Yokiboy.


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…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.


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…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, Thor Olavsrud, Andrew Norris, James_Nostack.


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…
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Participants: Noon.


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…
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Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Noon.


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…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, aplath.


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…
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Participants: KingstonC, JMendes.


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.…
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Participants: bcook1971.


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…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, Ul.


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…
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Participants: joshua neff, Jason Newquist, jasonm.


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4/12/2005 James_Nostack: [Capes] Takes Some Getting Used To
So: my first session of Capes Lite, kindly run by Vaxalon with some help from Lxndr. I do not own Capes itself. * Vax ran his energy-blaster hero, Kozmik Ray…
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Participants: James_Nostack, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Doug Ruff, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Valamir, John Kim, hyphz, John Harper, Gaerik, C. Edwards.


4/12/2005 Chris Geisel: [TSOY] Better scene framing, but conflict still lacking...
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14926]Here[/url] is the AP of our first IRC session of TSOY. Tonight's session went a lot better, from my perspective, and I owe that to the suggestions for more aggro…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, gregkcubed.


4/12/2005 Andy Kitkowski: [PTA] "Bellows-Punk" and Playing the Antagonist
Hey all, I played out this excellent session of PTA about a month ago with Ben L, and two friends who had never played PTA before. It was a fucking…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Chris Goodwin, Danny_K.


4/14/2005 ashmoo: [PTA] The Z - long
Last night we played our first ever game of PTA after me trying to get one running for about a month. To speed up the actual night of play I…
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Participants: ashmoo, hix, marc_buckingham, Jonas Karlsson, JMendes.


4/14/2005 Zoilus: Scenes from Satanis
Hi... short time reader, first time poster... (so flame on flamers for your fire burns cold compared to that of the hells I have witn--- oh, sorry, I like to…
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Participants: Zoilus, Mike Holmes, MatrixGamer, daMoose_Neo, darrick, Miskatonic.


4/15/2005 Emily Care: [breaking the ice] latest playtest
What a great weekend for playtesting! Breaking the Ice and Shooting the Moon with Ben, and Polaris with him, Meg & Vincent. Completely affirmed again for me the necessity of…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman, Andrew Norris, Frank T, Victor Gijsbers, xenopulse, Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic, Valamir, MatrixGamer.


4/16/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Condiments & Casinos
Twilight is slowly but surely being supplanted by the Imp Game on our weekly game nights. For the first time, however, I'm noticing some potential issues with the game, and…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.


4/16/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Improv] Past Glories: Adventures in Ritual Lang.
So I got up this morning with a real hankering to play something, so I log on to IRC and try to recruit some folks for a pick-up game. I…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, TonyLB, Paganini, Selene Tan.


4/17/2005 Eva Deinum: Afterlife - when to break the game's secrets?
Hi, A wile ago I GMed a game I'd call "Afterlife", though it had never been writen down and named properly. Not everything went well, but I really like the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eva Deinum, Alan, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, Zoilus, Noon, Ron Edwards, John Burdick, Eric Minton.


4/17/2005 MatrixGamer: Playing Matrix Games - Making it up as you go along!
There is a thread on the Gamist, Narrativeist, Simulationist forum about how Matrix Games http://www.io.com/~hamster fit into this paradigm. It has been suggested that the topic has drifted into a…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, rafial, komradebob.


4/17/2005 Vaxalon: Has anyone ever encoutered "cursed" dice?
I must just be a little too rational for this... http://www.kayliansden.com/cursed.shtml
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Participants: Vaxalon, Halzebier, Ben Morgan, ironick, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.


4/17/2005 Vaxalon: [MLWM] Quotes
This thread probably isn't serious enough for the Forge, but dammit, this place could use some comic relief from time to time. Here's a list of quotes from last night's…
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Participants: Vaxalon.


4/17/2005 TonyLB: [MLWM] The minions of Otto von Kubir
I got a chance to run a four-hour session of My Life With Master last night. It was a blast to be the Master... but I know that I only…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Paul Czege, Victor Gijsbers, Adam Dray.


4/18/2005 Wolfen: DitV - New Riverside, Sessions 2 and 3
Continuing the town begun here Second Session, of three: We left off the scenario at the end of the first session in the evening of the first day, after confronting…
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Participants: Wolfen.


4/19/2005 lumpley: Polaris
I've been trying to figure out how to write about this. This is actually my ... fourth try. Meg, Emily, Ben and I played Polaris a second time, a couple…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, Kesher, Emily Care, Paka, Selene Tan, Miskatonic, Bob the Fighter.


4/21/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Eric was playing two characters: Orobouros, a trans-temporal entity that masquerades as a God, and Saura Gul, his lizard high priest. He'd been playing these guys on and off for…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Miskatonic, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, James_Nostack, Valamir, Michael Brazier, daMoose_Neo, Victor Gijsbers, Lxndr, John Harper, Christopher Weeks, Jaik, Noon, Doug Ruff, Gaerik.


4/25/2005 jasonm: [DitV] One Dog in Fort Lemon
I ran Dogs in the Vineyard at NC Game Day 7 this past Saturday. As it happens I only had one player (who I hope will chime in with his…
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Participants: jasonm, Danny_K, Andy Kitkowski, lumpley.


4/26/2005 Vaxalon: [Capes] Vaxalon, Lxndr, and James Nostack have a go
Here's a game we tried to play. You can find some speed bumps at and towards the end, a collision that ended play for the night. http://random.average-bear.com/Capes/SessionOne You can…
In Actual Play
Participants: Vaxalon, Grover, James_Nostack, hix, Jonas Karlsson, Lxndr, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Jinx, Michael Brazier.


4/27/2005 Yokiboy: [TROS] How to Achieve Conflict Resolution
I want to use Conflict Resolution in The Riddle of Steel (TROS) while the rules seem to imply Task Resolution. I hope to steal some ideas from DitV, Sorcerer and…
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Participants: Yokiboy, abzu, Thor Olavsrud.


4/28/2005 OliverTheMerc: [MLWM] Procrustean Phrenologist
Earlier tonight several of my friends and I ran the Master/Minion creation session of a MLWM game we'll be playing for a few weeks. This is the first session of…
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Participants: OliverTheMerc, Sydney Freedberg, Michael S. Miller.


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