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2/28/2002 Ayrizale: Looking for some advice...
Hello, I had a revalation today. I am the gamer that Ron describes in the opening paragraph to his GNS theory article. I've actually known this since the first day…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, Eric.Brennan, xiombarg, J B Bell, Thor Olavsrud, Tim C Koppang, Emily Care, Mike Holmes.

2/28/2002 Tim Denee: Modern WYRD
Anyone thought about running a modern game with the WYRD rules? I have an image of a norwegian punk band in some sort of peril in the city of Midgard.…
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Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Valamir.

2/27/2002 xiombarg: Wuthering Heights
Hey, all. I ran Wuthering Heights last night, and I thought y'all might be interested how it went. It was a spontaneous thing. Two of the people I game with…
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Participants: xiombarg, jburneko, joe_llama, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, Christopher Kubasik, Philippe Tromeur.

2/26/2002 jburneko: More SLA Industries or Jesse Loses a Point of Humanity
So, most of you know I have this funny ethic about using the system that comes with a given setting come hell or high water. This stems from a resentment…
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Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, erithromycin, contracycle, Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang.

2/26/2002 Michael S. Miller: Wittier than thou
Here's my problem: I'm staring up my first game since discovering the Forge, and I'd like to test drive some Narrativist techniques, keeping in mind Ron's advice to "Give the…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Emily Care, greyorm, xiombarg.

2/25/2002 Matt Gwinn: Exploratory D&D
Well, I ran my new D&D 3E campaign on saturday night and things didn't go quite like I had hoped. The main problems was that I wanted the players to…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, contracycle.

2/25/2002 Christopher Kubasik: I Want to Actually Play
If this is an inappropriate thread, I apologize ahead of time. I'm just getting back up to speed as a gamer. Don't have a group, just stocking up on the…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, furashgf, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, joe_llama, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

2/23/2002 lumpley: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
subtitle: But again with the vampires! Meguey, Emily Care and I played the World, the Flesh, and the Devil last night. It was cool. We'd made characters sometime in the…
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Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, furashgf, hardcoremoose.

2/22/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GameStorm 2002
I've been signing up to run Donjon at all the Northwest conventions this spring, and just got the schedule for GameStorm 2002 (which isn't even up on their site yet.)…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Armin D. Sykes.

2/22/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Ever played SOAP? Reply here please!
Strange topic I imagine, but I need to know the names of all the people on the Forge over the last 1½ years who play(test)ed SOAP. I'm about ready to…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Dav, xiombarg.

2/19/2002 Valamir: My Dungeon Krawl Session
Ok, got a chance to play some Donjon Krawl this weekend. Wasn't a very long session but it did confirm for me that this is definitely a game with a…
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Participants: Valamir, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/18/2002 Balbinus: Feedback on CoC game background sheet wanted
Hi there, I'm planning to give the following sheet to my players prior to chargen for my next Cthulhu game. Anyone notice anything which seems odd or obviously isn't covered?…
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

2/16/2002 Matt Gwinn: True Villainie
I start my new D&D 3E campaign next weekend and I have a pretty interesting . The main nemesis for the campaign is the Cult of The Dragon which is…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Joe Murphy (Broin).

2/16/2002 J B Bell: The Last Girl on Earth: a Sorcerer game
I have a somewhat similar problem to hyphz's, though hopefully less intense. I think most of this is due to being new to classically-Narrativist techniques and especially to sharing more…
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Participants: J B Bell.

2/16/2002 hyphz: Major retrospective: narrativism vs. clueless newbie
Well, I thought I'd post this in case anyone cares for some reason. It was the result of me trying to run what I (only now) realise is considered a…
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Participants: hyphz, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis.

2/15/2002 contracycle: Nothing
I'm posting this in actual play for lack of anywhere else; its just a topic that might be of interest to the world-builders and scene-designers and so forth, and becuase…
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Participants: contracycle, Mike Holmes, Marco.

2/14/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Retrofitting
Hi. First time posting. Not being involved in the process of game design (except insofar as customizing a set of printed rules to fit the needs of a particular scenario…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, james_west.

2/13/2002 Ron Edwards: InSpectres again! grrl version
Hi there, So I ran some more InSpectres last night, which for me was the first time using v. 2.0. The session had some interesting features: the players were all…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

2/8/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon 2002: Indie explosion
Each year, I think, "I should run some indie games at GenCon. Someone will show up." Each year, I end up with a few people who already like indie games…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Matt Gwinn, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, xiombarg.

2/7/2002 Ron Edwards: Yet again, The Questing Beast
Hello, The campus group met again, and the two games being played were AD&D2 and Macross (using Palladium). But one cry went up in a pitiful chorus: "I didn't get…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Manu, James V. West.

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3/4/2002 Bankuei: Tragedy of Three Kingdoms
I finally got a chance to play with some of my friends something I've been wanting to get to for a while. I've been soaking my brain in old Chinese…
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/4/2002 Manu: Score !!
Well, there is technically no forum for that but... Not only did I score copies of "Over the Edge" and "Little Fears" at my FLGS, but I managed to explain…
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Participants: Manu.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: TQuid's Sorcerer game
Hi there, A while ago, Tquid posted this thread about his Sorcerer game. I had a hard time reading it; like many transcripts of play, it included a lot…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Kayfabe - lots of questions
Hi everyone, Most of this is for Matt, but comments from anyone who has downloaded the game are welcome too. I played Kayfabe last night and had a fine time,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Matt Gwinn.

3/6/2002 Rich Forest: Donjons (and Dragonnes)
Hi—I’m new to the forum, having started lurking around a month ago following the links in the back pages of Sorcerer and Sorcerer & Sword. I got a kick out…
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Participants: Rich Forest, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West.

3/9/2002 Tim Denee: Wuthering Heights
I've been going through Wuthering Heights in preperation for a game next friday. Two thoughts: 1) The game should be organized into 'books'. You know, 'Book the First', 'Book the…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Philippe Tromeur.

3/12/2002 Kenway: My pitiful attempts at World, Flesh and the Devil
First of all, I apologize profusely in advance to the creator of WFD and anyone who has played it for my mangling of the game: I tried out WFD today.…
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Participants: Kenway, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Emily Care, Paul Czege.

3/14/2002 Mytholder: Replays
A random idea: A lot of problems and miscommunications arise in discussion of rpgs because rpgs are essentially a private affair. Sports or theatre has an audience. Cards and chess…
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Participants: Mytholder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, hyphz, Jürgen Mayer, Ferry Bazelmans, Matt Gwinn.

3/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Violence Future: disgusting! And only myself to blame
Hi there, We're playtesting the alpha-alpha version of Dav's new RPG, Violence Future (check out this thread for previous discussions). It's totally over-the-top techno-future cyberpunk with lots of demons. Dav…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Jürgen Mayer, Dav, hardcoremoose.

3/15/2002 Ron Edwards: Profiling strikes again - EVERYBODY play!
Hey everyone, Every few months at the Forge, we play this game. It goes like this: answer the following three questions. No essays, no annotations, no explanations - just the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Valamir, Robert Leal, erithromycin, Ferry Bazelmans, jburneko, Tim Denee, Chris Passeno, Zak Arntson, Fabrice G., C. Edwards, hyphz, Rich Forest, Bailey, unodiablo, Christopher Kubasik, joe_llama, Blake Hutchins, Matt Snyder, Rod Anderson, Silent Tamatama, Michael S. Miller, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Seth L. Blumberg, Armin D. Sykes, Jürgen Mayer, Ace, joshua neff, Sidhain, Gordon C. Landis, sdemory, Walt Freitag, lumpley, Paul Czege, Ayrizale, xiombarg, GreatWolf, Laurel, Dave Versace, Eric.Brennan, Kenway, AndyGuest, Le Joueur, gentrification, Yasha, amiel, Dav, Mytholder, Balbinus, rafael, Trav, Andrew Martin, Matt Gwinn, Steve Dustin, Michael Bowman, Jake Norwood, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen, contracycle, Wolfen, J B Bell.

3/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer One-Sheet: In His Service
I'm starting a Sorcerer campaign next week, and whipped up this one-sheet after talking the game over with my group last night. I'm posting it here, as I plan to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik.

3/16/2002 Valamir: Profile Comments
Hah, Bailey. I never thought I'd find anyone else even willing to admit they'd HEARD of the Street Fighter Story Telling game. That game rocked. A far better use of…
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Participants: Valamir, Bailey, Le Joueur, Rich Forest, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Sidhain, Jared A. Sorensen, razar, unodiablo, xiombarg, amiel, Matt Gwinn.

3/19/2002 jburneko: Scenario Conclusion, Various Observations
Hello All, On Saturday the current story arc of my Deadlands game came to a conclusion. The session was a landmark in my gaming career since it ended what was…
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Participants: jburneko, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, hyphz.

3/20/2002 Kenway: Your worst campaign ever?
Hi. Do you think this is a valid subject to talk about? In particular, lessons to be learned could be summarized at the end.
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Participants: Kenway, xiombarg, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, Valamir, wyrdlyng, Zak Arntson, J B Bell, joshua neff, Balbinus, contracycle, leomknight, Joe Murphy (Broin), blackmanxy, Trav.

3/21/2002 Ace: What games do you think are borderline Indy games?
My guesses on the matter would be Over the edge. It was published by a big (for this dinky industry) company and had a card game. But it was quite…
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Participants: Ace, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Valamir.

3/21/2002 Steve Dustin: The Pool for Pulp
I'd don't know if this fits under Random Order Creations forum or here, so I'm gonna stuff it here. Finally played the Pool last night, and had a blast. I'm…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Michael Bowman.

3/22/2002 Matt Gwinn: Choosing Games at a CON
In a recent thread over in Indie Game Design I asked the question "what is your ideal system?" Ron brought up that there is no "ideal" system any more than…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, jburneko, Noble, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes.

3/22/2002 Valamir: ForgeCon
You know I just had a crazy idea. There is a substantial number of Forge gamers between Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. We should pitch in rent a hotel conference room…
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Participants: Valamir, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Le Joueur, unodiablo, Dav, Laurel, Christopher Kubasik, Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson.

3/22/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Peter Adkison now owns GenCon
Per http://www.wizards.com/news/pressrelease.asp?20020321a, WotC is out of the convention-running business, and Mr. Adkison is "set to take over the hosting and managing of the GenCon Game Fair in 2002", although WotC…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Armin D. Sykes.

3/23/2002 Eric.Brennan: Sorcerer game last night
I received a review copy of Sorcerer from RPG.net, and after buying a copy for my buddy who's interested in something "different" we set up a game and got a…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, Ron Edwards.

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