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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.

4/16/2005 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.

4/15/2005 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.

4/14/2005 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.

4/14/2005 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.

4/12/2005 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…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Chris Goodwin, Danny_K.

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 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.

4/10/2005 bcook1971: [DitV] Bitter Creek
Wa-hoo! I got to run a one-shot of DitV for one of my meetup groups tonight. (See prep thread here.) Actually, I scheduled it as an event for a roleplayers…
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Participants: bcook1971, lumpley, Wolfen.

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…
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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.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.

4/29/2005 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Werewolves in L.A.
Half my regular group was busy last night, so the remaining three of us got together for Chinese food, the card game Munchkin-Fu, and an impromptu playtest of my nascent…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg.

5/1/2005 Mikko Lehtinen: Having Fun with Narrativistic Amber (long)
Hello, I want to share some thoughts about our new Amber campaign. It's been a very long time since I've last played with Veke, the GM. There were some very…
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Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen.

5/1/2005 THowell: [DitV] Whitechurch
Hello everybody - I'm new around here, and new to DitV, but I thought I'd share my experiences in playing the game for the first time. I had to improvise…
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Participants: THowell, lumpley.

5/1/2005 bcook1971: [Burning Wheel: Classic] The Racial Campaign IV 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]. [url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14903&highlight=]Session III[/url]. [b]Play transcript[/b] [b]An Empty Town and a Little Boy[/b] Jacob journeyed to his brother's farm in Gartiche. Oren was a virtuous man and had…
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Participants: bcook1971, Jaycenn, Thor Olavsrud, rafial.

5/2/2005 Jason Petrasko: [The Noble Fiends of our Empire] Initial Playtest
Well I had the initial playtest of a work in progress which I simply call 'Empire' (shorter :D) last night. The indie rpg post is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15273 Things I learned:…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, Bill_White, Ben Lehman.

5/2/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Lack of Social Mechanics (long)
Greetings, My D&D 3.5 group played again this weekend with mixed results. Some things went well. Some things not as well. That's rather vague so I'll try to get to…
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Participants: Gaerik, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Noon, John Burdick, jdagna.

5/2/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Iron Fists of Vengeance
I ran a really rocking one shot of The Shadow of Yesterday at nerdnyc.com's Recess event Saturday, and I thought I'd share. I had an idea that TSoY would be…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Clinton R. Nixon, Sydney Freedberg, Paka, Andy Kitkowski, abzu.

5/2/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Clinton Does Glorantha
I'm very excited that I've finally found a group that wants to play HeroQuest. After we finished up our excellent game of Dogs in the Vineyard, we shuffled the group…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, paulkdad, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper, Christopher Weeks.

5/3/2005 Matt Gwinn: [TQB] The Matted Lion
Well, we did character creation for The Questing Beast last night and I'm pretty excited about running it. The Accord It actually took us quite a while to settle on…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

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