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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.

5/2/2005 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 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 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.

5/1/2005 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.

5/1/2005 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 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.

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.

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.

4/27/2005 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.

4/26/2005 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.

4/25/2005 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.

4/21/2005 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.

4/19/2005 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.

4/18/2005 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.

4/17/2005 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.

4/17/2005 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 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 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 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…
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Participants: Eva Deinum, Alan, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, Zoilus, Noon, Ron Edwards, John Burdick, Eric Minton.

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5/7/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]West Cotton Fields Branch
[b]Pre-game[/b] I ran [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15127]West Cotton Field Branch[/url] for a group of four players yesterday. Only one of the players had played Dogs before, as a gm in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14894]our previous game.[/url]…
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Participants: Simon Kamber.

5/8/2005 Paka: Post Burning Wheel NYC Gathering
I have slept 2 hours all weekend. I am going to post my first impression thoughts, crash and hope that others who were there can fill in the holes: Wow,…
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Participants: Paka, Thor Olavsrud.

5/8/2005 TonyLB: [InSpectres] Threw me for a loop
So I got to run people through some fun in InSpectres last night. Good stuff, but with lots of places where I felt I could do better. We had a…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Jared A. Sorensen, hix, Noon, Michael S. Miller.

5/9/2005 rrr: Differing perceptions of what the Social Contract is..?
I have a nasty feeling I sort of broke the social contract last session. And I don't know how to fix it. I think one of my players feels like…
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Participants: rrr, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Bankuei, Eero Tuovinen, BrennaLaRosa, Noon, hyphz, jdagna.

5/11/2005 aplath: [TSOY] The Adventures of Rightful King
Hello all, I've been meaning to post this Actual Play for a few days now but I can't seem to find the time. So I'll try to post it little…
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Participants: aplath, Bret Gillan, BrennaLaRosa, Paka, James_Nostack.

5/12/2005 Mikko Lehtinen: [Amber] Two Sessions: Narrativism and Hardcore Gamism
We've played two more sessions of Amber. The first one had a clear Narrativist focus, and was very enjoyable for all of us. In the second session some of us…
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Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, TonyLB, xenopulse, Andrew Norris, immlass, contracycle.

5/13/2005 Silmenume: The Creation and Birth of a Character
For the last couple of months the GM in the game I play in and I have been, for lack of a better term, flirting with me getting some sort…
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Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes, Sean, jdagna, Ron Edwards, James Holloway, droog.

5/14/2005 droog: In Utero - first Sorcerer session
I ran Sorcerer on a rather impromptu basis last night at the game club. My players for HQ all had something else to do, so I took along a little…
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Participants: droog, Ron Edwards.

5/14/2005 Ian Charvill: Marginalia on InSpectres
I didn't get to play yet as much as I'd like. I was looking to change job about the time I started running it and my first application turned into…
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Participants: Ian Charvill, Jared A. Sorensen, Michael S. Miller.

5/14/2005 Miskatonic: [Sorcerer & Sword] Bound Gods of Ulkhur-Zakand, Sessions
Game setup was here. Shane has been too busy to post these, I think, so I'll get the ball rolling with what I can remember and let the others fill…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Grover, Ron Edwards, Shane Street, Christopher Weeks.

5/14/2005 James_Nostack: Bangs: Am I Doing This Right?
I am struggling to write engaging bangs. I tried my best for this morning's session, with results shown below. ==== Game System - Alternity, modified a bit for Stakes Resolution,…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen.

5/15/2005 JMendes: [Sorcerer] First try, take two
Hiya, :) So, my "indie RPG group" finally got finished with PtA. (Heritage, about five weeks ago, and yes, eventually, I'll write that up on here...) We decided we'd try…
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Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris, Christopher Kubasik, sirogit, jburneko.

5/15/2005 TonyLB: [InSpectres] Am I doing this right?
We ran three missions of InSpectres last night, and had a lot of fun with it. We investigated the haunting of television station WHGL by the ghost of Annabelle the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/16/2005 Paka: Burning Wheel: The King in Gray
We got together to play BW and one of the players just wasn't grokkin' it. The chunkiness of the system, the density of the rule-book, the two different books, everything…
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Participants: Paka, bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud.

5/16/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Kids in the game.
I ran my D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign this weekend. This is the second session since we brought in two very young players, Caitlin (9 year old girl) and Sean…
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Participants: Gaerik, ffilz, droog, Valamir, contracycle, Noon, Stickman, Zachary The First, matthijs, komradebob, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

5/16/2005 WonderLlama: [Rervoir Dogs] First playtest
This game is described in the Design forum. I don't know how to link to it, but it is in the topic Mexican Stand Off. Keep in mind, I…
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Participants: WonderLlama, Andrew Morris, Mike Holmes.

5/17/2005 Frank T: On immersion, fascination, and precious moments (long)
I am posting this to actual play because it is my personal view on immersion, and on the question what makes a session special and legendary. Maybe it can spin…
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Participants: Frank T, Mike Holmes, jdagna, Mikko Lehtinen, nilsderondeau, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Vaxalon, apparition13.

5/17/2005 Zachary The First: [The Imp Game] Playtest and Review
This is a brief synopsis of a playtest I ran for Neo Production's The Imp Game--Mischief & Mayhem. I should add before I go any further, I also did a…
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Participants: Zachary The First, daMoose_Neo.

5/19/2005 Jason Petrasko: [Delphian Tides] Second Playtest
I've released a full 111 page preview edition of Delphian Tides on RPGnow. Since I'd not yet run the sample scenario provided in the book, I printed off a copy…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, John Burdick.

5/19/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] I threw a tantrum and nobody minded!
We just had a session that (in my opinion, anyway) hugely rocked... and yet, the thing that sticks with me is that I got to throw a tantrum in character,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Grover.

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