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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.

5/17/2005 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.

5/16/2005 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.

5/16/2005 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 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.

5/15/2005 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.

5/15/2005 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.

5/14/2005 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.

5/14/2005 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 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 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.

5/13/2005 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.

5/12/2005 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.

5/11/2005 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.

5/9/2005 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.

5/8/2005 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.

5/8/2005 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.

5/7/2005 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.

5/3/2005 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.

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.

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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.

5/19/2005 Kesher: [T&T] A crowd of teenagers & way too many leprechaun
[u]PHASE ONE[/u] Two weeks ago I had a miserable experience trying to make DnD characters with some students of mine who were interested in gaming. Part of the problem with…
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Participants: Kesher, Ron Edwards, Sean, Zachary The First, Hearthweru, Miskatonic, Noon.

5/22/2005 Paka: One Day in Mu's Bed
We had our third Get Your Geek On-a-thon here in Ithaca, in a continuing effort to cross-pollinate our gaming groups and just game together apart from our weekly cliques. Some…
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Participants: Paka, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

5/23/2005 Ron Edwards: [Primetime Adventures] The Heel
Hello, PTA does it again, this time for our regular group which includes me, Tod, Julie, Maura, and Tim (that's Mountain Witch Tim). As you might expect from a pack…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, jrs, Maura Byrne, Valamir, timfire, Sydney Freedberg.

5/23/2005 TonyLB: The inevitable appropriateness of your character
In (Accept/Reject) x (Text/Meaning) I was eventually convinced that there is something to just plain enjoying your character (absent any other drive). Way back in game design and psychology Emily…
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Participants: TonyLB, xenopulse, Bankuei, Madeline, Frank T, contracycle, Sydney Freedberg, Gordon C. Landis, beingfrank, Noon.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Is taking responsibility for your character really so hard?
My weekend group is now four or five sessions into a 7th Sea game. This game is a sequal to a game we played a year ago. Some of the…
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Participants: jburneko, Danny_K, Valamir, Sean, TonyLB, Alan, John Kim, Lee Short, bcook1971, James Holloway, Noon, Brand_Robins, Heraldic Game Design, Eric J., hyphz, Mike Holmes, Itse, Wolfen, komradebob, S'mon, Mandacaru.

5/23/2005 jburneko: Audience/Author Duality of RPGs. Can it impact theme?
Hello Again, Something very very interesting is happening in my current 7th Sea game. The game is a sequal to a game we played over a year ago. Some of…
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Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, Frank T.

5/24/2005 Andrew Morris: [Breaking the Ice] Disney romance and one hot stripper
This weekend, I played Emily Care's playtest version of Breaking the Ice. Something about the game captured my attention in Emily's Actual Play post, but I couldn't identify exactly what…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, Emily Care.

5/24/2005 jessizzle08: what is this?
is this an actual role play site, if so, what kind of role play od u want to do?
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Participants: jessizzle08, daMoose_Neo.

5/24/2005 jessizzle08: anyone wanna role play?
what kind of role play, im up for any options
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Participants: jessizzle08, Leningrad, Silmenume.

5/25/2005 BrennaLaRosa: Forum games and GM/Mods
A few weeks ago, I got talked into running a Sentai diceless game on a Forum. Don't ask how; let's just say it was a deal with the Devil. My…
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Participants: BrennaLaRosa, Valamir, sirogit, Simon Kamber, Danny_K, Mike Holmes.

5/26/2005 Kesher: [Polaris playtest] My god, it's full of stars... [LONG]
Polaris, session one In the interests of time, I'm going to post this in a couple of installments. This first will be our setup and the first two scenes we…
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Participants: Kesher, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic, Emily Care, the duck.

5/26/2005 neonathan: Hi
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Participants: neonathan.

5/26/2005 Darcy Burgess: Does Conflict Res = No Roleplaying?
Last night marked our group's first kick at the Conflict Res can. We're playing an established Star Wars campaign under the Pool. The evening was *FUN* but (unsurprisingly) it wasn't…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Ian Charvill, jburneko, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, Warren, Frank T, Brand_Robins, timfire, Gaerik, Noon, hermes, S'mon, droog, Alan, Vaxalon, MarcoBrucale, Miskatonic, aplath, Trish2, Ron Edwards.

5/27/2005 epweissengruber: [Elfs] Director Stance Not Disturbing If System Supports It
My new Indie RPG Group had an impromptu runthrough of Elfs. The challenge was to play it with only 1 player. It seemed as if there would be no chance…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards, Alan.

5/27/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]Fall Valley Branch
I ran Fall Valley for the same group that played through West Cotton Fields Branch. The town had been altered to fit in line with the themes from last time:…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, lumpley, Ul.

5/28/2005 droog: Boys do Trollbabe
My HQ players haven't been showing up, so I've been taking other indie games along. So, of course, three out of five turned up last night, and me without the…
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Participants: droog, Ron Edwards.

5/30/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The One Bang Heist
The weekly Burning Wheel group got together this week. It was quite different from the Grief-laden Elven court succession game last week. This one was called Blood on the Cobblestones,…
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Participants: Paka, Tobias, abzu.

5/30/2005 Frank T: [PtA] Jesus, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll
I played this game of Primetime Adventures last weekend on NordCon, the biggest RPG convention in Northern Germany. I had held a workshop by the name of "Does it have…
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Participants: Frank T, Matt Wilson, oliof.

5/30/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] The pacifist was shot
Well, we revisited Silent River last night and had a blast. A few different issues with the game came up that I'd like to share with everyone. First, the good…
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Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, lumpley.

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