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6/7/2005 Bob the Fighter: diceless, narrativist D+D
i started up a game of D+D 3.0 a couple nights ago, and for a change i've got 3 players instead of 2. the lineup is as follows: allison, playing…
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Participants: Bob the Fighter, Sean, Brendan, Alan, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris.

6/7/2005 FarFromUnique: [Sweet Dreams] Gaming Expiriment
Starting at the next meeting of the group I run a game at, i plan to "wipe the slate clean" as it were, and have everyone make characters as a…
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Participants: FarFromUnique, Allan, Alan, Valamir, Ben Morgan, Andrew Norris, contracycle.

6/6/2005 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Duels and Destiny or Bang it works
A little while ago I had an . . . interesting . . . yeah that’s it . . . an interesting game of Burning Wheel. I've been meaning to…
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Participants: Negilent, abzu, Yokiboy.

6/5/2005 Allan: [Sweet Dreams] Convention demo (long post)
What a great idea! I wish I'd been posting Actual Play threads years ago when I was running and playing in Sweet Dreams playtests twice a week. These days, as…
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Participants: Allan, TonyLB, Noon, FarFromUnique.

6/5/2005 James Holloway: [DitV] Dogs at Stevecon!
I ran my first game of Dogs today at SteveCon in London. I thought it went pretty well. Neither I or any of the players had played the game before,…
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Participants: James Holloway, GB Steve.

6/4/2005 Jasper Polane: [PtA] Nevermore
Our group has been playing Primetime Adventures for the past few weeks. The show is called Nevermore, and it's a 1920's horror/mystery show, set in a small harbor town. Think…
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Participants: Jasper Polane, TonyLB, Danny_K, Frank T.

6/4/2005 Noon: [Rifts PBEM] Not feeling authorised
Game background: I don't know the players in real life, but I've been playing with them for a long time. I've been running this game for almost as long as…
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Participants: Noon, TonyLB.

6/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe] Turk & Helga - and Deb
So, Ralph came by for a visit last weekend, and we got in some Trollbabe with me as GM, and Ralph and Maura as the 'babes. A friend of mine…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Miskatonic, Maura Byrne, Mike Holmes.

6/3/2005 Karl: [DitV] Death in Rose Valley
Hiya My first post on the Forge, but I've been lurking for a year or so. Me, droog, Vu and Michael. Pick-up game at the club droog's been posting play…
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Participants: Karl, droog.

6/2/2005 Harlequin: [Polaris] Captains Courageous - Chargen
We finally got all schedule conflicts resolved, and started our playtest of Polaris last night. Paricipants include myself (Eric Finley), James Brown ('blankshield' here), my wife Star Newman, and philosophy/law…
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Participants: Harlequin, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic.

6/1/2005 KingstonC: [TSoY] Fox Bridge, or "I was a sexist GM"
This is my second time playing TSoY. The first two sessions we ran through "rat moon rising". The PC's were revolutionaries who rescued a regement of imperial troups lost in…
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Participants: KingstonC.

6/1/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] This session just keeps getting cooler
A gaming report in three sections: Mechanics and Story interlaced, followed by Integration (wherein I realize, only as I continue to fit pieces together in my mind, how cool the…
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Participants: TonyLB.

5/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [MLwM] My Life as Adolf
Last weekend, I went to a meeting of the Dutch/Flemish RPG-forum Mandragon. I led a game of My Life with Master for four people, none of whom had ever played…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Remko, Tobias, Jeroen, Rimke, Borogove, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

5/31/2005 hix: Changeling via TSoY ... rocks!
This is one of those "I had a great time" Actual Play threads. We’re playing a Changeling game set in Wellington using The Shadow of Yesterday. This is our third…
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Participants: hix, Clinton R. Nixon, petrova.

5/30/2005 Wolfen: DitV: The reason I roleplay
So okay, we've got something interesting going on with our Dogs group. We've currently got 6 players altogether, though one of them is gone for a while to Tech School…
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Participants: Wolfen, bcook1971, Frank T.

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.

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 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.

5/28/2005 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.

5/27/2005 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.

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6/8/2005 Gaerik: Help with D&D Campaign
Let me set up the current situation in my Forgotten Realms Campaign. The group is currently based in the Silver Marches area and near Silverymoon specifically. To those not up…
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Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Mike Holmes, NN, komradebob, Sean, Andrew Norris, Noon.

6/8/2005 Ron Edwards: [Primetime Adventures] The Heel, episode 2
Hiya, So session #2 of The Heel aired last Saturday! This is the first time I'm playing Primetime Adventures through multiple sessions, so it's a big challenge and a chance…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Maura Byrne.

6/9/2005 Paka: Introducing Parents to the Hobby
My parents have always been very supportive of my gaming. They think its great that I use my imagination with my friends and always have. When a co-worker of my…
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Participants: Paka, Jasper, abzu, Ben Lehman, nikola, Nathan P., Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, hix, StalkingBlue, Frank T, ScottM, cdr, Tobias.

6/10/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Dust Devils] Teetering on the Brink
[i]Interesting[/i] game of Dust Devils last night. I'm again playing with the teens around my childhood neighborhood, this time at one player's house. Summer vacation remixes the player pool, we…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

6/11/2005 Tav_Behemoth: Hypnotic Experiences in Actual Play?
The On immersion, fascination, and precious moments (long) recently had some interesting speculation about immersion as a form of hypnotic experience, which related to some thoughts of my own. Before…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Sean, GB Steve, Russell Hoyle, matthijs, Paul Czege, Frank T, Mike Holmes, Trish2, contracycle, Lord Shield, VisionaryEntertainment.

6/11/2005 preludetotheend: Aegri Somnia play test
Alright well I have managed to carve out some time to finaly post about the playtesting going on. The First session used the very basic first version of beta rule…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Jasper.

6/11/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] Stillwater Branch
It's our first time playing Dogs In the Vineyard. We expect to be playing for 6-8 weeks, and I hope to do 4-6 towns. This is the second session -…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, immlass, Wolfen, Ben Lehman, nikola, Eric Minton.

6/13/2005 Gaerik: [Andrew's Little Game] First Playtest
One of the normal players wasn't able to make it to play our regular D&D campaign this afternoon so I decided to whip out my game (which still doesn't have…
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Participants: Gaerik.

6/13/2005 jasonm: A n00b unleashed - My wife's first game
I've always thought introducing a new person - particularly a family member - to gaming can be touchy. You want to be well prepared and use a good system that…
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Participants: jasonm, Kesher, Noon, Mike Holmes, MarkMeredith.

6/13/2005 Harlequin: [Polaris] Captains Courageous - An Initiation
Second session of our Polaris playtest took place on Friday, displaced from its nominal Wednesday due to scheduling conflicts. Similar conflicts will obstruct this week's session (or make us experiment…
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Participants: Harlequin, Ben Lehman.

6/13/2005 GB Steve: [DitV]Fort Lemon Rides again!
We played a first session of Fort Lemon tonight. We had the same players as the rather simpler Buffalo Run minus my wife who recuperating (from being ill, not from…
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Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

6/13/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Universalis] And the war raged on...
Four of us from IndieMN (Steve, Larry, Shane and I) met yesterday and played Uni. We were an hour late getting started and I explained the rules from the two-page…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Grover, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Tobias.

6/14/2005 Doc Blue: [PtA] Storm Front
My group and I just started a PrimeTime Adventures game. Since I had been informed during our last campaing that "I always end up running a Supers Game anyway" we…
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Participants: Doc Blue, Danny_K, demiurgeastaroth, ashmoo.

6/14/2005 Trish2: Exploring the relationship between character and player
Hey guys, In my IRC Trek game, our characters are playing in a holonovel. Part of play for this group is to write a "log" of your character's experience of…
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Participants: Trish2, contracycle, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, TonyLB, demiurgeastaroth, Masada.

6/15/2005 MarkMeredith: Hey, check out this thing I play...
Okay, this may be the wrong forum to post this in. Sorry if it is. How many of you have taken one of your Non-Gamer friends, and slowly, ever so…
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Participants: MarkMeredith, Allan, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, FarFromUnique, Sacha.

6/16/2005 Frank T: [Breaking the Ice] Getting earnest
Yesterday, Nicolas (Crost) and I played our first session of Breaking the Ice in IRC. We used Emily’s newest playtest version. The session lasted for three hours in which we…
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Participants: Frank T, Tobias, Christopher Weeks, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, Emily Care.

6/16/2005 Everspinner: [Universalis] First go
Ok, our first game of Universalis. It was our first Forge game as well, unless Puppetland counts? The Group: We have a group of seven players which has stuck together…
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Participants: Everspinner, hix.

6/17/2005 sirogit: [DITV] Blood, Guns and Breasts
Here's the rundown of my most recent DITV game: The players are: Me, playing Ezri, the intensly passionate guy. My brother Chris, the GM. Our friend Jeri, playing Omar, who…
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Participants: sirogit.

6/17/2005 Adam Dray: [Verge] Secrets of the New Gods (designer playtest)
Over Memorial Day weekend, I ran the first developer playtest of Verge, my cyberpunk role-playing game. Verge is designed to facilitate Narrative play through its Drive mechanics and its reward…
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Participants: Adam Dray.

6/19/2005 bcook1971: [Story Steps] WWII Campaign - I of III
I just completed the first session of a campaign playtest of my RPG, Story Steps. After I ran a one-shot with my now defunct meetup group, I decided to fuse…
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Participants: bcook1971.

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