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7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon Everway Game
This is appearing in Alarums & Excursions #360, the 30th AEnniversay issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies or misspellings -- if folks who were there tell me what I got…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Nev the Deranged, daMoose_Neo, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, mneme.

7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon MLWM Game
This write up is appearing in A&E #360, the 30th AEnniversary issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies and misspellings -- if folks who were there let me know what they…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, John Kim, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2005 Lisa Padol: DexCon PTA Game
This is appearing in Alarums & Excursions #360, the 30th AEnniversay issue. My apologies for any inaccuracies or misspellings -- if folks who were there tell me what I got…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Andrew Morris, RobNJ, Shawn De Arment, Paka.

7/27/2005 jburneko: [Capes] Most Revealing Game I've Played To Date
Hello, I've been playing Capes with my weeknight group.  We've had four sessions.  In the past I've tried to respect my fellow players' internet anonymity by only using their first…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Noon.

7/26/2005 Old_Scratch: [Inspectres] Salem Mass Branch Open
Sunday night was the Grand Opening of the Salem Massachusetts Inspectre’s Branch. It was an ordeal to get the players together, but after months of board games and missed sessions,…
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Participants: Old_Scratch, ScottM, Nathan P., Trevis Martin, Mark Woodhouse, Sacha.

7/25/2005 Frank T: Narrativist games and "winning"?
In one of my recent Breaking the Ice playtest reports, Tony wrote: It sounds like you're saying that the game would be a failure if these two people decided that…
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Participants: Frank T, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Alan, Vaxalon, lumpley, Noon.

7/23/2005 Everspinner: [Balance of Power] Second SRTeens playtest session
[b]Context[/b] We played SRTeens again with the revised BoP rules. The SRTeens background, an earlier session and the link to Balance of Power rules can be found in an [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15787.0]earlier…
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Participants: Everspinner, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Tube, Julle.

7/23/2005 SlurpeeMoney: Too Much Plot Goin' Round
A couple of days ago, I had a chance to step down from the Comfy Chair and strap on my adventure boots; one of my regular players wanted to run…
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Participants: SlurpeeMoney, Vaxalon, Noon, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

7/22/2005 TonyLB: Play like you MEAN it!
This will be peripherally about Capes, but only because I play so much of it.  I think I've noticed a pendulum swinging here in a direction I really like, in…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Ben Lehman, Mark Woodhouse, John Harper, Noon, nikola, Justin Marx.

7/22/2005 PlotDevice: CoC Dreamlands: Failed Game
Players: Characters (can't remember the names very well, so including 'hook' and character descriptions) Myself: Game Master Michael: Loner with affinity for cats. Wayne: Scholar with strong social skills Michelle:…
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Participants: PlotDevice.

7/21/2005 BeZurKur: Why Did It Not Work?
Trying to wrap my head around the ideas behind the Creative Agenda, I decided to come to these boards and discuss actual play.  I’m thinking specifically about a past game…
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Participants: BeZurKur, TonyLB, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards, StalkingBlue, Andrew Norris.

7/20/2005 RobNJ: Ganakagok at DexCon 8 Actual Play
This thread jumps off from my DexCon 8 Actual Play thread.  Please also see my Capes thread for my long-winded, hand-wringing disclaimer.  Here I'm going to write about my experience…
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Participants: RobNJ, Bill_White.

7/20/2005 RobNJ: Capes Demo at DexCon 8
Okay, so as promised on my DexCon 8 Actual Play thread, I'm going to try to tackle each of the games I played at DexCon more in depth.  I had…
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Participants: RobNJ, Paka, TonyLB, dyjoots, Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, elgorade, Stickman, Valamir, abzu, Doug Ruff, matthijs.

7/20/2005 Andrew Morris: [Ganakagok] Best gaming experience at DexCon
While I'd love to go into the execution of the new rules, I can't really recall anything in particular that stood out, other than the removal of the village phase.…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Bill_White, Rob Donoghue, Adam Dray, Ben Lehman, Shawn De Arment.

7/20/2005 Joe Dizzy: [PtA] Badge or another tale of woe and frustration (long)
This is a write-up of our first sesson of 'Badge', a cop-drama set in New York and chronicling the exploits of the Organised Crime Division New York in battling the…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, TonyLB, Matt Wilson, Andrew Norris, Frank T, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Alan, John Harper.

7/20/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] Bronze Age Lizardfolk and the Gods of the Dream World.
I had a very specific idea in mind before we sat down for what the setting and conflicts would be like.  FH8, true to it's design, injected so much collaboration…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, xenopulse, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Paideuma.

7/20/2005 Travis Brown: Campaign planning, plot out vs outline
So I wanted to see what other people's take is on this concept, especially people who are regular GM's for games. I have been running a game session with a…
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Participants: Travis Brown, TonyLB, Noon, Justin Marx, Jake Richmond, Ron Edwards.

7/20/2005 bcook1971: [TSOY] One-shot Session
I had an interesting time tonight, running a TSOY one-shot for the Dallas-Plano Chapter of DFW Roleplayers. I've got it scheduled to run for the Tarrant County Chapter next THU,…
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Participants: bcook1971, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2005 ewilen: Clarifying Sim vs. Vanilla Nar
This is another post related to my thread over in the GNS forum about identifying GNS modes, here. Bankuei had expressed a distaste for "non-directed Sim". That raises the question…
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Participants: ewilen, Ian Charvill.

7/19/2005 Andrew Morris: [In Nomine] Trailblazing ain't so much fun after bass playing
After getting used to what is referred to as "bass playing" in terms of GM style, I found it pretty difficult to get back into more "traditional" styles. I used…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, TonyLB, Paka, JSDiamond, Ian Charvill.

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7/28/2005 Jack Aidley: [Feng Shui] Finding stuff out by asking
Last night I ran the second session of a Feng Shui game. It's mostly been a blast - helped a lot, I think, by getting a forth player involved -…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Nathan P., Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, brainwipe.

7/29/2005 Nev the Deranged: NPA Character Records, courtesy of Dave
I threw together some character sheets for Pretender a while back, which I'd like to offer for general use, but they won't post here via cut and paste. Anybody got…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Andy Kitkowski, Trevis Martin, Matt.

7/29/2005 Nathan P.: [Carry] Good playtest, mediocre play
So my group just finished a playtest session of Carry, my Iron Game Chef 2005 entry. You can download a PDF of it here, if you want. It's about 15…
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Participants: Nathan P., Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Mark Woodhouse, Doug Ruff, Valamir.

7/29/2005 Simon Marks: [System Override - LARP] Problems with Instances of play.
So, here are the problems behind me posting an instance of play for an (I hesitate to use the word game) event I helped run earlier this year. They are…
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Participants: Simon Marks.

7/29/2005 Vaxalon: Incoherency from word one? As a matter of fact, no.
Last week, some buddies of mine on IRC recruited me to run a DnD campaign for them.  Since my ongoing IRC DnD campaign had just broken up, I agreed. We…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2005 Jasper: Trials of the Grail: WWII
Last night my summer game group started prepping for a Trials of the Grail game. In the last couple of months we've played Dogs in the Vineyard, Pantheon, and a…
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Participants: Jasper, Bob Goat, Ethos.

7/30/2005 Noon: Anxiety and recognition of narrativism [long]
For a long time, years in fact, I've been trying to work out how to have better games. It's started with thinking about players who didn't feel like coming along…
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Participants: Noon, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Mark Woodhouse, David Bapst, contracycle, matthijs, Frank T.

7/30/2005 Nev the Deranged: Pretender Actual Play: Peculiar People
So. Just finished GMing my first session of Pretender. The players: Myself as GM Cat, playing Gaia Manning, acting Spirit of Gaia (as per Pier Xanthony's Incarnations of Immortality)…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

7/31/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp] Pick-up game, Werewolves on Pot
Out of the blue, I ended up running a session of the Imp Game for a few pals I haven't gamed with in YEARS- last time we gamed was a…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.

8/1/2005 abzu: [Dogs] Red Creek Runs Red
Look at me, joining the hip crowd and posting an AP for a Dogs in the Vineyard game. I figure it's worth it for two reasons. First, I so rarely…
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Participants: abzu, lin swimmer, Victor Gijsbers, Valamir, lumpley, b_bankhead, Sydney Freedberg, Thor Olavsrud, TonyLB, Da_Killah, inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen, rafial, Miskatonic, jason-x, mtiru, Andrew Morris, daMoose_Neo, Andrew Norris, cruciel, demiurgeastaroth, James Holloway, GB Steve, Ron Edwards.

8/1/2005 Negilent: [Solar] Tales of the Gnostic Avenger, Sci Fi pilot and a curve ball.
[i]This is an Actual Play post. I just need to clear something from my mind first.[/i] It’s been a while. I once promised a post about a Battered Player Recovery…
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Participants: Negilent.

8/2/2005 jason-x: Br. Phillip's confession....
Hey guys- I'm Jason.  I played Br. Phillip in Red Creek.  Anyways...Yeah so, it was kind of problematic.  Luke, your town was brimming with all sorts of cool shit.  There…
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Participants: jason-x, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Dray.

8/3/2005 Chris Geisel: [d20 Fantasy] Death to Illusionism
Last night I ran part two of a mini-campaign with pregens. Part one is here, and thanks to the advice in that thread, last night's session was, for me, the…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, Nathan P., Andrew Norris, StalkingBlue, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg.

8/3/2005 Halzebier: [The Pool] Stagefright and Questions
Hi there! I've finally scheduled my first game of The Pool (Whee!) and now a bit of stagefright is setting in (though the game is still a few days off),…
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Participants: Halzebier, Ron Edwards.

8/4/2005 Neil the Wimp: Exalted, Baghdad, and Bangs
Hi all.  I'm a lurker who's finally go something to say; hence the new registration.  Also, I'm not too sure that this is the right forum to discuss my questions,…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, James_Nostack.

8/7/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] Legends and Subterfuge
We finally got together for our second playtest version of FH8 tonight.  You can check out our first playtest thread here.  Lisa and I have been sick all week, but…
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Participants: Technocrat13, urbanpagan, jasonm, Paideuma.

8/7/2005 bcook1971: [Story Steps] WWII - III of III
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15739.0]Session I[/url]. [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15849.0]Session II[/url]. Just finished the third and last playtest session of my game, Story Steps. We've been playing in a WWII setting, basically re-enacting the Battle of Guadalcanal.…
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Participants: bcook1971.

8/7/2005 Lamorak33: Gamism: Step On Up - Epiphany
Hi all I have just realised that I am the bitterest player in the world!!  I am sim with a wound down gamist heart!  But the prognosis is not as…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Justin Marx, Landon Darkwood, Frank T, LandonSuffered, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2005 Andrew Norris: Amber, Structure, and Conflict
Hi folks, I'm running a campaign based on Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, using a home-brew system that lifts heavily from Primetime Adventures and Nine Worlds. (I'll be honest -- if…
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Participants: Andrew Norris, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Mark Woodhouse, TonyLB.

8/8/2005 James_Nostack: end of game: All Your Base Pairs Are Belong To Us
On Saturday, July 30 I ended my Alternity campaign, conducted via IRC for 157 weeks.  This thread aims to do three things; skip over the parts that don't interest you:…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen, cruciel.

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