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8/14/2005 Rossum: [Stranger Things] Two Nights a Stranger, playtest session one (longish)
Last Tuesday, I hoped to get into a new game of Paranoia XP one of my gang planned to run, but some folks had left town and it fell through.…
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Participants: Rossum, philaros, Paka, John Harper, Tim Alexander.

8/14/2005 HenryT: [Parlor Larp] Snow White
Snow White is a Parlor Larp--a one-shot live action game intended for six to eight people, plus a director, with few requirements on space or props. The game is intended…
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Participants: HenryT, Paka, thelostgm, komradebob.

8/13/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Five hours of fun tightly packed in five hours of play.
Tonight we played a quick pickup game of DitV with a virgin gamer.  Most of this post will likely be about her. Maura is in her mid thirties and has…
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Participants: Technocrat13, ScottM, jasonm.

8/12/2005 johnzo: [Stranger Things] The Judgement of Fish
Wil ran a playtest of Stranger Things for UGAX last night.  There were four players: Alan, James, Seth, and myself. My memory is not to be trusted, but here's what…
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Participants: johnzo, Alan, rafial, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

8/12/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [TSOY] Love and death on the Poison Coast
This is somewhat of a follow-up post to Eating the Black. Only somewhat. Eight lovely sessions, and what do we have? Last night was session eight of my current The…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, bcook1971, Paka, RedPissLegion.

8/12/2005 brainwipe: [Icar] Starting a game with medium characters and escalation
For most scenarios I run in Icar (free Sci Fi RPG), I start the characters at a base level. They can barely shoot, bargain or even get out of bed…
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Participants: brainwipe, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes.

8/11/2005 Sifolis: 'Blood Bounty: Session- Bordello of ND-N6
There were one or two requests for an actually playing session description of our game Blood Bounty. This is an attempt to deliver said product. Now i WARN everyone, we,…
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Participants: Sifolis, lumpley, Alan, John Harper, Adam Dray, Trevis Martin.

8/11/2005 Lamorak33: Bad GM, Purple Sage - Glorantha
Hi I am a newbie to the Forge, and I am continually learning about the games I have played, and, in terms of RPG's, the direction that I would like…
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Participants: Lamorak33, TonyLB, Gaerik, Mike Holmes.

8/11/2005 pedyo: [Sorcerer] The Disciples of Christ (prep)
Hi everyone, This is my first post here at The Forge although I’ve been hanging around here trying to understand all this. There’s a lot of information and the learning…
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Participants: pedyo, StalkingBlue, Ron Edwards.

8/11/2005 Frank T: [DitV] And HOW the town creation rules work!
I had forgotten how preparing for play can be almost as much fun as actually playing. So I have this forum meeting this weekend, which I’ve been looking forward to…
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Participants: Frank T, Yokiboy, rrr, Nicolas Crost.

8/10/2005 Marco: Player Conflict! [StarCluster]
I've been in a moderately long running IRC game of StarCluster (a space-faring RPG in the hard-science style of Niven). The characters are crew and owners of a stolen space…
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Participants: Marco, Adam Dray, StalkingBlue, Andrew Norris, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Mark Woodhouse, Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2005 D. Woolsey: [Battleaxe] Fires of Talisman Gate
The Fire of Talisman Gate is a campaign I started on 8-5-05. The game is scheduled to run for three weeks and will be played five nights a week for…
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Participants: D. Woolsey, Clinton R. Nixon, Adam Dray.

8/10/2005 Bret Gillan: Sorcerer: The Flesh Market First Session
Previous threads: Homecoming, Forming a Gaming Group, and Sorcerer The Flesh Market One-Sheet My players, Chadd, Josh, and Tom came over to my apartment for our first night…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, James Holloway, bcook1971, pfischer.

8/9/2005 Miskatonic: [Capes] Floundering on Infinite Earths
So we got together on short notice at the FLGS to play some Capes. Chris, Steve, Shane, and I finally got to meet Mark. We decided we wanted to do…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Christopher Weeks, Grover, Mark Woodhouse, TonyLB, jburneko, Stickman.

8/9/2005 Halzebier: [The Pool] First Experience (long)
Hi there! I GMed The Pool for the first time yesterday night. It was all I had hoped for, though I did make some mistakes. Also, I can't wait to…
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Participants: Halzebier, Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth, JamesDJIII, JasperN., Jasper Polane.

8/9/2005 hardcoremoose: Bacchus owns me...
Read this quickly, breathlessly, or for better effect, do it out loud or have someone else read it to you (not at work though): I awaken that morning in Puteoli…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Pauls Girl, John Harper, Paul Czege, Uzzah, Sifolis.

8/9/2005 rafial: [Stranger Things] Heartbreak in the City of Forgotten Gods
[quote="John Harper, in a strange subworld"] I ran a game yesterday for Phil, Tony, and Wilhelm. It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping to convince Wil to write it…
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Participants: rafial, philaros, John Harper, tonyd, Matt Wilson, johnzo, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, Clinton R. Nixon, GaryTP, Miskatonic.

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.

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.

8/7/2005 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.

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8/15/2005 Artanis: [Paladin+W40K] Game prep, or my first try at conscious Nar
I've been reading the Forge since a bit more than a year and am beginning to understand some of the stuff in a way that would allow me to actually…
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Participants: Artanis, Surcapitaine, BeZurKur, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, Trevis Martin, Miskatonic.

8/15/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] Words, Ghosts and Mead in the Vault
Here's the thread in which the foundation for the campaign is laid: http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=949 I ran a series of one-shots with pre-made characters in order to get a grip on the…
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Participants: Paka, John Harper.

8/15/2005 Jasper Polane: [DSA] In the Cave of the Sea Ogre
We've been playing DSA, a German fantasy RPG. The 4th edition is translated into English as The Dark Eye, but we're playing 1st edition, which for the most part is…
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Participants: Jasper Polane, Adam Dray, xenopulse, Halzebier, Sydney Freedberg, Victor Gijsbers, Erdog, Rimke, wkoepf.

8/16/2005 Trevis Martin: The Game of Design
So my group has been playing the new Vampire:TR game.  Our conclusion so far: setting is better, rules still suck.  I had gotten some intense desire back when everyone expressed…
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Participants: Trevis Martin.

8/17/2005 Noon: Address of challenge examples [AD&D, D&D]
Providing some examples for the GNS thread about address of challenge: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16117.0 I'm kind of screwed for examples though. The fact is I've pursued exploration of challenge primarily, though my…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards, xenopulse.

8/17/2005 Darcy Burgess: [nameless homebaked] bouncing player feedback off the illuminated crew
I recently ran an early playtest of what I consider to be a Narrativist game that uses conflict resolution.  Up until recently, our group has been firmly entrenched in Task…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Dray, xenopulse, Andrew Norris, Halzebier, Miskatonic, Selene Tan, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg.

8/18/2005 Frank T: Tell me about your most utter failure
Inspired by this post, I would like to talk about real messed up attempts to introduce new elements into your gaming. I hope that readers might benefit by avoiding the…
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Participants: Frank T, Joe Dizzy, Graham Walmsley, JamesDJIII, Sydney Freedberg, ScottM, Victor Gijsbers.

8/18/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC [long]
We've decided to try out Donjon via IRC. Below is a transcript of the pregame discussions. It's been edited to remove chit-chat and other unrelated text. I was hoping that…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Christopher Weeks, greyorm, Miskatonic.

8/19/2005 Lamorak33: Introducing narrativism and 'my guy' player behaviour
Hi I am still trying to grasp a lot of the theories around narrativism.  My question relates to one of my players.  I once presented him with a bang in…
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Participants: Lamorak33, StalkingBlue, Miskatonic, Balbinus, Trevis Martin, Brand_Robins, jburneko, Noon, Jaik, James Holloway, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2005 Jonathan Hastings: [InSpectres] First RPG in Years, (Just About) First RPG Ever (long)
Hi, everyone.  I've lurked on the Forge for a while, but haven't posted because I haven't actually been playing RPGs for the last few years.  However, I convinced a couple…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, Bankuei, Victor Gijsbers, Nathan P., Eero Tuovinen.

8/21/2005 Artanis: [Paladin+W40K] #1: Khorne (Introduction to the game)
This is the first session of the game described here. The aim of the session was twofold: introduce players to the game and test the use of music to support…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

8/22/2005 Gaerik: GenCon, GNS and the Games I Played
Greetings fellow Forgites, GenCon was a blast.  I met lots of Forgites and found every one of them to be excellent folks.  If you haven't ever been to GenCon and…
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Participants: Gaerik, Mike Holmes, Yokiboy, rafial.

8/23/2005 bluegargantua: [Bacchanal] GenCon Playtest
Hey,   So.  GenCon.  It was my first time and a hoot.    I didn't do a whole lot of actual gaming for reasons that belong in another post.  I…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Yokiboy, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Star, Paul Czege.

8/23/2005 MatrixGamer: Folio Engle Matrix Game at Gen Con
First - to be up front - I publish these game. BUT this is based on my playing in one as a player (keeping my mouth shut about how it…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, Miskatonic.

8/23/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Blood Opera!
I played an awesome game of Conspiracy of Shadows Revised Friday night at GenCon and thought I'd share. This game knocked my socks off and I really think more people…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Bob Goat, Michael S. Miller, Jake Norwood.

8/23/2005 inthisstyle: Online Harry Potter Game: GM Epiphany
My wife Krista started an online Harry Potter game for some offline gaming friends. Three of us made up characters, and then made initial posts, about a month ago. That…
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Participants: inthisstyle, xenopulse, MatrixGamer.

8/24/2005 hix: Star Wars d20: Is this Sim vs. Gamism?
Our group’s just started a d20 Star Wars game, which’ll probably run 4 or 5 eps (face to face). It's set about 80 years after the end of Return of…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic, gsoylent, Rob Carriere, epweissengruber, Sydney Freedberg, Seraph, Svend, Mike Holmes.

8/24/2005 pfischer: [PTA] The Last Shore
I mananaged to persuade a couple of friends to join me in a game of PTA. We play IRC due to the fact that I am based in the UK…
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Participants: pfischer, David Bapst, Munkholt, pedyo, Matt Wilson, Rune, Eynowd.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for DitV at ConQuest
So I signed up to run a Dogs in the Vineyard game at ConQuest.  I've got six hours officially, but I expect to wrap up by five. Following Vincent's advice…
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Participants: John Kim, cdr, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for Buffy at ConQuest
So my other game at ConQuest will be Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG.  I'll be running the third in a series of games I've been doing set in Santa Cruz,…
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Participants: John Kim, Mike Holmes.

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