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8/30/2005 Technocrat13: [GenCon/tMW] First time up the mountain.
I've taken my time preparing to post about this session.  I don't think anyone else from that game has yet.  I hope not, because I really would have like to…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Miskatonic, jasonm, Gordon C. Landis, Lisa Padol, Nev the Deranged, timfire, urbanpagan.

8/30/2005 Jacob: [Trollbabe Variant] - Dione's Story
This is a sort-of continuation of my old thread, The Roleplaying Blues over in the Adept press forum. In that thread I lamented over how a game of Trollbabe had…
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Participants: Jacob, Andrew Norris.

8/30/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] DU MUMUA AK/ÑAR
Hello, What a winner of a game. I think this one's top-notch. For those who haven't followed it, the Iron Game Chef contest is now getting a little complicated -…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, jasonm, Sean, Jack Aidley, Miskatonic, Everspinner, Marco.

8/30/2005 RogerT: [Stranger Things] Playtest Aug 26th
A playtest of John Harper's Stranger Things (a development of Trollbabe, set in the City of Forgotten Gods - a place where demons and men coexist, not always peacefully). The…
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Participants: RogerT, John Harper.

8/30/2005 Halzebier: [The Pool] PC sacrifice & epiphany
Hi there! My first game of The Pool has finally run its course, all four sessions of it. You can read about the first sessions here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16316.0 The game…
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Participants: Halzebier, JasperN., Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Sean, John Harper.

8/29/2005 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Playing with my non-gamer friends
So yesterday I got to do something I've been looking forward to for a while, I got to play The Mountain Witch with some of my non-gamer friends. I had…
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Participants: timfire, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2005 ffilz: Engaging learning disabled players
In this thread (and in past threads), I have mentioned that I have two learning disabled players, one of whom is very hard to engage in the game. She is…
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Participants: ffilz, Christopher Weeks, jasonm, Ron Edwards, mutex.

8/29/2005 Andrew Morris: [Capes] Capes is like pizza
I had a session of Capes the other night which made me realize that Capes is like pizza -- even when it's bad, it's good. Let me give the background.…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, droog, TonyLB, TheCzech, neelk, Joshua BishopRoby, gsoylent, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

8/28/2005 jburneko: Con-Game Phenomenon or Actual Play Style?
I was reading "5 minutes of fun packed in 4 hours of dysfunction" thead and a very loud bell went off.  Take a look at these threads: The original L5R…
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Participants: jburneko, Frank T, Jasper Polane, RobNJ, Merten, Nicolas Crost, Sean, Bankuei, komradebob, jaw6, Joshua BishopRoby, Paka, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, GB Steve, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2005 Paka: 2005 Gen Con Sessions: BW, Sorcerer & DitV
I ran three games this year, one off the books due to an RPG.netter asking me to run a game because my two on the books games were sold out. …
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Participants: Paka, Old_Scratch, RobNJ, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [Stranger Things] Blood and Shadows
A playtest of John Harper's Stranger Things (a development of Trollbabe, set in the City of Forgotten Gods - a place where demons and men coexist, not always peacefully). The…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/27/2005 ricmadeira: [PTA] Dirtside - A moment to remember
I have an interesting Actual Play moment I've been meaning to share for like three months. It concerns the closing episode for out highly successful Dirtside series (best thing I…
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Participants: ricmadeira, John Harper, Matt Wilson, iago, Frank T, Nicolas Crost, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.

8/26/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [Conquer the Horizon] First Playtest
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16492.0]Conquer the Horizon[/url] is a microgame of four pages in which the players portray members of an exploratory team from the Old World discovering the wonders of the New World. …
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, Emily Care.

8/26/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [Burning Wheel] Throne of Fire Session I
We played the first session of a new campaign for Burning Sand: Jihad last night, and I thought I'd share. This campaign is set on a world we've called Ammun.…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud.

8/26/2005 Emily Care: [DitV]deconstructing dogs, gencon play
Hi Everybody, There’s been some talk about a certain game of Dogs in the Vineyard that happened at GenCon. It contained some serious and disturbing events that had happened in the…
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Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Meguey, Clinton R. Nixon, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Paka, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, cruciel, gsoylent, GB Steve, Miskatonic, Andrew Norris, Marco.

8/26/2005 J. Tuomas Harviainen: [Moira] Examples of ensemble playing.
This thread continues from a theory thread, and attempts to illustrate the approach to gaming the people there used. Read that before reading this. Moira was a three-day larp in…
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Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Artanis.

8/26/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] How do I improve my reward cycle
I have been running a new D20 campaign since April and things are going pretty well. The players: D&A: the young couple from my previous campaign S: a new player…
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Participants: ffilz, Christopher Weeks, StalkingBlue, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, iago, Sean, Bankuei, Chris Geisel, Jasper Polane, Mike Holmes, jaw6, James_Nostack.

8/26/2005 Paka: Demoed at Gen Con
I find the mark of a good demo is when I just want to keep on playing and see what happens next.  Having bought so many games this year, I…
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Participants: Paka, nikola, Emily Care.

8/26/2005 Nev the Deranged: (PTA GenCon) Hinky Milennium Hospital GO!!
So, PTA once again proves as flexible and robust as any group of players could hope for. I am waiting for the amazing Meguey's AP post, but in the meantime,…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Meguey, Andrew Morris.

8/25/2005 Blankshield: [GenCon Booth Demos] Death's Door
I was able to run three demos, one on Thursday and two on Sunday, during my limited time at the booth.  It's possible that I may have been able to…
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Participants: Blankshield.

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8/31/2005 Gamskee: [Capes!] Brawl at the Taffy Factory
I had recently purchased Capes! and my campus gaming club was meeting this Tuesday, so I had planned to get them to sit down and give Capes! a shot. Worth…
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Participants: Gamskee, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Vaxalon.

8/31/2005 Allan: [Fingerprints] - First Playtest
Here is the first discussion of Fingerprints in Indie Game Design.  This playtest happened before I wrote that post, so the rules took shape as we played.  I'd just returned…
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Participants: Allan.

8/31/2005 Ben Lehman: 2005 Bennie Awards
Ron totally scooped me.  Here's the announcement. <i>I need more nominations</i>.  I've only gotten one set. Hey folks. I've decided to give out the "Ben Lehman Awards for Actual Play,"…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Sean.

8/31/2005 Ron Edwards: [Barbaren] Today, I am a man!
Hello, At one of the dinner get-togethers during the first couple of days at GeCon, we engaged in a great deal of feminist theorizing regarding Barbaren. Several people had independently…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, Emily Care, Frank T, ejh, bluegargantua.

8/31/2005 lumpley: [UtB] Good, Disobedient and Heartbreaking
On Thursday night at GenCon I played Under the Bed with Danielle, Paul, Ben and Eric. It was the saddest game in the history of time. We took an extreme…
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Participants: lumpley, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, nikola.

8/31/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] The reward/hero point discussion
We had another session last night. After a somewhat long social time (partly because I was cooking dinner for myself - note to self - I really need to work…
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Participants: ffilz, Gaerik, Sean, Eric J., cruciel, Pol Jackson.

8/31/2005 leonidas300: Darkun Scum in Cursed Empire FRPG
Ok, just imagine a really nasty piece of work, the kind of character who comes over to a table and starts to spoil your evening where you are having a…
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Participants: leonidas300, Albert of Feh, abzu, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic.

9/1/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC, third session
If anyone wants to read the logs, you can see them by joining the Indie-NetGaming Yahoo group. I've posted the last 2 session logs there. The highlights from last night's…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Hedge Knight, greyorm, JamesSterrett.

9/1/2005 Bob Goat: [tSoY] A Boy Named "Boy"
It's been a while since GenCon now, but I wanted to post a bit about the tSoY game we played one night. The group included myself, Thor, Droz, Clinton, &…
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Participants: Bob Goat, Eero Tuovinen, cruciel, Emily Care.

9/1/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Embassy Suites, with Jasper
Hello, This was yet another of the myriad games played in the evenings during GenCon in the lobby of the Embassy Suites hotel. I had a tough choice of games…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm, Gordon C. Landis, Jasper the Mimbo.

9/1/2005 GreatWolf: [Polaris] Our first actual play
[i]Long ago, the people were dying at the end of the world.[/i] Ever since I read a playtest version of Polaris, I have been drooling with anticipation at having an…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Brand_Robins, Meguey, Ben Lehman, Heraldic Game Design, Miskatonic, Artanis, Paka, John Harper, Nev the Deranged.

9/2/2005 Allan: [The Big Night] - GenCon Kids Room
I hadn't realized there was going to be a kids' room at GenCon, but after I discovered it I was really excited about getting to play The Big Night with…
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Participants: Allan, Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege, Lisa Padol, Jared A. Sorensen, Gamskee, Meguey, M Jason Parent, Bret Gillan.

9/2/2005 GB Steve: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Barker bites
So. Only three of us turned up to play last night which meant that we had to forgo our GURPS Gateway game and find something else to do. I had…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

9/2/2005 Hans: A day at GenCon, and a simulationist comes out of the closet
My first post.  I shiver in fear and anticipation... Here is my first day at GenCon.  I relate it, because during the course of it I finally nailed down my…
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Participants: Hans, cappadocius, Noon, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Silmenume, Wade Lahoda, bcook1971.

9/3/2005 furashgf: Where to get "The Pool"
I've been googling around for James West "The Pool" without success - couldn't find it on his site either.  Anyone know where I can grab it?  Thanks!
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Participants: furashgf, Victor Gijsbers, IMAGinES.

9/3/2005 Lamorak33: kibbitzing
Hi I am starting the journey towards a more narratavist style of GM'ing and recently started as a player in a nrratavist game.  I was not prepared for how unsettling…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Anthony I, Blankshield, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

9/5/2005 GestaltBennie: UtB at HBL Birthday Convention
I got into a game of Under the Bed at HP Lovecraft's Birthday Party, a convention in Vancouver Canada. We had eight players. The organizer had only played it once,…
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Participants: GestaltBennie, nikola.

9/5/2005 migo: [Fingerprints] Second (?) Playtest
This was my first exposure to Fingerprints http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16592.0html, cool game I enjoyed it more than I expected considering my current attitude towards virtually rulesless games, but the lack of GM…
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Participants: migo, Everspinner.

9/5/2005 GB Steve: SteveCon games - Dogs & MLwM
I was planning to run the Roach and UTB but popular pressure prevailed and I ended up running Dogs and MLwM instead. I'm sure there will be other occasions to…
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Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

9/5/2005 Meguey: [The Big Night] Sheckleton's Sacrifice
As promised, I ran The Big Night for my sons Sebastian (~9) and Elliot (5.5), and also Emily, Carrie, Joshua, and Vincent last night. We started a bit late, around…
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Participants: Meguey, nikola, lumpley, John Harper, Allan, Troy_Costisick, xenopulse.

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