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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.

9/2/2005 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 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.

9/1/2005 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.

9/1/2005 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 Ron Edwards: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Whoops, forgot this demo
Hello, I knew I was missing something in my Booth play thread. This was the something, when I found a minute to sit in on a Shadow of Yesterday demo.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol, Noon, Clinton R. Nixon, Miskatonic.

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.

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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.

9/5/2005 cruciel: Cliche, Genre, Theme, Myth
So Tara says to me, "I don't like Jeremiah's romantic interests." "Oh?" "Luir and Luccia aren't quite right." "I suppose.  You know who's perfect?  Genevieve.  You could kill Caspian and…
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Participants: cruciel, Jared A. Sorensen, Noon, Eric J., Joshua BishopRoby, Graham Walmsley.

9/5/2005 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Memorial Day Playtest
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15204.0]Several months ago[/url], I sought some feedback for my ideas about a Narrativism-enabling lightweight live role-playing system I call Ends and Means. I playtested it briefly with a group of…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Andrew Morris.

9/6/2005 DamienNeil: [Dogs] Observations from a first game
Yesterday, I GMed my first game of Dogs in the Vineyard with three friends.  This was my first actual RPG session in about ten years, and my first time trying…
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Participants: DamienNeil, Meguey, Brand_Robins.

9/6/2005 Sacha: Great setting, shame about the system
Greetings and salutations. I've been reading the Forge discussions for some time and have had my eyes opened to a larger world of gaming, so I'd like to start by…
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Participants: Sacha, Stickman, Vaxalon, GB Steve, Frank T, nikola, Blankshield, greyorm, Gaerik, Chris Geisel, Ron Edwards.

9/6/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [PtA] New Horizons
In this post I'll discuss the campaign setup session, or Pre-production as we called it. In the next post, I'll describe the imaginary events of the first session which we…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

9/7/2005 c: [Outside] Alpha chargen test
Hello everyone, Background: 2 to 4 times a years some of my friends here in Wisconsin and some friends from another state get together and play boardgames all weekend. This…
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Participants: c.

9/7/2005 Sacha: Rebuked but undeterred
Hello again. Having been gently rebuked for starting a thread that wasn't about actual play (sorry about that), I'm going to try again. I'll also avoid using any Forge speak…
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Participants: Sacha, Ron Edwards, Hans.

9/7/2005 RobNJ: [Burning Wheel] Burning Carnivale
I'm running an ongoing game of Burning Wheel set in a medieval carnival.  You can find the world planning thread here and I also created a Carnival Sub-setting. So we…
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Participants: RobNJ, Paka, elgorade, Chris Geisel, rafial.

9/7/2005 JC: [Mountain Witch] Bangs ?
hey :) I just bought TMW and I'm planning on running it soon for some…
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Participants: JC, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Paka, Albert of Feh, timfire.

9/8/2005 Gaerik: 1 Player - 1 GM
Greetings, I'm wanting to play a game with my wife, who is not an avid gamer though she has played with my group from time to time.  However, she really…
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Participants: Gaerik, John Harper, Dumirik, Paka, Emily Care, Imperator, Nev the Deranged.

9/8/2005 John Harper: [Dogs] Wolves of the North
We finally got to play Dogs in the Vineyard. Or, more accurately, "Wolves of the North." I was GM. Tony, Phil, and Brandon were the players. For various reasons, we…
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Participants: John Harper, tonyd, Paka, Judaicdiablo, Technocrat13, jasonm, lumpley, Meguey, greyorm, Sydney Freedberg, Falc, Vaxalon, Nev the Deranged, philaros, demiurgeastaroth.

9/8/2005 Emily Care: [PtA] Reading between Blue Lines (GenCon play)
Vincent, your wish is my demand:  So, it's Sunday night, last night of GenCon.  Allan, Joshua, Ben & I are up in our hotel room in the Embassy Suites.  Obviously…
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Participants: Emily Care, Paka, Meguey, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Harlequin.

9/8/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC, fourth session
Last night we played Donjon again, set in the DarkSun setting published in the 1990s for AD&D. One of the things we all set out to do was to play…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, greyorm, Christopher Weeks.

9/8/2005 Bankuei: [L5R] A learning experience, if nothing else
Hi, About a month ago I finished up running a game of the new (3rd) edition of Legend of the 5 Rings that ran for about 10 sessions in total.…
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Participants: Bankuei, Technocrat13, Tony Irwin, John Burdick, sirogit, Storn, c, John Wick.

9/8/2005 Artanis: [Paladin 40K] #2: Nurgle (why did I feel bad?)
Following on this AP-report, here comes the second mission. We left combat behind and delved into some more "political" complications. Three things I really need to get straight: 1) The…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

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