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3/21/2002 Ace: What games do you think are borderline Indy games?
My guesses on the matter would be Over the edge. It was published by a big (for this dinky industry) company and had a card game. But it was quite…
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Participants: Ace, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Valamir.

3/20/2002 Kenway: Your worst campaign ever?
Hi. Do you think this is a valid subject to talk about? In particular, lessons to be learned could be summarized at the end.
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Participants: Kenway, xiombarg, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, Valamir, wyrdlyng, Zak Arntson, J B Bell, joshua neff, Balbinus, contracycle, leomknight, Joe Murphy (Broin), blackmanxy, Trav.

3/19/2002 jburneko: Scenario Conclusion, Various Observations
Hello All, On Saturday the current story arc of my Deadlands game came to a conclusion. The session was a landmark in my gaming career since it ended what was…
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Participants: jburneko, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, hyphz.

3/16/2002 Valamir: Profile Comments
Hah, Bailey. I never thought I'd find anyone else even willing to admit they'd HEARD of the Street Fighter Story Telling game. That game rocked. A far better use of…
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Participants: Valamir, Bailey, Le Joueur, Rich Forest, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Sidhain, Jared A. Sorensen, razar, unodiablo, xiombarg, amiel, Matt Gwinn.

3/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer One-Sheet: In His Service
I'm starting a Sorcerer campaign next week, and whipped up this one-sheet after talking the game over with my group last night. I'm posting it here, as I plan to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik.

3/15/2002 Ron Edwards: Profiling strikes again - EVERYBODY play!
Hey everyone, Every few months at the Forge, we play this game. It goes like this: answer the following three questions. No essays, no annotations, no explanations - just the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Valamir, Robert Leal, erithromycin, Ferry Bazelmans, jburneko, Tim Denee, Chris Passeno, Zak Arntson, Fabrice G., C. Edwards, hyphz, Rich Forest, Bailey, unodiablo, Christopher Kubasik, joe_llama, Blake Hutchins, Matt Snyder, Rod Anderson, Silent Tamatama, Michael S. Miller, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Seth L. Blumberg, Armin D. Sykes, Jürgen Mayer, Ace, joshua neff, Sidhain, Gordon C. Landis, sdemory, Walt Freitag, lumpley, Paul Czege, Ayrizale, xiombarg, GreatWolf, Laurel, Dave Versace, Eric.Brennan, Kenway, AndyGuest, Le Joueur, gentrification, Yasha, amiel, Dav, Mytholder, Balbinus, rafael, Trav, Andrew Martin, Matt Gwinn, Steve Dustin, Michael Bowman, Jake Norwood, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen, contracycle, Wolfen, J B Bell.

3/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Violence Future: disgusting! And only myself to blame
Hi there, We're playtesting the alpha-alpha version of Dav's new RPG, Violence Future (check out this thread for previous discussions). It's totally over-the-top techno-future cyberpunk with lots of demons. Dav…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Jürgen Mayer, Dav, hardcoremoose.

3/14/2002 Mytholder: Replays
A random idea: A lot of problems and miscommunications arise in discussion of rpgs because rpgs are essentially a private affair. Sports or theatre has an audience. Cards and chess…
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Participants: Mytholder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, hyphz, Jürgen Mayer, Ferry Bazelmans, Matt Gwinn.

3/12/2002 Kenway: My pitiful attempts at World, Flesh and the Devil
First of all, I apologize profusely in advance to the creator of WFD and anyone who has played it for my mangling of the game: I tried out WFD today.…
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Participants: Kenway, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Emily Care, Paul Czege.

3/9/2002 Tim Denee: Wuthering Heights
I've been going through Wuthering Heights in preperation for a game next friday. Two thoughts: 1) The game should be organized into 'books'. You know, 'Book the First', 'Book the…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Philippe Tromeur.

3/6/2002 Rich Forest: Donjons (and Dragonnes)
Hi—I’m new to the forum, having started lurking around a month ago following the links in the back pages of Sorcerer and Sorcerer & Sword. I got a kick out…
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Participants: Rich Forest, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Kayfabe - lots of questions
Hi everyone, Most of this is for Matt, but comments from anyone who has downloaded the game are welcome too. I played Kayfabe last night and had a fine time,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Matt Gwinn.

3/6/2002 Ron Edwards: TQuid's Sorcerer game
Hi there, A while ago, Tquid posted this thread about his Sorcerer game. I had a hard time reading it; like many transcripts of play, it included a lot…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell.

3/4/2002 Manu: Score !!
Well, there is technically no forum for that but... Not only did I score copies of "Over the Edge" and "Little Fears" at my FLGS, but I managed to explain…
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Participants: Manu.

3/4/2002 Bankuei: Tragedy of Three Kingdoms
I finally got a chance to play with some of my friends something I've been wanting to get to for a while. I've been soaking my brain in old Chinese…
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/1/2002 joshua neff: Hellfire--a Sorcerer narrative
I finally started running Sorcerer. The first run isn't complete yet, but so far, this is the best gaming I've ever done. So I wanted to post about it. Set-Up…
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Participants: joshua neff, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

2/28/2002 Ayrizale: Looking for some advice...
Hello, I had a revalation today. I am the gamer that Ron describes in the opening paragraph to his GNS theory article. I've actually known this since the first day…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, Eric.Brennan, xiombarg, J B Bell, Thor Olavsrud, Tim C Koppang, Emily Care, Mike Holmes.

2/28/2002 Tim Denee: Modern WYRD
Anyone thought about running a modern game with the WYRD rules? I have an image of a norwegian punk band in some sort of peril in the city of Midgard.…
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Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Valamir.

2/27/2002 xiombarg: Wuthering Heights
Hey, all. I ran Wuthering Heights last night, and I thought y'all might be interested how it went. It was a spontaneous thing. Two of the people I game with…
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Participants: xiombarg, jburneko, joe_llama, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg, Christopher Kubasik, Philippe Tromeur.

2/26/2002 jburneko: More SLA Industries or Jesse Loses a Point of Humanity
So, most of you know I have this funny ethic about using the system that comes with a given setting come hell or high water. This stems from a resentment…
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Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, erithromycin, contracycle, Paul Czege, Tim C Koppang.

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3/22/2002 Matt Gwinn: Choosing Games at a CON
In a recent thread over in Indie Game Design I asked the question "what is your ideal system?" Ron brought up that there is no "ideal" system any more than…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, jburneko, Noble, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes.

3/22/2002 Valamir: ForgeCon
You know I just had a crazy idea. There is a substantial number of Forge gamers between Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. We should pitch in rent a hotel conference room…
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Participants: Valamir, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Le Joueur, unodiablo, Dav, Laurel, Christopher Kubasik, Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson.

3/22/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Peter Adkison now owns GenCon
Per http://www.wizards.com/news/pressrelease.asp?20020321a, WotC is out of the convention-running business, and Mr. Adkison is "set to take over the hosting and managing of the GenCon Game Fair in 2002", although WotC…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Armin D. Sykes.

3/23/2002 Eric.Brennan: Sorcerer game last night
I received a review copy of Sorcerer from RPG.net, and after buying a copy for my buddy who's interested in something "different" we set up a game and got a…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, Ron Edwards.

3/25/2002 hyphz: About to give it a try; need advice..
Well, I've just had another lame session of That Game Related To Medieval Underground Prisons (Which Aren't) And Fire Breathing Lizards. Lame because the GM was really trying to get…
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Participants: hyphz, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Clay, Le Joueur, contracycle.

3/25/2002 Paul Czege: character envy
Last Friday we had a character session for Whispering Vault. My girlfriend's character is defined by having grown up in the Warsaw ghetto and her experiences there fighting Nazis during…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Rich Forest, hardcoremoose, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, unodiablo, Misguided Games, Mike Holmes, quozl.

3/27/2002 xiombarg: Court Intrigue
This is the best place I could think to post this. I have faith that Clinton or Ron will move it if it's in the wrong place... I'm considering running…
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Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, unodiablo, Gordon C. Landis, Kenway, Ayrizale, Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins, rafael, morien.

3/27/2002 Matt Snyder: My group's motivations & rewards
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1715]Clinton posted an excellent thread[/url] in GNS Model Discussion about rewards (among other good points). I was going to reply there, but realized this is a thread that's been incubating…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Bankuei, C. Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Gordon C. Landis.

3/28/2002 Dav: Charts & Charts
We played a brief (oh so brief) round of C&C tonight before another onset of Violence Future. Let me just say that the game went as well as I expected…
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Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

3/28/2002 Balbinus: GNS Disjunct in actual play
Hi all, the following arises from an email discussion I was having regarding whether or not injuries should carry penalties in games. Basically, because of differing assumptions about the relevance…
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson, Laurel.

3/31/2002 Ron Edwards: Dust Devils - first session
Hi there, We played Dust Devils yesterday! This represents the first serious foray into a new system for this group after eighteen months of Hero Wars. This group's players are…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, Valamir, jrs, Gordon C. Landis, unodiablo.

4/2/2002 Dav: Godlike
Anybody; I have been hearing much fanfare regarding this game (and not just in the Profiling thread). I was wondering if anyone had played this game, and would take a…
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Participants: Dav, Matt Snyder, contracycle, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Clinton R. Nixon, hyphz.

4/3/2002 Jürgen Mayer: The Son of Profiling Comments
[quote="wyrdlyng"][b]What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played?[/b] 3rd Edition D&D, Blue Planet v2, Worldtree[/quote] Can you tell me a bit about your Worldtree experiences? I…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, wyrdlyng.

4/3/2002 Paul Czege: Real life partners, in-game depravity
Hey Dav, So, my girlfriend just produced an incredibly creepy Whispering Vault character for our upcoming game, a surprisingly visceral character that kind-of took me by surprise. And it got…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jrs, S'Nora, Mike Holmes, Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell, Bankuei, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Clay, Valamir.

4/5/2002 J B Bell: Drawing the line, drawing the veil
In another thread, Valamir brings up the salient point that there are different lines to be drawn as far as different kinds of depiction. Famous in the culture I was…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, contracycle, Valamir, Seth L. Blumberg, Bankuei, hyphz, Daredevil.

4/6/2002 Andrew Martin: Playing "Before the Flood"
Played "Beyond the Flood" last night. The world was the GM's fantasy world after previous adventuring characters had made great changes. We played the new gods that had taken up…
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Participants: Andrew Martin, furashgf, lumpley.

4/7/2002 Clay: Dust Devils Play
I played Dust Devils for the first time last night. We hit a few snags, but none of them related to the system. Overall we really liked the narration mechanic,…
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Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2002 Valamir: Donjon this weekend
Played Donjon some this weekend. Here are some thoughts that came up, in no particular order other than the order in which they occur to me. 1) There are clearly…
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Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/9/2002 Ace: Problems with getting the players to quip and quote (long)
One of the problems I have been having in my RPG campaigns is been getting the players to put a little dialog into the game, I think it may be…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Eugene Zee, Paul Czege, contracycle, Tim C Koppang, TSL.

4/9/2002 GreatWolf: Whispering Vault in play
Hopefully that isn't a misleading title.... I'm actually looking for general comments, thoughts, etc. on Whispering Vault. I was in Peoria, IL this weekend preparing for the big move, and…
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Participants: GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, Petter Sandelin, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer.

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