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9/22/2005 Jack Aidley: [Feng Shui (partly)] Uninvolved player problems
The Feng game I've been running stuttered to an end last night, and although much of it was fun, I'm feeling increasingly disillusioned with two of the players. Some background…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Rob Carriere, Stickman, Noon.

9/22/2005 abzu: [PtA] Execution of a Chump
Dro, Thor, Andy, Rich and I got together to play Primetime Adventures tonight. My agenda for the game was explicit: I wanted to play The Wire. Pure and simple. Of…
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Participants: abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, John Harper, AndyAction, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, Sydney Freedberg, lin swimmer, Technocrat13, Mike Holmes.

9/21/2005 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] Oanakak's Tale
I tried out the new version of Ganakagok last night with one player, a fellow named Kevin.  He teaches things like feature writing (at the school where my wife is…
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Participants: Bill_White, Andrew Morris, jasonm.

9/21/2005 Wallwalker: Help me build up a good game
First of all, you've built an excellent site with high quality discussions and articles, two thumbs up. Now, since you seem to be an exceptionally knowledgeable group of people, maybe…
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Participants: Wallwalker, Bankuei, mutex, Pol Jackson, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, ffilz, Adam Dray, nikola, Ria, StalkingBlue, Rob Carriere, Noon.

9/20/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [With Great Power...] The Vigiles
I ran the first session of my With Great Power game last Friday (the next session is coming up this Friday), and I'd like to take this opportunity to share…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller.

9/20/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] - A frozen town judged by cold-hearted Dogs.
The town of Five Crows is in the middle of a very hard winter.  And many of it's people want comfort in that hard winter despite the steward who wants…
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Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, Nev the Deranged, Roger Eberhart.

9/19/2005 Malcolm: [a|state] GenCon Demos
Well, it's been a while since GenCon, but as things have been fairly hectic since I got back, I'm only now drawing my thoughts together about the demo experience on…
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Participants: Malcolm, RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Paka, thelostgm.

9/19/2005 Malcolm: [Dust Devils] The Hanged Man (sort of)
So, after being intrigued and impressed by Dust Devils at GenCon, I finally got round to running a game of it. The game used the introductory adventure 'The Hanged Man'…
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Participants: Malcolm, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.

9/19/2005 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] King Lothian's Court
[i]Previous threads in this series: its [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15204.0]Debut[/url] in Indie Game Design, the playtest [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15256.0]Werewolves in L.A.[/url] and the [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16707.0]Memorial Day[/url] playtest.[/i] [b]Rochester, New York[/b] -- Last week I visited my…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Graham Walmsley, Andrew Morris, bmgang.

9/19/2005 David Laurence: [DitV] First game, Good Time Had
So, we played Dogs, and we liked it. First, a bit of background. There were two of us playing, me and my friend Brennan. Both guys, both 30-ish. I haven’t…
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Participants: David Laurence, ScottM.

9/19/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Two towns and no resolution
So, a few weeks ago I finally, finally ran a game of DitV.  I ran again today.  Each time we were down one player.  This wasn't a problem for the…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Miskatonic, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

9/18/2005 Wade Lahoda: [DitV] First Time Dogs, First Time Dogs GM
So, I've got my copy of Dogs now.  And I'm ready to give it a run through with an assortment of folks I game with on a regular basis -…
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Participants: Wade Lahoda, jasonm, bcook1971, lumpley, John Harper, Blankshield, Nev the Deranged, XAQ.

9/18/2005 knicknevin: Giving Feedback
Hi, as a newbie who's volunteered to playtest a game with my weekly RPG group, is there any kind of standardised feedback you use? From my experience of training assessment…
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Participants: knicknevin, Rob Carriere, Wolfen, Dumirik.

9/18/2005 Wolfen: Rats in the Walls: First playtest notes
Game Available here: http://wolvesdenproductions.com/RitW.pdf Description Available here: http://www.wolvesdenproductions.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=e0c645d938aac6d0d69626b66c877de8 So! My first playtest session for Rats in the Walls went off tonight. I think there was a lot of socializing that…
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Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2005 rylen dreskin: [MLWM]My Life in Feudal Japan
‘lo folks Mixed results on my first session of My Life with Master.  I think I might have started things too quick out of the gate, and as a result,…
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Participants: rylen dreskin, ewilen, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege.

9/17/2005 gsoylent: [In Spaaace] Ace Reporters!
This is my account of our first In Spaaace game. It may be of interest as it's the report of three people first experience with Forge-like games and ideas (…
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Participants: gsoylent.

9/16/2005 droog: Planning for Charnel Gods
Hi all I'm starting a new game of Charnel Gods soon, and I have some ideas I'd really like to throw around. The characters are: Sorum - an ancient sorcerer…
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Participants: droog, Paka, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, hix, Chris Geisel.

9/16/2005 Emily Care: [Under the Bed-GenCon demo]Fantasy, Fears & fun
Hey there, I been meaning to write this up for a while, but have even more incentive to do so now that J's started his contest.  I got to play…
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Participants: Emily Care, nikola.

9/16/2005 TonyLB: [PtA] Untitled/Bootleggers: Too well created series
I had a fascinating first time as Producer in Primetime Adventures.  The gory details I wrote up here in an RPG.net post (since they totally need more exposure to PtA…
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Participants: TonyLB, John Harper, Sydney Freedberg, Nathan P., Frank T.

9/16/2005 RobNJ: [Burning Wheel] Bangs and NPCs for my first game
MY PLAYERS--PLEASE DO NOT READ. So here are my notes for the first session of Burning Carnival, The Don and the Dame.  Criticism and critique are welcome. Situation: The local…
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Participants: RobNJ, Paka, Chris Geisel, WhiteRat.

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9/22/2005 Pol Jackson: [Amber Diceless] Blood Hunt - 09/09/05 Session
[b]Amber: Blood Hunt[/b] [i]09/09/2005 Session [/i] Finally playing Amber again! I just recently re-started my Amber game, after about a year-and-a-half of hiatus. All the players are eager to pick…
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Participants: Pol Jackson, TonyLB, Rob Carriere.

9/23/2005 nikola: [Shock:] Digging for Mold in the Company town
The first campaign designed and played in Shock: Social Science Fiction is now underway. C. and Vincent played with me. There's a planet. It's called Eck-R-P30: a designation, not a…
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Participants: nikola, Meguey, lumpley, ScottM, joepub.

9/24/2005 Artanis: [Call of Poolhu] Improvised Investigation
Hello! Taking a break from my Paladin 40k campaign with this one shot mastered by our long-time CoC GM. I talked about the Pool and he thought it could be…
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Participants: Artanis, gsoylent.

9/24/2005 Nev the Deranged: [DitV] Sister Deborah's Initiation
Wow. So, totally by accident, I ended up running Shannon through chargen for DitV tonight. A bit of background: I've been trying to convert Shannon to indie games since I've…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, droog, jasonm, Meguey.

9/24/2005 Jonathan Hastings: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] The Dark Fates of Regina Sutton
My first game of the Roach (took place about 3 weeks ago): The players: Me: Just getting back into RPGing after a hiatus of about 5 years.  Having some issues…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, jasonm, NBraccia.

9/26/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, sixth session
We had another game this last Wednesday on irc.magicstar.net. Raven, Nathan, and MikeD played. We also had lurkers galore, which surprised me. BTW, that was a good surprise - lurkers,…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Mike Holmes, mutex.

9/26/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Hogwarts 90210
So at the NoVa Forge meetup yesterday we managed to get through the second-ever playtest of Misery Bubblegum.  It's improved.  It merely confused people horribly, rather than actively reaching out…
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Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Miskatonic, Vaxalon, talysman, Frank T, daMoose_Neo, Sydney Freedberg.

9/26/2005 droog: Charnel Gods--What's Love Got to Do with It?
Well, we started our Charnel Gods game (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16866.0) down one player. Who knows where A. was, but he did have Grand Final tickets for the night before so I suspect…
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Participants: droog, hardcoremoose.

9/26/2005 epweissengruber: Heroquest at Phantasm: Comments on the "Well of Souls"
Scenario: 6 players involved with an intrigue in the West.  On a holy night, two rival sons offered prayers for their father's future; the n'er-do-well elder son prayed for his…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

9/26/2005 Lisa Padol: [PTA] Keruton Pilot
KerutonPilot PTA Write Up: Magical Undying Demon Hunter Keruton Background: In 1991, I started running a campaign I dubbed "CthulhuPunk". It ran for a while, maybe 8 years? Maybe 10?…
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Participants: Lisa Padol.

9/26/2005 talysman: [Court of 9 Chambers] first playtest
in the second half of august, I took a trip to the east coast (Boston/Providence area) to visit with friends and basically unwind before starting another big project. while there,…
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Participants: talysman, TonyLB, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Arturo G..

9/27/2005 Judaicdiablo: [DitV] Firefly in the Verse Session 0 [Long]
Introduction I have taken the DitV rules and adapted it to the Firefly setting.  The Key differences to this setting are: 1) I will be doing Job creation instead of…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, IMAGinES, philaros, lumpley, tonyd, John Harper.

9/27/2005 abzu: Anatomy of a Railroad
While moving some stuff around tonight, I uncovered a couple of dusty old notebooks. They appeared to be from my last year of highschool and first year of college. One…
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Participants: abzu, droog, TonyLB, Frank T, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, xenopulse, JasperN., Joshua BishopRoby, Arturo G., Nev the Deranged, Noon, Chris Geisel, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Sean, Brand_Robins, ffilz, NN, Ron Edwards.

9/27/2005 epweissengruber: Donjon at Phantasm.
[size=10pt]Points Raised in this Post[/size] - [color=Red][font=Verdana]Adapting[/font][/color] old Dungeons to Donjon - [color=Purple]Foregrounding[/color] creative Gamism - [color=Green]Setting[/color] Donjon's "Dials" - The Effectiveness of the [color=Orange]Dice Hack[/color] [size=10pt]Overview[/size] Sunday, 3 pm,…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes, Miskatonic.

9/27/2005 Iskander: [kpfs] not enough grief, or puppies.
After a hiatus of at least a decade, I GMed for the first time last Saturday, and chose kpfs to break my magically reformed GMing hymen. The game's subtext appealed…
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Participants: Iskander, Random Goblin.

9/27/2005 JC: [The Mountain Witch] Newbie feedback
Six of us played TMW for the first time last Sunday. There was some good and some bad. But first, a little background. Although we are all experienced role-players, none…
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Participants: JC, Miskatonic, GreatWolf, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, Tim Alexander, Nev the Deranged.

9/28/2005 epweissengruber: Sorcerer at Phantasm -- adaptation of "In Utero" from Sex and Sorcery
[size=14pt]Points of Interest[/size] - [color=Red]Adapting[/color] the Scenario - [color=Purple] Introducing[/color] Players to Sorcerer - [color=Brown]Humanity Rolls[/color] [size=14pt]Overview:[/size] This was the most well-focused and intense scenario I ran at the con. …
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Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

9/28/2005 pfischer: [PtA] The Last Shore - it's a wrap!
The Last Shore, Episode 5: Dear Elvira. We played the last episode of The Last Shore yesterday, and we were all eager to get a sense of closure to wrap…
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Participants: pfischer, pedyo, Munkholt, Rune, Jonas Karlsson.

9/29/2005 Blankshield: [PTA] The Belt - Pilot episode
Two weeks past we played the pilot of The Belt, which was pitched here. In the after-game banter, our show acquired a tagline: "Hell is somewhere the Company can transfer…
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Participants: Blankshield, Mike Holmes, Rylock.

9/29/2005 Jack Aidley: [Universalis] No shoot out at the Space Western Corall.
This is only my second go at Universalis, you can find Dave's write up of our first attempt in First Steps and may also want to view Feng Shui…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes, Miskatonic, Christopher Weeks.

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