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10/7/2005 Kat Miller: [With Great Power] Dr. Mermaid and the Kung-fu Zombie
I’ve been avoiding writing up an actual play post.  Partially I’m afraid of “selling” this game here or at least giving the impression of selling, and partially I’ve been running…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller, Emily Care, knicknevin.

10/4/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Breaking the Ice] The ordeals of love
In my first-ever IRC game, we were planning on playing Polaris; but when one of the four prospective players didn't turn up and the other had severe connection problems, Remko…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Meguey, Remko, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

10/4/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [DitV] All Dogs Go to Heaven
This last Sunday, Andy Kitkowski, who you may know from the Indie RPG Awards, hosted the second YukiCon, his house-convention. We had quite a bit of good play, and I…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, bcook1971, jasonm, Bob Goat, Technocrat13, urbanpagan, Mike Holmes, lumpley, ptikachu.

10/4/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Sorc] Feudal Japan gets off the ground
[color=Maroon]The Preamble[/color] Thanks in part to Ron's really helpful feedback in my [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16550.0]blog thread[/url], and in a very great part to an understanding group of players, our group's first try…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, ScottM, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2005 IMAGinES: Dogs in the Voice Chat
We were all keyed up to play some Primetime Adventures last night, when two things happned. The first was a sudden and serious lack of confidence in the idea we'd…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/1/2005 ghoyle1: Running a one-shot game at a convention
I'm going to be running a one-shot Risus adventure at a local games day in Arlington, TX, later this month (if you're going, you may want to avoid this message).…
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Participants: ghoyle1, Graham Walmsley, Mike Holmes, Ruminator, Madeline.

10/1/2005 Chris Geisel: [CoC] My Overcrowded Pineal Gland (w/ some spoilers)
I played a very enjoyable CoC one-shot with my regular group, a free scenario called My Overcrowded Pineal Gland. Incidently, I recommend the adventure as a real departure from the…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, mutex, Vaxalon.

10/1/2005 ghoyle1: Stupid newbie question
I have a question, but I'm not sure where to post it. I want some advice about writing an RPG scenario that I'll be running at an upcoming games day…
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Participants: ghoyle1, Lamorak33.

10/1/2005 Heraldic Game Design: [PTA] Eat at Joe's - Series Creation
Coming to the HGD Network! Its' the new Hit Comedy . . . EAT AT JOE'S! We just finished the creation session for the series, and I thought I would…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design, GreatWolf, Meguey, Matt Wilson, Paka.

9/30/2005 Paka: Torturing the Youngest in the Group's PC
So, everyone else in the game has to be late and its just me and the youngest person in the group, Kolja.  He's a junior in high school and we've…
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Participants: Paka, Chris Geisel, Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, Andy Kitkowski, majcher, Noon, Storn.

9/30/2005 Jonas Karlsson: [PTA] The Return - Series creation and Pilot episode
Yesterday three guys and I met at the apartment of one of them for a series creation and pilot episode session of PTA. I used the first edition rules with…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, John Harper.

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.

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.

9/28/2005 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.

9/28/2005 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.

9/27/2005 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.

9/27/2005 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 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 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 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.

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10/8/2005 Silmenume: [DitV] - I am an incompetent Narrativist!
I am an incompetent Narrativist!  …But what a fascinating examination of the differences between Nar and Sim through contrast! Last night I met a couple of Forge-ites for the first…
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Participants: Silmenume, Bankuei, bcook1971, demiurgeastaroth, Kintara, WhiteRat, cruciel, Blankshield, Marco, Vaxalon, Noon, lumpley, John Harper, Eero Tuovinen, Brian Newman, Mike Holmes, John Burdick, contracycle, Jaik, ewilen, Ron Edwards.

10/9/2005 bcook1971: [D&D v1.0] Expedition to Barrier Peaks II
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16793.msg178294#msg178294]Last session.[/url] This session was a lot of fun for me. We had a lot of concurrent split-party action going on. Each player (myself and Cory) had multiple characters to…
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Participants: bcook1971.

10/9/2005 droog: [Nicotine Girls] From A to C and back
I had a really good game tonight, but so unexpected! We have a friend staying with us tonight, lovely woman, completely non-geek, non-roleplaying. My wife was in bed, A was…
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Participants: droog, Ron Edwards, Roger.

10/9/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [TMW] Practical GM advice and GNS analysis
Seems I don't have anything urgent going right now, so I'll tell you about my TMW experiences from this week. I played two sessions with two different groups. Here's the…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, timfire, JC.

10/9/2005 TonyPace: [Freeform Play] Streets of the City
[b]Streets of the City[/b] [b]The Game[/b] I’ve been gaming with this group for about a year now. I’ve known one player for a little longer; we gamed together in a…
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Participants: TonyPace.

10/9/2005 Spacecowboy: (CROE) PvP fun and conspiracy in a nondescript town
Howdy all, I'm Woody                   This is my first time posting on the forge, but from what I have seen, this is…
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Participants: Spacecowboy, Travis Brown, Sydney Freedberg, Jake Richmond.

10/10/2005 hyphz: Rage of the broken ouija board, misery of the slow thinker
Interesting revelation took place recently. One of the players in our group, we noticed, became intensely angry if ever his character was tricked.  He'd always try to hunt down the…
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Participants: hyphz, Dev, Eero Tuovinen, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Ron Edwards, contracycle, bluegargantua.

10/10/2005 TobiasG: (Gurps) Encouraging Character Development (Destiny)
Hi! This is an interesting site you have created (and this is my first post here, so if it needs to be moved to another forum, please feel free to…
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Participants: TobiasG, WhiteRat, talysman, Alan, Sydney Freedberg, John Burdick, Rob Carriere, jasonm, Andrew Norris.

10/11/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Eating Regina
Eric, Lisa, Steve, Joel and I had a very successful playtest of the Roach last night.  It went well and raised some interesting issues which I'm addressing in the game…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Technocrat13.

10/11/2005 Jasper the Mimbo: indie flavored DnD. (long)
"we don't have everyone we need for that game, let's start a new game with the people we have here." Normally this isn't a problem, untill the people that weren't…
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Participants: Jasper the Mimbo, Andrew Norris, Arturo G., MetalBard, John Kim, TonyPace, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray, Everspinner, Ben Lehman.

10/12/2005 Arturo G.: [Universalis] First experiment: An intro to a pirates story
Hi there! Finally, I managed to get some people to play. I followed (with some degree of success) the procedure described in the thread Topic: The Belt: Creating the show…
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Participants: Arturo G., Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes.

10/13/2005 mtiru: [Dust Devils] Hanged Man Hang Ups
[b]Premise[/b] This was our first time playing “Dust Devils” together, so we went with the scenario provided in the book called “The Hanged Man.” Players: Ryan Reed (hereafter "Reed"), Jason,…
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Participants: mtiru, Tim Alexander, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder.

10/13/2005 Chris Geisel: [CoC] and thoughts about the genre
Last night during a very enjoyable (and typical) CoC session, I noticed something about the play that struck me as schizophrenic: the genre requires that characters start out innocent/unsuspecting, until…
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Participants: Chris Geisel, lumpley, Jared A. Sorensen, Eric J-D, Artanis, MetalBard, Ice Cream Emperor, Rustin, Ron Edwards, Sean, Rob MacDougall, Noon, carnival.

10/13/2005 Artanis: [Pool Scape] Roleplaying introduction for two new players
Hello all! This afternoon I threw together the Planescape setting (originally for AD&D 2) and the Pool rules, so as to make an introduction to roleplaying for two classmates. I…
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Participants: Artanis, Mike Holmes, jaw6.

10/14/2005 Heraldic Game Design: [PTA] Eat at Joe's - Pilot Episode
[b]Scene One[/b] Space. To the strains of [i]Also Sprach Zarathustra[/i] a large, looming object enters from the top of the screen and blacks out the stars. A thrumming sound swells,…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Mike Holmes.

10/14/2005 Wormwood: A Faustian Arc, or The Thin Line Between Narrativism and Munckinism [7th Sea]
Bear with me here as this is a portion of a game a ran some time ago, but I believe it presents an interesting case study. Context: The system and…
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Participants: Wormwood, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Norris, mutex.

10/14/2005 RobNJ: [DitV] Zarephath, A Town Too Proud For Its Name
So tomorrow night, I'm'a run my first session of Dogs in the Vineyard ever.  Here's the town I came up with, called Zarephath after a creepy little Christian community right…
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Participants: RobNJ, Paka, Bastoche, Spiral Jacobs, Danny_K, lumpley.

10/15/2005 Jasper Polane: [Cosmic Combat] First play-test
We did a first play-test of my Ronnies game Cosmic Combat. It was great! The game still needs a lot of work, of course, but I'm happy to know this…
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Participants: Jasper Polane, Graham Walmsley, Spooky Fanboy.

10/16/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [Conquer the Horizon] Godfria, Mars
Got to play Conquer the Horizon for a second time last night, and was highly satisfied with the results. Players were: myself (27), my brother (22) and his wife (27),…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Mike Holmes, Ice Cream Emperor, Roger.

10/16/2005 Ben Lehman: Under The Bed with Finns
Under the Bed with Finns -- So, on the <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17162.0">tour that Eero and I did</a>, we played a whole lot of <a href="http://www.glyphpress.com/">Under the Bed</a>.  UTB pretty much our…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, mutex, nikola, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

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