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10/18/2005 inthisstyle: [Capes] Mayhem in the Museum
I went to Ubercon in New Jersey this last weekend to run full-session demos of indie games. Our first real session of play was on Friday night, when another scheduled…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Bret Gillan, dunlaing.

10/18/2005 Everspinner: [DitV] Lonely Creek and mechanics-created goodness
Hello This was my first time playing and GMing Dogs. The only indie game I have played before was Universalis, and I am looking forward to try out Polaris. The…
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Participants: Everspinner, ScottM.

10/17/2005 Michael S. Miller: [BW] Burning Pirates--Prep for play
I’m posting this both at the Forge and on the Burning Wheel forums, just to show how I’m preparing for my upcoming Burning Wheel game, as an example of how…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller.

10/16/2005 Iskander: [DitV] Green Creek Pass: a Dog's pride and fall (rather long).
I played the first of two Dogs in the Vineyard one-shots yesterday, visiting the unhappy little burg of Green Creek Pass. Since I'm revisiting the town next weekend with another…
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Participants: Iskander, mtiru, jzn, lumpley, Frank T, gains.

10/16/2005 emaise: [Univeralis] Actual Play - The Shadow of the Dragon
Yesterday, a few friends came over and we played Universalis. Well, we had a blast.  Since this was the first time playing for any of us, I had to teach…
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Participants: emaise, Mike Holmes.

10/16/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Sorc] Feudal Japan Session #2
[list] [li]AP thread for first game, [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17095.0]here[/url].[/li] [li]Blog/Prep thread, [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16550.msg182245#msg182245]here[/url].[/li] [/list] [color=Maroon]The Preamble[/color] If you've checked out the prep thread, you'll know what I had in my bag 'o tricks…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Tymen.

10/16/2005 Wolfen: Rats in the Walls: second playtest
This weekend was an odd weekend for my gaming group. Due to some compositional changes, my normal games are falling by the wayside, and as it was my turn to…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Lxndr.

10/16/2005 jrs: [DitV] The Death of Brother Hiram
[i]Brother Hiram could take care of his own and didn't need help from no one, especially not from these two strange Dogs standing in his house.  He dragged Brother Newton…
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Participants: jrs, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

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.

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.

10/15/2005 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.

10/14/2005 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.

10/14/2005 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 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.

10/13/2005 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.

10/13/2005 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 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.

10/12/2005 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.

10/11/2005 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.

10/11/2005 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.

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10/24/2005 Parsolamew: [PtA} Ohio: 4431
My group has just started getting past the toe-dipping stage of indie gaming, having played a moderate bit of DitV, trading off GM duties and such.  I've been itching to…
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Participants: Parsolamew, James Holloway, Matt Wilson, lumpley, John Harper, pxib, thazdor, Alan, nikola.

10/24/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] Great game starting to wrap up
I've talked about this game before in: How do I improve my reward cycle{/url] The reward/hero point discussion{/url] Engaging learning disabled players I've also…
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Participants: ffilz, ScottM, MetalBard, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Sean, John Harper.

10/24/2005 Arturo G.: [MLwM] Humiliation: Another way to increase a minion's self-loathing.
In my first session of MLwM I was acting as The Master, an old-family lord in Galicia, the north-west region of Spain, a land of forgotted low-mountain-valleys, rain and myst.…
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Participants: Arturo G., TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Vaxalon.

10/24/2005 Jonathan Hastings: [PTA] Moon Town--pitch and pilot
So, basically, the substance of what I have to say about PTA is: "Wow.  It works." A little more detail. The Players: Me, Nick, and Bryan--see this Actual Play report…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, John Harper.

10/25/2005 Trevis Martin: Universalis, Entropy and the Fall of the Uniwiki
After a fourth and fifth try, our attempts at playing Universalis by Wiki have come to an anticlimactic end. I think Mike's original idea, way back when we started thinking…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, ScottM, Valamir, Mike Holmes, nijineko, nilsderondeau, greyorm, Christopher Weeks, CPXB, Noon, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 Lamorak33: Reducing drift and spooning out fog
Hi all On monday we played Heroquest, I as GM.  One of my players characters had a spear in his hand, was 20 feet away from a guy he wanted…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Silmenume.

10/28/2005 Eric J.: [D&D] Differing Dynamics
Hey, I've gone a while without roleplaying (a number of months).  See, I've recently moved and started college and now I've found a new group to roleplay with. I was…
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Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, JasperN., Halzebier, NN, Andrew Norris, Jeph, Noon, Vaxalon.

10/28/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Beginning Character Creation
Table of contents for this rambly post: 1. Meeting, with notes about food 2. Characters 3. One sheet, third and current draft (with thanks to Jesse, Josh, Julian, Dave, and…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Trevis Martin, mneme, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2005 James_Nostack: [PTA] Radio Free Kroia!
Welcome to Kroia, economic powerhouse of the Eastern European (or possibly Central Asian) nation of Navistan.  Kroia is a port city known for its shipyards.  In the Summer of 1991,…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Jonathan Hastings, nikola, komradebob, demiurgeastaroth.

10/28/2005 MatrixGamer: The Great Engle Matrix Game Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction
The Great Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction An interesting debate has come up from the latest Play by Email Game – “Zulu.”  The game is based on…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, contracycle.

10/30/2005 Bret Gillan: [Age of Gods] First Ever Session of AoG
Previous thread: First thread - basic concepts Myself and my friends Tom and Jeremy got together to playtest what are currently what I've called my "alpha rules" - rules…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/31/2005 Rob Alexander: [Shadowrun] What's wrong here?
I think this is one of these "Please diagnose my problem" threads. I'm a jaded player who's been out of rpgs for a while, and I'm trying to work out:…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Technocrat13, Noon, nikola, mutex, Victor Gijsbers, Lamorak33, TonyPace, John Burdick, Rob Carriere, ffilz, gsoylent, Ron Edwards.

11/1/2005 Rob Alexander: [D&D] Good solid gamism?
Hi all, I'm posting this in response to a request in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17449.0. I'm currently playing in a D&D game and actually enjoying it. Outside of boffer LARP, this is the…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Rob Carriere, ScottM, Bankuei, ffilz, John Harper, Noon, Halzebier, b_bankhead, Gaerik, Simon Marks, Eric J., Mike Holmes, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

11/1/2005 ffilz: My experiences with running Rune Quest
Ok, I was about to post on this subject when Rob Alexander referenced this thread. I am again at a crossroads of trying to decide whether to run Rune Quest…
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Participants: ffilz, CPXB, Christopher Weeks.

11/2/2005 Paka: [P.T.A.] The Pitch and the Brainstorm Uncovers: Chronos Commandoes
I've been wanting to get these buddies together and Produce a game of PTA for months now and finally, tonight, the stars were right. I told them about the show…
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Participants: Paka, ScottM.

11/3/2005 Asteele: First Sorcerer (victorian england)
Sorcerer Actual play. Ran my first game of sorcerer Tuesday, was me as GM and two players.  J and S.  This was meant to be a short series (2-3 game…
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Participants: Asteele, Justin Marx, Ron Edwards, Lamorak33.

11/3/2005 Frank T: Old group, new Creative Agenda?
This is a “help me cure my actual play” post. So I’m playing Pool and PtA and DitV and MLwM and (soon) Polaris with cool folks I know from the…
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Participants: Frank T, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, Scripty, Sydney Freedberg, CPXB, MetalBard, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Norris, JasperN., Ben Lehman, daMoose_Neo, oliof, Halzebier, Noon.

11/5/2005 Paka: [P.T.A.] Bounty...Hunters
We sat down, six people who had never gamed before and had a splendid game. Well, okay, a few had gamed together but only a few.  I put out an…
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Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Matt Wilson.

11/6/2005 Jasper Polane: [DitV] Tower Creek
Yesterday was Worldwide D&D Game Day, so we took up the plan to play a Dogs in the Vineyard one-shot, just to be contrary. It was my first time…
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Participants: Jasper Polane, lumpley.

11/7/2005 John Kim: Clashes over Channeling?
OK, this is picking up from Channeling and GNS at Ron's request.  I'd like to discuss the overlap of conflicts -- having GNS Nar/Sim conflict within a game as well…
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Participants: John Kim, Joshua BishopRoby, Wormwood, ewilen, Marco, Mike Holmes, Mark Woodhouse, contracycle.

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