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11/28/2005 lampros: [Exalted: Abyssals] "Interactive Storytelling" and really cool descriptions
Hey all, I'm currently running a game of White Wolf's Exalted: the Abyssals. Exalted is a (rigorously non-D&D) fantasy world which puts a heavy focus on setting. Characters are some…
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Participants: lampros, Matt, Danny_K, nikola, Blake Hutchins.

11/27/2005 Jaik: [Capes] "Like the Tick?"
Our tale begins four weeks ago, as four friends gather together... First, a description of the group: Me-Late 20's, married, no kids yet.  I've been gaming about 12 years, mostly…
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Participants: Jaik, Yokiboy, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

11/25/2005 Vaxalon: Remembrances of Campaigns Past
Remember those campaigns of our youth, back when we were teenagers, that seemed to have gone on forever? You know how now that we're getting older, that they just don't…
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Participants: Vaxalon, ffilz, WalkingDead, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2005 oliof: [PtA] Eiffel City, the worlds' capital
Hello, a short report on my  experience with PtA on a weekend con. There was tremendous interest in PtA, and I had a whopping seven players at the table. Some…
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Participants: oliof.

11/23/2005 Dantai: [Contenders] First playtests (and muchos beer). S'gonna be Long.
I've now played Ronnie award winner (never gonna get tired of that) Contenders with two very different groups. Both times under the influence of copious amounts of alcohol. Still there's…
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Participants: Dantai.

11/23/2005 Unco Lober: [Apocalypse Girl] The full-game playtest report
For those not familiar with the subject: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17632.0 http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Apocalypse_Girl.php - At last we have played this promising game and have much to tell. There were three players, just as proposed…
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Participants: Unco Lober, Mike Holmes, Sydney Freedberg, Ramidel.

11/22/2005 Dantai: [Rolemaster] When Worlds Collide - A perfect execution of simulationist play
Well I've just returned from one of my quasi-regular jaunts north of the border which means I actually got to do some role-playing! Woo-pah! The main reason was our group's…
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Participants: Dantai, Mike Holmes, Mark Woodhouse, NN, Kesher, kingreidos.

11/22/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [With Great Power] The Vigiles Revisited
I've owed Michael another actual play post about my With Great Power game for a while now. Here's the thread I started after our first session. Last week we had…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, James_Nostack, rafial, abzu, CPXB, Michael S. Miller.

11/21/2005 diadochi: [WHFR][CoC]Two experiences, both bad, where am I going wrong
Hi, This is my first post to the Forge. I’m posting here because a friend said to me that the members of the Forge are helpful in the sense they…
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Participants: diadochi, John Burdick, CPXB, Liminaut, Kaare Berg (Old), Victor Gijsbers, Rob Alexander, James_Nostack, nikola, Ron Edwards, Noon, Bankuei, rafial, lumpley, mutex.

11/21/2005 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Old Gods - the first playtest
I ran the first playtest for Mortal Coil last Friday. I had four players in attendance, Bill, Eric, Russ, and Krista. Krista dropped out to go to bed about an…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Sean, Michael S. Miller.

11/21/2005 lumpley: Saturday on PTA: Quicksilver
So I had the awesomest weekend ever. This game was part of it. Here's me, Clinton, Judd, and Joshua playing Formula De on Saturday afternoon, and Judd wins, and Clinton's…
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Participants: lumpley, Alex Fradera, Paka, nikola, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Matt Wilson.

11/21/2005 Troy_Costisick: Drawing in Experiences
Heya, I'm trying to get right in my head what I've enjoyed most about the Settings I've played in.  I want to understand why I've found certain ones compelling, and…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

11/20/2005 jasonm: [Polaris] "...But only if everybody in the world dies."
Me, Lisa, Nik, and Jonathan had a nice game of Polaris today.  We were all learning (Lisa and Jonathan had played a demo and I own the book), and we…
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Participants: jasonm, Ben Lehman, Arturo G., Jonathan Walton, nikola.

11/19/2005 James_Nostack: [Trollbabe] The Blood Gates
[b]Who[/b] - Me, Jon, and Steven.  We've met maybe 3-4 times for a Primetime Adventures game about Serbia circa 1991, but we couldn't get the whole group together, so we…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings.

11/19/2005 Rob Alexander: [Paranoia] run with non-gamers
This week, I ran a Paranoia XP session with three guys from work. Player 1 - used to play Paranoia and some form of D&D in his teens, but never…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, John Burdick, TonyLB.

11/19/2005 Rob Alexander: [D&D] Back in the saddle
Okay, as promised here's an AP account for the game I DM'd last Sunday. I apologise for the length but I don't know how to structure it in a less…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, Halzebier, ffilz, Joe Zeutenhorst, Roger, Noon, John Burdick, diadochi, Lamorak33.

11/18/2005 Tim Alexander: [UtB] A Girl named Jo
Hey Folks, So on Tuesday we finished up and Under the Bed game that started the week before. The group I do most of my gaming with these days ends…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, TonyLB, nikola.

11/17/2005 Simon Marks: [Transhuman Space] First attempts at Sim play.
So, I started up a game of Transhuman Space the other day, and I wanted to ask about how to make my Sim reffing better. We have three players at…
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Participants: Simon Marks, Rob Alexander, TonyLB, Lamorak33, Joshua BishopRoby, Liminaut, Mike Holmes, Pol Jackson, nikola, Miskatonic, Supplanter.

11/16/2005 knicknevin: [The Memory Cheats] Jesus was Yog-Sothoth's Best Man
OK, played this for the first time last night, using a first draft copy of the rules, and it was interesting: briefly, the system worked overall with largely positive comments,…
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Participants: knicknevin.

11/16/2005 Jonas Karlsson: [BtI] Breaking the Ice in Sweden
I just finished the first date in Emily Care Boss' Breaking the Ice. Me and my girlfriend Helena created characters at a café this Saturday, and finally found time to…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Emily Care.

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11/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] Brief experimental play
Threads to check out first: Ronnies feedback First playtests (and muchos beer) We played Contenders too! Bear in mind, we didn't really get into it in the sense…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Roger, jrs, Dantai.

11/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Space Rat] Femme Babes rock, I want one
Threads to check out first: Ronnies feedback Rewards for femme babes Oh my goodness, what a great game. I'll start with the biggest textual stumbling block…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

11/28/2005 Adam Dray: [The Burning Wheel] The Gift -- at MACE 2005
There's an interview with Luke Crane over at Treasure Tables Read it. It's excellent. Quotes within are from the article. I played in one of the games Luke discusses in…
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Participants: Adam Dray, abzu, Mike Holmes, Iskander, haiiro, Thor Olavsrud, Bret Gillan, Paka, Brand_Robins, JamesDJIII, segedy, Jonathan Walton.

11/28/2005 MatrixGamer: Buffy the Vampaire Slayer/ Engle Matrix Game hybrid
My brother was over for Thanksgiving and as we frequently do I ran a game for him and my wife. A couple of years ago we did a BtVS one…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

11/28/2005 Bret Gillan: [Polaris] The Fall of the Knights
My friends and I exchanged Christmas presents last week (yeah, we're not very patient) and my friend Jere got me Polaris. I'd heard about it, and I thought the gameplay…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, jasonm, Ben Lehman, Hermes3.

11/29/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our first session: Part One: Player Characters and Demons
The actual write up will follow in the next post on this thread. Character: Andreas von Ouranenburg Player: Dave Demast Appearance: Normal, Average, Perfectly Non-descript Telltale: Small animals flee or…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen.

11/29/2005 talysman: [Last Breath] first playtest: altering play flow
Yesterday was a quick playtest of Last Breath, my October Ronnies submission. Quite a bit went on during my Thanksgiving vacation and the playtest kept getting postponed; we finally managed…
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Participants: talysman.

11/29/2005 ptevis: [Polaris] City of Ice and Starlight, Session 5
(Protagonists: Sirius, leader of the Knights; Matar, minstrel turned Knight; Lesath, hot-headed Knight haunted by his father's demon murderer; and Grumian, freakishly large Knight seeking just to be left alone.)…
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Participants: ptevis, Bret Gillan, Ben Lehman.

11/29/2005 GreatWolf: [Polaris] More Peoria Polaris, including a discussion of immersion (sorry)
My Polaris group has actually managed to squeeze in a couple more sessions of play since I last wrote here So, naturally, I’m being nagged to write it up for…
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Participants: GreatWolf, ptevis, Bret Gillan, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes.

11/30/2005 coffeestain: [Polaris] Emails from the utmost north
Hello, A group of friends and I have started playing Polaris via email to waste away some of the slow time during the work day.  While we had a number…
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Participants: coffeestain, Danny_K, Ben Lehman.

11/30/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Burning Wheel] Inheritance - MACE 2005 (long)
I told Luke I was going to write this session up, but I've been thinking heavily about it, trying to figure out where my frustrations came from.  All in all,…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, abzu, Brand_Robins, Thor Olavsrud, Adam Dray, lampros, Iskander, Librisia.

11/30/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [The Face of Angels] A Georgian Hurricane
I just had my second playtest of The Face of Angels, my newest game, and it was good. Before I even talk about it too much, a quick side-note on…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, Emily Care, Technocrat13, Rob MacDougall, Thor Olavsrud, Aman the Rejected.

11/30/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] Campaign wrapup
I don't think I ever posted here on this... I was reminded by Meg and Emiliy's blog. As I mentioned way back here, we decided to wrap up the Arcana…
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Participants: ffilz.

11/30/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] New Campaign
Back here I was talking about starting a new campaign. We ended up settling on Cold Iron after some hashing around between Cold Iron and RuneQuest. The players weren't really…
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Participants: ffilz.

11/30/2005 Ron Edwards: [Lacuna Part 1] "Nine gram medal"
Hello, That does it. I'm outing Jared. 1. He does too role-play, just like I do - both a variety of existing games, and his own. In fact, he does…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Matt Snyder, Jared A. Sorensen, abzu, Sydney Freedberg, nilsderondeau, drozdal, Thor Olavsrud, jrs, Paul Czege, Miskatonic, Danny_K.

12/1/2005 komradebob: Minis, Narr Techniques, and my 9 year old daughter [long]
I've been working on the idea of creating a minis game that uses some of the narr supportive techniques that folks around here have developed. A discussion of those possibilities…
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Participants: komradebob, Mark Woodhouse, Arturo G., joshua neff, Tony Irwin, Arpie, John Kim, James Holloway, Danny_K.

12/1/2005 Rossum: [DitV] First post-Katrina GMing; play with strangers
Allow me to delurk. Firstly, a shout out to El Clintonian for Findplay and D. Vincent Baker for Dogs. Since it rained, my regular gaming groups haven't met. Many of…
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Participants: Rossum, jasonm, ScottM, lumpley.

12/1/2005 Neal: [DitV] Red Horse Pass
This past Tuesday, I ran my players (Dave and Mike) through Red Horse Pass.  The town is described in its own posting in lumpley's forum.  The Dogs were Brothers Thomas…
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Participants: Neal, jasonm, lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir.

12/1/2005 Lamorak33: Heroquest Demo Disaster!
Hi all I ran a HQ demo (a blood opera type game) and there was this bit where in a meeting with several npc's and pc's talking. one of the…
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Participants: Lamorak33, James Holloway, Mike Holmes.

12/2/2005 Jeph: [Exemplar] A playtest campaign that's rocking some serious socks.
I wrote this light game called Exemplar a few years ago. You can find it by following the links in my signature. It was about psychic kung-fu heroes fighting against…
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Participants: Jeph, jasonm.

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