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12/19/2005 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Follow-Up Playtest: Old Gods Get Mean
So we got together again last Friday for another playtest session of Mortal Coil. This was a follow-up session to the one I wrote about last month, and we preserved…
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Participants: inthisstyle, gains.

12/19/2005 TonyLB: [Amber] Why won't you let me set stakes?
I'm taking Paka's advice to put the question of "What are stakes?  What is risk?  Does it imply gambling?" into the context of my own experiences with folks who couldn't…
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Participants: TonyLB, C. Edwards, Marhault, Supplanter, Joshua BishopRoby, Brand_Robins, Mark Woodhouse, Mikko Lehtinen, Noon, Andy Kitkowski, Bankuei, William Burke, Gaerik, Blankshield, Thor Olavsrud, Unco Lober, Storn.

12/19/2005 gains: [Mage] Cross pollination
My usual DitV game almost wasn't on last night. In fact, I expected it would just be me GMing and one player, so we discussed possible alternates for the evening.…
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Participants: gains, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Blankshield, Noon.

12/19/2005 Bret Gillan: [Capes] Finally, a campaign
I am pumped. For the first time I will be playing multiple sessions of Capes in a short-term campaign. My friend Jere is home from college from break, so while…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, Paka, TonyLB, Jeremiah Lahnum, TheCzech.

12/19/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - A first, another group with the same play style!
What I had started to despair as the impossible has been demonstrated to me to be utterly possible!  Through a strange and convoluted series of incidents my GM and I…
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Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Supplanter, Noon, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, beingfrank, RDU Neil.

12/19/2005 ragnar: [PTA] Somewhere in Newfoundland - population 15.000
We just finished a very successful first session of Prime Time Adventures (thanks Matt for a great game). One of the elements that I think made this work so well…
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Participants: ragnar, ScottM.

12/18/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [The Face of Angels] Playtest - Camera... lights... revolution!
We played our first session of Clinton's new game The Face of Angels yesterday. It rocked. It felt much more like playing a complete game than like playing a playtest…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger, Remko, Wilco Smits, Aman the Rejected, Paul Bakker.

12/18/2005 KingstonC: [the shadow of yesterday] Rats, Revenge, and Revolution (part 2)
This is the second part of my Rats, Revenge, and Revolution actual play report. It describes the final act in my wonderfully successful The Shadow of Yesterday campaign. When we…
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Participants: KingstonC, Clinton R. Nixon, Kamia.

12/18/2005 Levi Kornelsen: [DitV] The lights go on.
Three of my regular players made Dogs last night. It was easily among my top five game sessions of the year, and we did was make freaking characters. Here's the…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, coffeestain, Calithena, Sydney Freedberg, Supplanter.

12/16/2005 matthijs: [Prime Time Adventures] "Renselsen" and the role of Facilitator
We've started the third epoch of our Draug campaign, set in a mythical Norway in the early 1800's. Since the second epoch ended in a local apocalypse - the coastal…
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Participants: matthijs, SabreCat.

12/16/2005 Arpie: [Capes] Party Tricks
Some manga-obsessed friends of mine (I dislike manga and, for the most part, anime, but I don't have many friends) ran a couple games of Capes over at their house…
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Participants: Arpie, contracycle, Sydney Freedberg, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Grover.

12/16/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our second session
Write Up of Second Sorcerer Session The description of the characters and the write up of the first session are here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17765.0 Demons are limited to Passers (in animal form)…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Julian, Trevis Martin, Eero Tuovinen, Victor Gijsbers, Bret Gillan, joshua neff, Valamir, mneme, Calithena, rafial, coffeestain, demiurgeastaroth.

12/15/2005 KingstonC: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Rats, Revenge, and Revolution (part 1)
As the moon begins it’s monthly swallowing of the sun, an army lies on the banks of the Fox river, poised to claim a prize that could tip the balance…
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Participants: KingstonC, Paka, Supplanter, Mike Lucas, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/14/2005 Kaare Berg (Old): [Descent] – Why do we do that?
Thanks to Mike Sand's enthusiasm I just had to speed up the development of this here apprentice game of mine. We had play test number two yesterday and it went…
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Participants: Kaare Berg (Old), GnS.

12/14/2005 jmac: [actual] transition
  There was a game played, live action city-based (a kind of looking-like-human stuff), couple of dozens of players. Concepts of CA were implicitly used in theory and discussion of…
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Participants: jmac, ScottM, Adam Dray.

12/13/2005 pells: [Avalanche] part I - with unprepared players (very long post)
This is my first post in atual play, so I hope I get it right. I've introduced a theory about how I write, you can find here : http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17553.0 I…
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Participants: pells, Storn.

12/13/2005 MrUniverse: {Cycle} Mini RPG Actual play experience
My group gathered together at around 7 to give cycle a try.  We're a small group since katrina came, only 3.  I wanted to try cycle my compatriots had no…
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Participants: MrUniverse.

12/13/2005 Jason Newquist: [DitV] Men are pigs!
I'd like to talk about one of the Accomplishments from an online game of Dogs in the Vineyard I'm running in realtime chat (a MUSH rather than an IRC channel,…
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Participants: Jason Newquist, Sydney Freedberg, Vaxalon, inthisstyle, Paka.

12/13/2005 ragnar: [The Pool] Spring festival (first time)
This was our first time ever playing The Pool. Most of the players are long time role-players, though we have little experience with Forge games, though we've done a lot…
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Participants: ragnar, Roger, cpeterso.

12/12/2005 Graham Walmsley: [All Creatures Crazed and Feral] Letting players decide the story
At Dragonmeet, I ran "All Creatures Crazed And Feral", a werewolf LARP . It was about werewolves threatening a Yorkshire village. (If you know British television, then it was a…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Levi Kornelsen, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, jasonm, Lig.

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12/20/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our third session
Sorcerer: Third Session The description of the characters and the write up of the first session are here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17765.0 The write up of the second session is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18035.0 Demons…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, droog, Julian.

12/20/2005 Darcy Burgess: Stakes, Con Res and Honesty
I've had a personal epiphany of late.  Or, rather, my academic lobe has had an epiphany and I think that my GM habits lobe is standing in the dust going…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, TonyLB.

12/21/2005 KingstonC: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Rats, Revenge, and Revolution (part 3)
This is the third and final post describing the last act of my The Shadow of Yesterday campaign. Kamia took the vial. She swore to the sky, screamed, spit, called…
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Participants: KingstonC, Clinton R. Nixon, Kamia.

12/21/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [Polaris] The Fifth Remnant: Southfork
Our group got together on Monday night for the first of a 3-4 session run of Polaris. I have a few questions about the game and our session, which will…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Hermes3.

12/21/2005 RDU Neil: (Champions/Hero) Stakes before Sim...
So... been playing Champions/Hero since 1st Edition.  Come a long way over the last 25 years... but still find the core task resolution, combat system to be the most flexible…
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Participants: RDU Neil, Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, Noon, Storn, Mark Woodhouse, Alan, John Kim, Doug Ruff, Wolfen, Valamir, Paka, Tommi Brander, xenopulse, droog, TonyLB, daHob, Hisho.

12/21/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] Applying "know what you're rolling for before you pick up the dice"
We had another session of Cold Iron last night, and I got to apply some new rules I've been hashing out. Cold Iron has a perception attribute, Alertness, which has…
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Participants: ffilz, Bankuei.

12/21/2005 Arturo G.: [DitV] Fun, fun, fun... with no fighting!
Hi,there! We had our first session of DitV last week. I was the GM and only two players. We were mainly learning how the system works. I used the first…
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Participants: Arturo G., Adam Dray.

12/22/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Dark Goddess Regina
Another game of the Roach last night.  In case you were wondering, there was a wonderful conflict over who, among the 100% Roach-infested PCs, got to sacrifice Regina Sutton to…
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Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, Technocrat13, Valamir, Mark Woodhouse, Myrmidon.

12/22/2005 dindenver: [LoL] Custom Talent system
Hi!   Every character in my game has one Talent. The system to design Telents is easily customizable and is an analog system, you can use it to create stuff…
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Participants: dindenver, Nogusielkt, MikeSands.

12/23/2005 matthijs: [Descent] Playtest
[b]Context: The real people.[/b] I’ve been chatting a bit with Kaare (Negligent) about RPG theory. He and I are two of the more theory-interested tabletop gamers in Norway. When I…
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Participants: matthijs, Kaare Berg (Old), Olorin.

12/23/2005 James_Nostack: Request: best "actual advice" on Scenario Prep
I'm asking GM's for their own Actual Play examples of good scenario design, for a project I'm doing.  My own contribution is at the bottom.  Project details follow: I've written…
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Participants: James_Nostack, TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

12/23/2005 joepub: [Point of Collapse] Of munchkins and min/maxers
So, the reason my d&d group fell apart was a Minotaur Barbarian with Cleave and Power Attack, and a gigantic axe. Or, rather, the player behind said minotaur barbarian. Worst…
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Participants: joepub, Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, abzu, Marco.

12/24/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Poisoner's Day
I played the Roach again last night with three non-gamers.  My wife Autumn, who is familiar with the game (she's copy editing it), has played Breaking the Ice once and…
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Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13.

12/25/2005 denagar: Free storytelling rpgs?
Hi, I'm looking for a storytelling rpg, where all the players participate. Are there any good free systems which can give some guidance? Thanks!
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Participants: denagar, tygertyger, Trevis Martin, nilsderondeau, WhiteRat, Joshua BishopRoby, demiurgeastaroth, Arturo G., Paul Czege, Lxndr, Dantai, nikola, Ron Edwards.

12/28/2005 Chris Goodwin: [PTA] Request for assistance (reassurance?).
We pitched a series tonight, though we didn't get to the first episode or even all the way through protagonist creation.  The series title is "The Long Way Home".  It's…
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Participants: Chris Goodwin, Alan, Frank T, nikola, Blankshield, Noon.

12/29/2005 Mark Woodhouse: [Shab al-Hiri Roach] The Joy of Depravity
[i]The Shab al-Hiri Roach[/i] was the inaugural game for my Sunday Short Subjects group (basically a variation of the Stealth Gaming meme - pick a day, see who can come…
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Participants: Mark Woodhouse, jasonm, Miskatonic, Kesher.

12/29/2005 xenopulse: [AD&D] Fun in Preparations
The following is an example of why I initially thought that the group I am currently playing with is Sim oriented (but it turned out that, when push comes to…
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Participants: xenopulse, Mark Woodhouse, ScottM, Noon, Vaxalon, Storn, Joshua BishopRoby, Miskatonic, Chris Geisel.

12/30/2005 Noon: [Rifts] Monster with a past; risking the chance of showing it
I'm not sure I'm being a good forgite writing posting this in a new thread, because I don't have much to add myself. But I dig the request since it…
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Participants: Noon, TonyLB.

12/30/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Domus] The Colour of Verbal Diarrhea
yeah, yeah.  EWWWWWWWW.....but you clicked on it, didn't you? I'm starting this thread to bat the ball around regarding an interesting behaviour I witnessed during a playtest of Domus. While…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess.

12/30/2005 Storn: Successful Night, but.....
Okay, I just ran one of my more successful eps.  Despite being rusty as a GM.  It was a complicated drug, law enforcement storyline involving political families but with a…
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Participants: Storn, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Joshua BishopRoby, Tommi Brander, Jared A. Sorensen, ks13, contracycle.

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