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1/1/2006 Rustin: [DiTV -Criminal Variant] Thief Guild Enforcers with d20
I managed to incorporate some Dogslike, Forgish elements into an adventure for my gaming group last Friday, and I must say it was quite successful.  I figured I'd report what…
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Participants: Rustin, Storn.

12/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] The lady and the gardener
Last night, I finally had a chance to playtest the new version of my roleplaying game Shades. What is this game about? The best I can do is probably posting…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2005 John Kim: [Polaris] The Grasping Dark over the holidays
So shortly before Christmas, we were short on players for the Buffy game due to the holidays, and we decided to try out Polaris.  So this was myself, Bill, Cynthia,…
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Participants: John Kim, demiurgeastaroth, GreatWolf, Kesher, Ben Lehman.

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.

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 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.

12/29/2005 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.

12/29/2005 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.

12/28/2005 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.

12/25/2005 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.

12/24/2005 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.

12/23/2005 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.

12/23/2005 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 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.

12/22/2005 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.

12/22/2005 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.

12/21/2005 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.

12/21/2005 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 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 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.

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1/3/2006 Supplanter: [DITV] Bad Touch on an NPC
We finally got to play Dogs this afternoon. I GMed for Bill, with whom I game regularly, and Glen, who is a longtime gamer whom I've known for awhile but…
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Participants: Supplanter, dunlaing, lumpley, Wolfen, Paka.

1/3/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] First Playtest -- HMS Dauntless
We had three players: myself, my wife Laura, and my brother Ben.  Six if you count our three cats, one of which had her own character sheet. We played a…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Brand_Robins, Nathan P., Warren, mutex.

1/3/2006 verbosity: Need rules for 1700's Naval Battles & Bi-Plane Battles
I am working on a new campaign world to try out my new Riddle of Steel book, which I found on this site. So far, here is where I am…
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Participants: verbosity, Valamir, komradebob, MatrixGamer.

1/3/2006 lumpley: Three kinds of character creation
Me, Meg and Emily. We're like, hey, I know, let's make characters for each of our games in development, see how they each work. So we did. All three were…
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Participants: lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2006 MatrixGamer: (Engle Matrix Game) Chaos on Campus - with the family
My sister in law and two of my nephews were over for the Holidays and in between washing dishes we played a Matrix Games. We played "Chaos on Campus" a…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, Sydney Freedberg, neelk.

1/3/2006 RDU Neil: (Champions/Hero) First Try Stakes...
So... just a quick follow up to my previous post which drew a lot of comments.  I decided to try some version of stakes setting in my last couple of…
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Participants: RDU Neil, Hisho, Warren, Storn, daHob, Valamir.

1/4/2006 Tommi Brander: Personality mechanics
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18059.from1136305846#new]This thread[/url], reading the Burning Wheel, and few other factors have made me wonder if there is any reason to make restrictive personality mechanics (instead of incentive ones). Reading my…
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Participants: Tommi Brander, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Storn, contracycle, RDU Neil, joshua neff, inoir, Mark Johnson, TonyPace, Noon, Tobias, Sydney Freedberg.

1/4/2006 Wade Lahoda: [DitV] Second attempt at Dogs
I'd already tried to run Dogs once.  It consisted of a single town spread over two sessions.  Play was hardly a catastrophe, but it didn't feel like it clicked, either.…
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Participants: Wade Lahoda, lumpley, Daermon, cj.23, demiurgeastaroth, Levi Kornelsen, Arturo G., Warren.

1/5/2006 Arturo G.: [DitV] How to play NPCs who wants "to keep Dogs away"
I have noticed that most towns have some characters involved with sins or sorcery who want the same thing: "to keep the Dogs away" (or something equivalent). Examples from the…
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Participants: Arturo G., Joshua BishopRoby, cj.23, Blankshield, Warren, Paul Czege, lumpley, jrs, JC.

1/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] First Playtest
Heya, Finally, I got to playtest Cutthroat.  It was hard work getting my dyed-in-the-wool Fantasy RPer buddies to play this with me, but with enough convincing I got it done. …
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2006 angelfromanotherpin: Addressing out-of-game relationships in play.
Recently a friend of mine, who had played in a year-long game that I GM'd, told me about an unexpected outcome of that game. See, one of the NPCs in…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, cj.23, Storn, Wormwood, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2006 gains: [Lacuna Part 1] Player Investment
I ran a Lacuna game Tues. night for 3 of my regulars. 2 of them had played it with me before so they were already comfortable with the wierdness and…
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Participants: gains, Wolfen, nilsderondeau, Tancred, dyjoots, Jared A. Sorensen, jrs, Paul Czege, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2006 Paul Czege: executive decisionmaking in action, and other influence games
Last week we played Executive Decision. Danielle was elected President. She appointed Scott as Sec. of Labor, Matt as Sec. of Defense, and me as Atty. General. We chose additional…
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Participants: Paul Czege, cj.23, lumpley, Victor Gijsbers.

1/7/2006 Elliott Belser: [PTA] And A Place To Fly Her
My friends and I had a setting, but no game to play it in (though we're working on that).  So - in the meantime, we ran a pilot episode with…
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Participants: Elliott Belser, Anna B.

1/7/2006 GreatWolf: [Polaris] We wrap Polaris
We did it.  After five sessions of play, we wrapped our first game of Polaris.  I admit that we cheated a bit to get there (more on this below), but…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Gaerik.

1/8/2006 oliof: [DitV] Clover Fields Branch
Tonite, we played Clover Field Branch in the Keepers of the Flame alternate setting. It was the second town I played with the group. The first was …
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Participants: oliof, Frank T.

1/9/2006 TonyPace: [October’s Shadows] - Reforging Characters, Dogs Derivatives, and more
[size=14pt][shadow=red,left][b]Revolutionary Politics - The Rough Guide[/b][/shadow][/size] [url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Octobers_Shadows.php][i]October’s Shadows[/i][/url] is a November Ronnies entrant. I got a runner up award, and we began playtesting this Friday. The system is based largely…
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Participants: TonyPace, Storn, Ron Edwards.

1/9/2006 Ron Edwards: [Polaris] Effete, very cold knights and the demons who love them
Hello, We used the introductory phrases as per the rules, but when we talked about lowered lighting or candles, the group decided our ritual-opening would be a flurry of sardonic…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, jrs, timfire, coffeestain.

1/10/2006 Ben Lehman: [Under the Bed] with Mom
I played Under the Bed with Calder and my mom.  This is an account. <b>Social Background:</b> So my mom wanted to play a role-playing game with me.  This hasn't happened…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, James_Nostack, Marhault, Sydney Freedberg, Justin A Hamilton, nikola, Bret Gillan, spaceanddeath.

1/10/2006 pedyo: (mountain witch) questions while prepping
Y'all, I'm prepping for GM'ing my first game of The Mountain Witch and I've got a few questions that I hope those of you who've had the chance to play…
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Participants: pedyo, Matt, Ignotus, timfire.

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