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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.

1/5/2006 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.

1/5/2006 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 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 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.

1/4/2006 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.

1/4/2006 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.

1/3/2006 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.

1/3/2006 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 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 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 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 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.

1/2/2006 Paka: [PTA] The Owl and the Serpent
I am fairly damned sick of only setting up or setting up and playing only one session of Primetime Adventures but it happened again.  Friends were in town and it…
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Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Spiral Jacobs.

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.

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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.

1/11/2006 TheTris: [Falling Leaves] First Playtest
Played my first game of Falling Leaves last night.  We used the rules mostly as written here http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18015.0. The most important change made was starting with a sentence written in…
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Participants: TheTris, doogs19, joepub, Ben Lehman, Justin A Hamilton.

1/11/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: Red Prophet, Black Prophet - tying game sessions to the real world
[color=red][b]Serious warning:[/b] Seriously, if you're easily upset or offended about modern-day events, especially those involving Islamic jihad and September 11, this isn't the thread for you.[/color] I've been running my…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Noon, jasonm, LeSingeSavant, TheTris, gains.

1/11/2006 Maitete: System Recommendations
Hello all! I'm not sure this is the right location for this post, but here goes. I have been an unconscious Narrativist gamer for many years, and have just recently…
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Participants: Maitete, TonyLB, droog, Ron Edwards, Arturo G., Nathan P., Supplanter, Storn.

1/11/2006 Andrew Morris: [Universalis] Universalis as a tool for d20 sessions...huh?
[u][b]The Background and Overview[/u][/b] My friend Nick has been trying to get the members of his local gaming group to branch out and try some of the cool new indie…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, GreatWolf, Valamir, Ron Edwards, John Kim.

1/11/2006 joepub: Developing a scenario for a 1 hour demo.
Hey! I'm running a demo of Point of Collapse for a small group tomorrow evening, and am looking for a few specific hints and pointers. (if you are unfamiliar with…
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Participants: joepub, dindenver, Adam Dray.

1/11/2006 Jason Leigh: [CAPES] Specify the Conflict (aka "Be specific Bob!")
So, my bi-annual gaming group and I got a chance to play Capes over the New Year's holiday. It was a qualified success. We chose to play Alias, rather than…
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Participants: Jason Leigh, Andrew Morris, Vaxalon, dunlaing.

1/11/2006 Artanis: AP with the veterans and theory becomes clearer
This thread is especially meant as an advice to newcomers who want to make sense of the articles and sometimes abstract talk going on in various threads. How to learn…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Frank T.

1/12/2006 Warren: A bad session and how to make dice-rolling and 'metagaming' non-evil?
Hello all, I have recently joined a group through a friend at work. I don't know any of the others socially outside of the weekly Vampire campaign I joined in…
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Participants: Warren, TonyLB, jasonm, Ron Edwards, jrs, daHob, coffeestain, Tommi Brander, pells, Bankuei, dindenver, John Kim, Joshua BishopRoby, Frank T, HenryT, Maitete, Noon, Everspinner, Aceris, Caldis.

1/13/2006 Anna B: Changeling vs Vampire
I'm try to understand why I really like old World of Darkness Changeling and  rather dislike Vampire. I've only played both in Minds Eye Theater (the LARP system) and the…
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Participants: Anna B, HenryT, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris.

1/13/2006 Frank T: [Vampire] Hartwurst and Vanilla
We’ve been fumbling with a lot of GNS lately on GroFaFo. One of the issues that arose was about points of contact, the significance of “mere” exploration, and creative agenda.…
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Participants: Frank T, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.

1/14/2006 lin swimmer: (octaNe) question for players
Fuck, man. I was sitting around with some friends tonight, re-watching From Dusk til Dawn, and I couldn't stop thinking to myself, "I wanna play this." I wanna play a…
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Participants: lin swimmer, abzu.

1/14/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - with prepared players
I'm currently working on a rpg project, based on content and on a way to write stories. This is an example of play with players who had been playing my…
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Participants: pells, Tommi Brander.

1/15/2006 Andrew Morris: [InSpectres and Capes] Two-game night: fun, but not all it could have been
I had another meeting of my semi-regular indie gaming group tonight, and we decided to play InSpectres. We whipped through three missions and still had some time left, so we…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg.

1/15/2006 Tommi Brander: Sim systems
I have traditionally liked GMing as running a setting, where players can do pretty much whatever they want. Sometimes in quite defined setting (http://s14.invisionfree.com/Tablets_of_Dleinr/index.php?showforum=1, sometimes a kitchen sink one (http://s14.invisionfree.com/Tablets_of_Dleinr/index.php?showforum=2).…
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Participants: Tommi Brander, Kintara, Caldis, Noon, Silmenume, Justin Marx, Ron Edwards.

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