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In Actual Play 1/17/2006 energy: Old gamer new game?
Well I am an old gamer and haven't played any games for awhile. The most recent game I played was Wild Arms 4 that came out Jan. 10. Has anyone…
In Actual Play
Participants: energy, Andrew Morris.
1/17/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Recess Game 2: Old Gods
I ran Mortal Coil at the latest Recess game day in New York. There was time at the mini-convention for two sessions, and rather than run the same one twice,…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, Paka, Iskander, gains.
1/17/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Recess Game 1: Apocalypse Boulevard
I ran Mortal Coil at the latest Recess game day in New York. There was time at the mini-convention for two sessions, and rather than run the same one twice,…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, mtiru, phredd, Nathan P..
1/17/2006 jasonm: [FoA] Red Prophet, Black Prophet: I'm what?
[color=Red][fair warning, probably some hot button issues follow][/color]
So we finished act III of our bizarro duellin' prophets of Islam Face of Angels game last night. It began on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, urbanpagan.
1/17/2006 Glendower: [D20 Eberron] Lost that Spark, a Lost Gm seeks advice.
Hello everyone,
My name's Jon. Glendower is a handle of mine from a while back, I wasn't aware of the general policy to use real names here until after I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Kintara, dindenver, Mason, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, RDU Neil, gains, Storn, Gaerik, nikola, bcook1971, CSBone, John Kim.
1/17/2006 Iskander: [MLwM] My Life with Contessa Lenora
[b]Background[/b]
The game took place at Recess - a roughly quarterly micro-con run by nerdNYC, this time held in a large room at the Gay and Lesbian Center, 13th St.,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Iskander, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G..
1/16/2006 Hrimnir: looking for the right game
Hello, this is my first post so I will keep it simple. I hope I chose the most appropriate place to post this... Anyway, I was hoping that I may…
In Actual Play
Participants: Hrimnir, joepub, WhiteRat, Ron Edwards.
1/16/2006 coffeestain: [UtB] Cody's First Day!
(Reposted from the Glyphpress forum)
I finally got to play my first session of UtB last night and the rules held up quite well (though there were a couple of…
In Actual Play
Participants: coffeestain, energy, nikola, angelspit.
1/16/2006 Gaerik: [Capes Fantasy] Good times with Orcs and fire...
Lately with my role-playing group I've been somewhat dissatisfied with our gaming. My thoughts were that the problem revolved around a real lack of investment in what was going on…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Andrew Morris, dunlaing, Vaettyr, Sydney Freedberg.
1/16/2006 Jonathan Hastings: TSoY and Trollbabe: Okay play, Great lessons
I ran two games recently, with very mixed results. The players were the same for both games: Nick, who is in my regular rpg group, and Mark, a very good…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Hastings, Arturo G., Frank T, John Harper, Mark Dellelo.
1/15/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] Second Playtest -- HMS Achilles
For context, first Playtest here: First Playtest -- HMS Dauntless
Timeframe:
3:00 - 5:00 First Session
3:30 - 4:00 Character Creation
4:00 - 5:00 Engineering…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby.
1/15/2006 Frank T: [PtA] One on one with my girlfriend
Yesterday, something wonderful happened to me. I’m just sharing it here, with no particular points beside the conclusion at the bottom of this post. I’ll have to start this story…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, coffeestain, Matt Wilson, Justin Marx.
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).…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tommi Brander, Kintara, Caldis, Noon, Silmenume, Justin Marx, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: pells, Tommi Brander.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: lin swimmer, abzu.
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.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.
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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anna B, HenryT, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris.
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…
In Actual Play
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.
1/11/2006 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…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Frank T.
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In Actual Play 1/17/2006 Keith Senkowski: Conspiracy of Ravenloft: Session One
So on Saturday we finally hit the CoS Ravenloft game and I think it was a bit rougher in spots than it should have been. Don't get me wrong, it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Keith Senkowski, Matt Wilson, Matt-M-McElroy, Paka, Jason Leigh, daemonchild.
1/17/2006 Paka: Presenting Characters to the Players for Con Scenarios
When I have played with my regular group, I know the people. I know that one player is a district attorney, so I give him the thief so he can…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Andy Kitkowski, ubergeek2012, Andrew Morris, John Kim, HenryT.
1/17/2006 Ben Lehman: [KueiCon] Falling Leaves w/ Ion
As it turns out <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17997.0">KueiCon</a> was a massively playtest-heavy con, with playtests of Galactic, Falling Leaves (twice!), Drifter's Escape, Dog eat Dog (twice!), and General Mud, plus serious discussion…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, TheTris, Piers Brown, GreatWolf.
1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Galactic
Hi folks,
So first thing off on Saturday, we got into Matt Wilson's developing space opera game, Galactic, run by Albert Anderson.
Galactic normally involves building a map with different…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, ptevis, Albert of Feh.
1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Falling Leaves
Hi folks,
First- Wow. What a brutally simple and elegant game.
I got to play this with Albert & William, and our game quickly turned into something worthy of rivalling…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, William Burke, Albert of Feh, TheTris, Sydney Freedberg.
1/17/2006 Anna B: The Sim Nar Blur
So I get Sim - but then I'm the kind of person who watched The Matrix and thought "wait that volates the second law of thermodynamics! What are the computers…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anna B, Ron Edwards, nikola, Supplanter, Sydney Freedberg, Joshua BishopRoby, Silmenume.
1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Capes
Hi folks,
Towards the end of the first night, we had 3 extra people show up, and wanted to get them into play ASAP. In hindsight, Capes is not the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei.
1/18/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Dog Eat Dog
Hi folks,
On Sunday morning, we got to play the very awesome Dog Eat Dog, a game in development by William Burke. Dog Eat Dog is a game about colonialism,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei.
1/18/2006 Storn: Character Prompting Sheet
{pardon if this double post}
This thread prompted this in conjunction to something our group was exploring:
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18369.0
Linked below is a pdf to my RPGnet thread on art. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, dunlaing, Warren, RDU Neil, Sydney Freedberg, Kintara, Nuadha, zornwil.
1/18/2006 LeSingeSavant: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] One, Two, Three . . . Roach!
I played The Shab-al-Hiri Roach with a bunch of non-gamer friends this past weekend at the tail-end of a business trip to DC this weekend. We only had 2 and…
In Actual Play
Participants: LeSingeSavant, jasonm, Ron Edwards.
1/19/2006 Maitete: [Sorcerer] First time play
Hello all,
We played our first game ever of Sorcerer this last weekend, and I thought it would be interesting to discuss in Actual Play, both in terms of what…
In Actual Play
Participants: Maitete, Jason Leigh, Ron Edwards.
1/19/2006 Certified: Getting ready for a con: What does a good demo look like?
In the past I’ve run four hour short stories for demos. Sometimes connected with an overall arc, this has had mixed results at conventions. Some advice I got last year…
In Actual Play
Participants: Certified, Ron Edwards, timfire, TonyLB, Lamorak33, daemonchild.
1/19/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Stunning display of honesty - a tale of dysfunctional gamers?
This isn't so much an Actual Play, as a Dysfunction Between Play tale. Something happened recently which left me feeling stunned and a bit betrayed. You tell me if this…
In Actual Play
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Paka, Bankuei, Joshua BishopRoby, cpeterso, Frank T, Elindryn, Ron Edwards.
1/19/2006 johnmarron: Trying to elicit Flags in game prep, an actual attempt
Last night I met with a new group of players that have expressed interest in doing some role-playing to plan a new game. I have only met these guys a…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnmarron, Warren, Supplanter, Ron Edwards, Storn, Marhault, Marco, David Chunn, Everspinner.
1/19/2006 CSBone: How do you reduce Sim prep
I was following the thread on Lost that Spark, a Lost Gm seeks advice. And realized that I feel very strongly that people keep asking the wrong questions…
In Actual Play
Participants: CSBone, Supplanter, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Tommi Brander, Noon, Silmenume.
1/19/2006 Jonathan Hastings: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] At Recess
Last Saturday, I ran a Shab-al-Hiri Roach game at Recess, nerdnyc.com's quarterly gaming event. By "run" I mean I taught the rules, facilitated the game, and also played. This represented…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Hastings, jasonm.
1/19/2006 WhiteRat: [D&D 3.5] Adjust my CA for this game!
Last year I sat down as a player at a D&D 3.5 game of Midnight, a fantasy setting in which evil won. In the very first session, one player’s gnome…
In Actual Play
Participants: WhiteRat, Bankuei, James_Nostack, Roger, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, John Kim, Valamir, Nathan P., Kintara, TheTris.
1/19/2006 ptevis: [KueiCon] General Mud
I brought General Mud with me to KueiCon because I really wanted to give it a try, and there turned out to be quite a bit of interest in it.…
In Actual Play
Participants: ptevis.
1/20/2006 Jake Boone: [DitV] First game for GM and players
So I got Dogs in the Vineyard two days ago, read it from cover to cover yesterday, and ran it this evening. It may well be my new favorite game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Boone, lumpley.
1/21/2006 martino: [PtA] It's Not The End Of The World
Whenever we all get our acts together, I'm producing an as yet unplanned PtA series for some friends of mine. All of the players took part in a one-off I…
In Actual Play
Participants: martino, Adam Biltcliffe, Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, REkz.
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