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1/23/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation: Carry] Ah, So This Is Why We Playtest...
Gah, long! This post is the description, the next will be the reflection. Intro Technically, I had a playtest game of Carry scheduled for Friday night at midnight, but it…
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Participants: Nathan P., inthisstyle, RobNJ, Joshua BishopRoby, Doug Ruff, thelostgm, ubergeek2012, Asperity.

1/23/2006 Marhault: Ongoing online Amber game
[b]The Basics[/b] The game is Amber Diceless.  Starting set of players and their characters: A.  -  playing Sarevok, son of Gerard.  C.  -  playing Edwin, Knight Protector of Arden E. …
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Participants: Marhault.

1/23/2006 HenryT: [DitV] A first try
I ran Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time last night, with a group of players, also all new to the game (one had heard about it before, the…
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Participants: HenryT, Alex Fradera.

1/23/2006 Alex Fradera: [DitV] New game, new group, return to play
I posted this in the wrong forum. Foolish, foolish me. Please ignore the one in the lumpley one, and if you have input post it here. Ta. So last week…
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Participants: Alex Fradera, syrupalex, sunnyblue, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, Andy R.

1/23/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [Dreamation, The Princes' Kingdom] The Island of Lo Pang
I ran The Princes' Kingdom at Dreamation for seven players - which is insane, but great! I will tell you right now that it was one of the most fun…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, RobNJ, nikola, Lisa Padol, jasonm, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Morris, inthisstyle.

1/23/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - A really bad game night.
A couple of weeks ago, in my regular game I had one the crappiest times – ever.  The post mortem, however, was utterly fascinating. But first, some background. The game…
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Participants: Silmenume, CSBone, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, Tommi Brander, Noon, NN, contracycle, Walt Freitag, Marco, Liminaut, Glendower, Precious Villain, Rob Carriere, James Holloway, jlarke, Caldis, dunlaing, Mark Woodhouse, LandonSuffered.

1/23/2006 MikeSands: [Badass Space Marines] Trial by fire
Well, I've put together enough of a ruleset for my Badass Space Marines game that I could run it at my local gaming convention over the weekend. I ran two…
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Participants: MikeSands, hix.

1/22/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - encouraging SIM/NAR, my problems
I'm currently working on a rpg project, based on content (setting/stories). I've developed a new desing, a new way to write scenarios and setting related to them. The two main…
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Participants: pells, Tommi Brander, Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

1/22/2006 Paka: [Dreamation, P.T.A.] The Hare and Hound
If someone had told me that my favorite game session would happen at a con I would have said they were nuts. If someone had told me that my favorite…
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Participants: Paka, Matt Wilson, Storn, forlorn1, Nathan P., Emily Care, Krista E, Shawn De Arment.

1/21/2006 Mark Woodhouse: [PTA] We're from the spirit world, and we're here to help you...
January’s Sunday Short Subjects game almost didn’t happen. We lost 2 players out of 5 to last-minute cancellations. As it turned out, though, we ended up with a decidedly off-beat…
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Participants: Mark Woodhouse, bcook1971.

1/21/2006 Halzebier: [The Mountain Witch] Mystified by bumpy road (long)
I ran The Mountain Witch for the first time a few nights ago. It was a fun, but very bumpy and confusing ride. I'm looking forward to our next session,…
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Participants: Halzebier, demiurgeastaroth, timfire, Noon.

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…
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Participants: martino, Adam Biltcliffe, Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, REkz.

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…
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Participants: Jake Boone, lumpley.

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.…
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Participants: ptevis.

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…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Bankuei, James_Nostack, Roger, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, John Kim, Valamir, Nathan P., Kintara, TheTris.

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…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, jasonm.

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…
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Participants: CSBone, Supplanter, Ron Edwards, John Kim, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Tommi Brander, Noon, Silmenume.

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…
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Participants: johnmarron, Warren, Supplanter, Ron Edwards, Storn, Marhault, Marco, David Chunn, Everspinner.

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…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Paka, Bankuei, Joshua BishopRoby, cpeterso, Frank T, Elindryn, 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…
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Participants: Certified, Ron Edwards, timfire, TonyLB, Lamorak33, daemonchild.

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1/24/2006 Andrew Morris: Pacing and trouble players
So, in the games I ran, played in, and observed at Dreamation, I saw some things that I either addressed or am not sure how to adress. In the InSpectres…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, bcook1971, Krista E, gains.

1/24/2006 inthisstyle: [Dreamation: Mortal Coil] Old Gods Returns
Mortal Coil runs again, this time at Dreamation. I had an overflowing session, all six slots were full and Nathan Paoletta joined at the last minute, making this a seven-player…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Keith Senkowski, Ben Lehman, mtiru, Iskander.

1/24/2006 Iskander: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Blood Opera (pre-Dreamation)
[quote="Luke Crane"][center][b][size=12pt]It's [i]Conspiracy of Shadows[/i], not [i]Conspiracy of Rainbows[/i][/size][/b][/center][/quote] [b]Players[/b] [b]Keith[/b] - [i]GM[/i]. Handed out sheets, explained rules, when not looking them up in the book, framed the first scene.…
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Participants: Iskander, Jonathan Hastings, lin swimmer, Keith Senkowski.

1/24/2006 Keith Senkowski: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Blood Opera (Dreamation)
[b]Turtles and Cockroaches[/b] So I ran the Blood Opera Scenario at Dreamation this past Saturday  (with Lisa, Jared, Russel, Rob, Alexander, and Mayuran) and it was a  failure in my…
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Participants: Keith Senkowski, mtiru, RobNJ, Iskander, Jonathan Hastings, Jared A. Sorensen, gains, mneme.

1/25/2006 urbanpagan: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] The Power of Klaus Compels You!
We recently played the Roach at NC GameDay 9 in Raleigh, NC.  We had seven players at the table.  (Yup, seven.)  Myself, Eric, Jason and Remi (all played the Roach…
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Participants: urbanpagan, jasonm, Aman the Rejected, Technocrat13.

1/25/2006 hix: [Lucky Jones] 2 playtests at Kapcon
I ran 2 games of Lucky Jones at Kapcon this weekend & it went down well. By pulling in an extra player at the last minute, I was able to…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, MikeSands.

1/25/2006 Paka: [Sorcerer, Dreamation] Refining Mu
I think, after about four or five runs of my Dictionary of Mu scenario with the pre-made kickers all around, I've got the hang of running this game.  Both games…
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Participants: Paka, Iskander, mtiru, Thor Olavsrud, James_Nostack, Lisa Padol.

1/25/2006 Glendower: [PTA] Jazz or DIE!
This Tuesday was our "in between" gaming night.  One member was absent, so we decided to put other campaigns on hold this week and play cards.  After about 4 hands…
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Participants: Glendower, Paka, Matt Wilson.

1/25/2006 ryanmrich: Rich Forest Game MASTER & SW Florida
I remember back in the day playing street fighter, dark conspiracy, vampire and more games on the back porch. Working on one of his or our or Ben(Terry)s game ideas…
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Participants: ryanmrich, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin, Rich Forest.

1/26/2006 nikola: [Shock:] 0.2.3 at Dreamation: Trash in the hopper
Dreamation does this horrible thing to you. It has a midnight to 4 AM slot that makes you think, "Oh, people play games at this time." That was the slot…
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Participants: nikola, Andy Kitkowski, Paka, Shawn De Arment.

1/26/2006 Emily Care: [Everway Larp] at Dreamation
Hey there, Kat Miller and her friend Michelle ran an Everway Larp at Dreamation this past weekend.  It was a 4 hour session that kept us all guessing and going…
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Participants: Emily Care, Supplanter, WhiteRat, Kat Miller, Andrew Morris, mneme, Lisa Padol, Graham Walmsley.

1/27/2006 ffilz: [Cold Iron] Applying lessons learned
My Cold Iron campaign has been steaming along pretty well. I've really been enjoying not having to prep for hours before the game, though I have sometimes not done prep…
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Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards.

1/27/2006 Danny2050: Disperate Age groups play 1st Universalis game
This is the outcome of actual play of  Universalis. I didn't keep a full transcript of who did what so there are only some highlights in that regard. Players: Aged…
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Participants: Danny2050, Valamir.

1/27/2006 Kat Miller: [Breaking the Ice] A Dangerous game (Dreamation)
I had the great fortune of playing Breaking the Ice with Emily Care Boss at Dreamation this weekend and it was a great experience.  Emily broke her table up…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Emily Care, Andrew Morris, Nathan P., jasonm.

1/27/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation] Building a 10-Minute Demo [Long]
[b]So this was a learning experience[/b] Hanging out with Brennan and Alexander on Saturday. Alexander talks me into trying to run a 15-minute demo of Timestream (keeping in mind that…
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Participants: Nathan P., Iskander, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon.

1/28/2006 Matt Snyder: [Nine Worlds] Voice-over-Internet play (Skype)
Early this month I announced I would run a Nine Worlds game on Skype, a free and easy voice-over-Internet program. I had several interested people, and chose the first responders.…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, pedyo, timopod, LordSmerf, coffeestain, Yokiboy, IMAGinES.

1/28/2006 Anders: [The Shadow of Yesterday] Violence in the wilderness
Hello, Last night I played The Shadow of Yesterday for the first time and I thought I’d register to tell you about it. It was great fun. It was a…
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Participants: Anders, Clinton R. Nixon, pedyo, alejandro.

1/28/2006 redivider: [Heads of State: rest & relaxation] first play test
Summary: the table was strewn with a week’s worth of the L.A. Times, a pop-psyche pyramid graced the white board, the players were engaged & entertained (I think) but left…
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Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, Christopher Kubasik.

1/29/2006 James_Nostack: [& Sword] The Doom of Hanno Mad-Dog
After nine freaking months everything lined up properly to give Sorcerer & Sword a go.  It was a good time, slowed slightly due to the limitations of IRC as a…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Bob the Fighter.

1/29/2006 Kami-no-Mark: [Falling Leaves] The Life of Akodo Akira
On Friday night, Tom came over and we decided to give Falling Leaves a go.  TheTris is a friend and ever since he’d explained the game to me, I kept…
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Participants: Kami-no-Mark, TheTris.

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