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2/6/2006 Dantai: Online rpgs and pesky monkeys at Cybercon
Well the Cybercon IV online rpg convention took place last weekend. It was an interesting experience for me, since I've not dabbled in online rpg tools before. I played a…
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Participants: Dantai, Joe Zeutenhorst, dindenver.

2/6/2006 TonyLB: [PTA: Bountiful] All you need is Stakes
So Eric (TheCzech) got Sydney, Jennifer and I together to run a season of PTA.  Excellent!  And we made this mutant cross-breed of Firefly (Sydney), Neverwhere (Jen) and Cowboy Bebop…
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Participants: TonyLB, Glendower, Sydney Freedberg, Rob Donoghue, Paka.

2/6/2006 Zamiel: [Capes] Bugs, Or The Nag And I
Really, faster to just post the URL to where I've posted it the first time on my blog: http://zamiel.livejournal.com/997150.html Like most first play sessions, it went straight for the almost-silly/surrealist…
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Participants: Zamiel.

2/6/2006 Gaerik: [FATE] Fate of the North...
A few weeks ago I posted about a game of Fantasy Capes I played using the Forgotten Realms as the setting.  One of my players really doesn't like Capes-style games…
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Participants: Gaerik.

2/5/2006 ffilz: [DiTV] First Session - chargen and initiation
A local group has gotten together to play Dogs (yay Find Play!). Joe is GMing, Paul, Jeremy,myself, and one other fellow whose name I've already forgotten are playing. We chatted…
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Participants: ffilz, Joe Zeutenhorst.

2/4/2006 Anna B: [PTA] long scences, fan mail, and learning to set stakes
So we ran the second episode of <url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18266.0> And a Place to Fly Her</url> last night. We where all kind of tried so the game wasn't as high energy as…
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Participants: Anna B, Supplanter, REkz, Matt Wilson.

2/4/2006 Noon: [Snippet of comp play] It's the game worlds fault!
A very quick computer game play account, involving imagined tactical space. Of course this isn't roleplay as we know it, Jim! But it does involve using your imagination to try…
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Participants: Noon, Tommi Brander, Ron Edwards, Supplanter.

2/3/2006 ffilz: [Cold Iron] Recent Play
My recent Cold Iron play has me really thinking about the system, and really thinking about Troll Slayer (working name for my own game). Out last session was interesting in…
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Participants: ffilz.

2/1/2006 matthijs: [LONG] Trance-induced shared dreams
This is very long. I wanted to chronicle everything as accurately as I could, since this is the first time I've tried anything like this, and I wanted to make…
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Participants: matthijs, Wolfen, Lxndr, Jared A. Sorensen, Dantai.

2/1/2006 Glendower: [PTA] - Speed Demons
For some reason, playing a hand of Texas Hold'em again prefaces our crack at Primetime Adventures. Our first attempt is listed here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18497.0 for those keeping score. I started by…
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Participants: Glendower.

2/1/2006 Ron Edwards: [Polaris] Frenzied screwing in the icy wastes
We've been playing more Polaris since Effete, very cold knights and the demons who love them. First point is, the game moves both quickly and slowly. Quickly, in that…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Solamasa, Bret Gillan, jrs, Ben Lehman, Artanis, faerieloch.

2/1/2006 Gregor Hutton: [Breaking The Ice] Isla and Goldie
And here is my 2nd AP of the night. While I was over in Cork for Warpcon, myself and Dave Neil found ourselves at a loose end for a few…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Emily Care.

1/31/2006 TonyLB: [Dreamation: Capes] Eyes on the prize
So I ran a tournament of Capes.  Formulae for victory, and how to earn points, and all that jazz.  Winner got a shiny new folder of sticky click-and-lock modules.  I…
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Participants: TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Bret Gillan, Matthew Glover, Zamiel.

1/31/2006 DrVital: The Mountain Witch - Lost in the Woods
I've been looking to run a "next gen rpg" for a while, and settled on "The Mountain Witch".  The book is great, but it was the posts in these very…
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Participants: DrVital, Halzebier, timfire, Eero Tuovinen.

1/30/2006 Matt-M-McElroy: [Obsidian: the Age of Judgement] Mask of Shadows
So, I ran Obsidian and I'm using a variant on the Killer adventure that is available for download on the Apophis Consortium site. I renamed the investigation company "Terminal Investigations"…
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Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, daemonchild.

1/30/2006 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation: PTA] Life on Mars
I originally posted this in my LiveJournal and Judd suggested I might post it here for discussion. PTA "Life on Mars" I haven't signed up for anything, but Judd's running…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, RobNJ, Paka, Lisa Padol, John Harper.

1/30/2006 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation WGP] Two-Fisted President Balks!
A strange thing happened in one of the With Great Power… sessions I ran at Dreamation ’06. The game was scheduled to start at 2pm on Friday, but due to…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Iskander, Kat Miller, Sydney Freedberg, Marhault, TheTris, Supplanter, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, Doug Ruff, Julian.

1/30/2006 Christopher Kubasik: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Our Dogs Set Forth
I start a new job in a few hours, so this will be quick. I believe others will nail down a larger chunk of the game. There were five of…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, dunlaing, Supplanter, HenryT, Joshua BishopRoby, Brand_Robins, lumpley, redivider, JonasB, Noon, IMAGinES, alejandro.

1/30/2006 CSBone: [Space Ranger] Two Systems, Examples in Play (LOOONG!!!)
I’m trying to wrap my brain around a ton of ideas and techniques for reducing GM prep time that I got from the thread HERE and HERE. Seems to me…
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Participants: CSBone, Precious Villain.

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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2/7/2006 cdr: [DitV] Tower Creek #4
My favorite intro scenario for DitV is "Tower Creek", which I ran Sunday for two people I found using the marvelous <A HREF="http://findplay.anvilwerks.com">Findplay</A>. Major thanks to Jason Morningstar for his…
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Participants: cdr.

2/8/2006 Glendower: [PTA] Speed Demons - Conflict issues
With the Pilot episode of Speed Demons successfully run last week (Writup is located at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18585.0 , we started up with Episode One. Just a reminder of the people involved:…
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Participants: Glendower.

2/8/2006 dindenver: [LoL] On-Line Campaign
Hi   OK, the game system is mine. And we are playing on-line using VASSAL every Saturday night.   The players are:   Cheryl - My wife, she has really…
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Participants: dindenver, Adam Dray.

2/9/2006 jasonm: [DitV] A Fistful of Dice
Last night our regular game group was a player short, so I seized the opportunity and ran Dogs for two of my friends.  I had a copy of Tony's town…
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Participants: jasonm, lumpley, Technocrat13, segedy.

2/9/2006 Frank T: [Sorcerer & Sword] Oh, the Shame!
Last weekend was GroFaFo Winter Rally. I did nothing but indie games all weekend, Dogs, Sorcerer and Polaris, plus one playtest. If you forgive me being pathetic for a moment,…
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Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, eed_de, Jestocost, Nev the Deranged.

2/10/2006 Arturo G.: [The Pool] Learning to set the stakes
On the last three weeks we decided to play a story using The Pool system. I wanted to try The Pool since I read it from the first time, but…
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Participants: Arturo G., demiurgeastaroth, Halzebier, Calithena, Gaerik, Plotin.

2/11/2006 droog: Dogs in the Salon
As suggested by GM Claire Bickell, I am writing up our experiences today with Dogs in the Vineyard. Claire took the initiative by posting on various forae about her idea…
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Participants: droog, beingfrank.

2/11/2006 Michael S. Miller: [Universalis] A Very Grimms Evening
Last week Kat and I went to Brennan Taylor’s place. We kicked around some ideas, Kat suggested Universalis, Brennan said “I’ll play, but I haven’t had the best experiences with…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris, Kat Miller, inthisstyle.

2/12/2006 Technocrat13: [Capes] A little frustrating and a little enlightening.
Tonight Remi, Jason M, Lisa, and I got together for our first Capes session.  Lisa and I had the pleasure of a single demonstration of the game from Tony LB…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Bankuei, urbanpagan, jasonm, Noon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg.

2/12/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer]Day of Dupes
Previous threads regarding this game can be found here and here. Also, check out our wiki, to see complete player character and demon writeups as well as the current version…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Jonas Karlsson, Lisa Padol, bcook1971.

2/13/2006 pedyo: (Mountain Witch) Incompetent samurai
So, I finally got to play The Mountain Witch. Overall, it was a positive experience, but there where a few bumps in the road and the ronin almost didn’t make…
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Participants: pedyo, Sydney Freedberg.

2/13/2006 sirogit: [tMW]Toshi from 7 Samurai teams up with The Tall Man.
So I ran my first session of The Mountain Witch. The players were my brother Chris, Eric and Eeyore!. I really wanted to have 3 other prospective players, but one…
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Participants: sirogit, JC.

2/14/2006 Jason Petrasko: [Battlestar Galactica RPG] A promising firat playtest
Here is the reference document/rules for this playtest -> BSG RPG Situation: I've been working up a framework that does what I feel an RPG should do, no more and…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, nikola.

2/14/2006 dindenver: [LoL] New Player and New GM equals bad mojo
Hi!   OK, My Thursday Playtest group is IRL and we get a new player this week. They come from a CRPG background and have never played a Tabletop RPG…
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Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Adam Dray, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, nsruf, Noon, c.

2/15/2006 Selene Tan: [Mountain Witch] Out-of-character conspiracies
For two Saturdays in a row, I've played The Mountain Witch with some friends. I did not GM. The people involved: Will, GM. Has read Polaris and wants to…
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Participants: Selene Tan, Eero Tuovinen, Will.Skyfall.

2/15/2006 joshua neff: Actual Play: [The Grave of Heaven] Me & the Kid
I've been wanting to introduce my daughter, Morgan, who will be 9 years old in a week and a half, to playing RPGs for the past few years, but I've…
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Participants: joshua neff, Bryan Hansel, Technocrat13, Paka, Anders, komradebob.

2/16/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our Fourth Session
This was the January 29, 2006 Session. We've since had another one. 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…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, mneme, Peter Nordstrand.

2/17/2006 Noon: [Rifts PBP] I look at it. What do I get?
An exerpt from this Rifts play by post game: http://rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=15181&gn=Rifts:+Do+you+dare%3F&threadnum=4&date=1140068269 There was already some activity with a third player trying to talk to some probably sentient trees. But I figured…
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Participants: Noon, contracycle, Graham Walmsley, Supplanter, Elindryn, gains, Marco, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Caldis, Warren, Gaerik, Lord_Steelhand, Rob Carriere, dunlaing, Grover.

2/17/2006 Vaxalon: [DitV] Repentance Crossing
One of my players (the marvelous Dorothea Salo) posted a session summary to our private list today. Preface: The Dogs had discovered a town where the following events had occurred:…
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Participants: Vaxalon.

2/17/2006 ffilz: [DitV] Portland Independent RPG play
Joe has named our group the Portland Independent RPG players... We got to our first town last night. I forgot to bring my notes to work with me, so I'll…
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Participants: ffilz, ScottM, Barlennan.

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