Previous Topics In Actual Play 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… In Actual Play Participants: joshua neff, Bryan Hansel, Technocrat13, Paka, Anders, komradebob.
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… In Actual Play Participants: Selene Tan, Eero Tuovinen, Will.Skyfall.
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… In Actual Play Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Adam Dray, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, nsruf, Noon, c.
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… In Actual Play Participants: Jason Petrasko, nikola.
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… In Actual Play Participants: sirogit, JC.
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… In Actual Play Participants: pedyo, 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… In Actual Play Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Jonas Karlsson, Lisa Padol, bcook1971.
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… In Actual Play Participants: Technocrat13, Bankuei, urbanpagan, jasonm, Noon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg.
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… In Actual Play Participants: Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris, Kat Miller, inthisstyle.
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… In Actual Play Participants: droog, beingfrank.
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… In Actual Play Participants: Arturo G., demiurgeastaroth, Halzebier, Calithena, Gaerik, Plotin.
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,… In Actual Play Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, eed_de, Jestocost, Nev the Deranged.
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… In Actual Play Participants: jasonm, lumpley, Technocrat13, segedy.
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… In Actual Play Participants: dindenver, Adam Dray.
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:… In Actual Play Participants: Glendower.
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… In Actual Play Participants: cdr.
2/6/2006 John Kim: [Buffy] A Little Role Reversal The Friday before last, we played another episode of our Buffy the Vampire Slayer campaign, "Silicon Valley Slayage". It was notable for the technique of role reversal which we used. … In Actual Play Participants: John Kim, Matt-M-McElroy, TonyLB, whump, ScottM.
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… In Actual Play 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… In Actual Play 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… In Actual Play Participants: Zamiel.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Actual Play 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… In Actual Play 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:… In Actual Play 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… In Actual Play Participants: ffilz, ScottM, Barlennan.
2/18/2006 Adam Dray: [DitV] Big Rock Fork I ran Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time a few weekends ago with three players who don't have much indie game experience. Some really bizarre things happened and… In Actual Play Participants: Adam Dray, Everspinner, jlarke, jlathomas, lumpley.
2/19/2006 Paul Strack: [WGP] Hero game filler at DundraCon, CA I ran a quick game of "With Great Power..." at DrudraCon in California for a couple friends of mine. It was a great success. I'd prepped some rules sheets and… In Actual Play Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller.
2/19/2006 Brendan: [DitV] Whitevein, via AIM It turns out instant messenger is a lot slower than talking! This is an account of my first time running Dogs, which I did over AOL Instant Messenger with players… In Actual Play Participants: Brendan.
2/20/2006 pedyo: (Mountain Witch) Incompetent Samurai part 2 - LONG POST Yesterday evening we continued our game of The Mountain Witch (the write-up of the first session is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18716.0)
This second session was a lot stronger – we got through… In Actual Play Participants: pedyo, timfire.
2/20/2006 Technocrat13: [Mountain Witch] Cold & Hot We had a really interesting game of the Mountain Witch last night. After looking over my notes from the game I have a few insights I'd like to share.
Boring… In Actual Play Participants: Technocrat13, Eero Tuovinen, urbanpagan, timfire.
2/20/2006 cdr: [TMW] [DitV] DunDraCon 2006 CA: 6 Ronin + 8 Dogs = Fun! Fun is running Dogs until 1am and waking up at 6am full of energy wishing I could run again right away.
DunDraCon 2006 in northern CA was a lot of… In Actual Play Participants: cdr, lumpley, talysman, sirogit, EndGame, Ben Lehman, timfire.
2/21/2006 GreatWolf: [Polaris] Top Gun in the frozen wastes Here we go again. We’ve shuffled the player roster a bit, but we’re back in the game. That’s right. We’re playing Polaris again! Indeed I have three sessions to summarize. … In Actual Play Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman.
2/21/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][Sorcerer] Winter of Discontent Hello Everyone,
So this weekend was OrcCon here in L.A. and it was the first con I've attended here in about three to four years. I got to meet Paul… In Actual Play Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby.
2/21/2006 two_fishes: [DitV] Tower Creek at Pandemonium
I ran Tower Creek at the Pandemonium con in Toronto last weekend
Way too many people showed up to play and we ended up splitting some off to play an… In Actual Play Participants: two_fishes, Ned, Adam Dray.
2/21/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][Capes] Eight People! Hello,
This is the second actual play post from my experiences at OrcCon this weekend. I ran a session of Capes. When I originally sent in the event I capped… In Actual Play Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby, Hans, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, epweissengruber.
2/22/2006 jburneko: [OrcCon][My Life with Master] Everyone got married so it must have been a comedy Hello,
This is the third and final actual play post from this weekend at OrcCon. This one had another surprisingly large turn out. I had a full load of six,… In Actual Play Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg.
2/22/2006 Nev the Deranged: [MLWM]: Kingdom of the Blind
Managed to get some folks into MLWM last gamenight. We didn't quite get through minion creation, but we did a bang up job on the Master and setting:
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My… In Actual Play Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.
2/22/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Day of Dupes 2 We are playing the Day of Dupes scenario from Sorcerer's Soul. Previous threads: Character Generation, Session 1. Go to our wiki, for complete player character and demon writeups, as well… In Actual Play Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.
2/22/2006 TonyLB: [PTA] Food, food, food So we played PTA last night (the penultimate session in our very successful Bountiful season). But the game, as such, isn't what I want to talk about.
Sydney had to… In Actual Play Participants: TonyLB, jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, Glendower, Sydney Freedberg, jrs, Technocrat13, TheCzech, Noon, Meguey.
2/23/2006 mratomek: Fun with Monster Ruls Started a new, weekly session of Monster Rules this week, and ran a Big City Heroes game--love the capes and tights.
Had a couple of people show up--hope they will… In Actual Play Participants: mratomek.
2/23/2006 pfischer: [TSOY] The Shadows and the Light The Shadow and the Light
I have been wanting to play the second edition of TSOY for a while now, and last Saturday I sat down with Joe and Aaron,… In Actual Play Participants: pfischer, Joe Murphy (Broin), Clinton R. Nixon.
2/24/2006 Meguey: [PTA] Erie Nights Ok, so my friend Julia who lives behind me brought over the big glossy hardcover 'Buffy:the role-playing game'a few weeks back and said "Hey I want to play this, and… In Actual Play Participants: Meguey, Paka, Emily Care, Frank T, Glendower, Matt Wilson.
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