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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,…
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Participants: jburneko, Sydney Freedberg.

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…
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Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby, Hans, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, epweissengruber.

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…
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Participants: two_fishes, Ned, Adam Dray.

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…
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Participants: jburneko, Joshua BishopRoby.

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. …
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman.

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…
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Participants: cdr, lumpley, talysman, sirogit, EndGame, Ben Lehman, 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…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Eero Tuovinen, urbanpagan, timfire.

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…
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Participants: pedyo, timfire.

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…
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Participants: Brendan.

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…
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Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller.

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…
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Participants: Adam Dray, Everspinner, jlarke, jlathomas, lumpley.

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.

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 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.

2/16/2006 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.

2/15/2006 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.

2/15/2006 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.

2/14/2006 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.

2/14/2006 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.

2/13/2006 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.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Participants: Meguey, Paka, Emily Care, Frank T, Glendower, Matt Wilson.

2/25/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our Fifth Session: Part One
Fifth Sorcerer Session -- February 14, 2006 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 up of the second session…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Peter Nordstrand, cmnash, mneme, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin.

2/25/2006 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Con DFW 2006
I ran a four-hour one-shot of Sorcerer at Con DFW tonight, and geez, it couldn't have been better. Here are the pre-gens: Name: Rex Short. Player: Marco. (No! Not JAGS…
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Participants: bcook1971.

2/25/2006 cdr: [TMW] Cherry Blossom Bloodbath at DDC
More detail on The Mountain Witch I ran at DunDraCon.  Very long and treachery-filled. When the Fates were revealed, did the revelations act as the climax…
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Participants: cdr.

2/25/2006 ffilz: [DitV] Tower Creek Branch in Beaverton
I introduced the young couple in my gaming group to Dogs this evening. I had decided to invite just the two of them so I would be able to really…
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Participants: ffilz.

2/25/2006 ( o Y o ): The Doors of RPG-Perception
Hi All, I really did not know where to post this. But it is a question that can only be answered in Actual Play, so ... In the HeroQuest Forum…
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Participants: ( o Y o ), timfire, droog.

2/25/2006 Richard Campbell: Young Children: Actual role-play, Actual Play?
I have been reading posts to The Forge for some time and have developed an interest in the theory behind the play of role-playing games. I have always had an…
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Participants: Richard Campbell, ( o Y o ), nyhteg, droog, cmnash, komradebob, Meguey, Czar Fnord, Emily Care, Calithena, Pandelume, Bryan_T.

2/26/2006 Belinda K.: [WoD/Vampire] Urban Dark
This isn't really an 'indie game' as such, but I'm after some concentrated GM advice which hopefully I'm more likely to get here. My last few World of Darkness campaigns…
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Participants: Belinda K., Paka, Graham Walmsley, Glendower, nikola, Danny_K.

2/26/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Breaking the Ice] She shares some of the dead body with him
I played Breaking the Ice with my Liz, my girlfriend, on Friday. She's not a gamer and has never particularly been attracted to RPGs. But, when I described BtI, she…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Emily Care.

2/26/2006 bcook1971: [DitV] Con DFW 2006
I had every intention of creating a fresh town for this one-shot, but alas, 'twas not to be. Instead, I revisited Bitter Creek. And as it turned out, I'm glad…
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Participants: bcook1971.

2/27/2006 droog: [DitV] Red Creek Falls
I wrote up our initial chargen/accomplishments session in this thread here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?board=14.40 . This week--our first town. For various reasons I've studiously avoided looking at any sample towns apart from…
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Participants: droog, agony, beingfrank.

2/27/2006 Bryan Hansel: [Breaking The Ice] Garbage Man dates the Spoiled Rich Chic
I had a chance to play Breaking the Ice with my girlfriend.  She's only played one other RPG before and that was with me.  She wasn't very comfortable with playing,…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, Graham Walmsley, Emily Care.

2/27/2006 chris_moore: [Nine Worlds] rules for collaboration?
My friend Michael and I played Nine Worlds at Gamicon with Matt Snyder last Saturday.  I had a great time playing the game! The story we made together was tight…
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Participants: chris_moore, Valamir.

2/27/2006 Andrew Morris: [The Mountain Witch] Not bad, but could get better
I've only played The Mountain Witch once, with Tim Kleinert, at one of the Double Exposure conventions a while back. Still, I thought I could run it without much difficulty.…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, pedyo, Krista E, gains.

2/28/2006 dindenver: [LoL] Too sensitive or not sensitive enough?
Hi!   So, something happened last Friday and I'm not sure what to do...   Tom loves punk music and lives the punk lifestyle as much as he is able.…
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Participants: dindenver, joepub, Noon, Sydney Freedberg.

2/28/2006 David Hallett: [D+D-like system] Analysing play styles
I've been playing in an adaptation of the Night Below campaign, with GM-written system that is probably best described as simulating Heroic Fantasy. The mechanics are quite different from D+D,…
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Participants: David Hallett, contracycle, John Burdick, Kesher, Tommi Brander, Anna B, Noon, Caldis, Mark Woodhouse.

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