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3/15/2006 billvolk: [BESM/AKA] GM-heavy character creation
I was running my first game with the All Kinds of Awesome setting I'm talking about in the Indie Game Design section and using the Tri-Stat d6 rules. Because none…
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Participants: billvolk, MatrixGamer.

3/15/2006 Yokiboy: Story Now, but first we Prep...
Hello, I have bad experience with narrative RPGs due to the prep it takes to setup. We planned a game of Sorcerer, created some kick-ass characters, and a one-sheet, and…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Paka, Nathan P., Jonathan Hastings, MatrixGamer, ffilz, Noon.

3/14/2006 forlorn1: Inspectres : Getting ready for first run
I'd like any tips or hints people have for running Inspectres.  Shortly I will be torturing my local group with it, and I'd like to make the best possible effort. …
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Participants: forlorn1, Nathan P..

3/14/2006 knicknevin: [Loose Toys] Dilemma with Strong Adult Content
I'm using the little fears engine to run a short campaign called 'Loose Toys' at my RPG club: the premise is that intelligent, robotic toys in the year 2075 wake…
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Participants: knicknevin, Darkall.

3/13/2006 Bryan Hansel: [InSpectres] The knife of no death
I played InSpectres for the first time on Friday night, and although the session was fun and all the players said they enjoyed it, I have a few questions.  We…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm, Nathan P..

3/13/2006 epweissengruber: [Tunnels and Trolls] A Player's Dissatisfaction
Members of the IndieRPG group in Toronto have been playing around with T&T.  The most eloquent response to the session was highly critical of the system.  I am posting parts…
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Participants: epweissengruber, tzunder, rafial, jrs, dunlaing, Miskatonic, Alan, Noon, Hans, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Johnny.

3/13/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP Play - character Creation and First Session
So, desperate to run something and filled with unholy impulses after reading Trollbabe, I finally mustered up the courage to give VoIP gaming a shot. One of the players, whose…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, John Harper, James_Nostack, Alan, Jonathan Hastings.

3/13/2006 Auke: "Evaluative DM’ing" - comments on this approach, please
Hi all, I'd appreciate comments on my approach (which I call "evaluative DM'ing" 'coz it sounds kool) to running a frpg. The essay is 1200 words, so I don't know…
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Participants: Auke, JMendes, TonyLB, MatrixGamer, Noon, Selene Tan, ADGBoss, Silmenume, Adam Dray, Joshua BishopRoby, Caldis.

3/12/2006 Willow: [The Mountain Witch] Gearing Up To Run
Hi everyone, I'm new to the Forge, and Indie RPG's in General.  I'm going to be running a game of the Mountain Witch in about a week, and there's something…
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Participants: Willow, Justin Marx.

3/12/2006 TonyLB: [Nighttime Animals Save the World] Three critters
So I was on a walk with my family, and I noticed I had (in the change in my pocket) two quarters, two nickels and two pennies.  Time to dust…
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Participants: TonyLB, Andrew Morris, droog, lumpley, Miskatonic.

3/11/2006 Melinglor: [Over the Edge] Killing the Dilemma
Hi, my name's Joel, sometime Forge lurker and varyingly credulous Big Model neophyte. I was away from studying the Theory for awhile, but it worked its way back into my…
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Participants: Melinglor, Noon, abzu, Glendower, Danny_K, knicknevin, drnuncheon.

3/9/2006 Arturo G.: [Polaris] A player who did not manage to avoid an unexpected son for his knight
Last Tuesday we finally played Polaris. It is the second indie-game I bought, around 5 months ago, but there were always troubles to try it. We were not exactly four…
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Participants: Arturo G., Ben Lehman, Frank T, TonyLB.

3/9/2006 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Day of Dupes 3
[b]Previous threads[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18564.0]Character generation[/url] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18712.0]First play session[/url] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18833.0]Second session[/url] See our [url=http://nordstrand.pbwiki.com/]wiki[/url] for character sheets and … stuff. [b]General Observations[/b] I didn't prep a lot this time. I came up…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Lisa Padol, Jonas Karlsson.

3/8/2006 Brand_Robins: Trollbabe (kinda): Turtle turns heart-ripping seducer
While I was in Cali I played a game of pseudo-Trollbabe with my brother Zach. It was short, intense, and a lot of fun. This is unusual, as games with…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paka, droog, Noon, Sydney Freedberg, James_Nostack, TonyLB.

3/8/2006 Paul Strack: [WGP] Second playtest
I ran my second game of "With Great Power..." last night, and now have a much better grasp on the structure of the game. I stuck closer to the rules…
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Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller.

3/8/2006 Nathan P.: [InSpectres] Everybody should play InSpectres
I've played InSpectres four or five times now, with two different groups, and it is the most reliably fun game I've played. PTA runs a close second, but, thinking over…
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Participants: Nathan P., coffeestain, Michael S. Miller, Matt-M-McElroy, ( o Y o ), Arturo G., Scott Dorward, Frank T, Dennis O, John Harper.

3/8/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - a "new" player's perspective.
The following was an email sent to my GM by a player who is relatively new to our table. We had the usual cast of players plus 3 irregulars. Chuck…
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Participants: Silmenume, contracycle, jrs, Walt Freitag, JMendes, Precious Villain.

3/4/2006 Noon: [Rifts PBP] Risk stated quick smart
Just a quick post, to follow up this AP account: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18758.0 I implemented Bill's (dunlaing) recommendation about formating. His design-fu is strong, as you'll see from the results below. Though…
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Participants: Noon, Rob Carriere.

3/4/2006 IMAGinES: [DitV] Tower Creek, Edge Hill
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and Forgeites – the drought has been broken. Earlier today, I got my first game in six months. Heck, it’s even been sixteen months since my…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Belinda K., lumpley, Everspinner.

3/2/2006 Mason: [PTA] Deep Horizons-First Game
Heya, I'm a relatively new poster around here and I have a story to tell about my first game of PTA ever.  Due to time constraints it'll probably go quick…
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Participants: Mason, Paka, JMendes, Matt Wilson.

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3/16/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley (long)
[i]The full moon at midnight. Some eerie background noise, but no music. We pan down to gently sloping grassland, mist rising off the dew-soaked blades. There is a distant, muffled…
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Participants: Melinglor, Glendower.

3/16/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP play, Session 2
Character creation and first session writeup are here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19034.0 We played our second session of Trollbabe via Teamspeak last night, and I was much happier with it than the first…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, John Harper, Nigel Evans.

3/16/2006 TonyLB: [PTA] Happy Endings
Strange thing happened in our final episode of Bountiful. Jen played Brigit, a faerie (well, y'know, it's in space ... so a space-faerie, I suppose) whose Issue was her exile…
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Participants: TonyLB, dunlaing, Joe Dizzy, Noon, Everspinner, contracycle, Alan, Danny_K, Sydney Freedberg.

3/17/2006 Glendower: [Capes-Lite] - RTFM
RTFM - Read that fine manual.  Yes, that would have made this whole session a lot smoother.  I'd like to first tell Tony that he made an amazing game with…
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Participants: Glendower, Hans, drnuncheon.

3/18/2006 stefoid: tasks, conflicts, and a room full of Boggles
We have this HeroWars game which has been going on for some time.  The GM is inventive and improvises well, but his methods are strictly old school.  Another player and…
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Participants: stefoid, Kesher, Walt Freitag.

3/20/2006 Paka: 1st Quest Monthly game: Pool Renewal, XP Hesitancy, and Pushing Conflicts Hard
[b]Pool Renewal[/b] At this game pools were renewed with scenes in which the PC's meditated in a field of pixies, counted rocks, flew through the forest, sharpening of weapons and…
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Participants: Paka, Anders.

3/20/2006 Bob the Fighter: collaborative setting creation = fun!
Hello! My name is Zac. I've lurked on the Forge for a long time, but I haven't posted in some time. I think. Anyway, I recently started GMing for a…
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Participants: Bob the Fighter, James_Nostack, Rich Forest, contracycle, ubergeek2012, Ben Lehman, Zamiel, Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth, Tommi Brander, Noon.

3/20/2006 clayton_mcfarland: GM'ing Tips and Definitions
Hey guys.  I've been reading alot of the posts here about GM'ing, and keep hearing alot about Gm's generating 'bangs' for their players characters.  I've not encuontered this term before…
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Participants: clayton_mcfarland, Glendower, Danny_K, Ron Edwards, Zathreyel.

3/21/2006 Argleblather: Help?
Not wholly sure if this is appropriate, because I just signed up, but worth a shot anyway. So, I'm playing in a rather unconventional online game- in that although I'm…
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Participants: Argleblather, James_Nostack.

3/21/2006 Willow: [The Mountain Witch] Session One: Four Ronin, Three Peaches
See also my pre-game thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19023.0 We gathered at my apartment for a rousing game of the Mountain Witch. No one had ever played before, and I had never run…
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Participants: Willow, coffeestain.

3/21/2006 Noon: [Address of Challenge] Deciding what is THE challenge
Recently I discussed the grand theft auto series on RPG.net. Another poster had said that GTA was only about violence as a solution, because of the guns and car theft.…
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Participants: Noon, Tommi Brander, ErrathofKosh, Bankuei, Silmenume, Melinglor, contracycle.

3/21/2006 jburneko: Breaking Down The Group, Overtly Changing Direction
Hello All, I thought I'd share with you the story of something rather drastic I did a few weeks ago.  For years now, I've run a weekday group.  The group…
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Participants: jburneko, Peter Nordstrand, Anders, joshua neff, Matt Kimball, cmnash, dunlaing, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/22/2006 Web_Weaver: [Prince Valiant] Children as Narrators
The current thread "Young Children: Actual role-play, Actual Play?" has reminded me of my attempt to encourage my brother to roleplay with his friends, many years ago. I had bought…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, MatrixGamer, Noon, Ron Edwards.

3/22/2006 jburneko: [DitV] The Sleepwell Canyon Branch
Hello All, So here's a complete writeup for the first town my new Dogs group has been through. Town: The Sleepwell Canyon Branch Pride: Brother Derrick thinks his daughter, Sister…
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Kimball, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley.

3/23/2006 lightcastle: [HeroQuest] - Unfettered Space
This is my first post to Actual Play, so bear with me. What I'm actually playing isn't really HeroQuest, although I am using those rules. Instead, the world is vaguely…
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Participants: lightcastle, contracycle, soviet, Ian Cooper.

3/23/2006 May: (Sorc.) Witch brood
Hi I'm on the brink of starting a sorcerer fantasy game set in a mythical middle ages German principality where the dark woods seem to be slowly creeping up on…
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Participants: May, James_Nostack, Danny_K.

3/23/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP Play Session 3
Session 1: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19034.0 Session 2: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19075.0 Slightly rough session last night. We started late, were kinda tired, and I was not at my best. Fire-Eyes and Mountain-Cloud's adventure finally reached…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, Jonathan Hastings, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2006 Ben Lehman: [Dogs] Cold Falls
Rich, you might not want to read this. So I'm going to be running Dogs for Rich Forest and Martin Frojdh tomorrow.  I have never met Martin, so that's sort…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Paka, Rich Forest, RipperDoc, Ron Edwards.

3/25/2006 Pyromancer: [The Mountain Witch] Rules Question
Hello! I'm going to run tMW next week, but I'm still not sure about a few rules. For example, if two ronin are confronted with two monsters, each of them…
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Participants: Pyromancer, Eero Tuovinen, Willow.

3/27/2006 Joe Murphy (Broin): [Polaris] In an hour at a convention
Phew. THAT was marvellous. I had signed up to run two indie games at Conpulsion, a con in Edinburgh. The Shadow of Yesterday ran on Saturday, and Polaris was Sunday…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Ben Lehman, Matt, Arturo G., Malcolm, catfink, netwomble.

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