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3/30/2006 Rustin: [Sorcerer] The Mangling
I finally managed to run and then promptly mangle this Sorcerer game .  I'm afraid I may have turned my regular group off to Indie RPGs entirely. Looking back now,…
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Participants: Rustin, jburneko, Paka, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Eric J-D.

3/29/2006 Glendower: [Capes Fantasy] Bane of Bones Resurrection
First off, big thanks to Gaerik's Actual play here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18355.0 If it wasn't for this piece, I wouldn't have even concieved of the perfect way to bribe my group into…
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Participants: Glendower, TonyLB, Gaerik.

3/29/2006 John Harper: [TSOY] Freebooters
[b]TSOY: Freebooters[/b] I just ran a one-shot (sort of playtest) for a TSOY-engine-driven thing I'm calling [b]Freebooters[/b]. Freebooters is set in the same "gaslight, magic, flintlocks, and steel" world as…
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Participants: John Harper, Anders, jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Andrew Craig, khelek, Chris Gardiner, philaros.

3/29/2006 pxib: (Supervillains) Night tells a lie and hires the boys.
The group had wanted to play a superhero game for ages, but every time we tried the systems left us cold, and the potenital to be "heroic" in a systems…
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Participants: pxib, dunlaing.

3/29/2006 Melinglor: [Middle Earth] choice of system
OK, I'm not sure exactly where I should post this, but I picked AP because my questions are at least about preparing to play. So I've been wanting to run…
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Participants: Melinglor, Nathan P., Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards, Jasper the Mimbo, Lamorak33, khelek, Silmenume, Blake Hutchins, madviking, Durgil.

3/28/2006 Willow: [Mountain Witch] Session Two: Four Ronin, Five Ghosts
Session one is here:  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19194.0 Everyone came back for a second helping of samurai melodrama. The second chapter opened up with the following requirements: *Everyone uses an ability that has…
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Participants: Willow.

3/27/2006 ffilz: [Burning Wheel] stuck with new campaign
4 weeks ago, I decided that things weren't looking good for my Cold Iron campaign, and suggested to the players we try something else. I pitched several games including Dogs…
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Participants: ffilz, Ron Edwards, Keith Senkowski, Thor Olavsrud, mtiru, Jasper the Mimbo, cmnash, drozdal.

3/27/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: The Return of Bruce Lee
I hosted a game of Monster Rules that invovled a Bruce-Lee type character. A martial artist that relied primarily on his Agility to both hit and avoid being hit. He…
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Participants: mratomek, Ron Edwards.

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.

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.

3/24/2006 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.

3/23/2006 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.

3/23/2006 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 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.

3/22/2006 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.

3/22/2006 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.

3/21/2006 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.

3/21/2006 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 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 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.

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4/2/2006 Paul Strack: [With Great Power...] Endgame MiniCon, April 1
I ran my third game of WGP at EndGame's in-store Mini-Con in Oakland CA. It was the first time I ran the game where I actually finished the story. I…
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Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller, John Kim, Thor Olavsrud.

4/3/2006 Ron Edwards: [D&D 3.0/3.5] The kid two houses down
Hello, Two houses down from where my wife and I live, there's a family whom we like a lot. They include Christopher, who's 11 or 12. Since we moved here,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Kintara, Ben Lehman, Calithena, Noon, cmnash, Wolfen, Tommi Brander, ffilz, Adam Dray, Glendower, matthijs, ( o Y o ), Storn, Thunder_God, jburneko, greyorm.

4/5/2006 Ignotus: [PTA] Three Questions
Tomorrow I run episode 2 (session 3 counting the pilot) of my first-ever PTA campaign.  The name of the show is Vice President Werewolf.  It's Buffy meets the West Wing…
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Participants: Ignotus, Joe Dizzy, Jonathan Hastings.

4/6/2006 ( o Y o ): [TRoS] But this time the system does not matter!
In our ongoing Midnight campaign our elven twin brothers have one major flaw: Enemy! It happens that the enemy is a demon and that he plagued the twins since ever.…
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Participants: ( o Y o ), Tommi Brander, Wolfen, Lamorak33, Mike Holmes, Blankshield, ironick.

4/7/2006 inthisstyle: [Dogs] At Last I Have Him
Last Friday, my friend Sandy came by and we had a game of Dogs in the Vineyard. I've been trying to get Sandy to play for ages. He is curious…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Noon.

4/7/2006 Noon: Valid question, but it basically asks "Who should I fight, Mr GM?"
This is from my PBP rifts game. It's a kind of an example where tactics applied would have deprotagonised the player (well, tactics would have removed a choice I thought…
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Participants: Noon, David Hallett, Thunder_God, Paul Strack, contracycle.

4/10/2006 donbaloo: [TSoY] Introduction to the system and conflict resolution in general.
Okay, putting aside my fear of being flayed for breaching posting etiquette of some sort or just making a Forge faux pas in general, I’m here to post our actual…
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Participants: donbaloo, James_Nostack, rafial, Kintara, John Harper, Chris Gardiner, Thor Olavsrud, Paka.

4/10/2006 Ron Edwards: [It Was a Mutual Decision] My first game at Forge Midwest
Ralph and I arrived at the Forge Midwest get-together sometime around 7:30 Friday evening. I showed off my new little rat-game proofs and within moments, a game began. It included…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, tylure, Kesher.

4/11/2006 Matt Wilson: Dust Devils Nouveau
The new Dust Devils is hot. Crap, I suppose I have to write more than that. So I played it, right? It was me, and Matt LeSnydaire, and this whole…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, coffeestain, Eric J-D, Jason L Blair, mtiru, Dev, Matt Snyder, John Harper, rafial.

4/11/2006 greyorm: [Death's Door] I Wasn't Interested But...
I have to admit, I had no interest in either playing or purchasing Death's Door. When I heard about it, the idea just didn't grab me, what I heard about…
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Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, ivan23, Blankshield, Noon.

4/11/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [Mouse Guard] Yes-play and no-game
I played last night in the first real session of Mouse Guard, a quick RPG I made based on the excellent comics of the same name. It was my standard…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Thunder_God, Alex Fradera.

4/11/2006 jburneko: [The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach] They Ate His Heart Out.
Hello All, The other night one of my Dogs players had to leave a little early so the rest of us, Matt, myself and my wife Meghann decided to take…
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Kimball, jasonm.

4/12/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP play Session 5
A bit of a change of pace this session. It was a little slower, a little more talky, with quite a lot of conversation between Trollbabes and with NPCs. I…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

4/12/2006 Alex Fradera: [Shab-Al-Hiri Roach] You are Chancellor, and on this Rock I'll build my wing
We had ourselves some roachplay Sunday. My net was cast wide but my player pool must be minnows as they wriggled through the holes. I ended up snaring a few…
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Participants: Alex Fradera, John A, jasonm, Sydney Freedberg, Adam Dray.

4/12/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Duplication of Effort
Finally got a chance to play again the other night. We played another simple game, but hope to move on to more complex scenarios this weekend. Jake, my evil opponent,…
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Participants: mratomek.

4/13/2006 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Curse of the Python God!
In addition to an on-line Sorcerer & Sword game, I've started a face-to-face S&S game, set in the same world of crumbling Atlantean empires and resentful barbarian tribes.  This is…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Paka.

4/14/2006 John Harper: [Nine Worlds] Forge Midwest
I finally got the chance to play Nine Worlds at Forge Midwest. Matt Snyder ran the session, with Paul Tevis, Paul Czege, Danielle, and myself as players. It was lots…
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Participants: John Harper, Matt Wilson.

4/15/2006 donbaloo: [TSoY] Second Attempt
Okay, same group as in my last AP post here, my wife Melani and a good friend, Paul.  We’re still trying to get the hang of conflict resolution and narrative…
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Participants: donbaloo, Gaerik, Noon, Artanis, demiurgeastaroth, rafial, John Harper, anders_larsen, Frank T, Thor Olavsrud, pedyo, epweissengruber.

4/15/2006 greyorm: [The Mountain Witch] At Forge Midwest
I should note right off that the game was not as fun for me as I had hoped it would be. I don't mean to say the game itself wasn't…
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Participants: greyorm, Jason L Blair, timfire.

4/15/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley-session 1.5
Nightshade Alley Session 1.5 Concept in brief: Trolls and Faeries and Bogies and Things that go Bump, are all real in a sort-of modern, sort-of Victorian, sort-of-London. Everyone knows they’re…
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Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson.

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