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5/9/2006 jasonm: [PTA] Deep in the Blue
Last night Clinton, Remi, and I began a five-episode PTA season called Deep in the Blue.  I'm Producing.  We agreed over the week leading up to our first session on…
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Participants: jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, Eric J-D, Storn, John Harper, Nicolas Crost, Emily Care, Roger, LeSingeSavant.

5/9/2006 kalyptein: [Charnel Gods] Fall of Sarantium, Story Real Soon Now
I started posting about this game down in the Adept Press forum, but I thought I'd move it up here as I'm getting away from the mechanical questions and more…
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Participants: kalyptein, Mister Six.

5/8/2006 eruditus: My Life with Father
My first attempt at running My Life with Master can be found here...  http://eruditus.livejournal.com/21224.html#cutid1 This is a breakdown of the master and characters.  Tomorrow I will post the game session.
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Participants: eruditus, Ian Charvill, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, ObLaDan.

5/6/2006 nyhteg: [InSpectres] Demons in the Dinner Hall
There have been a couple of threads in recent memory about running games with/for kids so I thought this might be of interest to someone. In a nutshell, I ran…
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Participants: nyhteg, Bryan Hansel.

5/6/2006 greyorm: [ORX] Forge Midwest Demo Observations
Juli, Tod and Tim (Kleinert) were gracious enough to play a quick game of Orx with me at Forge Midwest. This was also a milestone in Orx play as the…
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Participants: greyorm.

5/5/2006 dsellars: games 'in play'?
This query of mine has basically come about by reading this thread (a few times through now) here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19690.0 It basically revolves around the following paragraphs, written by Ron.: First…
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Participants: dsellars, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2006 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] Charnel Gods - The Irthan Epoch
Last night was the first night of my Charnel Gods campaign, and it rocked. After my previous Sorcerer campaign left me feeling a little cold, I really wanted this one…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Paka, Eric J-D, greyorm.

5/5/2006 bluenotebooks: Question - Not sure where to post it.
I have played d&d a bit, and like it for the most part.  But I do not care for how centered it is on combat.  I believe I would prefer…
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Participants: bluenotebooks, Storn, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2006 Paka: Burning Wheel: Elf vs. Orc
So, it is the weekly Burning Wheel group.  Excuse me while I kvell a bit. We took time off to playtest Luke's Sooper Seekrit Project but found out that one…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Storn, agony, taepoong.

5/4/2006 JavaApp: Jared Sorenson’s The Farm – How does it play?
I originally posted this on RPG.net, and all I got in response was a bunch of people telling me, "Hey, let us know how it turns out." I used the…
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Participants: JavaApp.

5/4/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Troublesome first session
Hello, folks, I'm pretty new to the Forge, so if I make a faux-pas, please let me know. I'm here to describe my first attempt at running TSoY. It fell…
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Participants: r_donato, Valamir, Glendower, rafial, sirogit, Paka, donbaloo.

5/4/2006 khelek: [DitV] Temperance and Accountability
[DitV] Temperance and Accountability Executive Summary: A long post, more about our personal discovery of Conflict Resolution during DitV play, than the story that played out. This is the Actual…
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Participants: khelek, lumpley.

5/2/2006 Technocrat13: [Red Box D&D] Module B4: The Lost City
A few months back I'd acquired a mint condition copy of the ol' Red Box edition of D&D.  After reading through it again for the first time in what must…
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Participants: Technocrat13, James_Nostack, JamesDJIII, Miskatonic, Bryan Hansel, Ron Edwards, Noon, Calithena.

5/2/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] The Gospel of Michael
You can download the current version of Gnostigmata from here The Social Aspects of our first play-test The players were:  Bill Boucher, Kim Boucher, Ralph Buttner, John Kirk, Melissa Kirk,…
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Participants: John Kirk, drnuncheon.

5/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [D&D 3.0/3.5] Skill combat and blood drinking
Hooray! After an intervening family vacation and a couple of other interruptions, Dan and Christopher and I reconvened for our second session of D&D 3.25. (Definition: I have one of…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, wgrzanic, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, JamesDJIII, Melinglor, Bankuei, Valamir, IMAGinES, Blankshield, contracycle, buzz, Gaerik, ffilz, Glendower.

5/1/2006 sirogit: [Play Right!] Matrix Sequels
I gave Play-Write! a whirl last night. It was a bit more difficult to find a story 4 people were all familiar/invested in than either I thought or the text…
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Participants: sirogit.

5/1/2006 Montola: Prosopopeia -- Playing on the Edge of Reality
Greetings, I guess Actual Play is the appropriate forum to post this paper discussing a pervasive larp Prosopopeia we staged in Sweden: Montola, Markus & Jonsson, Staffan (2006): Prosopopeia. Playing…
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Participants: Montola.

5/1/2006 GreatWolf: [Polaris] Death, dismemberment, and flowers
(The previous report can be found here.) Once again, we gathered for Polaris.  Raquel is traveling for three weeks, so we wanted to pick up the pieces after our last…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Lehman, Valamir.

5/1/2006 Malcolm: [DitV] For the kids!
There's a group in Edinburgh called the Open Roleplaying community which exists to bring new blood into the hobby and give a place where younger gamers can flourish. All ages…
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Participants: Malcolm, Paka, Dumirik.

5/1/2006 inthisstyle: [Capes] Inuyasha with the Family
My wife and kids are big fans of the Japanese cartoon Inuyasha, featuring a half-demon swordsman and a time-traveling schoolgirl from modern times. The series is about unrequited love and…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Matthew Glover.

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5/10/2006 Belinda K.: [Vampire: the Requiem] Attempt at using 'Forge techniques'!
I’ve been running a Vampire game recently, about a crap vampiric band in Chicago, where I’ve been trying out some new GMing things, mainly attempting a character driven game as…
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Participants: Belinda K., Ron Edwards, Storn, Tommi Brander, joshua neff, JonasB, Nathan P..

5/10/2006 Warren: Dogs in the Vineyard for my Vampire group
It's occurred to me that I never got back and told people how running Dogs in the Vineyard for the Vampire group I joined went. The dysfunction I spoke about…
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Participants: Warren, Artanis, Glendower.

5/10/2006 flammifer: Crashed on an island
Pretty basic settings: the characters are their actual selves, crashed on an unknown shore (plane accident, etc.). What did they do? One looked for ships and wrote a giant SOS…
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Participants: flammifer, Alan.

5/11/2006 Aaron: Rolling Interactions
I've been reading some posts regarding rolling dice for social conflicts and not using GM fiat to rule the outcome.  I heartily agree but have a question, but first my…
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Participants: Aaron, Noon, Dav, demiurgeastaroth, dsellars, Wade Lahoda, Glendower, Gaerik, Mike Lucas, khelek, Precious Villain, ffilz, Czar Fnord, Alan, Ron Edwards, wgrzanic, Tommi Brander, jlarke, Web_Weaver, Storn, Melinglor, Jane, Bartmoss.

5/11/2006 Dumirik: [My Life With Master] Concerning Carlos Armani
Last night while out for dinner at a friend's place, I ran a short test prep session with one of the players in my new group so we could get…
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Participants: Dumirik.

5/11/2006 TonyLB: [TSOY] The Long Bridge
Well, we had a game with drama powered entirely by The Shadow of Yesterday's Keys mechanic.  Good times, good times. The general idea that Sydney pitched us was off of…
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Participants: TonyLB, r_donato, jasonm, demiurgeastaroth, Clinton R. Nixon, Glendower, Mike Lucas, John Harper, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg, Storn, Clay, Doyce.

5/11/2006 MatrixGamer: Interrogation: A question about role playing them.
I am interested in hearing people's perspectives on how to run an interrogation using conflict resolution techniques. First a review of other ways I've seen interrogation done. In D+D games…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, joepub, Ron Edwards.

5/11/2006 Yokiboy: It is Hard to be a Player
Hello, I have learned that it can be really hard to be a player. I have been game mastering every campaign I've played in for the past 21 years... until…
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Participants: Yokiboy, James_Nostack, Alan, Web_Weaver.

5/13/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] - Exalted, with Mixed Results
I ran my first TSoY/Exalted game last night, with mixed results. Here are my observations. In this group, I've got four players - B, K, S and N. *B is…
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Participants: Belinda K., Paka, charles ferguson, Frank T, rafial, James_Nostack, xeperi, John Harper, Dev, Valamir, DaGreatJL, Miedvied, Noon.

5/13/2006 John Harper: [TSOY] Shodan Play
Ron has mentioned "black belt" play before, and we got a good taste of it in our last TSOY session, courtesy of Brandon. I'm calling this shodan rank play --…
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Participants: John Harper, Judaicdiablo, r_donato, Albert of Feh.

5/13/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Stalling
Hullo, :) Well, for a miscellaneous sequence of reasons, our fifth session of TSoY was cancelled for about the third time in a row... So, I figured I'd take this…
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Participants: JMendes, Frank T, r_donato.

5/14/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our Eighth Session: Part One
I've posted this write up to my livejournal, http://community.livejournal.com/labcats/11558.html#cutid1. I'm expecting to break it up into several posts here, as the Forge has a very limited word count per post,…
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Participants: Lisa Padol.

5/15/2006 Clay: [Serenity] The Value of Preparation
This past Saturday I took over as the game master for my group's Serenity game.  The previous game master had been stretched a bit thin between work and home, and…
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Participants: Clay, Tommi Brander, khelek, Kai_lord.

5/16/2006 Maleficence: [Fading Suns] First actual play post, game session 32
Hello, I'm Esteban. I've been reading the Forge for a few months now and I've been quite interested by many of the concepts I've read here as well as the…
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Participants: Maleficence.

5/17/2006 D Hirtle: [Shadowrun] The PC's ate my baby!
Hello and thanks to the Forge.  Because of this place I have the words to talk about what's going on in my game.     I am running a 3rd…
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Participants: D Hirtle, Valamir, Gaerik, Alan, DaGreatJL, Wolfen, Grover.

5/18/2006 Ron Edwards: [D&D 3.0/3.5] Spells and swords - fight!
Hello, For context and previous play, check out the threads The kid two houses down and Skill combat and blood drinking. We played our third session…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Asteele, cdr, Jinx, James_Nostack, Dav, mneme, John Harper, Czar Fnord, rafial, Technocrat13, Mark Woodhouse, Noon, Aaron, TheTris, xeperi, Storn, Web_Weaver, Miskatonic, ffilz, r_donato, greyorm, buzz, Melinglor, Sydney Freedberg, JMendes, Roger, Calithena, Caldis, jesterina, Ian Charvill, Jasper the Mimbo, Mike Holmes.

5/19/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley, Episode 1
Ok, it took us two game sessions, for reasons that will be made clear, but Jenni, Nate and I managed to complete Episode 1 of our show, Nightshade Alley. AP…
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Participants: Melinglor, Everspinner, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

5/20/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Solid Gold
Hello, all, :) Oh, I am become happy. Happiness has occurred within me.* Last night, we finally played our fifth session of TSoY. I should tell you right off the…
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Participants: JMendes, Storn.

5/22/2006 gains: [Lacuna Part 1, 2nd Attempt] Orientation
I ran some new players through my Lacuna "Orientation and Mobility within Blue City" scenario using the new and improved rules. The theme of the scenario is to learn to…
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Participants: gains, abzu, ghashsnaga, Ron Edwards.

5/22/2006 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The End of Vault
I'm really great at running a one-shot that everyone wants to keep on playing.  A few pick up and play games among my friends have become years long campaigns, serendipity,…
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Participants: Paka, Jim DelRosso, abzu, Storn.

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