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4/30/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming Monday - InSpectres
Well, I had Clinton and my two brothers over for Monday Night Indie Gaming. We started with Munchkin (slow starting game, but wound up pretty awesome by the end. I…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Joe Murphy (Broin), Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

4/29/2002 xiombarg: Profiling Day Job
Okay, inspired by the "profiling" thread, I'm kinda curious about something. What are people's day jobs around here? And how does that relate to your gaming? As much as we…
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Participants: xiombarg, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Buddha Nature, Valamir, jburneko, Clay, unodiablo, Gordon C. Landis, Laurel, Blake Hutchins, Russell Hoyle, Wolfen, wyrdlyng, Tim Denee, Balbinus, AndyGuest, Mytholder, rafael, contracycle, Matt Gwinn, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Emily_Dresner, Paul Czege, Joe Murphy (Broin), J B Bell, Fabrice G., Bailey, Walt Freitag, gentrification.

4/29/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Unknown Armies character creation session
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a few people (let's just name them, it's easier that way - Robin, Robert and Roy) who were looking to start a new…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/27/2002 Andrew Martin: Before the Flood
Continuing play in Vincent's (Lumpley Games) Before the Flood. I'm a player in this, our group has five players total (including GM). The land is a medieval fantasy setting, where…
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Participants: Andrew Martin.

4/25/2002 jburneko: Werewolf, 1st Session
Hello All, Well, as some of you know I decided to give my on going Deadlands game a rest at the end of the last story arc. I put a…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Erik, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Blake Hutchins, leomknight.

4/25/2002 xiombarg: The Pool: The Toybox
Okay, today was the vulgarly-named F*#k-Around Night at my place, where we try out different things. Today we tried The Pool. The background I used was a bit odd. The…
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Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Buddha Nature, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Michael Bowman, Paul Czege, James V. West.

4/22/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: InSpectres (omigod, Jared's posting in Actual Play...!)
Yup. I played three games this weekend at a Maine game con (well, three RPG's and a few games of tag-team Superior, rockin'). The games were Unknown Armies, Deadlands: Hell…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/22/2002 Clay: Dust Devils Session II
My fledgling group played its second session of Dust Devils tonight. If you recall my earlier posting on it, I said that the group was having some problems with getting…
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Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

4/22/2002 Henry Fitch: Leaping into the Fray
Okay. I've been a "daydreamer" for too long, it's time I actually got out and played. Or, way past too long. So I need a group. Don't have one, don't…
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Participants: Henry Fitch, Clay, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Bankuei, Valamir, leomknight, Buddha Nature, Blake Hutchins, Philippe Tromeur, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes.

4/20/2002 Russell Hoyle: X-Games continued discussion
Hiya Blake! (2) Is there a less intrusive means of conveying the plot immunity of principal antagonists to the players than breaking into the narrative with a warning?…
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Participants: Russell Hoyle, Buddha Nature, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

4/18/2002 Jürgen Mayer: short C&C session
It's 1:14 am and I just came home from a gaming session at our FLGS. I'm very tired and will keep this short. We played a game of C&C before…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Dav.

4/18/2002 Zircon Senshi: Power Of The Wake (RPG)
This rpg will be kinda like the anime Blue Submarine 6, and focus on a race rather than humans, but look exactly the same. Note: A Vykozen is human in…
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Participants: Zircon Senshi, Ferry Bazelmans.

4/17/2002 Ron Edwards: More depravity and Violence Future
Hello, Having played our final session of Violence Future last week, I thought this was a good time to return to the topic explored previously in these threads: Violence Future:…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jürgen Mayer, Fabrice G., Dav.

4/15/2002 J B Bell: J B Bell's (nee TQuid) Sorcerer game--The Last Girl on Eart
A while back in this thread, Ron wrote: I suggest that prior to your next game, simply do all the Humanity checks and gain rolls from the last run…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Henry Fitch.

4/10/2002 Matt Gwinn: Combat-Free Campaigns
I've been thinking. Why is it that every roleplaying game I've ever player has involved combat at one point or another? Is combat necessary to create a compelling story? There…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Eugene Zee, Kenway, Clay, Ron Edwards, J B Bell, Bankuei, jburneko, Le Joueur, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Bailey, contracycle, Buddha Nature, Fabrice G., hyphz.

4/10/2002 mallninja0088: A question...very odd too.
The only people I know around my very small town that play RPG's are my brother and I. Now for the question. How could I GM and play a character…
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Participants: mallninja0088, Jürgen Mayer, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, contracycle, GreatWolf, Dav, Clay, Laurel, Zak Arntson.

4/9/2002 GreatWolf: Whispering Vault in play
Hopefully that isn't a misleading title.... I'm actually looking for general comments, thoughts, etc. on Whispering Vault. I was in Peoria, IL this weekend preparing for the big move, and…
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Participants: GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, Petter Sandelin, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer.

4/9/2002 Ace: Problems with getting the players to quip and quote (long)
One of the problems I have been having in my RPG campaigns is been getting the players to put a little dialog into the game, I think it may be…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Eugene Zee, Paul Czege, contracycle, Tim C Koppang, TSL.

4/8/2002 Valamir: Donjon this weekend
Played Donjon some this weekend. Here are some thoughts that came up, in no particular order other than the order in which they occur to me. 1) There are clearly…
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Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/7/2002 Clay: Dust Devils Play
I played Dust Devils for the first time last night. We hit a few snags, but none of them related to the system. Overall we really liked the narration mechanic,…
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Participants: Clay, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

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5/1/2002 Ayrizale: Motivational Events and GMs Leading the Story
Hello, I've been thinking about some things recently and I wanted to get some other opinions and points of view about something. I have been considering the Gamemaster's job of…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Paul Czege, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Daredevil, Le Joueur, Fabrice G..

5/2/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Unknown Armies solo session 1: Mich Garcia
After character creation for my new Unknown Armies group (more on that in this thread), I made an appointment with each of my players for a solo session. Last night…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans.

5/3/2002 Bankuei: The Riddle of Steel one shot
So I finally got a chance to try out ROS. I ran up some pregen stats, but left the spiritual attributes open for the players to define. I had pretty…
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Participants: Bankuei, Jaif, Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Wolfen, Lyrax.

5/3/2002 lumpley: A Third Metagame Goal
Hey. My Ars Magica crew's been talking a fair bit about Gamism, Narrativism and Simulationism, and I think we're doing something else. Narrativism is about building a story. You set…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis.

5/4/2002 Buddha Nature: Cutting down a group...
So this isn't so much of an Actual Play question as a Soon-to-be Actual Play question: My group of gaming buddies is about eight strong. We usually game with 5-6.…
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Participants: Buddha Nature, Daredevil, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Paganini.

5/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Dust Devils approaches the final reel
Hi there, Due to some scheduling conflicts, we haven't been able to continue the Dust Devils game until recently. It's demonstrated some interesting features, most of them very positive. I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay.

5/6/2002 Ron Edwards: DemonCon draws near
Hi folks, Well, the website for it is totally not ready yet (which is my fault), but here's the relevant info. DemonCon I June 1, 2002, 10:00 AM to 6:00…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, xiombarg, Mytholder, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege.

5/6/2002 J B Bell: Last Girl on Earth wrap-up (JB's Sorcerer game)
This is the final thread about my Sorcerer game, which ran 7-8 sessions, IIRC. The most recent thread is here. I had anticipated perhaps some more play, but the players…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2002 jburneko: Fleshing Out An Idea For Actual Play
Hello All, I went to the local Rennaisance Fair this weekend and while I always enjoy the experience I was thinking about how, as a time period, I'm much more…
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Participants: jburneko, Bob McNamee.

5/7/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming Monday - InSpectres Again!
Played InSpectres again. Trying to put all this talk into action. Quick synopsis: Three Players (nobody from the Forge this time), me GMing. My adventure hook was randomly picked from…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/8/2002 Laurel: Jumping Into Little Fears
Last Friday, I got home from work to discover 3 out of my 4 Exalted players already gathered there (an hour early) and they informed me that #4 wasn't coming…
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Participants: Laurel, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Jason L Blair.

5/13/2002 jburneko: InSpectres - All Female Branch
Hello All, So, a large number of people couldn't make my regularly scheduled Werewolf game so I pounced on the opportunity to do something else. I asked three of my…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

5/14/2002 Scratchware: Erm... Hello.
I am... you could say.... a gamer. I do not play Diablo or any non-RPG game that thinks it's an RPG. I love D&D even though the D6 Starwars is…
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Participants: Scratchware, Henry Fitch, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, xiombarg, leomknight, Ian O'Rourke, Andrew Martin, Eric J..

5/14/2002 GreatWolf: Soliciting input on Nobilis in play
Okay. My copy of Nobilis should arrive any day now. (Pause to grumble about US Postal Service). I do know that there are some folks here who played the first…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Mytholder, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

5/14/2002 Bankuei: And now, for something totally gamist and mindless...
This weekend, I tried out a new homebrew I pulled off the web. I tried out the Zodiac rpg, which you can find at: http://www14.brinkster.com/zodiacrpg/ This system is designed to…
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Participants: Bankuei.

5/14/2002 hardcoremoose: One from The Vault
Hey everyone, Well, I wrapped up a five session arc of The Whispering Vault tonight, and until now I've been reticent to say much. I'd like to say there wasn't…
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Participants: hardcoremoose.

5/14/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming Monday, May 13 2002
Okay, we only had three participants this time (myself included). We were going to try out d20 Call of Cthulhu! It's not an Indie game, but after some emails and…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

5/15/2002 Ian Cooper: Hero Wars prep for play
If this is the right forum here are some notes on my adoption of some of the techniques of scenario design discussed on the forge in prep for play. I’ll…
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Participants: Ian Cooper, joshua neff, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2002 Bankuei: ROS: Free Artis!
Tonight we began Clinton's ROS campaign and had a great time. We also ran an entire session without combat. Yes, I said both of those in the same breath, for…
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Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

5/17/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): My Sim experience: Emmet
Since coming to The Forge, I'd assumed that most of my previous gaming experience sat well in the proto-Narrativist camp. As a GM, I wanted players to cooperate in support…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf.

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