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8/17/2006 LordSmerf: [Drifter's Escape] and [Agon] Audio recordings from Gen Con 2006
These are recordings from a pair of after-hours games played at the Embassy Suites at Gen Con this year.  Both of them happened in the lobby, so there's an appreciable…
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Participants: LordSmerf.

8/17/2006 GestaltBennie: [Gen Con] The Mountain Witch
The Mountain Witch Gen Con August 10, 12 pm - 6 pm GM: Unknown Other players: Unknown (four others) One of the things I wanted to do at this year's…
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Participants: GestaltBennie, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Eric J. Boyd, timfire.

8/17/2006 iago: [The Roach] Something interesting goin' on with them there stakes...
So, it's GenCon, and we're playing the Shab al-whatsit Roach, and I'm roached right from the beginning, and going in hard (5 status) on a particular conflict.  We know from…
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Participants: iago, jasonm, Mike Holmes.

8/16/2006 Lamorak33: Pissed off Pendragon
Hi Had a funny gameexperience. I amusually a GM I suffer with control issues. That could explain this post. I am also very impulsive and can be a bit short…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Blankshield, Ron Edwards, eruditus.

8/16/2006 abzu: Agon Sunday Night at GenCon
I was invited to play Agon with Dave Turner, Jared Sorensen, Jürgen Mayer, Thor Olavsrud and Matt Wilson on Sunday night. Dave had run the game once before, Thor had…
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Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, Valamir, rafial, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, Thor Olavsrud.

8/16/2006 ffilz: [RuneQuest] A tortuous session
Last night we had a RuneQuest session that was very painful.  I’m curious if my read on things makes sense. Some background first: The players and their characters: The young…
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Participants: ffilz, Lamorak33, r_donato, Glendower, Mike Holmes.

8/16/2006 Lxndr: [Fastlane] Arabian Heists at GenCon
I'd brought a 20lb briefcase full of heavy casino-weight poker chips, cards, dice, and a roulette wheel to GenCon and carried it all over the place.  By Saturday night I…
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Participants: Lxndr, Valamir, Eric J. Boyd, jasonm, segedy.

8/16/2006 Elysium: Selling game play techniques to my GM
I have a few GMs that I have been trying to sell some of the techniques I have found here. I haven't yet tried any of the techniques, and so…
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Participants: Elysium, Eliarhiman6, demiurgeastaroth, baron samedi, Warren, coffeestain, Ron Edwards, r_donato, abjourne, Dav, eruditus, vulpin, Blankshield.

8/16/2006 urbanpagan: My Life with Mde. Michelle DuChamps (GenCon 06)
This was the third time I'd ever run MLwM (as well as my fourth time ever running -anything-) and of course I was nervous as hell.  This was also the…
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Participants: urbanpagan.

8/14/2006 Andrew Morris: [GenCon][Unistat] Crazy surreal western/Americana and "Tesla: Dead or Alive"
For some reason, I didn't do much role-playing at GenCon. I had lots of fun just hanging out and doing random other stuff. But I did get a chance to…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, LeSingeSavant, Eric Minton, Sydney Freedberg.

8/14/2006 joepub: Why do wolves bite people?
Okay, so Clinton ran this Kick Ass game of The Princes' Kingdom on the Sunday night of Gencon. But this cool, altered version that I'll talk about in a minute.…
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Participants: joepub, Clinton R. Nixon, Noon, eruditus, Meguey, Supplanter.

8/12/2006 rulvestad: I think I get it now
I posted this DitV AP (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20642.0) a while back and since then I’ve been following and participating in a couple other threads.  I’ve also reread the some of the original…
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Participants: rulvestad, Noon.

8/9/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM] My Life with Herr Doktor
So last night I ran my first game of My Life with Master, and all in all I think it went pretty well. I botched a couple of rules, including…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

8/9/2006 jonthegm: [MLwM] First Time - Our Life with Lord Billingsworth
To begin our (about 5 hour) session, we set out to create The Master. After a good half hour of creative prodding on my part and a mix of serious…
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Participants: jonthegm.

8/9/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] (June Retreat) Meaning, story arcs, GMing techniques, stakes neg. (long)
Ahey, all, :) Man, this report is loooong overdue. Anyway, the following is an account of the TSoY story arc I played during my June Retreat. It focuses on techniques,…
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Participants: JMendes, Clay, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/8/2006 contracycle: The raid on the Bank Nationale de Paris
The raid on the Bank Nationale de Paris I have been asked to provide an account of a heavily stylised, storngly directorial game that I have GM'd succesfully, and have…
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Participants: contracycle, Paul T, Sydney Freedberg, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2006 Paul T: Silent Railroading and the Intersection of Scenario Prep & Player Authorship
Hello! I've had a bit of realization recently. I've started GMing a game with a mix of experienced roleplayers and newbies. I'm applying some Forge techniques, and generally with great…
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Participants: Paul T, TonyLB, jburneko, Ron Edwards, JMendes, Marco, Demiurge, Frank T, Dav, demiurgeastaroth, Web_Weaver.

8/7/2006 BeZurKur: [AFMBE] Cool Idea or Car Wreck?
Hey guys, I'm been applying the GNS theory -- as best as I understand it -- to my games, and they have shown considerable improvement.  We are having more fun…
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Participants: BeZurKur, Zak Arntson, Thomas D, Roger, BlackTerror.

8/6/2006 morgue: [Mountain Witch] Under The Banner
[I've called this 'Under The Banner' because I figure it's marginally better to give an AP thread a title distinct from 'our game' or whatever.  And there's a banner in…
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Participants: morgue, Stephanie, hix, Ron Edwards, Sean, eddee, timfire.

8/5/2006 Satchmoe: [MLWM] A first run
I recently bought My Life with Master.  I ran my first game today, with three friends, two with whom I play regularly. We decided to run counter to the advice…
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Participants: Satchmoe, TonyLB, Arturo G..

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8/17/2006 greyorm: [ORX] on Indie-netgaming
This will be a quick post, mainly to hit a few points sloshing around inside my head. A few nights or a week or something ago I up and played…
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Participants: greyorm, Mike Holmes, C. Edwards.

8/17/2006 The Duke: Questions on the Big Model/GNS
Hello. These are not questions on actual, play, I am asking for clarifications on some points of GNS I didn't quite understand. I asked in the First Thoughts forum where…
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Participants: The Duke, Adam Dray, Gaerik, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2006 Bastoche: [Burning Wheel] The game that didn't lift off
I don't know if Ron or any others remembers me. I asked a few GNS related questions a while back before the forum was rearranged. Anyway, those discussions led to…
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Participants: Bastoche, Paka, Nathan P., eruditus, mtiru.

8/17/2006 Technocrat13: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] More murub, por favor.
So, I got to run two sessions of The Shab-al-Hiri Roach on the official books at GenCon this year.  It was, obviously, totally awesome.  The first session, which ran from…
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Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm.

8/17/2006 ivan23: No Rain in Galilee - Dust Devils at GenCon
I’ve not written an Actual Play before, so apologies if it’s too system-light, story-heavy, or overly chatty – I’ve called my points out so people can skim. I wasn’t planning…
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Participants: ivan23, Hans.

8/17/2006 Hans: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Disturbed at GenCon
I thought about posting this report for a while, trying to decide whether or not I should.  I'm not sure if this is an actual play post or an exercise…
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Participants: Hans, epweissengruber, WhiteRat, urbanpagan, oliof, jasonm, r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Bret Gillan, Blankshield, Mark Woodhouse, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam Dray, MichaelCurry.

8/18/2006 Bankuei: [Universalis] Skatepunks, Dogs, and Steamcorps
Hi, At the Games on Demand room, Daniel, Dev, Shannon and I (that's everyone, right?) had shown up, because rumor had it that Ben Lehman would be doing some Bliss…
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Participants: Bankuei, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes.

8/18/2006 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] 2nd day in July 4th '06 week of play.
The following morning (if one considers two PM to be morning) I find that I am the last to rise.  I bleary my way downstairs to find that some Team…
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Participants: Silmenume, Valamir, Precious Villain, Caldis, Ron Edwards.

8/19/2006 timfire: [Mexican Standoff] I shot Peter Adkison... but he shot me back
So Sunday at GenCon Peter Adkison did his usually rounds at the Forge booth, buying pretty much every new game on the shelf---my little party game Mexican Standoff included. Then,…
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Participants: timfire, John Harper, Wolfen, Keith Senkowski.

8/19/2006 epweissengruber: [Heroquest Genericized] Kung-fu and Sci-Fi Game in Toronto
Erik Weissengrube here. I am opening a thread for discussion of the games I ran at the Toronto Roleplayers Alliance's "Fun Day" The two games were - Kung-fu Assault on…
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Participants: epweissengruber.

8/19/2006 Emily Care: [Shooting the Moon]Gen Con: Stalingrad '43
Hello all, At Gen Con, I got to play Shooting the Moon with Jye and Scott from Australia. We had demo'ed the game earlier in the day and had fun,…
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Participants: Emily Care, jasonm, JasperN., Brand_Robins, Jye Nicolson, Parthenia.

8/20/2006 joepub: (Shock) Hollow Bodies
Warning: This game session touched on child prostitution, rape and murder. Me and my friend Spooner got to play a session of Shock. I started by telling him about Issues…
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Participants: joepub, nikola, Yokiboy.

8/20/2006 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] The folks next door
Hi there, A few nights ago, my wife and I found ourselves in a state of fatigue, after a running-around day of work and way too much focused intensity on…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Meguey, Matt Wilson, Yokiboy, pfischer, Dantai, Frank T, dysjunct, Noon, contracycle, c, Malcolm, r_donato, RDU Neil.

8/21/2006 Meguey: GenCon AP: Bacchanal, carry, Primitive, Roach, and more
Rather than starting seven separate threads for my actual play at GenCon, it's mostly all here. I played a Bacchanal demo with Ron and two other men while Tovey was…
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Participants: Meguey, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

8/22/2006 Ron Edwards: [Bacchanal] GenCon demos and more
Hello, I decided to spin off of Meg's thread GenCon AP: Bacchanal, carry, Primitive, Roach, and more. In it, she said it was interesting to see the fleeting look…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, lumpley, tonyd, Frank T, markus_cz, Jonathan Walton, hardcoremoose, charlesperez, Jasper the Mimbo, matthijs.

8/22/2006 Cabbagetom: "Nightmare nineoneone" (PTA)
Greetings Forge!  I joined so that I could discuss Prime time and any other games we've tried out.  My group of players here in edinburgh scotland have varying tastes and…
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Participants: Cabbagetom, Eric J..

8/23/2006 Eric J.: [Pentagon Game] How Anyone Can Love Roleplaying
Hello, I'd like to share a personal triumph with you guys. I'm visiting my old town for the summer on break from college.  I've been working on a RPG for…
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Participants: Eric J., JMendes.

8/23/2006 Aaron: First Try (Sorcerer and Sword)
Sunday we played a session of Sorcerer and Sword and I've got to say fo the most part it went great! The guys were really into the character creation and…
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Participants: Aaron, Frank T, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Gregor Hutton: [Best Friends] Gen Con 06
I got to run short demo games of Best Friends on the booth at Gen Con 06. The knock on demos, in general, is that they aren't real games. In…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Malcolm, Yokiboy, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Malcolm: [Cold City] Gen Con After Hours Game
On the Friday night of Gen Con Indy, I had the good fortune to run what turned out to be a very intense game of Cold City for an excellent…
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Participants: Malcolm, nikola, Yokiboy, GB Steve, RobNJ, Rob MacDougall.

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