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8/25/2006 GreatWolf: [De Profundis] Play-by-blog
Recently I happened to remember that, back in GenCon 2002, I had purchased a copy of De Profundis, a Lovecraftian roleplaying game...of sorts.  This was part of Hogshead Publishing's line…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Tim C Koppang.

8/25/2006 jburneko: [InTERRORgation] More of a Drill than a Game.
Hello Everyone, So, at the upcoming SoCal Con, I've decided to run Annie Rush's game InTERRORgation.  I don't like running games for the very first time at a con so…
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Participants: jburneko.

8/25/2006 xeperi: [Capes Lite] First steps on the road.
Hello everyone. Not too long ago I finally got around to getting myself a copy of Capes (and a lovely lovely binder of laminated and adhesive click-and-locks - kudos on…
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Participants: xeperi, Bret Gillan, Noon, peccable, Hans, drnuncheon.

8/25/2006 Ron Edwards: [Bacchanal] Three guys and a lot of wine
Hello, I brought a bunch of games from GenCon over to one of the groups I'm in, an all-guy group which includes Tim Alexander, Chris, and Tim Koppang (surnames included…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, matthijs, Paul Czege, Tim Alexander.

8/24/2006 TonyLB: [GenCon Capes] Family under a magnifying glass
At GenCon I gladly succumbed to requests that I play in a Capes game (I do not accept the notion that I "run" such events, for the obvious reasons).  So,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Jasper the Mimbo, Lxndr.

8/24/2006 Frank T: New players and character creation, three examples
So, as a spin-off from Ron’s Contenders thread, I’m replying to this: Frank, I'm glad you provided counter-examples, because clearly the issue of character creation…
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Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, r_donato, Gordon C. Landis, Cabbagetom, Paka, Eliarhiman6, eruditus, RDU Neil, contracycle, Emily Care, Dantai, GB Steve.

8/24/2006 arcane: [Capes] WNIRCC Session 1 "Raid on McGuffin Labs."
The following is the log file from the narration channel for the Wednesday Night Capes game on MagicStar.  First our players. Arcane_NH is playing Xethoteq Kai_Lord…
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Participants: arcane, r_donato, Filip Luszczyk.

8/24/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Polaris] GenCon '06 Embassy After Hours Game
I came to the con knowing that at some point, I wanted to play Polaris. Some time Friday night I realized I had a much better chance of doing that…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Eric J. Boyd, Ben Lehman, jrs, joepub.

8/23/2006 sjarvis: [The Burning Wheel] "The Inheritance" at GenCon '06
At GenCon '06, I played in Luke Crane's Burning Wheel session of "The Inheritance," his 10-player Viking funeral aftermath game. It was one of the best role-playing experiences I've ever…
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Participants: sjarvis, abzu, Sovem.

8/23/2006 Paka: Mortal Coil presents, Live in New Amsterdam, Flaming Taft!
Come Saturday night I was pretty beat.  My Forge Booth hat and the Sons of Kryos hat had both been immensely rewarding but had taken its toll.  On top of…
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Participants: Paka, inthisstyle, GB Steve, nikola, c, LeSingeSavant, ptevis, RobNJ.

8/23/2006 John Kim: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Sweet innocence at GenCon
So I was interested by the thread on (The Shab-al-Hiri Roach) Disturbed at GenCon, and contrasted that with my own GenCon play of SAHR.  I played in a game of…
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Participants: John Kim, Technocrat13, jasonm, oliof, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray.

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.

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 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 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.

8/22/2006 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..

8/22/2006 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.

8/21/2006 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.

8/20/2006 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.

8/20/2006 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.

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8/26/2006 tonyd: [TSOY] Tales from the Aether: The Jovian Enigma
Enigma of the Great Red Spot is the sequel to Thought Lords of Mars, John Harper’s science-fantasy TSOY variant. The adventurers from the previous episode (with some staffing changes) have…
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Participants: tonyd, rafial, Daermon, John Harper, Judaicdiablo, philaros.

8/26/2006 Jake Richmond: Panty Explosion : Festival of Terror!
[b]Playing Panty Explosion[/b] Right before Gencon I got together with my younger brother Nick and some friends to play Panty Explosion. Nick had helped play test the game and was…
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Participants: Jake Richmond, Adam Dray.

8/26/2006 Jonas Karlsson: [Sorcerer] Parasites, Possessors and Trolls
Last weekend I played Sorcerer with three friends. One of them, Björn, I've played with since, oh, 1994 or so. Through Björn's student dormitory I met Tobias and I guess…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2006 joepub: Pitch and a Miss (why my non-gamer friends won't try it)
So, this isn't really an actual play thread. This is an I-didn't-get-any-actual-play-because-I-can't-convince-my-friends-to-try-RPGs thread. So, I'm not going to get into specific examples here too much, because I want more general…
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Participants: joepub, Noon, Frank T, Alan, greyorm, Storn, Blankshield, Lamorak33, Doyce, Mike Sugarbaker.

8/27/2006 Adam Dray: Just a cool Dogs scene
At Games on Demand at GenCon this year, Carl Rigney runs Dogs in the Vineyard for me, Piers, Clyde, and Nathan.  Forgive me if I have the names wrong; GenCon…
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Participants: Adam Dray, c, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Frank T, cdr.

8/27/2006 Daermon: [tSoY] Quick one-shot report with some questions
So, after sitting on it for over a year, I finally convinced my group to try a game of tSoY. We ran the one-shot Rat Moon Rising and everyone seemed…
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Participants: Daermon, Clinton R. Nixon, r_donato.

8/28/2006 Valamir: [Agon] Actual Play
Agon was the game I left GenCon most wanting to try with my group.  It offers a pretty solid combination of features, not the least of which is an opportunity…
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Participants: Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, GreatWolf.

8/28/2006 REkz: PTA - insights from 3 / 5 "Cuckoo's Nest" Episodes
Gamers, Our group has played 3 of 5 episodes for the 1st season of Cuckoo's Nest. As the game Producer, and this has been my 1st time playing PTA, here's…
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Participants: REkz.

8/28/2006 Thomas D: [PTA/Shadowrun] The Foundation; using PTA as a first session game
Previously, on Shadowrun:  Our group originally came together to play Shadowrun, but we didn't wind up with a successful campaign.  Shadowrun's default mode is the characters are a bunch of…
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Participants: Thomas D, Matt Wilson, REkz, DAudy, Melinglor, Jhulae.

8/29/2006 RyanMacklin: Narrative Character Creation
Hello, This is my first post here.  I've been lurking for a short time now.  I had the pleasure of meeting a few of you fine folks at GenCon, and…
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Participants: RyanMacklin, iago, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2006 Ron Edwards: Actual Play - special rule
this post is obsolete edited to un-sticky Hi everyone, This has been a rule for a while, but I want to emphasize it. In this particular forum, Actual Play, the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

8/29/2006 Jonathan Hastings: [WGP...] Blue Diamond and the Hypernaut, Continued...
So, this is somewhat late, but, over the course of two more sessions, we finished up the With Great Power... game I first posted about here. The short version: Blue…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, James_Nostack, Eric Minton, Lxndr.

8/29/2006 demiurgeastaroth: [Agon] Oathbound
I've played Agon now twice with a group of 5 other players. Tonight, I had two friends over for a game of PTA, but one of them wasn't feeling up…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/30/2006 Ron Edwards: [Perfect] Neighbors gone wild!
Hello, Remember Brian and Eliza, from the The folks next door thread? Well, Eliza's out of town this week, and Brian's long-time pal James, whom I've met, is in…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GB Steve, joepub, Paka, David Artman.

8/30/2006 Settembrini: [Rifts] Two and a half sessions at Odyssee Con, Berlin
Dear Readers, As I promised Ron some time ago, here is a Rifts Actual Play report. As I'm not deeply enough into terminology, I will reflect on the goings in…
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Participants: Settembrini, Frank T, Precious Villain, MSch, Noon, Ron Edwards, niddhogg, Glendower, droog.

8/30/2006 Warren: [kpfs] Nastier than the Sabbat
As requested by Ron over on Story Games, this is the only game of kpfs I've played in, and overall, it went pretty well. The group was Me, Tom, Steve…
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Participants: Warren, Ron Edwards.

8/31/2006 muddlepud: a quick MLWM
I'm running MLWM at a con in about a month. I've read some posts about sessions that might go for 4 hours. But, what about a session that goes for…
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Participants: muddlepud, Artanis.

8/31/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [Hero's Banner] War for the Soul of Uran
Jason, Remi, and I played Hero's Banner this week, and, man, did we have fun! This Actual Play post will go best with some actual talk about our play. I'm…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jye Nicolson, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, LeSingeSavant, Nev the Deranged, Bret Gillan.

8/31/2006 Malcolm: [Cold City] Gen Con 2006 15 minute demos
I’d like to talk about both the preparation for these demos and the actual play experience on the Forge/IPR booth. Prior to coming to Gen Con, there were several evenings…
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Participants: Malcolm.

8/31/2006 Frank T: [Vampire 2E Sabbat] Of Evil and of Simulationism
The recent “kill puppies” thread reminded me of my Sabbat character, one of my favorite ever, and a truly evil one as well. We once had one of this show-off…
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Participants: Frank T, Sovem, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, r_donato, Silmenume, Thomas Lawrence, Noon, JasperN., Caldis.

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