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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.

5/8/2002 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.

5/7/2002 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.

5/6/2002 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.

5/6/2002 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 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 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.

5/4/2002 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.

5/3/2002 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.

5/3/2002 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.

5/2/2002 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.

5/1/2002 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..

5/1/2002 xiombarg: Profiling: Real Life
Okay, more and more people on the "Profiling: Day Jobs" thread are saying their job has little effect on their gaming. Since "what you do" seems real important to a…
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Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins.

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.

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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.

5/17/2002 Petter Sandelin: Sorcerers in the forest
Yesterday I finally got to play Sorcerer for the first time and I'm going to put up some general thoughts about the session. Our game is pretty close to the…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

5/18/2002 Ian Cooper: In the Long Run: Hero Wars actual play
Following from the prep for play thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2154 here is what happened in actual play. My apologies as its long – I’ll be interested to see how it relates to…
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Participants: Ian Cooper, Ron Edwards.

5/19/2002 rabidchyld: Sorcerers seeking the Truth - My first game
Well it wasn't a complete disaster, but sometimes it came pretty close. I had redrawn my relationship map, and spread out my NPC's and their revelations, I opened up the…
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Participants: rabidchyld, Christopher Kubasik, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

5/22/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming Monday (5/20)
[minor editing for more coherence] We played a ton of Munchkin (5 players makes the game) and played a little d20 Call of Cthulhu. It's not indie, but I've been…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clay, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Balbinus, Gordon C. Landis, J B Bell, Tim Denee.

5/24/2002 Bankuei: Riddle of Steel: Who's that man?
Quick recap of last time: Having rescued Artis, a serf sentenced to die, from Baron Duvalle, as well as his wife and son, our ragtag group made its way to…
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Participants: Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/24/2002 Paganini: Indie-netgaming Formed
I've set up a yahoo group for organizing online play sessions of indie-games. The front page can be found by following this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indie-netgaming/ Anyone who is interested, please join…
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Participants: Paganini.

5/24/2002 Eric.Brennan: Star Wars Pre-and Post-Game Report
[This post is my attempt to get more involved in the Actual Play forum after a talk with some regulars, and while it's light on local terms, if you feel…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, Valamir, Zak Arntson, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Ian O'Rourke, Eric J..

5/24/2002 Matt Snyder: The Squeaky Wheel
I've posted a couple comments in the past about my attempts to improve my regular group's gaming sessions (including a survey I had my players answer), so that they might…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, Clay.

5/26/2002 RobMuadib: Forming new gaming group and playing again.
Hi all Hope this isn't considered off-topic. But, wow, I have decided to try and do some gaming again. I think I was in part shamed into it by reading…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

5/14/2002 Nick Pagnucco: Latest Profiling
Just stumbled on this, so... Most recent: Fading Suns (If a PBEM counts), Exalted, Changeling, Dark Sun setting for D&D2E Most enjoyed: ...This one is difficult. I'll say Fading Suns,…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Scratchware, Zoetrope10, RobMuadib, Henry Fitch, WhistlinFiend, Jack Spencer Jr, johnmarron, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bob McNamee, Jared A. Sorensen, rabidchyld, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Jürgen Mayer, Ferry Bazelmans, Petter Sandelin, DeadGirl, xiombarg, Philippe Tromeur, Eric J..

5/27/2002 RobMuadib: Gaming generation gap & other experience issues?
Hi all As I mentioned in my earlier posting about forming a new group again and doing some gaming, I met with the people today. I am already acquinted with…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Henry Fitch, Paganini, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, Valamir, AndyGuest, rabidchyld, DeadGirl.

5/28/2002 RobMuadib: Gaming Resurection - Post Mortem
Hi All As I mentioned I recently made some effort to get a gaming group together again, which was suprisingly easy, I managed to round up and start gaming with…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Dave Versace, DeadGirl.

5/28/2002 Bailey: idoru
Got a chance to play this little gem yesterday with my normal group. First questions anybody had were how many GMs does it need and how many are we going…
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Participants: Bailey, Paganini, Jared A. Sorensen, erithromycin, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

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