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9/21/2006 Levi Kornelsen: [Frostfolk, ] Carrying on
Note: This is a continuation of a conversation between Ron and myself.  If you'd like to look up the specific characters and situations, I'll be searching up a link and…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Ron Edwards, Alan, Caldis, Melinglor.

9/21/2006 Web_Weaver: [HeroQuest] Lifting the Veil
I have an interesting dilemma in my Heroquest game, that I would like to discuss here. So, I guess the only way to do so is to provide the Actual…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Noon.

9/21/2006 jasonm: [TSOY] The Standard Family
I ran the first session of a Shadow of Yesterday mini-campaign last night and it went really well.  Five players, one new to our group but a friend.  We'd chatted…
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Participants: jasonm, Doyce, segedy, Isbo, r_donato.

9/20/2006 Caesar_X: [MLWM] Gloria Deschampes
My group had our first session of My Life With Master last night.  None of us had played the game before, so it was a trial of fire.  Overall I…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Paul Czege, JJTMM.

9/20/2006 Gregor Hutton: [Best Friends] New to gaming... Bring It On!
I ran a couple of Best Friends games at the weekend at the gaming club in Edinburgh University. It was the first session of the new term and so we…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Graham Walmsley.

9/19/2006 Doyce: [Roach] Death! Debauchery! (And we've only started the Semester)
Saturday the 9th I drove down to Lee and De's new place about an hour and a half away with Dave and Margie in tow.  I've been trying to get…
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Participants: Doyce, jasonm.

9/19/2006 Zathreyel: [The Mountain Witch] Angst Ascendant pt. 2
This is an AP of the second half of Act One from my play group's MW game.  You can find the write-up of the first half over here. In this…
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Participants: Zathreyel.

9/18/2006 Storn: [PTA] Lions at the Gate Week 2
Okay, forgive me a little bit, as I am doing this AP a few days after we played.  I'm really fuzzy on who set up what scenes, so I'm not…
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Participants: Storn, Paka, Bret Gillan.

9/18/2006 Ron Edwards: [Perfect] Explosions and betrayals
Hi there, This is my follow-up to Neighbors gone wild!. I'm starting a new thread because it's been a while. Joe asked some questions at the end of that…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joepub, David Artman.

9/18/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Good times, bad times
Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share. I just finished playing Shadow of Yesterday with two buddies, Eric and Pat. The game went mostly well, but there…
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Participants: r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/18/2006 BWA: [Forge-style D&D] Keys vs. Random Monster Encounters
I’m not sure if this will be of interest to anyone or not, but Ron suggested I do an Actual Play post (while I was pestering him in a series…
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Participants: BWA, r_donato, Lamorak33, Paka, Melinglor, James_Nostack, John Harper, charles ferguson.

9/18/2006 Hans: [TROS] Social Combat for TROS
I know that the Riddle of Steel (TROS) has its own forum now off the Forge, and have posted this there as well.  But I figured there may be enough…
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Participants: Hans, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

9/17/2006 Zathreyel: [The Mountain Witch] Angst Ascendant, pt. 1
Dan and I have been friends for a while.  A mutual love of Rebecca Borgstom brought us together in the dizzying bustle of Philadelphia, and our mutual love of all…
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Participants: Zathreyel, timfire.

9/16/2006 greyorm: [Princes' Kingdom] First Session with the Kids
The kids and I had one or two interesting D&D games I didn't write up, due to lack of time, but otherwise, we've mainly been playing Carsaconne, a board game…
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Participants: greyorm, r_donato, c, birdofparadox, Clinton R. Nixon, Supplanter, charles ferguson.

9/15/2006 Matthew Glover: [Mortal Coil] Matthew and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Game Session
After hearing me blather about how cool it sounded for weeks, my wife got me Mortal Coil for my birthday.  We finally got to play it Wednesday.  It did not…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, r_donato, GB Steve, Paka, Tim Alexander, inthisstyle, Doyce, Mike Holmes.

9/15/2006 Ron Edwards: [Bacchanal] What, more?
Before our first round of Best Friends, the same group limbered up with a session of Bacchanal. Some of you are probably relieved to learn that this was my latest…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs.

9/13/2006 Thomas D: [PTA/Shadowrun] The Foundation: initial SR(ish) rules game session
As recounted earlier, I used Primetime Adventures as the ruleset for our Shadowrun campaign's opening session.  Post-PTA, we spent time out of the game session to remake the characters using…
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Participants: Thomas D, Noon.

9/13/2006 arete66: [Mortal Coil] Night Watch
A match made in heaven, it seems to me...I'm in the research end of things currently, and would be interested in hearing from others familiar with both Mortal Coil and…
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Participants: arete66, Sovem, Ron Edwards.

9/13/2006 Tim Alexander: [Space Rat] Call me Cosmos
Hey Guys, This game really kicks ass. FUN with a capital F - U - N! It seems to have gotten lost in the deluge of Ronnies and somehow even…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Noon.

9/13/2006 Glendower: [Universalis/Burning Wheel] Playing a game to set up another game
In order to play Burning Wheel, I needed a setting.  I looked at all the settings currently out and thought to myself "I want a setting that everyone is invested…
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Participants: Glendower, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, Sovem.

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9/23/2006 Steven Stewart: [Polaris] 2 Player - Tales of Starlight and Ice: the Fall of TallStar
[b]Long ago, people were dying at the end of the world. But hope was not yet lost, for NA'IR AL SAIF and CHELEB still heard the song of the stars...[/b]…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Ben Lehman.

9/25/2006 Doyce: [DitV] ... and it's about damned time!
Okay, so... it's been two years since I got Dogs.  More than that; I had one of the first pre-Gen Con copies of DitV and I loved it.  My enthusiasm…
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Participants: Doyce, Glendower.

9/25/2006 Selene Tan: 1001 Nights: Entertainment Analysis
I posted this in the Night Sky Games forum, and Meguey asked me to re-post it here. So in one of my classes, the first assignment was to write an…
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Participants: Selene Tan, Narf the Mouse.

9/25/2006 Storn: [PTA} Lions at the Gate Week 3
This week was very, very good.  In TV parlance, ratings went up! Producer:  Bret Medea:  Judd Rion Greenwhich:  Bob Prometheus:  J Ulysses Station: me To be honest... I'm still feeling…
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Participants: Storn, John Harper, Paka, baron samedi, Bret Gillan.

9/26/2006 jasonm: [Cold City] Operation Holle-Kehle
First session of Cold City with the Durham 3 last night - me, Clinton, Remi, and Andy.  Yes, that's four - we invited Andy to join us because Cold City…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Malcolm, Jonathan Hastings, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, Storn, LeSingeSavant, Gregor Hutton.

9/26/2006 voidstate: ActualPlay.com - Cordial Invitation To Add Your Crazy Indie Game APs
Hi I've recently launched an actual play directory for gamers called (originally enough) actualplay.com. It's designed to help gamers find actual play reports of whatever games interest them, either as…
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Participants: voidstate, Nev the Deranged, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards.

9/26/2006 Glendower: [DITV] Three and three In authority
I'm still trying to cathc my breath after running a session of Dogs in the Vineyard with Six people.  I'd say it was a success, but man, I don't know…
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Participants: Glendower, Narf the Mouse.

9/27/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: [Cold City] In the Dirty Jersey
tonight was my first Cold City game. I have read the book and played malc's short demo. I am playing with James, and Carl, my roomates, and BJ, a friend…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Malcolm.

9/27/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: [Primitive] The island dwellers
Last week, as the meet and greet game for a new gathering of players I ran a game of Primitive. I was playing with some folks that had never roleplayed…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Paul Czege, Nathan P., Noon.

9/27/2006 Rimke: [Universalis] my first game
A few weeks ago Wilco, Rachèl, Brian and I came together to play a game of Universalis. We had met eachother on a Dutch RPG site and didn’t know eachother…
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Participants: Rimke, Valamir.

9/28/2006 GB Steve: [1001 Nights] The camel, the monkey and the pirate with no name.
PCs Farouk (Simon) - Chronicler - old with disgusting hands - Ambition: have Sheherezade cure my hands Sheherezade (Paula) - Perfumer - young and vital with healing hands - Ambition:…
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Participants: GB Steve, Meguey, Pelgrane, fon.

9/29/2006 Melinglor: Confessional: I was an Illusionist Wanker!
I've been mulling this over for while, and finally decided to post about it. I think I just need to get it off my chest. Apologizes if it takes awhile…
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Participants: Melinglor, Precious Villain, Noon, Ron Edwards, Barlennan, Glendower, Frank T, Call Me Curly, Joe Dizzy, Caldis, komradebob, contracycle.

9/30/2006 Paka: Lions at the Gates, 3rd Session
This was the only game other than the pilot where it was no one spotlight episode.  I looked it at i on paper and was sure it would be a…
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Participants: Paka, Storn.

10/1/2006 Settembrini: [Rifts] GNS my session
From this thread: I never fully grokked the three Creative Agendas, therefore I renounced them to be of any practical value, and I personally think they don't cover what I…
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Participants: Settembrini, Caldis, Noon, Paka, Ron Edwards, alexandro.

10/2/2006 muddlepud: My Life With Master at Unicon
So, Unicon was on during the weekend. A two day con, seven sessions, each 2.5 hours. I ran My Life With Master. Here’s the blurb I used for the game:…
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Participants: muddlepud, droog.

10/2/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Bangs&Illusionism - in which Ron beats down Confusion
This is a spin-off of the story-games thread Explain to me how Bangs are not warmed-over Illusionism.  Ron asked for some Actual Play. Dogs in the Vineyard Jesse's character Sebastian…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, jlester, greyorm, Valamir, Noon.

10/3/2006 droog: Con newbie runs Sorcerer
I just attended my first con on the weekend, so I thought I'd try to get down my impressions in an actual play context. Unicon is a small con run…
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Participants: droog, muddlepud, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2006 W Alexander: [Little Fears] Room 9
Okay, I'll begin this post by noting that I don't typically recount my games in forums.  Me, I've never found reading the exploits of other groups that engrosing, but I…
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Participants: W Alexander, JasperN., r_donato, GreatWolf.

10/4/2006 sirogit: Inter-party conflict, role communication and TMW.
I'm trying to evaluate the different ways that inter-party conflict(Conflict between PCs in a close knit group of some kind.) seems to bring on somewhat ugly hardcore gamism, and how…
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Participants: sirogit, timfire, Storn, Phlophouse.

10/4/2006 klausok: A game of With Great Power
This is a very slightly expanded version of my post to the Incarnadine forum. It is now some time since we played the game. I hope this description interests you,…
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Participants: klausok.

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