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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.

10/2/2006 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.

10/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

9/28/2006 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.

9/27/2006 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.

9/27/2006 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 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.

9/26/2006 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.

9/26/2006 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 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.

9/25/2006 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.

9/25/2006 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 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.

9/23/2006 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.

9/22/2006 Melinglor: Keys and Griefers
Over in this thread, Joao Mendes was describing one player's reaction to the use of Keys in Shadows of Yesterday: - Isidro stated the opinion that…
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Participants: Melinglor, Eero Tuovinen, Brand_Robins, TonyLB, r_donato, Storn, Hans, Noon, Precious Villain.

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.

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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.

10/5/2006 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] The Wedding Festival
The main campus of Penn State has "open gaming" at its student center -- "the Hub" -- every weekend.  The kids play board games, Magic, what-have-you; I've even seen people…
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Participants: Bill_White, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

10/5/2006 Glendower: [Burning Wheel] Spiking the Gift
Character burning for the game discussed here was going rough.  We had spent the last two sessions Burning (about 4 hours per session) with not a completed character in sight. …
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Participants: Glendower, Paka, abzu, memolith.

10/6/2006 Mel_White: [Working Title: ‘Foresworn’] (Southern Exposure)
Greetings, I’m pretty new to independent RPGs and I’d like to contribute a little bit to the hobby with some Actual Play reports from Southern Exposure III.  I was disappointed…
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Participants: Mel_White.

10/7/2006 Zak Arntson: [D&D 3.0/3.5] Monster fight on the open sea!
Wow! So after a long hiatus (last gamed at Dragonflight 2004, running Donjon and InSpectres), I started up a game of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5/3.0 (we have both sets of…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Bankuei, Pol Jackson, Noon, JasperN., Paul T, ffilz, r_donato.

10/9/2006 Thomas D: [PTA/Shadowrun] The Foundation; using PTA as a refocusing tool
With two of five members of the player group gone for the weekend and my notes for the game session missing, we decided to play a flashback game session of…
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Participants: Thomas D.

10/9/2006 museleading: [DitV] Assumption of a Dog's role
Last night, I ran Horton's Bend. Quick synopsis of the town – Br Simon came to town and started peddling his wares. Sr Philomena bought a 'cure' and used it…
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Participants: museleading, Adam Dray, demiurgeastaroth, cdr, Danny_K.

10/9/2006 GreatWolf: [Trollbabe] Actual Play from the campsite
INTRODUCTION This weekend my wife Crystal and I went camping.  Among other things, we had scheduled a session of Trollbabe.  I bought this game for Crystal last Christmas, but so…
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Participants: GreatWolf, demiurgeastaroth, Tim Alexander.

10/9/2006 museleading: Ongoing failure to understand
In this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21694.30;topicseen Ron stated: The hobby as a sustainable activity (which requires no-murk) is still in its infancy. I can still see it everywhere - the ongoing…
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Participants: museleading, Ron Edwards, memolith, GreatWolf, crowyhead, Valamir, contracycle, Noon.

10/10/2006 Storn: [Spirit of the Century] Con experience (with pics!)
This weekend, I got a chance to play Spirit of the Century, which I believe is a Fate 3.0 engine.  A very, very good pulp game system.  As I am…
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Participants: Storn, oliof, Reithan, iago.

10/11/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [Shock:] Shadowrun
Last week my group got together and took Shock: for a spin. We had the intent to play a game in a setting similar to Shadowrun, so our two shocks…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, nikola.

10/11/2006 Malcolm: [Perfect] Three Crimes & A Soiree
So, we sat down to play Perfect at GEAS, the Edinburgh University games society last Sunday. Hugo, Shevvy and Vicky had all expressed keenness the previous week, so this time…
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Participants: Malcolm, joepub, David Artman.

10/11/2006 ffilz: [LEGO] Almost Roleplay?
This past weekend I had an interesting experience that I'd like to explore a bit. Since 1999, I have been collecting and building with LEGO, and almost immediately got into…
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Participants: ffilz, DAudy, David Artman, Hans.

10/12/2006 Web_Weaver: [HeroQuest -modified] Scene Framing Questions
Hi all, This time out I am not expressing a problem, as I am confident that the game is on track here, but I have little twinges of doubt and…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, Lamorak33, sebastianz, Gaerik.

10/12/2006 Reithan: [Mage: The Awakening] Here goes nothing...
Ok, after wanting to do this, being told to do this, still wanting to and generally dreading doing it, mainly for the reason that I haven't a clue how to…
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Participants: Reithan, Danny_K, Glendower, Ron Edwards, Selene Tan, Noon, Ice Cream Emperor, r_donato, Paul T, Marco.

10/13/2006 c: [Mortal Coil] Of Wolves, Dragons, and 11 year olds.
Last weekend at Osh Con we played several games of Mortal Coil and this game was the one I found most interesting. We had three players, myself, Len, and Derrick…
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Participants: c, Storn.

10/13/2006 wunderllama: [With Great Power...] Ragnarok meets teenage angst!
So we just finished up our first issue of With Great Power last week, and wow. I mean... wow. Fantastic.  We had The Valkyrie, my character, who was chosen by…
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Participants: wunderllama.

10/15/2006 Zak Arntson: [D&D 3.5] Badger, Goblin, Fight!
Our second D&D session is done, and much fun was had by all. The first session can be found here: Monster fight on the Open Sea! Before Play Here…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, ffilz, Steven Stewart, DAudy, Wolfen, Noon, cpeterso, James_Nostack, Gaerik, Melinglor, Narf the Mouse, r_donato.

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