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12/31/2006 Caesar_X: [The Princes' Kingdom] Playing with the niece and nephew (long but interesting)
For Xmas I gave The Princes' Kingdom to my 10-year old nephew, Sam.  To be honest, it was initially set aside in favor of PSP games and a clock radio…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Yokiboy.

12/31/2006 crowyhead: The Mountain Witch - First time playing it for us, first time GMing for me
I've posted some about this over at Story Games <a href="http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=2118&page=1#Item_5">here</a> and <a href=http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=2127&page=1#Item_2">here</a> in more detail, so please feel free to check out those threads, but I wanted to…
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Participants: crowyhead, jasonm.

12/29/2006 dreamborn: Opinions on accuracy and realism
Hello All I am sure this is GM and group dependant but I shall ask anyway.  If you are playing in a semi historic campaign how do you feel about…
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Participants: dreamborn, Glendower, Ron Edwards, Noon, cydmab, contracycle, David C, Melinglor, Andrew Morris.

12/28/2006 hix: [UnSpeakable] Rules Questions for an upcoming Con Game
I'm going to be running Unspeakable (the Lovecraft supplement for Inspectres) at Kapcon next weekend. There's no Actual Play yet, but I will write about it here once we do.…
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Participants: hix, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/27/2006 Meguey: [Sorcerer New England Style] Harriet's Diary
Oct 15, Sunday Well, this has certainly been an eventful month. My tag-sale customers are trickling off for the season, so it's time to get the winter pies going. I…
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Participants: Meguey, Artanis, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, Parthenia, Ron Edwards, lumpley, pedyo.

12/26/2006 Gaerik: Dividing the Traditional GM Tasks
In recent history here at the Forge I've read several threads on how many of the social and game related tasks generally get shoved onto 1 person's shoulders and defined…
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Participants: Gaerik, Filip Luszczyk, Eric J., dreamborn, Andrew Morris, Glendower, Noon, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, GreatWolf, r_donato, David Artman, AdAstraGames, Charrua, lev_lafayette.

12/22/2006 Steven Stewart: [Polaris] The Fall of Tall Star Remenant Session 6
This is the same group that was playing in these sessions: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21570.0 http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21570.0 http://www.freewebs.com/blamdesign/ This isn't going to be as long as other AP posts, just wanted to share a…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Ben Lehman.

12/21/2006 Noon: [Rifts PBP] Exploration not really happening
I know it when I see it, that's all I can say. A certain point in exploration of the game world that clicks with me and I have to give…
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Participants: Noon, cydmab, Filip Luszczyk, Danny_K, Glendower.

12/20/2006 Greymorn: Drifting toward Narativism (AP)
For background about our group, our system and what we're doing, see this thread. As promised, here's a report of last night's session. Overall, things went really well and everyone…
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Participants: Greymorn, Valamir, Alan, Danny_K, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/20/2006 AdAstraGames: Watershed Games for Me.
My first RPG was D&D, in the early 80s.  A bunch of us in junior high started playing it, had fun, then most of us noticed girls and it died…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Noon, nystul.

12/19/2006 hix: [& Sword] The Contessa's Baby
The game’s Sorceror, set in 18th century Africa. Here's the prep thread. Sean’s playing Rasputin, a Russian sorcerer eager for the demonic knowledge he knows can be found in the…
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Participants: hix, James_Nostack, Frank T, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik.

12/17/2006 cydmab: [DitV] BNitH
Ran my first game using DitV system tonight. It was pretty fun, but reactions were mixxed by the end of it. Part of the problem was in order to motivate…
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Participants: cydmab, Noon, Ben Lehman, r_donato, David Artman, Everspinner, Web_Weaver.

12/14/2006 Overdrive: How to fight uncreativity?
Hi all, My name is Antti, and I'm from Finland. I believe it's almost two years since my last post here. This year's been hectic with my flat renovation project…
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Participants: Overdrive, Rampage, Noon, Alan, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, TroyLovesRPG.

12/14/2006 markus_cz: [Nicotine Girls] - Experimenting with NG
One day, my friend and a co-player David came with a crazy idea. "Remember the RPG called Nicotine Girls? The one by the author of My Life with Master?" he…
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Participants: markus_cz.

12/12/2006 Rampage: What drove me here, and where I'm going
Hi everybody, I thought of writing a brief introductory post on why I ended up here for, maybe, your amusement. I'll withhold names of the guilty and really specific examples…
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Participants: Rampage, r_donato, Noon, Christopher Kubasik, Filip Luszczyk.

12/12/2006 Steven Stewart: Incoherent Play, Bucket Seats, Aliens and Chainguns...
This is somewhat of a continuation of this actual play post-->http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22317.0 I’d like to pick up from there with the next game we tried, which was a D20 Modern/Future adaptation…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Dennis Laffey, Simon C, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2006 Yokiboy: Contenders in 80's Chi-Town
Hello, My gaming has been on fire lately! We're in the midst of a Dogs in the Vineyard campaign that's just fantastic. The group consists of three of my friends…
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Participants: Yokiboy, Malcolm.

12/8/2006 Alan: [Hollow Earth Expeditions] Clash of expectations
With this AP report, I've got two intentions: 1) to convey some of the experience of reencountering old-school play after I've been playing in games popular on the Forge. 2)…
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Participants: Alan, Simon C, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2006 Noon: [Rifts PBP] Three dead instantly, fourth should be dead a bit latter
I decided to run a gamist PBP and used a savagely direct method of screening players - win an initial scenario, or die and lose (can't reapply to join the…
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Participants: Noon.

12/6/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Gold Rush bareknuckle part 2
Tonight we got together to continue the story of bareknuckle boxing in 'Gold Rush'-era San Francisco.  I was pretty excited as I had played more recently in a 17th Century…
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Participants: Caesar_X.

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1/2/2007 ED.S Teioh: First post/questions, etc.
(cross posted from rpg.net) Hey, guys. I've been reading the Forge for a while now, and really enjoy it. A lot of the stuff on here has really influenced my…
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Participants: ED.S Teioh, Gaerik, jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, Simon C, r_donato.

1/5/2007 Melinglor: First-time Capes: Rocking!
I played Capes for the first time on New Year's Eve! It was awesome! I love it and can't wait to play again! OK, actually I played Capes Lite, but…
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Participants: Melinglor, Andrew Morris, Miskatonic, TonyLB.

1/8/2007 dreamborn: Fog of War
To all, This topic is about the Fog of War and realism in RPGs.  I am an advocate for realism and the Fog of War as long game play is…
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Participants: dreamborn, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Valamir, johnzo, Noon.

7/30/2002 Ron Edwards: http://indie-rpgs.com/reference/index.php/welcome/topic/23029
Hi Danielle, I sometimes think that the "homosexual" and "pastor" problems exert some arcane influence over the dice - the combination seems remarkably common across games of Wuthering Heights, and…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

1/9/2007 Greymorn: Drifting toward Narrativism, Part 2
This is a follow up to part 1 and my first thoughts. Read back for info about me and me group. Thanks to all of the great feedback, I have…
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Participants: Greymorn, Eero Tuovinen, Danny_K, cydmab, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2007 muddlepud: Indie Sunday (some time in November 2006)
I ran another Indie Sunday event some time in November. Time slipped away and the crazy season started so I haven't had the chance to write up anything. This time…
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Participants: muddlepud, jasonm, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

1/14/2007 gsoylent: [FUDGE] Trying Conflict Resolution
I was running a Fudge game taking a Conflict Resolution style approach but I am not sure I got it quite right and as a result the ending was a…
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Participants: gsoylent, Simon C, Lord_Steelhand.

1/14/2007 Trevis Martin: [Sorcerer] If at first we don't succeed...
So my recent game of Sorcerer didn't go so well.  I had pushed to play it after we had finished with Vampire and gotten through a several month period of…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2007 Simon C: Narrativist Game Design and V:tM - Questions.
I've been thinking about this post for a while, after re-reading Ron's essay on "Story Now" Narrativist play.  I'm still working through my own thinking on it, because some of…
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Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Danny_K, Noon.

1/15/2007 Charrua: Fog of War (reboot)
Since Dreamborn may or may not respond to this, my request is for anyone else who experiments with this mode of play: My largest concern with this mode of play,…
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Participants: Charrua, Ron Edwards, Barlennan, Noon, Simon C, contracycle, cydmab.

1/16/2007 Wade Lahoda: [DitV] Disconnection between mechanics and in character experience
So, since the last time I was here I ran Dogs in the Vineyard again.  Much more successful this time.  Probably helped by the fact that I only had three…
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Participants: Wade Lahoda, Gaerik, Blankshield, Web_Weaver, Valamir, Artanis, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

1/18/2007 Troy_Costisick: Gamist Game Design and Cutthroat - Questions.
Heya, I’m going to riff a little bit off this discussion about Narrativism, but focus on a CA that I’m more familiar with.  I’ve just released Cutthroat and I love…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, Noon.

1/19/2007 GB Steve: [Cild City] Getting at them
I started this game with the express intention of setting up one of the characters. Cold City seems to me to be one of those games where this is acceptable…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Malcolm.

1/19/2007 jasonm: [TSoY] Princess Hralroolimi's Betrayal
I ran my TSoY Bunnies and Burrows hack as a one-shot last night and it rocked the house.  We started from scratch - I had a little map and a…
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Participants: jasonm.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen minicon game
Last weekend at the EndGame Oakland Minicon I ran a modified version of The Mountain Witch in a 4-hour time slot for six players.  This was my first con game…
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Participants: Caesar_X.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen (part two)
After the group killed "Train", several of them put on the uniforms of the SS Major and the two corporals they had killed and started walking up the road towards…
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Participants: Caesar_X.

1/20/2007 joshua neff: The Princes' Kingdom, family-style
I've been taking a break from role-playing/story games. But my daughter, Morgan, had gotten a taste for this kind of play last spring, playing a few sessions of a game…
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Participants: joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, Caesar_X, Everspinner.

1/20/2007 Jake Norwood: Playing again. Sort of.
So after a multiyear hiatus of gaming I got together with some members of my college gaming group over Thanksgiving. We played like highschoolers again, finishing an entire story in…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, WDFlores.

1/21/2007 Clinton R. Nixon: HeroQuest - Testosterone-filled Imperial goodness
Throw up the devil horns! The Durham 3 are playing HeroQuest and it is crazy wild. I've wanted to play HeroQuest for a very long time. If you aren't a…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Brand_Robins, ( o Y o ), joshua neff, Neil the Wimp, jasonm, Frank Tarcikowski, Ian Cooper.

1/21/2007 Jasper Flick: [D&D] Who's boss?
Hi all, this is my first Forge post and it's about the first (actually, a pre-play) session of our new RPG initiative. The big themes, if there is any, would…
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Participants: Jasper Flick, James_Nostack, r_donato, Eero Tuovinen, cydmab, lev_lafayette.

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