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1/30/2007 Qi Chin: [D&D] Just some examples
Alright, after lots of encouraging from a couple of you here I am going to try and write up my RPG experiences at the gaming table. Note that while D&D…
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Participants: Qi Chin, James_Nostack, Artanis, Jasper Flick.

1/30/2007 Emily Care: [Shooting the Moon] Dreamation: Love's Reflection, or The Daughter of Deception
On Saturday afternoon at Dreamation, I got to play Shooting the Moon with Dave Cleaver, Matt Gandy, Michelle, Kat and Michael Miller. Dave and Matt were the two who had…
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Participants: Emily Care, Simon C, Dave Cleaver, semioticity, Michael S. Miller.

1/29/2007 Glendower: [PTA] The Chosen, Pilot
From their experiences last week, E and A wanted to try out a full episode of Primetime Adventures.  When I arrived, A had some misgivings about the original series.  He…
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Participants: Glendower.

1/28/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Best Friends] At Dragonmeet
Best Friends went down a storm at Dragonmeet: five strangers randomly signed up and gelled quickly. Here's some notes on how it went (mainly for the reference of anyone else…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Emily Care, Paul King.

1/28/2007 hix: [Kapcon 16] How to run a medical procedural show using Primetime Adventures
Last weekend, I ran PTA at a local con for three players. We settled on a supernatural forensic medical drama. I’d watched two seasons of House recently, so I was…
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Participants: hix, James_Nostack.

1/27/2007 lev_lafayette: Indie Games at Arcanacon (Melbourne, Australia)
There was some lovely people showcasing some indie/forge games at Arcanacon XXV today. We got to play My Life With Master, Agon, Mexican Stand-off and Best Friends. Agon's unfamiliar crunchiness…
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Participants: lev_lafayette, muddlepud, Aaron.

1/25/2007 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer] In the Dark pre-play prep.
So, I've run Sorcerer a few times, but it's only really worked once before, and I think it's because my usual gang didn't have the context for the more prolonged…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2007 Glendower: [Burning Wheel]
Nothing makes me want to leave my hobby forever than the long and painful bickering between players.  When players dig in and refuse to budge from their positions, it turns…
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Participants: Glendower, mtiru.

1/22/2007 Glendower: [PTA] Series creation and teaser scene
(Note:  I didn't get permission to use names, (I forgot to ask) so I'm forced to use initials instead.  I know this isn't easiest to read, so I added bold…
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Participants: Glendower.

1/22/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Contenders] Gladiators!
So over here we've been talking about a Gladiators conversion for Contenders. My sunday group wrapped up the first phase of our Burning Empires campaign just before christmas, so this…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Caesar_X, Yokiboy.

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.

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.

1/20/2007 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.

1/20/2007 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 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 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.

1/19/2007 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.

1/19/2007 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.

1/18/2007 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.

1/16/2007 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.

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1/30/2007 Kevin Allen Jr: [Primitive] Dreamation 07
On Friday in the 8:pm Slot I ran a game of Primitive for 6 wonderful players, who I had never played the game with before.  They had also never played…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, jasonm, Ron Edwards, bluegargantua, Nathan P..

1/30/2007 Paka: [Dreamation '07] Dictionary of Mu
I ran the Dictionary of Mu for a few years while it was still just a word document with red ink on it.  It was at Dreamation that I met…
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Participants: Paka, ShaneJackson, James_Nostack, Uruush.

1/30/2007 Malcolm: [Cold City] Operation Violine, convention play
This is a report on a cold City game played in a 3 hour slot at Warpcon, Cork, Ireland. Con games in the standard 3 – 4 hour slot are…
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Participants: Malcolm, Yokiboy, jasonm, komradebob, Kami-no-Mark.

2/1/2007 Mel_White: [D&D] (Dreamation) "Well Met in Mankara"
After an 'unfun' experience playing D&D at DEXCON I determined that I would run my own D&D session at a convention that I would try to do 'better'.  So this…
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Participants: Mel_White, Sempiternity, Bill_White, Paka.

2/1/2007 JamesDJIII: [Dogs In The Vineyard] Silver City - a FLGS demo
This is my third time running "Dogs in the Vineyard." After running a couple of games for my buddies, it was time to run it as a demo. I drew…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, David Artman, ffilz, jasonm, Web_Weaver, WhiteRat, Ice Cream Emperor.

2/2/2007 Wise One: [PTA] Over the Wall
Having laid my hands on PTA a couple of months ago, I've finally got round to running a series through my university gaming society.  We've got five players (3 male,…
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Participants: Wise One.

2/4/2007 joshua neff: [The Princes' Kingdom] Children, parents, and imaginative play
This is a continuation of my thread "The Princes' Kingdom, family style," although there are some other issues I want to discuss. My wife, Julie, our daughter, Morgan, and I…
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Participants: joshua neff, Mel_White, Simon C, ffilz, cdr.

2/4/2007 Andrew Morris: [Dreamation] [Unistat] Knights of the Living Dead
Here's the quick and dirty write-up of my Friday night game at Dreamation. Player (Character/Trait) Emily Care-Boss (Jennifer the Zombie/Who am I?) Mike Miller (Mayor Zane VanFoil/Self-Important) Ralph Mazza (Sir…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Emily Care, Valamir.

2/6/2007 rycanada: (new guy) Lost at the Forge...
Hi, I'm new to the Forge, although I devoured the intro to forge theory blog entries and read deep in the game start to finish. I'm pretty dissatisfied with my…
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Participants: rycanada, Simon C, komradebob, johnwedd, Noon, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Jasper Flick, Valamir, Paka, Web_Weaver, contracycle, Marco.

2/7/2007 joepub: The best roleplaying I've ever done [sorcerer]
So, I'd like to talk a bit about the session where I felt that I did my best roleplaying to date (a very subjective statement, I know). There was one…
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Participants: joepub, r_donato, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, J B Bell.

2/7/2007 MatrixGamer: Dracula Engle Matrix Game - Refereeing example
ENGLE MATRIX GAME REFEREEING: DRACULA ACTUAL PLAY Three players, Tom, Bob and Chris are gathered together to play “Dracula: The game before the game” (available on RPGNow from Hamster Press).…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Noon, komradebob.

2/7/2007 Lamorak33: [V:TM 2nd Ed] The Forbidden Tome Kickers
Hi I have just started a new group with the intent of playing another round of the Forbidden Tome scenario, from Sorcerers Soul. The players all decided that London would…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, Web_Weaver.

2/10/2007 BWA: (Sweet20 D&D) Imperial Bad-Guy Elves
I posted several months ago about using the Sweet20 experience rules (from The Shadow of Yesterday) in a D&D campaign. I did that with a small group of close friends…
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Participants: BWA, oliof, Simon C, chriscrouch.

2/11/2007 Jasper Flick: [D&D] Midwinter Harvest
Last Saturday I had my first play session with the group I talked about in the " Who's boss?" thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23122.0. We've got me as GM and Ivan, Johan, Marcel,…
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Participants: Jasper Flick, Eric J., Simon C, Yakk.

2/12/2007 Glendower: [DITV] Orchard Plains
The first game I played with Erica and Aaron was Primetime Adventures, and though it was fun, there was the conspicuous lack of dice that both of them really wanted…
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Participants: Glendower, Valamir, 14thWarrior.

2/13/2007 hix: [Universalis] A fantasy epic in 3 hours (or How I took the Gloves off)
This happened back in January last year, on the first day of Kapcon (our local convention). Five players – Ivan, who I’d never met before. Margee was a friend from…
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Participants: hix, Simon C, Valamir, Yokiboy, TonyLB.

2/13/2007 J B Bell: [Dead Inside] Tears in Afghanistan
On Saturday, 10 February 2007, myself and a few friends played Dead Inside. Overall, it went extremely well and I was very pleased with how the system worked. In trying…
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Participants: J B Bell, joepub, Anemone, Dumirik, chadu.

2/14/2007 MatrixGamer: Matrix Game Decision Making Process
MATRIX GAME DECISION MAKING PROCESS I have always found that solo games are useful for understanding thought processes. Thought experiments like this hark back to the first generation of psychologists…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Simon C, komradebob, Valamir, Aaron Blain.

2/14/2007 Lamorak33: [V:TM 2nd Ed] The Forbidden Tome - Rule Changes Revolt
Hi Although I like the genre of Vampire, and I am happy to run it (you never have trouble finding players for this game), some of the rules bug me…
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Participants: Lamorak33, Noon.

2/16/2007 Thierry Michel: [TSOY] well, they say they had a good time...
I wanted to try TSOY for a long time, but it's only recently that I managed to find interested players. I intended to run a one-shot, but since they were…
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Participants: Thierry Michel, thark, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick, Paka, Ron Edwards, Simon C, Noon.

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