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4/26/2007 GreatWolf: [It Was A Mutual Decision] [Forge Midwest] Scared by rats
[i]So, yeah, I'm cross-posting this from another forum.  I figure that it's still my writing and, honestly, I'd like to get a conversation started over here.  So, here goes....[/i] "It…
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Participants: GreatWolf, GamerChick, AJ_Flowers, Ron Edwards, Doyce, Nev the Deranged.

4/24/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [UnSpeakable] Narrativising Mr. Cthulhu?
Last Friday, we played quite a fun session of UnSpeakable via Skype. The game was pretty spontaneous, as someone proposed we try out InSpectres, curious of how it works in…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, David Artman.

4/21/2007 The Mule: [PTA] Success!
Well, my second game of PTA was a blast. I played with four people who knew each other, but not me.  One was familiar with the system, the other three…
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Participants: The Mule, Matt Wilson.

4/16/2007 Doyce: [TSoY Clockpunk] The City of Petrana, Session Two
(To which the author appends... "Finally!") This is a really long, detailed post, but I wanted to list everything off -- questions, comments, rules corrections, and whatever else is welcome.…
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Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

4/14/2007 skatay: [Trollbabe] First Adventure, First time GMing it, First time RPing with Wife
Hi, I had my first GMing experience in a long time, with my wife, playing Trollbabe. I tried to get some things down, and made mistakes along the way. I'm…
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Participants: skatay, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2007 xenopulse: [Beast Hunters] Tribal Warfare
I ran Beast Hunters demos at the recent Gamestorm convention here in Portland.  One of these games was a scenario I played with Chris and Lisa Goodwin. They used two…
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Participants: xenopulse, Chris Goodwin, Noon.

4/13/2007 Fergus: [wfrp] Core Meltdown
The session I'm about to describe took place over a year ago. The system is Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Version 1).  I'm the game master.  I've been GMing this system on…
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Participants: Fergus, Noon, JSDiamond, Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Precious Villain, Eero Tuovinen.

4/9/2007 fjj: [1001 Nights] Lots of interesting play from very little preparation
I presented and played 1001 Nights at a game convent i Århus, Denmark, this Easter (home page in Danish: www.fastaval.dk). We were a group of people doing indie game sessions.…
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Participants: fjj, MatrixGamer, Meguey, lumpley, Nev the Deranged.

4/5/2007 Jake Richmond: Panty Explosion actual play
[b]The Psychic Cosplay Catgirl Demon Adventure![/b] Last Sunday while at Gamestorm I had a chance to facilitate what turned out to be the best stand alone game of Panty Explosion…
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Participants: Jake Richmond.

4/5/2007 Ron Hammack: [D&D 3.5] Solo game with a brand new player--is this the right game for us?
[b]Background[/b] I've been roleplaying on and off since 1983, mostly D&D in its various incarnations and mostly (80% of the time, I'd say) GMing. I'm currently without a gaming group,…
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Participants: Ron Hammack, xjermx, xenopulse, Gaerik, Caesar_X, BabbageCliologic, Nev the Deranged.

4/4/2007 GregStolze: [Wild Talents] Grim War: Reign of the Talents
I'm spamming the whole RPG internet with cloned AP writeups of my new WT game with REIGN companies grafted on top to eventually track how the PCs interact with the…
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Participants: GregStolze, Nev the Deranged, Mike Lucas, wreckage, FredGarber.

4/3/2007 LandonSuffered: [InSpectres] 1st Time Role-Players -- Kids!! (long-ish)
My wife and I occasionally (every couple months or so) baby-sit/host game night for the two sons of our friends; the kids’ ages are 9 and (just barely) 13.  We’ve…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, skatay, matthijs, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Meguey, Mr. Sluagh.

4/2/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Snakes in the Shadows OR Dysfunction is good if it's the characters
(also posted at story games under a slightly misleading title) I was at hspielt! 14 this weekend, and ran a minimally tweaked version of a con scenario called Snakes in…
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Participants: oliof.

4/1/2007 phasmaphobic: [Classroom Deathmatch] Played at Gamestorm last night
Last night I had the privilege of playing in a convention-style demo game of <i><a href="http://atarashigames.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=31" target="_blank">Classroom Deathmatch</a></i>, the new tabletop RPG by fellow Portlander Jake Richmond.  In this game,…
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Participants: phasmaphobic, xenopulse, Jake Richmond.

3/31/2007 xenopulse: [Inspectres] Case of the Flaming Pussy
Gamestorm 9 is going on this weekend in Portland. Last night, from 10 to 12, I played in a game of Inspectres. I've read about the game plenty of times,…
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Participants: xenopulse.

3/29/2007 burnout02: [psuedo-Tokyo Heroes] Fade To Black
Let's face it. Tokusatsu (Japanese Live-Action programs) is cool. While, admittedly, some of the Sentai team stuff is pure cheese (Just look at the later variants of the Power Rangers),…
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Participants: burnout02, Nev the Deranged.

3/28/2007 Glendower: [DITV] The Bloated Blood River Valley
I have never made my own town in Dogs.  I usually took a town from the site to use instead, which has worked well for me the last little while. …
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Participants: Glendower, Web_Weaver.

3/28/2007 gds: [Ruby] Battles on Crimson
Started a game of Ruby last night with my regular group. So there are four of us, three players plus me. This was going to be a bit of a…
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Participants: gds, Ron Edwards.

3/25/2007 Noon: [D&D 3.x] crouching cave, hidden MC
Lets see, there was Chris, Joe (brothers) Daniel & Matt (another pair of brothers) and myself. Chris and Dan are the elder brothers. This was played yesterday afternoon/last night. We…
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Participants: Noon, James_Nostack.

3/24/2007 wgrzanic: [d20 Iron Heroes] Situation-driven, party-based play?
Hi all, I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now, and am only now getting around to it, because I am a lazy-ass slacker.  My apologies if…
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Participants: wgrzanic, Noon, contracycle, rycanada, Gaerik, AJ_Flowers, RedPissLegion.

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4/27/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Jack the Ripper PBEM
We've been playing a game of "Jack the Ripper: The game you play before the game" on the MatrixGame2 yahoo group. This group has been around in one form or…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/28/2007 Levi Kornelsen: [Prophets] Is my series going to get stale?
I have this LARP I'm running; it's very much based on design principles that are visible in theatresports and in a fistful of games from around these parts.  Game materials,…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Troy_Costisick, Noon, Miskatonic, Blankshield.

4/30/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Artesia] Sons of the Spring Queens
I really wasn’t going to post about my Artesia game anywhere. I was going to savor it just for myself. Anyhow, here’s a bit that is just too cool. Well,…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, Noon.

5/3/2007 sdm: Experience playing Shadows with young children
On Sunday I played Shadows with two of my daughters for the first time.  They’re four and six years old.  I’ve had some limited D&D 3.5 play time with the…
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Participants: sdm, Kesher, matthijs, Arturo G., komradebob.

5/6/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Cold City] All that you leave behind
Cold City: all that you leave behind My Sunday night gaming group continued to work through my shelf of indie games last week, beginning a game of Cold City. We’ve…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Malcolm.

5/7/2007 jasonm: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Nauvoo Legion at Nerdly
This was probably the most interesting game I played at Camp Nerdly this past weekend, in terms of content.  Dave Y. ran a session of Dogs that was solidly grounded…
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Participants: jasonm, foucalt, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Morris, lumpley, Brand_Robins, David Artman, spaceanddeath.

5/8/2007 LeSingeSavant: [Camp Nerdly - PTA] END/Sexitricity
I ran this game in the late Saturday slot at Camp Nerdly, specifically because I knew it would run over the 3-hour time-limit of the other slots. I had been…
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Participants: LeSingeSavant, jasonm, iago, Brand_Robins, nikola, Matt Wilson, Claudia Cangini, travisfarber, Kicker.

5/9/2007 RedPissLegion: [SOTC] Lisbon "Abre O Jogo" Demo Tour 2007 (long)
Starting this February me an a friend of mine decided to conduct a series of monthly RPG demos - witch we named "Abre O Jogo" (because of our RPG/Boardgame Portuguese…
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Participants: RedPissLegion.

5/11/2007 Ron Edwards: [Shock] Gerald is a boy / Annette is married
One of our crew, the usual host, couldn't make it, and my wife was in Hawaii for the week, so I had Tim A and Tim K join me at…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, nikola, jrs, Alan.

5/11/2007 RedPissLegion: [DRYH] Improvised play on easter hollidays
Finally I got around to writhing this, yeah! Last Easter me and something around 10/12 other guys went out for the holiday to dedicate 6 days to playing everything from…
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Participants: RedPissLegion.

5/11/2007 jasonm: [TSOY] With Players New and Old
Remi was recently asked by some of the improvisers in his performing company to show them what roleplaying is all about.  He ended up running PTA for a few of…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant.

5/12/2007 Ron Edwards: [Primitive] Grunt! Grunt! I'm talking to you
I've been looking forward to playing this for eight months! It was one of my faves from GenCon last year. Finally, at Forge Midwest, I got the chance to run…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, jrs, GreatWolf, Kevin Allen Jr.

5/13/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Godlike] - Marines on Guadalcanal
Given my current projects (Black Cadillacs and Escape from Pleasant Palace), it's no surprise that I've been thinking about war and rpgs a lot lately.  When I talk about war,…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, lumpley, GregStolze, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2007 sabbatregent: [SotC/FATE] Player interaction
[b]Premise[/b] This is are small AP snippets of a Spirit of the Century game that happened a month ago.  I've been playing SotC / FATE 3.0 games with this specific…
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Participants: sabbatregent, RedPissLegion, boswok.

5/14/2007 Tranlin: good books with advice for GMs
What are some of the best books that offer advice on GMing? 
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Participants: Tranlin, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf.

5/15/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Burning Wheel] Burning THAC0: Redemption and Lost Faith
In our Burning THAC0 game (a Burning Wheel game celebrating oD&D and AD&D 1st, set in the Grand Duchy of Karameikos), our characters are dirt fucking poor. A few weeks…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Paka.

5/16/2007 abjourne: A Start, Rise 2 Legends: FR
I’ve been running a rpg game in the forgotten realms setting for about a year & a half now using my own fantasy rules. My game is called “Rise 2…
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Participants: abjourne, Adam Dray, contracycle.

5/17/2007 Uruush: [Contenders] Hell's Kitchen
Jake hosted another Go Play SE Portland event for more than a dozen people associated with Portland Indie Games, and I moderated this GM-less role-playing game for Jake, Christian, and…
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Participants: Uruush, rafial, Jake Richmond, Dantai, andrew_kenrick.

5/18/2007 khelek: DitV - Clash of Expectations
I love running Dogs, it brings out the worse in characters. We have a group that is running a number of games, mostly small press, at a local Game Shop…
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Participants: khelek, Mel_White, Adam Dray, Frank Tarcikowski, baron samedi, Web_Weaver, Ron Edwards, Noclue.

5/20/2007 JC: [DITV] Failure
Hi there :) GMed my second game of Dogs yesterday (my first very short AP post can be found here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=325133). This time around, it went all kinds of wrong.…
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Participants: JC, Eliarhiman6, The Mule, Adam Dray, Noon, Brand_Robins, Web_Weaver, oliof.

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