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6/6/2007 hatheg-kla: [The Pool] Looking for a scenario idea for first-time convention play!
Hi. I've been talked into running a game at a mini convention in 2 days time with a bunch of people I don't know.  I've never GM'ed The Pool, but…
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Participants: hatheg-kla.

6/2/2007 TwoCrows: [DnD3ish HB] Shared Story Style DnD
Hey All, Tonight’s weekly gaming session was a blast, what our group calls a “real keeper!” We older Players have all commented that we feel like we did “back in…
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Participants: TwoCrows.

6/1/2007 Garvey: [Polaris PbP] Dreams of Eternal Night
[b]== Introduction ==[/b] I've been doing a bit of play-by-post (PbP) gaming over on [url=http://samaritan1975.proboards20.com/index.cgi]RPG Crossroads[/url], and after reading Polaris and listening to Paul Tevis' group's Polaris recordings, I thought…
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Participants: Garvey, Gaerik.

6/1/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Roach] With beers at SteveCon
At SteveCon, we had a go at the Roach. So there's four of us, in a pub: me, Adam and...God, I'm terrible at names...I know everyone was Biblical except for…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

5/31/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] GMing in heavy gloves
I just run my first TSOY game with our semi-regular Castles and Crusades group, and although it went ok, and people seem to have enjoyed it, it was pretty confusing.…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, TonyLB, Paka.

5/30/2007 MrSandman666: [Shadowrun] The impossible thing before breakfast and other catastrophes
Hello everybody... This is gonna be a somewhat therapeutic thread. I hope this doesn't come of as too much of a rant. One of the reasons I'm writing this is…
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Participants: MrSandman666, Eero Tuovinen, Glendower, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, khelek.

5/29/2007 WildElf: [DitV] First game: Blueberry Creek, and lessons while getting lost
So, I finally got to run my first Dogs in the Vineyard game, and first time to play to (other than a conflict test run when a friend first showed…
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Participants: WildElf, Noclue.

5/29/2007 Fergus: [ros] We Blew It
The session I'm about to describe took place last weekend. The system is Riddle of Steel.  I'm the game master.  This is the first time I've run this system.  A…
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Participants: Fergus, khelek, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Ward.

5/29/2007 asdfff: Why are dice pools a favored idea here? (moved to here)
I heard it mentioned on the wizards D&D boards that indie rpgs look favorably upon dice pools instead of straight up percentage modifiers. Can someone tell me why this is?…
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Participants: asdfff, Noon, Ron Edwards, GregStolze.

5/24/2007 Matt: [Covenant]Death in Venice at Conpulsion
Back in March I went to Edinburgh for Conpulsion, a fun Con of about 200 people. I was there as part of the Collective Endeavour, and we ran an Indie…
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Participants: Matt, andrew_kenrick, Graham Walmsley.

5/21/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Jeepform] DOUBT, a Jeepform Narrative LARP
Hello! At the last Italian Ambercon (April 21-22 2007, in Modena, Italy), the Italian "roleplaying movement" Flying Circus hosted a presentation of "Jeepforms" given by two international guests, the…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Claudia Cangini, jasonm, fjj, Frank Tarcikowski.

5/21/2007 malcolmr: A good introductory game?
[This probably isn't the right forum for this, but I can't find a better one. Please forgive.] I'm a university lecturer teaching a class in game design (all kinds of…
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Participants: malcolmr, Eero Tuovinen, JackTheOwner, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2007 Alan: [SoTC] Story Now without a net
After Gerry shelved our game of Hollow Earth Expeditions because Alex could no longer attend, I suggested we try Spirit of the Century. For observations on the players and our…
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Participants: Alan, Noon.

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.

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.

5/17/2007 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.

5/16/2007 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.

5/15/2007 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.

5/14/2007 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.

5/13/2007 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.

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6/8/2007 boswok: [Mage: The Awakening] Here goes nothing... (split)
I have one suggestion for your mystery subplots.  This references the characters erroneously assuming that spirits were involved.  When they began hunting down info they seemed to be showing real…
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Participants: boswok, Reithan, Ron Edwards, Falc, David Artman, Noon, Precious Villain, The Dragon Master, FredGarber.

6/10/2007 GB Steve: [Daker] Eating people is bad
My French friend Ben was in town for a night so we assembled some likely faces for a game. Graham W kindly offered to give us a run of Darker,…
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Participants: GB Steve, jasonm, Graham Walmsley.

6/11/2007 Adam Dray: [Primitive] The Order of the Big Stick
Yesterday, I had a little cook-out for some of my friends this weekend. SarahScott was back in town (she moved away to New Orleans), and she and Lisa and Mike…
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Participants: Adam Dray, Nev the Deranged, Eric J. Boyd, Kevin Allen Jr.

6/13/2007 vertigo25: Looking for a Game
I know this falls outside of the scope of these forums, but I'd like to ask all of you, because you know what I'm talking about here. I apologize beforehand,…
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Participants: vertigo25, Ron Edwards.

6/13/2007 hatheg-kla: [Dying earth] Persuasion in play
Hi there. I ran a convention game of the Dying Earth RPG the other day and I thought I'm post my observations.  This is the first time I've run it…
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Participants: hatheg-kla, Tim C Koppang, Pelgrane.

6/13/2007 Robert M: Saying No at the Gaming Table
I orginally posted this over at I would knife fight a man. Vincent suggested that I post it here, so here goes! I recently I have been modifying D&D for…
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Participants: Robert M, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Noon, Marco, Noclue.

6/14/2007 AlanDeSmet: [MLwM] Problematic initial sessions, advice? Link to full session summaries.
[url=http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/gaming/my-life-with-master/200706-game.html]The full session notes for this game are online[/url] if anyone is interested. [b]The Situation:[/b] After two sessions, the Minions all have around 6-7 Self-Loathing (SL), 1 Weariness, and 2-4…
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Participants: AlanDeSmet, Adam Dray, Noon, Ron Edwards, Fergus.

6/14/2007 Melinglor: [Dogs] Fire and Hammer, Visions and Faith
Hi! I haven't been around here much lately, but it seemed appropriate to return "home" for this play report. And I certainly do miss me some Forge-style AP. So! I…
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Participants: Melinglor, JC, Noclue.

6/17/2007 GDorn: [kpfs] lowercase, right? or: running it for complete strangers
got in a game of kpfs, finally, after having bought the pdf a couple years ago and never finding people to play it with.  it was in the context of…
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Participants: GDorn, lumpley.

6/17/2007 algi: I Need More Feedback from My Players
Because I hate reading long posts, but love to write them, I make some chapters. Sorry for the long foreword, just skip it if you think it doesn't help. To…
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Participants: algi, TonyLB, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, Frank Tarcikowski, Sydney Freedberg, wgrzanic.

6/18/2007 Noon: [D&D 3.x, partly the basic game] Beware: The orcs bite!
I recently tried out my 'try to throw a dice into a distant box to see if a monsters there' idea. Played last weekend with my seven year old son…
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Participants: Noon, Filip Luszczyk, wgrzanic.

6/20/2007 wgrzanic: [D&D] I quit DMing.
Hi, guys.  A little over a week ago, I sent out an e-mail to my group telling them I wouldn't continue running my very short-lived pseudo-weekly D&D campaign.  Basically, the…
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Participants: wgrzanic, Filip Luszczyk, Valvorik, Calithena, contracycle, Rob Alexander, Adam Dray, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, The Dragon Master, michael lingner, Thenomain, Grex.

6/21/2007 sarendt: Text advice for GMs (split)
I really liked where this post was going and was sad to see it die an early death, so I figured I would post some game exp. of my own…
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Participants: sarendt, Ron Edwards, Gaerik.

6/21/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [PTA] Sex, Drugs & No Remorse
We've closed our first successful PTA season. Both our previous attempts to play the game died in the midpoint. The first time one of the players was too strongly rooted…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, JackTheOwner.

6/22/2007 5niper9: [Sorcerer] Guarding the scottish homelands
Hello, I played Sorcerer with my Indie-Game-group recently and it was a success. Group & Setting Our game group consists of  Edwin, Anna and René (myself). All of us…
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Participants: 5niper9, The Dragon Master, Jonathan Hastings, Ron Edwards, hix, Simon C.

6/23/2007 JMendes: [June Retreat 2007 – PTA] Redemption - Coolness, with weirdness in the mix
Hello, all, :) As you probably have no way of knowing, last week, a bunch of us picked up and left for an eleven-day RPG retreat. Being the one among…
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Participants: JMendes, REkz.

6/23/2007 Dan Bell: Seeking feeedback of play for new free published Harn adventure
Hello all I want to announce the release of a new free pdf adventure module set in the world of Harn (but easily adaptable to another gaming world). I am…
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Participants: Dan Bell, Ron Edwards.

6/24/2007 GestaltBennie: [TMW]Winter and Spring
[i]In preparing to run the MountainWitch, I drew on elements from my one play experience, an actual play is found here. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20913.0 The graveyard and temple encounters are inspired by…
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Participants: GestaltBennie, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Caesar_X.

6/24/2007 greyorm: [InSpectres] More Gaming with the Kids
After hearing about the other InSpectres game played with kids, I thought I'd give it a go as well, so last Saturday night for family night we played through a…
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Participants: greyorm, xenopulse, Sydney Freedberg, LandonSuffered.

6/25/2007 rafial: [Tunnels & Trolls] Vaults of the Skolari
To anyone who thought that Ron might have been hallucinating when he talked up Tunnels & Trolls a couple years back, you need only check in with one of the…
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Participants: rafial, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Simon C, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, joepub.

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