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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.

6/14/2007 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.

6/14/2007 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.

6/13/2007 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.

6/13/2007 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 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.

6/11/2007 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.

6/10/2007 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.

6/8/2007 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.

6/8/2007 Brimshack: ETC - Big Gun versus Little Grunt
ETC - The Slaughter Okay, so this was the last game we ran before posting the online version of ETC at Crunch-Waffle. It was between myself and a friend, Chris.…
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Participants: Brimshack, Noon.

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.

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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.

6/25/2007 FredGarber: [D&D 3.5] playing amongst the wargamers - advice wanted
Situation ----------------------- I just discovered that my fellow player is really defined by her past playing wargames (Mechwarrior, Flames of War, Warhammer), so much so that in her mind, the…
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Participants: FredGarber, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Eldrad, ODDin, contracycle, James_Nostack, Millsy, Vulpinoid, Valvorik, cpeterso.

6/26/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] the Hungry Ones are coming
(Sorry if this post is a monster. Might I recommend a hardcopy and a comfortable armchair?) I've been running TSOY as a fill-in game while our main (Castles and Crusades)…
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Participants: Rob Alexander, oliof.

6/27/2007 rycanada: D&D ran like an indie rpg - almost
This all happened at the York D&D Meetup, about 20 people were in attendance.  I recently got tired of developing my own system so I made sure to come out…
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Participants: rycanada, GregStolze, Narf the Mouse, sarendt, Ben S., Valvorik, James_Nostack, Hans.

6/27/2007 algi: How My Players Surprised Me
Shira: a barbarian from the cold mountains of the distant north, who began a "peaceful" life as a mercenary among the native nador. Amron: a magician from a far eastern…
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Participants: algi.

6/28/2007 Thenomain: [(A)D&D] How I Surprised My DM
I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.  This is a split of the thread " I Quit DMing", specifically the open conversation between myself and Rob Alexander.  The…
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Participants: Thenomain, Noon, wreckage, Web_Weaver, wgrzanic.

6/28/2007 sarendt: [D&D 3.x] looking for ideas for Magic systems
An on going problem I have with D&D and many similar systems is the magic rules. In a recent game in which I was GM''ing one party member was a…
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Participants: sarendt, Gaerik, Michael Huxley, James_Nostack.

6/29/2007 darnest: StrikeForce:2136 short session
Since no one really knows this system yet (its being release at GenCon this year) a short explanation of how the system works is in the thread on the combat…
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Participants: darnest, Noon.

7/2/2007 contracycle: Play prep and NPC's
I was asked to discuss the kind of prep I do and had some thoughts on the prior thread about NPC's which I wanted to mention. I thought I had…
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Participants: contracycle, Sydney Freedberg, Rob Alexander, Noon, FredGarber, Ron Edwards.

7/4/2007 Zathreyel: (Sorcerer) The Family Blood
Man did I just have a great session of Sorcerer and I'm all abuzz to share.  As some of you guys might know, I like dark things.  I like crime…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, Tobaselly.

7/7/2007 Ron Edwards: [Drowning & Falling] Gamers' id revealed for all to see
Hello, Tim K, Tim A, and I ended up at my place. I grilled beef filets rubbed with black lava salt and peppercorns (both ground up by me with mortar…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Eliarhiman6, jasonm, Tim C Koppang.

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