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12/20/2007 Paka: B to the W to the G to the N to the S
For whatever reason, I'm thinking about incoherence after an IM chat with Paul: Play which includes incompatible combinations of Creative Agendas among participants. Incoherent play is considered to contribute to…
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Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

12/18/2007 LeSingeSavant: [My Life With Master] Master Popescu's Medicine
So we just wrapped up a 4-session game of My Life With Master. The Master was Herr Doktor Popescu, a Moreau-like ex-doctor who used the village below his ornate mountainside…
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Participants: LeSingeSavant, jasonm, ODDin.

12/18/2007 arthurtuxedo: [Tensided] Knights of the Broken Sceptre
Thought you might all enjoy a recap of a campaign I'm running using my Tensided system. OpenRPG Chat Log for Session 1. Played October 28, 2007. You'll have to scroll…
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Participants: arthurtuxedo, Ron Edwards, Noon, sirelfinjedi.

12/14/2007 LostSoul: [DitV] Boxelder Canyon Branch with new-to-RPGs player
I played DitV last weekend with my girlfriend.  She had never played an RPG before. We're hanging out on Saturday.  We had spent the previous day together and had planned…
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Participants: LostSoul, lumpley, Roger, Mike Lucas.

12/12/2007 Jasper Flick: [D&D 3.5] A world without its creator
This is about a GM who lost his momentum. It is about a game that has already died. Context One day I found myself chatting over google talk with Johan,…
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Participants: Jasper Flick, Caldis, Noon, FredGarber, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, dindenver, sirelfinjedi, Danny_K, contracycle.

12/10/2007 Rustin: [CoC] Disappointed
I ran a Call of Cthulhu (5th ed) adventure this weekend and it did not turn out well. I'm reflecting on things that happened, trying to figure out why. I'm…
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Participants: Rustin, Eero Tuovinen, fjj, Noon, David Artman.

12/5/2007 Aaron: [Agon] Our first go
Finally got the guys together on the weekend to try out Agon.  Was really looking forward to this one and it didnt disappoint. We have three heroes, Man killer Artimisia…
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Participants: Aaron, Mel_White, John Harper.

12/4/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Dead of Night] Hair
[i]A week and a half ago I was in Oulu as part of a cross-cultural gaming convention thing set up by the local talent round there. A thing about Oulu…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Artanis, andrew_kenrick, Sam!.

11/30/2007 masqueradeball: Random Character Creation
I've heard a lot against random character creation on the Forge and from other sources and I was wondering just how far these feelings ran. To be honest, I love…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, contracycle, Capulet, FredGarber, Frank Tarcikowski.

11/30/2007 Marshall Burns: baby pictures -- summary of early RPG experiences, & one real game example
In this thread I briefly described my history of roleplaying -- namely that, lacking access to RPGs, my friends and I simply made up our own.  Larry Lade asked that…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, wreckage.

11/26/2007 Glendower: [DITV] Orchard Plains - two buy in, one buys out.
Yesterday was my first game with Jeff, Colin, and Kyle, friends who I'd role played with about 2-3 years ago. We've been communicating via Facebook to get together for role…
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Participants: Glendower, Noclue, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, Noon.

11/26/2007 Web_Weaver: [SotC] - Narrativist growing pains - seeking advice
I have been running a game of Spirit of the Century for the last couple of months and have been quite surprised by the results. The intention was to run…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Valamir, Landon Darkwood, Noclue, Filip Luszczyk, Roger.

11/26/2007 epweissengruber: [Inspectres] A marial arts metaphor for Inspectres game play
IndieRPG Toronto has started up an Inspectres mini-campaign. Play reports and characters will be available here: (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/indierpgtoronto/message/439) One of our players came up with a martial arts metaphor to describe…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Artanis.

11/26/2007 Bjorn: Curse of the promised land
First off, i'm not 100% sure this topic is appropriate for this forum. It has to do with things related to the site but not in the technical sense. If…
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Participants: Bjorn, Artanis.

11/24/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Pace/Otherkind Hybrid] Swashbuckling Librarian & Demonic Cheerleader!
Hanging out tonight, a friend and I were bored, so I decided to fiddle around with the simple dice mechanic Vincent posted about (http://www.lumpley.com/archive/148.html). To start with a little momentum…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, GregStolze, Paul T, Valamir.

11/21/2007 Jargon: [Nobilis] Starting a new campaing. Any advice for a new Hollyhock God?
Greetings! After a long time of dreaming I finally am starting campaing for Nobilis. I have a player group of 2-4 and none have any previous knowledge about Nobilis or…
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Participants: Jargon, Ben Lehman, Valamir, James_Nostack, GrimGent, Danny_K, Noon.

11/19/2007 quixoteles: Vonnegut's Crapshoot; or the way I run my games.
This is my first time submitting to the forum. I need to say something before I introduce the mechanic. People have fun in my games. A lot of fun. The…
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Participants: quixoteles, Noon, Harlequin.

11/15/2007 lev_lafayette: "Roll and Keep" modifications for Physical, Social and Mental Tasks
I've introduced into my current L5R game different resolution methds for Physical, Social and Mental Tasks whilst keeping the same mechanics. Comments appreciated. (nota bene: This is x-posted from rpg.net,…
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Participants: lev_lafayette, EmpyreanDreamer.

11/11/2007 Eero Tuovinen: System suggestions for Call of Cthulhu?
I'm going to play a one-shot of "Call of Cthulhu", or at least something similar, come Tuesday. Our usual Acts of Evil group couldn't get together, so we're playing something…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk, contracycle, Darcy Burgess, Troels, Paul T, Web_Weaver, Artanis, Snowden, GB Steve, fjj.

11/10/2007 Sivá: Reasons for a party to form and stay together?
Ove the last two year or so i wanted to play RPGs again, after a long absence. We tried different games, setups and storytellers/Gms/DMs or whatever. There always was one…
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Participants: Sivá, Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, Noon, davidberg, Valvorik, Miskatonic, fjj, Calithena, shadowcourt, arthurtuxedo, Jasper Flick.

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12/22/2007 Vanoj: [DitV] Spring River: Secret rolls for gamey bliss?
I ran Dogs for the first time last night. I've been obsessed with the game for a while but hadn't gotten the chance to actually play a town. I was…
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Participants: Vanoj, David Artman, Noon, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

12/24/2007 sirelfinjedi: Good Game Gone Long
So, I've been running a super-hero game for about a year and a half. It started as a filler game when a player was absent and became the favorite campaign…
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Participants: sirelfinjedi, Matt Snyder.

12/27/2007 jburneko: [DitV} I was a Dog and I forgave the Demons
Last night I had the opportunity to play Dogs in the Vineyard.  Present were myself, Collin, James and Will.  James was GMing.  Now, when I play Dogs a) I like…
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Participants: jburneko, Caldis, Noon, Noclue, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2007 Artanis: [Zombeja! Ovella!] This time with vampires
Hello Yesterday evening a few friends and I went out to this smoky alternative bar, where some guy was having a board-game night and we thought that this would be…
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Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: The players’ role in Participationist play
When Ron Edwards visited me in Hamburg two weeks ago, we were talking about my old games of Star Wars d6 and Ron asked me to post about something I…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Caldis, Noon, masqueradeball.

12/31/2007 GreatWolf: [Dogs in the Vineyard] In the line of duty….
[b]Introduction[/b] [i]There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder…
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Participants: GreatWolf, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

1/2/2008 davidberg: [Werewolf] Simulationism: Dreaming is cool, but what's with "The Right"?
So, about a year ago, I played in a game based loosely on various World of Darkness books and rules.  It was not without hitches, but was generally fun, and…
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Participants: davidberg, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball, Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, Caldis.

1/2/2008 GreatWolf: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Girls can be cruel
The New Year holiday was good for roleplaying.  On New Year’s Eve, we played Primetime Adventures with James and Theresa, which I will write up in due course.  Then, on…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Gabrielle, lumpley, Raquel.

1/2/2008 GreatWolf: [Primetime Adventures] Political comedy for the new year
We have a running New Year’s Eve tradition of getting together with James and Theresa to eat wings, drink liquor, and play games until the New Year comes…and then continuing…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Redone, Filip Luszczyk.

1/3/2008 jburneko: The Social Mandate
There's a phrase I want to push into the gaming lexicon: The Social Mandate.  I can't remember if Ron uses this phrase in the text of Spione or not.  The…
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Participants: jburneko, Noon, Eliarhiman6, Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, davidberg, Ben Lehman, contracycle.

1/4/2008 Zak Arntson: [Sorcerer & Sword] The Eye of Gnarlitobe
Hoo boy. So I managed to pull off the annual pulp fantasy gaming with my brothers this year. Another round of Sorcerer & Sword (though not in the world of…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski.

1/5/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Ninja Princess Usagi-chan E3: Gozaru! You can't stop bamboo from growing.
We played the third town of our Ninja Princess Usagi-chan game just before Christmas. The players were Kamil and Magda this time. It took us two short sessions over the…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Redone, ja-prozac.

1/5/2008 Noon: Social Mandate: Did you remember to bring your guitar?
Split from The Social Mandate Heya Ron, Callan, I think you're correct in that some kind of culturally-understood statement will have to be involved. However, plain old win-lose isn't…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards, Bastoche, contracycle, FredGarber.

1/8/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Agon] - Fun & Death on the Island of Skyros
I recently had the pleasure of teaming up with my pre-fatherhood gaming group; we got together five days ago.  We started early (10am), and in a nod to days of…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, John Harper, Valamir, Noclue, Mel_White, hermes, demiurgeastaroth.

1/8/2008 GreatWolf: [Grey Ranks] Joyriding in tanks and other skylarks that will get you killed
Our Friday night group sat down and planned out the next stretch of roleplaying that we’re going to do.  We agreed to give Grey Ranks a whirl and then head…
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Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, Valamir.

1/9/2008 arthurtuxedo: [Tensided] Serenity Springs
Session start is about a quarter of the way down. Chat log for Session 1. Played August 7, 2005. Serenity Springs was the first campaign to use the new superhero…
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Participants: arthurtuxedo, Noon.

1/9/2008 Melinglor: Mother-May-I and 20 questions: Games GMs play
A little over a year ago, in the thread Drugs, hugs, knives, and Zu, Ron was talking about some GMing techniques and principles, and he said…
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Participants: Melinglor, David Artman, Noon, contracycle, Ron Hammack, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Gaerik.

1/9/2008 apparition13: SW D6 Dogfights (split)
[quote author=contracycle link=topic=24843.msg242110#msg242110 date=1192025486] Hmm, the presumption that once you have caught someone you should retain that status appears strong and recurrent, too intuitive to resist.  It may be something…
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Participants: apparition13, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2008 ODDin: Creating My Character an Interesting Situation - Director Stance in Sim?
This issue arised while I was talking with a friend of mine about the GNS and our prefernces. At first, she said she was likely a Simulationist who enjoys a…
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Participants: ODDin, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2008 Greymorn: Drifting toward a better Sim
Damn. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted this thread. High time for an update! First, I can't thank you all enough for your help and…
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Participants: Greymorn, Noon, davidberg, Ron Edwards, dindenver, Caldis, contracycle, anansi, Silmenume.

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