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1/29/2008 Mel_White: [Dreamation 2008] Agon
I ran Agon at Dreamation and had a blast.  The six players were superb, balancing cooperation and competition throughout the adventure.  I want to highlight just a few ‘convention’ conventions…
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Participants: Mel_White, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/29/2008 aya_aschmahr: [Universalis] A first session
Yeah, yeah. I know Universalis is "old" - I mean... 2002.... on the net that's like....ages ago? But nevertheless I wanted to try it, because I have never done anything…
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Participants: aya_aschmahr, Valamir, David Artman.

1/28/2008 davidberg: [Primetime Adventures] unexpected upsides of new play style
Let me begin this by saying that I've never played Narrativist before.  I'm assuming that the instance of play I'm about to describe was Nar, but I could be completely…
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Participants: davidberg, nikola, RobNJ, LeSingeSavant, Queen_of_Kryos, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2008 Paka: [Dreamation 2008] Shock: Overflow - The Clone Civil Wars
Joshua got a bunch of overflow for his Saturday night Shock: game and rather than turn people away he set up three other fellas to set up games.  We grabbed…
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Participants: Paka, Mel_White, JoeStanton, nikola, Dave Cleaver, lumpley.

1/28/2008 lachek: Name the phenomenon: Inter-player SIS incohesion
I've encountered an odd problem in some games I've played in recently that keeps taking on a very specific shape in my head. My issue is that this shape is…
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Participants: lachek, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, masqueradeball, dindenver, Hans, Danny_K, contracycle, Balesir.

1/28/2008 davidberg: [Werewolf] Constructive denial
So, in this thread, Ron and I discussed certain aspects of Simulationism relative to my own experiences with the CA.  Unfortunately, there's a key facet of Sim that I was…
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Participants: davidberg, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2008 masqueradeball: Wraith: The Oblivion?
So, I have been a lot time White Wolf player, I started, I think, the same year Vampire 2e came out, but it might have been later. At one time…
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Participants: masqueradeball, FredGarber, Noon, Ron Edwards.

1/25/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Dark Ages Vampire] Assessing Creative Agenda
Over in this thread, I talked about the relationship of Exploration, Techniques and Ephemera on the one hand and Creative Agenda on the other. Especially, how the former are not…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Reithan, Caldis, contracycle.

1/24/2008 Bret Gillan: [Burning Empires] Grinding Gears on Beliefs
So we did world burning for Burning Empires. We can up with a cool world where civilization grew out of a crashed spaceship fleet. This is a strict society, and…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Chris_Chinn, pfischer, Noon, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, schlafmanko.

1/23/2008 Joe Murphy (Broin): [Nerdinburgh '08] Spione
Spione Last Saturday evening, five of the Nerdinburgh attendees played Spione. Gregor ran the game, and the players were Jenny, Joe Prince, Gordon and me. JoeP and I picked out…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), GreatWolf, Valamir, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Reithan, JC, mindwanders, Gregor Hutton.

1/23/2008 sirogit: Making mind tricks interesting.
In the game I'm planning on running soon, an important aspect will be mind manipulation super-powers. There's a strong divide between what I think of when I think of such…
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Participants: sirogit, Vulpinoid, Bret Gillan.

1/21/2008 GreatWolf: [Grey Ranks] Life in the ruins
We finished up Grey Ranks on Friday.  We started off the night tired and dragged out.  Nevertheless, we managed to wrap up an incredible game with an incredibly powerful session. …
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Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Valamir.

1/21/2008 Reithan: Framing & Bangs
Ok, I'm trying to better understand the full concept of Framing and Bangs, past just the glossary definitions, into how, when why and for what they can be used. To…
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Participants: Reithan, Ron Edwards, Greymorn, oliof, WildElf, Melinglor.

1/21/2008 TomTitTot: [Nerdinburgh '08] Shock: Frozen
[b]Shock: [i]Frozen[/i][/b] (The name that seemed to fit. Better ideas are welcome.) Nerdinburgh ’08 was great fun, held at the home of and organized by our gracious host Per Fischer.…
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Participants: TomTitTot.

1/20/2008 Noon: [D&D 3.5] "I don't play for endings" (way too long)
So, there's Daniel, Chris and Bourke. Chris and Daniel are old friends, Bourke is from Chris's work. Chris is GM. Were all around age thirty mark. Characters are level 3…
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Participants: Noon, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, sirelfinjedi, Vulpinoid, Jasper Flick, Grinning Moon, masqueradeball, Calithena, Balesir.

1/19/2008 sirogit: [TMW] Castlevania Hack: The Punisher as a Fish and River kill Dracula
So I put finally together a MW game based on Castlevania, like I said I would since I playtested the game. The transistion effort was pretty minimal, with eastern fantasy …
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Participants: sirogit, Eero Tuovinen.

1/18/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Social Contract] How I killed My Partner
Heya, I don't post here in this forum much, but in preparing to run a very gamist campaign for one my newer designs, I began to reflect on what happened…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Caldis, Noon.

1/17/2008 Reithan: Creating a Community
I think I may have created a topic a long time ago about this, but I going to avoid thread necromancy, and, in my mind at least, I know have…
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Participants: Reithan, Charlie Gilb, Caldis, Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, Web_Weaver, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Frank Tarcikowski, Bret Gillan, Balesir, ks13.

1/16/2008 solem: best adventure?
hey guys this is a bit off-topic but i hope i can get some nice answers. there's a bunch of mid-20's phd students in biology and economics that are going…
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Participants: solem, FredGarber, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Runeslayers] Pirates of Naples
It seems that my friendship with Sami Koponen inspires me to play all kinds of games that my lethargic nature would have me postpone indefinitely. The last time we met…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

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2/1/2008 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation 2008] Troublesome Munchausen
On Friday night at Dreamation, I facilitated a game of The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Let me build upon what I wrote in my LiveJournal: Friday midnight was The…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Eero Tuovinen, Queen_of_Kryos, Harlequin, Ignotus, Iskander, Claudia Cangini, Noon, Kat Miller, Valamir, Ron Edwards, endymion.

2/1/2008 Kat Miller: [Dreamation 2008] Serial: Satisfying play.
I wasn’t sure the game was going off, as 10 after the game should have started I had no one, but then Emily sat down and right after Nathan did. …
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Participants: Kat Miller, Emily Care, JC, zipht, GreatWolf, Paelena.

2/2/2008 Clinton R. Nixon: [Dreamation 2008] Questers of the Middle Realms
I ran Tim Gray's Questers of the Middle Realms at Dreamation 2008 last weekend, and have been looking forward to having time to talk about it. It's stressful walking into…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ian Charvill.

2/4/2008 Greymorn: Controls, DeBuffs and PC avatars
As you can read in this thread, my group is drifting into Vanilla Narr or a more functional, non-illusionist Sim. I'm wrestling with a thorny problem created (or at least…
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Participants: Greymorn, sirogit, Caldis, Noon, masqueradeball, Rich F, contracycle, twilight, FredGarber.

2/5/2008 jburneko: Spione Dry Run For OrcCon
Hello, Allow me a moment of angst.  Sometimes I feel like I have no "right" to run Spione which I know is absurd.  I bought the book.  I'm free to…
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Participants: jburneko, WillH, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Eliarhiman6.

2/6/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Das Schwarze Auge] Making the best of a pointless character death
This was originally posted over at the knife fight in a thread about character death, but I think it might be worth its own Forge thread, so here goes. The…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, LandonSuffered, Marshall Burns.

2/10/2008 angelfromanotherpin: [Dictionary of Mu] No-prep play
So, I'd been trying to get a Saturday night game going for some weeks.  The first attempt fizzled, as I recruited a few people from a local gaming forum, we…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Paka, DainXB, Ron Edwards.

2/10/2008 Matt: [Covenant] Warpcon : Sons of Joshua
Warpcon is a reasonably sized convention in Cork, Ireland, which I attended in January. I ran Covenant just after lunch on the Saturday. I ended up with three players. All…
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Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards.

2/12/2008 5niper9: [Dogs in the Vineyard] I broke the rules ... twice
Hi, last saturday we played Dogs in the Vineyard and it finally gave me what I expected from play. "We" that is Anna, Edwin, Carina, Felix and me. Carina and…
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Participants: 5niper9, oliof, David Artman, lumpley.

2/13/2008 masqueradeball: the marriage of Improvisation and SIM
Howdy folks. I've been thinking about the topic of improvisation versus pre-planning in running and participating in role-playing because of a rather truncated attempt to bring up the subject in…
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Participants: masqueradeball, anders_larsen, Marshall Burns.

2/13/2008 Greymorn: [DitV] Dogs and (false?) doctrine
Played my first game of Dogs in the Vineyard last night. We had less than 2 hours to play, nevertheless we created 4 interesting Dogs and ran through 4 pretty…
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Participants: Greymorn, WillH, oliof, Ron Edwards, David Artman, Marshall Burns, FredGarber, lumpley.

2/14/2008 Mason: Players Against Player Authorship
I recently wrapped up a short-term D&D 3.5/Arcana Evolved campaign that I ran every other weekend for four or five of my long-time players.  ("Long time" meaning the new guy…
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Participants: Mason, Lord_Steelhand, Paul Czege, Valvorik, Vulpinoid, greyorm, Greis, Wolfen, Paul T.

2/14/2008 davidberg: [Swashbuckler] Big Model describes boardgame?
I played the Swashbuckler boardgame with my dad a lot when I was maybe 10-13 years old.  It's a game where you have a board filled with objects, and you…
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Participants: davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, SirValence.

2/15/2008 sirogit: [Mortal Coil]Black Pegacorn
INSTIGATION Near the end of my previous roleplaying game, I asked my girlfriend what sort of game would be good. She said "Changeling sounds really neat!". I talked to her…
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Participants: sirogit, inthisstyle, Ron Edwards, Lord_Steelhand, Madheretic.

2/17/2008 angelfromanotherpin: [Dictionary of Mu] Alone against the Khan of Khans!
This is the second session of the game whose first session is described here.  So, it was another no-prep session, riding the Dictionary's inspiration.  When we left Vornorin and Ket,…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin.

2/18/2008 Marshall Burns: [kill puppies for satan] the terror of Consequence
So, the other night, my group had just wrapped up a Super Action Now! scenario (the first one to span over one session), and we still had a couple hours…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, lumpley.

2/18/2008 JC: [UTB] [DRYH] [TI] Three games in one day!
Hey people! I played three different games this Saturday, and I’d like to give some feedback. I also have a few questions. UNDER THE BED We started off with Under…
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Participants: JC, Technocrat13, nikola.

2/18/2008 Troels: [TSoFading Suns] Secrets and Mysteries
Yesterday, my Shadow of Fading Suns group played the second round (third session) of our Science Fantasy intrigue campaign. We use the system of The Shadow of Yesterday, but the…
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Participants: Troels, Ron Edwards, Kevin Smit, pfischer.

2/18/2008 GreatWolf: [Nine Worlds] Euro roleplaying in the Nine Worlds
It’s been a long time coming, but finally our group was able to sit down and play Nine Worlds.  Last week we did chargen, but we didn’t actually play until…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2008 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] The Durham Crew
(Cross-posted at Story Games) We played the first three chapters of Grey Ranks last night – me, Clinton, Remi, and Joe. Our plan is to play a complete, ten chapter…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, fjj, Mk1.

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