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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.

2/13/2008 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.

2/13/2008 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.

2/12/2008 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.

2/10/2008 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.

2/10/2008 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.

2/6/2008 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.

2/5/2008 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.

2/4/2008 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.

2/2/2008 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.

2/1/2008 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.

2/1/2008 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.

1/31/2008 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation 2008] WGP... The Monster Squad
The scenario was called "The Monster Squad" and centered on a group of highly-inhuman-looking superheroes. The opening bang for the group was that the group's UN sanction had been revoked…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paka, LeSingeSavant, ptevis, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

2/20/2008 Eliarhiman6: [Contenders] Confused by the only connection
Hi! I am going to play CONTENDERS this saturday, and I am confused by the rules for the "connection scenes" at page 23. Previously (page 13) the manual says that…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy.

2/20/2008 jburneko: [OrcCon 2008][Spione] Hey, it worked again!
So, I ran Spione in the 8pm Sunday slot of OrcCon here in Los Angeles.  It worked out really well again.  Hey, that's two successful runs of a Ron Edwards…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

2/21/2008 Christopher Kubasik: [Orccon][HeroQuest] In Glorantha, of all places!
I ran a game for three players at Orccon this past Sunday morning. (I ran two other games at the con: Primetime Adventures and Pendragon.  I plan on doing an…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, jburneko, Web_Weaver, Eliarhiman6, Melinglor, charles ferguson.

2/23/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Primitive] Such glorious incoherency
I've played two sessions of Primitive after getting a bunch of copies in a recent batch of indie games from America. The game looks rather striking and it's cheap, so…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Artanis.

2/25/2008 Rimke: [DSA/D&D] How to stage a really exciting battle?
For 18 years I’ve played DSA now, which is a rule wise a kind of D&D (though I might offend DSA players by saying that). At first we played everything…
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Participants: Rimke, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, masqueradeball, Peter Nordstrand, Entech, Kevin Smit, Galadrin, AnyaTheBlue, davidberg, mr.ogren.

2/25/2008 Catalyst N: [InSpectres] First game, and new to player authorship.
I just recently played InSpectres for the first time. I was GM for three friends who have role-played with me before. None of us had ever played a game with…
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Participants: Catalyst N, Willow, Ron Edwards, Nathan P., jydog1.

2/26/2008 Eliarhiman6: [contenders] match duration
Hi! A few days ago I played a session of Contenders (my first one) with some out-or-town friends. I did choose that game because I wanted to try it and…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Yokiboy, Filip Luszczyk, Dantai.

2/26/2008 Paka: Learning to Game
I was IMing with Thor about different generations of gamers and how they learned to game and it made me think about how I learned to play RPG's.  This isn't…
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Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Valamir, buzz, Nev the Deranged, greyorm, Ilmryn, Michael S. Miller, Kevin Smit.

2/26/2008 GreatWolf: [Go Play Peoria][Dirty Secrets] A simple plan….
Why yes, the title is a film reference.  But the concept is so very noir.  We’ll just transgress the boundaries just this once, and no one will get hurt.  The…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Nev the Deranged, Raquel, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

2/27/2008 Aaron: Hunting the Boar (Agon)
We had our second session on sunday of Agon where our heroes finished off the quest to collect the tusks of the golden boar of Ion. The session started with…
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Participants: Aaron, John Harper.

2/28/2008 MikeSands: [Spione] A successful, thought-provoking first go
Last night, me and a few others had a first game of Spione. Overall the game went very well - we had a lot of fun and I feel like…
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Participants: MikeSands, Malcolm, Ron Edwards, hix, eddee.

3/2/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Polaris] Transcending the Rules
I just returned from another one of those German forum meet-ups. Yesterday’s Polaris game was a blast (what people call a homerun these days). Here are some highlights and a…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, oliof, Ben Lehman, ( o Y o ), Eliarhiman6, Troels, cydmab, Hendrik D..

3/3/2008 Greymorn: Taking turns: Don't step on my cool!
My group has an old, cherished assumption and maybe you have or have seen something similar to this: "don't step on my cool!" is the way we'd put it. Each…
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Participants: Greymorn, masqueradeball, Adam Dray, Kevin Smit.

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