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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.

2/25/2008 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.

2/23/2008 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.

2/21/2008 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.

2/20/2008 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.

2/20/2008 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.

2/19/2008 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.

2/18/2008 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.

2/18/2008 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 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 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.

2/17/2008 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.

2/15/2008 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.

2/14/2008 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.

2/14/2008 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.

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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.

3/4/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Panty Explosion] Explain me how to play this game
For quite a long time, the minimum number of people required to play Panty Explosion was a difficulty for me. Back in January, however, I finally managed to try the…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Jake Richmond.

3/5/2008 sirelfinjedi: The End
Wow... this weekend we finished a two year campaign. It was wonderful! It was sad. Those characters were kinda like friends in a way, and I'm gonna miss them. Our…
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Participants: sirelfinjedi, contracycle.

3/6/2008 Alan: [IaWA] War upon Arkadia
March 1, 2008 at the Wayward cafe in Seattle, we played <b>In a Wicked Age</b> for about 3 hours. Players, clockwise around the table, were Alan (me), John, Ken, Pete,…
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Participants: Alan, lumpley.

3/10/2008 arthurtuxedo: [Tensided] Knights of the Broken Sceptre (split)
Apologies for the prolonged absence. Real life has an annoying tendency to intrude. OpenRPG Chat Log for Session 14. Played January 27, 2008. OpenRPG Chat Log for Session 15. Played…
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Participants: arthurtuxedo, Ron Edwards.

3/13/2008 lumpley: Yikes! Zombies!
We played Eero's zombie game, whose official English title I can't remember. I'm going to call it Yikes! Zombies! even though I'm absolutely certain that's incorrect. Emily led us in…
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Participants: lumpley, Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Parthenia, Emily Care, newsalor.

3/15/2008 Roger: [SotC / Sorcerer] A funny thing happened on the way to pulp...
So here's the situation:  I'm sitting around waiting for 4e to drop like an atom-bomb, and I think, hey, I should run a game for my friends instead of neurotically…
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Participants: Roger, jburneko, Christopher Kubasik.

3/16/2008 JC: [MLWM] My life with the Tour de France
OK, I’m tired, so this is going to be a short one. I GMed a one-shot of MLWM for three other players this afternoon, before going on to play DRYH…
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Participants: JC, Paul Czege, Filip Luszczyk.

3/16/2008 The Dragon Master: [Shadowrun] Adding bangs to save a failing campaign...
The last few sessions (comprising all of the sessions so far in this campaign) have been falling flat. I decided to add some bangs to the next session or two,…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, greyorm.

3/17/2008 WildElf: [Endgame] In A Wicked Age in 2 Chapters - Soul Binding; Ghoulish Assassinations
(This is sorta cross posted from Story-Games, but I've actually rewritten this which I may put into my S-G post) Endgame, in Oakland, just had their latest Minicon. I ran…
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Participants: WildElf, lumpley.

3/25/2008 Hituro: [Solipsist] First proper game, at Conpulsion 2008
So Conpulsion 2008 has just finished in Edinburgh, and I got to run my first ever game of Solipsist entirely to people who had never seen, read, or played before.…
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Participants: Hituro, Gregor Hutton.

3/26/2008 Troels: [In a Wicked Age] For the Love of a Terrible Horse
Last week, I attended the danish convention Fastaval in Aarhus. Lots and lots of IaWA was played, much (but not all) of it by me. I ran three independent chapters,…
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Participants: Troels.

4/6/2008 Melinglor: [TSoY] I fought "The Party" and "The Party" won
I ran a Shadow of Yesterday one-shot for Portland/Vancouver's Gamestorm con this weekend last. It was my second time running the game. In some ways it went better than the…
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Participants: Melinglor, Christopher Kubasik, Willem, elegua, dindenver, Marshall Burns.

4/9/2008 droog: [TPK] Black Island
Hello! This is my first attempt at an island of the Kingdom, and I'd like to submit it for comments. It is for a game with my wife and daughter.…
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Participants: droog.

4/14/2008 Hituro: [Solipsist] Mermaid Towers (part 2)
I was going to post this on the end of the existing thread on Mermaid Towers, but I don't seem to be able to find it, it's possible I never…
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Participants: Hituro.

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