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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.

3/13/2008 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.

3/10/2008 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.

3/6/2008 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.

3/5/2008 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.

3/4/2008 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.

3/3/2008 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.

3/2/2008 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..

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.

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.

2/26/2008 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.

2/26/2008 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 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.

2/25/2008 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.

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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.

4/14/2008 Willow: [Forge Midwest] Trollbabe- Player Choices, and a Question for Ron
At Forge Midwest, I finally got to play Trollbabe, which was ran by Ron himself.  Yay! For plot, Frunhilde, badass Trollbabe Axe-Warrior, found herself at Everyone's Inn, a haven for…
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Participants: Willow, Ron Edwards, rafial, Arturo G., Alan, FredGarber.

4/15/2008 Ron Edwards: [Spione] Follow-up and musing about the Forge Midwest game
Hello, I will come clean: this is an unabashed promotion thread. We played a game of Spione (pronounced "shpee-oh-neh," or "-nuh"; the last syllable isn't "ee" or "ay") during Forge…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, c, TJ, Malky.

4/16/2008 Raquel: (Sorcerer) Cybernetic Hackers with a First-Time GM
I'm a bit late getting this play report up anyway, so I didn't try to fill in too many details, but here's the overview and a couple of thoughts. Last…
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Participants: Raquel, GreatWolf, Gabrielle, Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

4/17/2008 Nev the Deranged: [The Mountain Witch] - Forge Midwest '08 - More Cross Dressing
The TMW game on Sunday was out of control. We had eye-gouging (I don't feel a TMW game is complete without eye-gouging, since the game where Alexander lost his), and,…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, coffeestain, Willow, Tim C Koppang.

4/17/2008 Ron Edwards: [My Life With Master] Radium power
Hello, When I arrived at Forge Midwest, people were playing Handy ("the game that lets gamers touch each other" as I call it), and eventually it turned into a conversation…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, coffeestain, jerry, Frank Tarcikowski.

4/22/2008 Ben Morgan: [Over the Edge] I'm back
My new group started a game of Over the Edge last Sunday. I was very nervous going into it, as I already had 6 strikes against me right out of…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Melinglor.

4/22/2008 GreatWolf: [1001 Nights] A good ending to a good day
Sunday night was Crystal’s birthday party. Her actual birthday is April 14, but for any number of reasons, we couldn’t put together her party until then. It went really well,…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, Meguey, Gabrielle.

4/28/2008 angelfromanotherpin: [City of Brass] Through Drama and Despair
So, today a whole bunch of my friends got together for Greek Orthodox Easter, and I roped a bunch of them into playing City of Brass, the game of a…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2008 arthurtuxedo: [Tensided] Now or Never
[url=http://www.tensided.com/campaigns/non/log/04-13-08.htm]OpenRPG Chat Log[/url] for Session 1. Played April 13, 2008. [url=http://www.tensided.com/campaigns/non/log/04-20-08.htm]OpenRPG Chat Log[/url] for Session 2. Played April 20, 2008. [url=http://www.tensided.com/campaigns/non/log/04-27-08.htm]OpenRPG Chat Log[/url] for Session 3. Played April 27, 2008.…
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Participants: arthurtuxedo, Ron Edwards.

5/1/2008 lachek: [Conspiracy-X, but widely applicable] Detective gaming and suspense
I've been a player in a really great conspiracy-themed game for three sessions now. The first episode just wrapped up, and the Game Master is gearing up for the second.…
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Participants: lachek, Marshall Burns, GregStolze.

5/4/2008 agony: [Poison'd] The humbling of Padre Diego and sabotage of Lead Boot Rich
So we started a campaign of Vincent Baker's astounding Pirate game Poison'd a couple weeks ago and just finished our second session which was brilliant.  I'm GMing and the four…
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Participants: agony, lumpley.

5/5/2008 Big J Money: [Universalis] As played by: Unsuspecting D&D players
This was the first narr game I have ever hosted.  Actually, it's the first narr game I've ever played.  I swallowed the rules in a day, called up my gaming…
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Participants: Big J Money, Arturo G., Valamir, David Artman, Ron Edwards, dindenver.

5/5/2008 LandonSuffered: Looking For Structure - These Kids Need A GM!
So, I’m not really sure where I want to go with this…maybe I just need a chance to de-compress. Had my “nephews” over this weekend (the children of our friends,…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Arturo G., dindenver.

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