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6/30/2002 xiombarg: Starter Resources
Can anyone reccommend any good resources, in print on or the net, for someone who's never role-played to get a good idea of how RPGs "work"? Good starter texts to…
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Participants: xiombarg, Jack Spencer Jr, Uncle Dark, Wart.

6/30/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: When the GM say "Better Watch Out"...
OK, My friend is getting ready to wind down his D&D3e campaign for his homebrewed system which is based heavily on R. Talsorian's Mekton II/Z and Cyberpunk system, although it…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Uncle Dark, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Mark D. Eddy, xiombarg.

6/29/2002 rabidchyld: Chthonian Redux playtest - The Festering Cure
So we played Zak's Cthonian Redux last night...the same adventure he posted about here. It went very well overall. The scenario was written well, and the system was easy to…
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Participants: rabidchyld, hardcoremoose, hive, Buddha Nature, Zak Arntson.

6/28/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel Actual Play: Week 3
I'll begin by saying that this was a much more enjoyable session than the last. We rounded out at 4 players this time, rather than 2 (Gailen's player was here,…
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Participants: Wolfen, Zak Arntson, Jaif, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Clay.

6/28/2002 Eric.Brennan: Get to the /point/, a minor revelation
I just started a new campaign (after several mis-steps and one-shots.) In plotting out the arc I wanted--bad guys, allies, geopolitics, blah blah blah, I started wondering why one-shots are…
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Participants: Eric.Brennan, Eric J., hardcoremoose, Christopher Kubasik, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, greyorm, joshua neff, Bankuei.

6/25/2002 Demonspahn: Star Wars and railroading
Hi all, Since there seem to be a number of Star Wars threads popping up, I just wanted to get some outside thoughts on the seemingly inherent railroading of the…
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Participants: Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Clay, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, damion, Buddha Nature, Eric.Brennan, Eric J., Michael S. Miller, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege.

6/25/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Back in the day
So I'm going to go way back to the mid-late 70's - long enough ago that I'm not sure how much to trust my memories, but not so long as…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Clay, hyphz, Walt Freitag, Ragnar Deerslayer, Le Joueur, Victor Gijsbers, contracycle, Laurel, Eric J., Zak Arntson, Uncle Dark, Ian O'Rourke, quozl.

6/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Blowing the crap out of stuff
Okay, now I'm into "realistic" games. Sim or whatever, I want m disbelief to be suspended. That's easier on me for some things than for others. TROS, for example, put…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, hardcoremoose, Paganini, Buddha Nature, Bankuei, Zak Arntson, Clay, Jared A. Sorensen, Knight, Demonspahn, Mike Holmes, Valamir, wyrdlyng, TSL.

6/23/2002 Eric J.: Remarkable player apathy (part 2)
I've had another session. This is it. My patience is up. I cannot stand my gaming group.We/They are dissfunctional to the very last letter of the meaning of the word.…
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Participants: Eric J., hyphz, Victor Gijsbers, rabidchyld, damion, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, Ring Kichard, Mike Holmes.

6/23/2002 Ben Morgan: Odd note about the term Munchkin
In the interest of not derailing the Player Apathy thread, I'm posting something Mike Holmes said here: Interestingly there is a derogatory term that you may or may not have…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Ring Kichard, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Clay, Bob McNamee, Eric J., hardcoremoose.

6/23/2002 Ben Morgan: Elfs!
Just had me my first session of Elfs tonight. I went in with absolutely zero preparation. It went swimmingly. I had four players, none of whom had read the rules…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards.

6/21/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel Actual Play: Week 2.
Okay, I ran my second session of TRoS this week.. I can't say it went particularly well. The problems: First off, the player of Gailen couldn't make it, due to…
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Participants: Wolfen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jaif, Christopher Kubasik, hardcoremoose, Walt Freitag, Bob McNamee, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

6/20/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Open Play at Origins
Is there going to be open play space at Origins? And if there is, how difficult-to-impossible will it be to organize a picjkup game of something new? I didn;t get…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood.

6/19/2002 Paul Czege: the mortification of the world, the flesh, and the devil
If you have never playtested a game of your own design, let me tell you, it is humbling beyond your capacity to imagine. Yesterday I ran my second session of…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Buddha Nature, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis.

6/17/2002 Brian Leybourne: tRoS starting tonight - skills question
(this is also posted in the tRoS forum). Finally, I'm starting a tRoS campaign tonight. After so much foreplay it's going to be nice to move onto the sex (so…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/16/2002 Mike Holmes: Faster, Better, Cheaper playtest
As part of the playtest swap program I organized a session using Kirt Dankmyer's Faster, Better, Cheaper system last night, 6/15/02. I assembled three players. Brad, who is amongst…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, joshua neff, xiombarg.

6/14/2002 Tim Denee: Star Beast prep
Well, I'm finally going to get some actual play (actual narrativist play, that is). I'm playing a game of InSpectres and a game of Star Wars/Questing Beast. It's the latter…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

6/14/2002 Wolfen: Running with the Riddle... Finally!
Well, I finally got to run TRoS tonight, after a couple weeks waiting and planning. So here's a summary of how things went.. Chargen: It took in excess of 2…
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Participants: Wolfen, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg.

6/13/2002 Ron Edwards: The Riddle o'Steel 'n' me
Hi everyone, I'm three sessions into a fairly extended sequence for The Riddle of Steel, with Dav and Mario for players. I don't know how many sessions it'll play out…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/13/2002 rafael: Raleighwood Game Night: Paladin [6.12.02]
Raleighwood Game Night: Paladin My two gamers, Adam and Jon, are fairly new to gaming, and have only been exposed to a couple of games (one indie, one…
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Participants: rafael, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

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7/1/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer demo play - Lincoln High 15th Year Reunion
I got a group together this Sunday to run the new demo packet for Sorcerer. Ron's distributed this with the purpose of getting it ready to be used in stores.…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, rabidchyld, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

7/2/2002 Paganini: Risus
[quote="Jack Spencer"]It seems like more & more people are talking about Risus for no good reason IMO.[/quote] Just wondering about this. I have to say up front that I don't…
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Participants: Paganini, Kenway, Balbinus, Ron Edwards.

7/2/2002 Petter Sandelin: Character generation going on and on and..
I've just finished rewriting characters with my players for the second part of our Sorcerer chron. Actually I lied, we haven't finished them yet. This has brought up something I've…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Christopher Kubasik, Jack Spencer Jr, rabidchyld, Ron Edwards, Scratchware, Eric J., jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Paul Czege.

7/3/2002 lumpley: OtherKind-ish Mechanics in Action
So we played our Ars Magica game last night, and it was the big battle. We had a GM, which is unusual for us, but none of my characters were…
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Participants: lumpley, contracycle, Bankuei.

7/4/2002 Tim Denee: InSpectres and Donjon
OK. So. I didn't get to play Star War/Questing Beast in the end, but I did play a game and a half of InSpectres and a little Donjon. InSpectres went…
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Participants: Tim Denee, contracycle.

7/7/2002 Bailey: Lead or Gold
Played Lead or Gold a couple of day ago. It went smooth but I'm wondering a few things. Is there anything in the rules that supports this being in space?…
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Participants: Bailey, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/8/2002 lumpley: Shadows
My 5-year-old Sebastian and I have been playing Shadows. (Uh, let's see: Shadows.) We're playing it without tokens, just very simply with the two dice. We've played two sessions. He…
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Participants: lumpley, Zak Arntson, Emily Care.

7/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Tons o'games at Origins
Hey there, And did we play. Oh my. These are what I got to play in. SORCERER I ran the Lincoln High Reunion demo scenario, with John Clements, Jared Sorensen,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Jason L Blair, Chris Passeno, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Michael Hopcroft.

7/9/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Tons o' games at NURD
My roleplaying convention NURD went extremely well last week. We had about 150 gamers from all over the country (we even had guests from Hamburg - that's on the other…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards.

7/9/2002 jburneko: Sorcerer - Gothic Fantasy - Session #1
Hello All, Well, last night was the first session of my Sorcerer game. It went GREAT! First of all, I'd like to say that, as advertised, this game IS Intense.…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Petter Sandelin.

7/9/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer and Sword - Under the Blood Sun
I'm starting a new game of Sorcerer and Sword tonight, called "Under the Blood Sun." It's loosely based on the Clicking Sands setting from S&S, with a few bizarre changes.…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay, Mike Holmes, Yasha, Zak Arntson, Uncle Dark, DaR.

7/10/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: Sorcerer in play, some things worked, some didn't
It has been literally years since I've had a good roleplaying experience. In the past year I've made two attempts: an Everway group that played for about three sessions before…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, J B Bell.

7/11/2002 Don Lag: Recommendations for gamemasters/narrators/directors/...
Hi, a local group for gamemasters has formed in my town and one of the iniciatives they have is preparing gamemastering tutorials for newcomers to the game. Since I've found…
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Participants: Don Lag, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, Valamir.

7/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: BisbeeCon
Just played some games (!) at BisbeeCon III (a friend's annual apartment convention). Here's the scoop: I played InSpectres! Finally. :) I played Gus, the janitor in the building where…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Buddha Nature, Jürgen Mayer.

7/16/2002 Zak Arntson: Chthonian - Indie Gaming Monday (7/15)
Okay, after some Dreamcast Bomberman and general BSing, we got down to business and finished up the middle act of the Chthonian adventure. You can read the first session here.…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, rabidchyld.

7/16/2002 Ben Morgan: Just started Orkworld game last week
It kinda sucks that John Wick has gone MIA recently. I just started a new game of Orkworld last saturday. There were four players, the same four as the Elfs…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Demonspahn.

7/17/2002 Lily: Wuthering Heights RPG Question....
To Whomever It May Concern, I'm new to this board, as you may be able to tell. I would like to join the Wuthering Heights roleplay, but I am clueless…
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Participants: Lily, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Philippe Tromeur.

7/18/2002 wyrdlyng: Dominating Play (long)
Setup: I'm playing in a weekly/bi-weekly D&D game run by my wife. The current group is 6 players in size and is the result of combining 2 groups, 1 good…
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Participants: wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clay, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, hyphz, Andrew Martin, damion.

7/22/2002 lumpley: Static vs. Dynamic Setting
Meguey's and Emily's and my Ars Magica game is setting-intensive. 180 named characters or so, twenty covenants (A covenant is a house of wizards, like a monastery), a history of…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

7/23/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Madness & Grace: Jesse's Gothic Fantasy Part 2
Hi everybody, Well, this was just swell. I've had other sessions that were as much fun, but none so compact, engaging and compulsively "what the hell's going to happen now?"…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

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