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10/25/2008 blueflame: TSOY starting characters and advances
Please can someone do a breakdown for the starting TSOY characters Violet and Oliphant and how they spent their 5/25 advances? I'm pondering a new TSOY game and it's the…
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Participants: blueflame, oliof.

10/22/2008 rycanada: [4e] Players Roll All the d20s
Last night I ran 4e for the first time.  The game went very, very well.  The only house rule in effect was Players Roll All the (20-sided) dice - which…
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Participants: rycanada, gsoylent, Noon, GregStolze, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, Big J Money, Finarvyn, greyorm, maldito.

10/19/2008 LemmingLord: Halloween Game Success
I used Risus for the very first time to run a Halloween Horror game.  It seems that I and my players had a very good time so I wanted to…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Prepping Tunnels & Trolls
I am preparing a Tunnels & Trolls game for the first time, trying to follow the good advice I got in the thread apltly named Tunnels & Trolls advice. Are…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Noon, Ante.

10/16/2008 Ron Edwards: [Space Rat] Femme babe action at GenCon
I demonstrated Space Rat quite a bit at the Forge booth. It was a reasonably strong draw, with a brightly-colored cover, intriguing name, and the quick pull of the femme…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Rusty, Markus.

10/15/2008 Peter Nordstrand: Tunnels & Trolls advice
I'm about to start a Tunnels & Trolls campaign. I've wanted to try it out ever since Ron published his actual play reports a few years back. We are aiming…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Ante, rafial, Noon, Finarvyn, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2008 daftnewt: [DitV] Joshua's Peak (Part 2)
Last Saturday we finished up in the town of Joshua's Peak.  You can find the first part of that, with the characters, here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26858.0 If anyone thinks I could've done…
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Participants: daftnewt, lumpley, Ante.

10/14/2008 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Abattoir Blues
I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work The need for validation, babe, gone completely berserk I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such…
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Participants: pfischer, Paka, Ron Edwards, Malcolm.

10/14/2008 daftnewt: [DitV] Joshua's Peak (Part 1)
Yesterday I ran my first Dogs in the Vineyard town for my nascent gaming group (may it flourish!).  I've fiddled with the system before, but never sat down and tried…
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Participants: daftnewt.

10/13/2008 gsoylent: [Gamma Wolrd!] Where's my conflict?
This actual play is kind of a companion piece to http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26777.0. That was an octaNe game, this one is a Gamma World Game. What is perhaps surprisingly they both turned…
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Participants: gsoylent, Ron Edwards, drnuncheon, JoyWriter.

10/11/2008 Christopher Kubasik: Traveller: Using Sorcerer and Sorcerer & Sword
Playing Traveller has been a dream of mine since I picked up the books at the Compleat Strategist on 33rd Street years ago.  I knew there was a game in…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, James_Nostack.

10/3/2008 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Trial run one shot...
I've had the game for a few years and finally had the chance to run it. The Host of my Friday night game decided about a month ago that he…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, sirogit, Valamir, Melinglor, Evlyn.

10/2/2008 Altaem: Solving the problem of ineffectual character builds.
[b]The Problem:[/b] I’m interested in what solutions people have used to prevent players creating useless, flawed or otherwise campaign incompatible characters.  I’ve come up with a number of solutions myself…
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Participants: Altaem, greyorm, David Artman, anders_larsen, Kevin Smit, Tom Garnett.

9/26/2008 hoefer: "Sand Box" Adventures
Over on Craig's site the topic of "Sand Box Adventures" was brought up.  For this discussion the term meant game modules, adventures, story arcs, etc. where the GM was simply…
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Participants: hoefer, Vulpinoid, NN, Markus, Evlyn, opsneakie, Susan Calvin, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Marshall Burns, The Dragon Master, Caldis.

9/17/2008 gsoylent: [OctaNe] Almost there?
I've stripped as much of the background detail as possible from this Actual Play. This might make It might make the reading a little dry and not very OctaNe-like, but…
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Participants: gsoylent, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2008 Paul Czege: the preservation of antagonism
I was thinking over the weekend about various ways that games preserve antagonism (in the form of significant antagonist NPCs) from untimely ruin. Of course not all games are concerned…
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Participants: Paul Czege, agony, Eliarhiman6, Artanis, Michael S. Miller, Mel_White, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Frank Tarcikowski, jag, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, jburneko, contracycle, Thomas Lawrence, JoyWriter, Paul T, soundmasterj.

9/10/2008 Markus: Can someone explain the true reason behind "traits" (PtA style) to me?
Hello! This is my first post here at the forge. I finally decided to de-lurk because of a very specific question I have, but first of all let me introduce…
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Participants: Markus, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Joe Dizzy, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Christopher Kubasik, John Harper, FredGarber, Marshall Burns, Peter Nordstrand.

9/10/2008 Reithan: [NWOD][VtR] New Game - New Possibilities - New Questions!
I'm back from my long absence from the Forge (miss me?). I'd not had much chances to post much here, due to job shuffling, and storm evacuations and other 'outside…
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Participants: Reithan, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Marshall Burns.

9/8/2008 xjermx: [TSOY] Playing with the Facts
This actual play post is to share my recent discovery regarding stakes in Shadow of Yesterday. In the past I've done stakes pretty traditionally.  I found the following type of…
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Participants: xjermx, Eero Tuovinen.

9/8/2008 James_Nostack: [With Great Power] Justice League of America Summer Annual 2008
We played With Great Power... last night, and despite a few qualifications had a pretty good time.  A few panels from the imaginary Justice League of America Summer Annual 2008:…
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Participants: James_Nostack, cathexis, Valamir.

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10/27/2008 Neal Durando: [Matrix Game] Mitrovica Matrix Exercise
In the context of one of my military English classes for my consultancy, www.defenselinguistics.org, I recently began conducting an Engle Matrix Game, using the situation in Mitrovica, 2000 as a…
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Participants: Neal Durando, MatrixGamer.

10/28/2008 Ron Edwards: [L5R, The Pool, and others] A new look at Drift
Hello, I've chosen to begin a new thread using one of Markus' final posts in Can someone explain the true reason behind "traits" (PTA-style) to me? as the starting point.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Simon C, Noon, Tim C Koppang, jag, Artanis.

10/29/2008 gsoylent: [3:16] Way Too Easy Or Just Got the Rules Wrong?
Ran my first game of 3:16.  There were two players besides me, none of us had played this game before and only I had read the rules. My planet involved…
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Participants: gsoylent, pfischer, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Wolfen.

10/29/2008 Darcy Burgess: [My Life with Master] Beating the Love out of a Minion
So, we kicked off our new MLwM game on Monday night.  We've got a nifty Master.  He's an enormous lump of a man, with sausages for fingers and a penchant…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis.

10/29/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Yuuyake Koyake] Railroady Participationism & Game Economy
I intended to write and post this AP earlier, but here goes: At the beginning of September we played a game of Yuuyake Koyake, using the early version of the…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Andy Kitkowski.

10/29/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Poison'd] About action and choice
We had bit of an impromptu house convention last week here in Sonkajärvi, as all the university students got a period break at the same time and swarmed here. Among…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Graham Walmsley.

10/31/2008 Noon: Traits and the darkness that comes before
The title is a reference to the prince of nothing fantasy trilogy and in itself refers to discovering not what is happening now, but discovering what made 'now' exist to…
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Participants: Noon, Markus, Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered.

11/3/2008 GregStolze: [3:16] Planet Bosch: Stop Picking At It
I'd been eager to try out 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars, and when we had an unexpected GM-less session, I whipped up Planet Bosch and threw the players into it.…
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Participants: GregStolze, Eero Tuovinen, LandonSuffered, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2008 Paul T: [Land of Nodd] Mermaid Sashimi (is antagonism a mirror to protagonism?)
Over the last few weeks, I've been playing a game of my own design, Land of Nodd, with three friends. It's been an interesting experience on many levels, and I'd…
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Participants: Paul T, Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, jenskot, Demiurge.

11/4/2008 David C: My play history: Discovering myself
I apologize in advance for how long this is. I also added "titles" to help break up my wall of text. Part 1 My play history starts, as they often…
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Participants: David C, soundmasterj, Eero Tuovinen.

11/6/2008 jmhpfan: Trouble I had running The Sword
I just want to preface this by saying that this is in no way a bad reflection on the Sword scenario things happened while we were playing that made things…
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Participants: jmhpfan, Ron Edwards, The Dragon Master, abzu.

11/8/2008 Simon C: Realism is a Technique
"Realism" was kind of the Holy Grail of a lot of my early play.  The group I played with through most of high school were all friends of mine, and…
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Participants: Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T, Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards.

11/8/2008 JB: I'm thinking of a number...
So I've been lurking here a while, but this is my first post. I'd like to share something I've observed in regards to procedures of play in traditional games (GM,…
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Participants: JB, Artanis, Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Simon C, The Dragon Master, Steenan, Ron Edwards, jag, dindenver.

11/8/2008 JB: Tweaking Gamist Texts to facilitate Narrativism
Some time ago Ron made this statement: "...ell-designed Gamist and well-designed Narrativist texts (or more accurately, texts that support those modes of play well) are often extremely compatible with minor…
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Participants: JB, Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2008 jag: [Shab-al-Hiri] First time playing gives passable results
I played my first game of The Shab-al-Hiri Roach this weekend with some friends.  Despite it being somewhat fun, the game didn't reach its full potential, so I have some…
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Participants: jag, jasonm.

11/11/2008 Gregor Hutton: [3:16] On the South Coast... (at IndieCon)
I had a great time at IndieCon near Southampton from Thursday night through to Monday morning. The group of us there ended up playing in and running a lot of…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2008 Artanis: [Dust Devils] Content and Revelation authority vs Narrator Privileges
Hi everyone This is going to be a technical thread I believe, even though I could rave on about the beauty and the tragedy of in-game events! I need to…
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Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

11/13/2008 Ron Edwards: [Dead of Night] Nice Mr. Fitzgerald
This was my third full non-demo time for this game. As part of my GenCon prep in case we had a chance to devote an evening to it, I'd decided…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, andrew_kenrick, Noon, davidberg, Melinglor, jrs, Paka.

11/13/2008 Marianne: IAWA - roleplaying at school.
As an infant children I have the enviable position of being able to use drama as part of my job.  In the past I have used hotseating and improv as…
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Participants: Marianne, Ron Edwards, Artanis, lumpley, Meguey, abzu, rycanada, Ouroboros.

11/15/2008 ShallowThoughts: MMORPGs; totally alien from P&PRPGs??
Hi folks, this is a continuation of a topic brought up in "First Thoughts" but I'll repost the key points so you don't have to go hunting. I had posted…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, soundmasterj, Ron Edwards, jag, Noon, Eliarhiman6, Caldis, Vulpinoid, DWeird, Marshall Burns.

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