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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.

11/13/2008 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.

11/12/2008 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.

11/11/2008 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.

11/10/2008 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.

11/8/2008 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.

11/8/2008 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 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.

11/6/2008 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.

11/4/2008 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.

11/4/2008 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.

11/3/2008 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.

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.

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.

10/29/2008 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 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 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.

10/28/2008 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.

10/27/2008 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.

10/27/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] Getting involved in the Carnival Bizarre
Hello all At last we got around to meet and give a follow-up to the first session. First thing, we agreed with Thomas that Alice was just a woman that…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, kwelndar.

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11/16/2008 Ron Edwards: [Sweet Agatha] Stars, diamonds, and death
Hi everybody, I bought the ashcan in 2007 and felt bad about never getting to it; then again, the twins were born that September, after all. So on last week's…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Kevin Allen Jr.

11/18/2008 GreatWolf: The care and feeding of emergent campaigns
Our Friday group just completed our sixth chapter of In a Wicked Age. It’s been quite the campaign. Currently, our story spans 23 years, four major characters, and a number…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Gabrielle, lumpley, Marshall Burns, tonyd.

11/18/2008 Bret Gillan: [Trollbabe] Making the Trollbabes
I met with my two players for our first session of Trollbabe. Ellen, my girlfriend, and my friend Chris who just moved to area volunteered for a Sunday night game.…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

11/18/2008 llamaweezer: Chance vs Probability
    I have recently been playing Axis And Allies with some friends of mine on the weekends. While I totally enjoy the strategy aspect of the game I am…
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Participants: llamaweezer, rafial, Noon, ShallowThoughts.

11/22/2008 mrlost: How do you coax individualist players out of a self-centered mindset...
...and into a collaborative one. I'm sure this must have come up before but I haven't had luck finding it. I've started running games for some friends after a long…
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Participants: mrlost, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, RedFox.

11/22/2008 Melinglor: [Sorcerer] Cascadiapunk post-mortem
So my Sorcerer game is dead. We only managed a handful of sessions, separated by delays of up to a month at a time, and in short never gained sufficient…
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Participants: Melinglor, JoyWriter, Ron Edwards, davidberg.

11/22/2008 Ron Edwards: [3:16] Semi-Captain, Lt.-Captain, almost-Captain on deck, sir!
Hello, I'm continuing the details of our game here; you can read about the first two sessions at Way Too Easy Or Just Got the Rules Wrong? in the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Tim C Koppang, Chris W, greyorm, Gregor Hutton, Wolfen, Noon, Eero Tuovinen.

11/22/2008 Paka: Sorcerer Sci-fi: Demons of Mercury
I've got a bunch of Sorcerer setting ideas that I want to tinker with and this latest, set a few hundred years in the future, in a recently colonized solar…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, davidberg.

11/23/2008 Lord Goon: Pantheon and Universalis (split)
Have you ever tried PANTHEON?
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Participants: Lord Goon, Ron Edwards.

11/26/2008 Bret Gillan: [Trollbabe] Save the Young Man! and wrestling with Scale
Related Thread: Making the Trollbabes First Trollbabe session! My living room was absolutely freezing and I had a migraine. Not the best way to start but after two cancellations…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards, ieatwithgusto, Markus.

11/27/2008 Ron Edwards: [Legends of Alyria] The quiet and unquiet dead
Hi everyone, Perhaps you do not know about Seth Ben-Ezra's fantasy/SF setting, Alyria. Imagine any standard fantasy map like you'd see in some mass-market novel - continents, shores, seas. Now…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, greyorm, JoyWriter, jrs, daMoose_Neo, Noon.

11/27/2008 Dionysus: I come on bended knee, seeking help.
Howdy all. I'm here on bended kneee seeking help. Like the title says, I need to move away from crunch, and need some advise on how to persuade my group…
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Participants: Dionysus, James_Nostack.

11/27/2008 Markus: [Trollbabe] I GMed Trollbabe a couple of dozens times... and I really liked it.
At long last I found the time to write this AP report! I drafted it several times in my head before actually sitting down to write it, and this helped…
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Participants: Markus, Ron Edwards, droog, Noon, Domon.

12/1/2008 Evlyn: Prepping for a (WoD1) sandbox.
Hello, I am prepping for a old World of Darkness play by forum. I want to play the game in a sandbox. I have re-read the "sandbox adventures" thread and…
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Participants: Evlyn, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2008 Big J Money: [D&D 4E] Basic Understanding Of Roleplaying This Character
This one will be quick.  I was the DM in our D&D Adventure last week; we're "running through" the first published adventure to get acclimated with the system and decide…
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Participants: Big J Money, gsoylent, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, Noon, greyorm, Frank Tarcikowski, NN, masqueradeball, JoyWriter, mcv, Bercilac.

12/3/2008 David C: Games with Gamist Resolution?
I received this private message from chance.thirteen the other day, and I asked him if we could move it this discussion to the forum itself.  Hi, Sorry to message out…
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Participants: David C, FredGarber, David Artman, chance.thirteen, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2008 ShallowThoughts: From theory to practice - GNS, CA, SIS, etc.
Hello folks, I'm interested in becoming better acquainted with the theories of the Forge, and as such would like to hear about the results of peoples' attempts to incorporate these…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, davidberg, Caldis.

12/5/2008 jburneko: System Transforms Situation... And Situation Informs System?
We talk a lot about how System transforms Situation.  What we don’t talk a lot about is how Situation limits or informs our choices about how to employ the System. …
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Participants: jburneko, Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Noon, Adrian F., Artanis, davidberg, JoyWriter, GreatWolf, masqueradeball, Caldis.

12/9/2008 Artanis: [Sorcerer] A Night at the Opera Bizarre
Hey! This is session number three from our on-going Carnival Bizarre game. Last session was about getting involved in the Carnival Bizarre, this session is about taking the bull by…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2008 Rustin: Facilitating Coherent Play and the Shared Agenda
My group recently ended its fourth 4e campaign within the last year or so. I suspect incoherent play caused each attempt to fail. (E.g., People "checking-out" when not spotlighted, lots…
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Participants: Rustin, dindenver, Noon, FredGarber, masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, matthijs, Erudite, Leilond.

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