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4/20/2009 ShallowThoughts: Those imaginary "other kinds" of RPGers
Hello folks, I suppose this is more of an "Actual NOT Played" thread, because I discuss a kind of actual play I've NOT ever found myself in, and I'm curious…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Wolfen, greyorm, Greymorn, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Paka, Cranewings, Noclue, chance.thirteen, AzaLiN.

4/19/2009 blackhatmatt: [With Great Power...] Better Living Through Chemistry
Just ran a one-shot of WGP yesterday. Well, anyway, it was meant as a one-shot, but we didn't finish, so we'll finish it next time. Two-shot, anyway. The write-up is…
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Participants: blackhatmatt, Ron Edwards.

4/12/2009 lachek: The Dysfunctional Adventures of a Pre-Teen
My 12-year old son has finally started taking interest in role-playing games. Not because his mom and dad plays them every week, organizes conventions and events, even write and design…
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Participants: lachek, Eero Tuovinen, Beatboy, Noon, FredGarber, Frank Tarcikowski, JoyWriter.

4/5/2009 Ayyavazi: Ninja Burger and my first game in a while
Hey everyone, I played my first RPG in a little over two months, and it was fun, even if it wasn't spectacular. I gathered my fiancee, best friend and nhis…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

3/31/2009 Sonja: Cinematic car chase scenes? -- is it possible?
I just watched the 1960s movie Fantomas and was really inspired from the long, dramatic and amusing chase scenes. Reminded me of the endless chicken fights in Family Guy that…
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Participants: Sonja, Vulpinoid, chance.thirteen, visioNationstudios, FredGarber, Mel_White, JoyWriter.

3/30/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Tunnels & Trolls] Colonizing goblin lands
Man, all of my best gaming seems to happen in Oulu. I live something like 300 kilometers from the city, but I visit a couple of times per year for…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Artanis, newsalor.

3/28/2009 Rustin: [7 Seas] Imagined Contingencies
There was a point in our 7seas game, where the players were discussing how best to capture a ship. It seemed interesting to me, after the GM gave some facts,…
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Participants: Rustin, Ron Edwards.

3/27/2009 Caracol: A Chance for Revenge
Just kidding. Even if I'm currently designing my game (look out http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=27710.0, a thread I promise I will update as soon I have some time), I decided to slow down…
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Participants: Caracol, Simon C, Noon, sureideas, Dr_Pete, JoyWriter.

3/24/2009 Artanis: [Sorcerer] A bizarre feeling
Hi gals and guys! Quick status report on the Carnival Bizarre. Last session was a night at the opera bizarre and was mighty successful in my view. This time we…
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Participants: Artanis.

3/24/2009 Ayyavazi: My Play Origins and How it influences my game design
Greetings all, This is my first actual play post, so forgive me if it isn't up to snuff. Also, if I don't seem to have finished with a given post,…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Marshall Burns.

2/22/2009 Christopher Kubasik: [Orccon][HeroQuest] Completing the discussion
(edited in at Christopher's request: this thread has been split from Orccon] In Glorantha, of all places! - RE) So, a full year and two computer crashes, I'm finally finishing…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Xose Lucero, charles ferguson.

3/15/2009 The Magus: [Sorcerer] In Sorcery's Shadow - London, England 2009
This is an actual play report for a game of Sorcerer. My friend Justin and I have been playing Sorcerer for two sessions now and have established a campaign that…
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Participants: The Magus, Trevis Martin.

3/13/2009 charles ferguson: [D&D 1e] : The Nostalgia Of It All
Disclaimer: I don't really have a specific question or problem. Maybe one will emerge? Thing is I've been hanging out at the Forge for nearly 10 years and 99.9% of…
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Participants: charles ferguson, James_Nostack.

3/10/2009 RuneBR: Our first story-game - 3:16 Actual Play
3:16 Actual Play We played our first session of 3:16 a while back, so I thought I'd try my hand at writing a actual play-report. English is not my first…
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Participants: RuneBR, agony, Wolfen, greyorm, charles ferguson, Gregor Hutton.

3/8/2009 Xose Lucero: Were We Playing Narrativist?
Hello, all. As I try to get a grip on RPG theory I've been replaying old game sessions in my mind to try to figure out what the heck was…
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Participants: Xose Lucero, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Abkajud.

3/7/2009 Paka: The Slaughter at Corinthton, a Dogs in the Vineyard game
It was one of those Fridays where the regular game fell through but we knew it far enough ahead of time so that we could pick up the pieces and…
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Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, James_Nostack, Queen_of_Kryos, Noon, Eliarhiman6.

3/4/2009 Caracol: Hello to everyone (and a question about how to save our gaming sessions)
Hello to everyone, I'm a new member and a amateur game creator. I heard of this community only recently, and my interest in gaming creation makes this place useful to…
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Participants: Caracol, Vulpinoid, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, chance.thirteen, Alan, Rafu.

2/28/2009 James_Nostack: [Trollbabe] Keep on Rockin' in the Troll World
Paul and Dave came over.  We ate some food, we drank some drinks, we talked about all'a you people on the Internet.  And then we broke out some old-fashioned Trollbabe…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Paul T, angelfromanotherpin, davidberg, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Alan.

2/26/2009 agony: [Dead of Night] Initiative Questions
I ran Dead of Night last night for my group and it turned out rather fun.  We had a nice setup in a Contemporary insane asylum where a patient was…
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Participants: agony, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2009 Paka: Agon: The Kleos Cup, Dreamation '09
Ever since reading Agon I have thought it was tailor-made for convention tournaments, like competitive deals that you read about as jokes in Knights of the Dinner Table only in…
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Participants: Paka, jefgodesky, Mel_White, John Harper, Valamir, Nathan P..

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4/25/2009 Elkin: [SHADOWS]: Is a gradually-built dramatic climax possible?
Hi, Last summer, at a local convention, I GMed a four-hour game using a modified version of Shadows (http://www.harlekin-maus.com/games/shadows/shadows.html). The game world was along the lines of C.K. Chesterton's "The…
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Participants: Elkin, JoyWriter, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2009 ShallowThoughts: Unbalanced PC groups - is this okay?
Hello again, (I'm beginning to feel like a haunt with all my posts, but I must admit I appreciate the Forge's rules to prevent threads from devolving into meaningless noise..)…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Lance D. Allen, greyorm, Jasper Flick, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, Cranewings, nikola, Brimshack.

4/30/2009 AJ_Flowers: Spontaneous play in on-line MUSH
Hi. I haven't logged in to this forum in a really long time, but hanging out at Forge Midwest inspired me to at least start lurking again.  I notice that…
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Participants: AJ_Flowers, Noon, LandonSuffered, JoyWriter.

4/30/2009 Selene Tan: Drowning and Falling - Dungeons and Vegas
This is a writeup of a Drowning and Falling game from last last Thanksgiving. I started the writeup soon after playing, then got sidetracked and forgot about it, and unearthed…
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Participants: Selene Tan, jasonm.

4/30/2009 AJ_Flowers: Actual RP in MMORPGs and World of Warcraft (split)
I'm kind of necroing this thread because it looks interesting to me and because as far as I know it's OK in the rules to do that. :) Let me…
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Participants: AJ_Flowers, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, Evlyn, Noon, Greymorn, Frank Tarcikowski, ShallowThoughts, FredGarber, Lance D. Allen, contracycle, evilphd7.

5/4/2009 Akora: 3:16 - Starting Advice
This is my first post here, so please bear with me :) I am doing my best to prepare a campaign of 3:16. I've read through the purchased PDF and…
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Participants: Akora, Lance D. Allen, Gregor Hutton.

5/6/2009 Wordmaker: [WGP] Tarnished
[i]Moving my thread on our new With Great Power... game here:[/i] [b]Background Pitch:[/b] Everything changed the day Superman died. Metropolis is gone. Nothing remains but a crater and the surrounding…
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Participants: Wordmaker, James_Nostack, Lance D. Allen.

5/8/2009 Simon C: [Covenant] First Name Terms
(Crossposted and more information here:http://www.collective-endeavour.com/node/1602) Malcolm, Steve, Emma and I played a three-session game of Covenant. There were things I really liked and things I really didn't like about the…
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Participants: Simon C, Noon, ShallowThoughts, AJ_Flowers, Matt, JoyWriter.

5/10/2009 AzaLiN: [D&D4e] Feeling defeated by the ruleset
I've been DMing a D&D 4e campaign for 2 or 3 months, playing twice weekly. It started off a little rough, but after I shrank the group size to 4…
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Participants: AzaLiN, Eero Tuovinen, C. Edwards, Noon, JoyWriter, Brimshack, AJ_Flowers, Wordman, whiteknife, LandonSuffered, Clay.

5/12/2009 LandonSuffered: "Old School" Endgames, Grognardia
I’ve been waxing seriously nostalgic of late, not the least of which is due to recently discovering James Maliszewski’s wonderfully insightful blog, Grognardia: http://grognardia.blogspot.com/ I’ve been reading his essays the…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Eero Tuovinen, Brimshack, Darcy Burgess, Noon.

5/12/2009 LandonSuffered: Challenge the Player, not the Stat Block (D&D)
Just one more AP post (hopefully with more AP), since I seem to have a great deal of trouble falling asleep tonight…. Again, regarding AD&D and the “old school” insights…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Noon, Frank Tarcikowski, Caldis, contracycle, greyorm, JoyWriter, ShallowThoughts, AzaLiN, FredGarber, Vulpinoid, otspiii, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2009 Simon C: Let's See - Rethinking "Sim"
I've been following with interest Vincent's discussion of "Right to Dream" play on his blog.  I agree with him that "Right to Dream" is a far more useful handle than…
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Participants: Simon C, Caldis, whiteknife, contracycle, Gregor Hutton, Frank Tarcikowski, lumpley, JoyWriter, jlarke, Filip Luszczyk.

5/16/2009 droog: A small clash of vision
I've written before at greater length about an RQ game I used to run. I'd like to consider one issue here. Out of many years of play it sticks out…
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Participants: droog, Noclue, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Abkajud, Noon, Alex Abate.

5/17/2009 jenskot: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Point Hollow
It’s been a whirlwind week of GMing! I took the week off and ran 3 consecutive Dogs towns then D&D 4E 2 days ago, and another Dogs town for Paul…
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Participants: jenskot, Paul T, davidberg, Lance D. Allen, Jasper Flick, lumpley.

5/19/2009 Paul Czege: he's the decider
Barack Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304718.html?sub=AR">plays</a> <a href="http://www.gregstolze.com/ExecutiveDecision.zip">Executive Decision</a>. Love the hack where the game ends with the President dictating on the spot the text of the announcement of his decision. Paul
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Participants: Paul Czege.

5/21/2009 ShallowThoughts: Funny little anecdote - the players surprised me (GM)
I'm using this anecdote to demonstrate a point I made in the "Challenge the Player, not the Stat Block (D&D)" . I can't circularly link, and since that response already…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Caldis, LandonSuffered, wgrzanic, Frank Tarcikowski.

5/26/2009 Willow: Awesome Adventures: In the Player's Seat
I don't often get the chance to play Awesome Adventures, so when Brendan said he wanted to run it, I was quite keen to join in.  Our setting was 1950s…
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Participants: Willow, Wordmaker, nikola.

5/28/2009 Matt Wilson: 3:16 gives me love
We played Gregor's fantastic game 3:16 for the second time last night, with only Brennan returning as a veteran player. Kevin Allen JUNIOR and a friend of Brennan's (I'm so…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Noon, Darcy Burgess.

5/29/2009 Saint Erebus: [3:16] Screw-Ups and Monstrous Troopers
I'm putting this up here because it's been bugging me for the past couple of days, and I'd like to get some input from other people who may or may…
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Participants: Saint Erebus, Lance D. Allen, Ron Edwards, Noon, Wordmaker, Jasper Flick.

5/30/2009 Noon: Inadvertant prima donna-ism?
I was thinking about another thread and how to say that it seemed like prima donna-ism. I can't remember how I made the leap, but I was thinking how the…
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Participants: Noon, JoyWriter.

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