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7/31/2009 Aumpa: [D&D 4e] Using D&D for Introduction to Roleplaying?
Hello! I'm glad I found this site. After taking a 10 year break from roleplaying, I'm trying to get back into it again, and I want to be educated about…
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Participants: Aumpa, Noon, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Jasper Flick, Caldis, Patrice, lachek.

7/27/2009 cra2: DiTV vs. Agon ?
In your expert opinion(s), which is 'easier' to setup & run?  Dogs in the Vineyard or Agon? I have to run a session for 3-4 players in two weeks with…
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Participants: cra2, Simon C, Noclue, Ron Edwards.

7/26/2009 Paul T: Trollbabe-ish setup lacking drama
About two months ago, I ran a one-session game using a simple homebrew ruleset based on Vincent Baker's Otherkind dice idea, designed specifically for three players. (Here's a link, if…
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Participants: Paul T, Ron Edwards, Noclue, jburneko, Arturo G., Andrew Norris, Eszed, Noon.

7/25/2009 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer + Kids = "YAAAAY!"
I spent this past week in New Hampshire with my family.  Spotty Internet, no tv, a lovely lake, and lots of family gathered up in one house. My sister had…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn, Eszed.

7/23/2009 Patrice: [D&D]Balance killed my game
All my D&D games since the 3.5 came out were boring. So much for actual play. Just boring. Boring to the point my players and I have just quit playing…
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Participants: Patrice, Jasper Flick, Noon, Adam Dray, Ayyavazi, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Guy Srinivasan, Frank Tarcikowski, JoyWriter.

7/20/2009 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?
So, there’s this common fear that if you throw overt demons and sorcerers into a “Dogs in the Vineyard” game it will detract from the moral issues.  I’ve never found…
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Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Noon, Noclue.

7/16/2009 Eliarhiman6: [Serial Homicide Unit] Who cares for the victim's goal?
Hi! This post is late, very late. I should have written it at least a couple of weeks ago, with the convention game still fresh in my mind, but I…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, jburneko, FredGarber, Noon.

7/14/2009 cra2: Mountain Witch question
[sorry if this is the wrong place to post a question.  don't see a right place.] Just played Mountain Witch. Have a question or two. Early in the game, I…
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Participants: cra2, Eero Tuovinen, timfire.

7/14/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Capes] Gamism and Narrativism
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=28247.msg266224#msg266224 date=1247536708] I am still interested in someone posting about Capes in these terms, because as far as I can tell, Capes does not promote Narrativist play…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Alan, C. Edwards, Jasper Flick, jburneko, Melinglor, Noon, Bret Gillan.

7/13/2009 Entech: Heroquest 2: what does the system add?
My central thesis is that the system of HQ2 doesn’t provide any additional benefit by using it and in some cases actually subtracts from the overall game fun. The players:…
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Participants: Entech, epweissengruber, Noon, FredGarber, Melinglor, Danny_K.

7/12/2009 PolarisX: [InSpectres] Converting D20 players one Franchise at a time ...
I guess I should probably start with the fact that my gaming group consists of hardcore D20 players who have for the most part never played anything but a D20…
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Participants: PolarisX, Noclue.

7/12/2009 James_Nostack: [WGP] Problems with a Plan, questions, and comments
I'm running With Great Power... for the third time (I've been a player twice).  I'm currently doing prep, but I have some questions/comments based on earlier play.  I'd especially like…
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Participants: James_Nostack, InstrallFer, Ron Edwards, Jumanji83.

7/9/2009 Artanis: [Lacuna] Getting a handle on the pace of the game
Hi reader This is my first time masterizing (btw, is that the verb for "being GM" in English too?) Lacuna. I've just moved (geographically) closer to some friends who I've…
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Participants: Artanis, agony, Danny_K, Ron Edwards, The Dragon Master, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/9/2009 nikola: A History of Play in Rhode Island, Part 1.
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=28249.msg266072#msg266072 date=1247160157] All right folks. I appreciate everyone lots and lots, and Joshua, that's the fuckin' awesome character of the year. You ought to post more about…
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Participants: nikola.

7/6/2009 Noon: Art in mechanical design - has always been an awful idea?
Not sure how to start this. I guess I'll just stumble into an example first - take the idea of turns. Turns seem to be a pretty good idea for…
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Participants: Noon, Jasper Flick, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts, Caldis, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Christopher Kubasik, otspiii, Danny2050.

7/6/2009 jburneko: [A Penny For My Thoughts] Audience Investment and Distributed Fictional Entities
I played A Penny for My Thoughts this Sunday.  Present were myself, CK, Eric and Laura.  Unfortunately, due to a time restriction we didn’t quite get to finish.  We got…
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Participants: jburneko, Noclue, Ron Edwards, ptevis, Christopher Kubasik, GreatWolf.

7/6/2009 Nexus6: Addition to GNS Model
Hi, this is my first post to the Forge forums. I'm a relative role-playing neophyte, but am vastly interested in the theory of it and the like.  While reading through…
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Participants: Nexus6, Caldis, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Jasper Flick, Ayyavazi, Marshall Burns, Alan, rgrassi, Rustin, JMendes, greyorm, ShallowThoughts.

7/2/2009 nikola: Recreating the Providence of the fiction of my youth
When I was 16 or so, probably around 1988 or 89, I had one of the best RPG experinces in my life. The following is told largely in fiction because…
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Participants: nikola, Jasper Flick, Paul Czege, Noon, jburneko, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

7/1/2009 Ayyavazi: Gamism and Narrativism: Mutually Exclusive
So, I started a thread in the Site Discussion, and Ron said I needed an actual play example. Here we go. When: I'll use a game I played around march…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Patrice, Adam Dray, Noon, Ron Edwards, JMendes, Jasper Flick, chance.thirteen, Danny2050, Caldis, Alan, contracycle, Ralek, Vladius.

7/1/2009 rgrassi: [Levity]: Is this a technique? Or what?
Here's something I'm asking from a while. In a PbF we're making (we're three players) we're playing a situation in which there are two kids and a police sergeant (we've…
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Participants: rgrassi, Web_Weaver, Andrew Norris, JoyWriter.

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8/4/2009 AzaLiN: [d&d4e] Puzzles in RPGs
Is anyone else here as big a fan of adventure games as I am? (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Scratches, Nostradamus...) I really like puzzles in games; maybe problem…
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Participants: AzaLiN, Ron Edwards, Simon C, otspiii, Noon, ShallowThoughts, cra2, Evlyn, chronoplasm, FredGarber, DWeird.

8/7/2009 cra2: [Contenders] Scene Types, playing aid
http://www.cra2.com/games/rpg/contenders/Scene Type Grid.doc I made this single-page reference doc for Contenders and showed it to Joe Prince who suggested I post it here in Actual Play to see…
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Participants: cra2, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2009 James_Nostack: [WGP] Marvel Fanfare
As discussed in this thread, I'm running a long-form With Great Power... game.  We had our first session of play this week, and had a blast, and I think I'm…
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Participants: James_Nostack, jburneko, Caldis.

8/11/2009 Melinglor: [Nicotine Girls] Daddies for Babies who aren't Baby Daddies
At Go Play NW I got a chance to play Nicotine Girls with Michael, Ogre and Johnstone. I'd been wanting to for ages, but shied away for fear of making…
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Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, JoyWriter, Johnstone.

8/11/2009 Ayyavazi: GNS and Hierarchy
Hello all, I know Ron will probably want an actual play example and to have this thread moved, but since I am lacking an example (that I know of or…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Eliarhiman6, Adam Dray, Alan, Caldis, jburneko, Noon, Jasper Flick, anders_larsen, FredGarber, Marshall Burns, contracycle.

8/22/2009 Ayyavazi: [D&D 4e] God it feels good to DM again!
Hey all, Many of you have probably heard I don't have a group and haven't really played in a year or so (any game that is). Thankfully, that changed yesterday.…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Rustin.

8/23/2009 The Magus: How to address the following play example
This obviously hasn't happened in any game I've played but it illustrates a problem I've had with these narrative style games and I wanted to hear the opinions of others. …
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Participants: The Magus, Noon, Irminsul, anders_larsen, Ron Edwards, Jumanji83, FredGarber.

8/24/2009 The Magus: [Sorcerer] British Empire Steam Punk setting
I recently GMed a game of Sorcerer and had mixed feelings about the results although the more I think about it the more satisfied I feel. There were three characters…
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Participants: The Magus, Noclue, pfischer, Mackie, Ron Edwards, Neon White.

8/25/2009 JoyWriter: "Protection" in rules structures
This is an offshoot of this thread. The specific thing I wanted to focus on was making useful (and productive) Callan's idea of protection: As a quick summary, up until…
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Participants: JoyWriter, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2009 Ayyavazi: Using D&D 4e as a GNS Litmus Test
Hello everyone, I've already posted the following play example in God it feels good to DM again. topic. I'm re-posting it here with the following in mind: 1.…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, Jasper Flick, Dan Maruschak, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Silmenume.

8/26/2009 spamtramp: Inspectres: First play
After confronting the players with the idea of Inspectres they decided it will not fly the way it is written. They decided some minor changes right away. I completely went…
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Participants: spamtramp, Lance D. Allen, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2009 Jaakko Koivula: Suggestions and hints? Role-playing with adolescents in school
Greetings all. Im trying to decide on a good game to run for a class full of adolescents. Main points would be to introduce them to role-playing and try to…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, The Magus, FredGarber, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Noclue, Dr_Pete.

8/27/2009 Ron Edwards: [Spione] Pronounced "kah-guh-beh"
Hello, One evening at the Embassy Suites lobby, a couple of friends and I came to a table where a bunch of people were choosing from a pile o'games. We…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Simon_Pettersson, JoyWriter.

8/30/2009 Swamplor: Looking for a Crime RPG
I’m looking for a game. (Hi, my name’s Steve.  Been lurking here for years.  That’s largely beside the point right now.) I’ve been watching a lot of Burn Notice and…
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Participants: Swamplor, Jumanji83, Ron Edwards, spamtramp.

8/30/2009 Graham Walmsley: Ribbon Drive: Fuckknows, VA
We played Ribbon Drive in my garden yesterday. There were Steve, Paula and I, who were fairly experienced gamers, and Sebastian and Lucy, whom I think had played things like…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, joepub, GB Steve, xenopulse, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

8/31/2009 spamtramp: Unspeakable: First play
Our Inspectres kinghts were having a long vacation, one of them was on life support, so this week we had some unexpected turn of events, at least for me unexpected.…
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Participants: spamtramp.

8/31/2009 Catelf: Different Games, Same Characters (split)
I want to show another way: Even though i Always strive to play characters that is fictive versions of myself, i can easily adopt what may be needed, no matter…
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Participants: Catelf, Ron Edwards, Shea, Noon, Silmenume.

9/1/2009 Morph: [Primetime Adventures] - Galaxy's Edge
I've always been interested in novel RPG mechanics, but never really got round to playing any. More recently (ever since the RPG Geek website started) my interest has piqued, and…
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Participants: Morph.

9/5/2009 Simon_Pettersson: [UA] I think I grasp Creative Agendas now!
This game happened some time ago, but I'd like to get some theoretical input on what it's led to. Here's the thing: I've been reading a lot of Big Model…
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Participants: Simon_Pettersson, Ron Edwards, simonjberger, Noon, Abkajud.

9/11/2009 droog: PbP: I need some help with structure
Okay, I'd never run a PbP game before. I had a sudden whim a few months ago and decided to run my Dark Ages hack of HQ at a small…
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Participants: droog, Noon, JoyWriter.

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