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11/2/2009 Ron Edwards: [Dead of Night] Better without the fangs
Life has kept me from posting regularly since GenCon, but I've been role-playing when I can. My biggest priority is to get educated in some games which have been around…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Jaakko Koivula, Noon, JoyWriter, andrew_kenrick.

10/31/2009 noahtrammell: Playing RPG's with Students
  I'm writing an essay in school on why RPG's should be incorporated into education.  I have some statistical stuff, but I think that I also need a few anecdotes…
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Participants: noahtrammell, Jasper Flick, Jaakko Koivula.

10/27/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Dread] Cyberpunk/Horror for Halloween
So, Matt, Russ, Joe P and I met up again at the Prince Household for another bout of Monday-night gaming. For Halloween we wanted to do something "horror" as a…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton.

10/22/2009 Noon: Looking at the idea called 'system' again
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28829.0]From the thread on colour[/url], which is a quote from Ron [quote]If I can see the bigger reward system, grasp the Currency, and get bug-eyed to transform the Color into…
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Participants: Noon, lumpley, FredGarber, JoyWriter, Ben Lehman, Caldis, contracycle, Marshall Burns, rgrassi, Ron Edwards.

10/11/2009 Artanis: [Theory] Let's have a good look at Colour, again
Hello A fair warning: this thread is going to be heavy on the theory. A little bit of history I like putting up links and give a general context when…
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Participants: Artanis, Noon, Simon C, greyorm, Ben Lehman, JoyWriter, FredGarber, Silmenume, Caldis, chance.thirteen, kuzuk, Marshall Burns, Troy_Costisick, Ashlin_Evenstar, HeTeleports, Ron Edwards.

10/9/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [The Mountain Witch] Weight in gold
Got a brand new group together. I have never played with them and think none of them have played forge-inspired games before. Decided to test The Mountain Witch and after…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, Eero Tuovinen, Ville Vuorinen, newsalor, Pekoraali, Baka_Kaba.

10/5/2009 Melinglor: In a Feral Age. . .playing fluently with trackers
A couple of weeks ago I ran a storyjamming* workshop for TrackersNW, an organization that teaches wilderness skills and encourages a primitive lifestyle (I've blogged about the general emotional tenor…
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Participants: Melinglor, jasonm, JoyWriter.

10/2/2009 blodwin: Summerland indie game
Hi I’m thinking of running Summerland and cant get my head around, getting my mates to play a band of drifters stressed out with god knows what traumas they think…
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Participants: blodwin, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Sorcerer] London 1880
So last night Per, Steve, Cat and I met in the suitably themed Jekyll & Hyde pub in Edinburgh and created characters for Per's Sorcerer game. (It's been a busy…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, James_Nostack.

10/2/2009 Sebastian: [Primetime Adventures] "Last Stand" Great pitch... but then what happened?
I tried running PTA for three traditional role players.  Where did I go wrong? Pitch Like most first games of PTA, the guys went straight for sci-fi.  It started off…
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Participants: Sebastian, davidberg, JoyWriter, Noon, FredGarber.

9/29/2009 Gregor Hutton: [S/Lay w/Me] The Tome of Mechanical Wonders
Last night Joe Prince, Matt Reid and I playtested Andy Kenrick's "Six Bullets For Vengeance". We got through the first (final) scene before Matt had to go home, having exhausted…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Dantai.

9/29/2009 Silmenume: The spicey die roll - Middel Earth (home brew) Sim
Hi Everyone, I'm not really sure why I am posting this, I guess I am in a reminiscing mood; yet at the end there is an event I'd like to…
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Participants: Silmenume, Abkajud, davidberg, Noon, Ar Kayon.

9/25/2009 Artanis: [Lacuna] Minimal prep, maximal impact
Hello Following up on the last session, one player dropped out (going abroad for a year), another came in. The two are brothers, Titus and Maurus. We quickly rolled up…
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Participants: Artanis.

9/22/2009 vonkorff: [Polaris] questions & new storygamer report
I tried Polaris for the first time recently.  No one in my group, including me, had ever played this type of story game.  I wasn't sure we could handle it,…
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Participants: vonkorff, Ben Lehman, Noclue, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Pabu.

9/22/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [UtB] Under the Bed with Adolescents, pt. 2
[i]Old thread about RPing with adolescents and some thoughts about the first session at [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28602.0]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28602.0[/url]. Wanted to start a new more game-reportey thread for this.[/i] Second session of UtB with…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, nikola, JoyWriter.

9/21/2009 Gregor Hutton: [3:16] Ape Beasts on Planet Durer
So, the Edinburgh University gaming club has started up again for another year and they were needing GMs for Day One of term. So, I volunteered and took along 3:16.…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Noon, blodwin.

9/20/2009 Willow: Slay With Me: 1st Game
So, Tim and I sat down tonight to play a game of Slay With Me. Let me preface this by saying I don't think I'm the target audience for this…
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Participants: Willow, TJ, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

9/19/2009 Paka: Wanting to Game with My Dad
My dad introduced me to science fiction, fantasy and comic books.  Growing up, I cannot remember a time when he didn't have a science fiction novel on his night table…
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Participants: Paka, nikola, Noon.

9/14/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [UtB] First trial: Adventures of Pena
Hiyeah. Got to test UtB and it was a blast. Unfortunately only got 2 people with me, but the game worked pretty nicely still. Not sure if we got all…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula.

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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11/12/2009 greyorm: [3:16] Killin' Bugs
After a couple weeks of folks being sick, etc. we finally got together to give 3:16 a go. Flat out: it was a blast. I was, in fact, told we…
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Participants: greyorm, Jaakko Koivula, Marshall Burns, Gregor Hutton.

11/14/2009 Philotomy: [The Pool] First Time -- Family Fairy Tale
I ran my first session of The Pool, this evening.  This was also my first session of any game with a large degree of player narrative control over the story…
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Participants: Philotomy, Finarvyn.

11/18/2009 andrew_kenrick: [Dead of Night] Grendel, Alaska
At Indiecon at the weekend I ran my first game of Dead of Night II, as I'm affectionately calling the second edition of my horror game. I watched the Host…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

11/20/2009 Marshall Burns: [3:16] These players are crazy
I played 3:16 last weekend on a camping trip. The players were: > my cousin James, with whom I’ve roleplayed often, and with whom I’ve played 3:16 once before. >…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Noon, JoyWriter, Jaakko Koivula, Gregor Hutton, Jasper Flick, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

12/4/2009 jasin: [IaWA] Zartan's Pride
Story In a wicked age, a young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, climbs a desert cliff. The stones crumble; the cliff shakes. His god Burnaburiash, vengeful and jealous, is…
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Participants: jasin, rycanada.

12/5/2009 Artanis: [Sorcerer] Curtain on the carnival bizarre
Hello Last saturday we played the last session of the Carnival Bizarre. It was the second instalment after this report. Story In two sessions, the player characters essentially got together,…
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Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Noclue.

12/10/2009 shadowcourt: looking for good collaborative map/world-build rules
This is sort of a newb question, but it's an area I've barely delved into in recent years, so I'm starting from scratch without too much guidance. So, caveats aside...…
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Participants: shadowcourt, chronoplasm, Jaakko Koivula, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2009 davidberg: [Polaris] Color! (inspired play despite rules gaffe)
Last Sunday, I sat down to play Polaris with Daniel, John and Terry.  John had played once before, long ago, and didn't remember the rules.  Daniel brought the book, had…
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Participants: davidberg, Paul T, Abkajud.

12/14/2009 RedPissLegion: [MLWM] Not being able to kill the Master
Hi there :), This last week me a two friends of mine played My Life With Master. It lasted 4 sessions including one for character and master creation only. One…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, Adam Dray, Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, JMendes, Frank Tarcikowski, Paul Czege.

12/26/2009 Filip Luszczyk: The GM should stop me!
I've found this situation intriguing. The game in question handles character effectiveness primarily via player <-> player permissions. I'm in the middle of running a campaign, and our last session…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Eliarhiman6, Noon, contracycle, ShallowThoughts.

12/31/2009 Abkajud: [yet another LONG Polaris thread] a therapist tries Story Now
Hey, gang! Connor, a friend of mine is visiting from San Francisco; he's in school out there, studying drama therapy. He's played WoW and other video games in the past,…
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Participants: Abkajud, 5niper9.

1/3/2010 Darcy Burgess: [Agon] - So-so'ing our way around the Island of Lycophon
Hi, Last week, I got together with Glenn W, Glenn H and Jason S to get muddy, bloody and dusty in the Mediterranean. A few years back, we'd pulled together…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Filip Luszczyk, Noclue, Noon, Ron Edwards, lumpley, RedPissLegion, Nathan P..

1/4/2010 ShallowThoughts: I learned about System from Munchkins
My System suddenly grew big. By "big", I do not refer to the number of rules. Instead, I refer to layers of the Big Model. I'm writing this post to…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Jasper Flick, lumpley, Melinglor, contracycle, Caldis, Noon.

1/4/2010 AzaLiN: [S&W] Keep on Borderlands- Oldschool experiment
Swords and Wizardry is a "retro clone" RPG, of 0d&d. Tonight I ran my first game using those rules- I used the famous Keep on Borderlands as a test module.…
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Participants: AzaLiN, Roger, Noon, FredGarber, contracycle, Finarvyn.

1/9/2010 Solarsaurus: Online play
I was just wondering how many of you folks here ever did pen-and-paper role-playing online, whether it be on a forum, through an instant messenger, or otherwise! Using the internet…
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Participants: Solarsaurus, Noon, greyorm, Dan Maruschak, Filip Luszczyk, chronoplasm, Adam Dray.

1/10/2010 trick: Combat molasses
I've been reading an earlier thread titled Warhammer; Chaos! Order! Molasses!. It's about the dullness of just going from place to place and trivial conflicts. In the games I've been…
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Participants: trick, contracycle, Noon, JoyWriter, Hereward The Wake, Meramec, Locke, Jeff B, ShallowThoughts, FetusCommander.

1/11/2010 Dionysus: How to make sessions/scenes stop dragging?
Howdy all. Been a while. Our little group of players has finally taken the plunge and is enjoying the waters of new games. We were a very strong WoD/Exalted group,…
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Participants: Dionysus, Falc, jburneko, Noon, davidberg, greyorm, FredGarber, Noclue, JoyWriter.

1/18/2010 drhoover: [Fiasco] In a Nice Southern Town
My group tried Fiasco for the first time this weekend and had a blast. There were four of us, 3 lifelong roleplayers and 1 a more recent convert. We used…
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Participants: drhoover, jasonm, Tim C Koppang, segedy.

1/22/2010 jlhburnett: [octaNe] "Hey buddy, watch the tentacle!"
This past weekend, my Skype group decided to give octaNe a whirl.  It didn't go as smoothly as we'd hoped, although things got better towards the end of the session.…
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Participants: jlhburnett, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2010 jburneko: [Burning Empires/Primetime Adventures] RPG Weight Training
Hello Everyone, So right now I'm GMing Burning Empires.  It's a massive undertaking and it's very demanding.  We're four maneuvers into the Infiltration phase.  I'm really struggling with the game…
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Participants: jburneko, pfischer, davidberg, Welkerfan.

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