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8/8/2002 Bailywolf: Final Stand Playtest! (long)
I ran a quick one-shot for my almost entirely non-gamer fiance last night... and let me say, that Final Stand was a brilliant success with few hiches. I ran only…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Tim Denee, Colin the Riot, Paganini.

8/7/2002 Mike Holmes: Sorcerer and Space demo
Well, I had a chance to run Sorcerer and Space for a fun group last night. Present were Ron, Josh , Jurgen, and Josh's friend Julie. Here's how it went.…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

8/6/2002 Rich Forest: Playing Final Stand
Played Tim Denee’s Final Stand last night. It was a short adventure, with just one player and one GM. It was a blast. The Character: Fai Yuan, the Mysterious Stranger…
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Participants: Rich Forest, Tim Denee, Valamir.

8/5/2002 jburneko: Lincoln High Sorcerer Demo
So, I ran the Lincoln High demo for a subset of my weekend group. The results were well, revealing. This post is divided into two parts. The first are my…
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Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, A.Neill, Uncle Dark.

8/2/2002 Kenway: Playtest of Tim Denee's Final Stand
[continued from indie rpgs forum] Energy vs Actions Points: My friend and I concentrated on Action Points, thinking initiative was important to victory. The way we played, starting first allowed…
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Participants: Kenway, Tim Denee.

8/2/2002 Ozymandias: Trying to Encourage Player Proactivity
Alright, I’ve been reading these boards for quite some time now, and now I’ve finally gotten around to registering and posting in the hopes that I might be able to…
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Participants: Ozymandias, Jake Norwood, Andrew Martin, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Clay, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2002 jburneko: Sorcerer - Gothic Fantasy - Act 3 - The End
Well, our third and what turned out to be our final session of my Gothic Fantasy Sorcerer game has come and gone. Where things ended up: Karl (Christopher's character) not…
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Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik.

7/30/2002 Paul's Girl: Wuh-therin' Hi
Last night my game group finished our final session of Wuthering Heights, or as I like to call it “Wuh-therin’ Hi”, and I’ll tell you why. I placed the game…
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Participants: Paul's Girl, Jared A. Sorensen, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Philippe Tromeur, Paul Czege.

7/30/2002 Dave Turner: AMAZING and TRUE stories of Sorensen!
Ok, so Jared, Mike Mearls, and I are playing D&D3e last night at Jared's place. Mearls is DMing and he's whipped up a groovy, creepy "Island of Dr. Moreau"-type scenario…
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Participants: Dave Turner.

7/30/2002 Zak Arntson: Chthonian - Indie Gaming Monday (7/29)
Okay, we finally finished our Chthonian adventure, the first two parts can be found at: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2439 http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2750 Pregame Well, I didn't have the last section of the adventure as well…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, rabidchyld.

7/29/2002 Michael S. Miller: Games happening at GenCon
Due to a number of factors, my wife and I were unable to meet the deadline for our events to be included in the pre-registration book. I thought some of…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-Con: [b]Three games![/b] (long)
Yesterday I managed to take a day off work and put together a gaming group for a really mini mini game convention. We played from 3pm until 2am, with a…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson.

7/26/2002 greyorm: Indie Netgaming Monday: Otherkind
Well I ran a game of Otherkind last Monday night in our channel (#indierpgs ) on the magicstar IRC network, and we continued it on Tuesday night. I must say…
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Participants: greyorm, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Andrew Martin, Bob McNamee.

7/26/2002 Demonspahn: Played Dreamwalker with a first time GM (LONG)
Hi everyone. Just wanted to post some thoughts from a recent Dreamwalker session. This is a LONG post that covers some notes about my group as well as a run…
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Participants: Demonspahn.

7/25/2002 hyphz: Taking a plunge... (long and a bit waffly, sorry)
I know that a while ago on this group I posted some messages that related to being dissatisfied with a present gaming group. (Don't worry, this isn't another one of…
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Participants: hyphz, Gordon C. Landis, Le Joueur, Wart, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, Mytholder, Walt Freitag, Zak Arntson.

7/25/2002 Blake Hutchins: X-Games back in the Pool
Hello, With the stress and long hours incumbent with founding a startup company, I've found little time for gaming. Some of you may recall the short-lived X-games group I ran…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Valamir.

7/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Otherkind in action
Hi there, I'm in the process of writing up my GenCon demo pack, including character sheets, scenario notes, NPCs, a system summary for games I don't know as well, etc.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Bob McNamee, Dav, lumpley.

7/23/2002 Matt Snyder: Fantasy map download
Hey, folks, just thought I'd share a fun little map I worked up last week after reading the setting section in Sorcerer & Sword recently. I plan on using it…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, Clay.

7/23/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Madness & Grace: Jesse's Gothic Fantasy Part 2
Hi everybody, Well, this was just swell. I've had other sessions that were as much fun, but none so compact, engaging and compulsively "what the hell's going to happen now?"…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

7/22/2002 lumpley: Static vs. Dynamic Setting
Meguey's and Emily's and my Ars Magica game is setting-intensive. 180 named characters or so, twenty covenants (A covenant is a house of wizards, like a monastery), a history of…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

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8/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Find your local con!
After all the GenCon greatness, it's time to attack the local cons. I've been attending Seattle conventions for two years, and have noticed a lot of people that don't attend…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Michael Hopcroft, Bailywolf, jburneko, K.R.Peterson, J B Bell, unodiablo, xiombarg, efindel, rafael, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Gonster.

8/13/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Online Play
Since I'm going to be rearching online play for HeartQuest Online anyway, I thought I'd ask if anyone on the forum had any war stories regarding play by chat, e-mail…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paganini, greyorm.

8/13/2002 wyrdlyng: InSpectres Saturday
One of our regular players wasn't going to be able to make it to our biweekly D&D game so I got them to try InSpectres. We created a small start-up…
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Participants: wyrdlyng.

8/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: octaNe
Well, we just played octaNe. It rocked. Ben More played "the Great Muchacho," or something like that, a smartcar with a mashed potato dispenser in the cab and machine guns…
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

8/16/2002 Balbinus: Forum based rpgs
Hi all, I thought it might be interesting to discuss briefly a form of rpg most of us have no real experience with. Online forum based rpgs. As I recently…
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Participants: Balbinus, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin.

8/17/2002 Petter Sandelin: theory AND practice
Despite being a Finn I haven't been that in to LARPs, recently my only experience was a quite booring vampire game and I haven't read a single word of LARP…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2002 lumpley: OtherKind
Hey. We played a first session of OtherKind and it went pretty well. We took it nice and easy. I GMed. Meguey and Emily made their characters there at the…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/19/2002 Roy: Soap -- Dark Shadows style
I decided to introduce my wife to the wonderful world of narrativism ... and she loved it! We used Ferry Bazelman's excellent "Soap: The Game of Soap Opera Mayhem." My…
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Participants: Roy, Ferry Bazelmans.

8/19/2002 Kenway: Uses for Soap?
Besides the typical contemporary soap opera setting, what other campaigns have you tried with Ferry Bazelman's Soap? I'd love to run the game, but my friends aren't wild about the…
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Participants: Kenway, Ferry Bazelmans, jburneko, Roy, Valamir.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - PowerGame
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Paladin
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - SuperKind - OtherKind variant
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Pool/TQB
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

8/20/2002 Zak Arntson: Paladin: Inquisitor (Indie Gaming Monday - 8/20)
We made characters for Paladin: Inquisitor last night. So, here's my impressions. Background for Inquisitor setting: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3053 Step One: Background I explained the world of Paladin: Inquisitor (best summed up…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Henry Fitch.

8/21/2002 Roy: "Black Is The Knight" 2 (Soap Dark Shadows-style)
We played our second session of "Black Is The Knight" last night using Soap by Ferry Bazelmans (see the s, Fer?). Our first session can be found here. We didn't…
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Participants: Roy, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans.

8/23/2002 Sidhain: The problems of players.
Not all players. However, my normally good players seem to have a problem with Hearts and Souls--my superhero rpg. In it they are given more control over the various events…
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Participants: Sidhain, Andrew Martin, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, C. Edwards, Roy.

8/23/2002 Ayrizale: Question about Bangs, looking for opinions.
Hello, I am about to get into running a new game and I would like to give Kickers/Bangs a try. But I'm still not sure that I fully understand the…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/24/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: When the GM says "Better Watch Out..." (UPDATE)
Those who were kind enough to comment on my self-serving and grammarically challenged venting thread When the GM say "Better Watch Out..." I have a slight update. This will end,…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Kubasik, ADGBoss, xiombarg, Balbinus, Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, kevin671, Jeremy Cole, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, rumble.

8/25/2002 Trav: The Riddle of Steel- an introduction to the game
Just the other night I had the chance to start running a Riddle of Steel game. There were four of us in total, I was the seneschal. We talked about…
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Participants: Trav, Ron Edwards, FruitSmack!.

8/25/2002 Zak Arntson: Paladin - Inquisitor Setup
I'm not sure if this belongs in Anvilwerks or Actual Play, since it's setting up for Actual Play. I figured I'd pull out Sorcerer & Soul, since I want to…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn.

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