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8/17/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Fantasy Trip: Wizard] One little booklet = 100,000 words
In late 1978, I bought a little item at the hobby store next to the gas station a short and dangerous bike ride away from my house. I think I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Alfryd, Motipha, Miskatonic, stingray20166.

8/16/2010 slashandz: New to the Forge ~ My thoughts on RPGs
[i]"I strongly recommend that you begin posting in the Actual Play forum, rather than here. When you talk about what published games you've played, and how it went for you,…
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Participants: slashandz, VAgentZero, Ron Edwards, InkMeister, Adam Dray.

8/15/2010 epweissengruber: [Freemarket] X-Altar and the Arts of Memory and of Promotion
On Thursday the 12 I and 3 friends started up a short run of Freemarket.  I am scheduled to run it at an upcoming convention and wanted to get familiar…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Paul T, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, lachek.

8/13/2010 pfischer: [S/Lay w/Me] The priestesses of the Igai death cult.
Yesterday Peter and decided to play S/Lay, more or less based on reading Elizabeth’s post on Story Games about her Gencon play with Ron. We’ve both had the book since…
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Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

8/13/2010 Sebastian: [HfL] Heir to the Spy Throne
"What about family of royal spies?" That was the question that got me buzzing at the tabletop. I wanted to put this up a few weeks ago, to be all…
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Participants: Sebastian.

8/10/2010 Ron Edwards: [In a Wicked Age ...] Out-of-sequence episode play
Hello, I've posted a previous thread about our ongoing game in Particular strengths accumulating through the stories. In this one, I'm staying consistent with the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, Valamir.

8/4/2010 KevinH: [MLwM] Hungarian Hi-jinks
Hi guys, Baron Istvan Attila Von Badass is a young Hungarian nobleman, interested in ancient hunnish shamanism. He wants to impress the professors at his old university and is using…
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Participants: KevinH, Artanis.

8/1/2010 Noon: The rule "'fiction' determines what rules can be deployed" - definition of murk?
Not really much to say - I was commenting in another thread that if 'fiction' decides what rules can be used/deployed, then it doesn't matter how awesomely you design. If…
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Participants: Noon, dugfromthearth, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Demiurges, VAgentZero, Roger, epweissengruber, contracycle, oculusverit, Anders Gabrielsson, EBKPrim, masqueradeball, Alfryd.

8/1/2010 dugfromthearth: GM's teach the players how to play in their game
There seems to be a natural reaction that this is a terrible thing and should not even be suggested.  But GM's teach players how to play in their game. One…
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Participants: dugfromthearth, Noon, Eliarhiman6, oculusverit, Ron Edwards, jey, contracycle.

7/30/2010 Ron Edwards: [With Great Power ...] Brief but strong play in Sweden
During our recent three-weeks-plus visit to Sweden, my family and I enjoyed a six-day stay at a summer house by a gorgeous lake near Mellerud, in Dalsland. Peter Nordstrand came…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Jaakko Koivula, James_Nostack, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., Peter Nordstrand, Bret Gillan.

7/29/2010 Jaakko Koivula: [Zombie Cinema] Great Balls of Fire
Got Zombie Cinema (special handcraft edition) from Eero at the TraCon and now finally got to actually play it. We had 3 players: I and Petteri had never played the…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, Noon, Ron Edwards, Artanis, Pekoraali, Eero Tuovinen.

7/23/2010 triex: My life with master and non-verbal communication
Hi, my name is Matteo and I’m a role-playing gamer. Hiiiii Matteo I’m Italian, and everyone knows that Italians are good in a few things: cooking, deceiving, and playing indie…
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Participants: triex, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.

7/21/2010 dugfromthearth: character skill vs player skill
In a FPS it is all about player skill.  In an rpg it is usually all about character skill. Meaning a lvl 10 fighter should beat a lvl 9 fighter. …
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Participants: dugfromthearth, Noon, davidvs.

7/21/2010 dugfromthearth: my game system philosophy - character creation, combat, and skill resolution
having played a lot of games over the years I have come to the conclusion that what is important to a system in order is: character creation, combat, and skill…
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Participants: dugfromthearth.

7/21/2010 dugfromthearth: my play and GM style
I started with D&D, played GURPS for years, HERO (champions and Fantasy Hero), have played Savage Worlds recently, a bunch of WFRP 2nd edition (a tiny bit of 1st edition),…
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Participants: dugfromthearth.

7/12/2010 Jaakko Koivula: [Norwegian Style] Role-playing epiphany: Characters rule!
I might've realized something about my views on role-playing, bear with me. We played a bunch of norwegian games at the after-parties of Finnish convention TraCon. Matthijs Holter held two…
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Participants: Jaakko Koivula, greyorm, Noon, contracycle, Eliarhiman6, Tomas HVM.

7/6/2010 oculusverit: Split the party.
Hello everyone, I have to admit I have read a lot of different posts and been familiar with Ron's theories for quite some time, but I have never posted to…
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Participants: oculusverit, jdfristrom, Eliarhiman6, Aetius, Marshall Burns, Jarrodimus, Seamus, dugfromthearth, InkMeister.

7/4/2010 KevinH: [PTA] MCU: Gotham
Hello all, I got permission to post this from the producer, so I thought I'd like to share our experiences of PTA. As you'll see, the premise of the show…
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Participants: KevinH, stingray20166, Artanis, Noon, Ron Edwards.

7/4/2010 jdfristrom: [Faery's Tale+Universalis] Playing with 5 year olds and GM burnout
My daughter has been gaming with me even before she turned 4 - Warhammer Quest (hey, it's easy, you move up to 4 spaces and attack), a little collaborative storytelling,…
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Participants: jdfristrom, davidvs.

7/3/2010 Aetius: [Best Friends] A doubt about pushing
Hi to everyone! We're playing right now with Best Friend and we encountered a little problem with the conflicts. Is this the right section? Anyway... When a character is in…
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Participants: Aetius, Ron Edwards, vellu82, Gregor Hutton.

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8/17/2010 Alfryd: GNS, AI, and psychology.
Well, as far as I can tell, this seems to be the best place for this topic, but to be honest the subject's only tenuously related to specific RPG experiences…
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Participants: Alfryd, Aaron Blain, Motipha, Ron Edwards, Caldis.

8/17/2010 intorporeal: [Exalted] Spectating replacing interaction?
[i]I will preface this by saying that I have only played in 3 Exalted games (all 2e), 2 by the same ST, and none lasted very long.[/i] Exalted is a…
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Participants: intorporeal, masqueradeball, oculusverit, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

8/17/2010 intorporeal: [InSpectres] DM-less roleplaying
The first time my friends and I played InSpectres (about 8 years ago), we played as described in the book, with 3 players and 1 GM. After a hilarious and…
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Participants: intorporeal, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

8/18/2010 frapast1981: Reduced enjoinment playing RPG
Hi to all my name is Rocco and I'm an Italian player, from Bologna. I'm writing here because recently (in the last year and half) my enjoinment playing RPG reduced…
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Participants: frapast1981, Alfryd, Rafu, Artanis, Stregheria Games, InkMeister, Ron Edwards, Ar Kayon, oculusverit.

8/19/2010 Motipha: [Dust Devils] Fun with emergent stories
So here's a thing I tried to do during our current Dust Devils game.  I'm kind of fascinated with the way that emergent story elements can come together in an…
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Participants: Motipha, Artanis, Ron Edwards, toddjank.

8/20/2010 UnseenSniper: Hello my fellow gamers.
  I am a struggling website developer who is in the process of creating a brand new RPG. I am usually not a beggar, or anything of that sort. In…
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Participants: UnseenSniper, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2010 InkMeister: A Year of Crappy Roleplaying
Hello Forge, this is my first post here.  I've been a lurker for about a year, and have been fascinated with the ideas and theories and experiences discussed here.  My…
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Participants: InkMeister, Mike Sugarbaker, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, dugfromthearth, Caldis, aleric, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Anders Gabrielsson.

8/26/2010 InkMeister: Roll-Playing Versus Roleplaying
I was playing Runequest with my group.  We, the PC's, are guarding a caravan.  The caravan gets attacked by a vampire cult.  After we defend the caravan, the caravan leader…
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Participants: InkMeister, masqueradeball, Moganhio, Adam Dray, Rafu, Caldis, Ron Edwards, Noon, VAgentZero, oculusverit, Frank Tarcikowski, contracycle, John Stephens.

8/28/2010 Eliarhiman6: Ron Edwards Vs Tobias Wrigstad at InterNosCon 2010!
Hi! I already posted these links in other forums, but I waited before posting them at the Forge because I didn't know where to post them, in what sub-forum. I…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, Rafu, Ron Edwards, Noon, ShallowThoughts, greyorm.

8/31/2010 Gregor Hutton: [Annalise] Pompeii and the Cult of Blood
Last Monday Joe Prince, Russ Williams and I played a one-off session of Annalise. We decided to go with a Guided Play and we'd picked the Pompeii one that comes…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Adam Dray, Nathan P., Ron Edwards, ekb.

9/1/2010 Stregheria Games: You Asked for it and now You've Got it! ;)
Some people have suggested I post in the actual play section here to talk about my game but I've taken the idea a stage further. I decided to try and…
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Participants: Stregheria Games, Eero Tuovinen, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2010 Bifford: [Exalted] A Destiny Calls (Retrospect)
Greetings All. I ran a 2nd Edition Exalted game at Seaxe And Sorcery starting in September 2009 and ending in December 2009. It was my first ever GM experience and…
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Participants: Bifford.

9/5/2010 masqueradeball: My first go as a player in 4e
Actual Play Report: D&D 4e Latecomer Last night I joined in a 4e group that had been going on for some 5 to 7 sessions before I joined. The premise…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Noon, Adam Dray, Frank Tarcikowski, Roger, VAgentZero.

9/5/2010 Noon: Biasing the moment; also mechanical spines (rather than organic ones)
I started up a play by post recently and near the start, an NPC character approaches a gap in a wall where a monster was. Da da da, it pops…
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Participants: Noon, oculusverit, masqueradeball, Anders Gabrielsson, wild_card2007, Roger, contracycle.

9/6/2010 Eric Schwenke: Educating your group on CA to prevent premature hair-loss
Hello, I've been an on-again off-again lurker for about a decade now.  A few years ago I made a post or two in "First-Thoughts" about my quarter-baked ideas for a…
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Participants: Eric Schwenke, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Clay, Baron, davidberg, Ar Kayon.

9/7/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Pool] Ghosts & guns & bodies
Hi everyone, I'm working on a big essay about The Pool, a short game published on-line by James V. West in 2001. He had an active forum here at the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Artanis, Frank Tarcikowski, Roger, Motipha, Noon, greyorm.

9/7/2010 Bret Gillan: [S/lay w/Me] Lukuls the Savage and troubles
So I played S/lay w/Me with Carly over the weekend. She's not particularly new to roleplaying since she's in my Apocalypse World game that's been going on for a couple…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Gregor Hutton, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2010 KevinH: [Ghostbusters] Salty Seamen at the Strip Club
Lacking a copy of Inspectres, I decided to run the classic GB RPG. One thing I stole was the Confessional. I told the players they were involved in a fly-on-the-wall…
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Participants: KevinH, stingray20166, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/9/2010 Ron Edwards: [Annalise] In which there is neither Annalise nor a vampire
Hello, So, once a week, Nathan Paoletta and Tim Koppang come over to my place, we have dinner and partake of wine & other bar-based badness, we gossip something awful…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Gregor Hutton, Tim C Koppang, Nathan P..

9/12/2010 aleric: [Gurps 4E] Lorekeepers
Background: Gurps 4th Edition High Fantasy with Steampunk elements (loosely based on Wheel of Time, and elements from Game of Thrones and survival horror). Setting: We're a group of thirty…
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Participants: aleric, Clay, Caldis.

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