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9/20/2010 ShallowThoughts: Ruminations on the Impossible Dream Before Breakfast
I have no expectations of anyone responding to this post, but I'll gladly reply to anyone who does. I'm really more expressing a conclusion I've come to, because I thought…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Adam Dray, contracycle, masqueradeball, Noon, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Motipha, Roger, Caldis.

9/20/2010 Ron Edwards: [Kagematsu] Ghosts, innocence, spring in the mountains
Hello, Dice Dojo game of the week! The participants included Megan, Peter (same guy from the Contenders game), Michael, and me. Also, Sam (from the Contenders game) sat in to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

9/18/2010 andrew_kenrick: [Dead of Night] Bad Signal at Concrete Cow
One of the games I ran last weekend at Concrete Cow was one of the scenarios I'm writing for a Dead of Night scenario supplement, Bad Signal. The set-up was…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2010 Nath: [Passion Fruit] Play report
Played by three players at Fastaval, in April 2010. Play account written by one of the players: "A live-action role-playing game with peeling a piece of fruit as a game…
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Participants: Nath, Noon.

9/15/2010 Nath: [black dog] play report
Game Summary: Black Dog is a jeepform scenario for 3-6 players, playing out one character's descent into depression.  The main protagonist character passes between different players in different scenes.  A…
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Participants: Nath, Noon, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Ron Edwards.

9/14/2010 luminos: [Dresden Files RPG] Learning GMing skills
Hi everyone, I'm Jay, and I'm new to the forge. I'm playing a Dresden Files game (over a chat program, if its relevant) in which I am the GM.  I…
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Participants: luminos, Chris_Chinn, Noon, oculusverit, Clay, contracycle.

9/13/2010 davidberg: fiction-based rule use (one fun option)
Here's an approach that I enjoy: 1) Everyone discusses and agrees on the state of the fiction, covering relevant details.  Who's where, etc.  Authority here comes from, (a) first, what…
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Participants: davidberg, Chris_Chinn, masqueradeball, Roger, Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, Marshall Burns.

9/13/2010 Roger: Character and Persona
As we all know, the recognized Components of Character are Effectiveness, Resources, and Positioning.  Some recent thinking about traits and aspects in games such as Primetime Adventures and Spirit of…
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Participants: Roger, masqueradeball.

9/13/2010 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] Grit, pain, and gangsters in 1930s Chicago
The Dice Dojo is fast becoming my regular Tuesday night out. This time I brought a whole bag of games: The Shab al-Hiri Roach, Bliss Stage, Contenders, Nine Worlds, Sign…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

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.

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..

9/7/2010 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.

9/7/2010 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 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.

9/6/2010 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.

9/5/2010 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.

9/5/2010 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.

9/3/2010 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.

9/1/2010 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.

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.

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9/23/2010 Noon: Talk and Walk...and Procedure
I dunno if this is worth describing. But I'm running a play by post and were at this point where the character could either sneak around, trying to pick up…
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Participants: Noon, Roger.

9/27/2010 Baron: [White Box] Newbies and Grognards and how to start playing
Hi all.  First time poster but long-time lurker of the Forge.  I wanted to make sure I had some actual play before posting.  I won't divulge details of my history…
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Participants: Baron, James_Nostack, Abkajud.

9/27/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: [Reign] In-Character Acting and the Higher Level
I started to write a bit of a spin-off to the thread Roll-Playing Versus Roleplaying with an actual play report of my own, but then it seemed more fitting to…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon.

9/28/2010 Nath: [Black Dog] Play Report from Helsinki Uni
report from Helsinki Uni roleplay society: "Four players. One had played it once, two others had jeepform experience and one had never player jeeps. We used monologs and fast forwarding,…
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Participants: Nath.

9/29/2010 Gregor Hutton: [WFRP 1st Edn] CSI Altdorf
So I sat down with 6 players to create characters for a WFRP campaign at GEAS (the University of Edinburgh role-playing society) in Edinburgh on Sunday. We basically rolled up…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, mreuther, Abkajud, stingray20166.

9/30/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Sorcerers in Suburbia...
So this is going to be my first actual campaign with Sorcerer, which I'm very excited about. The group: The group is Indie Explosion and we're currently running an open…
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Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2010 Gregor Hutton: [Remember Tomorrow] Chechen Holiday
A few weeks ago Shane McLean was in town and so Per, Malcolm, Shane and I got in a game of Remember Tomorrow. The 4 Factions were... Chechen Mafia (Group)…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Artanis.

10/8/2010 Ron Edwards: [Zero ] Dingo for dinner
A couple of weeks ago, I brought Zero, one of my favorite RPGs, to the Dice Dojo. Peter and Megan joined me, and we ran an opening session, up to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, ShallowThoughts, davidberg, Noon, Artanis, hardcoremoose.

10/9/2010 mreuther: [Descent] Multi-Resolution Dice
This is something which Fantasy Flight has been using in a number of titles (I believe they use it in the WFRP 3e rules too) which we ran across playing…
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Participants: mreuther.

10/13/2010 epweissengruber: [WoD & Exalted] Currency and Dice Pools
After a session of Sorcerer a player and I got into a casual discussion of dice probabilities and system. His contention was that in the recent White Wolf WoD games,…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Abkajud, Noon, SamuelRiv, Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk.

10/14/2010 SamuelRiv: [Rifts] Simplification question
Reviving the dead, as I'm new here. My brother played Rifts and AD&D when he was teen and I was wee. I couldn't join in, thus I read the Rifts…
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Participants: SamuelRiv, Ron Edwards, davidberg, Noon, mreuther.

10/14/2010 Chris_Chinn: Avoiding the Mechanics for Functional Play
Over at this thread ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=30561 ), Abkajud mentioned: Oddly, I've noticed a parallel conceit regarding "traditional" design - there's a crowd that thinks game mechanics should be brutal and…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Filip Luszczyk, Abkajud, mreuther, Noon, jburneko, C. Edwards, Caldis, davidberg, Chris Chambers.

10/25/2010 Noon: Avoiding the mechanics or damocles sword/finger on the button play?
I was thinking about the Avoiding the Mechanics for Functional Play thread. In terms of taking the idea as a damocles sword sort of play, as one way of playing…
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Participants: Noon, mreuther, oculusverit, Ar Kayon.

10/26/2010 Lorthyne: Help With Hero's Banner
Hello all! I'm new to The Forge, although I've been playing and loving RPG's and indie RPGs for several years now. I've recently acquired a copy of Tim Kopang's excellent…
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Participants: Lorthyne, Chris_Chinn, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Tzuriel27.

10/26/2010 Gregor Hutton: [Mars Colony]`
Last night was Glasgow Indie Gamers night, where 18 people met up for a night of Indie Games. It's the last Monday of the month in the Drum & Monkey…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, epweissengruber, Tim C Koppang.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Exchange / Justifiers] Great the second time around too
At the Dice Dojo, I GM'd two sessions of the same combination I described in The right game with the right setting, of the Justifiers setting…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, SamuelRiv, Motipha, Vox.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [FreeMarket] Trouble with something
Uh-oh. This is one of those times I have to come clean about why a game didn't go so well. Or in this case, why I'm not entirely sure what…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, epweissengruber, davidberg, jenskot, meganjank, Courage75, Vox, Luke.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [Bliss Stage] Kids having kids
The latest Dice Dojo game will probably go into further sessions as well, as we made a very solid start. Playing are me, Sam, Shweta (her first-ever RPG session!), Jake,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, pkalata, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Chris_Chinn, SamuelRiv.

10/29/2010 TrollSlayer: GMing?
I've lately been GMing some RPGs. Though I do quite a bit of forethought and I come up with some nifty plot lines, I never seem to be able to…
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Participants: TrollSlayer, Chris_Chinn, mreuther, Noon, Ron Edwards, Ar Kayon, Daemonworks, ampetry17, Noclue, Courage75.

10/29/2010 TrollSlayer: A Bizarre Shadow game.
I recently played a half-hour Shadow game with one of my friends. Since we were only two players playing the game I was both GM and player. The game was…
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Participants: TrollSlayer, Ron Edwards.

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