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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: [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.

10/26/2010 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.

10/26/2010 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.

10/25/2010 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.

10/14/2010 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.

10/14/2010 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.

10/13/2010 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.

10/9/2010 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.

10/8/2010 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.

10/1/2010 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.

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.

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.

9/28/2010 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.

9/27/2010 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.

9/27/2010 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.

9/23/2010 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.

9/22/2010 oculusverit: Campaign Modules: Automatic Railroading?
So this is based on an experience with a couple of years of age, but it's pretty relevant to me now. White Wolf just published a campaign module that I…
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Participants: oculusverit, masqueradeball, Noon, arithine, Caldis, Moganhio.

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.

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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.

11/2/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: [nWoD] Post-Apocalyptic Participationism in Salt Lake City
I wanted to talk a little about this session which was a major inspiration for me to start designing my new RPG. It was last year on another one of…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski.

11/2/2010 Bloomfield: GNS - works as description, but I don't buy the prescription
First, I really don't know what I am talking about or what I think I'm doing walking into a roleplaying theory discussion. (I won't be hurt if you stop reading…
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Participants: Bloomfield, Caldis, Eliarhiman6, Ar Kayon, Chris_Chinn, jburneko, Abkajud, Noon.

11/2/2010 Rustin: I crit his guts out
Proposal: Creative Agenda doesn’t run through. It rides on top. “Supported techniques” carry the Creative Agenda. You get supported techniques when a reactive player enthusiastically judges the technique of another…
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Participants: Rustin, Noon, Abkajud.

11/6/2010 Noon: Extreme Vengeance - Skyclad
I did actually play extreme vengence years back, not too long after getting it. Actually, I'll stick in the caveat I do these days on 'I played X' : I…
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Participants: Noon.

11/10/2010 Bloomfield: [Mars Colony] The corporations will be our doom
I had a chance to play Mars Colony tonight. I took pretty careful notes, and here is a report of how it went, followed by some thoughts about the game…
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Participants: Bloomfield, iluxan, Tim C Koppang.

11/11/2010 iluxan: Need advice - How to get non-gamers into a story game?
[Cross-Post from story-games - http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=13332&page=1 ] [I hope that's not a faux-pas.  I just really want to run a game this Saturday, so I'd like to get as much advice…
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Participants: iluxan, Eliarhiman6, Chris_Chinn, David Artman, Noon, Clay, Cliff H, Ron Edwards.

11/22/2010 DanielZKlein: [Fiasco] The abortion that didn't take
I played Fiasco tonight with three friends who have varying levels of experience with rpgs. I myself have a fair bit of experience with story games (and a long and…
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Participants: DanielZKlein, jasonm, SusanAHolmgren, David Artman.

11/22/2010 John Stephens: [Tunnels & Trolls] Questions about "Colonizing goblin lands"
I just found Eero's Colonizing goblin lands thread and pored over it with interest. I love the atmosphere and color evoked by the setting and reports, and…
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Participants: John Stephens, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2010 ampetry17: Elfs rocks
I ran a pick-up game last Memorial Day weekend at Marcon (Multiple Alternative Realities Convention) in Columbus, OH. It was a huge hit. I had my gaming group who were…
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Participants: ampetry17, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Pool] Update: essay available
Hi, Here's a follow-up to Ghosts, guns, and bodies. I finally completed the essay I mentioned in that thread, which is intended to restore recognition and interest in…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Adam Dray, Chris_Chinn, Roger, enderbean, Paolo D., scramble.

12/3/2010 Motipha: [Freemarket] The Simple Pleasures School of Everything
Here's the link to the ap: http://chicagoindiegaming.wikispaces.com/Freemarket This has some link back to Ron's post of the one-off at Chicagoland Games, as Todd, Megan and myself (Johnny Katana, Maggie Parker…
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Participants: Motipha, meganjank, Jared A. Sorensen, davidberg.

12/6/2010 Abkajud: [Apocalypse World] Daycare in New Kiev
I played the playtest AW once; we didn't really explore Hx very much, and all MC characters in the scenario were adversaries or mooks rather than anyone the MC tried…
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Participants: Abkajud, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Actual Play forum - please read here first
This is the primary discussion forum at the Forge. There are a few operative principles governing posting here, and within their bounds, you are wildly and nakedly free to post…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Noon: "Losing!? No, my imagination will have me win!"...over the other player...
Play by post rifts-like game. So, a character who'd had a bad past and then shouted the wrong thing to an NPC with a hard past and had some fisticuffs.…
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Participants: Noon, contracycle, epweissengruber, Caldis, DWeird, pkalata, ShallowThoughts, talisman.

12/11/2010 clehrich: Selecting a game system
Been a LOOONG time since I posted here, and I haven't been reading either. Mostly I haven't been playing. I now have a group to work with, and I'm looking…
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Participants: clehrich, Abkajud, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn, Frank Tarcikowski, Clay.

12/15/2010 Artanis: [Breaking the Ice] Bringing in drama
Hello Recently we played Breaking the Ice with my girlfriend Sylvie. It's our second time playing, the first time around some scenes had dragged out because I had not understood…
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Participants: Artanis, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards.

12/24/2010 chronoplasm: [AD&D] First Time DM'ing it
When two members of the regular D&D3.5 game I play didn't show up, my DM decided to call the game off. I suggested playing a game of first edition AD&D…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Noon, Cliff H.

12/25/2010 Ar Kayon: Indoctrinating Kids to Devil Worship
So I bought the Red Box thinking it was the old school game.  Turned out to be a trick by those 4th edition fuckfaces.  Alright, whatever - I was only…
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Participants: Ar Kayon, pkalata, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Teataine, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball.

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