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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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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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.

12/26/2010 enderbean: [Polaris] But only if it wasn't my fault
Earlier this month I went to visit my Grandmother in law for her 80th birthday. My wife and I were there for a week or so, and so was my…
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Participants: enderbean, Ron Edwards, Noon, Frank Tarcikowski, Gregor Hutton, Abkajud, Bret Gillan, Ben Lehman, Web_Weaver.

1/1/2011 Cliff H: Odd Narrative Habits
I've got a group of players that all got into the hobby in the 80s, meaning that they all cut their teeth originally on some flavor of D&D, and much…
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Participants: Cliff H, Ron Edwards, enderbean, Dan Maruschak, Noon, NN, aleric, Trevis Martin, contracycle, Tim C Koppang, stefoid.

1/5/2011 magra: to hard for D&D players??
im new to this forum but i want to start with a question thats been hitting my brains out for over 2 years.... ive been a regular D&D GM for…
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Participants: magra, Cliff H, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Caldis.

1/7/2011 epweissengruber: [Freemarket] X-Altar Puts on a Big Show
I am opening up a thread for a 1-shot extension of a short Freemarket run I conducted back in August. On the agenda: - drawing attention to the memory upgrade…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/7/2011 epweissengruber: [DFRPG] Occult Toronto
Opening up a thread about the Dresden Files game I am running and am setting in Toronto. Heavy on the supernatural, but with low-powered PCs.  Promises to be a challenge…
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Participants: epweissengruber, pkalata, Paiku, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, jburneko, Roger, Porterhaus.

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