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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.

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.

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.

11/22/2010 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.

11/11/2010 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.

11/10/2010 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.

11/6/2010 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.

11/2/2010 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.

11/2/2010 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.

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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.

1/11/2011 pkalata: [Fiasco] Two dead, a sunken ocean liner and no happy endings. Sounds right.
Yesterday was scheduled to be a regular D&D campaign day for one of my gaming groups. Unfortunately, last-minute things cropped up for several people and we were left with only…
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Participants: pkalata, Ron Edwards, SamwiseCrider.

1/14/2011 RBjakeSpecial: [InSpectres] Rifts gaming group tries InSpectres. Success!
I game mastered InSpectres for the first time.  I run a bi-weekly Rifts game in Tokyo and play in a D&D 4E campaign.  I'd like our group to get to…
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Participants: RBjakeSpecial, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/16/2011 Chris_Chinn: Bliss Stage: Crimson Pandora
Hi everyone, I ran a Bliss Stage one-shot convention scenario I put together today at the Endgame Minicon. ( http://bankuei.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/bliss-stage-crimson-pandora/ ). We had 6 players, 2 whom I play with…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Ben Lehman, Jono, Alexis, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2011 Filip Luszczyk: My Favorite Rule
In Carcassonne the rule is: when you draw a tile that you can’t legally place, you return it and draw again. I played Carcassonne maybe about 150 times. Exactly 123…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, contracycle, Caldis.

1/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Rustbelt] Kid gloves are the sux
About a month ago at the Dice Dojo, Peter, Megan, Phil, and Sam joined me for playing some games. I'd been wanting to get The Rustbelt going since my shiny…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, stefoid, pkalata, Marshall Burns.

1/25/2011 hix: [Poison'd] Trying to understand Currency and Reward Systems
I ran Poison’d twice at Kapcon in Wellington this weekend, and I’m hoping to use the experience to try and better understand the ideas of reward cycles and currency. The…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Tim C Koppang, davidberg, Teataine.

1/28/2011 RBjakeSpecial: [Lacuna Part I The Mystery and the Girl from Blue City] CONTROL
[b]Spoilers - Please do not read if you don't want any of Lacuna spoiled.  [/b] Lacuna Part I:  The Creation of the Mystery adn the Girl from the Blue City…
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Participants: RBjakeSpecial, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/29/2011 Cliff H: What Does Sharing Narrative Control Show?
In another thread I spoke about the odd ways in which my players would use the limited narrative control I handed them to gimp their own characters. Over the past…
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Participants: Cliff H, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, masqueradeball, stefoid, Paul Czege, Jeff B, Anders Gabrielsson.

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