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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.

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.

1/25/2011 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.

1/20/2011 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.

1/18/2011 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.

1/16/2011 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.

1/14/2011 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.

1/11/2011 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.

1/7/2011 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.

1/7/2011 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.

1/5/2011 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.

1/1/2011 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.

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.

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.

12/24/2010 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.

12/15/2010 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.

12/11/2010 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.

12/7/2010 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.

12/7/2010 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.

12/6/2010 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.

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2/6/2011 Vanoj: [Old School Hack] Rules-driven Character Investment in B3
We played our first game of Old School Hack tonight. I'm a mid-twenties GM who started out on D&D3.5 and moved from there to indie stuff (e.g., Dogs in the…
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Participants: Vanoj, Noon, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, James_Nostack, timmy2383.

2/6/2011 Natespank: Why do you like to design and run games?
I'm thinking about games with a game master/designer who runs the game for the "players." What do you guys get out of game mastering? What do you like about it?…
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Participants: Natespank, Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games.

2/6/2011 Natespank: [D&D 4e] Character Death and TPKs
Hey guys! I suspect that PC deaths in many RPGs sometimes hurts the game. In many cases it strongly rewards me to play the same character from the campaign's start…
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Participants: Natespank, Noon, chronoplasm, Ron Edwards, RichD, Ghostlight Games, Chris_Chinn, spindoc.

2/6/2011 Natespank: [D&D 4e] Attrition in RPGs
In D&D 4e you can fight a room full of bears, get mauled, narrowly survive, nap for 6 hours, stretch, and climb out of bed good as new. To me…
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Participants: Natespank, Noon, Nathan P..

2/6/2011 Natespank: [gamist RPGs] Player Driven Games and
Hey guys, Some of my favorite computer games are , , , , , , Left 4…
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Participants: Natespank, Bret Gillan, Cliff H, Ghostlight Games, stefoid, Caldis, Dantai, Noon, contracycle.

2/6/2011 chronoplasm: [AD&D] Second Time DM'ing
As the great blizzard trapped myself and three of my friends in my apartment, I decided to help pass the time by running a game of first edition AD&D. James…
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Participants: chronoplasm.

2/11/2011 Gregor Hutton: [Mars Colony] On the Edge of Success
Hey, everybody. As my original thread has now tumbled down page 2 of AP I thought I'd start a new one and link to the old one. So, Mars…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Tim C Koppang.

2/13/2011 baxil: [Deathbird Black] The story behind the game
So Deathbird Black won a Ronnie, and the discussion thread barely has time to hit the forum before there's six replies.  Eek. Before I start responding there to any of…
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Participants: baxil.

2/13/2011 Alfryd: Dragon Age RPG: musings on a once-off.
This session was actually preparation for a con demo that the GM hoped to run at WarpCon (read all about it,) but I don't want to give real names here,…
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Participants: Alfryd, Noon, Ghostlight Games, Eero Tuovinen.

2/14/2011 Grimcleaver: [D&D] Editions, Metacosmology and Setting
I've been playing D&D over various editions pretty much since red box (though those were childhood memories, really). My fullest intereaction with the game has been since the black 2nd…
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Participants: Grimcleaver, Natespank, Ron Edwards, davidberg, epweissengruber, Caldis, contracycle, masqueradeball.

2/14/2011 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Guilty Moneybags play session on The Gutter Skypes
The Gutter Skypes did a game of Guilty Moneybags - one of my murder mystery binder folio games from last Gen Con. I'm listening to it now and it sounds…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

2/16/2011 Cliff H: Gamism vs Simulated Gamism
After many scheduling snafus, I finally am heading out to game again tonight with my die hard crew of 7th Sea players who claim to want to live on the…
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Participants: Cliff H, Chris_Chinn, stefoid, jburneko, contracycle, Noon, davidberg, Jeff B, mani, Alfryd, Warrior Monk, Ron Edwards.

2/17/2011 Gregor Hutton: [Lord of the Rings] Oh, CODA!?!
Ugh, so I got my friend Conor a copy of the CODA version of Lord of the Rings RPG (from 2001/2002) for Christmas. He's trying to get a short run…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball, Noon, Finarvyn, Ghostlight Games, Silmenume, davidberg, contracycle, Caldis, Anders Gabrielsson, pawsplay.

2/22/2011 The Wolf: Non combat interactions
Hi there, First post however in my usual manner I lurk for a while before diving in. I have run many games, being pretty much a full time GM unless…
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Participants: The Wolf, Cliff H, Gregor Hutton, stefoid, Alfryd.

2/27/2011 Sarashinai: Long loves and heartbreakers
Hello all! I've been playing games for years. D&D 3 was my first introduction to table-top RPGs and I've been hooked ever since. I played quite a few PC games…
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Participants: Sarashinai, Frank Tarcikowski, Unforgivingmuse, Jeff B.

2/27/2011 Chris_Chinn: [Primetime Adventures] Dark Fragrance
Hi, We just wrapped up our second campaign of Primetime Adventures (the first was based on Star Wars).  The group consists of myself, Sushu, and Jono, all of us are…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Roger, Jono, Artanis.

2/28/2011 Natespank: [D&D 4e] Balance Issues
Hello. Sorry to begin a new thread while the other is still active. I need advice on something that came up in tonight's game- it's about balance problems in 4e.…
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Participants: Natespank, Eero Tuovinen, Chris_Chinn, Alfryd, Noon, epweissengruber, Ron Edwards, Jeff B, LostSoul.

3/4/2011 Nath: [Black Dog] Play Report from Knudepunkt 2011 run in Denmark
Written by one of the players: *** Play report I had read the scenario before the game and wanted to try it out to see how the mechanics of the…
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Participants: Nath.

3/4/2011 Jason Pitre: Generic Game Design Challenges
Most generic games have tended to fall flat for me for a variety of reasons I won’t list right now so as to not bias responses.  I have been working…
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Participants: Jason Pitre, Cliff H, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2011 Paul Czege: head games
My current secret design project is a rich setting RPG aimed at longer term play. Thirteen sessions into internal playtesting I'm noticing a vague pattern of player behavior which I…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Caldis, Chris_Chinn, Cliff H, davidberg, jburneko, Ron Edwards, stefoid, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, Alfryd, Jeff B, Ben Lehman, contracycle, Paka, C. Edwards.

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