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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

2/27/2011 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.

2/22/2011 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.

2/17/2011 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.

2/16/2011 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.

2/14/2011 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.

2/14/2011 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.

2/13/2011 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.

2/13/2011 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.

2/11/2011 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.

2/6/2011 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.

2/6/2011 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 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: [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: 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 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.

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3/9/2011 MrNay: Kingdom of Nothing
Has anyone taken this game for a spin? It sounds like a lot of fun. I have a copy on order and wonder what others may have done with it,…
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Participants: MrNay, Ron Edwards.

3/9/2011 Unforgivingmuse: Does chance favour a good story?
I've been game-mastering and writing games for rather longer than I care to mention, and I like to think I've got a handle on most things. I like to think…
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Participants: Unforgivingmuse, Chris_Chinn, Roger, Paka, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, simon_hibbs.

3/10/2011 Natespank: [D&D 4e] Combat and Reward Systems
The poison'd thread interested me. I've tried to draw a system diagram for D&D 4e: (forgive the horrid drawing quality, I made it in paint). I'd love a critique of…
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Participants: Natespank, pkalata, LostSoul, Noon, Chris_Chinn, epweissengruber, stefoid, chronoplasm, Narmical.

3/11/2011 contracycle: No investigations?
I find myself really puzzled by a statement Ron makes in the Air Patrol Ronnies thread: Let's talk about investigations as game processes. More blunt facts: players don't investigate anything,…
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Participants: contracycle, davidberg, stefoid, Noon, dreamborn, Caldis, simon_hibbs, Ron Edwards, Roger.

3/11/2011 stefoid: When improvization fails. What do you do when you 'got nuthin'?
So last nights game I GMed petered out a bit early when I basically admitted 'I got nuthin'.  GMing by improvisation is a skill I am still learning, and whilst…
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Participants: stefoid, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Paka, Chris_Chinn, Natespank, Graham Walmsley, davidberg, Ross Cowman.

3/13/2011 KevinH: Questions regarding the Laundry
For those who don't know, the Laundry is Charles Stross' take on the Lovecraft mythos. It is based around a UK government department (code named the Laundry), part of the…
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Participants: KevinH, Ron Edwards.

3/14/2011 czipeter: Why do I hate this resolution? Is this some Sim technique?
Hi People, last time, I played with my friends of old, with whom (at least as a group) I never really got on well in questions of gaming. There was…
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Participants: czipeter, Chris_Chinn, Eliarhiman6, davidberg.

3/19/2011 Narmical: [AW] The Rules for GMing are Magic
I just started GMing Apocalypse Word. I was GMing as part of my preparing for interviewing Vincent Baker about the game. Because of this reason, i followed the rules of…
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Participants: Narmical, Eliarhiman6, Chris_Chinn, stefoid.

3/20/2011 thadrine: [ONLINE] Indie Games, bi-weekly, EST on Sat/Sun
die Games on Demand, Bi-Weekly ONLINE game PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS EVENT!!!!!!! {sethblevins through gmail} This is something that I do on occasion for special…
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Participants: thadrine, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2011 MichMash: On hooks, sinks and postmodern storytelling
Hi all, I'm a GM/DM who recently turned to GURPS... In our playgroup we used to play D&D 3.0 and later 3.5, we tried 4th edition - didn't liked it,…
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Participants: MichMash, Chris_Chinn.

3/22/2011 Natespank: [D&D/Rifts Style Games] DM burnout- what's a DM get out of it?
Recently I've been reading "Reality is Broken" and it's pointed out a few things that interest me. The author defines a game as something with 4 characteristics: 1- A goal…
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Participants: Natespank, stefoid, Noon, Chris_Chinn, Caldis, contracycle, Roger.

3/24/2011 Ron Edwards: [Untold] The giant Samoan, the rolly-ball robot, and the not-either-a-unicorn
Look what I found! Actually, the authors contacted me, and I'm glad they did. The game is called "Untold," and it has an extensive Untold website. I bought a copy…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, SamuelRiv, ashy, Tyler.Tinsley.

3/24/2011 Alfryd: Finding El-Dorado in the Zombie Apocalypse
This is gonna take a little while for me to go over, so bear with me. A couple a' months back now, me and a few semi-regular players were playing…
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Participants: Alfryd, Roger, contracycle, Frank Tarcikowski, stefoid, Caldis.

3/27/2011 Chris_Chinn: [Mouse Guard] Sadie's Bridge
We just finished our second session of Mouse Guard, which has been a ton of fun.  We initially planned on doing a one-shot, but we're going to extend for a…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Narmical, James_Nostack.

3/29/2011 Narmical: [DitV / AW] Looking at your NPCs though cross hairs
I just started running a game of Dogs in the Vineyard last night and I wanted to share some play experience and some insights I had thats colored by my…
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Participants: Narmical, Web_Weaver.

4/1/2011 stefoid: No investigations? II (split)
Im dredging this up again, because Im about to GM a game that will have some mystery in it, which I guess all games do to a certain extent, but…
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Participants: stefoid, Ron Edwards, Alfryd, NN, contracycle, Gwynplaine, simon_hibbs, Gryffudd, Warrior Monk, Noon.

4/8/2011 Irminsul: Expectations, Authority, and SIS Clash
So we are playing Apocalypse World and it is great fun… now. We’ve played 3 sessions, I think? And I’m starting to think I may take my RP games too…
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Participants: Irminsul, stefoid, hix, savagehominid, epweissengruber.

4/9/2011 B4GD: The Great Social Shakedown
I've been reading Heroic Worlds  from Lawrence Schick for some projects unrelated to playing games. Insomuch that i've spent a large portion of my life devoted to studying society in…
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Participants: B4GD, 5niper9, Noon, Chris_Chinn, Ron Edwards.

4/14/2011 CSBone: [Nanolite6] Space Rangers sometimes fail but the game didn't
I want to show how the game plays by writing up the best demo session from UBCon22. This was a bit unusual because the person I was demoing for wanted…
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Participants: CSBone, Ghostlight Games.

4/14/2011 Edge0618: Changing the perspective of game and character creation.
I have been a gamer on and off for 26 years and with  all games rpgs. The character creation comes first. As I became a more mature gamer meta gaming…
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Participants: Edge0618, DarkHawkPro, davide.losito, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin, epweissengruber, D.R. Clifford, jsmorrison55.

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