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8/26/2002 Rod Anderson: Thoughts on Inspectres
(Also posted at RPGnet) Hi everyone. Me and some friends of mine played 3 games of InSpectres a couple weeks back, and since then I've been sorting thru my thoughts…
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Participants: Rod Anderson, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/25/2002 Zak Arntson: Paladin - Inquisitor Setup
I'm not sure if this belongs in Anvilwerks or Actual Play, since it's setting up for Actual Play. I figured I'd pull out Sorcerer & Soul, since I want to…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn.

8/25/2002 Trav: The Riddle of Steel- an introduction to the game
Just the other night I had the chance to start running a Riddle of Steel game. There were four of us in total, I was the seneschal. We talked about…
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Participants: Trav, Ron Edwards, FruitSmack!.

8/24/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: When the GM says "Better Watch Out..." (UPDATE)
Those who were kind enough to comment on my self-serving and grammarically challenged venting thread When the GM say "Better Watch Out..." I have a slight update. This will end,…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Kubasik, ADGBoss, xiombarg, Balbinus, Walt Freitag, C. Edwards, kevin671, Jeremy Cole, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, rumble.

8/23/2002 Ayrizale: Question about Bangs, looking for opinions.
Hello, I am about to get into running a new game and I would like to give Kickers/Bangs a try. But I'm still not sure that I fully understand the…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/23/2002 Sidhain: The problems of players.
Not all players. However, my normally good players seem to have a problem with Hearts and Souls--my superhero rpg. In it they are given more control over the various events…
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Participants: Sidhain, Andrew Martin, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, C. Edwards, Roy.

8/21/2002 Roy: "Black Is The Knight" 2 (Soap Dark Shadows-style)
We played our second session of "Black Is The Knight" last night using Soap by Ferry Bazelmans (see the s, Fer?). Our first session can be found here. We didn't…
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Participants: Roy, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans.

8/20/2002 Zak Arntson: Paladin: Inquisitor (Indie Gaming Monday - 8/20)
We made characters for Paladin: Inquisitor last night. So, here's my impressions. Background for Inquisitor setting: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3053 Step One: Background I explained the world of Paladin: Inquisitor (best summed up…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Henry Fitch.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Pool/TQB
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - SuperKind - OtherKind variant
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Paladin
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - PowerGame
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Kenway: Uses for Soap?
Besides the typical contemporary soap opera setting, what other campaigns have you tried with Ferry Bazelman's Soap? I'd love to run the game, but my friends aren't wild about the…
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Participants: Kenway, Ferry Bazelmans, jburneko, Roy, Valamir.

8/19/2002 Roy: Soap -- Dark Shadows style
I decided to introduce my wife to the wonderful world of narrativism ... and she loved it! We used Ferry Bazelman's excellent "Soap: The Game of Soap Opera Mayhem." My…
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Participants: Roy, Ferry Bazelmans.

8/17/2002 lumpley: OtherKind
Hey. We played a first session of OtherKind and it went pretty well. We took it nice and easy. I GMed. Meguey and Emily made their characters there at the…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/17/2002 Petter Sandelin: theory AND practice
Despite being a Finn I haven't been that in to LARPs, recently my only experience was a quite booring vampire game and I haven't read a single word of LARP…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards.

8/16/2002 Balbinus: Forum based rpgs
Hi all, I thought it might be interesting to discuss briefly a form of rpg most of us have no real experience with. Online forum based rpgs. As I recently…
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Participants: Balbinus, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin.

8/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: octaNe
Well, we just played octaNe. It rocked. Ben More played "the Great Muchacho," or something like that, a smartcar with a mashed potato dispenser in the cab and machine guns…
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Participants: Jake Norwood.

8/13/2002 wyrdlyng: InSpectres Saturday
One of our regular players wasn't going to be able to make it to our biweekly D&D game so I got them to try InSpectres. We created a small start-up…
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Participants: wyrdlyng.

8/13/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Online Play
Since I'm going to be rearching online play for HeartQuest Online anyway, I thought I'd ask if anyone on the forum had any war stories regarding play by chat, e-mail…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paganini, greyorm.

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8/27/2002 Blake Hutchins: X-Games and the Dying Earth
Okay, I'm in crunch mode here at work, so can't put as much time as I'd like into this, but we just played a pick-up game of Dying Earth this…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, GB Steve, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2002 J B Bell: Monday night Indie gaming: The Pool: Banana Republic
I was going to wait for the GM, or indeed the end of the game (coming soon!) to post aobut Monday's indie gaming on IRC, but this quote from this…
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Participants: J B Bell, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Knight.

8/29/2002 Mike Holmes: Synthesis Playtest
I got a chance to try out my system Synthesis with Josh and Rich at GenCon. We all wanted to talk about it, but have not gotten around to posting…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

8/30/2002 Paganini: Indie-netgaming Monday - The Pool: Banana Republic
Tonight we played the second - and final - session of the Banana Republic game that we started on Monday. The game's already mentioned a bit in another thread, but…
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Participants: Paganini, Bob McNamee, Zak Arntson, J B Bell, Paul Czege.

9/1/2002 lumpley: InSpectres Greenfield
Hey. We had gamer geek friends from out of town last night, so I ran InSpectres. There's not much to say about it, it was three or so hours of…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2002 jburneko: L.A. Con Report
Hello All, Well, the latest L.A. Con has come and gone. Out of the three local cons I have attended in the last year I certainly enjoyed this one the…
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Participants: jburneko, WildElf, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Marco, etnduroix.

9/2/2002 hyphz: A new type of game - how to fit it in?
Well, I had the shock of a lifetime last week. My standard group, normally D&D fiends, went through a playtest of Epic D&D I'd prepared, and then one remarked that…
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Participants: hyphz, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2002 kaworuiskool: Another frustrated gamer
Okay, last weekend I had another horrible session with my group, and I'm not even going to go into it. The details aren't relevant, I'd just be ranting. So, my…
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Participants: kaworuiskool, peteramthor, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, leomknight, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Clay, jdagna.

9/3/2002 mahoux: O Gamer, Where art thou?
Okay, here is our first "official" (read post-release) run for Knights of the Road. First, our players: Two I.W.W. union members- Hank Pearson and Jimmy Waldo. Hank and Jimmy have…
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Participants: mahoux, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2002 Marco: Weekend Game (long)
Two Day Game: This is a description and analysis of a game that took place over 2 days. The system was JAGS (a rules-heavy sim system that we've developed. Think…
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Participants: Marco, Unsane, contracycle, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

9/4/2002 GB Steve: Diceless Hellboy (boy-hell for some)*.
I ran Hellboy at GCUK a couple of times. The first time I left everything to the dice. The second time I ran it, I only used the dice towards…
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Participants: GB Steve, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

9/5/2002 greyorm: Indie Netgaming Monday: Orx
We played Orx this past Monday, Labor Day, via the usual IRC channel. This was the first time any of us had played it, myself included. For anyone who has…
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Participants: greyorm, efindel, Bob McNamee.

9/5/2002 Matt Snyder: Riddle of Steel: Myria
I'm chompin' at the bit here at work. Tonight I'm Riddle of Steel with a new group. Er, actually an old group. Oh, nevermind. A _different_ group than my usual…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, contracycle.

9/6/2002 Eric J.: "Pyron's Woes"- take 37
I have been getting fed up as a GM for the past few months... "Bring interesting scenerios, verbose discriptions, player control, don't invite my brother, invite me, and f**k off,"…
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Participants: Eric J., kaworuiskool, Andrew Martin, wyrdlyng, mahoux, Walt Freitag.

9/6/2002 Demonspahn: A thought on IRC
Hi everyone. It just occurred to me (while reading the Orx post among others) that this site would be ideal for soliciting players for online/IRC games---not thinking campaigns here but…
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Participants: Demonspahn.

9/6/2002 Grex: Elfs in Copenhagen
Yesterday some old friends came by my place, and we decided to play a session of Elfs, by Ron E. I had a printed copy, and had read it once…
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Participants: Grex, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Seth L. Blumberg.

9/6/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Actual Participationism candidate
Hey, I started this post yesterday - more P-thing posts have occurred, and I'm still not sure if this belongs in an existing thread, or on it's own. On its'…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Knight, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

9/8/2002 rumble: Going Native
This exact message is posted at rpg.net. A kind user suggested I post it here for additional comments/suggestions. ++++++ Going Native Assume you're in my situation: You love RPGs. It's…
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Participants: rumble, C. Edwards, Valamir, Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Blake Hutchins, Ace, gleepw, Gordon C. Landis, Le Joueur.

9/9/2002 mahoux: O Gamer, part 2 (and a question)
This is just for consistency. Not much happened in our Knights of the Road game last Saturday. Two of our players (each one being in a different group) had to…
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Participants: mahoux, Valamir, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

9/10/2002 jburneko: Spycraft, Gamism, & Relationship-Maps
Hello All, I had an experience I thought I would share. So, my weeknight group is playing Spycraft. Now, I consider Spycraft to be a fairly Gamist facilitating game. From…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, TrizzlWizzl, hyphz.

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