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4/2/2012 davidberg: [Pitfighter] SBP: reward system options
Hello, I've been recounting some key features of the d20-based homebrew Pitfighter game I ran in college here in Actual Play, to serve as a springboard for discussing ways in…
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Participants: davidberg, mael.rimbault, JoyWriter, Anders Gabrielsson.

3/23/2012 tymotzues: Satisfying the curious - examples of play
EXAMPLE PASSIVE ACTIVITY Rithanas is searching a library for a reference that he needs in order to continue his investigation into the Torgen’mae ‘WhiteBlood’. This reference is obscure and the…
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Participants: tymotzues, davidberg, epweissengruber.

3/23/2012 tymotzues: Satisfying the curious
Hello folks So I've recently published my first game Ascendancy - Rogue Marshal It's doing ok so far, enough sales and interest to keep me happy, however, there are those…
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Participants: tymotzues, Eero Tuovinen, Chris_Chinn, davidberg.

3/20/2012 Bret Gillan: [Lamentations of the Flame Princess] Dungeon Crawl Tension
I have never gotten to play classic dungeon crawls! I grew up in a household where D&D was forbidden, so I learned about roleplaying through other games like Marvel Superheroes,…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Noon.

3/16/2012 mael.rimbault: "The Right to Dream", game preparation, reward system, and my experience
Hello all, First, I need to warn you : I am French, so while I will do my best with my poor English to be clear, I may fail. If…
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Participants: mael.rimbault, Eliarhiman6, davidberg, Marshall Burns.

3/13/2012 Motipha: [Apocalypse World] The Leviathan
So I'm on a podcast where three of the four hosts all game with each other on as part of our normal gaming group.  We recently finished an 8 session…
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Participants: Motipha.

3/5/2012 TheDarkness73: [Nobilis] Starting a new game, looking for people
Okay, so I want to start a game of nobilis. I don't have too much experience, but I have a lot of the book memorized. I also have skype if…
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Participants: TheDarkness73, hansel.

2/28/2012 Motipha: [IAWA] Mid-dice negotiation and shifting loyalties
Cross-posted from Barf Forth Apocalyptica: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=2359.0 Ok, so this is a complicated situation.  We have three PC's: Tabni-Ishtar, Goddess of Fertility and the Harvest.  She wants to get rid of…
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Participants: Motipha, lumpley.

2/14/2012 Blackrat: Story Now in a one-on-one setup
This is more of a request for actual play experiences than a report of them; I hope that fits within the spirit of the guidelines. Due to the busy schedules…
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Participants: Blackrat, Eliarhiman6, Abkajud, Mel_White.

2/2/2012 Eero Tuovinen: [Mars Colony] The Man Out of Time
Maracon is a great gaming convention for me, being as how it's small enough to ensure that I don't work all through it. This time around it was small enough,…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Tim C Koppang.

1/31/2012 masqueradeball: The One Ring, Last Night
So, tonight I played The One Ring for the first time. Just thought I'd record a few responses: * Character creation is fast and gives you a lot of canned…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Mel_White.

1/30/2012 way: [AD&D2e] Doing things for the first time
I've been DMing an AD&D 2e game this weekend. One of the characters was a poisoner/alchemist: I've created a quick modification of the mage class for him. Part of the…
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Participants: way, DWeird, Noon, JoyWriter, thedroid.

1/29/2012 Waser: [Fragged Empire] Briefly Documenting the Growth of my Indie Sci-Fi RPG
Hi all, I am a long time browser of The Forge. There realy is some great stuff here. This thread will be me briefly documenting the development of my scratch…
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Participants: Waser.

1/29/2012 czipeter: What are my reasonable options?
My experience is as bad as it is vivid. I hope I can recall much of the table ephemera without too much judgment. Social setup: The game itself was preceded…
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Participants: czipeter, Chris_Chinn.

1/29/2012 DWeird: Two Apocalypse World games: character relationship to setting
So I've been having thoughts about setting/character relationships for a game I'm kinda sorta thinking about making that is essentially about exploring and building upon a preestablished setting via characters…
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Participants: DWeird, help im a bug.

1/23/2012 pawsplay: RPGs as languages
I'm hashing out some ideas for my latest gaming projects, and while doing so, I've had some intriguing thoughts pop into my head. A lot of the really successful genre-specific…
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Participants: pawsplay, Sp4m, czipeter, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2012 Ramlama: [Elfs] Stages as narrative bonus
My weekly gaming group just had to prematurely end a Dogs in the Vineyard game (one of the four players had to drop, and we'd missed a handful of sessions-…
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Participants: Ramlama.

1/10/2012 help im a bug: [DFRPG] Two games at once
I'd like to get this out of the way: this is not a complaint or a fix-my-game post. I'm very happy with the way things stand in it, and I'm…
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Participants: help im a bug.

1/9/2012 epweissengruber: [Heroquest 2] Pass/Fail and Setting-Heavy Story Now
Can it be done? My first thoughts are here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/for-clan-kin-and-the-gods/wikis/first-thoughts These are in preparation for an HQ2 campaign I am trying to start up.
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Participants: epweissengruber, Web_Weaver, JoyWriter.

1/2/2012 Double_J: Setting expectations, resolving conflicts, and other Rx's for dysfunctional play
Hey all, First-time poster, short-time lurker (though I have put myself through quite a crash course since I first stumbled upon this site a couple of months ago). I've read…
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Participants: Double_J, stefoid, Noon, Chris_Chinn, Caldis, epweissengruber, enderbean, davidberg, dindenver, Motipha.

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4/8/2012 chronoplasm: [D&D] Carcosa
Four friends of mine were kind enough to drive for two hours through Korean traffic to get this game. I think it was worth it. Everybody had a lot of…
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Participants: chronoplasm.

4/12/2012 Nightwing: Frustrated GM
Hi. My name is Paul and have a problem. We play in different systems. Every game becomes boring because the players play mercenaries and wait for the MG they propose…
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Participants: Nightwing, chronoplasm, Artanis, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, stefoid, Eliarhiman6, mael.rimbault, .jayderyu.

4/14/2012 NolanTJ: My Online Virtual Tabletop
While this could have been forced into Indie Publishing or RPG development, I think it fits best in the "Actual Play" area... especially as this board seems to enjoy discussing…
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Participants: NolanTJ, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2012 jburneko: [Sorcerer] Down By The Sea -- Online Logistics
With the impending closure of The Forge thought it appropriate that I make a few posts about my recent highly successful Sorcerer game.  This post is about the logistics of…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, hansel, Kludgel.

4/24/2012 Ghostwheel: What's a Good Gamist Game?
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but had a question for the people who frequent this board... I'm a first-time poster, so please be gentle :-) I've been…
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Participants: Ghostwheel, faux, David Artman, Ron Edwards, Noon, Eliarhiman6, Willow, Anders Gabrielsson, Marshall Burns, Miihkali, The_Mormegil.

4/24/2012 davidberg: [Dead of Night] initiative -- player, not character?
Finally got to play this game!  Very neat indeed. I just want to describe one thing that went screwy: James GMing for me, Mark and Rohit.  My character was alone…
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Participants: davidberg, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII.

4/24/2012 Kludgel: Writing a paper on authorship in tabletop RPGs played online
Hi, all, here's the deal: I've been playing D&D 3.5 with my brother (the DM) and a few others this semester, primarily via Google Hangouts, facebook messages, and Skype. I'm…
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Participants: Kludgel, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2012 czipeter: [My Life With Master] Not so clear for us
Hi there, We finally tried this very much praised game. I held pretty high standards for it. Then during both reading and playing some pretty fundamental problems arose. (The same…
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Participants: czipeter, Eliarhiman6.

4/30/2012 Willow: Kind of Meta: Forge Midwest Blog
Hey all, I've launched a blog for Forge Midwest.  One of my motivations in doing this is to collect Actual Play reports from different groups who were at Forge Midwest,…
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Participants: Willow.

5/3/2012 Willow: Decoupling "Story Now" from "Narrativism," and rethinking Creative Agendas.
Recently I've been pondering the difficulty of explaining what “Narrativism” is.  Ron calls it the “least and most problematic of the creative agendas,” personally I don't see where the “least”…
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Participants: Willow, stefoid, Gordon C. Landis, Noon, Ron Edwards, Chris_Chinn, Marshall Burns, davidberg.

5/7/2012 Porterhaus: [Apocalypse World] It brought out the best in all of us.
I have been jonesing to play Apocalypse World for over a year, and yesterday I finally played it.  It was incredible.  The game and its systems truly brought out the…
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Participants: Porterhaus, lumpley.

5/8/2012 Gordon C. Landis: Early D&D play and "problematic procedures"
So there's an actual play post I want to get up before Winter ends (which will be in summer, I guess), but I need to work up to it.  This…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Noon, Abkajud, The_Barwickian.

5/20/2012 SentientAfro: My Conflict With My GM & One Other Player (And What Should I Do?)
I'm currently engaged (so to speak) in a Pathfinder campaign written by one of my friends (the GM). Now, his setting was extremely cool. I was fully interested in the…
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Participants: SentientAfro, Miskatonic, czipeter, JoyWriter, Chris_Chinn, Noon, mael.rimbault.

5/26/2012 richardsharpe: How analog do you find a tabletop game needs to be?
Hey everyone I've decided to make a substantive first post my entrance to the forum, so here goes: Since my party and I are both RPGers (D&d3.5 and Pathfinder) and…
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Participants: richardsharpe, fodazd.

5/27/2012 The_Mormegil: Looking for suggestions
Hi everybody. I'm new. The purpose of this post is to learn new stuff, and understand a bit better how things go in these forums. They seem definitely interesting and…
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Participants: The_Mormegil, Emily Care.

5/27/2012 fodazd: Hidden die rolls and hidden player decisions
Greetings. Since this is my first thread here, I'd like to give some information about myself and my previous experience with roleplaying: My clear name is "Nico", and I'm from…
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Participants: fodazd, Noon, davidberg, way, ShallowThoughts, epweissengruber.

5/31/2012 fodazd: The 'neutral GM' myth
This thread is a split from here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=33110.0 I thought that this topic deserved a seperate thread. So you're right: The problem here is not…
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Participants: fodazd, JoyWriter, Abkajud, Noon.

6/1/2012 James_Nostack: thanks for the good play, Forge
Because the Forge is going quiet in a bit, I wanted to express my thanks to Ron, Vincent, Clinton, and everyone else involved in running the Forge, and also in…
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Participants: James_Nostack.

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