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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.

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.

4/24/2012 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.

4/24/2012 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 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.

4/16/2012 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.

4/14/2012 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.

4/12/2012 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.

4/8/2012 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.

4/2/2012 MatrixGamer: HG Well Floor Games like game - Once upon a time in Bosnia...
ONCER UPON A TIME IN BOSNIA I ran this game at the Seven Years War Association Convention in South Bend Indiana on March 31st 2012. The SYWA con is the…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

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.

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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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