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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.

9/3/2002 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 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.

9/2/2002 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.

9/2/2002 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.

9/1/2002 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.

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.

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.

8/28/2002 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.

8/27/2002 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.

8/26/2002 Fabrice G.: Boiscastel Sorcerer game.
Hi, The last Two Sunday I finaly had the chance to run a Sorcerer game. The preparation phase Inspired by Jesse’s Gothic Fantasy game, I was seduced at the idea…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

9/11/2002 lumpley: Another bit about InSpectres Greenfield
(Um, here's the original description, such as it is.) But hey! It was gamism! The competition was: whose ideas are funniest? A la that guy, I was the referee. I…
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Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: we killed puppies for satan
so, tonight i was supposed to run some post-apocalyptic sorcerer & sword shit, but el inspirado never really hit this week. i didn't want to let the cool motherfuckers in…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Le Joueur, DaR, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Paul Czege, Yasha, Maurice Forrester.

9/13/2002 Bailywolf: Actual Play Request: Donjon
Has anyone been playing Donjon since its release? I'd like to hear some play reports if anyone has any. Thanks -Benjamin
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Participants: Bailywolf.

9/15/2002 S.Lonergan: No game, No genre, just storytelling
That was so much fun... I just finished roleplaying over MSN with someone who had never done it before.... I think she loved it... www.geocities.com/drunk_monkeyau/RP.txt because its probably to big…
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Participants: S.Lonergan.

9/15/2002 rabidchyld: I actually played! Long awaited Return to Elemental Evil
After almost 2 1/2 months of not playing, I finally got everybody in the same place at the same time and we played Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.…
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Participants: rabidchyld, kevin671, Ben Morgan, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

9/16/2002 Jasper: Hard Rocking with InSpectres
A couple of freinds and I got together to do some role-playing last night, and they chose InSpectres, despite my having just printed the thing out for them. In brief,…
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Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2002 mahoux: O Gamer part 3 - All aboard the railroad! (not really)
Week three of Knights of the Road, Knights of the Rail. As discussed in my last post, the train in New Mexico blew a boiler seal, so three of my…
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Participants: mahoux.

9/17/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Donjon
So I tried out Donjon last night with my ol' buddy Dave "Dial" Turner. We played run-through of Donjon Pak A1: A Fungus Among Us. Here's the lowdown on the…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Dave Turner, Valamir, Bailywolf, Alan, xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

9/17/2002 rabidchyld: Dudley-Do-Right Vs. The Orcs From Hell
So..I ran a game Sunday night with just Trey (hubby) and Eric (neighbor), because of the bad rpg experience they had Saturday night....that thread is here. It was totally old…
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Participants: rabidchyld, Zak Arntson, xiombarg.

9/18/2002 Alan: Advice for new Theatrix Director
Hi, I've found The Forge forums a great source of advice for narrativist gaming. I'm not desigining a game, I'm just interested in getting advice on how to run one.…
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Participants: Alan, contracycle, Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins.

9/18/2002 James: Playing with a PDF game.
I'll come right out and say it: I'm a Nazi. No, I'm not a jackbooted Nazi in a snappy black uniform (dig those skulls!), but I'm a Nazi when it…
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Participants: James, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jeffrey Miller, kevin671, Ian Cooper, Clay.

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