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10/4/2002 Paka: Wyrding West Dust Devils
This is the e-mail I sent out to the gamers involved: Buddy Balterset is everybody's friend. You all have memories of Buddy that ring fond in your mind. Somehow everything…
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Participants: Paka, Valamir.

10/3/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA part II
We played FVLMINATA again tonight. The intrigue is getting very very thick, but I'm handling it smoothly. So far I've pulled this off by trying to constantly tie everything into…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, contracycle, Paka, Michael S. Miller, Jeffrey Miller, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Monday (Sep 30, 2002) - Donjon Planescape
Okay, we played Donjon Planescape (at least, a Zak-butchered version of it, not _that_ different from the real thing) last night. Here's a link to the characters: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35020 Character Creation…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Valamir.

9/30/2002 Ron Edwards: RPG.net Games Day at Games Plus
Hi there, I attended the RPG.net Games Day at the retail store Games Plus in Mount Prospect, IL, on Saturday. I'd signed up for an afternoon demo slot, 3 to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, damion, Mike Holmes.

9/30/2002 Ace: How GNS Failure killed a group (long)
I thought I'd share the recent collapse of my gaming group with folks here. The group I have been playing with is pretty diverse ranging in age from 21 to…
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Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Ian Cooper, Eric J..

9/26/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA and Kickers
Tonight we played FVLMINATA, the number one game I've been itching to play since we returned home from Gen-Con. I think it counts as "indie" as well, though I confess…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng.

9/21/2002 Ragnar Deerslayer: Metal Opera (longish)
I haven't posted here before, so let me give a little background on my gaming group before I begin: My gaming group is a little different from other gaming groups.…
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Participants: Ragnar Deerslayer, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Clay.

9/21/2002 Zak Arntson: Donjon - Clinton Sunday (Sep 15, 2002)
Alright, I've been putting off the Actual Play post for too long. Last Sunday I played Donjon with Clinton, Justin and Alan. Alan played a movie-styled Conan the Barbarian type.…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

9/20/2002 greyorm: Non-silly D&D
In Thanks to the Forge for Helping Me Enjoy D&D nipfipgip...dip said AD&D cannot function other than (very silly) gamism "Whoa, nelly!" I say. Despite my proclivities towards narrativism (though…
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Participants: greyorm, Marco, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Zak Arntson, Jeremy Cole, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, JMendes.

9/19/2002 Ace: Thanks to the forge for helping me Enjoy D&D
I just wanted to post a Thank you to the forge for helping me to enjoy the D&D game I am in. Over the years I have gamed I was…
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Participants: Ace, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jeremy Cole, Clay.

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.

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.

9/17/2002 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.

9/17/2002 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 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.

9/16/2002 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.

9/15/2002 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.

9/15/2002 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.

9/13/2002 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.

9/13/2002 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.

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10/8/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Damn. There's no going back. No way.
[b]NOTE: This is NOT a rant. But it IS a ramble. Read only if you have time to kill.[/b] I had NO idea where to put this topic, but since…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Miller, jrients, contracycle, GB Steve, Valamir, rafael.

10/8/2002 rabidchyld: The Worm Ridden Cave - A Chthonian adventure
Sunday night we finally played Chthonian!! I had been having problems ttrying to get everyone in one place to play, so I finally just grabbed hubby and neighbor and declared…
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Participants: rabidchyld, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson.

10/8/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Monday (Oct 7, 2002): Fighter-D Alpha Planescape
I wrote up a new system based on Donjon retaining the fact mechanics, but changing nearly everything else. Because my group is so obsessed with fighting games (see the last…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

10/8/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Session 1)
Hello All, The first session of my Space-Western Sorcerer game has come and gone. I took a really bold step with this one. I came to the table armed only…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

10/9/2002 Christoffer Lernö: PBEM Game Testing?
I'm in Taiwan right now. That means I don't have any players, or maybe I could get people interested, but considering my poor Chinese, it would be an exercise in…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Demonspahn, jllama, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin.

10/8/2002 Robert Leal: Hope I'm not intruding...
I hope I'm not intruding in this and if Ron feels this should be spun off into another thread, please do. First, I should introduce myself. I've been lurking on…
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Participants: Robert Leal, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

10/10/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: FVLMINATA part III
We played the final installment in this story ("Fabula," that is) last night. It was a hum-dinger of an ending, with the entire Imperial Palace going up in a cloud…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, ethan_greer, Bomilkar.

10/10/2002 Ron Edwards: Profiling, fall 2002
Hello, We do this every so often. It goes like this: What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played? What three role-playing games, out of ALL…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Maurice Forrester, ethan_greer, Alan, jburneko, Zak Arntson, joshua neff, DaR, jrients, Blake Hutchins, GreatWolf, Emily Care, Paul Czege, Tim Denee, Matt Wilson, Demonspahn, Paka, jdagna, Galfraxas, Mark D. Eddy, Rich Forest, Ace, Ferry Bazelmans, A.Neill, Ian Charvill, Andrew Martin, Ian Cooper, Chris Passeno, wyrdlyng, Ayrizale, quozl, Jason L Blair, James Holloway, Seth L. Blumberg, Jeremy Cole, Bankuei, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Jake Norwood, Yasha, Bob McNamee, greyorm, Uncle Dark, Ragnar Deerslayer, Michael Bowman, Matt Snyder, Enoch, hyphz, Mytholder, Silent Tamatama, Christoffer Lernö, damion, Peter Nordstrand, leomknight, DeadGirl, Michael S. Miller, Thor Olavsrud, Jeffrey Miller, Tim C Koppang, J. Backman, Clinton R. Nixon, Voidwalker, Ben Morgan, ADGConscience, ADGBoss, Delta1, Matt, Shreyas Sampat, GB Steve, Jim DelRosso, xiombarg, Jonathan Walton, Manu, simondale.

10/10/2002 John Wick: No Swordsman Skill For Me
I'm playing in a weekly round-robin Saturday game. That is, every week it's a different GM and a different game. One of our re-occuring games is a d20 Wheel of…
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Participants: John Wick, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Zak Arntson, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Marco, greyorm, Roger Eberhart, Gordon C. Landis.

10/11/2002 thlostGM: Lord of the Rings RPG?
I am new to the forum, and this is my first post. I am starting a Lord of the Rings game and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I…
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Participants: thlostGM, Eric J., wraeththu, Demonspahn, ethan_greer, Valamir, greyorm, Landon Darkwood, szilard, ADGBoss, Ben Morgan, Mike Holmes.

10/11/2002 joshua neff: trollbabe
[i]Trollbabe: The Adventures of Oga or The Game, The GM, His Girlfriend, & Her Character[/i] Last night, I ran Trollbabe for my girlfriend, Julie. The week before, we made her…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Julie, Uncle Dark.

10/11/2002 Mark D. Eddy: Gaming with the Author: A Pax Draconis review(ish)
OK, I've been meaning to do this for quite a while, and now that I've worked up the nerve to go back to starting up topics, I'd like to talk…
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Participants: Mark D. Eddy, jdagna.

10/11/2002 furashgf: One on One RPG
I've noticed a couple of posts about people doing 1:1 RPG's (Sorcerer, etc.) (1 GM, 1 player). How well does that work? Any special rules or ideas? I have a…
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Participants: furashgf, Mark D. Eddy, Fabrice G., jdagna, greyorm, joshua neff, Demonspahn.

10/12/2002 Ragnar Deerslayer: Rough Magic (Session 1)
***Intro*** Last night my gaming group had their first session of Rough Magic. Rough Magic is a RISUS game, with a link on the RISUS page. I decided not to…
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Participants: Ragnar Deerslayer, Ron Edwards.

10/13/2002 Andy Kitkowski: DREAD: Convention game, Notes and Observations (and Pics!)
(pardon the formatiing, I'm copying from Notepad) It was a Con game. I've known Rafael for a couple months (since Steve D came to town on his tour of America),…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, S.Lonergan.

10/13/2002 Michael S. Miller: ShoreCon 2002 [long] Mage, FVLMINATA, Donjon, Everway
Okay, just got back from ShoreCon 2002 in Cherry Hill, NJ. Did some great actual play; met a fellow Forge lurker, John “Whose-Last-Name-I-Cannot-Recall”; promoted FVLMINATA and, surprisingly, had an all-around…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Corvus.

10/14/2002 Ace: Observations on a very succesfull game group (Long)
Over the last few months I have been keeping an eye on a local game group. This group games in the same FLGS that my group does and they are…
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Participants: Ace, Eric J., Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Monday (Oct 15, 2002): Fighter-D Alpha Planescape (2)
We played Fighter-D Alpha again. You can see the first thread at: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3744 It takes the Ability & Fact system from Donjon and adopts it for a Street Fighter-style video…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

10/17/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Ignore This Post!
Oops- After trying to edit this post, I ended up having a PC freeze before I had a chance to save the text. It'll be another day or two before…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2002 Mike Holmes: Hero Wars in an Alternate setting
There has been some clamor to hear about my impending Hero Wars game, so I thought I'd post the general outline. Josh and Julie, and possibly one or two others…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, AndyGuest, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Julie, Christoffer Lernö, Blake Hutchins, ADGBoss.

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