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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 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.

10/10/2002 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.

10/10/2002 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 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.

10/8/2002 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.

10/9/2002 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 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.

10/8/2002 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 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 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.

10/7/2002 Matt Wilson: I played me some Donjon with the Man himself
Tried me out some Donjon yesterday, with the creator hisself. Donjon is cool. You can do pretty much anything. And it seems like a dream come true for the otherwise…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Bankuei, Jeffrey Miller, Zak Arntson, jdagna, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

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.

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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.

10/19/2002 Paka: Well-Met in Mu's Bed (a Sorcerer & Sword Campaign)
We decided that the character had known each other and had travelled most of the way across the Red Waste together towards Mu's Bed. The last Sorcerer & Sword game…
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Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

10/20/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Sorcerer: Kyuseisha (full game, comments/suggestions please)
[i]Sorry about all the confusion, folks. I accidentally caused a mess with my last series of posts on this game. I think I’ve got the hang of things now, so…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, rafael, ADGBoss.

10/21/2002 Christoffer Lernö: The Evil online
I just finished a game of The Evil with Chris Edwards and Nathan (Paganini) Banks. They were playing Charles Doverymyer and Mandy Cox respectively. They further on made up a…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Paganini, C. Edwards.

10/22/2002 wyrdlyng: Our bi-weekly DC Heroes game
A few weeks back our group needed to shift from D&D to a new game as my wife, our GM for the campaign, was getting bombarded with schoolwork. So I…
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Participants: wyrdlyng.

10/22/2002 Paganini: Indie-NetGaming Monday: Shadows!
Pheeeeew, how do you find the words to describe something as absobloodyfreakinlutely cool as Shadows? I loved it when I read it, and now I finally got the chance to…
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Participants: Paganini, Bob McNamee, J B Bell, C. Edwards, Zak Arntson.

10/22/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Sessions 2 - 3)
Hello All, Well, two more sessions of our Space-Western Sorcerer game has gone by and everyone is having a riot of a time. Now that all the character names have…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/24/2002 UnSub: Dead Meat: The Last Resort
This post is as much for me as anyone else - I'm using it to externalise my thoughts about my running of a recent Dead Meat game. Outside The Game…
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Participants: UnSub, Demonspahn, unodiablo.

10/24/2002 Maurice Forrester: kill puppies for satan
My gaming group, all four of us, got together last night. For the first time in months, Joe was able to come to the game. We thought about going back…
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Participants: Maurice Forrester, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

10/24/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Monday (Oct 23, 2002): Fighter-D Alpha Planescape (3)
Okay, so it was really on Wednesday. We continued our ongoing Fighter-D Alpha Planescape saga, the quest in the Impressive Ruins of Gondorr for the Sun Quill. You can read…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Bankuei.

10/25/2002 Ardwen: The perfect gaming group
Greetings to you all. I have finally joined the renowned "Forge" forums. Inspired by a thread I have just read, I felt obliged to enter a group of individuals that…
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Participants: Ardwen, Jake Norwood.

10/27/2002 greyorm: Raven's 3E Game
The last three sessions of play have been very interesting, indeed. Particularly tonight's session, which revealed a few surprises that are just, IMO, awesome. Like the last handful of sessions,…
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Participants: greyorm.

10/29/2002 ADGBoss: Sorcerer: Labyrinth of Worlds
Well Sorcerer finally arrived and I am somewhat eager to begin what is my first "new" RPG experience in some time. I cannot wait to play but for the moment…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Paul Czege, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, ADGConscience.

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