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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 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.

10/21/2002 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.

10/20/2002 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.

10/19/2002 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.

10/18/2002 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.

10/17/2002 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.

10/15/2002 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.

10/14/2002 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.

10/13/2002 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.

10/13/2002 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.

10/12/2002 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.

10/11/2002 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.

10/11/2002 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 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.

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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.

10/29/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Monday (Oct 28, 2002): Fighter-D Alpha Planescape (4)
Wow, this campaign just keeps on going! I've modified the rules, which you can find here: http://www.harlekin-maus.com/fighterd/fighterd.html. The semi-updated character sheet can be downloaded here. I put the Actual Play…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, rabidchyld.

11/1/2002 Jonathan Walton: kill puppies for RPGnet
Wasn't sure where to put this post, but... My review of kill puppies for satan finally got posted in RPGnet's Halloween offerings. Yes, I am converting the masses to the…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, jrients, lumpley, Maurice Forrester, Spooky Fanboy.

11/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: THE EVIL, did anyone actually try playing it?
Hi everyone (again). I'm wondering if anyone actually tried to play THE EVIL? (In any case I was thinking of maybe running a game on Sunday or Monday. I could…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

11/1/2002 Eric J.: What's this? Did Pyron have a GOOD session?
Star Wars: D6 Players:5 Jesse- Wanabee Mercenery; Party leader; Law abider Anthony- Former CorSec(Republic) leutenant; Pilot Cody- Medic; Fugative; Soldier; Fugative Charly- Actual Mercenary; Follower Doug- Slicer; Mercenary; Outcast This…
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Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/3/2002 Clay: Call of Cthulhu: The Hastur Mythos
I rounded up the boys (which includes roughly 50% women) for a Halloween Call of Cthulhu session, and decided to run Night Floors, from the Hastur Mythos as set forth…
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Participants: Clay, rabidchyld.

11/3/2002 Andrew Martin: WW Exalted + Token
I've been running a WW Exalted game for our group for the last couple of Sundays. I've noticed some problems with our last few sessions and made a point over…
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Participants: Andrew Martin, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Improvised Yggdrasil
I ran a short Ygg session with RobMuadib and Bob McNamee. We didn't get all that far. Being out traveling they decided to restock in a village. Turns out there…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Bob McNamee.

11/1/2002 b_bankhead: Re: Profiling strikes again - EVERYBODY play!
[quote][b]What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played? [/b][/quote] ConspiracyX,Call of Cthulhu,Star Wars D6 [quote]What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played,…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Clay, Mark Withers, Ron Edwards.

11/5/2002 Demonspahn: Dead Meat: Vacation Cruise Style!
Hi everyone, talking about Sean Wipfli’s Dead Meat: Ultima Carneficina Dello Zombie here! This post is ridiculously long, just so you know. OK, we had planned a session…
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Participants: Demonspahn, UnSub, Ron Edwards, rabidchyld, Alan.

11/5/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Crawling Yggdrasil
This Sunday Chris Edwards and Shreyas Sampat together braved the fuzzy mass of corruption that was my many new experimental magic rules for Ygg. Most I did away with the…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat.

11/6/2002 Don Lag: Underground RPG - has anyone here played it?
I'm about to start running an Underground game (hopefully this weekend, but more likely in about a month). Has anyone here played this game? I've tried once before and it…
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Participants: Don Lag, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Demonspahn, TSL, Sidhain, ADGConscience, Ben Morgan, Enoch.

11/6/2002 Matt Wilson: musings on a campaign that's about to end
Next Wednesday just might be the final episode in a game I started last June. In light of what I've experienced since finding the Forge, I figured it was worth…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Jeffrey Miller, Michael S. Miller.

11/8/2002 Mike Holmes: Hero Wars in an Alternate Setting - Session II
See about set up and Session 1 here. Lot's quieter this week, as my wife had taken my two-year old son out of town. Nice. Anyhow, things started off with…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Ian Cooper, Julie.

11/9/2002 Steve Dustin: Creature Feature Initial Playtest
Although I haven't completed writing the playtest version of Creature Feature yet, I got the first taste of how it might play (and made some changes already) just recently. A…
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Participants: Steve Dustin.

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