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12/10/2002 Alan: Universalis - Red Hunger
Hi all, Last week, playing Univeralis, Clinton entered a game rule that said "Alan has to write this game up for Actual Play on the Forge." As far as I…
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Participants: Alan, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, rafial, Rys, contracycle, Valamir.

12/10/2002 Alan: Community Building in Seattle
I'm not sure exactly which forum to post this on - Actual Play seems as appropriate as any. Here in Seattle we have a very active email group for local…
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Participants: Alan, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Rys.

12/9/2002 johnmarron: Theatrix actual play advice?
I recently read Paul Czege's threads about the Theatrix Supers game he played in, which inspired me to pick up a copy of Theatrix again. I originally bought the game…
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Participants: johnmarron, Fabrice G., Alan.

12/8/2002 Ace: Preparing for play, I don't know what (Long)
I wanted to call this post "A funny thing happened on the way to the game store" bt I ran out of room and anyway it happned at the store…
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Participants: Ace, Mike Holmes, LordFly, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2002 Alcar: Keeping Interest - Mine And The Players
I've read the sorcerer site and some of the indie one (some new stuff has come up since I was by last) and just discovered the forums). Since I like…
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Participants: Alcar, Bankuei, Ziriel, Ben Morgan, Enoch, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Clay.

12/5/2002 Eric J.: Preperation and Annoying Friends' Campaigns...
So, Pyron is here to bitch about his players, eh? Yes and No. I have a few questions, and since you guys are the most experienced bunch of people I…
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Participants: Eric J., Andrew Martin, quozl, hyphz, Roy, Fabrice G., Scratchware, Ron Edwards, Alan, Sage of Shadowdale, IG_Kahn_Storm.

12/5/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Universalis
I've got a confession to make - I've been dead scared of Universalis since I heard of it. First, it's universal. Second, there's no GM - and as radical as…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, rafial, Paganini, Mike Holmes.

12/4/2002 Mike Holmes: Environment
[quote="Nuredin"]We could go on to explore the ergonomics of a good gaming environment... [/quote] Cool topic. I've often heard discussions of mood stuff, lighting, music, etc, but I've not really…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ziriel, bluegargantua, cruciel, Maurice Forrester, Valamir, Emily Care, Walt Freitag, Enoch, Matt Wilson, Steve Dustin, Le Joueur, Clinton R. Nixon, GreatWolf, Stuart DJ Purdie, Paul Czege, DaR, A.Neill, contracycle, Michael S. Miller, J B Bell, rabidchyld.

12/3/2002 jburneko: LARPing For Fun & Profit
Hello All, I'm putting this in actual play because to some extent it's about someone else's actual play. But it might belong in either Theory or even Publishing. Please move…
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Participants: jburneko, xiombarg.

12/3/2002 Sidhain: Seed of Virtue: A H&S Campaign Start
I was pleasantly surprised when some friends of mine showed up today and said "we want to game!" being that I was not working, and hadn't planned anything at all…
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Participants: Sidhain, Uncle Dark, Andrew Martin.

11/29/2002 Mike Holmes: Player Power Abuse
[quote="Christopher Kubasik"] If anyone has any actual "All my fears of trusting my Players/GM with too much power played out exactly as I expected" stories, I'd love to get them…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, damion, MK Snyder, Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins.

11/27/2002 Ian Cooper: Hero Wars Actual Play Wintertop Fair
For me, one of the great things about attending conventions is the chance to play with new people and learn from their techniques. At Convulsions this year I had the…
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Participants: Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

11/27/2002 bluegargantua: Sorcerer One-Shot
Hi, As mentioned a few threads back, I ran a one-shot demo game of Sorcerer for Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge MA as part of their Iron Gamer Series.…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

11/26/2002 Matt Wilson: I've played Sorcerer three times now
Last Thursday was the third time I played a game of Sorcerer, the third in the ongoing S&S game with Clinton, James and Dan. I wanted to play at least…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/25/2002 xiombarg: Convention LARP
Okay, the other week I was at MACE 2002, and I (along with several of my friends, all working as GMs) ran a White Wolf Mind's Eye Theatre LARP. It…
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Participants: xiombarg, Valamir.

11/25/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: Example for freeform play. (long)
This will require a little set-up. Stay with me here. First of all, I'm no angel. I don't think that's any secret.... I had originally talked frankly about the nature…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.

11/23/2002 GreatWolf: Clownin' Around (session 1): Unknown Armies in actual play
Okay, here's the first Saturday morning report on my Unknown Armies game. Hopefully these will continue for the duration. The characters are as follows: Agent Sunshine Black, a no-nonsense collections…
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Participants: GreatWolf, UnSub, Steve Dustin.

11/22/2002 Mike Holmes: Hero Wars in an alternate setting - session 4
The previous session can be found here. I did a bad, bad thing this week. I used the game for some experimentation. Gareth, listen up. I did Shakespeare. Merry Wives…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Julie, contracycle.

11/22/2002 jburneko: Spaceships, Sixguns & Sorcery (Final Session)
Hello All, How Things Turned Out: The Sherif teamed up with his outlaw father. They made one last push in an attempt to pre-empt the planned bandit raid on the…
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Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead.

11/21/2002 gentrification: 7th Sea: Illusionism in practice (session 4)
I have a confession to make. Although I made every effort to not anticipate the players or shoehorn them into a specific course of action, though I refused to write…
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Participants: gentrification, Brian Leybourne.

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12/11/2002 Steve Dustin: First Sorceror Game
Finally getting around to it. After giving some friends a choice on different games, I'm running a one-shot Sorceror game on Friday (note: if this should go in the Adept…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead, jrients.

12/12/2002 xiombarg: f*ckin' Dust Devils
Tonight was our vulgarly-named "F*ck-Around Night" where we try out new games. Tonight we tried Dust Devils. We used the sample scenario -- and since I had six players instead…
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Participants: xiombarg, Matt Snyder.

12/12/2002 jburneko: Le Mon Mouri - Anyone Played This?
I came across this on my computer yesterday. I totally forgot that I had purchased this little download. Unfortunately, I find it very hard to read. I think it's the…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, sdemory.

12/12/2002 WildElf: Little Fears mechanic questions/problems
I ran a short series of Little Fears. First off, the idea for kids and horror is genius. I think it works really well, and players seem to be able…
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Participants: WildElf, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

12/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Trollbabe - The Shadow Troll
Most of my group and I played Trollbabe Thursday night. I learned two things right off the bat: 1) Trollbabe is easy to run. 2) Trollbabe is hard as hell…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Bankuei.

12/16/2002 Paul Czege: takin' care of business with Wraiths and The Window
So, a few weeks ago, with much excitement on my part, we did a setup session for Ian Millington's Wraiths, which is a collaborative, GM-less roleplaying game in a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2002 Matt Wilson: Dust Devils and Trollbabe at Indie Games Night
Last night so many people turned out for Indie Games Night that we had to split into two still-very-large groups. Clinton ran Trollbabe with 4 players, and Alan ran Dust…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Jeffrey Miller, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2002 Alan: Learning to GM narrativist style
Hi, Last night I ran the Hanged Man from Dust Devils for five players as a one-shot. After play, everyone reported that they enjoyed the game - however, I was…
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Participants: Alan, Jeffrey Miller, Clay, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Fabrice G..

12/17/2002 IG_Kahn_Storm: Hello im cody
hello my name is cody who you have been hearing so much about. i just learned the adress for this forum today at lunch im one of the almost constant…
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Participants: IG_Kahn_Storm, Ron Edwards.

12/18/2002 Aragorn: i guess my opinion is last
Hello, since Rob said that Erics (pyrons) thread was to no longer be used, i firgured that i would simply say that, i am Avery, one of the other players…
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Participants: Aragorn, Eric J., Andrew Martin, contracycle, Sage of Shadowdale, Ron Edwards, Valamir, greyorm, Seth L. Blumberg, Scratchware.

12/18/2002 Stuart DJ Purdie: When the Narrativist is dysfunctional
This is a bit of a retrospective look back over a few games, going back about 6 years or so. I've been playing in a stable group, with a few…
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Participants: Stuart DJ Purdie, Ron Edwards, Eric J., Mike Holmes, cruciel, Tony Irwin.

12/19/2002 Sidhain: Hearts and Souls: In the Blood
Genetically Enhanced Gang-members the "Dinos" are robbing banks, and other money intensive places--skillfully, too skillfully---turns out their enhancements are from dinosaur DNA (and abilities) given to them by one Dr.…
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Participants: Sidhain.

12/20/2002 jburneko: Prepping For Dust Devils/Deathwish: How much is too much?
Hello, I'd like a word of advice from those of you who have played Dust Devils concerning how much pre-play prep to do. I've played low director stance games like…
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Participants: jburneko, Matt Snyder.

12/21/2002 Jesse: newbie signing on and more of pyron's gaming group (oh no!)
Hi, I'm Jesse, the only one of pyron/eric's gaming group, as he is more or less the main GM. I would like to mention that we really aren't a defective…
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Participants: Jesse, Ron Edwards.

12/24/2002 IG_Kahn_Storm: happenings in Mech Warrior
Hello its me cody agian and i just thought that i should take some time and explain some of the events in my mechwarrior campaign our group is currently doing…
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Participants: IG_Kahn_Storm, Ron Edwards, Aragorn, Jesse.

12/31/2002 James: Roleplaying music.
While browsing through the threads on RPGnet, I saw a topic entitled Role Playing "music", and I said to myself, "I know what that thread is about without having…
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Participants: James, Sidhain, Maurice Forrester, Aragorn, Eric J., Thierry Michel, Michael S. Miller, Malchiah, clehrich.

1/1/2003 Eric J.: tLotR RPG
Another thread describing Eric's gaming group. This time Cody's picked up tLotR Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. It's the new one. Anyway, it's set in the first age, during the reign…
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Participants: Eric J., Fabrice G., quozl, Roy, Sage of Shadowdale, szilard, Scratchware, simon_hibbs, Ron Edwards, Tony Irwin, Jaif, clehrich.

1/2/2003 bluegargantua: Campaign Length
I did some searching, but I didn't see this particular topic mentioned before. My apologies if I'm recovering old ground... I'm taking an informal poll and asking people how long…
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Participants: bluegargantua, DaR, Eric J., Emily Care, Matt Gwinn, Uncle Dark, Matt Wilson, Ardwen, cruciel, clehrich.

1/2/2003 bluegargantua: Playing with Pre-packs
Again, another topic I hope hasn't been done to death: Another question which has been tugging at my mind recently is: How frequently do people run published scenarios for their…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Clay, GreatWolf, rabidchyld, xiombarg, hyphz, clehrich, John Kim, Blake Hutchins, Ted E. Childers.

1/4/2003 Eric J.: 8-bit Play Session
GM: Me Player: Anthony Class: Technologist Superfeat: Can make anything out of anything. Superhook: Never works right. Feat: Hook: Items: Tessla Rod; Socks GM's Reaction: Anthony had a really good…
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Participants: Eric J., Sage of Shadowdale, Mike Holmes, Scratchware, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Balbinus.

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