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1/11/2003 Mithras: Sorcerer & Sword - Collaboration in Action
Well, I just received and read SORCERER AND SWORD, and I've got to say it arrived with perfect timing! I'm a teacher in a primary school and run a roleplaying…
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Participants: Mithras, Paka, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Christopher Kubasik, Dave Panchyk, clehrich, Nev the Deranged, Mike Holmes, Valamir, greyorm, Stuart DJ Purdie.

1/7/2003 rafial: Ronin: Stone Hearts, Stone Memories
Well, here it is, what I believe is the first actual play report for Ronin (the feudal Japan adaptation of the Dust Devils rules). I'll try to play to all…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, J. Backman, Jason L Blair.

1/7/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Torchbearer Character Creation: Observations.
So far, I know of 7 characters created for Torchbearer. 4 of these characters have been disgraced (most of them used that precise word, too) in their past. One will…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards.

1/5/2003 Ian O'Rourke: The Beowulf Effect
Okay, it's not actual play yet, but it will be. I'm also not wanting to go into system too much at this point (as that is mostly decided, and there…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Roy, Jack Spencer Jr, Clay, Matt Gwinn, Ian Cooper, simon_hibbs, szilard.

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.

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.

1/2/2003 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.

1/1/2003 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.

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.

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.

12/21/2002 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.

12/20/2002 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.

12/19/2002 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.

12/18/2002 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.

12/18/2002 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.

12/17/2002 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.

12/17/2002 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 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.

12/16/2002 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.

12/13/2002 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.

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1/18/2003 joshua neff: gaming for newbies
Not too long ago, a coworker of mine, Ryan, who I know plays RPGs expressed an interest in playing other stuff. He's only ever played D&D (& started that just…
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Participants: joshua neff, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/20/2003 Tony Irwin: Paladin First Session
First a bit of background, some friends of mine who play mainly White Wolf products had invited me to make up the numbers for their vampire game. My usual L5R…
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Participants: Tony Irwin.

1/20/2003 GreatWolf: Nobilis actual play, or Bill and Ted get enNobled
Someone had requested some Nobilis actual play, so I thought that I'd write up Saturday's game. Players: HG: myself Gus: Ralph Mazza (the inestimable Valamir) Marena: Crystal Ben-Ezra (my wife)…
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Participants: GreatWolf, stingray20166.

1/21/2003 MarkAdri: Feedback on Hero Wars / Wintertop Fair
As one of the players that participated at Wintertop Fair, I can only say that I had a great time playing. I can understand Ian's concern about railroading us, I…
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Participants: MarkAdri, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber.

1/22/2003 UnSub: Dust Devils: First Run
Having managed to slot my game in between the five currently running in our group about a week ago, I finally managed to run a game of Dust Devils. Unfortunately…
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Participants: UnSub, Matt Snyder, rafial, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2003 lumpley: We Killed Us Some Puppies
So okay, so it's me, Meg, Trav, Jay, Kev, and Jenn. I'm the GM, everybody else kills puppies for Satan. Meg is George Brady No Relation, who writes for Guns…
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Participants: lumpley, jrients, Ron Edwards, Marco, clehrich, contracycle, szilard.

1/23/2003 Jake Norwood: Driftwood plays Sorcerer!
Last night over half of our group wasn't able to come. We hadn't gamed in several weeks on account of school and business, and were dying to get playing. "So…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

1/23/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: Playtest At Last [long]
I finally got to playtest Unsung last night. I was using a scenario written for GURPS Cops from Pyramid Magazine, a scenario called Heat Wave. (You won't be able to…
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Participants: xiombarg, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

1/25/2003 r_callen221: Donjon game setting.. possibly?
This is for all the people who've played Donjon before- I just recently purchased the .pdf version of Donjon, and have skimmed through it (so.. hard.. to read.. on screen..…
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Participants: r_callen221, Ben Morgan.

1/26/2003 Eric J.: About time for another Woe...
I've been RPing with my group for a while, and made few Forge posts because of several reasons. 1. I get similar responses each time. 2. My players get mad…
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Participants: Eric J., Aragorn, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr, Roy, Balbinus, hyphz, Valamir, stingray20166, cruciel, Daredevil, Ian Charvill, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, erithromycin, Psycho42, clehrich, GreatWolf, Shreyas Sampat, Jesse.

1/27/2003 Colin the Riot: PBEM Possibilities
Hi all, I'd really like to start an email game with just a couple of people using something like yahoo groups (for archiving and mailing list management). I'm thinking of…
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Participants: Colin the Riot, Mike Holmes.

1/28/2003 Psycho42: From D&D3e to The Pool
Hi everybody, time to finally stop lurkling ;-) I'm not sure if this belongs here or into the Random Order Creations forum... Yesterday, I had my first experience with The…
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Participants: Psycho42, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, James V. West, rafial, scorpio rising.

1/31/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON 2003 Tidbit
I was just over at GenCon.com looking over the game submission information and discovered an interesting tidbit. As most of you know, GenCon reimburses you for your badge if you…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn.

1/31/2003 hyphz: Re: The Conflict is Yours
I'm not trying to disagree with advice here, just ask for some more clarification because it's relevant to some issues I've had as well. You want to gamemaster something…
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Participants: hyphz, Le Joueur, Valamir, Matt Wilson, jdagna, Christopher Kubasik, Ian Charvill, clehrich, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

2/1/2003 greyorm: More Player-Driven 3E
Well, the holidays are over, and we've started to get back into the swing of playing again. For those who haven't read the previous threads about this campaign, in summary,…
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Participants: greyorm, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, arxhon, Zak Arntson.

2/2/2003 Jasper: The West Wind playtest
Hello, I don't know how many people have checked out my game The West Wind, but I ran a brief session of it last night with a few friends. For…
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Participants: Jasper, Andrew Martin, Tony Irwin.

2/3/2003 Ron Edwards: Fvlminata starts up
Hello, Yesterday heralded our first session of Fvlminata for what looks like at least three, maybe more sessions. It's a four-person group including myself (GMing), and so far, I'm liking…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Jason E. Roberts, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, contracycle.

2/4/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Protagonization, and what happens when it doesn't happen
It suddenly hit me why I had not been enjoying my game group of late, and why I no longer play with them at the moment. It's actually a whole…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Tim C Koppang, xiombarg, Maurice Forrester, ADGBoss, Ian Cooper, Matt Gwinn, cruciel, greyorm, Jonathan Walton, Marco, Buddha Nature, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

2/4/2003 Ian Charvill: UA notes
OK, this is going to be in two parts. These are the notes for a session, then tomorrow I'll do the nuts and bolts procedural, how I'd run this loose…
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Participants: Ian Charvill, clehrich, hyphz, Rob MacDougall, Mike Holmes, Matt Wilson.

2/4/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: octaNe in play
I'm about to get harsh on a favorite game, so watch out. (And before I start, apologies to Jared. This is meant to help, not hurt.) Last night, I played…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, rafial, Rich Forest, jdagna, Alan, Maurice Forrester, clehrich.

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