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3/11/2003 Stuart DJ Purdie: Unknown Armies in Kilts
With the start of a new game, I thought I'd take the opertunity to introduce a new concept to the group - namely the group chracter gen session. Previously the…
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Participants: Stuart DJ Purdie, Ian Charvill, Paul Czege.

3/10/2003 yellow_skeleton: How do I recruit new RPG players?
Hello. I am new to Forge. I am impressed with site and enjoy reading the dialogue. I have a question that I am hoping that you can help me answer:…
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Participants: yellow_skeleton, Piratecat, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jeph, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, WildElf, Mechanic, RpgAlexWyld.

3/9/2003 AV: Pictures???
Do pictures add anything to the game for people??? does it help them get a visual... or should it be left up to the imagination? Why do you think the…
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Participants: AV, Jack Spencer Jr, Piratecat, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

3/9/2003 Paka: The Riddle in Marsui Again
Ran another game of the Riddle. The first game was 8 hours long and it felt just about right. A good blend of blood, politics, swashbuckling and heroism. The players…
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Participants: Paka, Ian Charvill, Tor Erickson, Jake Norwood.

3/8/2003 JamesDJIII: Tanscripts of Actual Play
I find that I learn a heck of lot from reading about other GMs style just from their descriptions of game play. I was wondering, does anyone have transcripts of…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Jack Spencer Jr, Bob McNamee, Tor Erickson, kregmosier, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn.

3/6/2003 Nick Pagnucco: suggestions for starting a new group
Hi. For several reasons, I have not been roleplaying for about two years or so. Its an oversimplification, but a quick explanation is I moved and haven't found a gaming…
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Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Paganini, Bob McNamee, Valamir, arxhon, Maurice Forrester, Ron Edwards, dunlaing, Clay, Mike Holmes, rafael, Tor Erickson.

3/5/2003 Ron Edwards: [Le Mon Mouri / kill puppies] Dang!
Hello, In the thread Two at once!, Vincent wrote: are y'all gonna play Le Mon Mouri and puppies on the same day every time? Cause if so, dang. Dang…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Maura Byrne, jrs, lumpley, Emily Care, Comte.

3/4/2003 Michael S. Miller: Running Indie Games at Smaller Cons
Well, the Sorcerer game I was scheduled to run at A Gazebo of Games did not actually run. I only had one player sign-up and he showed up 15 minutes…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Alambr1, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Andy Kitkowski, Demonspahn, Mike Holmes, abzu.

3/4/2003 Paganini: [Cornerstone] To Mars and Back
We just wrapped up a three session IRC playtest of Cornerstone in a Wellsian Victorian Sci-fi setting. These were very instructive sessions, as we drifted and tweaked the game slightly…
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Participants: Paganini, Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, Mike Holmes.

3/4/2003 jrs: Le Mon Mouri Questions
As mentioned in the Two at once! thread, we’ve played two sessions of Le Mon Mouri. I’ve been wanting to play Le Mon Mouri since Ron…
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Participants: jrs, sdemory, Ron Edwards.

3/3/2003 Matt Gwinn: 3E Character Creation Session
Once again, I tried to introduce my D&D group to something I picked up here at the Forge...the Character Creation Session. First off, we had been playing the same D&D…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clay, Bankuei, Valamir, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, jdagna, Steve Dustin.

2/26/2003 Matt Snyder: Avatar-13 inital sessions
[b]The story thus far [/b] This post covers two sessions of actual play of Avatar-13. I posted the first draft of this game in Indie Game Design a couple weeks…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Eddy Fate.

2/25/2003 Steve Dustin: Playing Games Drunk
or Tri-Stat: Ken Hite's Black Rome or How Sorceror Ruined 90% of RPGs For Me So my new litmus test for RPGs is "Can I play this game drunk, and…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Clay, Marco.

2/25/2003 Demonspahn: Dread Actual Play - LONG post
Dread Actual Play OK, so I just joined a new gaming group a few months ago. We’ve been rotating GMs every month or so give or take a week as…
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Participants: Demonspahn, rafael, Ron Edwards.

2/25/2003 Ron Edwards: Two [censored] at once!
Hello, Yesterday, we played two short RPG sessions, first run each for two different games. Each one lasted a couple-plus hours. Now wait for it ... The first one was…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Comte, lumpley, Maura Byrne, clehrich, James V. West, jrs, Clay, Nev the Deranged, Louis CYPHER, C. Edwards, Paul Czege, sdemory, CowperColes.

2/19/2003 erithromycin: I Ran Sorcerer And It Was Awful
Or, rather, it was Simply Ghastly. I’ll start at the beginning, with the players – D, J, K, and W. W lurks here on occasion, and I've just noticed that…
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Participants: erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, ThreeGee, weeble.

2/18/2003 marknau: Orccon 2003, Universalis
At the three-day game-a-thon that is OrcCon, I had the good fortune of being able to try out three, count 'em, three RPG systems that I had never played before.…
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Participants: marknau, Bob McNamee, J B Bell, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/18/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Paladin and me
Last night, I ran Paladin for a group of six people at our local Seattle Monday Indie Game Night. Paladin's got an interesting history for me: I wrote it while…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, lumpley, Bob McNamee, Jonathan Walton, DaR, jdagna, Alan, Robert Leal, dunlaing.

2/17/2003 Andrew Martin: Accord playtest and game structure
I've managed to playtest my Accord rules with four players on Sunday evening. There was myself, my brother (a killer GM), and two friends, one who's a story oriented GM…
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Participants: Andrew Martin.

2/14/2003 Ron Edwards: [Dread] Questions about spells
Hi there, After a couple of sessions of Dread, here are some nit-picky spell questions that cropped up during play. CASTIGATE: if the first roll is failed, are the demon…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, rafael.

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3/11/2003 JamesDJIII: Co-GMing
Just to put my $0.02 in: I used to play with a group in which I was the youngest and newest player. All previous RPG experiences were pretty good, but…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Simon W, arxhon, Ben Morgan, Dr O.

3/12/2003 Jonathan Walton: Storypunk Playtest: Dark Fairy Tales
Hey, My recent Con playtest of Storypunk is described on the following thread in the Indie Design Forum, since I want people to comment about how I could use this…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

3/12/2003 Brian Leybourne: Actual Play: The Spin System
This is an actual play report for The Spin System. It's a bit long, sorry about that. I'm going to start with the "story" of the session, and then follow…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jeph, Mike Holmes.

3/14/2003 WildElf: Sorcerer at Orccon - followup
Sorry, to dredge up an old topic, but how did the Con game on Friday go? I tried to get into the Saturday game, but it looks like it must…
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Participants: WildElf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Noble, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

3/14/2003 Dotan Dimet: Two Hour Demo Games? How? Explain!
I've seen posts here about demo games and cons with two-hour long slots, and since my only experience is with the standard 4-hours-dragging-on-to-6 convention rounds, I'd really like to hear…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Jake Norwood, jdagna.

3/16/2003 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight!
Just finished our first Sorcerer game. The results were very fun. A lot of the plot developments stem directly from McAlister's Kicker. We hand't touched much else in the time…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Dr O, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

3/16/2003 Steve Dustin: octaNe: From Shangri-LA to Lost Vegas in 3.4 seconds
So we played octaNe last night. I have two words to say. Kick. Ass. Ok, I few more words than that. Prep My prep was burning this disk. All the…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Jared A. Sorensen, Ben Morgan.

3/19/2003 Dotan Dimet: Wise in the ways of the Force
[i]Sorry this is a new post, it should actualy be a response to [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5529"]Co-GMing[/a].[/i] My players call this The Jedi Mind Trick, for obvious reasons... From last night's session:…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet.

3/21/2003 rafial: Pantheon
At our Monday night "Indie RPGs" group, we tried the Narrative Cage Match rules from Pantheon. The scenario we played was the undersea horror one, entitled "Grave and Watery." I…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

3/23/2003 ethan_greer: Foreign Elements pickup game
So, I'm at my bi-weekly D&D3 game, and the GM has to bail after a couple hours due to illness. One of the guys has been wanting to do an…
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Participants: ethan_greer.

3/24/2003 Spooky Fanboy: I love my new Sorcerer players...
I have a new game of Sorcerer going. Two sessions into the campaign, and my players are coming up with new and creative ways to drop their Humanity to zero.…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, bluegargantua, Valamir.

3/24/2003 Ron Edwards: Dang #3 (kill puppies for satan)
Hello, This is a followup on the threads Dang! and Two at once!. I decided to post more discussions of our current games…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, lumpley, Maura Byrne, arxhon.

3/24/2003 Ron Edwards: Dang #3 (Le Mon Mouri)
Hello, This is a followup on the threads Dang! and Two at once!. I decided to post more discussions of our current games…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, sdemory, ethan_greer, jrs, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Comte.

3/25/2003 jburneko: Deathwish: Internal Affairs
Hello All, So, in a bold move I signed up to run the Deathwish varient rules for Dust Devil at upcoming con in May. I was a little nervous because…
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Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder.

3/27/2003 Matt Wilson: D&D with kickers
I'm running a D&D game for a group on alternate sundays. They're kind of a mixed bunch as far as GNS preference goes. Some of them have a resistance to…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Valamir, talysman.

3/27/2003 Ron Edwards: Playing Trollbabe at the GTS
Hello, So we played Trollbabe during one late evening at the GAMA Trade Show: me as GM, and Eugene Zee, Mark Mazella, and Jake Norwood as players. I'd been wanting…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Eugene Zee, Bankuei.

3/30/2003 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight!, Part 2
An actual transcript of actual play. Things get ugly. http://thejeffers.dyndns.org/~jjeffers/Games/Sorcerer/Gaslight/ Enjoy!
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards.

3/30/2003 Brian Leybourne: Actual Play: A Social Experiment...
A couple of my players couldn't make it to yesterdays game, so I decided to try a bit of a "social experiment" with the 3 who made it. My goals…
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Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, arxhon.

3/31/2003 Thor Olavsrud: First tRoS Session -- A Diabolical Scheme
So I ran tRoS for the first time last night, and I hate to sound like a broken record but SAs rock! We decided to play a one-shot because one…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud.

4/1/2003 Matt Wilson: The Shadow of Yesterday
Never mind that my character spent a good half hour of the game wearing only a shirt. And never mind that during that time he was bitten in the nether…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial.

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