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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.

3/30/2003 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.

3/27/2003 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.

3/27/2003 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.

3/25/2003 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.

3/24/2003 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.

3/24/2003 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 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.

3/23/2003 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.

3/21/2003 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.

3/19/2003 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.

3/16/2003 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.

3/16/2003 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.

3/14/2003 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.

3/14/2003 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.

3/12/2003 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.

3/12/2003 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.

3/11/2003 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.

3/11/2003 Paganini: [Indie-netgaming Elfs] Lord of the Rings
We played Elfs. Lord of the Rings. That's all I'm gonna say. Transcript is here. Read it. Unless you're faint-hearted. Especially Ron. Remember those predictions about Granny the Green? ;)…
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Participants: Paganini, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Ace, C. Edwards, Walt Freitag, efindel, James V. West.

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.

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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.

4/2/2003 GameAddict224: Be a Gangster
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=101630
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Participants: GameAddict224, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/3/2003 arxhon: Finally played The Riddle of Steel: demo session
Actually i played on monday night, but have been too busy to post until now. The setup: I only managed to round up two players for the game, which makes…
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Participants: arxhon, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

4/3/2003 xiombarg: We Hate God, Part I (Pretender Playtest)
A couple members of my local group were very keen on trying out Pretender. Therefore, last night we did chargen, in preperation for playing in two weeks hence. Since a…
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Participants: xiombarg, lumpley, Valamir.

4/4/2003 bladamson: online gaming
Moved from game theory... Ok, let me get this straight. Online gaming happes both via the yahoo group chat channel and on irc.magicstar.net #IndieRPGs? Or is the yahoo group only…
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Participants: bladamson, C. Edwards, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Paganini.

4/4/2003 anonymouse: [Paladin] Legacy: a Vagrant Story.
GM: Michael (that is to say, me) Player: Brian (slightly-younger brother) The setting for our game is based off of the Playstation game Vagrant Story. This thread is where I'm…
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/5/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: I listened to my friend's game last night
Last night I went with my wife to my friends game. I still didn't play. I can only imagine what they are all thinking about that, but it isn't important.…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, bladamson, Thor Olavsrud, cruciel, Mike Holmes, clehrich, Dr. Velocity, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2003 blaze_axis: IRAQ WAR
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=468091
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Participants: blaze_axis, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/7/2003 Paka: Unknown Armies, The Intro Adventure in the back of the book
Played the adventure in the back of the 2nd Edition book, Bill in Three Parts and it was brilliant. It made for a really nice intro for the game and…
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Participants: Paka, Drastic, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, Thomas Tamblyn.

4/7/2003 Matt Wilson: more on my D&D experiences
I'm fascinated with the way play in this game I'm running is turning out. For a quick background: Until about two years ago, the last time I played D&D was…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, ThreeGee, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Clay, szilard, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, greyorm, Piratecat, jdagna.

4/8/2003 clehrich: Arise and Throw Off Your Chains
Okay, this will soon actually be played, but hasn't been yet. If this is the wrong forum, Ron, could you please shift it? It's not game design, and it sure…
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Participants: clehrich, deadpanbob, Brian Leybourne, Ian Charvill, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Dotan Dimet, Cassidy.

4/9/2003 JamesDJIII: The Angry Pinball
Names has been ommitted to protect the innocent: I've been a player in a more-often-than-twice-a-month (is that bi-monthly or semi-monthly?) FRPG. Most of the characters are keen, deep, well played…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, rafial, Ian Charvill, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, clehrich, Marco, cruciel.

4/9/2003 arxhon: TROS: The Inception (Long)
We played our first real game of TROS last night. I had a blast. Most of the character creation had been done at the end of the last session, and…
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Participants: arxhon, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

4/11/2003 simon_hibbs: Is story arc, and open ended (scenarioless) play viable?
My current campaign is based on a number of story arcs, and this has lead to a number of problems. Firstly when we switch from one story arc to another,…
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Participants: simon_hibbs, Ian Charvill, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, GB Steve, iago, Mike Holmes, clehrich.

4/11/2003 Marco: LEARN ME SOME SORCEROR
Hey guys, I'm looking into some strongly Narrativist play--I don't want to *hear* about it--or be *told* about it--no, I want the whole echilada. I wanna *play* it. Since time…
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Participants: Marco, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Andy Kitkowski, Bob McNamee, greyorm, Trevis Martin, Wolfen, Drastic, C. Edwards, Valamir.

4/12/2003 Marco: "I can't make a character for this."
For anyone who got the idea I never have trouble in my gaming groups: Tonight I got a chance for a coupla guys to try to get together a new…
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Participants: Marco, clehrich, Valamir, simon_hibbs.

4/12/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: I listened to my friend's game last night Part II
I go to be a fly on the wall again this week. Unfortunately, nothing quite as insightful had come up. I had actually written a lengthy post but closed my…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, cruciel, Gordon C. Landis.

4/12/2003 Dotan Dimet: Daniel Pond's Wushu
Has anyone taken a look at Daniel Pond's Wushu system? The idea is really similar to "giving extra dice for good description", which also appears in Sorcerer. The big difference…
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Participants: Dotan Dimet, Mark Johnson, johnmarron, Jeph, Bruce Baugh.

4/15/2003 rafial: Starchildren - Hallo Spaceboy/girl
Borrowing shamelessly and freely from Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Wild Zero, Tommy, Max Headroom and no doubt a few other things wedged in my subconscious I unleashed a demo…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Thomas Tamblyn, Rich Ranallo.

4/15/2003 xiombarg: We Hate God, Part II (Pretender Playtest)
Okay, I'm actually running Pretender tommorrow, so I figured I'd post about the full chargen session. You may want to look at the original thread to refesh your memory about…
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Participants: xiombarg, ADGBoss, furashgf.

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