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5/25/2003 Paganini: [Indie Net-gaming] The Pool - Wierd West Supers - Session 1
One of the things that makes the Pool so cool is that with a little pre-game discussion, narrative technique, and some good relationships, you can sit down with people you've…
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Participants: Paganini, Drastic, Bob McNamee, James V. West, Nev the Deranged, Lxndr.

5/23/2003 Matt Wilson: Peregrine - the season in perspective
So last night wrapped up a six "episode" playtest of a game I'm working on, which I won't shill here, other than to explain how some fun stuff happened. First…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/23/2003 ADGBoss: Ars Magica: Darkest Days Part One (Long)
Greetings all, I am finally getting around to running Ars MAgica, something that has been on the mind for many years. I think that now is a good oppurtunity to…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, clehrich, Valamir, Dave Panchyk, Jere, John Kim, Jeffrey Miller, Piers Brown.

5/23/2003 Jake Norwood: Feng Shui
So we got to play Robin Law's Feng Shui last night. I've been interested in the game for a while because of the fanbase it's got, but haven't had a…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Bankuei, Piers Brown, Mike Holmes, Bryant, Dave Panchyk, cruciel, Valamir.

5/23/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 2]
We had our second session of what we are hoping may be a four or five session Trollbabe campaign. Unfortunately, due to player illness we were one babe short, but…
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Participants: rafial, Alan, Bankuei.

5/22/2003 Bankuei: Abused Player Syndrome
Hi folks, I ran an IRC/Yahoo Chat Riddle of Steel demo game* for someone recently, and wanted to talk about some abused player syndrome actions I witnessed and open it…
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Participants: Bankuei, Drastic, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Wilson, ThreeGee, Dr. Velocity, b_bankhead, Nev the Deranged, Paganini, Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes, efindel, Dave Panchyk, jdagna, hyphz, clehrich, Emmett, C. Edwards, ejh, Lxndr, Comte.

5/21/2003 jburneko: Requesting Con Poster Feedback for Deathwish
Hello, So, I'm running my Deathwish scenario at the local con this weekend. Since it seems that Christopher Kubasik's poster helped promote his Sorcerer game at the last con I…
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Participants: jburneko, marknau, Matt Snyder, Bankuei, Walt Freitag, Valamir.

5/20/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Tell me about you're non-roleplaing friend's RPG experience
In this thread I'd like to hear some anecdotes involving people who had sat at your game table, tried it, and then never came back. I would prefer to just…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Nick Pagnucco, Wolfen, K.R.Peterson.

5/20/2003 John Kim: Horseplay gone too far?
So I'd like to talk about a particular event in the weekend's "Lord of the Rings" RPG session, and get people's opinions on it. This was I think the fourth…
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Participants: John Kim, clehrich, Jack Spencer Jr, Jack Aidley, Jared A. Sorensen, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon, jrs, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Liz, Paul Czege, Caldis, Emily Care, Walt Freitag, Matt Wilson, Bankuei, talysman, Nev the Deranged.

5/19/2003 brainwipe: Downtime
Do you do downtime in your group? If so, how do you go about it? I have just started it up amongst the more keen players in my group. Here's…
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Participants: brainwipe, Dav, Jack Spencer Jr, erithromycin.

5/14/2003 Jonathan Walton: Nobilis: The League of Extraordinary Americans
So, after seeing the trailer for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" during one of the early showings of X2, I decided to finally pick up the infamous graphic novel by…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, sdemory.

5/12/2003 jdagna: Spinning Failure
All the talk of character failure in A Tale of Three Trollbabes has brought up an issue I've been mulling over for quite some time. The issue is essentially:…
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Participants: jdagna, Matt Wilson, clehrich, Ian Charvill, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Eric J., Andrew Martin, Tim C Koppang.

5/12/2003 Matt Wilson: tried out some Universalis
Friday night I tried my first game of Universalis, along with fellow Forge-ites John "Feng" Harper, and Jeff Miller. I'm hesitant to post, having a few bits of confusion that…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/12/2003 Maurice Forrester: The Pool: Nyambe
I ran The Pool for my two kids (9 and 14) yesterday. Since my oldest boy had given me a copy of the Nyambe book for my birthday awhile back,…
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Participants: Maurice Forrester, James V. West.

5/11/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 1]
Have gotten a taste via a number of Clinton's Trollbabe one-shots at SGA monday gaming nights, a group of us have decided to take the plunge and try for a…
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Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Alan.

5/10/2003 Vanelan: First death in a TROS campaign
Hello everyone. I'm new here, and after tonight's events in the weekly TROS campaign I'm a part of, I just felt like sharing my story of unluck, as a tribute…
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Participants: Vanelan, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, arxhon, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

5/9/2003 Catalyst: Test Drive
Hello, all, I ran a game using genericized Sorcerer mechanics a couple weekends ago and wanted to gab about it. It was a one-shot, a game where the players were…
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Participants: Catalyst, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

5/9/2003 Dav: Non-Linear Sorcerer (Part 2)
So I ran my second session of Hellbound Cops tonight. It was to be Monday, originally, but work intruded. Anyway, to the few who have played in a campaign of…
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Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2003 John Kim: Distribution of the Spring 2003 Profiling
Hi, Just out of curiousity, I decided to run the results of this through some stats to look at what the distribution of results were. I have a web page…
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Participants: John Kim, Ron Edwards, cruciel, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Wolfen, Gordon C. Landis, Stuart DJ Purdie, jdagna.

5/6/2003 Matt Wilson: Profiling supplemental - great experience, wrong system
Hey: I'd like some more info from anyone willing regarding question 2 of the profiling thread: what were the three best games you ever played. In my case, 2 out…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, DaGreatJL, cruciel, Gordon C. Landis, rafial, Jonathan Walton, Bankuei, Alan, wyrdlyng, jdagna, John Harper, Drastic, Wolfen, Tim C Koppang, Ben Morgan, Zak Arntson, Michael S. Miller, szilard, John Kim.

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5/25/2003 Scripty: Questions about Kubasik's Story Entertainments
Hi everyone. I had a question regarding the Castle Falkenstein-Lite rules set forth in Christopher Kubasik's "Story Entertainments" as described in his "Interactive Toolkit" articles found here: http://www.rpg.net/oracle/essays/itoolkit4.html Personally, I…
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Participants: Scripty, clehrich, Christopher Kubasik.

5/26/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 3]
Our Trollbabe campaign has proceeded to its third session, which I'm happy to report was, at least in my eyes, much more satisfying than our second. The campaign is now…
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Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, John Harper, Valamir.

5/27/2003 Paul Czege: it was a double shot of my baby's love
Hey everyone, So, Sunday we had a double-feature with a common theme, one game of Vincent's Matchmaker, and one of My Love for You Is Way Out of…
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Participants: Paul Czege, lumpley, deidzoeb.

5/28/2003 John Kirk: E.P. for Healers
There has been quite a bit of discussion lately with players in my game concerning the awarding of experience points for healing. Although this discussion concerns Legendary Quest (www.legendaryquest.com), it…
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Participants: John Kirk, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, talysman, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, clehrich.

5/28/2003 Malechi: Plodding away with 3e... why? (WARNING: LONG!)
Hi there, This is my first Forge post, so please be gentle. I think I get *how* I'm supposed to post here (after reading a rather amusing blurtting post by…
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Participants: Malechi, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Valamir, hardcoremoose.

5/29/2003 Matt Snyder: Does your group set-up affect the game?
After a recent session of actual play, I have been thinking about the "logistics" of how other folks play a game. My question is this: How does your group "set…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Matt Wilson, brainwipe, Nick Pagnucco, Enoch, John Kim, Dr. Velocity, A.Neill, TheGameBoy.

5/29/2003 brainwipe: Gaming in Pictures
Anyone ever taken pictures of a game in motion? We did for our Icar game - three years ago and I just found the pictures! Go to http://www.icar.co.uk Then on…
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Participants: brainwipe.

5/29/2003 hanschristianandersen: Charging ahead with 3e... here's why.
This post is meant as a spiritual cousin, and a response of sorts, to Jason's "Plodding away with 3e... why?" thread. So, last night a bunch of us took a…
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Participants: hanschristianandersen, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Nev the Deranged, Wolfen, Gordon C. Landis, Jeph, ADGBoss, Patrick O'Duffy.

5/30/2003 Tim C Koppang: Tim Runs Trollbabe
My first Trollbabe session is in the books. After missing DemonCon I had an insatiable desire to run something indie (actually I always have that desire). By the way, I…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, rafial, Alan, Bob McNamee.

5/30/2003 Alan: Players Changing Dice Results - survey and speculation
Hi all, Matt Gwinn's thread on Cheating and GNS triggered some thoughts for me about why I occasionally change dice in a game. As Matt's thread has wandered into a…
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Participants: Alan, Valamir, ScottM, Matt Wilson, Christopher Kubasik, rafial, Enoch, jdagna, John Kim, Dr. Velocity, talysman, TheGameBoy, NoShoes, clehrich, Bob McNamee.

5/31/2003 Delta1: Scene Framing
I have heard this term bandied about in relation to Sorcerer. I have no clue really what it means? Would anyone care to elaborate? Is someone reading a different set…
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Participants: Delta1, C. Edwards, Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Malechi, clehrich, joshua neff, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Ian Charvill, Alan, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Thor Olavsrud.

6/3/2003 Matt Wilson: I played Elfs; I feel dirty *wink*
Last night was a disturbingly fun game of Elfs run by Clinton at our Monday night gathering. I played a plain mean Elf named Wype, with (of course) an anal…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/3/2003 Tor Erickson: call to Bay Area players
Hi all, I'm about to move down to the East Bay in mid-June and was hoping to make some indie role-playing connections. Anybody in the Oakland/Berkeley area want to get…
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Participants: Tor Erickson, John Kim, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, James Holloway, Jay Turner, Scratchware, Ron Edwards.

6/4/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 4]
Session 4 of our Trollbabe campaign was our smoothest yet (the players are of course free to disagree). The only shortcoming from my perspective is that I went into this…
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Participants: rafial, John Harper.

6/5/2003 John Harper: [Universalis] Foxy Noir
We had one of our best Universalis games yet last night. "I want to play noir," quickly turned into a funkadelic detective story on the streets of New Orleans in…
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Participants: John Harper, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

6/5/2003 Jack Aidley: They're running away and chickening out...
So there was this nun, a woodsman and a petty criminal. It sounds like the setup for a joke, but is in fact my current party. I think I'd better…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Fabrice G., Scripty, arxhon, Lxndr, John Kim, Paul Czege, Ian Charvill, damion, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 Mike Holmes: Shadow World using Hero Wars
I stopped posting about this a while back, and indeed there was a long hiatus from this game. For those who might want to look back at it: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4194 But…
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Participants: Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Matt Wilson: Played Urge
I played a game of Urge last night, which is a Sorcerer mini-supplement by Clinton R. Nixon. There were two player characters in the story, and John "Feng" Harper was…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, Hafaza.

6/7/2003 Matt Gwinn: We are all elitist pigs!
Last week I nearly walked out of my D&D game. I was getting overly frustrated with players keeping secrets about their characters from other players (not characters). What started it…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Enoch, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Cassidy, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Jeph.

6/8/2003 Delta1: Getting ready- Writing the bangs!
I am on the verge of starting a Sorcerer game. I have a good idea of what scene framing is and am excited about trying out narrativist play. I have…
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Participants: Delta1, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Rob MacDougall.

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