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6/15/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Elfs: Wee-ooo! What's that stench? (long)
Set-up: Ran Elfs today. Bit of background first. The players were: the wife, a guy, Brian, from the game I had just left. He the fellow who's recently moved back…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, greyorm, C. Edwards, brianm, Jeph.

6/12/2003 ScottM: Universalis for the first time
We played Universalis for the first time. This post covers "what happened"-- in the next I'll link to a couple of "good to read before your first time" kind of…
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Participants: ScottM, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, John Harper.

6/12/2003 taalyn: No Myth and the Lost
So, I finally found my way to investigate No Myth. This is how I always GM (my players even have a habit of saying "Quit giving the GM ideas!"). I'm…
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Participants: taalyn, Bankuei.

6/11/2003 rafial: A Tale of Three Trollbabes [session 5 & coda]
The last installment of our planned 5 session Trollbabe campaign has come and gone. It was a relatively short session, a little over 2 hours, as the players chose to…
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Participants: rafial.

6/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Gen Con Games after hours
In this thread on the Adept Press forum I listed and experiment. Go see it there. It lead me, however, to the inevitable question-- What games am I playing and…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, joshua neff.

6/10/2003 mike: Am I a Simulationist or not?
This is my first post to the boards, although I've been reading essays and poking around for a while now. I've got a lot of ideas swimming around in my…
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Participants: mike, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir.

6/8/2003 Matt Gwinn: Wide Angle Gaming
In this post HERE I brought up the question of elitism in gaming. The example I used degenerated the thread into a discussion on keeping secrets from other players. I…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Alan, Lxndr, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr, ADGBoss, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, lumpley.

6/8/2003 signoftheserpent: review request: wushu
i am interested in finding reviews on Wushu or similar articles. this is posted here because i dont know where else it should be. thank you.
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Participants: signoftheserpent, Brand_Robins, John Harper.

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.

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.

6/6/2003 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.

6/5/2003 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.

6/5/2003 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 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.

6/4/2003 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.

6/3/2003 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.

6/3/2003 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.

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.

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.

5/30/2003 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.

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6/16/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Exalted: Searching For My Face
In a game of Exalted I started up recently, I decided to try and flex some of those Forge theory muscles, and recieved absolutely brilliant results. I was totally floored…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

6/16/2003 jburneko: 7th Sea: Children of the Withered Rose
Hello All, I've been kind of quiet in Actual Play for a while. Both of my regular groups are still rolling along but I wanted to let both games simmer…
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Participants: jburneko, Paul Czege.

6/18/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Thoughts on kibitzing.
kibitz n 1. To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others. 2. To chat; converse. kibitz v 1. make unwanted and intrusive comments I noticed something in…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, cruciel, Julie, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Emmett, inthisstyle, jdagna, Comte, Ben Morgan, xiombarg, Jack Aidley, Paul Czege, mikeryan, Ian Charvill, Dave Panchyk, Ron Edwards.

6/21/2003 xiombarg: Lusting After Jesus, Part II: To Hell (Pretender Playtest)
A while back, I ran a second session of Pretender, with some rules modes I suggested in the previous thread, which you might want to check out to refresh your…
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Participants: xiombarg.

6/24/2003 Drastic: InSpectres: the Case of the Missing Investors
Some actual play for InSpectres: Prep time consisted of a couple minutes printing out the pdf at the office the night before--after that, I didn't even think about it until…
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Participants: Drastic, Jared A. Sorensen, Dr. Velocity, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

6/24/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel: von Goten's Predicament
I took my first chance to spin The Wheel tonight, running the demo adventure available from the website (and kindly included in printed form with my copy of the game).…
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Participants: rafial, Jack Spencer Jr, abzu, amnesiack.

6/26/2003 Nev the Deranged: the Continuum
If this post is in the wrong place, feel free to move it to wherever is appropriate, with my apologies! Thanks! I've ressurrected the Continuum at the following addy: www.lostthoughts.org/thecontinuum…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Christopher Kubasik, Lxndr, efindel.

6/26/2003 efindel: Ninja Burger!
This is a slightly edited repost of a post I made on the Indie-Netgaming Yahoo list. For those not familiar with it, Ninja Burger is a comedy RPG from the…
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Participants: efindel, Mad-Eye Moody, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee, GreatWolf, hyphz.

6/27/2003 rafial: Burning Wheel: von Goten Redeux
I reran the BW demo adventure (von Goten's Predicament) for a different audience last night. Again, I had two players (James and Matt), this time they selected the Dwarf and…
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Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, drozdal.

6/28/2003 Michael Hopcroft: HeartQuest in Indie-Netgaming
Paganini is running HeartQuest on the indie-Netgaming chat forum and has run at least one session in the Sendai Academy shoujo campaign. I'm sure he could use more players, and…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paganini, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, James V. West.

6/28/2003 Bryant: Wushu Run
I ran Wushu for our monthly quasi-indie one-shot gaming group last night; here are some unorganized thoughts about how it went. Setting The setting was a grimmish near future. The…
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Participants: Bryant, Jeph, Brand_Robins.

6/30/2003 kwill: Not A Harry Potter Book Review (bit long)
Following is a report on me running a demo game (JK Rowling & the Pyramid of Puzzles) at a bookstore for non-gamers (kids), something that has been discussed at the…
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Participants: kwill, Clay, John Kim, Marco.

6/30/2003 Jeffrey Straszheim: Hot Trollbabe Action!
We played this over the weekend. Things went pretty well. We continued for about two hours before stopping. Here are some details. Cast Me: The GM. Bridget (my wife): Player…
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Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Bob McNamee.

7/2/2003 Mike Holmes: My Life with Master: Origins
Well, Origins was a great time, as usual. Late one evening I found myself in a hotel room with a bunch of folks, and we were trying to decide on…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Matt Snyder, Valamir, Alan, Matt Wilson, Paul Czege, TSL, Jared A. Sorensen, xiombarg, Nick Pagnucco, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Paul's Girl, Bob McNamee, Comte.

7/4/2003 brianm: Social contract stuff Diaries of a Dysfunctional group
Summary Part 1 Email from the GM informing all players that when we show up next we will be playing new game of his choice Part 2 Email from a…
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Participants: brianm, Dr. Velocity, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Marco, Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Alan, Mike Holmes.

7/4/2003 BPetroff93: Introducing Narritive gaming to the ol' group
Hey Guys (93, to those who know), Long time reader, 1st time post. After reading Sorcerer (thank you Ron), I started to realize that I wasn't dissatisfied with my hobby,…
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Participants: BPetroff93, Roy, Wolfen, Dave Panchyk, Bob McNamee, Comte, jdagna, Ben Morgan, WDFlores.

7/7/2003 SFEley: Impromptu InSpectres
Hey all, Short-time reader, first-time poster. I thought this would amuse the crowd here as an account of a first-time InSpectres game that generally succeeded despite some concerted efforts to…
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Participants: SFEley, hix, Dr. Velocity, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

7/8/2003 xiombarg: social contract stuff -- another thread
Since people seem to be talking about this sort of thing, check this out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/xiombarg/306814.html Be sure to read the commentary as well. My current plan is to sit the…
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Participants: xiombarg, ADGBoss.

7/8/2003 Ron Edwards: [Tunnels & Trolls] Half-elves are poncy nancy-boys
Hello, See previous threads Killed me a player-character (spit) and Second level characters. We've played a couple of sessions since my last posts…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, hanschristianandersen, GreatWolf, ADGBoss, Alan, jdagna, ethan_greer, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, Gordon C. Landis, Hunter Logan, jrs, contracycle, efindel, Jeff Klein, Bankuei, rafial, ejh, ZenDog, Danforth, Storn.

7/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-con
Some friends came up over a few days and we played a bunch of games. we didn't actually finish any of the stories we started (too bad), but we did…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei.

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