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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.

7/4/2003 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.

7/4/2003 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.

7/2/2003 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.

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.

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.

6/28/2003 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.

6/28/2003 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.

6/27/2003 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.

6/26/2003 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.

6/26/2003 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.

6/24/2003 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.

6/24/2003 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.

6/21/2003 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.

6/18/2003 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.

6/16/2003 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.

6/16/2003 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.

6/2/2003 Malechi: Profiling June 2003
Three Most Recent: 1) D&D3e 2) CoC 3) The End d20 Best: 1) CoC 2) The End d20 3) Spycraft Most Wanted: 1) The Riddle of Steel 2) Nobilis (own…
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Participants: Malechi, Dr. Velocity, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, wyrm.

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.

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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.

7/11/2003 Matt Wilson: Danger Patrol to the Rescue
Last night began a three-game playtest of ShootingIron Design's upcoming game, Danger Patrol. You can see some cool stylin's and art for the game at www.dangerpatrol.com. Danger Patrol is a…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, DaR, Ron Edwards, John Harper, ejh, Andrew Martin.

7/12/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Really Creative Adventure Starters
Hey all, This is just a post for people to post any really creative/interesting/original ways theyve started their adventures in games. Although im not at a complee loss for good,…
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Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Alan, Mike Holmes.

7/13/2003 pahessel: T&T to Empire of the Petal Throne
Duh-oh! After all these years, I finally "get" T&T! All those complex variants intended to let closely-matched blokes with gobs of dice and doubled armor finish a fight without having…
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Participants: pahessel, Ron Edwards, Simon W.

7/13/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Help me keep Brian from doing something regretable.
The situation with the other group for Brian outlined in the Social contract stuff Diaries of a Dysfunctional group thread has gone downhill, at least for Brian. Jerry laid it…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Hunter Logan, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, brianm, Alan, Valamir, J B Bell.

7/13/2003 greyorm: Narrative 3E: Real Time & Effects on Play
After a lengthy spat of little-to-no posting, I'm finding I have more time again lately to do more than peruse the boards, and with that time, I figured it was…
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Participants: greyorm, Mike Holmes.

7/14/2003 Jürgen Mayer: NURD aftershow report
Hey everyone, it seems that I survived the ninth incarnation of my comfy little local con NURD (Nurembergs Ultimate Roleplaying Disaster) - and it was a blast. Approximately 120-150 eager…
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes.

7/16/2003 Marco: Can you do that!?
I'm running a Savage World's game for a group with some new-gamers and some experienced ones (and it's been non-functional in terms of getting started--there's a whole interesting story here…
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Participants: Marco, gobi, rafial.

7/16/2003 Matt Wilson: More Uni: "Your pole-dancing ability definitely applies
Another Tuesday night Universalis game, and more good stuff. As John will probably agree, this group tends to do a lot of socializin' that limits the amount of time left…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, rafial, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Meredith, Ron Edwards.

7/16/2003 Scripty: Importance of Characters
Hi. I'm mostly a lurker here, but I've run up against a wall in my last few campaigns. I could really use some solid advice from you guys (and girls)…
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Participants: Scripty, Ron Edwards, Marco, cruciel, Harsh Tranquility, Jeph, Ben Morgan, Ian Charvill, Gary_Bingham, Kaare Berg, ScottM, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Dr. Velocity, anonymouse, Clay, Lxndr, Paul Czege, SeanFrank, Dave Panchyk, johnzo.

7/17/2003 Ian O'Rourke: Concept to Actual Play
I’ll warn everyone now, this may ramble a bit, and it may come to pass that numerous problems are identified rather than just one, but work with me and see…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Alan, Marco, Paul Czege, jdagna, Valamir.

7/17/2003 Jack Aidley: Dracula was Father Christmas!
So I decided to take a bit of a break from my usual game, and run a brief 'jaunt'. I wanted to experiment with giving the players more in the…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes.

7/17/2003 Franklin11Hour: Question about Riddle of Steel Rules
Ok I got everything down pat except for Proficiencies. Say I have the priority that gives me 6 points to distribute. Now what? In my character designing, I put 3…
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Participants: Franklin11Hour, Jake Norwood, Durgil, Valamir, Morfedel, Brian Leybourne, The GM, Draigh.

7/18/2003 Matt Wilson: More Danger Patrol! The Mad Professor Landig
Last night we picked up where my character, Dr. Langston Bradbury, had just realized who we were up against. I spent the ten Action chips I had saved up, and…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, rafial, John Harper.

7/19/2003 Yasha: Hero Wars in Tzaa
Our Thursday Night Group has grown into Ultimate Gamer Assembly X, currently a group with seven players -- soon to expand to eight or nine, I hear. Because of the…
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Participants: Yasha, Hafaza, Mike Holmes, johnzo, Blake Hutchins, contracycle, epweissengruber.

7/20/2003 taalyn: Crux in playtest
Hey all, I've been playtesting Crux for about a month now, and introduced some new players last night. Here's what's been going on, and some thoughts sparked as a result:…
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Participants: taalyn.

7/20/2003 Dave Panchyk: Hârn +6C character generation
After considerable discussion and informal social contract forging, my Hârn game began today with character creation and backstory. Despite being inspired by Scripty's great thread, I didn't leave in a…
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Participants: Dave Panchyk, ADGBoss.

7/21/2003 Chris Passeno: [Columbus Roleplayers Club] TROS
The Meet and Greet went very well this last Sunday. Our club now numbers 3 people, with another two possibles. Me and Colen have been gaming together for a few…
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Participants: Chris Passeno, Valamir, hyphz, Lebo77, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Colen_Stapleton, Wolfen, DaGreatJL.

7/23/2003 Buddha Nature: Things that make you go hmmm...
So I just started playing a "real" (aka not IRC) game for the first time in like 1+ years. It is the same old game my group always plays: d20/DnD…
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Participants: Buddha Nature, ethan_greer.

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