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7/30/2003 ejh: My Life With Master: The Alienist.
First report on gaming over lunch with guys from work. The Master is a Brain and a Teacher/Feeder. He is a mad psychiatrist who uses bizarre equipment to suck initiative…
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Participants: ejh, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Brian Leybourne, iago.

7/30/2003 Palaskar: "Expert" Players for better Simulation
I've been toying in my RPG, Signature, with the idea of having expert players take over GM responsibilities for certain facets of a given game. For example, I know a…
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Participants: Palaskar, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, James Holloway, Heather Manley, Ron Edwards, iago.

7/30/2003 Dev: Active Exploits: a space western (or something)
(This is part a request for help from more experienced GMs, part a playtest report. I will update this thread as the sessions develop. I'm indeed a neophyte GM, so…
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Participants: Dev, Mike Holmes.

7/29/2003 Tim C Koppang: "My Life With Master" demo at GenCon
I only personally demoed one game at the Forge booth at GenCon, and it was the very hush hush release: My Life With Master.* Kudos to Paul for flagging me…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, ejh, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2003 iago: Fate - Miskatonic Mayhem - Flashbacks in Gaming
I'm running a Fate game called Miskatonic Mayhem, basically a Buffy game set in Arkham at Miskatonic University, where the Mythos and the Buffyverse have been on a collision course…
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Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

7/28/2003 ejh: My Life With Master at GenCon
In this blog entry I discuss the pickup game of My Life With Master I played with a few friends, the evening after I bought it and demoed it. In…
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Participants: ejh, nate, Paul Czege.

7/26/2003 Overdrive: We played The Pool!!
And My God What Great Time We Had! I started the game yesterday describing the setting ('darkish fantasy', no more) and the character concepts. The two PC's were a masterthief…
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Participants: Overdrive, Mad-Eye Moody, James V. West.

7/25/2003 John Kim: Shadows in the Fog playtest
Last weekend we playtested "Shadows in the Fog", by Chris Lehrich. I was GM. Players were Gordon Landis, Tor Erikson, Liz Henry, Bill Humphries, Jim Chokey, and Guin Boostrom. This…
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Participants: John Kim, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes.

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.

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.

7/20/2003 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.

7/20/2003 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.

7/19/2003 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.

7/18/2003 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.

7/17/2003 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.

7/17/2003 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 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.

7/16/2003 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.

7/16/2003 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 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.

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7/31/2003 xiombarg: social contract issues [update]
Some people wanted to know how things went with my group with regard to what was going on in this thread. So, we had the big talk I wanted to…
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Participants: xiombarg, ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, The_Confessor, Mike Holmes.

8/1/2003 Overdrive: InSpectres in play
Generally we all had a great time. Probably the most funniest rpg session ever :) The franchise was put together by Fox, an antiquarian with no technical talent, and Aaron,…
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Participants: Overdrive, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood.

8/2/2003 lumpley: Side-scrolling Anthropomorphic Limbo Universalis!
Last night was the time of anthropomorphic animals competing in the world limbo championship, side-scrolling video game style. It was tons of fun. I'm going to zoom in on the…
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Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/2/2003 Trevis Martin: Shadows - Actual Play from indie-netgaming.
Last night those of us hanging in the indie netgaming social irc (#indierpgs) room did a pick up game of Zak Arneston's Shadows. A creepy good time was had by…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, C. Edwards, Lxndr.

8/3/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Actual Playtest on Indie-Netgaming
So I actually got to run this here game I designed. Kind of unusual that I'm putting it out here for you all before I'd played it myself, but I've…
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Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

8/5/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Kyuseisha: Su-pa- Shin-Pureitesuto!
Hey all- This is Actual Play, usually reserved for tellings of sessions of a particular RPG or other. I'm in the middle of playtesting a game (Kyuseisha), and I figure…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jeph, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

8/5/2003 C. Edwards: Paladin: Kingdom Come
So, I bought the Paladin PDF the other day after some discussion in the Indie Netgaming irc channel of what systems might be good for “dark” role-playing. The PDF was…
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Participants: C. Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, RobMuadib, Lxndr, Paganini.

8/6/2003 hyphz: Request for Play of Whispering Vault
Just before I go nuts on RPGNow, does anyone have any opinions of this game? The two complaints I've heard elsewhere were that a) the dice system makes PCs fail…
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Participants: hyphz, Ron Edwards, Philippe Tromeur.

8/6/2003 Tim Alexander: Non-linear Sorcerer (split)
So Dav, I sort of missed the first go 'round with this thread, but I have to say I'm fascinated. I want to see if I've got you right, when…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

8/6/2003 Thor Olavsrud: An Exalted Ghost Story
Following a truly excellent session on Sunday, I've started thinking about a question that I'll put forward here: How much do our expectations, as GMs, guide our players' decision-making, even…
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Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/8/2003 JamesDJIII: The Not-As-Angry Pinball
This is a response to the last post in: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5962&highlight= Ron: I would have to say that the pain experience in "not" versus "bad" is a personal one, and that…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Marco.

8/8/2003 Matt Wilson: Donjon Post-Apocalypse
Last night started a short run of Donjon inspired by both Gamma World and the Fallout series of computer games. The characters are from a village where the children are…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, John Harper, Hafaza.

8/8/2003 Bryant: UA & Trollbabe
So we tried something a little different in our Unknown Armies game last night. One of the players is moving away (sniff), so we wanted to wrap up his PC's…
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Participants: Bryant, Jere.

8/8/2003 Jeffrey Miller: My Life With Master - First session
MLWM play summary Last night I had the opportunity to run my first session of My Life With Master as a GM, and it was a blast. Some snippets of…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, iago, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/8/2003 TheSawh: Hogwarts RPG: O.W.L.s for Britain
Ladies and Gents; After much labor, my Harry Potter role-playing game 'O.W.L.s for Britain' is at last launching! I have built the game system from scratch, and it is very…
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Participants: TheSawh.

8/9/2003 Overdrive: Dialogue during narration
Hey all, Suppose you're playing some game that allows players to narrate conflicts, outcomes of actions and whatnot. There is an NPC in the scene, a player gets to narrate.…
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Participants: Overdrive, Jack Spencer Jr, Simon W, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, ks13, Marco, Jeph, Clay, rafial, Mike Holmes.

8/11/2003 Rico: Problem with being the Seneschal
I have a couple of problems actualy. 1. When I'm the Seneschal I have a hard time keeping the game real. For just one scenario I tried to play by…
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Participants: Rico, Kaare Berg, Drastic, Jake Norwood, contracycle, Krammer, Wolfen, MonkeyWrench, Noon.

8/11/2003 eudas: fudging dice rolls
I think alot of comments by others here are fairly accurate reasons as to why players would fudge dice rolls, but the one that I think is most common is…
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Participants: eudas, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, Marco, xiombarg, GB Steve, efindel.

8/11/2003 eudas: my $0.02
Personally, I tend to prefer gaming around a table (the larger, the better, within reason) with overhead lights -- I like the focused sense that it lends to the game.…
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Participants: eudas, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, Ben Morgan, Alan.

8/11/2003 Peter Nordstrand: Well of Souls 1
Hi, I have just finished the character generation session for Well of Souls. I would love to hear some input from you people here at The Forge. Well of Souls…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

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