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9/18/2003 garapata: Your thoughts please
Okay, I have been gaming with a number of players for many years now. So far, the oldest player I have has been gaming under me for 9 years. In…
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Participants: garapata, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, Marco, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris.

9/18/2003 Ron Edwards: [My Life with Master] Black ooze and babies
Hello, We started up our prep for My Life with Master last Sunday. Julie insisted, and it'll be a nice rest from Tunnels & Trolls for a while. I'd thought…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, Paul Czege.

9/18/2003 bcook1971: Spreading the Indie Virus
I had a very rewarding game session last Saturday. My group plays 1st ed. AD&D. Highlights Witnessed an unprompted shift to a more selfless, strategy-based approach by a risk-aversive…
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Participants: bcook1971.

9/17/2003 jburneko: Player-Character Seperation and Ninja Burger
Hello All, So, up in the Theory forum there has been a lot of discussion recently about the whole Player vs. Character issue and it suddenly occured to me that…
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Participants: jburneko, Rod Anderson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, quozl, Andrew Norris.

9/16/2003 Gethyn: Star Wars and Trainer Wheels
Hi folks I'm new to the board but I've been reading avidly for quite a while as an unregistered user. I was wondering if anyone was interested in hearing about…
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Participants: Gethyn, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Dana_mun, John Kim, bigsimon, RaconteurX.

9/15/2003 lumpley: Personal Relevance and Multi-PC Play
Up in Character and Our Weird Gamer Friends, Clinton wroteDoing this myself, I have specific characters that are: - Sad-About-Divorce Clinton - Really-Pissed-Off-Now-About-Divorce Clinton - Attracted-to-Friend's-Wife Clinton - Wishing-to-Enact-Justice-on-Loony-Parents Clinton…
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Participants: lumpley, cruciel.

9/15/2003 Jason: Donjon round 2
This round started at a bar, with a mage dressed completely in rat pelts asking for help retrieving his magic rat mask from the mages guild. The party didn't trust…
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Participants: Jason.

9/13/2003 johnzo: PTA: Imperivm Confidential
Salve! Thursday at UGX, we made characters for Imperivm Confidential--a purposefully anachronistic, noir-flavoured Imperial Rome miniseries run with the Prime Time Adventures ruleset. The characters are senior watchmen (or vigiles)…
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Participants: johnzo, Matt Wilson, Valamir.

9/13/2003 Anthony I: Just finished a game of Paladin
Like the title says, I just ran my first game of Paladin tonight. Everyone had a great time playing. A couple of provisos first though- I used almost all of…
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Participants: Anthony I.

9/11/2003 xiombarg: Unsung SWAT: KABOOM (aka session 2)
You might want to freshen up with the original thread. We added a new player, Dana, who was playing Alicia Tyloni, a sniper with rumored connections to the Mob... One…
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Participants: xiombarg, Lxndr, Dana_mun, Mike Holmes, suffusionofyellow.

9/10/2003 Ola J.: [My Life With Master] Lord Blackwell
Hi. In my first ever thread in my first ever post at the Forge (here ) I asked a question about My Life With Master, and got some every good…
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Participants: Ola J., Mike Holmes, Bryant, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

9/10/2003 Overdrive: Oldskool revisited
Tonight I had a chance to see how our group had been gaming for ages. We played Warhammer FRPG, a campaign that started some 5 years ago, very high power…
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Participants: Overdrive, Anthony I, Ola J., Catalyst.

9/10/2003 lumpley: Soothsaying
So it's a few Julys ago and I'm at an enormous pagan festival on the NY-PA border. Ellen Kushner is soothsaying. She's in the center of a circle of us…
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Participants: lumpley, ethan_greer, John, Perrina, Cemendur, ejh, MachMoth, contracycle, Meguey.

9/10/2003 BPetroff93: alternatives
Hey Matt, Check out Heroquest (formally Hero Wars) for a similar technique to your "card" method....my vote would be to import Heroquest into a D&D setting but, well, that's just…
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Participants: BPetroff93, Ron Edwards.

9/9/2003 rafial: Frightening the Horses
There have been numerous postings lately from folks who have become frustrated in trying to introduce "Forge ideas" into their regular play group, whether it be new games, GNS terminology,…
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Participants: rafial, John Kim.

9/9/2003 ethan_greer: I'm pissed off
So, over in this thread we're talking about my recent playtest of my game, Thugs and Thieves. This is a somewhat related yet stand-alone thread, hence the link. The reason…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, MachMoth, Marco, inthisstyle, David Chunn, Simon W, Ben Lehman, bcook1971, gobi, cruciel, Bankuei, RaconteurX.

9/8/2003 Anthony I: split from played d&d 3.5 thread
[quote]Tell me some things about the group in general (especially the DM): 1) What are their general reactions to other non-DnD RPG's? Especially ones they HAVEN'T played yet. [/quote] I…
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Participants: Anthony I, MachMoth, Bankuei, David Chunn.

9/5/2003 Ron Edwards: [Tunnels & Trolls] Gamism ain't for the faint of heart
Hello, Tunnels & Trolls proceeds, despite some summer downtime. Two of the characters are up to third level! And a good thing, too ... Since the last time I posted…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, David Chunn, ZenDog, Jack Aidley, pete_darby, Mulciber.

9/4/2003 talysman: "The Gamers" film as example of actual play
reading about the D&D3.5 assassination attempt reminded me of a DVD I watched recently made by an improv/film group called the Dead Gentlemen. the video was called "The Gamers" and…
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Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, rafial, MonkeyWrench, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Jeph, hyphz, quozl, MachMoth, Michael S. Miller.

9/4/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: SWAT (session 1)
Well, after all sorts of scheduling mishaps, I finally got to run Unsung tonight (Wednesday) on IRC. We used my latest draft of the ruleset: http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung_playtest.html The game surrounded a…
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Participants: xiombarg, MachMoth, Grover, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

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9/19/2003 Peter Nordstrand: Well of Souls 2
This is a continuation of this thread. Finally, we’ve set a date for playing this game. Originally I planned to start a new thread after the first session, which will…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Mike Holmes.

9/20/2003 johnzo: PTA: Imperivm Confidential Pilot Episode
Last night was our first game of Imperivm Confidential, our hardboiled Roman murder mystery miniseries. I first posted about IC in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7985 We're using Prime Time Adventures as our ruleset.…
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Participants: johnzo, Matt Wilson, Jeffrey Miller, rafial, John Harper, Alan.

9/20/2003 rafial: Savage Gamism
While one faction of UGAX (Ultimate Gamer Assembly X) walks the beat in ancient Rome, the rest of us have decided to give Savage Worlds a test drive by playing…
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Participants: rafial, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Hafaza, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

9/21/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: All My Children (split from Savage Gamism)
I picked up the All My Children board game (AMC). Mostly because it was a TSR product and probably has some ebay value but mostly, unlike more current soap opera…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.

9/22/2003 Eric J.: [Star Wars D6] Pyron's Woe's - Epilogue?
Well, I've done some stuff. I've had some fun. Guess what? I'm back here. I just want to say: Thank you Ron Edwards. Thank you Forge. I believe that I…
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Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Sinthrill, contracycle.

9/22/2003 Uber_Munchkin: [Very] Rough Outline for a Paladin World
Ok, maybe I should introduce myself to everyone before I go posting stuff here and there. Hi, I'm Steve. I live in the UK, I'm a gamer and occasionally an…
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Participants: Uber_Munchkin.

9/24/2003 Ace: Today, at least, I love my FLGS
Well I have spent a fair amount of time complaining about my FLGS Today at least I have nothing to complain about. They were if you will forgive the Gilbert…
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Participants: Ace, ethan_greer.

9/25/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: SWAT -- introspection (session 3)
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. This session was a lot slower and more introspective, but it got real interesting toward the end. http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung3_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung3_ooc.txt As…
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Participants: xiombarg, Dana_mun, suffusionofyellow, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 Gordon C. Landis: Shadows in the Fog - Sim?
John and I got started on a discussion of some actual play over in a theory thread , so I thought I'd move the discussion over here. quote="Gordon C.…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, John Kim.

9/25/2003 garapata: Changing the setting in-game
Okay, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the game EXALTED, published by WWGS. Now, for those unfamiliar, the game is more High epic fantasy than Dungeons and…
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Participants: garapata, Mike Holmes, iago.

9/25/2003 Tim Alexander: Haven: City of Violence
Hey Folks, So I stopped by Ron's campus club meeting on Tuesday, and he'd prepped a game of Haven:City of Violence. The whole meeting was a pretty interesting experience, there…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

9/27/2003 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer, 1st Game.
My group and I recently finished our first game of Sorcerer. I will admit that I'm to blame being the Forge head among us. This isn't the first Forge spawned…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Valamir, J B Bell, Jeph, Christopher Weeks.

9/27/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] Some not-heroes on IRC.
Tonight was mostly just a bit of setup. Three out of the four players hadn't played it before, and two of those didn't have the book, so time was spent…
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Participants: anonymouse, Paganini, Dana_mun.

9/29/2003 jeffd: Fading Suns - getting players to drive the plot
Periodically I solicit feedback from my players about the game, other players, my GMing, etc. One bit of feedback that was pretty consistent was that the players wanted to drive…
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Participants: jeffd, AnyaTheBlue, Ben Lehman, jburneko.

9/30/2003 Kraal: Call me stupid, but...
Hi, uhm, how do you go about buying both melee and missile wpns skills. Do split your vagaries between them, or do they both count as the max vagarie points?…
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Participants: Kraal, Ron Edwards.

9/30/2003 Jeph: I Need To Work On My Opening Scenes.
So, I started a D&D3e game on Sunday with a new group; three of which I'd never played with before and two of which were new to role-playing. The session…
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Participants: Jeph.

10/1/2003 Ron Edwards: [My Life with Master] Hell and heresy
Hello, Last spring, I ran a session of My Life with Master with the campus club, using a pre-print version of the game. A week ago, following our meeting which…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, GB Steve.

10/1/2003 ThunderCheetah: Starting a Role-Play Group
Okay, this is mostly for Ron, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Ever since I've left DePaul, I've been bereft of role-playing except for that one-day stint with LARP…
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Participants: ThunderCheetah, deadpanbob, Mike Holmes, Grex, Michael S. Miller.

10/1/2003 ThunderCheetah: InSpectres Grrrl version (reprise)
Yeah, I was reading this because I was feeling nostalgic. I still have that sketch of Zoomer as a chiuahiuah. Good times, Ron, good times!
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Participants: ThunderCheetah, Ron Edwards, RaconteurX, xiombarg, ejh, jburneko, Theron, David Chunn, Jonathan Walton.

10/2/2003 RaconteurX: Departing gracefully
From my own experience, I can tell you that departing gracefully is often a more powerful tool of rebuke than making a scene. Faced with a similar situation, I thanked…
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Participants: RaconteurX, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue, JamesDJIII.

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