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12/2/2003 Kaare Berg: [Burning Wheel] First light in a nordic land
I steal ideas. I never claim they are my own, but I steal ideas and use them shamelessly. Which is why I love this site, and why I figured I'd…
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Participants: Kaare Berg, abzu, taepoong, Christopher Weeks, Paka, drozdal.

12/2/2003 Paganini: [indie-netgamin] Pag's Dragon Game
I need a name for this game. Yup, yup, I do. Because I think it's gonna be worth keeping. Has "Draconum" been taken? Anyway, we made characters, and one scene…
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Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, contracycle.

12/1/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Frickin Elven Princes
We had another small and short session last night. We only had three players and we were missing one from the main arc of the "Tristam goes north saga", so…
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Participants: abzu, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Valamir, BirdMan.

11/30/2003 jeffd: [Shooting Stars] Trademarked Actions
Foreward: This isn't about game systems or anything - it's really just a quick observation about something I've done in a game I'm playing in. Background: Shooting Stars (as it…
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Participants: jeffd, Mark D. Eddy, MachMoth.

11/24/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Turning North
So this week's game was a classic problematic game situation. Of the six players from last session, only three could make it to this session. In this session I had…
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Participants: abzu, taepoong, rafial.

11/21/2003 ks13: Inspiration from disappointing gameplay
The last bit of actual roleplaying that I undertook was not very rewarding or satisfying bit of gaming, but it probably was the most positive thing that could have happened…
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Participants: ks13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, cruciel, Walt Freitag, Scripty.

11/18/2003 Lisa Padol: How Many Assassins?
Another part of Saturday's session involved the PCs learning that someone was trying to assassinate one of their number. Now, this is a band, Age of Consent, and the target…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, John Kim, Valamir, Walt Freitag.

11/18/2003 MachMoth: Narration D20 - First Run
I mentioned this concept sometime ago. I wanted to take a group of people that had only played D&D, and expand their horizons a bit. And so, they agreed to…
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Participants: MachMoth, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris.

11/18/2003 ScottM: [MLwM] Irish Mines: First Game Session
This game follows the setup in Irish Mines: Setup. We started play last night. It was interesting, and some of the particular problems that I thought we'd encounter didn't actually…
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Participants: ScottM, jrs.

11/18/2003 LordSmerf: [Freak High] Undead Vermin and Mind Control
So since the planned Indie Netgaming stuff fell through tonight we decided to play Freak High. It was anonymouse's suggestion, but he bailed on us (i'm hoping technical stuff, and…
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Participants: LordSmerf.

11/17/2003 Emily Care: more adventures in improvised system: techniques
Hey folks, Time for some follow up on this thread, of Vincent's. (Tough act to follow, man!) We finished the plot arc that session was a part of, and I…
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Participants: Emily Care, bluegargantua, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Jeph, cruciel, Meguey, Christopher Weeks, Minx.

11/17/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Charge Through the Rabble!
We had a wild and many-feathered Burning Wheel session last night. This episode was a continuation of the last one I posted — the players had tracked their enemy to…
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Participants: abzu, LordSmerf, drozdal, taepoong.

11/17/2003 Lisa Padol: Martian Eyes Strike Again
Oy. Ran a larp with Josh and with Stephen Tihor last week. Utterly exhausting, but we did it. Meanwhile, I continue to be grateful for the examples in Sorcerer and…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards.

11/16/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: First table-top playtest
Ran my first table-top game of ReCoil today. Didn't get to finish the mission, but it was a good start. Dunno when we'll get a chance to play again, as…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

11/13/2003 jammmer81: Looking for inspiration
Hi all! I'm having a bit of a creative block. I'm playing in 2 games a week. The games we play alternate. I was running a D6 Matrix game, but…
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Participants: jammmer81, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin.

11/13/2003 Tomas HVM: [query]Could you create a RPG-whirlwind?
I've had an idea, and would like you to give some comment on it. Let me give you the background first: Some years ago I went to a marionette-show with…
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Participants: Tomas HVM, Eero Tuovinen.

11/12/2003 Green: the game designer gloating thread
Hi, guys! I just started this thread as a place for game designers to tell about the results of their developing games on the Forge and publishing them, a place…
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Participants: Green, xiombarg, Jake Norwood, Tomas HVM, Eero Tuovinen, gobi, Ron Edwards, abzu.

11/12/2003 nerdnyc: [Burning Wheel] - No Pasaran!
Sunday I am starting a Spanish Civil War campaign using the Burning Wheel Game system - adapted for the setting. Luke Crane has been a great help with answering questions…
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Participants: nerdnyc, Mike Holmes, abzu, taepoong.

11/11/2003 jburneko: [7th Sea] A Harlequin Romance
Someone on RPG.net once started a very amusing thread where people listed what they thought various RPGs would be if they weren't RPGs. Someone posted, "7th Sea: If it wasn't…
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Participants: jburneko, Ian Charvill.

11/11/2003 Loki: diagnose my group
I've been reading some of the threads and articles on the site and I'm thinking about my game group with an eye toward making play more fun. We're in a…
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Participants: Loki, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII, Mike Holmes, ScottM, Tim Alexander.

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12/3/2003 Paka: Universalis as a Pre-RPG Setting Maker (Sort of)
This is a spin-off of Andy's thread which is a spin-off of Ralph's thread on RPG.net. I didn't want to hi-jack Andy's thread with my tale of woe. I was…
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Participants: Paka.

12/4/2003 Ben Lehman: Chorus d20
Hi all-- This is a post about a 1-shot game I ran recently for two of my gaming friends from Providence (both part of Brown's Gaming group, but neither --…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Russell Hoyle.

12/5/2003 GreatWolf: [Legends of Alyria] The Bag Strikes Back
The Bag Strikes Again I spent the last week in Erie, visiting family, and one of the planned events was to do some roleplaying. Originally we had intended to pursue…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Jason L Blair.

12/6/2003 Harlequin: [MLwM] At Seven Bells - Setup
So tonight all the ingredients for the My Life With Master game discussed in this thread have come together - the game book arrived last week, the core players were…
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Participants: Harlequin, Paul Czege.

12/6/2003 RaconteurX: Abused Player Syndrome II (split)
Apologies to one and all, being still a relative newcomer, but it seems to me that the aforementioned SEAL player is nothing more than the end product of extreme Gamist…
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Participants: RaconteurX, Ron Edwards, hyphz.

12/6/2003 Mr. Spooky: Profiling add-on (split)
Most recently played: -Mage: Sorceror's Crusade -Vampire -Game set in "Firefly" universe, using QAGS Most Enjoyed: -Ficton Superhero game (Homebrew, went through several systems) -Kreos Fantasy game (Another homebrew, multiple…
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Participants: Mr. Spooky, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2003 John Burdick: Bumpy Exalted game
I'm thinking about developing a situation for my Exalted group. We've had some false starts with player dropouts, and I've lost my mental momentum. I'd like to talk about how…
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Participants: John Burdick, Eero Tuovinen, wyrdlyng, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Thor Olavsrud, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

12/7/2003 lumpley: Adventures in Shared Character Vision
[b]It's over a year ago...[/b] "Hey, has everybody else noticed that Vincent's not playing any of the covenfolk?" Meg says. "Y'know, I had noticed that," says Emily. "I've been wondering…
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Participants: lumpley, Valamir, Meguey, Matt Wilson, bluegargantua, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, cruciel, Gordon C. Landis.

12/8/2003 jeffd: Fancy-Schmancy Character Backgrounds
This is something I've noticed in a lot of my play group up here. It's something I'm wondering about so I'm bringing it to the Forge to discuss. I GM…
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Participants: jeffd, Ron Edwards, Valamir, anonymouse, MachMoth, Ben Morgan, Loki, John Kim.

12/9/2003 lumpley: Further More Adventures in Improvised System
Here's one that went really well! Our characters are young, inexperienced, politically radical outsider mages we've never played before. We brainstorm: they're Gypsies, they've turned their back on the Order…
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Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

12/10/2003 Ben Lehman: Charnel Gods
"Escape the sorrow and restraint of mortal cities..." (If you are one of my players for this game, please don't read. It will spoil some surprise.) Hi all-- I'm prepping…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, hardcoremoose, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/11/2003 Paka: Riddle of Midnight
[b]Character Creation and Game Background Set-up[/b] When a buddy of mine, JJ, broke his hip last year I began a game with him, set in Fantasy Flight Game's Midnight setting,…
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Participants: Paka, MonkeyWrench, DaGreatJL, Rob MacDougall, Sigurth, Valamir.

12/11/2003 JC: [FVLMINATA] What do I look like to you ?
ave :) first of all : I just got the 2nd ed. book, and it's great ! now here's my question about slaves : what keeps them from running away…
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Participants: JC, Michael S. Miller, Alan, Jason E. Roberts, John Kim.

12/12/2003 GB Steve: [MLwM] Killing Puppies for Santa
I ran a mad game tonight and it was pretty brutal. We finished it in just over three hours with 3 1/2 players (one had to leave halfway through to…
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Participants: GB Steve, ethan_greer, Emily Care, Bob McNamee, abzu.

12/12/2003 Matt Snyder: Stormbringer forgery
I'm trying to piece together a VERY house-rules-ized version of the Stormbringer rules for some good ol' fantasy gaming with a few newer twists. (I'm going to talk about meta-mechanics…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, hix, John Kim, Andrew Martin, C. Edwards.

12/12/2003 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Hard Times in Tarshish
Our Burning Wheel campaign at UGX is now in its third session, of a planned eight. The first session was joint setting and character creation, the second and third sessions…
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Participants: rafial, johnzo, Yasha, abzu.

12/15/2003 kalyptein: seeking methods for "Plot Framing"
After the holidays, my group will be starting a new game, a space opera adventure using a slight mod of Feng Shui. As I was jotting down adventure seeds, I…
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Participants: kalyptein, bifevo, Roy, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

12/16/2003 Harlequin: [MLwM] At Seven Bells - Framing/Pacing?
At Seven Bells (see the setup here) played its first real session on Friday, and I found myself with mixed feelings both about my own ability to run the game…
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Participants: Harlequin, jrs, Mike Holmes, GB Steve, Valamir.

12/16/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Wild Magic
We recently switched from our Tiernikan campaign (european medieval fantasy) back to our main (and long running) Orphans game (korean/japanese/chinese with a dash of western fantasy). The players are playing…
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Participants: abzu, rafial, johnzo, taepoong, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, DaGreatJL, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/17/2003 Bankuei: D&D 3.0- Gamism ain't easy...
Hi folks, Last few weeks I've been running an ongoing series of D&D 3.0 one shots. Each session is a self contained adventure/mission, with no real connection between them. Play…
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Participants: Bankuei, MachMoth, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Andrew Norris.

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