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1/2/2004 urbanpagan: Sacrifice the character or the story?
My apologies if this has been covered before on these boards but I am new here and have not yet had the opportunity to peruse everything here yet. After talking…
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Participants: urbanpagan, Lxndr, abzu, Wolfen, Technocrat13, Gordon C. Landis, jdagna, John Kim, greyorm, clehrich, S'mon.

1/2/2004 jphannil: Chaos & Order, first playtest
The first playtest session of Chaos & Order was a quick-possibility one-shot game with my brother and my cousin through IRC. The players are quite min/maxers and diablo freaks so…
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Participants: jphannil.

12/31/2003 lumpley: Adventures in RGFA Simulationism
This is a long time ago, like a couple years, but there's a lull in the game. Something resolved, we sit back and what's next? "Well-" Meg says. "I climb…
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Participants: lumpley.

12/30/2003 Bob McNamee: Universalis Arena- multiple target Complications
Heh, things are going well over in the Universalis Arena game. http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/TUA/TheUniversalisArena We still would like to get even more players involved. Its running pretty nice so far, with about…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, ScottM.

12/30/2003 Tim Alexander: [Dust Devils] Malt and Tease, Final
Hey Folks, After a bit of a hiatus the group and I gathered again to finish up the DD story that began here and continues here. Unfortunately though, the group…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2003 abzu: [Burning Wheel] Character Burning Session: Motivation
I had an amazing character burning session the other night. I was visiting my family and my brother and I were introducing one of his friends to the game. (they're…
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Participants: abzu, Paul Czege, taepoong, rafial.

12/29/2003 LordSmerf: [My Life With Master] University Days
This is a direct transcript of my first MLwM game. The notes include our explaination and brainstorming session as well as our actual Pregame and first play session. Hopefully i'll…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Paul Czege, Bob McNamee.

12/29/2003 Kaare Berg: [Burning wheel] Trial and tribulations - Very verbose
It was time for our third session and this time I was woefully unprepared. Our two previous sessions can be found here http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8854 and here http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9079. A brief recap Three…
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Participants: Kaare Berg, abzu.

12/29/2003 Warrior Kal: Need help finding!!!!
[b]I play an online free multi playa rpg called Rune Scape!! Its great and it saves your data and has a big world. Its just that when i die i…
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Participants: Warrior Kal.

12/26/2003 AdAstraGames: [Ten Worlds RPG] Alpha Test of Combat
I have an RPG in development for Ten Worlds, the setting for the Attack Vector line of games. In mechanics, it owes a lot to Jake Norwood's Riddle of Steel,…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Andrew Martin.

12/25/2003 LordSmerf: [Universalis] Lessons learned
So tuesday night we played a game of Universalis. The group consisted of: Me. about 7 games WW. about 5 games JG. about 6 games NL. about 5 games PW.…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards, rafial, Christopher Kubasik, TW, Paul Czege, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

12/22/2003 Kaare Berg: [Burning Wheel] Troll Winter - longish
They are beginning to get it. Finally they are beginning to get it. But I am getting ahead of myself. My group had our second BW session last night and…
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Participants: Kaare Berg, abzu, taepoong, Jeph.

12/22/2003 bcook1971: [TROS] Help! How to promote progress in discovery.
Hello. My gaming group is in the middle of a TROS campaign right now. My Seneschal places priority on discovery as a means of progress. I see the following ends…
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Participants: bcook1971, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hyphz.

12/20/2003 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Fear and Loathing in Tarshish
I used our third session of BW to address the "intimidation" regarding the combat system that several players had expressed in the previous thread. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8985 After framing some opening scenes…
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Participants: rafial, abzu, Alan, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

12/20/2003 Simon W: Saving the World in a Groovy Kind of Way
I finally got around to running a session of Matt Macell's The Agency last night. We were due to play one of our favourites (Amber Diceless), but one player couldn't…
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Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, Warrior Kal, Ron Edwards, Matt.

12/20/2003 bluegargantua: Killing Christmas Puppies
okay, so, i ran kill puppies for satan tonight. tonight i was guided by lord lumpley's tarnished rule: in kpfs, prepping a plot is a complete and total waste of…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Zathreyel, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards, Bryant, lumpley, Meguey.

12/19/2003 Matt Wilson: [the Puddle] Crimson Skies Pulp Action
I officially dig any game that requires very little preparation from anyone. Enter the Puddle, which we opted for last night in the absence of one player and presence of…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Mike Holmes, Loki, Cassidy.

12/18/2003 Steve Dustin: Sorcerer in Iraq
I'm running a Sorcerer one-shot on Monday, and would appreciate some feedback on the prep I've done so far. It's set in Iraq, about a week before Saddam's capture. This…
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Participants: Steve Dustin, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Jeph.

12/17/2003 Calithena: Can I get a game rec?
Okay, so one of my best players is going to start playing a new game with me. His character is a shapeshifter. I first went to Sorcerer, because I've been…
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Participants: Calithena, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, RaconteurX, Clinton R. Nixon, Anthony I, Rob MacDougall, Michael S. Miller, Shadetree.

12/17/2003 Jeph: How I got into role-playing.
Clay would always play a wizard of some sort. Max liked being a dwarf, and Patrick would be a guy with a sword. I'd usually play a thief, and sam…
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Participants: Jeph, rafial, Emily Care, Peter Nordstrand, Calithena, Valamir, quozl, Brian Leybourne.

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1/4/2004 Paganini: Pag's Dragon Game - Again
More playtesting! This time it was Chris (Jemmen) and Dana (Acidra). We got some rules tweaks: Characters are now limited to a maximum of 8 passions. Starting characters assign 20…
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Participants: Paganini, C. Edwards.

1/5/2004 cruciel: Ripping the Demon from My Skull - Planning Stage
This is an account of the planning stages for what turned out to be eight sessions of play. The whole group planned out the flow of events and major elements,…
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Participants: cruciel, Ziriel.

1/6/2004 Overdrive: [MLWM] The Asylum
Phew, we just finished (well, almost) master/minion creation and are to play tomorrow. Wanted to ask for quick last minute tips and share some of the stuff, for if the…
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Participants: Overdrive, ScottM, GB Steve, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, jrs.

1/6/2004 Paka: TROS Sorcery - Praise and Tinkering
We've played a few games with TROS's wonderful Sorcery system. It makes the players dynamic powerhouses, with the ability to really move mountains. Wow. I love the choice it gives…
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Participants: Paka.

1/7/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Ill Met in Tarshish
The fourth session of our Tarshish campaign was possibly the most productive, as it brought Darius and "that damn Dwarf" Kvardo togther, and saw the beginning of Cpt Jessup's spy…
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Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, taepoong, johnzo, Valamir.

1/7/2004 pete_darby: [HQ] Applying the defib paddles to a HQ campaign (long)
Well, given the problems with my Serenwyn campaign, I decided to post the following to my players, whcih I thought could be an interesting case study for re-negotiating a social…
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Participants: pete_darby.

1/7/2004 Scripty: [Dysfunctional Play] At the end of my rope...
So, I'm really, really frustrated at this moment. That's my qualifier for this entire post. Please take the following with a grain of salt. As the title states, I really…
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Participants: Scripty, xiombarg, ethan_greer, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, Calithena, rafial, Bob McNamee, Matt Wilson, Paganini, Lxndr, efindel, Zathreyel, Grex, Mark Johnson, peteramthor, johnmarron, Brand_Robins, Andrew Martin, sirogit, Mike Holmes.

1/8/2004 Jack Aidley: [Great Ork Gods] Actual Play (and what play!)
Those of you who follow the Indie Game Design forums may remember this thread from last year in which I outlined my early thoughts on a game I’ve been working…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Valamir, Loki, ks13, failrate.

1/9/2004 Rich Stokes: Group looking for pointers on what to try out.
Sorry if this post is innapropriate, I couldn't see anywhere better to post this. Maybe it ought to be in the Connections forum? My current gaming group has hit a…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, ethan_greer, Michael S. Miller, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Lxndr, Shreyas Sampat.

1/9/2004 Kaare Berg: [Burning Wheel] Silent Forest - Restless Dead
I have created a group of misogenists. This is how it played out: The cast Sir Tengel - a pious knight seeking redemtion for crimes unspeified. Calem - a…
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Participants: Kaare Berg, Valamir, abzu, Ron Edwards, Loki, Wallatu.

1/9/2004 lumpley: More Adventures in Shared Character Vision
We're talking about the three Old Men of Tremere - my Lucere, Em's Unamo and Meg's Lachesis Mutus - and I'm whiny. "...like I mean," I'm saying, "you all just…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Emily Care, Ian Charvill, cruciel, Meguey.

1/10/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Has game design changed your Play?
I was playing Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade tonight. It was a great deal of fun; the PCs were all chasing a Taftâni thief on a flying carpet through the streets…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, ethan_greer.

1/11/2004 Umberhulk: Collabrative Conspiracy Game
So, my game group is wanting to start something different. So we are going to play GURPS Illuminati in the vein of X-Files/Buffy/Cthulhu. We want to share GMing duties. Therefore,…
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Participants: Umberhulk, Andrew Martin.

1/11/2004 Lxndr: Fastlane: Adventures in Ezra: Wrap-up
This is a continuation of the game last mentioned in this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8246 . A lot of things have changed, both in system and in story, since we last met…
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Participants: Lxndr, Wolfen.

1/12/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Well of Souls 4--Endgame?
This thread is a continuation of Well of Souls 1, Well of Souls 2, and Curse You Rickard--Well of Souls 3. If you would like to have…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

1/12/2004 Matt Wilson: [the puddle] - Firefly
Today was the final prep for a game set in the space-western universe of Joss Whedon's Firefly. We spent a couple hours talking about how the characters know each other…
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Participants: Matt Wilson.

1/12/2004 Tim Alexander: [Trollbabe] Trouble at the Blood Gate
Hey Folks, Got the opportunity to run a Trollbabe game on Friday, and boy was it a blast. Chargen and prep is as straightforward as it reads and after a…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

1/12/2004 adamsmith: [Adventure!] Real world prejudice in games
I'm gearing up to run the now iconic adaptation of CoC's Masks of Nyarlathotep using the Adventure! rules. Given the setting and content, I'm trying to work out to what…
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Participants: adamsmith, Zathreyel, Technocrat13, Matt Wilson.

1/13/2004 John Burdick: DeepWood Realms
My Exalted game is on hold while we wait for one of the players to read the book. In the meantime, we're playing another game. The DeepWood Realms A Light…
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Participants: John Burdick, Mike Holmes.

1/14/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Half an Episode, Out of Order
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. This session had a lot more Gifts, in part because we "skipped ahead". http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung6_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung6_ooc.txt As before, the first link…
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Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

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