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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.

1/8/2004 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.

1/7/2004 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.

1/7/2004 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 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.

1/6/2004 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.

1/6/2004 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.

1/5/2004 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.

1/4/2004 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.

1/3/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] It's a Dirty Job
Last night we wrapped up one of the last loose ends of a long running situation and rivalry in game. Our previous session was described in the Wild Magic post.…
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Participants: abzu, taepoong.

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.

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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.

1/14/2004 bcook1971: [TROS] A Sequence of Events OR a Series of Episodes?
[quote="Guest"]So many of the things mentioned on this thread are just two different roleplaying styles: 1) one player basically has a complete storyline prepared for his character, even to the…
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Participants: bcook1971, Jake Norwood.

1/14/2004 Ron Edwards: [ReCoil] Preparation questions
Hello, I'm prepping for a session of ReCoil for the campus club group, and I've come up with a number of questions for you, Lance. If anyone else has read…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

1/14/2004 jburneko: [The Pool] Eden Falls
Hello All, So, my weekday group concluded the Ravenloft game I was running just before the Hollidays and we started up a fresh game last night. For a while, I'd…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Tim Alexander, Blake Hutchins.

1/14/2004 Wolfen: ReCoil Playtest Session 2
Ron's post reminded me that I never wrote this post to begin with. I have run a second session of ReCoil on Indie-Netgaming. My players were Chris Edwards, and Brian…
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Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2004 cthulahoops: [Everway] Story when?
Hi, Well, I've finally decided to post to the Forge after lurking for quite some time... I've just finished a three session game of Everway, and thought I'd post a…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik.

1/15/2004 Rich Stokes: [Thugs and Thieves] We're off to save the princess
Advance appologies for all the typos I'm about to commit, I'm really busy at work and don't really have time to proofread this. Having recieved the playtest version of T&T…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, ethan_greer.

1/15/2004 Scripty: [D&D] CRPG leads this horse to water...
Following up on the thread at rpg.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=efe57a4370a03c50efce71ed1429cc5a&threadid=96244 There's a lot of negativity being passed back and forth from both those who blindly support D&D and those who (in my…
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Participants: Scripty, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Zak Arntson, Andrew Martin, ADGBoss.

1/16/2004 Matt Wilson: Wushu: hard work, but rewarding
We're crazy guys. We did a crazy system switch: Spycraft to Wushu. It's like the 6th game in the run, and we bailed on poor d20, which was boxing us…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins, Hafaza, rafial, John Harper, ejh, Valamir, gobi, DaR, ReverendBayn, Ian O'Rourke, James K..

1/17/2004 John Kim: Spirit Tests in Vinland
OK, I just completed the session summary for my last Vinland game, and I thought it was a particularly interesting case. So this session members of the Brygjafael clan were…
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Participants: John Kim, lumpley, clehrich, Sigurth.

1/17/2004 Shreyas Sampat: The d20 Box
[quote="Matt Wilson"]... we bailed on poor d20, which was boxing us in. My chief complaint about d20 I think is that it provides a lot of information about what a…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Calithena, Mark Johnson, Sparky, Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, Jeph, Umberhulk, ADGBoss, Bob McNamee, efindel.

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