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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 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 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 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.

1/13/2004 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.

1/12/2004 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.

1/12/2004 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 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 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.

1/11/2004 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.

1/11/2004 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.

1/10/2004 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.

1/9/2004 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.

1/9/2004 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 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.

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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.

1/18/2004 LordSmerf: [MLwM] University Days
This is a log of our final two sessions of My Life With Master. This is a continuation of this game. The record keeping duties were transferred to a different…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Mike Holmes, Mulciber.

1/18/2004 cthulahoops: [Sorcerer] In Utero - Happy Families
Hi, Well, I said Sorcerer was the next game I was going to run and I did so today. It was absolutely insane. I decided to run the In Utero…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Lxndr.

1/19/2004 arxhon: Feng Shui actual play thoughts
{crossposted with rpg.net} I've been gone for a while (not that you noticed :-P ), and here's what iv'e been up to. I've been running a Feng Shui game for…
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Participants: arxhon, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, urbwar, Jesse Paulsen, montag, Grex, Ron Edwards, Deacon Blues.

1/19/2004 Matt Wilson: [the poodle] you can't take the sky from me
Today was almost the first full episode of our game set in the Firefly universe. I say almost because we played an hour's worth last week and ended a little…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

1/19/2004 rafial: [Burning Wheel] Things Fall Apart in Tarshish
Well, its the fifth of our planned seven sessions of Burning Wheel, and we appear to have crested the hill and are now (hopefully) skidding toward our denouement. It's a…
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Participants: rafial, Matt Wilson, abzu, johnzo.

1/19/2004 Ian O'Rourke: [Primetime Adventures]: Pre-Actual Play
Just downloaded Primetime Adventures, just done the first read through. Now, the role-playing game as TV show thing is a big thing of mine. It's sort of the common way…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson, John Harper, Meredith, Ron Edwards.

1/20/2004 Sigurth: [TROS] The Riddle of Hârn
Originally, my gaming group toyed with idea of creatinga hybrid HarnMaster/TROS system, however, when I received the TROS book and read it, as GM, I made a command decision. WE…
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Participants: Sigurth, Wolfen, November Kilo, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, John Kim, Halifax, Ron Edwards, Pyske, Valthalion.

1/20/2004 hatheg-kla: GM resources
This is probably off-topic... or perhaps not? My question is just whether anyone knows of a good set of tables/charts that as a GM I can use to 'randomly' generate…
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Participants: hatheg-kla, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Bankuei, Kaare Berg, Skadedyr.

1/20/2004 Matt Wilson: Premise in actual play
In light of some recent threads about narrativism in an undisclosed location, I'd like some accounts of nar play and addressing of premise. How specific was your Premise before the…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, John Kim, abzu, clehrich, Paganini, Lisa Padol, pete_darby, inthisstyle.

1/21/2004 Ron Edwards: [ReCoil] Play feedback
Hello, Here's the feedback from our session of ReCoil, played last night at the campus club with me and four players. I'll post the one-sheet and the characters later. 1.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

1/21/2004 apeiron: LotR RPG Inquiry: What did you think of it?
i recently read through the Lord of the Rings RPG. i am wondering if any of you have played the game. Please share with me your reflections on the game…
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Participants: apeiron, John Kim, Negilent, ADGBoss.

1/22/2004 Pyske: Improvisational TROS variant
I've been considering running another TROS game for a while now, and tonight on the spur of the moment I volunteered to run a game. We'll be playing this Friday,…
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Participants: Pyske.

1/22/2004 cthulahoops: [MLwM] 200g mixed expectations, 500g fun, 15ml blasphemy
Hi, I'm trying new games at a great rate at the moment, you spend years doing the same things and then lots of new things happen at once. This game…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, firstagainstthewall.

1/23/2004 swdevlin: A Political Game
Hi, I have been pondering running a 'political' fantasy game for a little while now; something feudal, or something clan/viking-esque. But I seem to have some sort of GM block.…
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Participants: swdevlin, pete_darby, Jasper, MachMoth, John Kim, clehrich, Ron Edwards, ks13, Negilent, Loki.

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