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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.

1/21/2004 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.

1/21/2004 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.

1/20/2004 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.

1/20/2004 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 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.

1/19/2004 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.

1/19/2004 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 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 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.

1/18/2004 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.

1/18/2004 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.

1/17/2004 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.

1/17/2004 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.

1/16/2004 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..

1/15/2004 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.

1/15/2004 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 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.

1/14/2004 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.

1/14/2004 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.

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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.

1/23/2004 Christopher Weeks: [MLwM] Dr. Sweet's Clinic
We played this game in one sitting. It was on a Sunday afternoon and I think actual play ran from around 1:00 to around 6:00. The Master: Dr. Leopold Sweet—runs…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

1/23/2004 jburneko: Swimming in The Pool is quite refreshing.
Hello Again, As mentioned in a previous post I've decided to use The Pool as the system behind the latest game my weekday group is playing. I thought that donig…
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Participants: jburneko, Jeph, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2004 sirogit: Metal Opera One-shot
In a week I'm going to run a one-shot of Metal Opera. My goals with the game is: A) Have the game produce a very meaningful expiereince in the 2-3…
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Participants: sirogit, Zak Arntson, Sigurth, Mike Holmes.

1/26/2004 Lisa Padol: Death Traps and Enemy Bases
So, yesterday, I ran Cthulhupunk. Parts of it went quite well, parts dragged cuz my pacing was off. One plot thread involved Evil Villain Master Mind Hanoi Xan (yes, -that-…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, John Kim, MachMoth, Mike Holmes, clehrich, contracycle, AnyaTheBlue, chadu.

1/26/2004 Andrew Norris: [d20] The Comfort Zone
I started a reply to the "Spycraft -] Wushu" thread, but realized that while my experiences were similar enough to warrant a reply, what I really wanted to do was…
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Participants: Andrew Norris.

1/26/2004 jburneko: Thoughts From a Player
Hello, Allright, so I've had three gaming sessions since the new year. Character Creation + First Session of Play for my Eden Falls game using The Pool and a Character…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, John Kim, Matt Snyder, bcook1971, Christopher Kubasik, pete_darby, Paganini, clehrich.

1/28/2004 Eric J.: Pyron's Final Fantasy Campaign
Hehehe... Uh. Yeah. I've recently moved to California from my former state, Nebraska so I have a lot of free time on my hands (well, discounting mountains of homework and…
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Participants: Eric J., clehrich, Sigurth, anonymouse, ethan_greer, hyphz, Bankuei, sirogit, Landon Darkwood, Andy Kitkowski.

1/28/2004 James K.: (Pax Gladius) The Passion of the Christ
I brought this up over on the Deep7 Forum, but I thought this was the sort of thing that might interest readers here. I've been doing a lot of reading…
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Participants: James K., John Kim, Sigurth, clehrich, HOT, Mithras.

1/28/2004 James K.: Shopping for scene frames.
As I put together a concept for a new game (more info on that forthcoming), I've begun thinking about this thing called "scene framing." I'd like to try and discuss…
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Participants: James K., Matt Wilson, clehrich, Loki, Ron Edwards, Alan.

1/30/2004 james_west: My experience using Forge arcana
I was very active on the Forge for a bit right after it started (I just looked - I'm member #26), learning about GNS, stance, scene framing, relationship maps, and…
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Participants: james_west, Christopher Weeks, Alan.

1/31/2004 Lisa Padol: Why We Do It
Some time ago, Naomi Rvikis was running her Altclair campaign, which has as players me and Joshua Kronengold, via email, as she is several states away. And I typed a…
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Participants: Lisa Padol, Alan, james_west, coxcomb, apeiron, arxhon, Wolfen, Librisia.

1/31/2004 Green: Kathanaksaya: It's Working! (sorry for length)
I am surprised and delighted beyond belief to say the following: Kathanaksaya works beautifully. Up until very recently, I was afraid that the only way it could work was for…
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Participants: Green.

1/31/2004 Zak Arntson: Historical GURPS and first post-Forge dysfunction
After all but abandoning the RPG scene a year (or more?) ago, I was itching to get back into the play. So when I was invited to join a group…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, J B Bell, clehrich, John Kim, Ron Edwards, LutherBlissett.

2/1/2004 Malechi: [TROS]Azuraloka - The Land of Avatars (longish..sorry)
Well finally we managed to have what seems to be the first of many promising sessions. After almost reaching homicidal rage for all the cancelled sessions of TROS, Armageddon:2089 etc…
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Participants: Malechi.

2/1/2004 Herr Doktor: Simulationist/Gamist group
After some discussion our role-playing group came to the realization that according to our own experiences our prefered GNS modes do not match up. Our group consists of six persons,…
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Participants: Herr Doktor, Alan, clehrich, Caldis, Ron Edwards, jdagna.

2/1/2004 Ron Edwards: Learning the interface
Hello, In the excellent comic Finder, specifically the collected story Dream Sequence, one of the characters is utilized by "users" very much in the sense of a video-game construct. Another…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Malechi, clehrich, james_west, Blake Hutchins, Jake Norwood, Jack Spencer Jr, hanschristianandersen, AnyaTheBlue, Sean, Pyske, contracycle, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher, Harlequin, Blankshield, talysman.

2/2/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] I failed? No, _I_ failed.
Task failure in the BW system has been brought up here before. It's pretty cut and dried: A player states his intent and then rolls the dice. He either gets…
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Participants: abzu, Negilent, Valamir, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Matt Wilson, John Kim, Technocrat13, Zak Arntson, Lxndr, firstagainstthewall, rafial, Howmandu.

2/2/2004 abzu: Frustrated Gamism
I played a game of Risk this weekend with some of my close and dear friends. I know Risk doesn't qualify as an RPG in the terms stated on these…
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Participants: abzu, JamesSterrett, MachMoth, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, chadu, Valamir, Doctor Xero, clehrich.

2/2/2004 Uzzah: Opinions on Protagonism
After throughly digesting "My Life with Master" and more recently Ron's Narrativism essay, I started thinking more about protagonism and my past experiences of role-playing. In almost all games I've…
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Participants: Uzzah, Ron Edwards.

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