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2/10/2004 jburneko: [Sorcerer] In A House of Madness
So character creation plus the first actual play session for my Socerer game set in an asylum has come and gone. And the results were.... unexpected. A bit of background.…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, clehrich, Christopher Kubasik, newsalor, Ron Edwards.

2/9/2004 Matt Wilson: [unipool] Horizon, the Firefly spinoff
Yesterday was, after a mishap involving stolen wheels and a superbowl, out first full-length episode of "Horizon," the Firefly spinoff series. John's Universalis-Pool rules fit the group perfectly, with a…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, John Harper.

2/9/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Storm by Suprise.
Ack the pressure. Two weeks ago my group set out to play Friday and Saturday. Then there was a change of plans and I had to scrap my orginal scenario…
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Participants: Negilent, taepoong, abzu, Valamir.

2/9/2004 james_west: [MLwM] The Kindest Torch-Wielding Mob Ever
We played My Life with Master yesterday. Four players (two men, two women) plus me, over a course of about six hours play time. Our game centered around the mind-bogglingly…
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Participants: james_west, Mike Holmes.

2/6/2004 apeiron: LotR's Weariness translation to d20
@ My favorite part of the LotR RPG is the Weariness system. So i'm attempting here to recreate it for d20. If this is something that interests you, feel free…
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Participants: apeiron, Bob the Fighter, james_west.

2/4/2004 Skar: Transitioning GM/Group from Gamist to Narrativist
Hi all! I've been reading these boards like crazy since discovering them a couple of weeks ago and want to say a huge THANKS to all posters for taking the…
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Participants: Skar, Pyske, sirogit, Andrew Norris, clehrich, Loki, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII, aplath.

2/4/2004 inthisstyle: Switching Systems Helps My Game
All right. I hope not to offend Luke, here, but this is a post about my experience with Burning Wheel, and what happened after my group switched systems to my…
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Participants: inthisstyle, abzu, Andrew Martin.

2/4/2004 xiombarg: [Unsung] Ricky Goes Apesh*t (Blood Opera?)
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung7_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung7_ooc.txt As before, the first link is the "narrative" and the second link is a log of our out-of-character…
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Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Lxndr.

2/3/2004 GB Steve: [MLwM] My Life with Headmaster - a short convention game.
It was SteveCon VII last weekend and in the first four hour slot we played Carry on up the Ring, which is something only thirty-something Brits would really appreciate. We…
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Participants: GB Steve, Dave Panchyk, clehrich, Bob McNamee.

2/3/2004 Dev: MLwM: Master-Lord-Baron's submarine. In a Lake.
This game also took place at VeriCon, and was an anomoly in some ways. It was also really impressive. (One of the con's guests, Ted Wadsworth, played in it and…
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Participants: Dev.

2/3/2004 Dev: Dust Devils: Red Mars
This is the game we played at VeriCon, and it was quite electric! We had 6 players; there was self-selection for interest (the game was a sci-fi western; 5 of…
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Participants: Dev, Ron Edwards.

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.

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 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.

2/1/2004 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.

2/1/2004 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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2/10/2004 Chris Gardiner: Adventure! Second session
A few months ago I ran a (very) alternate-history Adventure! game for some friends, which went very well. I posted a write-up here. This weekend I finally got the chance…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, kalyptein, montag, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Nigel Evans, Peter Hollinghurst.

2/11/2004 Lisa Padol: Practical PC Butt Kicking 101
This past Cthulhupunk session went reasonably well. Oh, some bumps, of course, but lots of fights and info dumps, and a reasonable break point. And in two cases, a PC's…
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Participants: Lisa Padol.

2/4/2004 Skar: Keep it simple
I totally agree that you need to have a frank discussion with the group, but from my own past experience I wouldn't be too optimistic that this will solve the…
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Participants: Skar, inthisstyle, dragon_of_colour, S'mon, Eric J., Ron Edwards.

2/12/2004 anonymouse: Questions for those who've played long-running GMless games.
Something like Universalis in particular, I imagine, but possibly other games would fit the bill. * Do you tend to stick to an overarching story stretching between sessions, or do…
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Participants: anonymouse, clehrich, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Doctor Xero, talysman, Peter Hollinghurst.

2/13/2004 Zak Arntson: [Spycraft] Kain cleaves dysfunction from crown to crotch
Contrary to my last dysfunctional experience, I was able to have a ridiculously cathartic one. I first sent the following to the GM. His response is also included. ---- So,…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Smithy, stingray20166, MajorKiz.

2/14/2004 Steve Samson: Transitioning from Gamist to Narrativist, Part II
Well, we just finished our first gaming session under the new "more story" banner and it was NOT a scintillating success, for many reasons. This is a continuation of the…
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Participants: Steve Samson, sirogit, JamesDJIII, Caldis, Scripty, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes, RDU Neil, Paul Czege.

2/15/2004 Steve Samson: Efforts towards Protagonism/SA's
This is in response to a question raised in the "Transitioning from Gamist to Narrativist, Part II" thread. In that thread I mentioned that my efforts to get my group…
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Participants: Steve Samson, coxcomb, bcook1971, Andrew Norris, Jake Norwood, jeffd, November Kilo.

2/16/2004 Doyce: Actual Play: InSpectres
[color=darkblue]Hey everyone. This is my first post to any of the Forge Forums, so apologies if I screw anything up. I thought I'd open with a tale of Friday night's…
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Participants: Doyce, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris.

2/17/2004 DaGreatJL: Changing plans for a con game
Hey, just got back from Dundracon, and want to post about a game I ran there, and my experiences with it. Okay, the first thing that screwed with my plans…
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Participants: DaGreatJL, james_west.

2/17/2004 Jack Spencer Jr: Freeform play in #indierpgs
I offer this unfortunately brief actual play session from the IRC channel #indierpgs without comment except that I did edit it a bit so the reader won't need to pull…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.

2/17/2004 Tomas HVM: Reality-skewing techniques
When all players have seated themselves, the GM performs this opening in a toneless voice: When you sat down at the gaming table today, the game master seemed a bit…
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Participants: Tomas HVM.

2/18/2004 Sean: Fun with Trollbabe
OK, so last night my wife and I cooked a delicious roast, some potatoes, and a big salad, opened a bottle of red wine, and sat down to play Trollbabe.…
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Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

1/29/2004 brainwipe: [Icar] Scavenger setting II (split)
Back after a bit of a break... Like many RPG groups, we broke up for 4 weeks over Christmas. During this time, there was little contact between the players. When…
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Participants: brainwipe, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

2/20/2004 coxcomb: My dusty donjon: adventures in player-driven RPGs
Tonight I played my first-ever session of Dust Devils. We had a good time, but I'm not sure we quite got it. I should mention that this game comes after…
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Participants: coxcomb, Valamir, Matt Snyder, Zak Arntson.

2/20/2004 Scripty: Game Prep and GM Techniques
I've been fishing around this forum for a while and have a question, or a request really, for all the Narrators, GMs, etc., contributing to the Forge. I've seen a…
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Participants: Scripty, Steve Samson, Nathan P., Negilent, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

2/21/2004 Ace: I turned down a good GM's game Friday Night or
This could almost be called actual not play -- in fact I would have put that in the subject but I ran out of space However I thought I would…
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Participants: Ace, clehrich, furashgf, Wolfen.

2/21/2004 ksarith: Profiling (split and closed)
The topic isn't quite dead yet... Most recently Played. WoD VtM (New Orleans Setting), Star Wars(D20), and DeadLands Most Enjoyed. Home Brewed Game while in Germany(Cross between 2nd Ed AD&D…
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Participants: ksarith, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2004 Loki: [Great Ork Gods] playtest
I ran Great Ork Gods last night and it may have saved my game group. We haven't been playing much for the last few months, but last night we had…
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Participants: Loki, gregkcubed, Jack Aidley, Valamir, Steve Samson, montag.

2/23/2004 Malechi: Characters not on the map...
Alrighty then, whats the story? I need help connecting my player characters to the current game we've started. We're playing Midnight converted to TROS. Ok, I decided to run the…
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Participants: Malechi, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Valamir, jdagna, Andrew Norris, Bankuei, John Kim.

2/23/2004 cthulahoops: [Sorcerer] Modern Gothic
Hi, Well, I've given sorcerer another go, and we had a great session. I did up a handout to distribute to the players before the game, it's at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cthulhu/gothic_intro.pdf In…
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Participants: cthulahoops, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, jburneko.

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