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In Playtesting 1/23/2006 TheTris: [Falling Leaves] Gaijin invasion
Another playtest of Falling Leaves, this time with three players. I need to set out explicitly who takes turns to set scenes for whom. This didn't stop us though, we…
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Participants: TheTris, Bankuei, Artanis, Everspinner, Miedvied.
1/19/2006 Rusty: [Space Rat] Femme Babe karate chop - THWACK!
Played a series of Space Rat games leading into the silly season (never a more appropriate time to get involved in the hi-jinx of Jack Cosmos!), and everyone involved had…
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Participants: Rusty, Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth.
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In Playtesting 1/28/2006 Paka: [1st Quest] Reality, Spirit and Corruption
I got together with three gamers to playtest 1st Quest, my young adult fantasy hack of The Shadow of Yesterday.
Bret - a gamer I met online and we are…
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Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, RobNJ.
1/28/2006 Anna B: [Madcap Tea] First Playtest
The general design topic is here
So the playtest didn't go quite as well as hoped though everyone had fun. However I'm not sure where the people problems end and…
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Participants: Anna B, Graham Walmsley, Bill Masek, Sydney Freedberg.
1/30/2006 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Steel Pit Fight Night (Playtest Prep, LONG)
This post is a bit of a brain dump. So much happened, and so much of it significant, that I'm not sure what one thing to focus on, other than…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Andrew Morris, Graham Walmsley.
1/30/2006 Green: [split from Dramatikos thread in Design forum] Intimacy in cyberspace?
I'm currently revising and refining Dramatikos. During this phase, one of the issues that came up was how various media (tabletop, LARP, chat, play-by-post) can work for or against the…
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Participants: Green, Andy Kitkowski, Adam Dray, Ice Cream Emperor, Brand_Robins, Joshua BishopRoby.
1/31/2006 LeSingeSavant: [FoA] Red Prophet, Black Prophet: The Gate
After two weeks off, Jason, Clinton and I assembled for the last session of our Face of Angels game . There had been a 'dead' week in…
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Participants: LeSingeSavant, jasonm, urbanpagan.
1/31/2006 Paka: [1st Quest] Another Playtest: Glamour, Mundanity and Damnation
I playtested 1st Quest with the monthly group that has been playing Conspiracy of Shadows for a bit over a year now with breaks due to schedule problems. It is…
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Participants: Paka, Spiral Jacobs, ubergeek2012, gains, Michael S. Miller.
2/1/2006 Gregor Hutton: [3:16] No Man's World -- DragonMeet, London (AP)
I have been pretty much constantly on the move and snowed under with work since Dragonmeet in December. So, at last, here is the AP thread of the 3:16 game…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Matt.
2/2/2006 sayter: [Realm] Sway, the changes.
Allright. I think I finally have a logical system worked out. Posting here for scrutiny or additional feedback. Note that this is pasted, and may or may not have the…
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Participants: sayter, dindenver, Ramidel, Troy_Costisick.
2/4/2006 Bryan Hansel: [Secret Waitress]
First post to Actual Play, so, hopefully, I’m doing this right. If not, someone kick me in the shin, please. I wanted to make sure that I made some points,…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm.
2/4/2006 Paka: [1st Quest] Friday Night Conflicts
By the time we get gaming in our Friday night games its 11 o'clock. We ran for about three hours tonight and I reckon that will be our pattern, getting…
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Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan.
2/4/2006 Technocrat13: [Infected] Silent Hill meets The Wall meets The Ring. One step closer to groovy
We gathered at Andy K's place again last night for the third playtest of my monster-movie game, Infected. The gathered players included myself, Lisa, Andy K, Remi, and Ullyses. Lisa…
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Participants: Technocrat13, knicknevin.
2/5/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Domus] - Second Playtest & Situation
Back about a month ago, we got together and ran Domus through the wringer again. After the good times of playtest #1, I was all ready for some smooth sailing.…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Bryan Hansel.
2/6/2006 JMendes: [Project Senate] First playtest in the Scottish Highlands
Hey, :)
So, we had the first playtest of Project Senate last Saturday night, and it was quite interesting. We used version 3 of the game design document (which isn't…
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Participants: JMendes, Troy_Costisick.
2/13/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [HoS] The Disappeared -- Knitting Plots Together
Last night we played a game from Heads of State: Nine Short Games About Tyrants. Our selection last night was "The Disappeared," in which the three of us played characters…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, redivider.
2/14/2006 Jasper: [Me and the Rat] Good cheese with a few holes
A few weeks ago I played my Ronnie submission Me and the Rat with a few friends. The game had changed only a little from contest submission, with some points…
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Participants: Jasper.
2/14/2006 Malcolm: [Cold City] 'Transformations' - playtest
These three threads:
Introduction and character creation: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17325.0
Character creation (revised) & consequences: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17512.0
Mechanical basics: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17696.0
give further information on the development of Cold City and what the game…
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Participants: Malcolm, jasonm.
2/15/2006 dyjoots: [Manaka] Playtesting my game
Actual Play: Manaka
I've been working on a game called Manaka for the past several weeks, and I've gotten the rules basically together, so my wife Susie and I play-tested…
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Participants: dyjoots, Troy_Costisick.
2/16/2006 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Steel Pit Fight Night: Sydney
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – The Steel Pit Fellowship entertains its members with preseason fights aboard a cruise ship. Local favorite The Bull is trounced on the foredeck by newcomer B.J.! Simon…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Andrew Morris, Graham Walmsley.
2/16/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Heist] Stake-setting and sharing narration
For a long time, I've wanted to design a roleplaying game that was playable in a pub. Ideally, you'd just get out a pack of cards and begin playing.
So…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, Matthew Glover.
2/17/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat]2nd and 3rd Playtest
Heya,
I got in a couple playtests over the last three weeks or so. Wow, did I learn some important stuff. I'll go over the in-game stuff briefly here then…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon.
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