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2/18/2006 Michael S. Miller: [Mortal Coil] Arthurian enthusiasm
Last night, Kat, Michele & I went to Brennan's. We met his friends Jason, Bill & Sandy (who'd I'd met at conventions years ago). The six of us and Brennan's…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., inthisstyle.

2/17/2006 timfire: [Mexican Standoff] I was shot, but I got the money
Hi y'all, I finally got a chance to playtest my game, with the updated rules. As I said in my , twice I playtested the game, but…
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Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, John Hyland.

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…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon.

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.

2/16/2006 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.

2/15/2006 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.

2/14/2006 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.

2/14/2006 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.

2/13/2006 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.

2/6/2006 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.

2/5/2006 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.

2/4/2006 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.

2/4/2006 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 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.

2/2/2006 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.

2/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

1/30/2006 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.

1/30/2006 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.

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2/24/2006 Ramidel: [Dragons of Blood and Water] Campaign End Report
Our group's Dragons of Blood and Water game has finally come to a conclusion after three ingame years of politics, sorcerous war against the Unmakers, and a final act of…
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Participants: Ramidel, Mytholder, Ben Lehman, Iskander, Ron Edwards, cmnash.

2/27/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Sweet Decline
One of our group was out of town for our usual game night, so I ran Carry for the two remaining. The game was awesome and instructive. First, a quick…
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Participants: Nathan P..

2/28/2006 Maurice T: [Carry] - Obsidian Fist Playtest
As this is a first post for me, a quick introduction. I run a website known as The Windsor Gaming Resource that has news and information on all types of…
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Participants: Maurice T, Nathan P..

3/1/2006 Calithena: [Azureflame] Conflict Resolution & Imaginary Content
So I gamed all weekend with my friend Del. There are a bunch of thoughts percolating but I want to focus on a particular scene: not the pivotal scene of…
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Participants: Calithena, Noon, heraclitusagain.

3/2/2006 JMendes: [Project Senate] Extended playtest report (and I do mean extended)
Hello, all, :) So, I have a mother of a playtest AP report to post for Project Senate. (Refer to the central design thread, if needed.) Last Tuesday was mardi-gras…
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Participants: JMendes, Jonas Karlsson, Ramidel.

3/2/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Some traditions are FUN!
Hey!  A Misery Bubblegum playtest where we actually got to finish a story-line and get through the evening with the rules pretty much working-as-roleplaying (if not working to the extent…
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Participants: TonyLB, Noon.

3/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Stakes, but FAST
I established this Stakes-resolution system for Misery Bubblegum.  Then I Playtested it and found that the other bits of the system (which work in smaller, more manageable increments that build…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ben Lehman, TheCzech, Joshua BishopRoby, Warren.

3/3/2006 Filip Luszczyk: [Anima Hunters] Playtest
OK, I tested Anima Hunters a bit. As I see it, the system is: -cool and elegant. -fairly tactical (it could be more so, but I expect all the Kung…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ben Lehman, TonyLB.

3/3/2006 Jonas Karlsson: [OCHH] Third playtest – Noir with switching moral values
This Monday I ran the third playtest of my September Ronnies award winning (yay!) noir game One Can Have Her. I've talked about it once or twice before in Indie…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, JMendes, Valamir.

3/5/2006 Emily Care: [shooting the moon] for the love of Captain Jack
Hello, Got to playtest Shooting the Moon this weekend.  It is the sequel to Breaking the Ice, and has been at a bit of a standstill for development since I've…
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Participants: Emily Care, Noon, jasonm, MatrixGamer, bluegargantua.

3/6/2006 heironymous: [1984 Prime] The Russians are Coming!
I recently ran a two-part session of Mischa Krilov’s 1984 Prime. An earlier edition of this game won the 2005 Game Chef competition, and the version we played was the…
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Participants: heironymous, Rossum, Scripty, shehee.

3/7/2006 jasonm: [Drowning and Falling] Falling from Grace
Me, Remi, and Clinton playtested Drowning and Falling last night and it went very well.  D&F is a charity project I'm working on, and I'm super excited about it.  Power…
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Participants: jasonm, Andy Kitkowski, Emily Care, TonyLB.

3/8/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - two problems
Well, I continue play testing Avalanche and we had a game recently. For the purpose of this thread, I don't want to elaborate about the mulit plots aspect or the…
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Participants: pells, Tommi Brander, Artanis, contracycle.

3/8/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] Those dern small dice
There are a couple of issues with Carry that have come up across playtests. The one that I'm having some trouble figuring out is something valuable to do with small…
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Participants: Nathan P., catmorbid, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/9/2006 redivider: Heads of State: Subversive Words
Last weekend Josh, Judson and I playtested Subversive Words. Pasting from the summary paragraph of my draft: “Subversive words is two games in one, linking a dissident writer and the…
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Participants: redivider, contracycle, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/13/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef- 1st Playtest
Heya, So I entered this Iron Game Chef competition.  At first I read over the ingredients and the time constraints and I thought, “Nah, there’s no way I’d be able…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer.

3/18/2006 Sarako: [Fall of Prometheus] First Playtest: balancing player-controlled narrative
Disclaimer: I've read a lot of stuff on the Forge and on game design blogs and such, but I'm still pretty new to game design. It's a little scary to…
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Participants: Sarako, ironick, Noon, Alan.

3/22/2006 Eric Bennett: [Mythos] Actual Play(test): Guyver meets Undead
Well, I finished the first playtest of Mythos last night, and I must say that overall I am very pleased with how things turned out. It taught me that some…
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Participants: Eric Bennett, steelcaress.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: Rules for the Playtesting forum
This is really just another Actual Play forum with a special eye toward design. For those of you interested in the ideas worked out here at the Forge over the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, demiurgeastaroth.

3/23/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef Entry- Playtest #2
Heya, Took me a while to get the time to write this up.  Life is really busy at the moment.  Anyway, I got a chance to give my Game Chef…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

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