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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.

3/1/2006 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.

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..

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..

2/24/2006 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.

2/19/2006 joepub: [Carry] But, I want endgame now!
A few weeks ago, me and a group of people played Carry. I'm going to skip around a bit in this thread, partially because I am cloudy on parts, and…
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Participants: joepub, Nathan P..

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.

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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.

3/23/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] HMS Superb - Lingering Scenes
For reference, prior posts include Reward System At Last! and Scrip Format. My LAGames group (redivider, alejandro, Judson) got together for our second session, first session of roleplay, for our…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, redivider.

3/23/2006 Matt: [Covenant] Last Days of Judgement and Sorrow
Last weekend, in preparation for Conpulsion, I tested my two 1-hour scenarios for Indie Games Track with a few friends. Inspectres was, of course, easy and fun. It came in…
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Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards.

3/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Holmes and Watson] The Case of the Scattered Brains
We played through Troy Costisick's Game Chef entry, "The Holmes and Watson Committee", tonight. It was an extraordinarily fun night: more H P Lovecraft than Conan Doyle, but lots of…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, Smithy, Joe Murphy (Broin).

3/24/2006 Shawn De Arment: [CUP] pre-spice pseudo-Arrakis
I got a chance to play-test CUP last Saturday, a thing I haven’t done for 2 years. CUP is a mix of Pool (Mike Holmes anti-pool flavor), a Universalis inspired…
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Participants: Shawn De Arment, Emily Care.

3/25/2006 redivider: Cage of Reason: 1st playtest
Three of us from our lagames group (Judson, Joshua & me) plus in-town-for-a-few-days Jason Morningstar tried out Cage of Reason, a game I wrote for the 06 game chef contest.…
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Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, Noon.

3/25/2006 Ben Lehman: [Anima Hunters] Playtesting with Rich
Hrm.  I don't have a lot of questions for this post, it's mostly just a chance for me to make some notes for my own consumption. Whilst waiting for our…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Filip Luszczyk.

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