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4/7/2006 Ron Edwards: [City of Brass] Two cannibals, no Nobility
The full title was intended to be The two mad cannibals with no nobility march off to the City of Brass. Which is, basically, what happened. Let's see ... my…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/4/2006 jasonm: [Shooting the Moon] Volcano Goddesses of Dinosaur Island
We playtested Shooting the Moon last night and I wanted to provide some critical feedback.  Some stuff went very well and some didn't, which is to be expected.  We played…
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Participants: jasonm, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant, Joshua BishopRoby.

4/3/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Agora] First Playtest. Currency & Direction Needed.
This game was previously discussed in the thread Delicate Dice Pools. So tonight we played a bit of Agora, which I would say is about 80% complete.  We played…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Dev.

4/3/2006 tsps128: [Marinci] Istrakon playtest
Hi, all! Well, I've finally managed to play test my 24 hour rpg called “Marinci”. I think it’s been over a year since I finished writing it, and I know…
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Participants: tsps128, Ron Edwards.

3/31/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] I-CON Game
Played Carry at I-CON with Dro, Thor and Mayuran. They called my game B&B (broken and boring), and I wept bitter tears. Seriously though, I couldn't ask for three more…
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Participants: Nathan P., mtiru.

3/29/2006 Ben Morgan: [Spookybeans] Very first Playtest EVAR
I just had the very first Spookybeans playtest ever on Sunday at I-Con, and I have to say I think it went swimmingly. First thoughts: I’m very happy to discover…
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Participants: Ben Morgan, Bryan Hansel.

3/28/2006 TonyLB: Death Stakes
At I-Con, Luke, Dro, Mayuran, Nathan and Thor made a game, while watching a terrible movie.  I listened, and remembered.  Here it is.  You should totally play it, and tell…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ben Morgan, Nathan P., drozdal, Arturo G., abzu, Bankuei, Noon, mtiru, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, BigJackBrass.

3/27/2006 jrs: [City of Brass] No cannibalism yet
[i]Sunday: After many weeks without gaming together, we have not the stamina to reacquaint ourselves with our Polaris characters.  A brief inspection of a number of deserving games including a…
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Participants: jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, Ron Edwards.

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.

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.

3/24/2006 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.

3/23/2006 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).

3/23/2006 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 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 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 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.

3/22/2006 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.

3/18/2006 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.

3/13/2006 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.

3/9/2006 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.

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4/11/2006 Matt Wilson: Stranger Things at Forge Midwest
Those of you who weren't at FM and are all, when is Stranger Things going to be done? Keep yelling, because that fucker John needs to finish his damn awesome…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, hive_mind, coffeestain, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Thunder_God, demiurgeastaroth.

4/11/2006 Matt Wilson: Freebooters at FM, or, "I'll get you someday, Tevis!"
Freebooters is an adventure using Clinton's system for TSOY, written by John Harper, which I'm pretty sure will become its own full-fledged game. First he needs to finish the ST,…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, ptevis, John Harper.

4/13/2006 demiurgeastaroth: [Stranger Things] Playtest
Me and two other players (Jim & Helen, husband & wife team) got together to play Stranger Things a few weeks ago, and the other thread on this game provoked…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

4/14/2006 Dev: [Sorceror Remix] Damned Harvard! New Rules at the Old School
Henri and I got together to try out the alternate Sorceror mechanics I'd been playing with. We've both gamed together a lot, and I played in a previous Sorceror camapign…
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Participants: Dev, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2006 Noon: [System Sez Drill] Signals too weak
Bit dissapointed with the drills design and also surprised at how much I didn't follow the rules properly (there's probably a drill in that as well). I gave it a…
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Participants: Noon.

4/16/2006 epweissengruber: [Serpentine] IndieRPG Toronto Playtests a New Game
I have chosen to post here because I am not sure of the extent to which the designer of the game is actually prepared to lay out the game yet.…
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Participants: epweissengruber.

4/16/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rues] Farnswtoth is a dead man
Experimented with the custom scenario aspect of Monster Rules. It worked out greaat At first we were going to play a fantasy-based game of Monster, but decided to stick with…
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Participants: mratomek.

4/16/2006 Chad: [Henbane] play test
OK we had our first full group play-test of Henbane last night, and I can honestly say, it was a lot of fun.  It was disturbing and hilarious all at…
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Participants: Chad, Ron Edwards, Dantai.

4/16/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [AG&G] The Wyrm and the Witch
We played Vincent's newest game, Art, Grace, and Guts at our monthly local roleplayers' meetup today, and it was plenty fun. The game, if you haven't seen it, is predicated…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, lumpley, Marhault.

4/17/2006 Bailywolf: [Stranger Things Bootleg] ‘City of Lost Wolves’
To do something different for a good friend’s birthday, I decided to try and cobble together the rules for John Harper’s fecking awesome Stranger Things from his blog posting and…
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Participants: Bailywolf, John Harper, philaros, Dreez.

4/18/2006 epweissengruber: [Cascadia] IndieRPG Toronto playtests an (anti-)Pool variant
Joshua, one of the members of IndieRPG Toronto has us experiment with a new game that adds a narrative structure and a linked resource management mechanic to the (Anti-)Pool variant.…
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Participants: epweissengruber, jaw6, cpeterso.

4/19/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [AG&G] The life and death of Rama, bandit-king
So, we played Vincent's new game, Art, Grace, and Guts again. It's officially my game I'd take to a desert island, not only because it's more fun than anything I've…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, lumpley, LeSingeSavant, Jeph.

4/19/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] HMS Superb -- Final Playtest
Continued from HMS Superb -- Lingering Scenes. My LAGames group, Mark, Judson, Alex, and I, completed our playtest of Full Light, Full Steam last night.  We used the revised…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, John Harper.

4/20/2006 Arturo G.: [Hierarchy] Playtesting with 14 people
I'm afraid this is going to be a long post. Twenty days ago I did a Hierarchy playtesting. I'm sorry I had no time to rewrite my draft notes until…
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Participants: Arturo G., Troy_Costisick, lanarch.

4/20/2006 talysman: [Kanthe] Watch Out for Beaked Snakes!
Callan asked in the How Freaky Is This? thread for some actual play descriptions of this solitaire roguelike dungeoncrawl game. I played two playtests, one using the original version…
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Participants: talysman, Noon, Dev.

4/23/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Mind Control Rules
The saga continues... This time around, we tried exploring a bunch of new powers, including Hate, Laughter, Blindness, Paralysis and Stun. And I found that the characters I had created…
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Participants: mratomek, Ken.

4/25/2006 Matt: [Covenant]Easy situation and less prep
This is a followup to my earlier topic where I wrote about how the game had been in an endless tweak stage and how I was getting out the rut…
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Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

4/26/2006 Ryan Koppenhaver: [AG&G] The Emerald of India
(Hello, everyone!  First post, etc!) So, a few friends and I had the chance to play Art, Grace & Guts yesterday, and I thought I'd post a summary and a…
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Participants: Ryan Koppenhaver, lumpley, John Harper.

4/26/2006 Thunder_God: A Small Suggestion.
This is meta-playtest discussion, but since it keeps coming up, I'll note it. Add Page Numbering to your file. Possibly, also add a Table of Contents. You want playtesters to…
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Participants: Thunder_God.

4/29/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Agora] IRC Playtest
Alright, it took me forever to post this up, but it was a messy file that needed a lot of cleaning up to make it readable.  Now it's pretty! Agora…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, Dev, Shreyas Sampat.

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