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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.

4/18/2006 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.

4/17/2006 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.

4/16/2006 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.

4/16/2006 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 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 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.

4/15/2006 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.

4/14/2006 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.

4/13/2006 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.

4/11/2006 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.

4/11/2006 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.

4/9/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Character tangle-kickers
So I had a very productive playtest experience of the draft rules of Misery Bubblegum last night ... which is to say that there was the promise of greatness, wholly…
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Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam Dray, Madheretic.

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.

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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.

5/1/2006 joshua neff: [AG&G] Lights on the Water
My wife, Julie, and I were supposed to get together with some friends tonight for gaming--probably Ticket to Ride, maybe Universalis or Capes Lite. But they cancelled on us. Wondering…
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Participants: joshua neff, lumpley, Bryan Hansel, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/1/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Final Supers Game
In our last game before moving on to more fantasy-based settings, the villains had to enter 5 different bunkers and reconfigure a computer/telecommunications system to communicate with a different satellite…
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Participants: mratomek, Bill Masek.

5/6/2006 tonyd: [Magicians of England] of Flaws and Faeries
We sat down for our third playtest of Magicians of England. Playtest one was phenomenal, and playtest two went pretty well, so I expected three would be smooth. I was…
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Participants: tonyd, John Harper.

5/7/2006 redivider: Heads of State: Palace Gates & As I Lay Dying
Last weekend Alex, Josh & I played two Heads of State games in succession, using the same dictator (Alex's Star of Freedom). A small milestone in passing the half-way point…
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Participants: redivider, alejandro.

5/7/2006 palikka: Impressions of computer aided npc design.
Most of GM:ing is just playing out various characters and I'm rather weak at making them up on the fly and too lazy to prep for it. Thus to improve,…
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Participants: palikka, Tommi Brander.

5/8/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - using TSOY for the first time
I've played again last night, continuing our adventure and playtest of Avalanche. But this session was special since we changed system. The premise We've been playing together this campaign for…
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Participants: pells.

5/9/2006 tj333: [SUtS]
      I've done 2 play tests since my post in First Thoughts on Strongest Under the Sun. I'm not sure how interesting this will be to other people…
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Participants: tj333.

5/12/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] Contest Tree works
[b]Session 2[/b] The second play-test of Gnostigmata used Beta 3.0 that you can download from [url=http://legendaryquest.com/books/Gnostb3.zip]here[/url].  You can read an Actual Play account of the first play-test session [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19692.0]here[/url].  The…
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Participants: John Kirk.

5/12/2006 TonyLB: Death March of Happiness
So I corralled some people on FoundryMUSH to playtest my new warmup mini-game, Death March of Happiness.  It was a hoot, but I am having trouble getting the right balance…
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Participants: TonyLB, Dave Cleaver, Bryan Hansel, Joshua BishopRoby, c, contracycle, Bill Masek.

5/15/2006 Paka: [Afraid] PC Nightmare
Who was at the table: Me:  I feel like the playtest of Luke's secret project filtered into this, in that the GM has this really well defined role as the…
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Participants: Paka, Marhault, lumpley, Ilmryn, Mark Woodhouse.

5/15/2006 ptikachu: [Bliss Stage] Save Our Pilots!
Yesterday, I got together with my friends Doug, Han Kit and Vin Tsen to playtest Bliss Stage for the first time. Doug, Vin Tsen and I were really eager to…
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Participants: ptikachu, OneWingedAngel, Mark Woodhouse, Dev, MaryBell, coffeestain, Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, J. Tuomas Harviainen.

5/15/2006 jasonm: [AG&G] A Mother's Day Treat
Me, Lisa and Eric Provost, and Andy "roll that bonus dizzle" Kitkowski threw down with two episodes of AG&G yesterday and it went very well.  We all had fun and…
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Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, urbanpagan, Valamir, Emily Care, Andy Kitkowski, demiurgeastaroth.

5/16/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] Jumping to the Action
[b]Session 3[/b] The third play-test of Gnostigmata used Beta 4.0 that you can download from [url=http://legendaryquest.com/books/Gnostb4.zip]here[/url].  You can read an Actual Play account of the first play-test session [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19692.0]here[/url] and…
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Participants: John Kirk, Paul Czege.

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