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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 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.

5/12/2006 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.

5/12/2006 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.

5/9/2006 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.

5/8/2006 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.

5/7/2006 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.

5/7/2006 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.

5/6/2006 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.

5/1/2006 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.

5/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

4/26/2006 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.

4/25/2006 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.

4/23/2006 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.

4/20/2006 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.

4/20/2006 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.

4/19/2006 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.

4/19/2006 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.

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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.

5/16/2006 Kaare Berg (Old): [Afraid] Of my second and third bungling.
We played thursday and sunday last week. And it didn't rock. Which has been bothering me a bit, so I've spent some time wondering why. Here is my take on…
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Participants: Kaare Berg (Old), Emily Care, lumpley.

5/17/2006 Bret Gillan: [Gods] The Labyrinth, the Tuskers, and the King of the Black Citadel
Last night was supposed to be Charnel Gods night, but after some bullshitting and a couple of beers, we opted to playtest my Capes supplement/mod - Gods. It was just…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Emily Care, Valamir.

5/17/2006 Kat Miller: [Into the Mystic] A first Playtest
Friday night I held the first Into the Mystic Playtest.  We played with Carl, his fiancé Adrian, Our good Friend Michele, my husband Michael and Myself.  Carl, Michele and Michael…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Czar Fnord, mneme.

5/18/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: [Passages] Chargen Limits - Mechanical or Social?
Well, this is my first actual post here about a game I'm working on. Passages has actually been in development for over a year now. You can learn more about…
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Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, Tommi Brander, Bill Masek, CommonDialog, Ron Edwards.

5/19/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules] Fantasy
Finally, last night we played Monster Rules with a fantasy setting. I hosted the adventure, creating a simple three part scenario: 1. Knife in the dark 2. The Lost Crypt…
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Participants: mratomek, Melinglor.

5/19/2006 lumpley: [1001 Nights] Falconer, Midwife, Dancer, Master of Sword
So it's Emily, Julia, me and Meg, playing Meg's game in development 10001 Nights. We've set up and we're just starting play. My character's the Sultan's favorite dancer. He's a…
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Participants: lumpley, Emily Care.

5/21/2006 joepub: [Perfect] Playtest version up!
[url]http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Perfect_RPG.php[/url] That is the playtest version of Perfect, right there! [b]In the final version of the game, there will be content about:[/b] -establishing who gets to set the scenes (what…
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Participants: joepub, Oscar Evans, Pelgrane.

5/23/2006 cdr: [Afraid] Victim of an Angry Tiger
Earl offered to run a playtest of Vincent Baker's new game Afraid for me and a couple other of the local gamers, and it went pretty well. Here are…
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Participants: cdr, Mark Woodhouse, lumpley, space_parasite, agony.

5/23/2006 J. Tuomas Harviainen: [Bliss Stage] Your hopes and joys shall lift us up.
Here's a brief glimpse from our last session (delayed by me misplacing all the notes from that session). Interestingly enough, what my nordic-immersive players seem to do is take a…
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Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, Ben Lehman, ptikachu.

5/24/2006 Kat Miller: [EverLARP] Piper’s Court
Ok this is a LARP, but the mechanics and the plot are mine even if its set in “Everway” I ran the LARP for the second time on Sunday.  I…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Czar Fnord, Julian, mneme, c, Lisa Padol.

5/24/2006 TonyLB: [Motive and Opportunity] The Perversions of Lord Dunham
Playtested the "Motive and Opportunity" mini-game on the Foundry.  Here's the log if people want the blow-by-blow. The game is almost entirely mechanics free, but nicely structured.  There's a murder. …
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

5/24/2006 Lxndr: [Ensemble] 9th Hell: The Family at 316 John Street
The first playtest of Ensemble happened on the indie-netgaming IRC channel Monday night. Characters and other record sheets available here:  http://www.twistedconfessions.com/confessional/index.php?n=Ensemble.HomePage We had five players - Ivan, Dave, Chris, Brendon,…
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Participants: Lxndr, dindenver, iLikeSpoons.

5/25/2006 Matt: [Covenant]Boston Legal
Following on from previous discussions on revising the scenario design text. I'm posting particularly about those changes, since I'm really pleased with how they turned out. I did a runthrough…
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Participants: Matt.

5/26/2006 joepub: [Perfect] Vengeance is a dish best served with a rock.
So, tonight I ran a playtest of Perfect, with two close friends: Mat, and Spooner. (a link to the game is in my sig) A bit on set-up: We talked…
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Participants: joepub, dindenver, Darcy Burgess, Dumirik.

5/26/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Domus] - Defending is for suckers!
Domus (see sig) has been going through a severe overhaul.  The last round of playtesting revealed that the game's strength lies in a gm-less, fully "co-opetitive" format.  So, that's what…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Everspinner.

5/28/2006 Jasper: City of Birds on the Foundry
Last night I was very happy to playtest City of Birds on the Foundry (which I only recently discovered). Commiserations over the lack of Dr. Who led to a several-hour…
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Participants: Jasper, TonyLB.

5/30/2006 Sara Adyms: Looking to playtest "Sactum : The Fallout"
Alright, I'm done lurking in the corners.  (even if forums aren't my forte) I'm not ready to actually publish details just yet, but I am looking for interested parties in…
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Participants: Sara Adyms.

5/30/2006 c: [Outside] Getting beat up with blind spots.
So I conducted my first playtest of Outside on Saturday, and it was great because it went so horribly. That is great because I had been waiting for a semi-annual…
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Participants: c, Jasper, jerry, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

5/30/2006 mratomek: [Monser Rules]: Dragon's Forge Fantasy Game
This past Saturday, I ran a Monster Rules demo called Dragon’s Forge, a fantasy-setting game for two or more players. The scenario was a 2-part adventure that lasted about 2…
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Participants: mratomek.

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