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8/14/2006 Lxndr: [Ensemble] Playtesting at GenCon: Land of the Lost
Okay, so.  Ensemble, a game of improvisational roleplaying, managed to be playtested exactly once at GenCon, late Friday night at the Embassy Suites. It was originally Emily Care Boss, myself,…
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Participants: Lxndr, Nathan P., Jake Richmond, c, Jonathan Hastings.

8/14/2006 Adam Kleizer: [Mafia Story] Saving the daughter of the Boss
[b]Hello![/b] Last week I had the opportunity to test my game Mafia Story with 3 of my friends. (Get the playtest document [url=http://web.t-online.hu/kleizerne/rpg/mafiastory_briefgameplay.pdf]here[/url]. This document lacks a good overview of…
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Participants: Adam Kleizer.

8/14/2006 Frank T: [Rim Patrol] Texans and hookers in space. Vodka, too.
So we have been asked to post about German game designs in development. Ron, you’re gonna like this one. The game is called “Randpatrouille” (Rim Patrol) and you can download…
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Participants: Frank T, abjourne.

8/10/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Second Playtest - this time with 100% more apes!
We played the second playtest game of Six Bullets last night. This time round we had the right number of players (7), and with a mix of veterans and newbies,…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

8/8/2006 Rustin: [Afraid] With a Nerfed Monster
Sunday I got a chance to run Afraid with the Monster found here . Overview My players much preferred battling a monster to the regular rooting out sin, passing…
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Participants: Rustin, Marhault, lumpley, Mark Woodhouse, WhiteRat, Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy.

8/6/2006 hix: [The Lucky Joneses] Some slow, latently homosexual playtesting
I'm about to do a big playtesting spree for my game, The Lucky Joneses, which is set in a family sit-com universe and is (hopefully) about what it means to…
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Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, petrova.

8/4/2006 Smithy: [The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries] First Playtest
So Alexander Cherry and I took my revised 2006 Game Chef entry of pulp exploration storytelling (see link below) for a spin. Now the game really needs at least three…
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Participants: Smithy, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Eric J. Boyd.

7/31/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest: Session 0
So folks got together on Friday, roughly around 6pm, to run through all the prep-work for a Galactic! campaign: Captains, Crews, Factions, the Galaxy, our First Worlds, and an addition…
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Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson.

7/27/2006 Emily Care: [Shooting the Moon]New Love among the Old Gods
Hey there, On Monday I did a full playtest of the final version of Shooting the Moon. My friends Laura & David agreed to help me out. David coming from…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Gregor Hutton.

7/26/2006 slade the sniper: A narrative of my playtest
Greetings, some questions concerning my playtest(s) have come up concerning the length/quantity of them.  This is a (hopefully small) narrative of how each of the three playtests went. The first…
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Participants: slade the sniper, Valamir, Thunder_God, andrew_kenrick, abjourne, Ron Edwards.

7/24/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] first playtest
I ran my first session of Six Bullets for Vengeance tonight, and all in all I think it worked very well. My regular group games online, so I have the…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, iain, Matt Wilson, Gregor Hutton, Warren, Zathreyel.

7/23/2006 Matt Wilson: [Galactic] Playtest in Madison - 1
Today I spent a few hours in Madison with Sarah, Chris and Daniel setting up for what looks like a kickass game. I'll say right up front that I'm extra…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper.

7/22/2006 Glendower: [Galactic] Aliens and Adamantium
I downloaded, printed, and sat three players down to play test Matt Wilson's Galactic.  The premise really called out to me, and I'm pretty eager to play test anything by…
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Participants: Glendower, Matt Wilson.

7/19/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: [Primitive] Dexcon 06- farside of the swamp
So this past weekend was the first public preview of Primitive. I've been doing private playtests for a few months now, but it was time to play the songs out,…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Paka, Asperity, thwaak, tartex, Blaheee, Ron Edwards.

7/17/2006 Lxndr: [Ensemble] Pompeii on IRC
Two Sundays ago, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen and I created characters for Ensemble, a new game of mine that's in the process of being developed.  Yesterday, we played the first…
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Participants: Lxndr.

7/17/2006 c: [Outside] Playtest Four, or Clyde get some direction. (Long)
So I just got in from riding my Bike home from today's playtest and was excited about the discussion I had with my players and wanted to see if other…
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Participants: c.

7/9/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] A Clash of Worlds, the Medium War.
This session continued the playtest which is described here. Here are the Playtest log and the Character sheet for how things looked at the end of the game.At the end…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Filip Luszczyk, 7Storyfall.

7/8/2006 David Bapst: Sim Oneshot System; First Playtest and Partial Dissolution of System
Session Report First Playtest and Incomplete Dissolution of System Last night, I tried to run the first playtest session of a system I’d been working on for the past year…
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Participants: David Bapst, Filip Luszczyk, zmook, Czar Fnord, davidberg, Paul T.

7/3/2006 abjourne: Here's where I'm at.
Premise -What are you playing?  I’m play-testing a fantasy RPG labeled DE for short. How long have you been playing/how long do you intend to play this game?  Is this…
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Participants: abjourne, Ron Edwards, Glendower.

6/28/2006 Altharis: [Evolve mod] first try (split)
Well..... I really must be boring people, my first post and I haven't recieved any feed back as to how other people faired with Evolve and stuff. I had a…
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Participants: Altharis, Ron Edwards, tj333, MW.

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8/15/2006 Kat Miller: [Into the Mystic] Gen Con playtests
I ran two different play tests of Into The Mystic at Gen con. I’m thinking 2 words here: one is Crash the Other is Burn. It started out at the…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Emily Care.

8/18/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Gen Con Playtest
So I got together at Gen Con with a dream team of young Turks to try out Grey Ranks:  Gregor "Best Friends" Hutton, Kevin "Primitive" Allen Jr, Joe "Contenders" Prince,…
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Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, Nathan P., Dantai, Gregor Hutton.

8/18/2006 Kmac: Playtesting Question
While I am not new to visit here I am new to posting. I've skulked in the dark reading a few posts here now and again but have failed to…
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Participants: Kmac, Andrew Morris, Wolfen, JakeVanDam.

8/19/2006 Technocrat13: [theInfected2] Spiders of Phoenix
A few months back I hammered out a little zombie movie game I called Shamble and Moan.  By the time I got done with it I was calling it the…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Aman the Rejected, knicknevin.

8/20/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets] Playtest 3 - a radical rethink
Six Bullets had its 3rd playtest late last night, and its first airing in face to face roleplaying. It was the same group who have run through the material a…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Technocrat13, Zathreyel.

8/21/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest: Session One
Okay, so the group got together for our first 'real' session of Galactic, since our first session (also detailed here in the forum) was pretty much nothing but the prep…
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Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson, Pyromancer.

8/23/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Plot and the Relationship Map
Last night I got together with my good friend (and long-time RPG player) Mark MacVicar to play through some of the concepts I have been working on for “Touch of…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Kesher: [ASSEMBLER] Runtime debugging...
I wrote a two-page game called <a href="http://rpgtalk.net/kesher/files/25/65/ASSEMBLER.pdf">ASSEMBLER</a> for  the <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20302.0">Compact RPG Challenge</a> over on the Endeavors forum, and playtested it last night.  I'm sad to say I have…
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Participants: Kesher, Emily Care, WhiteRat.

8/24/2006 Vaxalon: Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Two: First Playtest
I held a micro-playtest with my friend Brenna last night.  We were trying out the conflict resolution rules. Here's the short version of the rules.  They cover only 1-1 conflicts. …
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Participants: Vaxalon.

8/26/2006 Halzebier: [The Pool] Playing with fewer dice?
Hi there! I'm a teacher and plan on running The Pool for a group of 5 to 8 students, aged 15 to 18, on an upcoming class trip. I'm worried…
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Participants: Halzebier, Artanis, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2006 neko ewen: [Tokyo Heroes] Shadow Hunter Akuranger
After letting it sit for a few months I got inspired and finally managed to finish up the first draft of Tokyo Heroes, my sentai RPG, and when I announced…
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Participants: neko ewen, Sovem.

8/30/2006 Technocrat13: [the Infected 2] Spanish Shadows
Last night Lisa and I got together with Mark and Remi for my second playtest of the Infected 2, my monster-movie game, inspired by a variety of zombie movies, but…
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Participants: Technocrat13, LeSingeSavant, jasonm.

8/30/2006 Gaerik: [AGE] Playtesting the combat mechanics
I'm putting this in Playtesting because just sitting down to do combat without any story going on doesn't seem like Actual Play to me.  It is playtesting the rules though.…
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Participants: Gaerik.

9/2/2006 Emily Care: [Sign in Stranger]Gen Con playtest
Hey there, Friday night at Gen Con was the peak of the con for me. I got to play the amazing Stalingrad love tragedy of Shooting the Moon with Scott…
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Participants: Emily Care, bluegargantua, John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, brainwipe, Jake Richmond.

9/5/2006 jim pinto: George's Children: Playtest Session One
Hi, If you haven't been following my thread in First Thoughts, I'm writing a game called George's Children, set in a post-post world where everyone over the age of 12…
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Participants: jim pinto, matthijs, Ron Edwards, redivider, joepub.

9/6/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries] Lost City of the Serpent People
My Game Chef 2006 entry of pulp exploration storytelling (see link in my sig) continues to develop! With a third member added to our gaming group, I can finally give…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, Lxndr, Graham Walmsley.

9/7/2006 Sovem: [Divinity Horizons] Epic Playtesting
So, last night we had a terrific playtest of Divinity Horizons. My wife and my two long-term gamers were there, as well as a newcomer to our group. Divinity Horizons…
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Participants: Sovem, Valamir, Wolfen, Spooky Fanboy, sean2099, TonyLB.

9/8/2006 charles ferguson: [TOTSG]: Some Hard Lessons Learned
Last night we had our 6th & final session of Throne Of The Spider God in it's current form. That form is heavily drifted from the draft I put on…
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Participants: charles ferguson, c, Valamir, John Harper, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, TonyLB, Reithan.

9/11/2006 Pyromancer: [Galactic]Karlsruhe Playtest: Session 0 - Smugglers and Battlestars
Two weeks ago I finally managed to gather my Galactic-Playtest-Crew. A somewhat more details report (in German) can be found at http://grofafo.org/index.php/topic,28847.0.html To summarize it: We had a ton of…
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Participants: Pyromancer, TonyLB, Frank T.

9/14/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum]
Alright!  Finally a playtest of Misery Bubblegum that didn't explode on contact, strafing everyone nearby with hot, jagged, rules-system shrapnel.  Eric and I got together for a night of games. …
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Participants: TonyLB, Hans, Gaerik, TheCzech.

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