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1/24/2007 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] How to Cultivate Playtests?
Hello all, I'd like to learn about successful strategies you've used to get good playtesting results from people you can't meet face-to-face. I've fielded several offers of interest into my…
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Participants: WhiteRat, iain, Sara Adyms, joepub, Graham Walmsley, Andrew Morris, Malcolm, Wolfen.

1/23/2007 iain: [Reel Adventures] Curse of the Glass Rose (pt2)
Notes for second session I had done some fiddling with the rules in between sessions. We found the momentum build was too great and slowed it down a bit. If…
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Participants: iain.

1/22/2007 zoom: Dark Lines Game
Hi There I'm new to this forum (as you can see by my post count). I would like to talk about a recent game of mine I have designed and…
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Participants: zoom, Clinton R. Nixon, Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, contracycle.

1/19/2007 Ron Edwards: [The People's Hero] Glasnost role-playing
Hello, All the way back in November 2005, when I posted the terms for the third round of the Ronnies, a notion for a game entered my head with them.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, contracycle.

1/17/2007 iain: [Reel Adventures] Curse of the Glass Rose (Pt1)
After a winter hiatus, the sunday group I am a part of got back together and helped me with the second playtest for Reel Adventures. You can find copies of…
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Participants: iain, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2007 Sara Adyms: [Sanctum: The Fallout/Ends and Means] The Beta-Testing Begins!
[color=black]-This is my first "real" post here, and it is also my first play-test- Keep that in mind with the critisism.  I make no claims to be 'a pro' -The…
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Participants: Sara Adyms, jasonm, Graham Walmsley.

1/15/2007 xenopulse: [Beast Hunters] Ennead Game Night
Last Saturday I ran Beast Hunters for a group of four players at the Ennead Game Night. We had about a dozen players who showed up ready to get their…
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Participants: xenopulse, Emily Care, Uruush, clam of god.

1/15/2007 Dantai: [Contenders/Umlaut] Rocking out
Rich Stokes has done a mighty fine metal based setting for Contenders as part of the setting design challenge (more info in the endeavor forum). So I got to play…
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Participants: Dantai, Caesar_X, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Rich Stokes.

1/11/2007 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Talking about other characters
I spent a longer time than I should trying to "deduce" a formula for how to make a character appealing (at least to me) from first principles.  All of the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Danny_K, Noon, Simon C, cdr, Filip Luszczyk, Emily Care, Jasper Flick.

1/10/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Oakland Playtest
Mike Montesa organized a Grey Ranks playtest in California (I'll let the participants out themselves if they want to).  I asked for permission to re-post comments and suggestions I received;…
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Participants: jasonm, Mike Montesa, Paul Strack, Mychal.

1/8/2007 Hans: [In a Wicked Age] Surreal Funk Exploitation Fantasy
Someone wasn't able to make it to my regular Riddle of Steel session last night, so Vic, Justin and I were left a bit adrift, wondering what to do.  I…
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Participants: Hans, lumpley, Artanis, Anders.

1/8/2007 jim pinto: [George's Children] Playtest IV
George's Children is an original game design by Jon Hodgson and jim pinto. I've now playtested this game four times, and it's really taking shape. We had a great game…
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Participants: jim pinto, Ron Edwards, joepub.

1/4/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Major system collapse
Saturday's playtest brought me to some conclusions about what I have now and where I'm going. I have a generally workable system that is fun to play, as long as…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Artanis, Hans.

1/3/2007 Bryan Hansel: [Pinnacle Empty Quiver] Raid on the Spanish Fort
PEQ went through its first playtest over the holidays. PEQ was my entry in the 2006 Game Chef competition where I got a ton of encouraging remarks about developing the…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm, Graham Walmsley, jlester, John Harper, andrew_kenrick, jdizon.

1/3/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] There is no circus in Istak...
This evening we played In a Wicked Age... I have too few words to describe my enthusiasm, so I'll just do an AP. We played with the playtest rules to…
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Participants: Artanis, Valamir, lumpley, Emily Care, timfire.

1/2/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] The Thing You Hold Dear
OK, I need to make an important change in Grey Ranks (one of the last, I hope!) and I'd like some feedback.  Right now each character has a Thing They…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Hans, segedy.

1/1/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets] Revelation Maps
This is something I've been toying around with for a while now, but I've finally pinned down some of the ideas and put them to paper. The point of it…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Malcolm, Ron Edwards, Matt.

12/30/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Act II Playtest
Steve, Clinton and I ran through Act II (Scenes 4, 5, and 6) of Grey Ranks today.  It went very well and exposed some interesting soft spots. Steve played Alicja…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, segedy.

12/29/2006 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Gangs of Rio de Janeiro
The third playtest, and the first online one (via Skype). Nearly four hours of play, including around 1.5h of prep and explaining stuff, plus an hour or so of post-play…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, Spooky Fanboy.

12/28/2006 Hans: [Grey Ranks] Toronto Playtest Report
Here is the report (finally, belatedly) of the Toronto group's playtest.  Sorry it took so bloody long, Jason.  You said I should post this here, I think, so here it…
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Participants: Hans, jasonm, two_fishes.

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1/25/2007 Tim M Ralphs: [Afraid] Where the Monsters is at
Well, I’m done with one campaign of Afraid and we’re getting to grips with a second, and things are coming together. Pretty soon I hope to be able to make…
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Participants: Tim M Ralphs, lumpley.

1/29/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Dreamation Playtests
If you played Grey Ranks at Dreamation I particularly invite your feedback here! I ran two sessions of Grey Ranks at Dreamation 2007, Friday and Saturday from 9AM to 1PM. …
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Participants: jasonm, Bret Gillan, RobNJ, Mel_White, phredd, Emily Care.

1/29/2007 John Wick: Houses of the Blooded Character Creation
Hey guys. Over at my LJ,, I'm putting up the character creation rules for Houses of the Blooded, one step per day. By the end of the wthe week, you'll…
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Participants: John Wick, Troy_Costisick, contracycle.

2/1/2007 JustinB: (Fae Noir) The Paris Escapade Playtest
So we recently did a playtest of one of the first two or three adventures that will be coming out for Fae Noir. The specific adventure is The Paris Escapade…
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Participants: JustinB.

2/2/2007 mratomek: [Super Force Seven] Playtest
Played a game last night, a quick one-shot game, 500 points each. The premise of the game was that the villains were meeting with an informant to extract some information…
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Participants: mratomek, Ron Edwards.

2/2/2007 Kat Miller: [into The Mystic/Tangled Fates] City of 1000 moons [long]
I ran a playtest of Into the Mystic this Saturday.  It wasn't planned, but I couldn't have asked for a better situation.  I was scheduled to run an Everway Game…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

2/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Conception
We playtested <a href="http://www.catchyourhare.com/files/Recruitment4.pdf">The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!</a> at Conception. Including myself, there were five players, all experienced gamers and very enthusiastic. (I was very nervous, by the way:…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Malcolm, GB Steve, Scott Dorward, Rich Stokes, andrew_kenrick, contracycle, knicknevin.

2/5/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets] Blood Shot Eyes - Conception playtest
The Setup On Saturday morning at Conception I managed to gather a group of enthusiastic players to playtest the latest rules for Six Bullets for Vengeance, my game about revenge.…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, Geoff Hall, Rich Stokes.

2/6/2007 Kat Miller: [Serial] A first play test
Last night was the first opportunity we had to play test our detective game Serial. The Players: Michele, Michael and Kat.  Serial is almost Gmless.  One player plays the part…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Eric J. Boyd.

2/9/2007 Kami-no-Mark: [Bloodlines RPG] first 3 playtest sessions (single campaign)
I've been a bit quiet since posting about my initial thoughts for my generational RPG back here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23087.0. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions about how it seems to…
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Participants: Kami-no-Mark, c, jackson_tegu, Simon C.

2/10/2007 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] First Mechanics Playtest of Act One.
After the help I got in this thread, I got excited and kept my friend Tim up after Friday night gaming to run a quick playtest of Act One of,…
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Participants: c, TJ, Simon C, Yakk.

2/15/2007 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Managing Miscommunication
In designing my LARP system, I've assumed that all communication between players is clear and complete. In actual play, this isn't the case. A scene happened last game where the…
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Participants: WhiteRat, c, Sara Adyms, Graham Walmsley, Andrew Morris, Noon.

2/16/2007 mratomek: [Super Force Seven] Game Objectives
I've been working on a demo to take around to stores and cons and eventually publish as what I am calling a Fast-Play scenario. This game was a 3-part adventure…
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Participants: mratomek.

2/17/2007 Jason Petrasko: [Fabricated] Drinks at the Lunar Cafe
A short Introduction to the game and some nifty art can be found here: Budding Website. I'll link to PDFs used in play as they come up. The game rules…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko.

2/18/2007 Thomas Lawrence: [Tragedy] Sisters in Hollywood
So i got to run a two-player game of my Tragedy game last night, with Anthony Damiani, whom I met in the #rpgnet channel after putting out an appeal for…
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Participants: Thomas Lawrence, Jason Petrasko.

2/21/2007 redivider: Disappeared (heads of state) at Orccon
I ran a pick-up/playtest game of Disappeared, one of the nine games in my Heads of State series, at orccon late Saturday night. Disappeared is a gm-less game but since…
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Participants: redivider.

2/23/2007 Hans: [Grey Ranks] Very belated Act 2 Playtest report
Ok, this is so belated as to be probably useless.  Jason, I apologize for the delay.  No excuse, although my burgeoning addiction to Elder Scrolls: Oblivion counts as one of…
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Participants: Hans, jasonm.

2/23/2007 AdAstraGames: Character Advancement, Temporary Awards, And Mingling The Two
So, in playtesting Worlds of Honor, we've got the following "currency" discussions going, and since the folks here have more experience with this than I do, I thought I'd bring…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, Valamir, Wolfen.

2/23/2007 Joshua BishopRoby: [Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries] Two Dollops of Pulp Goodness
Eric Boyd sent me ashcan copies of his new game The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries and the Advancement of Mankind.  I played in two separate playtests, which I…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Eric J. Boyd, redivider, jasonm.

2/26/2007 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Diagnosis playtest
So I'm working on this game called Medical Hospital.  The core conceit is that players create their own medicine-themed story by mashing together various mini-games, each of which takes 5-10…
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Participants: jasonm, Bryan Hansel, BabbageCliologic, Simon C.

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