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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.

2/10/2007 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.

2/9/2007 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.

2/6/2007 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.

2/5/2007 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.

2/5/2007 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.

2/2/2007 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.

2/2/2007 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.

2/1/2007 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.

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.

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.

1/25/2007 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.

1/25/2007 Jake Richmond: Project C.H.A.I.R
I had a chance to play an early draft of Nick Smiths new game, Project C.H.A.I.R., the other night. Lots of fun. I thought I'd share with a report.You can…
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Participants: Jake Richmond, Jasper Flick, clam of god.

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.

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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.

2/28/2007 GreatWolf: A playtesting lesson from Reiner Knizia
For those of you who don't know, I am a Eurogames nut.  These are the new wave of boardgames, mostly from Germany, that are breathing new life into the boardgame…
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Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Thunder_God, ynnen, Jake Richmond, Michael Johnson, HeTeleports, Ron Edwards, Quizoid.

2/28/2007 redivider: [satanic mills] - 'all is under the sway of inhuman power' k.marx
Satanic Mills was a game I wrote for the 2-page techno horror game challenge last year. It is a game about alienation set in a 19th century factory town and…
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Participants: redivider, jim pinto.

3/1/2007 KeithBVaughn: Playtesting, Playtesters...An Absymal Failure
To the Group, I'm just sharing an experience and experiment that I just did. On one of the Yahoo boards I found a group of miniatures that looked interesting to…
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Participants: KeithBVaughn, BabbageCliologic, AdAstraGames.

3/2/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session One
I'm facilitating a local playtest of Grey Ranks and we had our first session last night.  The four players are members of my regular, long-time game group, and are all…
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Participants: jasonm, madirishman, GreatWolf, Bryan Hansel.

3/5/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Dark Sands- 1st Run] Gearing up for DL-Quarterly Series #2
Heya, So I'm starting to playtest the games I'll be releasing for DL-Quarterly Series 2.  Most of these games won't be released until 2008, but it's never too early to…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/9/2007 redivider: [heads of state] art and death in jakarta
Joshua, Judson, Stacy and I conducted the third playtest of Palace Gates earlier this week. That same night we played Subversive Words for the second time, with Jim taking Stacy’s…
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Participants: redivider, jim pinto.

3/9/2007 Dumirik: [Kin] Mothers and daughters
Last weekend I got to run a session of Kin, my game in development. Kin is this game where you play estranged family members called together for a big family…
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Participants: Dumirik, joepub, J B Bell, Ice Cream Emperor, Meguey, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/9/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session Two
We had our second session last night and it went great.  It covered chapters four, five, and six, 2-7 August 1944, the high water mark of the Uprising.  Everyone returned…
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Participants: jasonm, segedy.

3/9/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Initial Playtest Process
In this thread, I said: In another post, I'll write up what I've done so far, and I'll scrawl notes as I go through my ongoing playtest as I…
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Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, sn0wshrew.

3/10/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Bliss Stage] Jury-rigged ANIMa in the outback
So, I've been slowly going through games published last year. One of the crop was Shock: Social Science Fiction, which has found great response from a selective clientele, my teenage…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

3/10/2007 jim pinto: Relics of Power
Our playtest of Relics of Power did not go well. Because of the open-ended nature of the game, the PCs took the DAGGER OF POWER and used it to their…
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Participants: jim pinto, Eero Tuovinen, OliverTheMerc, Noon.

3/12/2007 andrew_kenrick: [1st Quest] Wolves of the World Tree
Last night I ran a playtest session of 1st Quest, Judd's new game. We played through the World Tree Pack tutorial from the book - essentially you play members of…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Paka.

3/14/2007 hardcoremoose: Kagematsu: Torrid Samurai Romance!
Hey everyone, It’s been awhile, but after months of little or no activity and two missed GenCons, here I am with my hand out. On and off for the past…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, jrs.

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