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5/10/2007 Wormwood: [Coming of Age] Squires of Sword and Sorcery
Last night I held another playetest of <a href="http://wyrmwood.srgames.org/playtest/list.html">Coming of Age</a>. This time it was for somewhat veteran players, Zach had played the first playtest of the current incarnation, where…
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Participants: Wormwood.

5/4/2007 Paul Czege: [Chronicles of Babel] slaves in the hanging gardens
Well, the Sunday before Easter our occasional Sunday group was between games, and so I seized the day and ran a playtest of Paul Elliott's Chronicles of Babel. As a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Valamir, Mithras, Noclue.

5/4/2007 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] Enabling I will not abandon you?
I've been thinking about how to enable, "I will not abandon you" in SKMAV. What are some of the key characteristics of games that enable this type of play?
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Participants: c, lumpley, nitramwi, Gregor Hutton.

5/3/2007 lumpley: [psi run] cold and rainy in San Francisco
Meg, Emily, Julia and I played Psi Run last night. I GMed. Meg's character, Charlotte: What's in the box that's handcuffed to my wrist? Who is Donovan? Where are my…
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Participants: lumpley, Meguey, chris_moore, Caesar_X, Parthenia, michael lingner.

5/3/2007 redivider: {Coup d'etat} Tony Blair: watch your back!
Tony Blair- watch your back! Coup’d’etat playtest set in contemporary Britain Two weeks ago Judson, Joshua & I played Coup d’Etat, one of the nine games in my Heads of…
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Participants: redivider.

5/1/2007 Emily Care: [Sign in Stranger] JiffyCon playtest
We played Sign in Stranger at JiffyCon Boston.  Kat, Alexis, Jonathan Walton and I embarked our characters on a one way trip to living on a space station above a…
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Participants: Emily Care, jasonm.

5/1/2007 Ben Lehman: [Thou Art But A Warrior] I wish my game was this fun
So Joshua, Emily, Alexis and I played Thou Art But A Warrior the other night. For those of you who didn't keep up with Frank T's setting design contest, Thou…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Frank Tarcikowski, Solamasa, wunderllama, Arturo G..

4/29/2007 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] First successful playtest, or I need math help.
Last night was a great experience. I playtested my game with some friends, and it kinda worked and got some positive results. It was my first actual play experience validating…
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Participants: c, Miskatonic, nitramwi, Willow, Valamir, TJ, Ben Lehman, anders_larsen.

4/27/2007 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim]A reworking in progress.
I've started over from square zero, on my game, "Silence Keeps Me A Victim." I'm really excited as my playtest failures and some feedback have got me feeling much more…
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Participants: c, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Paul Czege, anders_larsen, nitramwi.

4/23/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] [Forge Midwest] Pediatricians and photographs
I got to playtest Dirty Secrets at Forge Midwest on Saturday.  My partners in crime were Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, John Stavropoulos, and Tod Olson.  (If I got your name…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Paul Czege, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Tod Olson.

4/23/2007 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] [Forge Midwest] Cursing within.
So I got to run a playtest of Silence Keeps Me A Victim at Forge Con, this weekend. Here's a list of previous posts if you want to see how…
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Participants: c, Valamir.

4/21/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Absolute Destiny Apocalypse] Berlin 1939, Moths and Candles
We continued our Skype playtest of Absolute Destiny Apocalypse. The report from the prep session and the list of Dramatis Personae can be found here. The session lasted about three…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, JackTheOwner.

4/17/2007 chris_moore: [psi run] heart breaking and head scratching
psi run here:  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23579.0                     http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23601.0                     http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23540.0     So, it…
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Participants: chris_moore, Simon C, lumpley.

4/16/2007 Jake Richmond: [Project C.H.A.I.R.] What is Vandal?
Nick ran another playtest for his game Project CHAIR this weekend. This is the second time Nick, Travis, April and I have played the game together.Gabe joined us this time…
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Participants: Jake Richmond, Filip Luszczyk, clam of god.

4/13/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Re: [Absolute Destiny Apocalypse] Berlin 1939, prep session
I'm after the first full-session playtest of Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, my Game Chef entry. Information about the game and link to the document itself can be found here. It was…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

4/10/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] We wrap our first game
Last night we wrapped up our first game of Dirty Secrets.  It’s been a bumpy ride at times, especially since the rules have shuffled around during this particular playtest, but…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

4/9/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Once again, from scratch
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22928.0]The last playtest of Illumination,[/url] although it resulted in a major system collapse, gave me quite a lot of food for thought. However, it's only now that all the loose…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Spooky Fanboy.

4/9/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Reggie’s Bad Day
See, guys!  I used the right name! The last couple of Fridays, I was able to playtest Dirty Secrets with my regular gaming group.  Last session was particularly memorable, and…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir.

4/8/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] A look at the "We owe" list after three chapters
We played a follow-up session to our two chapters with Zangdar's yellow gem. My brother didn't play again, but my friend Julien joined in with Romain and Jérôme, while I…
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Participants: Artanis.

4/8/2007 garrowolf: STLPunk Game
I am working on a space cyberpunk game. I want some realistic damage codes for my ships so I am looking for the damage values for a naval combat simulator…
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Participants: garrowolf.

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5/12/2007 Ron Edwards: [Cutthroat] Vroooooommmm!
One of my sins is not playing the Ronnies games to the fullest. I've played a lot of them, but not enough. Fortunately, in the last couple of months, I…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

5/16/2007 Malcolm: [Everlasting Empire] The First Playtest
[i]This thread might provide some help in understanding the basics of Everlasting Empire: [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22506.0]Everlasting Empire Power 19[/url][/i] Last weekend saw the first ever playtest of Everlasting Empire. In truth, it…
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Participants: Malcolm.

5/16/2007 JustinB: Fae Noir: Vote Early, Vote Coffin First Playtest
We ran a playtest of the second Fae Noir adventure module this past Sunday and it went much better than the initial playtests of The Paris Escapade, which is encouraging.…
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Participants: JustinB, Emily Care.

5/18/2007 Graham Walmsley: [The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!] At Spodley Grange
This is the fourth playtest. The players are Malcolm, Janos and Andrew, all people I know from conventions and get on with. Oh, actually, I've just met Janos, but he…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, andrew_kenrick, Malcolm.

5/19/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Spodley Grange playtest
Saturday afternoon at Spodley Grange I got to run a playtest of Six Bullets for Vengeance, my game of bloodshed and vengeance, I think for the 5th time. Each time…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, GreatWolf, Zathreyel.

5/19/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Current status
So after Camp Nerdly, and between the small slice of time I had between the end of one semester and the beginning of the next, I got another draft of…
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Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

5/20/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Back on tracks
It took me some time before I got down to writing this AP, but here it is. We playtested the new version of Illumination, my Mage: the Ascension heartbreaker game,…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, JackTheOwner.

5/20/2007 iain: [STITCH] Actual play spodley grange
[b]Stitch – Spodley Grange playtest[/b] [b]Master:[/b] Iain McAllister [b]Team:[/b] Gregory Malkovich, Soldier - James Alex Stepovich, Engineer - Janos John Parish, Soldier - Claire Alexander Khruschev, commander - Andrew [b]Overview:[/b]…
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Participants: iain, Graham Walmsley, Filip Luszczyk.

5/23/2007 Joe Dizzy: [GALACTIC] Berlin Playtest 2007
[b]Session 1 - Character and setting creation [/b] These are a few of my impressions of our first Galactic session on Monday. All in all it took us a little…
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Participants: Joe Dizzy, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, yothales, Alan.

5/23/2007 Neil the Wimp: [Dirty Secrets] MKRPG first playtest
Dirty Secrets is Seth Ben-Ezra's game of detective fiction, in the mould of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer.  Read Ben's notes and some other playtests We played Dirty Secrets last…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, GreatWolf.

5/24/2007 jrs: [Grey Ranks] Another playtest
So we started a Grey Ranks game.  We only got through Chapter 2; not exactly a full session.  I assume much of that was due to our unfamiliarity with the…
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Participants: jrs, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, jasonm, segedy.

5/24/2007 jim pinto: Murdercycles
Set in tumultuous and fictious 1960s sweden, Murdercycles is an RPG of motorcycle gangs run amok. The last days of the Devil Dogs (or whatever gang) is captured in this…
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Participants: jim pinto, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

5/24/2007 phasmaphobic: Seeking advice on organizing my first playtest
Hey folks, I'm looking to put together my first official playtest of a game our company is developing.  We have a few people signed up and ready to go, that…
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Participants: phasmaphobic, GreatWolf.

5/27/2007 rycanada: Thanks to the Forge
Strange how some things can work out. This post is about Legends, a fast-paced vanilla nar game I've used on and off for years, but which I'm now trying to…
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Participants: rycanada, Ron Edwards.

5/27/2007 MJGraham: [Insurrection] First playtest
This is the first playtest of my game and also my first write up of a playtest so I hope I do it right... The game began with me explaining…
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Participants: MJGraham, Malcolm.

5/28/2007 Malcolm: [Okhrana] Playtest at Spodley Grange
A few weeks ago, the Spodley Grange weekend playtesting event saw the first ever playtest of Okhrana, a game I initially wrote for the 24 Hour Espionage RPG competition hosted…
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Participants: Malcolm, Graham Walmsley, Jonas Karlsson.

5/29/2007 Joshua BishopRoby: [Sons of Liberty] Kickin Ass Tory Style
I got to playtest Sons of Liberty this weekend at Gamex with a whole passel of players.  The game ended up playing in two halves, each with five Patriots against…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Noclue.

5/31/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] The Rise of Google 2.0
(cross posted from Story Games) So I ran Misspent Youth for some friends yesterday at my house and for the first time I had a complete story from beginning to…
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Participants: RobNJ, TonyLB.

6/3/2007 Peter Nordstrand: One Can Have Her
We playtested Jonas Ferry's (the artist formerly known as Jonas Karlsson) Ronny winning game One Can Have Her. The short version of this report is that the game went very…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

6/3/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Darker] Thank heaven for little girls
Darker is my setting for the Shab al-Hiri Roach: the Roach comes to Oxford University in Victorian times. We tested it today, after Sunday lunch. There's John, Alex, Adam and…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

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