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7/1/2007 Zathreyel: (Criminal Element) On the Bullet Train
Alright, so I've had the chance to run some hardcore Criminal Element sessions recently.  It's good to get back under the hood of that thing.  Criminal Element, for those not…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Everspinner.

7/1/2007 Eldrad: The Olde Realm
[b] Session before last[/b] Damien Ehrlich the Sage of the Purple Cloth and Kora the Barbarian were looking for a simple place to eat.. The city of Westfort was in…
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Participants: Eldrad, Calithena, Ron Edwards.

6/28/2007 Joshua BishopRoby: [Sons of Liberty] Goateed Washington and the Fully Armed and Operational Printin
[b]Prior Posts:[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22694.0]Pre-Alpha Playtest[/url] - this thread lays out the basics of the game mechanics; disregard 'Valor' [url=http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=3060]Tale of Two Toms[/url] - Mark's Tory Win [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24025.0]Kickin Ass Tory Style[/url] -…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby.

6/28/2007 Ron Edwards: [One Can Have Her] Ratting in black and white
At last, I have time to post about playing One Can Have Her. The group included me, Tim K, Tim A, and Chris. Jonas (and Peter), I apologize for the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jonas Karlsson, Emily Care, Peter Nordstrand.

6/28/2007 VoidDragon: [AVERA] The line between character and equipment
Okay, I just ran the first playtest of my multi-genre roleplaying system this last Sunday.  It looks like I'll be able to fix the most obvious issues the players had…
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Participants: VoidDragon.

6/28/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Power 19
1.) What is your game about? Misspent Youth is a game about friendship, rebellion, and growing up. 2.) What do the characters do? The Youthful Offenders stand up to The…
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Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

6/28/2007 spikexander: [Mob Justice] Our Last Playtest
[center][b]Mob Justice 1.5 The Big Lie[/b][/center] [i]Okay, I have to tell a little tale. In 2005, I attended GenCon for the first time thanks to a game publisher that needed…
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Participants: spikexander, iain.

6/27/2007 Dumirik: [GoPlay Northwest: Kin] This is everyone's fault but mine!
This is the second playtest I've run of Kin, at GoPlay Northwest. I had seven players, again! It was really fun, and I learned a lot. I mean, a lot.…
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Participants: Dumirik.

6/26/2007 Michael Desing: [Mythweaver: The Splintered Realm] Wraith Battle
This was the encounter that let me know that 'Mythweaver: The Splintered Realm' was headed in the right direction. I was refereeing a session with just myself and my wife…
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Participants: Michael Desing.

6/25/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Club 138
[b]Setup[/b] Gaétan (Investigator), Jérôme, Julien, Xavier and myself tested Seth Ben-Ezra's game friday a fortnight ago. In a word, it was: great! I actually didn't understand the rules very well…
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Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, Valamir.

6/25/2007 MJGraham: [Insurrection] GM Fiat: How much is too much? (NSFW)
I've been playtesting my own game and the following incident occured. In one scene the protagonists were staying the night at a religious compound. A player who was roleplaying a…
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Participants: MJGraham, c, Noon.

6/22/2007 joepub: [The Infected] The Final Nail in the Coffin of Fox River
I played The Infected with two players last night. We agreed upon playing a meandering, gritty western for the backdrop - Fox River, a dying mine town on its last…
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Participants: joepub, Darcy Burgess, Technocrat13, MikeSands, Rich Stokes.

6/22/2007 darnest: StrikeForce :2136 Combat Revision
Okay so StrikeForce is a transhuman high tech adventure RPG with a conflict system for the characters to develop against.  The world is design on conflict, on purpose by the…
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Participants: darnest.

6/18/2007 c: [Other Worlds][Lake Geneva Con] Becoming Undead Means I Win.
I had lots of fun this Saturday. My friend Len and I went to Lake Geneva Wisconsin for the Lake Geneva convention put on by Troll Lord Games. As per…
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Participants: c, nitramwi, Mike Holmes, Valamir, simon_hibbs.

6/18/2007 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Arts and Crafts
I got to playtest Medical Hospital, my game about medicine and hospitals, ay Mayacon last Saturday.  It was pretty interesting.  Medical Hospital is going to be a modular game with…
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Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Aman the Rejected.

6/17/2007 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Comedy of (Copier) Errors
Joel, Lisa, and Jon played Business Solutions yesterday at Mayacon, Andy Kitkowski's house-con devoted to playtesting.  Lisa posts around here as Urbanpagan.  Joel's in my weekly TSoY group.  Jon is…
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Participants: jasonm, Ben Lehman.

6/17/2007 travisfarber: [Grey Ranks] A little thing called War
So, I have had the great opportunity to read through and play Grey Ranks.  This is the first of three sessions. To give a little background to the preperation part…
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Participants: travisfarber, jasonm, BlackTerror, ironick.

6/17/2007 Meguey: [Psi Run] One game right after another!
Last Thursday we finished up our first Psi Run, as per this thread, with Vincent running for Emily, Julia, and me. It was fantastic! I got to break my lock-box…
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Participants: Meguey, Parthenia, michael lingner, chris_moore, lumpley.

6/15/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Absolute Apocalypse Academy] Change of the title and the new direction
Over a month has passed since I took a break from Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, and it’s a good moment for me to re-examine the game, consider its further development and…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

6/11/2007 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] Questions on conflicts
I'm playtesting my film noir game One Can Have Her and this Thursday the players raised some concerns on how I handled conflicts and their consequences. This could just be…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Peter Nordstrand.

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7/5/2007 Neil the Wimp: [Dirty Secrets] MK RPG Third Playtest
Dirty Secrets is Seth Ben-Ezra's game of detective fiction, in the mould of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer.  Read Seth's notes and some other playtests, including the first and second…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, GreatWolf, Artanis, Valamir, Caesar_X.

7/11/2007 Joshua BishopRoby: [Sons of Liberty] Opening Handclasp, Sign, and Countersign?
So I've been pondering the Campaign Mode for Sons of Liberty and how much I want to constrain and flavor the three different stages of the campaign.  The levels (sessions)…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, Zathreyel, Thenomain.

7/15/2007 Ron Edwards: [Grey Ranks] Third and final session
Hello! What a great game. You can read about our first two sessions in Another playtest for first two sessions. We'd completed seven out of the ten missions.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm.

7/18/2007 travisfarber: [Grey Ranks] Playtest over Skype
Recently we did a playtest for Grey Ranks over Skype.  Originally, we were going to play another game, but we ended up playing Grey Ranks instead.  I'll try to give…
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Participants: travisfarber, jasonm.

7/19/2007 redivider: [Short History of Decay]: pandas, pollution, population
Colin, Jim, Joshua & I tried A Short History of Decay, my mini-game about the decline and fall of practically anything. I wrote this game for a very informal challenge…
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Participants: redivider.

7/20/2007 Darcy Burgess: [the Infected] Corporate Whores!
[b]Social Set-up[/b] This past Wednesday (July 18, 2007), I had the opportunity to run the ashcan version of [url=http://www.ericsrpgs.com]The Infected[/url] for a mixed group - the players included a long-time…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Tim Sellmer, Technocrat13, lee-anne.

7/23/2007 chris_moore: [psi run] Hometown Havoc
    We played a whole game of Psi Run today.  I was GM.  We have all gamed together for a couple of years, except for Rowan, the newest member…
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Participants: chris_moore, michael lingner, Lizard King, Piers Brown.

7/23/2007 gains: [Contract Work] DexCon 10 Play-test
I ran a play-test session of Contract Work on Saturday. The AP is on the Lucre Press blog, here. Comment away. If you know nothing of this game (likely, considering…
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Participants: gains.

7/24/2007 Vulpinoid: Tales [A Work in Progress]
To anyone who might be interested, I've been writing a set of rules for an RPG over the last 15 years or so. It's seen various incarnations at conventions and…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, Filip Luszczyk, vikingmage.

7/25/2007 Hans: [Dirty Secrets] Too late playtest in Ontario
Hello: Josh, Liz, Piers, and I decided, as sort of an afterthought, to playtest Dirty Secrets one in our last gaming session as a group (Josh and Liz are off…
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Participants: Hans, GreatWolf, jaw6.

7/26/2007 Del_Esau: Machyna steampunk RPG: A thank you to the Forge and playtesting invite!
Wow, I started work on Machyna in '03. I took Emily Dresner-Thornber's advice and wrote out the concept and synopsis and posted that and background info here on the Forge.…
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Participants: Del_Esau.

7/26/2007 Chris_Chinn: [The Emperor's Heart] The Library
The Emperor's Heart is the laser-sharked space-wuxia game I've been working on for a few months now.  Take the classic "Outlaws fighting against corrupt eunuch-run Imperial government" add spaceships, robot…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Darcy Burgess.

7/27/2007 Chris_Chinn: [The Emperor's Heart] The Princess
So, this is a quick report of the second game my friend N. and I ran using the Emperor's Heart rules I'm working on.  Both games were like an hour…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Sydney Freedberg.

7/28/2007 fractayle: Playtesting of Fractayle: The Collision of Worlds
Hi everyone, I've already posted into the "First Thoughts" section and we are busy with a thread discussing the rules there (can be found at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24431.0). The game (rules and…
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Participants: fractayle.

8/2/2007 Chris_Chinn: [The Emperor's Heart] A Pair of New Lungs
Hi, This time I sat down and played a pickup game with my friend Tanya.  She has mostly a history of Illusionist play, with stuff like Call of Cthulhu and…
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Participants: Chris_Chinn, Ron Edwards, Meguey.

8/10/2007 Darcy Burgess: [the Infected] Zombies of the Carribean
[b]Social Set-Up[/b] For my second game of [u]the Infected[/u], I was back with my regular gaming group.  In fact, this game marked my return to "regularly scheduled gaming" from a…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Technocrat13, TomTancredi.

8/20/2007 Caesar_X: [The Naked City] Prototype using index cards for scene generation
I returned from my honeymoon eager to get moving with The Naked City: a Game of Film Noir.  I've been working on this game off and on for almost a…
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Participants: Caesar_X, SpinachBaron, GreatWolf.

8/20/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Memeplexes & Mindfucking
I've ran another playtest of Illumination yesterday, with Kamil as the player. The session wasn't long, but it gave us quite a blast fun-wise. The game had exactly the right…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

8/21/2007 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG: The Olde Realm
Well my setting the Olde Realm (See past post but ignore all rule sections)  was the setting for the first playtest of the NOVEL RPG (See first thoughts)system. I will…
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Participants: Eldrad.

8/22/2007 Ron Edwards: The Ashcan Front
Hi everyone, The Ashcan Front project debuted at GenCon 2007 to great acclaim. Now, however, the buzz will diminish and it will be time to get to work. Rather than…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, TwoCrows, Eero Tuovinen.

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