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9/7/2007 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG System playtest
After doing a playtest letting another GM use the system it worked very well. The players were quite inexperienced to very experienced. All flowed with the concept though apprehensive at…
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Participants: Eldrad, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, RobNJ, apeiron, rasterix.

9/5/2007 GreatWolf: [Land of 1000 Kings] My children visit the Land of 1000 Kings
As my children grow older, I have been trying to think of ways to integrate them into my gaming hobby.  I don’t want to have games be a thing that…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman.

9/4/2007 lumpley: Tomato Judgment in the Garden Kingdom
(This is my last GenCon play writeup for the year. The others are non-nostalgic D&D, Ganakagok AP, and GenCon Poison'd, but you don't get the whole story.) Not…
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Participants: lumpley, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, John Harper, Meguey, ironick, GB Steve, wunderllama, RobNJ, Elliott.

9/2/2007 jporrett: [The Emperor's Heart] Love and Death in the Imperial City
I got a chance to sit down and do a bit of playtesting of "The Emperor's Heart" this weekend.  It was at my friend's house and there was much gaming…
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Participants: jporrett, Chris_Chinn, ejh, dvandyke23.

8/30/2007 Emily Care: [spontaneous system] rocking in at GenCon
We wrote a new game at GenCon--right there at the table at Embassy Suites--that let us seriously rock in. I'm looking at the artifacts of this game: Four green sticky…
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Participants: Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Blankshield.

8/30/2007 gte910h: [The Infected] Giggly Manicacs on the Space Station Playtest
We played the infected after reading the rules from: http://www.geocities.com/rpgjunkie74/the_Infected.pdf I don't know if that was the correct resource, but it was enough to get going... We set the movie…
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Participants: gte910h, Technocrat13.

8/29/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Ordinary Angels] First playtest
So yesterday I had some friends over and we had a quick playtest of Ordinary Angels, my game of angelic cops. Me and Fred talk about it quite extensively on…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

8/29/2007 Meguey: [In A Wicked Age] Chapter 1: The Prophet of No Self Control, plus strawberries
Ever have one of those characters that's so unlike your regular characters that it's totally freeing? That's what I got last night. Vincent's game in the works, In A Wicked…
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Participants: Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis, Emily Care, Anders, Parthenia, tonyd, lumpley, Marhault, GreatWolf, Archer5280, Kairos, The Bane, John Harper.

8/27/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [The Emperor's Heart] Uh... who needs names anyway?
We playtested Chris Chinn's The Emperor's Heart yesterday, having some spare time late evening and seeing that it should work for a two player pick up game. We played for…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Chris_Chinn, ja-prozac.

8/27/2007 MartiniPhilosopher: [A Haunted Night] The Abandoned School
Greetings All! Last night was the first playtest of A Haunted Night, a one page Japanese Horror inspired game. I had a total of seven people participate in the playtest,…
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Participants: MartiniPhilosopher, Elizabeth P..

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.

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.

8/20/2007 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.

8/20/2007 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.

8/10/2007 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.

8/2/2007 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.

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.

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.

7/26/2007 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.

7/26/2007 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.

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9/11/2007 Meguey: [Galactic] Character creation for Seb's new game!
Sebastian is 10, almost 11. He's read Galactic about 5 times since he found it on the couch when Vincent returned from GenCon 07. He said casually last week that…
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Participants: Meguey, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, lumpley.

9/17/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Raspberry Heaven] All About Friendsheep
I playtested, or maybe rather crashtested, Ewen Cluney's Raspberry Heaven with Jacek and Kamil yesterday. The game is pretty interesting and we've been curious how it works. I believe it…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac.

9/17/2007 jporrett: [The Emperor's Heart] Questions and Comments
Hey Chris, I plan on doing some more play-testing, probably next week, and I had a few questions and comments on the <a href="http://bankuei.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/the-emperors-heart-rules-update/">rule changes</a>. 1) Goals/Stakes: I guess I'm…
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Participants: jporrett, Chris_Chinn.

9/21/2007 Elliott: The First Reaper Beauties Playtest Report. Now in English.
As requested on Story-Games on the following thread: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=4302&page=1#Item_0, an actual play thread for Reaper Beauties.  I posted a rather incoherent one before... Could a mod please delete my old…
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Participants: Elliott, Mark Woodhouse.

9/21/2007 Ben Lehman: Revenge of the Ninja
So, on Wednesday, I said to Alexis "huh, I've got a really good idea for a mechanic for a ninja game." I wrote it down. Then, on Thursday, I fleshed…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Dev, Simon C, Noon, Valamir.

9/24/2007 Wormwood: [Homeworld Project] Lost Treasure of Chaladni
I just ran the first session of the next round of <a href="http://wyrmwood.srgames.org/playtest/HomeworldProj.pdf">Homeworld Project</a> playtesting. Due to scheduling, only one of the players was able to make the game, more…
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Participants: Wormwood, Simon C.

9/25/2007 alejandro: [unWritten] UCI RPG club playtest
Today I went to the UCI RPG club and ran my game for three people that have never been exposed to a story game, and in one case, never exposed…
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Participants: alejandro.

9/25/2007 alejandro: [unWritten] UCI RPG club playtest part 2
In my last post http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24943.0I mentioned that I was struggling with instructing people how to create and push conflicts. Either I'm explaining it poorly, or I don’t have a grasp…
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Participants: alejandro, Artanis.

9/27/2007 GreatWolf: [Sons of Liberty Versus mode] Paine vs. Washington!
Okay.  So I have just a couple of minutes to scrawl this down.  But if I don't do it now, I'll forget and never do it. I taught Versus mode…
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Participants: GreatWolf.

9/28/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Major changes... again
I've run another playtest of Illumination a while back, to crash-test the changes I introduced after the previous game. Prep and scene structure seem to work better now, but unfortunately,…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Spooky Fanboy.

10/3/2007 Marhault: [Black Fire] Playtest Report
Part I of II Four of us gathered to play Black Fire last Sunday.  I GMed, the players were Paul Czege, Danielle and Thor.  The game was so-so, but many…
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Participants: Marhault, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Noon.

10/4/2007 Hituro: [Solipsist] Pike Brothers Records
[i]crossposted from collective endevour and story games[/i] Okay, so five of us, Myself, my wife Victoria, and friends Justin, Gregor and Per, met to play a session of Solipsist. This…
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Participants: Hituro, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2007 GreatWolf: [Robots and Rapiers] The Struggle for the Tapestry begins...
In the midst of all the other gaming that I’ve been doing recently, I’ve also begun the promised playtest of Robots and Rapiers, the forthcoming game from Ralph Mazza’s imprint,…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Wormwood.

10/4/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Putting the "story game" in story games
So something I noticed recently is that most Story Games do not focus so much on creating a story as they do on a) giving you tools to affect story-substance…
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Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

10/5/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - Barbed Wired & Bayonets
Hi, Black Cadillacs is a game I've been working on for about a year now.  It's my attempt to make some sense out of war.  By "make sense" I don't…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Noon.

10/5/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Dungeon Squad! + Coin Op] Duh.
I playtested Mark Causey's Coin Op with Magda and Kamil last Monday. The game shows promise – but sadly, in its current state it's still nearly unplayable. The session lasted…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Redone, Aman the Rejected.

10/8/2007 Paul Czege: [Infected] Children of the White Flies
Hey Eric, We playtested on Friday, September 28th. The playtest group was myself (as GM), Corinne Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my wife Danielle. We had fun, which isn't such a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Technocrat13, hardcoremoose.

10/9/2007 DainXB: [Sons of Liberty playtest] Actual Play and Benjamin Franklin's sack!
'Sons of Liberty' AP Report 10/07/07  I finally got the chance to play the beta version of Sons of Liberty!  Present for the game were: Dain (myself), a 30-year veteran…
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Participants: DainXB, GreatWolf, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/11/2007 segedy: [The Infected] The Flood
I've been promising Eric that I'd write up this playtest report for The Infected for some time now.  This playtest was run a few months ago and was based on…
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Participants: segedy, Technocrat13.

10/11/2007 segedy: [The Infected] Ice Station Charon
This was a playtest of The Infected with three players that ran for about 2.5 hours. The players were experienced with narrative-style games, and play regularly together.  This session was…
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Participants: segedy, Isbo, Darcy Burgess, Technocrat13.

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