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12/9/2007 jasonm: [Business Solutions] "Delbert LeMond, you're fired"
So I playtested Business Solutions today.  The game has been developing in fits and starts for a while now, but it's picking up speed.  I wanted to run through the…
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Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant.

12/4/2007 opsneakie: [Afraid] Party is split up, not understanding the game, frustration galore.
Ok, so I've been running Afraid for a few weeks now, and the problems I thought would work themselves out in a few sessions aren't working themselves out. The party…
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Participants: opsneakie, sirogit, Artanis, Ron Edwards, lumpley, David Artman, Filip Luszczyk, Piers Brown, Capulet, Noon, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, devonapple.

12/3/2007 hix: Soth - The first playtest
On Saturday, we playtested Soth - a game where you play insane cultists in a small town, trying to summon your God and avoid discovery by investigators (it's the flip…
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Participants: hix, Simon C, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

11/30/2007 Elizabeth: [It's Complicated] Relationship-map Twister
So I've been writing/re-writing/tweaking this game for a couple weeks; it's called "It's Complicated." (Those rules aren't precisely current; I'll be updating them this weekend.) JasonP, Scurve, stryck, and Adrienne…
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Participants: Elizabeth, Ron Edwards, David Artman.

11/30/2007 Capulet: Lesson Learned: Know your base mechanic's desired result.
Hello all. I wanted to share some of the “fun” I had in refining my basic mechanics for my game system. Or maybe refining is too gentle a word –…
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Participants: Capulet, Wolfen.

11/27/2007 davidberg: [Lendrhald] Rat Island - player priorities
The attempt to spawn a series of threads that will add up to something useful for my game design continues!  The first two threads wandered a lot:  helping GMs…
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Participants: davidberg, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball, xenopulse, Chris_Chinn, Groorg.

11/27/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] A Bad Day for the Gherardini Family
I've had a first playtest of While We Were Fighting. (See this thread for first thoughts on character generation.) Over all the playtest went very well. I had a lot…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, hix, Måns.

11/26/2007 Simon C: Savage Donjon Squad
"Savage Donjon Squad" is a mashup of Clinton Nixon's "Donjon", with Jason Morningstar's "Dungeon Squad".  I used a few ideas from "Savage Worlds" as well, mostly so I could add…
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Participants: Simon C, jag.

11/15/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: Mud Planet: Ronnies almost-winner now ready for playtest as Sorcerer mini-supp.
Hi there! After some ado, I have chosen to try out my old Ronnies game Mud Planet as a Sorcerer mini-supplement. It’s been almost exactly two years since I entered…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski.

11/12/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] Things not to do in Kon Tum when y'ain't dead
Hi, A few weeks back, I had an opportunity to run a one-off playtest of Black Cadillacs at a friend's birthday party-slash-mini con.  I've posted some early (effusive) reactions to…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess.

11/6/2007 Paul T: Conflict in the Middle - A Crossed-Wire Act
This past August, I had the chance to spend some time in Scotland. During my time there, I saw many beautiful places, and took the chance of contacting some gamers…
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Participants: Paul T, Gregor Hutton, pfischer, Noon, FredGarber, Valamir.

11/6/2007 GreatWolf: [Robots and Rapiers] The Power of Power
We’ve played a few more sessions of Robots and Rapiers since the last writeup.  I think that we’re finally starting to catch a groove with the system.  Now that we’re…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

11/4/2007 Malcolm: [Umlaut] Playtest In Wellington
This report has also be cross-posted to a thread at The Collective Endeavour. It was a Friday night in Wellington when we sat down with a quantity of beers and…
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Participants: Malcolm.

10/27/2007 MikeSands: [The Infected] The worst school trip ever.
Last night I ran another game, this time at a one-night horror con. I used the same setup as in the "anger management" game, but this time the players decided…
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Participants: MikeSands, Malcolm, hix, Technocrat13.

10/24/2007 Wormwood: [Genetic System (d20 - variant)] Task as Conflict
A few years ago I put together a d20 variant due to a specific design request for a Firefly series RPG. This has since evolved into a generic OGL system,…
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Participants: Wormwood, Meadslosh.

10/15/2007 Troels: [In a Wicked Age] Of Ice, Slime and Unnatural Love
I just ran a session of IaWA at Viking-con, a danish gaming convention. And it was cool and weird and funny. First, thanks to Vincent Baker for letting me have…
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Participants: Troels, lumpley, Artanis, John Harper, Valvorik, Anders.

10/15/2007 MikeSands: [The Infected] Anger Management
Just ran a playtest of The Infected. It was doubly a playtest, as it was a test run for a Halloween mini-con I'm going to be hosting a game at…
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Participants: MikeSands, segedy, Technocrat13.

10/12/2007 GreatWolf: [Sons of Liberty playtest] A Pyrrhic victory
Having made some comments over here and then listening to Joshua’s comments on the Master Plan podcast, I figured that I needed to sit down and write up a full…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Joshua BishopRoby, Heraldic Game Design, Valamir, DainXB, Gabrielle.

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.

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.

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12/14/2007 lumpley: With combined race and class, choose from 7 unique character types!
I've been playing D&D with some kids, ages 7-12. It's fun, but, well, there are a couple of ways D&D works that I wish it worked differently. So I set…
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Participants: lumpley, Meguey, GreatWolf, jasonm, Nev the Deranged, Paul T, Elizabeth, Filip Luszczyk, Artanis, Tobias, John Harper.

12/18/2007 davidberg: need to reduce handling time of my combat system
Too many calculations, die rolls, and chart-lookups!  Help! Desired Inputs: Player's preference of where to move to (if applicable) + character's ability to maneuver as dictated by surroundings. Player's preference…
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Participants: davidberg, Narf the Mouse, Noon, jag, J Tolson, dindenver, contracycle, Paul T, Marshall Burns.

12/19/2007 Doplegager: [Psi-Run] Bodhisattvas of Mars
After far too long of waiting, my group had a chance to playtest Psi Run.  There are a number of Ashcan Front games I've been wanting to give a try,…
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Participants: Doplegager, Miskatonic, chris_moore.

12/20/2007 Marshall Burns: The Rustbelt and a GNS question
I've been writing this game called The Rustbelt off and on for six years.  It's set in a place called the Rustbelt, in a non-specific part of America, sometime in…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Eliarhiman6.

12/22/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting]A Board Roleplaying Game
Is While We Were Fighting (see here and here) a boardgame or a roleplaying game? Apparently this is something that makes a lot of people nervous. As if there was…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

12/23/2007 sirogit: [It's Complicated] What I didn't mention was that I poisoned everyone
Ran a game of Its Complicated, with just me and my brother Chris. By the author's suggestion, we both ran two characters. The setup: D&D Dungeon Crawl Situation: We're in…
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Participants: sirogit, Elizabeth, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Artanis, David Artman, Madheretic.

12/26/2007 Noon: [No name yet] Fight with a monster game.
Ron recently said My usual recommendation, though, is to start by posting in Actual Play. People make this ten times harder than it is. If someone were to post, "We…
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Participants: Noon, davidberg.

12/28/2007 lumpley: [IaWA] A genetic nanopotion, mind tricks and Han Solo as a lesbian
Me, Emily, Julia and Rob Bohl played space opera In a Wicked Age last night. It was fun. It was set on this aquatic alien planet with increasingly bad relations…
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Participants: lumpley, Anders, RobNJ, Emily Care, foucalt.

1/4/2008 Marshall Burns: [Super Action Now!] Monkey causes chaos, guy gets fired, cat doesn't care
[i]Super Action Now!  a Crazy-Ass Roleplaying Game[/i] had its first playtest last night.  The players were myself (also Referee, although I never had to bring any power to bear), my…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, davidberg, jag.

1/6/2008 iain: Playtesting site goes live
A little while ago, over on story games, I started a discussion about ashcans and what people felt they had got from them. One of the things that came out…
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Participants: iain.

1/6/2008 jporrett: [The Emperor's Heart] Mystical Calligraphy and Sacrifice
Here's another "Emperor's Heart" playtest report.  It's from late October and I'm just now getting around to writing it up.  This time around it was my friends Randy and James,…
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Participants: jporrett, Chris_Chinn, Ron Edwards.

1/7/2008 lumpley: [Mispent Youth] Five predictions about Rebekah, Molly and Larry
Rebekah, 14, played by Julia: "new kid." Molly, 16, played by Meg: "hardened cynic." Larry, 16, played by Vincent: "den mother." Mispent Youth, GMed by Rob. Before the predictions, some…
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Participants: lumpley, Meguey, RobNJ, Paka, jenskot.

1/9/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Jump-starting the game
"She died that night.  She was the light of my days, the glory of my existence, cut down like a flower in the prime of her life.  And now I…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, jasonm, Noon.

1/10/2008 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Three Ladies
I got a chance to playtest Business Solutions last night with my regular Wednesday night group.  We were down by two due to childbirth and sickness respectively, so three guys…
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Participants: jasonm, GreatWolf.

1/11/2008 Marshall Burns: [Super Action Now!] Bubba Bad's bad day, + hobo clones & son of sasquatch
Playtest #2 of Super Action Now! last night.  Did I say the first one was a blast?  Well, I was wrong.  THIS was a blast.  I mean, DAMN we had…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, davidberg, Noon, jag.

1/13/2008 algi: Please play 'Mighty Ones'
[url=http://"http://algi.web.elte.hu/rpg/teszt/mighty_test.pdf"]This is my first "complete" RPG[/url], but it is not yet fully developed. The last playtest left the notion in me that the game is already very enjoyable and highly…
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Participants: algi, greyorm, Vulpinoid, masqueradeball, Kevin Smit.

1/14/2008 Noon: [No name yet] Dance of death
This is kind of an extension of this playtest, except I've added two player rules which add a very distinct dynamic. My son set up the area again, getting some…
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Participants: Noon, Marshall Burns, davidberg, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

1/18/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Playing with the n00bs…and loving it!
I have this theory that people are naturally creative, that those who aren’t “creative” are actually afraid of looking dumb and therefore edit themselves.  This isn’t an original theory, of…
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Participants: GreatWolf, hix, Artanis, Emily Care, Bret Gillan.

1/30/2008 btrc: [EABA] WarpWorld playtesting note
Not so much an opportunity, but a report on the campaign structure. The WarpWorld post-ruin fantasy background has a lot of potential, but the problem was that the most interesting…
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Participants: btrc, Valamir.

1/30/2008 Marshall Burns: [SAN!] elusive CA; plus, deep sea fishin'
So, I had a chat with David Berg regarding our discussion in the Bubba Bad thread, and it turns out I had totally missed his point.  And his point, it…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, davidberg.

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