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8/16/2008 Eldrad: One Roll type system
I used to have a game called punks and the system worked like this. You had seven attributes that you rolled 7d10. This total was the hit points. Average HP…
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Participants: Eldrad, Vulpinoid.

8/16/2008 JackTheOwner: [Amina Prime] Some issue and bugs
Sorry for grammar and short description, but English is not my native language. We were playing using poker chips, with only two persons (Me as the GM and Filip as…
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Participants: JackTheOwner, xenopulse, Filip Luszczyk.

8/4/2008 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Playtesting with n00bs
I ran a session of Medical Hospital last night with three people who are not gamers.  It went pretty well.  Positives: 1.  Character creation is both fun and easy.  They…
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Participants: jasonm.

7/23/2008 Parthenia: [Tales of the Fisherman's Wife] Ghosts break up a marriage
I wanted to test this game with 3 players. It worked! Emily was the Wife, Vincent was the Fisherman, I played ghosts and demons to both of them. The is…
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Participants: Parthenia, greyorm, Arturo G..

7/15/2008 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] "Tell me who killed my cat." & solo play experiment
So, I was supposed to play the Rustbelt with Stephen and my cousin James this weekend, but Stephen couldn't make it, so me & James just played by ourselves. I…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Krippler.

7/13/2008 Miskatonic: [Sign In Stranger] Oh, we just LOVE humans here! - Forge Midwest
Emily Care Boss ran a game of Sign In Stranger at Forge Midwest. Players were Emily, Eppy, me, Matt*, Tim, and Willow. Hilarity ensued. First came the world generation. The…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Willow, Emily Care, davidberg.

7/13/2008 jasonm: [Medial Hospital] Apex Regional Medical Center
I had the good fortune to playtest Medical Hospital at Collective Con yesterday.  Collective Con was like a house-con in a game store, very small and collegial, and I had…
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Participants: jasonm, Emily Care.

7/13/2008 Vulpinoid: [The 8th Sea] GenCon Oz and "The Atlantean Gambit"
Back from a half successful product launch. Successful because there were a lot of people who wanted the product...unsuccessful because I didn't have any available to sell. The good news…
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Participants: Vulpinoid.

6/30/2008 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] a mighty rule-change is a-brewin'
So, I was at work the other day when an idea hit me, and I think it's the big fix for the Rustbelt's main problem.  (To recap, that problem is…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Krippler, jag, Paul Czege.

6/30/2008 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Tactile Play
So I playtested yesterday and found out that something interesting I'm doing for a different game is very promising for Business Solutions as well.  For moths I've been at an…
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Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, fjj.

6/10/2008 Ron Edwards: [Barbaren] My manly guy
Hello, This is essentially a question thread for Frank, but I also hope it turns into minor system showcase for the game as well, depending on the answers. Here is…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, ( o Y o ).

6/5/2008 Earl of Sherry: [Super Action Now!] DIY Porno Studio vs Morality Police + Couch on Couch love!
Playtest report: Super Action Now! Rev 2/18/08 http://www.angelfire.com/indie/btw/SUPER_ACTION_NOW_3.htm Buck, Clint, Stf - First Timers, all. Okay, Marshall.  So, I read SAN!, that night I printed it off and started convincing…
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Participants: Earl of Sherry, Marshall Burns.

5/28/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - Death in the PM
Hi, A couple of weekends ago, I got to run two one-shots of Black Cadillacs at the CanGames IGE. The timing couldn't have been better, as I'm in the middle…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Aise.

5/23/2008 Marshall Burns: [While We Were Fighting] an observation & question for the author
[i]While We Were Fighting[/i] is a game in development by Peter Nordstrand about intrigue and such in Rennaissance Italy.  I've been wanting to playtest it for a while, but I…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Peter Nordstrand, Måns.

5/23/2008 travisfarber: [Misspent Youth] Tearing Down Adam Duvall
So, recently we had the opportunity to playtest Misspent Youth.  Daniel Levine was kind enough to run it and he also made a recording of the session.  I won't go…
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Participants: travisfarber, dikaiosunh, RobNJ.

5/14/2008 wunderllama: [Business Solutions] Playtest at Nerdly
At Camp Nerdly, I was lucky to participate in a playtest of Jason Morningstar’s Business Solutions – a game in which you play hapless photocopier repairpersons. Character creation is a…
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Participants: wunderllama, jasonm, Nathan Herrold, jhosmer1, Solamasa, travisfarber, Valamir.

5/14/2008 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] First successful playtest.
Last Friday I had the first playtest where I felt like I was starting to get where I want to go with Silence. Again the game has broad changes from…
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Participants: c, ChadDubya, Artanis, Paul Czege.

5/12/2008 Krippler: [Rustbelt] A betrayal & shooting at angry mobs twice
Hello there! This is Wilmer reporting from session three of my Rustbelt campaign. We played draft 2 of the Rustbelt rules plus a new set of psyche dynamics PM'd by…
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Participants: Krippler, Marshall Burns, jag, Wolfen, JoyWriter, xdiox.

5/7/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Solar System] Dragonriders & Demagogues
So I'm working on a new, "refreshed" edition of the Solar System, as I mentioned in the other thread. I'm saying "refreshed" because updating would imply some kind of need…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, newsalor, segedy, Valamir.

4/30/2008 alejandro: [unWritten] Rats
This is my first *real* actual play. Tell me if I did it right, as well as how it's presented. Last night Greg and I played unWritten in a setting…
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Participants: alejandro, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

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8/19/2008 TonyLB: GenCon: Misery Bubblegum 1/7
#1 of 7 games played at GenCon: I started out the weekend with a nice, small game with two other players.  I'm pretty dang sure that I know their names,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Paka, Landon Darkwood.

8/20/2008 Paka: Dark Pages Imprint: Zeppelin City Set-up
A few friends of mine are moving back into town and I was excited to read that DarkPages prefers a GM and one or two players.  I have been enjoying…
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Participants: Paka, Jared A. Sorensen, Spooky Fanboy.

8/21/2008 Ron Edwards: [Kagematsu] GenCon, Thursday night
Hello, We gathered at the Embassy Suites in the time-honored tradition to playtest the game, including Danielle Lewon (the designer), Anna Kreider, Darcy Burgess, and me. Curiously, a 50-50 male-female…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Darcy Burgess, wunderllama, Nev the Deranged, SNora.

8/27/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - Three Games at GenCon
Hi, Black Cadillacs saw play three times at GenCon.  Two of the games were scheduled through the IGE (quick shout-out to Mike Holmes: thanks for making this happen!)  Sandwiched between…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, jasonm.

8/28/2008 Aise: [Black Cadillacs] - Blood and Mettle
Hey I was reading my copy of the Steel Toed Edition of Black Cadillacs and came across a little snag. Since I am starting a full campaign of Black Cadillacs,…
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Participants: Aise, Darcy Burgess.

8/28/2008 Ron Edwards: [Rustbelt] Opium, haunted memories, hatred in the dark, and killing your friend
Hello, Jari Tuovinen stayed with me for a few days after GenCon, and we tried out a number of games at a superficial level, carrying out the setup rules in…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Krippler, Valamir, ( o Y o ), davidberg.

8/30/2008 Ron Edwards: [The Fisherman's Wife] Everything you can possibly imagine
On the final night of GenCon, I showed up a little late to the Embassy Suites and play opportunities were thin. I could have hopped into some games but they…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Parthenia.

8/31/2008 travisfarber: [Ganakagok] The ending of a civilization
This past Wednesday we did a run through on a game of Ganakagok.  I wanted to roughly get 4 hours of play out of it so we planned for a…
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Participants: travisfarber, Bill_White.

9/2/2008 Paul Czege: [The Rustbelt] Gen Con playtest feedback and questions
Hey Marshall, On the Thursday evening of Gen Con at The Embassy Suites I ran a playtest of The Rustbelt from your demo scenario, with Lance Allen, Tim Jensen, Kevin…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Krippler.

9/2/2008 Ron Edwards: [The Path of Journeys] The game I always carry around with me
The Path of Journeys made its only appearance, to my knowledge, at the Ashcan Front booth in 2007. It is a small white booklet, rather attractive and neat, with a…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, Doplegager.

9/6/2008 Willow: Playtesting Misery Bubblegum
Tim and I recently got the deck of Misery Bubblegum cards, and looked over the rules & stuff. Tony, we're going to play on Tuesday.  Is there any specific questions…
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Participants: Willow, TonyLB.

9/18/2008 Ron Edwards: [Kagematsu] The playtest questions in the book
Hi Danielle, I went through the design questions in the Kagematsu book, and decided to start a new thread. Here are my thoughts based on our game and on subsequent…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, SNora.

9/27/2008 whiteknife: (Super Action Now!) The post apocalyptic olympics
I recently got in a game of SAN!, which I had been wanting to play since I heard about it a month or so ago, but just now got the…
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Participants: whiteknife, Marshall Burns.

10/2/2008 First Oni: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. Playtest Records
So, i started a another play test of Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. I've been play testing for so long that it's become second nature, but since i've finished all my proposed…
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Participants: First Oni.

10/7/2008 Altaem: PIE: Player Interpretation of Expectation
PIE represents an ongoing evolution in my RPG rules design.  Despite the fact that the rules are little more than chaotic notes, they have been successfully used to run two…
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Participants: Altaem, DWeird, davidberg, themaloryman, Shadow_80, seanhess, deathglider, soundmasterj, John Blaz.

10/7/2008 Altaem: [PIE] Broke in Fallout II
The setting is the post apocalyptic world of Fallout II.  Many of the locations, characters and sub-plots are ripped straight out of the computer game. The player characters are coal…
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Participants: Altaem, deathglider, themaloryman, Shadow_80, Nateman.

10/8/2008 Willow: Sign In Stranger- Life on Zharm
So, we started up our game of Sign in Stranger today.  We used the playtest pdf from 2007 I found on the web, but used a few updates I recalled…
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Participants: Willow, Emily Care.

10/8/2008 davidberg: [Delve] pacing & pressure problems
This is my Simulationist game formerly known as Lendrhald.  Sort of.  Most of the goals remain, but I've refocused my priorities. Delve is about exploration and discovery, with investigation being…
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Participants: davidberg, Marshall Burns.

10/10/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - Blood for the Blood God!
Hi, Last weekend, three nice people signed up to play Black Cadillacs at Phantasm. First aside, Phantasm was a real eye-opener for me. This was the first "little" convention I've…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, jasonm.

10/12/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting] Sodomizing the Renaissance
I played While We Were Fighting at Stockholms spelkonvent. (Yes, the game is still called While We Were Fighting.) I played with a group of four young men, all in…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

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