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2/7/2009 Graham Walmsley: Apocalypse World
We started Apocalypse World on Wednesday. From my point of view, it was successful, with the MC rules especially working well. Character creation went smoothly: everyone did it from their…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Everspinner.

2/6/2009 etheruk: [MESSENGERS] 1st Round of Playtesting
I finally got a chance to playtest my game Messengers (a draft copy is available at http://www.mediafire.com/?9mwqm4zjmlc). I was the GM and there were two players. It took about twenty…
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Participants: etheruk.

2/5/2009 Bert: Playtesting and Formal Evaluation
I’m not sure this is the right place for this. Its not about actual play, but it is about playtesting. I want to kick off a thread about the formal…
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Participants: Bert, ShallowThoughts.

2/3/2009 Abkajud: [Mask of the Emperor] Outcasts and Barbarians (longish)
We got about halfway through character creation tonight for the first-ever Mask of the Emperor game. In the next couple of days, I should have three PCs all set to…
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Participants: Abkajud, Artanis, Amadeo.

2/2/2009 tonyd: [StWT] Fairtytale mayhem and the mummy queen
I ran StWT for a pickup group last Friday. We themed it around centrally Germany with a fairy tale touch to it. Players are Ben R, and Ping. Some weird…
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Participants: tonyd, Darcy Burgess, lumpley.

1/20/2009 Lynne H: [Fallen] One to one playtesting
[me=Lynne H]carefully lays down a fiver against herself for more than likely posting something in the wrong place again. Apologies in advance if I have ;)[/me] The basic premise of…
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Participants: Lynne H, Vulpinoid.

1/18/2009 TomTitTot: The Hammer Falls - Playtest AP - "A Small Singularity"
*Cross-posted to lots of places* At the end of December a couple of friends and I got together to playtest The Hammer Falls, which is my game-in-development of Dystopian Fiction.…
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Participants: TomTitTot, JoyWriter.

1/16/2009 tonyd: [Storming the Wizard's Tower] Monastery of Crows
We played Storming the Wizard's Tower, and it was a blast! Now I'm going to brain dump my questions and observations. Prep took quite a long time (about 4 hours),…
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Participants: tonyd, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Guy Srinivasan, amnesiack, Paul T.

1/15/2009 northerain: [Dark Days] Character Creation Playtest
Hello there This is a character creation playtest for my game, Dark Days. What's Dark Days? I'm glad you asked! You died. For a few seconds, your heart stopped, your…
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Participants: northerain, tadk.

1/6/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination!] Session closure procedure problems
I'm in the middle of writing the new playtest version of my game. I'm stuck. There's this "what if" thing that bugs me. It's something that cropped up in my…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Spooky Fanboy, JoyWriter.

12/13/2008 whiteknife: [Super Action Now!] A nuclear winter with NO CHIRSTMAS. How sad.
So I was planning on running a game of 3:16 with my group, but then two of them bailed and me and the other two players decided to play some…
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Participants: whiteknife, Marshall Burns, JoyWriter.

12/11/2008 Altaem: [PIE] Golden Moments
Looks like my Fallout campaign has come to a close.  Everyone had a really good time, but ultimately it’s been hard assembling the entire group on a regular basis. I’m…
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Participants: Altaem, themaloryman, davidberg.

12/10/2008 lumpley: Apocalypse World: Mary and Roark
Apocalypse World was SO FUCKING GOOD last night. Julia's character Mary let Roark and Birdie loose. I can't possibly explain just how good that is to you. But, like, here…
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Participants: lumpley, Meguey, Parthenia, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, Ben Lehman, GreatWolf, Artanis, Emily Care.

12/10/2008 ChrisMcDee: A Wanderer's Romance - Wirework and Drinking Contests
[B][URL=http://"http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddmbxmt_12c3cb9gfk&hl=en"]A Wanderer's Romance[/URL][/B] is a rules-light system built around a setting that gives you a few key points and lets the GM do as he wishes with the rest. It…
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Participants: ChrisMcDee, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

12/9/2008 thelevitator: Blood, Sweat & Steel Playtest Tomorrow Evening
Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here, and I really enjoy this site.  I've been working on my own game for about 6 months now.  It's called "Blood, Sweat & Steel",…
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Participants: thelevitator.

12/9/2008 David C: Measuring Success: How good is good enough?
(I'm going to break this into two parts, at first, will be just the "Play", the second part will be a reflection on a few problems.) I've put a lot…
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Participants: David C, JoyWriter, ShallowThoughts, Erudite.

12/7/2008 Eric J. Boyd: [House of Cards] First Playtest of My Heist Game
This last week I got to do the first playtest for House of Cards, a pick-up and play heist game intended for single session play. You can take a look…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, Paul T, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

12/4/2008 Ron Edwards: [Escape from Tentacle City] Too bad about the Ferrari
Once upon a game night, four guys who usually role-play together didn't have one of their number, so the three remaining playtested Escape from Tentacle City, a game in design…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Willow.

12/3/2008 themaloryman: Character Arc Development in the PIE System
The play described below was run using the Player Interpretation of Expectation system developed by Altaem. You can read a (lengthy) thread on the subject in the Playtesting Forum (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26838.0)…
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Participants: themaloryman, Noon, JoyWriter, Altaem.

11/29/2008 opsneakie: [Night and Day] First Playtest, finally
So, I finally got to playtest Night and Day, and, long story short, it was great. I was mostly interested in getting the combat mechanics going, so I ended up…
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Participants: opsneakie, Ron Edwards, Abkajud.

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2/9/2009 Eric J. Boyd: [House of Cards] Second Playtest Issues
So I ran a second playtest for my no-prep heist game last Thursday night using the most recent draft that is available here. You can read about the first playtest…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd.

2/11/2009 Bret Gillan: [Apocalypse World]Setting and Characters
Me, Ellen, Bob, and Chris did Apocalypse World prep. Ellen's my girlfriend. She's done enough gaming so that it's not new and strange and foreign but she's not a scarred…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, lumpley, Paka, Everspinner.

2/13/2009 MJGraham: [Defiance] Bringing out the worst in all of us.
his actual play report is for a game that is not yet released. Please feel free to disregard this thread if you have no interested in pre-published games. The actual…
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Participants: MJGraham.

2/15/2009 Everspinner: [AW] Apocalypse Finland - Fronts
Warning - This one turned out to be very long, and might need to be split into two posts, one for each Front. Comments and guidance on the actual content…
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Participants: Everspinner, lumpley.

2/18/2009 Bret Gillan: [Apocalypse World] First Session - Introducing Kartak and Rabbit
We played our first session Apocalypse World last night. Judd has backed out to pay attention to schoolwork and Chris couldn't make it because he had to take his girlfriend…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, lumpley.

2/19/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] What's wrong with this and how might I fix it?
Second session, tonight, with changes in the group: Steve, the hardholder, and Wai Kien, the hocus, couldn't make it. Replacing them we got Adrian, a driver, and Sean, a savvyhead.…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, Dionysus, lumpley.

2/26/2009 Everspinner: [Apocalypse Finland] Body Glove
We playtested Apocalypse World, and it was fun, fun, fun! We will certainly get back to it as soon as our schedules allow. Fiction Characters were Jag, driver, male; Mercury,…
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Participants: Everspinner, Emily Care, agony, Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

2/27/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] -- Streamlining Data Management
Hi, Man, I wish that the thread title was a clever allusion to a cyberpunk-esque game of bringing down megacorps (watch this space!)  I'm actually here to continue a thought…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, JoyWriter, agony.

2/28/2009 Abkajud: [Mask of the Emperor] Mayhem and torture in the dungeons! [a bit long]
I think I just had the best RPG session of my life. I was reading the infamous 2006 "brain damage" thread today, at least the first three pages, and I…
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Participants: Abkajud, Artanis.

3/2/2009 Bret Gillan: [The Final Girl] Arcon Playtesting
So I got to go to Arcon this weekend at my old Alma Mater, SUNY Oswego, and hook up with some old friends and the new crowd of kids that…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Emily Care.

3/9/2009 Amadeo: (Biohazard Dawn) A trip to the Pharmacy
The following is based on a true story of gaming Biohazard Dawn: So, I had my very first playtest of my zombie apocalypse game Biohazard Dawn the other day, and…
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Participants: Amadeo, Abkajud, mjbauer.

3/11/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Acts of Evil] - Scene Framing Shennanigans
Over the February 20th weekend, six gamers from Ottawa, Detroit and Toronto converged on an unsuspecting suite hotel in Toronto to consume sushi and to playtest Paul Czege's Acts of…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Valamir, DWeird, JoyWriter, C. Edwards, hix, Michael S. Miller, Piers Brown.

3/18/2009 agony: [Apocalypse World] The Rig
We started Apocalypse World last night, I have 3 players consisting of the following: Colonel - Hard Holder who rules the surrounding territoriy with an iron fist while fortified within…
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Participants: agony, Everspinner, lumpley, Graham Walmsley.

3/21/2009 rpghost: You want Playtesters? I need some Developers.
Greetings, I'm contacting you cause you are listed as a game developer... As you know it's very hard to find quality play testers for your games. I am on the…
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Participants: rpghost, Valamir, Wolfen.

3/22/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] I just care too much
Some quick notes on our third session of Apocalypse World. A good session, this. We're heading towards a zombie ending, so this week, we had one or two zombies. They…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, agony, Everspinner, lumpley, Krippler, Matt Wilson.

4/6/2009 MJGraham: [Defiance] The Black Rat Cometh
[b]Session One The Revolutionary Cabal[/b] Madam Shahlei (a.k.a. Lawrence) - the owner and a former employee at one of the city's less reputable brothels. Years of service and abuse from…
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Participants: MJGraham.

4/7/2009 Paul Czege: questions and comments on Spirited
Hey Graham, I really like your use of language in Spirited: "gentleman," "lady." And the vision you have for the social experience of play: players "who are very special to…
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Participants: Paul Czege, madunkieg, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley.

4/7/2009 jburneko: [Silent Sound] Problem with Flashbacks and Memories
I'm don't know if this is the right forum for this.  What I'm about to discuss came out of play testing experience but it concerns unplaytested components arising from a…
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Participants: jburneko, Artanis.

4/10/2009 Everspinner: [Apocalypse World] Tent City
WARNING: This post is fiction only. I will continue with the playtest notes as soon as I get them typed up. Ok, after repeated reschedulings we got to play our…
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Participants: Everspinner, lumpley.

4/11/2009 Michael Desing: [Mythweaver 2E] Assault on Mount Brim
Note: I’ve been running a solo campaign for a single character for some time on the Mythweaver message board to try out new Mythweaver ideas and continue to test the…
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Participants: Michael Desing.

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