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5/20/2009 Michael Desing: [Mythweaver: Reckoning] Vault of the Goblin
While I was having great fun with my play test for Mount Brim, and I plan to continue building Mount Brim at some point, the last few weeks have been…
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Participants: Michael Desing.

5/10/2009 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG: Megalopolis Hero's Mag
Hero's Mag Using the freeform system as described in this earlier post. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24786.msg245893#msg245893 Two characters were Sapphire and Jade played by my two daughters. Sapphire is a mutant that can…
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Participants: Eldrad, Noon.

5/8/2009 Vordark: [Genesys] My First Play-Test Report(tm)
For reference, the system is here:  http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/ While I have run a number of sessions using the Genesys core rules, I haven't until this week had the opportunity to focus…
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Participants: Vordark, JoyWriter, chance.thirteen.

5/6/2009 Certified: [Fractured Kingdom] Song of Silence
Currently the Fractured Kingdoms setting and design is still in development. However, I recently ran the first play test. I'll begin by posting the demo's set up and follow it…
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Participants: Certified.

4/30/2009 Gregor Hutton: [AD 316] It began with the killing of the witches
This week a new game club started up in Edinburgh in the Espionage bar/nightclub (Tuesday nights for anyone interested). We had a 3-hour playtest of the Roman version of 3:16,…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Akora, Valamir, brianbloodaxe.

4/25/2009 MJGraham: [Defiance] How can I make sabotage fun?
In Defiance players roleplay insurrectionists who have their own fortes. The equivalent in D&D would be players roleplaying adventurers who have their own classes. There are five fortes that players…
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Participants: MJGraham, Noclue, Vordark, DWeird, Noon, LandonSuffered, JoyWriter.

4/24/2009 Willow: [Storming...] Vincent, Your Monster Creation Rules are Borked
So, in the errata, we've got these gems: 1) Give monsters more hit points. I haven’t figured out exactly how many more, but more. For 3 players, maybe 1 more…
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Participants: Willow, lumpley.

4/23/2009 e24ohm: 2d6 or 3d6 for simple dice system
Folks: I am new to the forum, and i like what I am seeing; however, i am trying to develop a simple dice system which uses 2d6 or 3d6, which…
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Participants: e24ohm, chance.thirteen.

4/20/2009 Brimshack: Botched Attacks and Botched Dialogues
Okay, I am 2 years into designing this RPG. As part of Game Testing, we have been running a campaign, literally just a campaign that happens to use this system.…
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Participants: Brimshack, ShallowThoughts, chance.thirteen, FredGarber.

4/17/2009 Vordark: Looking for play-testing tips and strategies
I announced my project in First Thoughts with an eye toward cultivating that wonderful fruit, "general feedback".  I also had some questions concerning how to maximize the benefit of play-testing…
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Participants: Vordark, Wolfen, Michael Desing.

4/16/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] Apocalypse averted
We finished our four-session game of Apocalypse World last night. Our heroes flew to the headquarters of Panacea, one of the fronts. There were lots of zombies about. Panacea switched…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, GB Steve.

4/15/2009 Willow: [Forge Midwest] Escape From Tentacle City
Let's get this ball rolling! Friday I got to 'run' this for Ron, Jae, Jerry, and Abram.  I really wanted Ron in this game since he was one of my…
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Participants: Willow, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Noon, jerry.

4/13/2009 Matt Wilson: Storming the Wizard's Tower--my first TPK, twice
We played Storming on Saturday: John Spazopolous, Paul T, sometimes another guy named John, sometimes Terry, and me. I was GM. I made a town called Skonhelle, inspired kind of…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, lumpley, jenskot, Paul T, Motipha, Darcy Burgess.

4/12/2009 Vulpinoid: Guerilla Television (Quincunx Lite)
Much to my relief, Guerilla Television works. I'm not only relieved that the game works on it's own as a two page experiment, but also because it's the core of…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter.

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.

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.

4/7/2009 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.

4/7/2009 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.

4/6/2009 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.

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.

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5/24/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Kagematsu] - Local Farmer warns Dragon attack imminent! Bleeds on town!
Hi, Waaaaaay back in the mists of time (ok, about two month ago, but it feels longer), I coaxed my wife (Kirsty) and one of my friends (Jason) to play…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess.

5/25/2009 Brimshack: Metagaming - a Rule and a Side-Effect
Okay, so as general rule I do not allow free tactical discussion during my games. The rule says that characters may say anything irrelevant to combat they want whenever they…
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Participants: Brimshack, Bercilac, Noon, Vulash, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid, contracycle.

5/25/2009 Everspinner: [Apocalypse World] Car Mountain
(Check out the previous session if you want. This report focuses on the mechanics and is much lighter on the fiction, as I cannot write fiction worth the feel we…
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Participants: Everspinner, lumpley.

5/28/2009 Jason Kottler: [Ultrablamtacular] Save Versus Suck
Well, the long-awaited (by me, at least) playtest session of Ultrablamtacular took place on the Friday before the long weekend. And...man, it was a kick in the designer-nads. I posted…
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Participants: Jason Kottler.

5/29/2009 davidberg: [Delve] story-gamers in my sandbox
I've been working on Delve throughout a 14-month, 28-session playtest with some of my best friends.  By now, they all know how to get what they want from Delve, and…
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Participants: davidberg, jenskot, Paul T.

5/29/2009 opsneakie: [Night and Day] First 3 sessions, some initial thoughts and opinions
Okay, so I haven't posted anything to the Forge in a long time, not really having anything to post, but I've finally gotten around to running a test campaign of…
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Participants: opsneakie, Vulpinoid.

6/3/2009 Ron Edwards: [Thy Vernal Chieftains] Passion and politics
Hello, Tim Koppang and I decided to give Thy Vernal Chieftains a whirl last night. It turned out that, curiously, I did not possess some of the items required to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Paul Czege.

6/4/2009 AJ_Flowers: Robot Clash Playtest
I decided to run a playtest of the combat system/proto game idea that I tossed on to First Thoughts about a month ago.  Willow: I know I owe you a…
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Participants: AJ_Flowers.

6/6/2009 Abkajud: [Mask of the Emperor] Setbacks and non-thematic content
We're closing in on the end of the campaign here, and I'm getting some thoughts together about how things have gone favorably and unfavorably. I'm noticing that, because there's a…
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Participants: Abkajud, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Brimshack, Vulpinoid.

6/8/2009 Abkajud: Is it Force if you get consent?
I've been thinking about the concept of "forced" control of characters, of a sort, akin to the effects of Diplomacy skill or what-not, but used on PCs instead of NPCs.…
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Participants: Abkajud, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Brimshack, Vordark.

6/10/2009 Jason Kottler: [Ultrablamtacular] - Fixed Trust
A recent playtest revealed gigantic, cruise-ship sized holes in my game. One of the problems was with the subtle difference between Trust and Confidence. That, at least, has been resolved.…
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Participants: Jason Kottler.

6/11/2009 FlamingMoose: [Storming the Wizard's Tower] The Ice Age
[This is going to be an extremely long post because my groups has already completed three sessions of StWT. It's been a while since the first session, too, so my…
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Participants: FlamingMoose.

6/11/2009 Abkajud: Firewalling the Fiction [The Hellenes/Mask of the Emperor]
I've noticed that in most games I've played, you consult with Fortune once (one roll of the dice, one card drawn, etc.) and then return to narration. For example, I…
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Participants: Abkajud.

6/22/2009 lumpley: Psi*Run at a creepy-odd angle
A little while ago I ran Psi*Run for Meg, Julia, and Rob. We played it in 3 sessions. I was thinking that Psi*Run would be really good for survival horror,…
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Participants: lumpley, Marshall Burns, John Harper, RobNJ, Darcy Burgess, Meguey, jdfristrom, ophidian_flux.

6/23/2009 Abkajud: Informed Consent and Premise
I'm playtesting a Greek heroic adventure game, The Hellenes, and I've noticed that my players haven't read the rules. They remember everything I tell them out loud, in person, but…
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Participants: Abkajud, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter.

6/24/2009 Emily Care: [Kagematsu] Tea and Banditry
I ran Kagematsu at JiffyCon earlier this month. The players included 2 men and four women: Liz, Kim, Rachel, Jim, John and myself. Only one of them had heard of…
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Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Pauls Girl.

6/24/2009 Tim C Koppang: [S/lay W/Me] The Lion, the Wretch, and the Woman
Ron and I gave one of his three (four?) ongoing projects a playtest last night.  As our regular Tuesday night group has dwindled to just the two of us, it…
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Participants: Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Rod Anderson, Patrice.

6/25/2009 Ron Edwards: [Mars Colony] Just a little lying, this once
Hello, 1. I know they've always been around, but lately it seems to me as if a number of game designers have been turning their attention to, for lack of…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Tim C Koppang, Willow, Dev.

6/29/2009 Paul Czege: [S/Lay w/Me] the Lover and the liquids
Danielle and I playtested S/Lay w/Me last week. She was the adventurer and I was the situation and the Lover. I was holding off posting about it until we'd played…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Pauls Girl, Ron Edwards, MacLeod.

7/1/2009 Abkajud: [The Hellenes] mental/social wounds and player agency
[cross-posted at story-games.com] Since one design led right into another, I have a lot of holdovers from [i]Mask[/i] lurking in [i]The Hellenes[/i]. Case in point, here's an excerpt from my…
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Participants: Abkajud, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter.

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