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9/23/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Misspent Youth] F**king motherf**ker's on our f**cking tail
We played Misspent Youth last week. Character and world creation was a blast. We were fighting against...oh...I don't know...a corporation of some sort. The advice about choosing things that genuinely…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, RobNJ, Paka.

9/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [People's Hero] A first stab at saving USSR from itself
I haven't been playing much of anything lately, but luckily the gaming train runs on schedule around here nowadays, whisking me with it even without much initiative on my part.…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Ron Edwards.

9/18/2009 hix: [Left Coast] Inaugural playtest. Talking dog. Assumptions challenged.
Back in 2005, I wrote a game called Left Coast, where you play science-fiction authors in 1970s California who are all struggling to write novels and hide your growing insanities…
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Participants: hix, Malcolm, Simon C, JoyWriter.

9/15/2009 davidberg: [Super Action Now!] turn-based confusion (monkey god, future midget, wuxia star)
10 days ago I sat down with Dan and Merlin to play SAN!  It was the first time any of us had played. Character creation We started with character creation. …
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Participants: davidberg, Marshall Burns, JoyWriter, whiteknife.

9/14/2009 Simon_Pettersson: [Standing Up] Unify, Divide
I'm not sure what kind of response I'm looking for in this thread, but the forum description said to write about your playtesting experiences, so I did! So I was…
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Participants: Simon_Pettersson.

9/13/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Not quite as done as I thought
I guess there's always this vague hope in the back of my mind that I'll sit down to playtest a game, and everything will run great, everyone will say "Well…
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Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards, hix.

9/12/2009 soviet: [Other Worlds] The Infected
So, last year saw the main tranche of external playtesting for Other Worlds. It went out to a whole bunch of different people and I got detailed feedback from a…
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Participants: soviet.

9/6/2009 Matthew V: [MV's Rogue] Hello and Matching Rules to Play Goals
[b]First off ...[/b] Let me say that while I’ve been reading these forums for a few months, this is my first post. If I muddle up terms or post in…
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Participants: Matthew V, Simon C.

9/4/2009 noahtrammell: [The Gazette] I don't need hands to kill you!
For those who don't know, I'm a new member to the Forge who absolutely loves RPG's but hasn't had much experience in design.  I've been writing a micro-game called The…
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Participants: noahtrammell, Artanis.

9/4/2009 northerain: [Dark Days] ''The man that never was''
This summer I ran some intense (8 hour sessions no less) Dark Days games, for playtesting purposes. This is the AP report from a single storyline, played over 4 days,…
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Participants: northerain, Spooky Fanboy, Catelf.

9/1/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - The final push
I had two fruitful playtests of Black Cadillacs at GenCon '09.  The first was an after-hours affair with Me, Julie, Matt, Ron and Tony.  The Troopers were Israeli Tankers invading…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, jrs, Capulet, agony.

8/30/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Storming the Wizard's Tower] - Get those Vikings outta Egypt!
Glenn H, Glenn W, Jason, Steve and I just wrapped our Verradheim campaign of Storming the Wizard's Tower.  We ended up playing three adventures, and never made it to level…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, lumpley.

8/27/2009 Ron Edwards: [Clover] Fairies are not easy to spot
Hello, A little while ago, Ben Lehman participated in an activity in which you were to handcraft something neat and send it to five friends. Ben aparently knows how to…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Arturo G., tonyd, Elizabeth, Jake Richmond, Noon.

8/27/2009 HeTeleports: [ Powers ] - First three solo playtests
Well, this will be my first major contribution to the Forge forums. Let me preface this entry to playtesting with a disclaimer: what will be discussed is more of a…
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Participants: HeTeleports, MacLeod.

8/27/2009 Vulpinoid: [Quincunx] Playtesting begins
Just thought I'd share with everyone the progress on my game Quincunx. Quincunx Playtest Rules Part 1 Looks pretty... the mechanisms work independently... ...and they've been tested pretty thoroughly... but…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Spooky Fanboy.

8/25/2009 Ron Edwards: [Rats in the Walls] Prep, questions, suggestions
Hiya, Some history: almost four years ago, Lance won a Low Ronny award for the first draft of this game. See Summary thread for more about the contests; see…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Lance D. Allen.

8/24/2009 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Salem Creek Cthulhu Horror PBEM
We are play testing the first draft of what I hope will be a future EMG board game/story game on the MatrixGame2 yahoogroup. We'd love to have some more players.…
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Participants: MatrixGamer.

8/18/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade] Let's Play a Game...
So, I'm doing a little exercise here that I would like you Forgeites to help me out with. This is not actually the start to a game. It's a streamlined…
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Participants: Lance D. Allen, 7VII7, DWeird, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, MacLeod, telperion, contracycle, Darcy Burgess.

8/18/2009 wrshamilton: [Misspent Youth] Culture Jamming the Foundation
This is like my fifth post, and was maybe my second story game, so please feel free to let me know how I could be more helpful with Actual Plays…
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Participants: wrshamilton, RobNJ.

8/17/2009 Charlie Gilb: [the Waste] Struggling with player agency
Hello, I've been working on my post-apocalyptic RPG titled 'the Waste' since the beginning of summer, and the rules have gone through many different changes. This last Saturday, I decided…
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Participants: Charlie Gilb, Eliarhiman6, Lance D. Allen, Marshall Burns.

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9/27/2009 Matthew V: [Rogue] Narrative Control and Setting Creation
Hello again! Playtests of Rogue continue on a weekly basis, and I think we've started to circle around mechanics that are really working and are dropping those that aren't. If…
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Participants: Matthew V, Simon C, dindenver.

9/28/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] A Tough Choice
After the last playtest, Steve came to me with a really excellent suggestion for The Hearbreaker War, my game supplement for making characters who have been through a terrible civil…
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Participants: Simon C, hix, Gregor Hutton, dindenver, Anders Gabrielsson.

9/30/2009 Sebastian: [Legends System] From 'Of Legends & Legacies' thread
Over the weekend I was up in Belfast to continue a game with some old time players.  It was the perfect opportunity to try out a system for recounting rumours…
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Participants: Sebastian, JoyWriter, dmkdesigns.

10/5/2009 Mulrah: [MULRAH] First Playtest
[b]First Thoughts Thread:[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28761.0]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28761.0[/url] [b]MULRAH Rules:[/b] [url=http://deaddogcafe.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mulrah.pdf]http://deaddogcafe.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mulrah.pdf[/url] MULRAH is basically a mash-up of rules that intrigued me from PDQ, Risus, FATE, Donjon, and other games. We did our first playtest…
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Participants: Mulrah, Simon C.

10/5/2009 DWeird: [Change] Countering the drive towards generic traits?
Hi, I've recently begun work on Change, a simulation of fantasy cultures. A few early playtests have rolled in, and something troubling emerged: there is ample reason for players to…
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Participants: DWeird, Mulrah, Noclue, greyorm, otspiii, Teataine, chance.thirteen.

10/14/2009 Catelf: Streed (R) Rpgs needs directions! (& co-developers?)
I said i would, once i knew where and how, and here it is. My main problem is, that i cannot seem to know in which direction(s) to take this…
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Participants: Catelf, dindenver, Maugh.

10/14/2009 Pyroaquatic: Battledice - a skeleton of actions and reactions.
Well, I do not know how many posts I have. I watch.... a ghostly observer if you will. Battle dice Battle Dice is an incredibly simple system. Watching it being…
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Participants: Pyroaquatic, Artanis, Vulpinoid, Noon.

10/22/2009 Vulpinoid: [QUINCUNX] Where I think I went wrong...
I know my biggest mistake when playtesting a game. I basically break the cardinal rule of playtesting. I typically don't play the rules exactly as they've been written. I toy…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, HeTeleports, Teataine, JoyWriter, Noon.

11/3/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Not what I expected
Over the weekend we played a full-length runthrough of the Heartbreaker War, my character creation/game setting game supplement. I got a lot of good feedback from the game, and a…
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Participants: Simon C, DWeird, JoyWriter.

11/3/2009 jburneko: [Thornes] Issues with Ego.
Last night I play tested a game I wrote called Thornes.  I describe Thornes as a swashbuckling film noir about sex and violence dressed up in lace and steel.  Aesthetically…
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Participants: jburneko, Simon C, Marshall Burns, Noclue, JoyWriter.

11/6/2009 Catelf: [Ferals] A full "Fixform" Streed Rpg
Reader, just so you know: At least the 4 or 5 first "Replies" to this Topic is different Rules sections of the Game, to make it far easier to understand,…
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Participants: Catelf, Vulpinoid, Rikiji, Simon C, dindenver.

11/16/2009 Sam Anderson: [Blowback playtest] JiffyCon 11/14/09
[b]Play report by Sam and Kate[/b] [b]Run by the game's author, Elizabeth Shoemaker[/b] [b]Baseline:[/b] We had great time, and we both would have wanted to continue the campaign if it…
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Participants: Sam Anderson, Elizabeth.

11/16/2009 neko ewen: [Slime Story] Needs more encouragement for role-playing
Slime Story is a game I've been working on for entirely too long. The short short tagline is "teenagers hunt cute monsters for spending money." It takes place in a…
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Participants: neko ewen, Catelf, Locke, David C.

11/17/2009 Abkajud: [La Familia] A game of tyranny and family values (long-ish)
Hey, everyone! I've been tinkering with a game design whose mechanics centered around my adaptation of the Otherkind dice system. Play is focused on a) important members of powerful families/organizations…
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Participants: Abkajud.

11/21/2009 juliusz: [Apocalypse World] Morgan Enterprise
1. PLAY We played about one and half week ago. It was our first Apocalypse World session, but all players are familiar with some Forge/story/indie-stuff (including DitV, Burning Empires, IaWA,…
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Participants: juliusz, DWeird, Everspinner, lumpley.

11/21/2009 Everspinner: [Apocalypse World] Keg of powder
Here's a session I did not have high hopes for. Two months since we last played and feeling very rusty, not to mention very tired due to work and family…
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Participants: Everspinner, lumpley.

11/21/2009 Anders Gabrielsson: [Storylines] First World Creation Playtest
I apologize in advance if this is a bit disjointed. I need to get to bed soon but I want to post this while I still have everything reasonably fresh…
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Participants: Anders Gabrielsson, JoyWriter.

11/23/2009 whiteknife: [ABSOLUTE] Over the top of over the top
So last week I tested the RPG I’ve been working on, called ABSOLUTE. It’s a power crazy game that fully embraces everything “Awesome” “Xtreme” “1337” “wicked” “cool” “metal” and “excessive”…
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Participants: whiteknife, Filip Luszczyk, Catelf, MacLeod.

11/26/2009 AzgrymnThePale: Pray for Dawn module (Chaos 6010 A.D.) RPG Competition
[img]http://chaos6010.com/images/PrayForDawnAd.gif[/img] Join and play the Pray for Dawn module on a VTT (virtual tabletop) game. Write in your available playing times to me and I will put you in a…
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Participants: AzgrymnThePale.

11/28/2009 pells: [Avalanche] - Playtesting with BW for the first time
[b]The context[/b] I've not been playing for a while (more than a year) and I had an opportunity to "start up" a new group. But the circumstances are very specific.…
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Participants: pells, Ron Edwards, Luke, JoyWriter, Fulai, Eero Tuovinen.

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