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10/19/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] the Penultimate Nightshade Alley
This is apparently the week for awesome Actual Play for me. Two days after I had this killer Over the Edge session with my regular group, I played PTA with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Paul T, hix, Kami-no-Mark, cydmab.

10/17/2006 Melinglor: [OtE] Dice for the Masses
I ran Over the Edge with my group last week, and it rocked hard. I unveiled and implemented a set of changes to the Experience Dice system that I discussed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, r_donato.

10/8/2006 Melinglor: And somewhere, Mike Holmes' ears burned. . .
So I sat down to explain/describe roleplaying the other day with my girlfriend. I laid out the basics of four systems, D&D3E, Big Eyes Small Mouth, Heroquest, and PTA, to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Melinglor, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

9/29/2006 Melinglor: Confessional: I was an Illusionist Wanker!
I've been mulling this over for while, and finally decided to post about it. I think I just need to get it off my chest. Apologizes if it takes awhile…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Precious Villain, Noon, Ron Edwards, Barlennan, Glendower, Frank T, Call Me Curly, Joe Dizzy, Caldis, komradebob, contracycle.

9/22/2006 Melinglor: Keys and Griefers
Over in this thread, Joao Mendes was describing one player's reaction to the use of Keys in Shadows of Yesterday: - Isidro stated the opinion that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Eero Tuovinen, Brand_Robins, TonyLB, r_donato, Storn, Hans, Noon, Precious Villain.

8/23/2006 Melinglor: Shameless praise and some first-timer questions
Hi! I've been poring over the available (free) Capes material as well as this forum for the last few months, and I must say, Tony, this game is brilliant. Delicious,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Melinglor, Kai_lord, drnuncheon, AaronLehmann, TonyLB.

8/3/2006 Melinglor: [OtE] Rewards
I'm considering overhauling Over the Edge's mechanical reward system with my group, with the main goal of vitalizing play, getting people jazzed about cool stuff happening, and rewarding them tangibly…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, r_donato, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2006 Melinglor: [OTE] A Paper Trail to Nowhere
As mentioned in this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20465.0 I hit a snag in my Over the Edge game when one player, Travis, didn't show, and it caused another player, Joe, to basically…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Paul T, Noon, Web_Weaver, Mike Holmes, dunlaing.

7/19/2006 Melinglor: [OTE] Cats Successfully Herded.
[i]WARNING: This is a long'un. I tried to break it up as best I could for easy reading.[/i] So I played Friday night with almost the whole group. Some good,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor.

6/25/2006 Melinglor: [Over the Edge] Bangs or Wimpers?
So it's been rather a while since I ran my OTE game. In fact, this AP (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19018.msg200097#msg200097) was almost the last session. We have a huge group; something like 11…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, zmook, Web_Weaver, Ron Edwards.

6/10/2006 Melinglor: Chasing Heroquest
I had a couple of delightful moments in my (non-HQ) roleplaying recently, that made me feel good about running Heroquest in the near future. Last week, I was playing with…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Melinglor, Mark Galeotti, Vaxalon, rstites, Mike Holmes, Tim Ellis.

5/19/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley, Episode 1
Ok, it took us two game sessions, for reasons that will be made clear, but Jenni, Nate and I managed to complete Episode 1 of our show, Nightshade Alley. AP…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Everspinner, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

4/15/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley-session 1.5
Nightshade Alley Session 1.5 Concept in brief: Trolls and Faeries and Bogies and Things that go Bump, are all real in a sort-of modern, sort-of Victorian, sort-of-London. Everyone knows they’re…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson.

4/7/2006 Melinglor: Every title I came up with sounded sappy.
And believe me, it gets sappy enough on the inside. Something I just posted in AP is inspiring me to indulge in a little hero worship. See, I was introduced…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Melinglor, droog, lumpley.

4/7/2006 Melinglor: Heroquest purchase question
Hi, I'm strongly considering purchasing Heroquest in the very near future. However, I am planning on using it to run a game set in Middle Earth, and was wondering: 1)…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Melinglor, Paul King, droog, Mike Holmes, Lamorak33, Hobbitboy, simon_hibbs, Vaxalon, lightcastle, fredrikr.

3/29/2006 Melinglor: [Middle Earth] choice of system
OK, I'm not sure exactly where I should post this, but I picked AP because my questions are at least about preparing to play. So I've been wanting to run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Nathan P., Rob Carriere, Ron Edwards, Jasper the Mimbo, Lamorak33, khelek, Silmenume, Blake Hutchins, madviking, Durgil.

3/16/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley (long)
[i]The full moon at midnight. Some eerie background noise, but no music. We pan down to gently sloping grassland, mist rising off the dew-soaked blades. There is a distant, muffled…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Glendower.

3/11/2006 Melinglor: [Over the Edge] Killing the Dilemma
Hi, my name's Joel, sometime Forge lurker and varyingly credulous Big Model neophyte. I was away from studying the Theory for awhile, but it worked its way back into my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Noon, abzu, Glendower, Danny_K, knicknevin, drnuncheon.

5/31/2005 Melinglor: One of these things is REALLY not like the others. . .
OK, I'm a newcomer to the forge, having stumbled onto the Lumply site and from there meandered over to here, and read up on a bunch of Ron Edwards' essays.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Melinglor, Valamir, Noon, komradebob, Alan, John Kim, Sean, GB Steve, Troy_Costisick, ethan_greer, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

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1/6/2007 Melinglor: So I lost my Capeginity on New Years' Eve. . .
Hey, everyone! Been a while since I posted here, but I wanted to say: as I've been gushing about elsewhere, I played my first game of Capes (Lite) this week!…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Melinglor.

6/14/2007 Melinglor: [Dogs] Fire and Hammer, Visions and Faith
Hi! I haven't been around here much lately, but it seemed appropriate to return "home" for this play report. And I certainly do miss me some Forge-style AP. So! I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, JC, Noclue.

7/25/2007 Melinglor: [DitV] Narrativist Blueballs
A couple of weeks ago, I GMed my first Dogs town. Well, half of it, anyway. Which is all I'm gonna get. Which is frustrating. Maybe I should back up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Web_Weaver, Alan, JC, jasonm, lumpley, GregStolze, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, FredGarber, Noon.

10/27/2007 Melinglor: [D&D 3.5] Gamist Non-Affirmation
I played in my regular D&D 3.5 game last week. We had a lot of fun, but it also gave me a lot to think about. First off, we had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Mel_White, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Precious Villain, Eliarhiman6, contracycle, Valamir, Caldis, James_Nostack, xenopulse, Grex, Wolfen, Jasper the Mimbo, Daztur, Barlennan, Bjorn, Peter Nordstrand, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards.

11/8/2007 Melinglor: Felexibility of Key Buyoffs?
I'm preparing to run Shadow of Yesterday and I've been thinking about Key Buyoffs. I love the wholeidea,but it nags at me that the stated Buyoffs for some of the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Melinglor, Filip Luszczyk, Eero Tuovinen.

1/9/2008 Melinglor: Mother-May-I and 20 questions: Games GMs play
A little over a year ago, in the thread Drugs, hugs, knives, and Zu, Ron was talking about some GMing techniques and principles, and he said…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, David Artman, Noon, contracycle, Ron Hammack, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Gaerik.

3/19/2008 Melinglor: Epic Fighty Robots game in the embryonic stage
Hi! I've had an idea buzzing about my brain for some time now, but unable to see how to proceed with it. I couldn't get my head above the fiddly…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Melinglor, dindenver, opsneakie, Mike Sugarbaker, Ben Lehman, Creatures of Destiny, wyrdlyng.

4/3/2008 Melinglor: Capes play at Gamestorm!
Hi, all. I just ran my favorite Capes game ever, at Portland/Vancouver's Gamestorm con. I posted it up on Storygames. I encountered some nuances, both good and bad, that I…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Melinglor, TonyLB.

4/6/2008 Melinglor: [TSoY] I fought "The Party" and "The Party" won
I ran a Shadow of Yesterday one-shot for Portland/Vancouver's Gamestorm con this weekend last. It was my second time running the game. In some ways it went better than the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Christopher Kubasik, Willem, elegua, dindenver, Marshall Burns.

4/11/2008 Melinglor: [Bliss Stage] First Impressions from the Last Sale of Gamestorm
So I've bought and read Bliss Stage, after playing a fifteen minute demo with Ben at Gamestorm. I've been ruminating, and I just wanna say this game us fucking fantastic.…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Melinglor, Ben Lehman.

6/26/2008 Melinglor: Prep for first-time Hellblazer-ish Sorcerer
OK, I'm getting ready to run my first game of Sorcerer this weekend. It'll be at a large group gathering for the Portland Indie Gamers crowd, with the intention to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Melinglor, angelfromanotherpin, jburneko, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

6/27/2008 Melinglor: Ken Hite's Sorcerer reviews?
So in the wake of that other review thread, I went hunting for Ken Hite's review of Sorcerer & Sword. I couldn't find it, and the links from the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Melinglor, Eliarhiman6.

7/25/2008 Melinglor: [Sorcerer] Cascadiapunk!
I GMed my first session of a Sorcerer game last week, which a bunch of players all new to Sorcerer as well. It was cool and fun! The players were:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2008 Melinglor: [Sorcerer] Cascadiapunk (specifics)
Well, my post is up in actual play. The Happy Sunshine portion is complete. . .I'll be posting some questions and stuff later tonight. I'll relate some relevant stuff here…
In Adept Press
Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards.

8/8/2008 Melinglor: [Sorcerer] Cascadiapunk: New Wrinkles and Old Habits
We played the second session last night. First session can be found here. It was pretty fun, but I have mixed feelings about some emerging play trends and how I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Ron Edwards, Reithan.

10/4/2008 Melinglor: Anti-Humanity elements of Ritual
So in the Sorcerer game I'm GMing, we've defined Humanity as Empathy. Our Sorcery is defined as attemptable from any discipline imaginable, from punk voodoo to Native American spiritism to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Melinglor, angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2008 Melinglor: [IAWA] Exclusivity of Forms?
Hi! I'm playing In a Wicked Age tonight (first time GMing) and I had a question: how exclusive are the Forms supposed to be, in terms of narrowing down narrative…
In lumpley games
Participants: Melinglor, David Artman, lumpley, Valamir, Eliarhiman6, GreatWolf.

11/22/2008 Melinglor: [Sorcerer] Cascadiapunk post-mortem
So my Sorcerer game is dead. We only managed a handful of sessions, separated by delays of up to a month at a time, and in short never gained sufficient…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, JoyWriter, Ron Edwards, davidberg.

1/5/2009 Melinglor: Posting test
I've been having trouble sending a post, so Vincent asked me to post this as a test. So here we are, Vincent! This post works fine, and I've posted a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Melinglor, lumpley.

3/7/2009 Melinglor: [Dogs] Buildin' towns and settin' dials.
Hi! I played a game of Dogs for the first time in a while. It was my second time GMing, and my first time GMing through a whole Town. I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Melinglor, Noclue, jburneko, Brand_Robins, lumpley, Graham Walmsley, Wolfen.

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