One of the things that has me excited about doing an Acts of Evil ashcan is the opportunity it represents to really experiment with the form of a game text. One of these plans is to test the value of some uncustomary content via a small handful of appendices. And one of those is to be a short playtest history.

So please, if you could, help me correct name spellings and omissions:

August 2005, a single session at Gen Con, Indianapolis, IN. Greg Stolze, Matt Wilson, Vincent Baker. Run by Paul Czege.

November 3, 2005, a single session, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Victor Gijsbers, Annette ?, Remko van der Pluijm. Run by Eva Deinum.

November 17, 2005, a single session, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Maartje ?, Victor Gijsbers, Annette ?, Remko van der Pluijm. Run by Eva Deinum.

January 20, 2006, a single session, Grand Rapids, MI. Run by Ed Heil. Players ?.

January-February, 2006, multi-session playtest. Scott Knipe, Matt Gwinn, Danielle Lewon. Run by Paul Czege.

March 25, 2006, a single session playtest at GwinnCon, Ypsilanti, MI. Eric ?, Jason Fox, Scott Knipe. Run by Paul Czege.

April 8, 2006, a single session at Forge Midwest in Schaumburg, IL. Chris Moore, Clyde L. Rhoer, Kellie ?, Thomas Fitch. Run by Paul Czege.

May-June 2006, multi-session playtest over IRC. Alexander Cherry, Thomas Fitch, Ralph Mazza, Eero Tuovinen, Michael S. Miller. Run by Paul Czege.

June 2006, a single session, ? Finland. Sami ?, Sipi ?. Run by Eero Tuovinen.

August, 2006, a single session at Gen Con, Indianapolis, IN. Clyde L. Rhoer, Paul Czege, and ?. Run by Michael S. Miller.

August 25, 2006, a single session, Madison, WI. Brett, Tim ?, and Len ?. Run by Clyde L. Rhoer.

August-October, 2006, multi-session playtest, Oak Park, MI. Tim Kleinert, Matt Gwinn, Scott Knipe. Run by Paul Czege.

September 15, 2006, a single session, Madison, WI. Tim ?, Len ?, Willow ?. Run by Clyde L. Rhoer.

April 21, 2007, a single session at Forge Midwest, Rosemont, IL. Thor Olavsrud, Alexander Newman, Matt Wilson, Ralph Mazza. Run by Paul Czege.

May 5, 2007, a single session at GwinnCon II, Ypsilanti, MI. Scott Knipe, Staci Andre, Jason Fox, Jenny Sporer. Run by Paul Czege.

And if you have any suggestions for improving the citation format, I'd love to hear them. Is there perhaps some standard format for citing meetings that I might adopt?

Thanks,

Paul

The 2006 Gen Con playtest question mark I believe was Keith Senkowski. I'll see if Len, Tim, and Willow want their last names included.

Paul wrote:
June 2006, a single session, ? Finland. Sami ?, Sipi ?. Run by Eero Tuovinen.

For April Forge Midwest playtest:

Kelly Bilbrey

Chris

For the two Madison playtests; Tim Jensen, Willow Pacelek, Len Martin.

Hey Eero,

Is Sonkajärvi a city in Finland? Or a convention?

Paul

It's my home municipality, where I live. The actual name of the town is "Rutakko", but everybody calls it "Sonkajärvi" ("The Lake of Sonka"), according to the Finnish custom of having the main town of a municipality have the same name as the municipality itself (like "Helsinki", which includes not only the city, but also some wilderness that belongs in the same municipality). Nobody outside the municipality would even recognize the name of the town separate from the municipality, and there is no separate governmental structures for the town. "Town" of Rutakko is just under 3000 people strong, though, so I don't know what word you'd use for it in American English; in Finnish we call it a "village" just like the other concentrations of habitation around the municipality, towns are larger units.

Overall, I'd say that "Sonkajärvi" is the proper geographical reference for a list of this kind. It's what you'd use to send mail here or if you tried to find me on a map.