Actual Play

This is where we do what we do! We celebrate our experiences with table-top role-playing games. Here are the ones I'm playing right now:

This is not a play-at or streaming site - it's for discussion of what we're already doing. People often include video or audio recordings, but text-only is fine too. You can also attach documents, like maps or character sheets or brief sections of the rules you're using.

I trust you to work out how you want to talk about your games: just for fun, sharing & comparison, critique, or whatever. If you'd like, check out my best-practices manual for suggestions, but it's really flexible.

If you already do a podcast or other actual-play series, live or not, please consider yourself invited to embed a link as a topic.

For games in design, i.e., playtesting - yes, go right ahead, that's welcome too. For consulting sessions with me, which is different, see the Consulting page.

Flames and death in Saltmarsh

The way in which we are playing the game: http://adeptplay.com/actual-play/some-osr-sandbox-play .

Posted by: Tommi

30 Aug 2020

Games: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato

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Thoughts on a Trollbabe session

I mailed Ron about an AP post I made on my blog, about a great Trollbabe session I played, and he suggested linking to it here. So, in case you are interested, here's the link. I describe some pivotal moments in the game, but I especially try to analyse what makes Trollbabe work as a character-driven roleplaying game.

Posted by: VictorGijsbers

29 Aug 2020

Games: Trollbabe

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The Story Module (Part II of III)

(This is a continuation of this post.)

Posted by: badspeler

27 Aug 2020

Games: Living Alchemy

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Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha

I am a runquester, not a Gloranthaphile, but have been digging into the mythology as I have been developing my game.

For an initial post I am just linking my YouTube channel playlist for my Chronicles of Car'reen campaign which I started back in December 2018.

Posted by: Bryon1187

27 Aug 2020

Games: RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha

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CON Man

aka the Games of Summer (a riff on Boys of Summer, you get the idea)

Posted by: Sean_RDP

21 Aug 2020

Games: HeroQuest, Runequest Glorantha, Coriolis, Aquellare.

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Living Alchemy

I've been working on a roleplaying game for half my life. I started it in the summer before college, sitting in the empty campus of UNL. I was about to leave for a another state, bitter about my life, bitter about leaving it. But this isn't about that. I recently finished an eight session campaign using the system I built. I thought I'd tell you about it.

Posted by: badspeler

17 Aug 2020

Games: Living Alchemy

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First game of Circle of hands as a GM

Hello everyone !

I've finally GMed my first game of Circle of hands (yay me)! I will try and retell it and include the most interesting stuff that had happened. Please be nice, I'm still learning :)

Posted by: Arvina

16 Aug 2020

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Some OSR sandbox play

This post is an oblique response to http://adeptplay.com/actual-play/dd-habits-and-culture and http://adeptplay.com/seminar-hearts-minds/conversation-dd-play-culture .

Posted by: Tommi

15 Aug 2020

Games: D&D, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Old school essentials, Pathfinder, Praedor

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D&D as habits and culture

This really could have gone into Seminar instead. I edited it as an epilogue to our Lamentations/Ottoman playtest and included it in that YouTube playlist, and it does fit and make most sense that way, but as an idea, it's probably going to generate Seminar-style discussion.