We were finally able to get back to our Circle of Hands campaign after a ridiculously long hiatus of 13 months. The blame for the delay can be laid solely on the varied demands of my schedule and the limted range of options open due to divergent time zones.
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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.
Posted by: Runeslinger
28 Nov 2020
Games: Circle of Hands
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Ranrance was a Praedor character I played once when I had moved abroad and had no gaming group yet. A short-grown river bandit, whose main feature was owning a river ship. Why not convert them to the highly customized BECMI rules variant in use here, since I would otherwise never play him? So I did.
Posted by: Tommi
24 Nov 2020
Games: Homebrew, OSR, Praedor, Burning Wheel
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I have long been a fan of the aesthetic and idioms associated with the cyberpunk “genre”. Even though I am more Adam Smith than Karl Marx, I find the commentary on extreme corporate ascendency and the radical notions of bringing it down fit my tastes.
Posted by: Sean_RDP
23 Nov 2020
23 comments
At Jon’s prompting, a group of us are preparing to take on Forge: Out of Chaos. This will be my third experience with a Fantasy Heartbreaker—Legendary Lives and Darkurthe Legends are the others that I’ve played, and you can find some materials on those games elsewhere on Adept Play.
Posted by: robowist
22 Nov 2020
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Our two dusters and draver arrive near and along the Great River during their travels. The questions of why they're here and what they want, individually, have just become pointier.
This post continues from Desert duster fantasy with session 8 in the embedded video, which is also hooked into the entire YouTube playlist.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
22 Nov 2020
Games: Undiscovered
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I have been communicating with Sean_RDP / Logan40k about Star Trek Adventures and our experiences with it. Part of that conversation was to agree to post some thoughts about our respective campaigns in a digestible format, so as a starter we have this brief Q&A to broach the topic.
What did you do with the game?
Posted by: Runeslinger
20 Nov 2020
Games: Star Trek Adventures, 2d20
7 comments
I’ve watched dozen of the Runequest Spelenhus games and took a great pleasure to see people enjoying roleplaying. A few things I liked, the cult approach to society, and building the settings through play, according needs arising from play.
Posted by: Greg
18 Nov 2020
Games: Sorcerer & Sword, Sorcerer
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Although for the first time in a long while I have a stack of games that I want to get to the table, circumstances have aligned to allow for and encourage a return to Star Trek Adventures as an online game. I ran the game for local friends around a real table in a real room in 2017-18 for about a year. That campaign will be resuming locally in a few months - if Covid-19 precautions allow.
Posted by: Runeslinger
18 Nov 2020
Games: Star Trek Adventures, 2d20
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I presented several titles to play or try with the Spelens Hus group, and this is the one that received the most votes. I sometimes forget how well-established the voting practice is here in Sweden, especially for small project-oriented groups and workplaces.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
12 Nov 2020
Games: The Mountain Witch
9 comments
Posted by: noah_t
12 Nov 2020
Games: Imp of the Perverse, RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, S/Lay w/Me, Champions Now, Blades in the Dark
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