Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Dreamofpeace
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A Game of Trollbabe
I’ve been wanting to try Trollbabe for awhile, so was very pleased to get to try it recently with two fun players. I was the GM, first time running Trollbabe. Each of the players picked a different location, so I did my best to prep each one as the rules suggested. One player picked the…
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Star Trek: The Pool
So I read Ron’s work talking about and analyzing the Pool, and the game itself seemed to me to be elegantly and brilliantly designed, with a kind of simplicity I find really appealing. But I never had a chance to try it, so I was thrilled when some kind people were willing to play online.…
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Turning Young People to the Dark Side (i.e., introducing them to rpgs)
Ok, so I had the pleasure of introducing my 13 year old niece and her stepsister to rpgs this Christmas, and wanted to describe what I did, with an eye to better understanding things like intuitive continuity and also how to do things like this better in the future. So after some lightsaber practice (Mia,…
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A Few Sessions of D&D
Ok, so here’s what I’ve been doing in my D&D campaign. I’m putting it here because I want to contrast it with the Star Wars game, looking for deeper understanding and analysis. Anyway, the basic setting is that the world is currently ruled by a decadent, decaying Elven Empire, where humans are the main slave…
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Star Wars: Dark Times
Ok, so I wanted to report on a couple of gaming experiences, looking for any interesting analysis and observations from y’all, and particularly with an eye towards understanding the difference between intuitive continuity and bangs. The first game I want to describe is a session of Star Wars: Dark Times, which for rules uses my…
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A Session of Dungeon World
So our group started with some collaborative setting creation, and we decided on a maritime campaign (I pushed for it as I wanted something different than the usual tropes, and fortunately everyone was open to it). We each added an island and some currents to the map, then made characters; we wound up with a…