Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Erik Weissengruber
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Let Them Explore
Finally Getting to Play I finally got to reading the Dumarest of Terra series and saw the world behind the rules that I had known since 1980 or so. Traveller was a game I had read but had never played, aside from an unsatisfying “explore the strange alien monument” scenario that came with the box…
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Consequential Task Resolution with Genesys.
On Sunday, Jan. 21, I ran an enjoyable 1-shot of a role playing game set in the universe of Fantasy Flight’s space-operatic war game Twilight Imperium. Embers of the Imperium uses the Genesys “Narrative Dice” system, a re-working of the system that was employed in Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars roleplaying game, that system employing the…
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A Cliff-Hanger
The game is on permanent hiatus. Tab started school and plays with the local D&D club. Those rules are more her speed and she was not really into learning all BW’s intricacies. Otlet put in a lot of effort to overcome the caution of the dwellers in the great forest. Tab wanted to do a…
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Journey Down the King’s Road
Otlet Sets Out This was the first Burning Wheel adventure in the 1-on-1 game I posted about earlier. The starting situation was Otlet in his leaky shack looking Northward, the metropolis of Freeport to the West and the ancient forest to the East. His Roden were the embittered dwellers Below the metropolis, and he had…
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Rat’s Nest: One-on-One play with Roden
Restarting GM-ing My child, Tabitha, expressed an interest in gaming after having gone to the Phantasm convention in Peterborough, Ontario. She played in a Bushido game I ran, and in a Mouse Guard game run by anyone else. She was leafing through the Monster Burner supplement to Burning Wheel and saw the really cool images…
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Ketsumatsu , Soshite Hajimari
It was good to play out the consequences of actions that the players had initiated in the previous session. And to step back from crowding out player decisions with a blast of content from myself. There were two religious deeds: Gin the Gakusho won the attention of a Kami but did not attempt to Placate…
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Best Practices for Resolving Hero Wars/quest Contests
I have been using HW to run a fantastical & high-powered Glorantha game. I have been ruminating about how to treat failures. I tried to start a discussion about Simple Contests for HW/HQ but ended up doing a lot of reflection on a play episode and set out some best practices for myself. Hopefully others…