Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Claudio “FroggyC”
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Romance, Drugs & Loud Fun
Two weeks ago I set up a one-session game of CY_BORG in my local gaming cafe in Helsinki, with mostly inexperienced players. This is a game of cyberpunk jobbers based on Mörk Borg. My opinion is that CY_BORG is mostly style over substance, its biggest quality being its coffee-table-worthy presentation, but I chose it because […]
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Calling Rolls and “Unresolving” statements
So, while getting feedback for my “Poolpendium”, I have recently discovered that a specific way I play “The Pool” is not that common among other people as I had originally thought. When I’m GMing, I’ll sometimes give bad or undesirable outcomes to see if the player is willing to roll for it, sometimes reminding them […]
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Suddenly, You Get Choked
I’ve been hit by a roleplaying memory from a few years ago while discussing Blades in the Dark with an acquaintance. I was playing Scum and Villainy, which is a space-opera/western themed game based on Blades in the Dark. The two games are, rule-by-rule, extremely similar, but that doesn’t make them the same game. Also, this […]
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Root is a Role-Playing Game
I’ve been playing “Root: a Game of Woodland Might and Right”, a delightfully brutal asymmetric game about cute woodland creatures at war with each other. No, not the PbtA published by Magpie Games. I’m referencing the one that is currently marketed as a boardgame, but that I have started thinking more and more as a […]
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Bearing the Torch for Everyone Else
After finding the book in my local game store, and having the game recommended by an acquaintance, I got inspired, recently decided to set up a Torchbearer campaign with IRL friends. I got quite hyped (part of the problem, maybe) about the game and put quite a bit of effort into preparing it, going to […]
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Liking the setting so much you can’t stop talking about it
This is a follow-up to my post Ashen worlds and liking the scenario. We had another session of Fantasy World today, and enjoyed ourselves a lot. A cool thing happened: the dynamic that I was describing where I, as a person and not in my role as the World, highly disagree with the protagonists' philosophy and […]
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Ashen worlds and liking the scenario
Alright, so this actually goes back to my Troubles in Solar Town post and the discussion that emerged, which really influenced what I did in this game. So, the background for this game is that I wanted to try out my friend Alessandro Piroddi’s Fantasy World, this time on the GM side. After some discussions I […]
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Should a guitar play itself?
Recently I’ve been playing some more Dungeon World, this time as a player, kind of coaching an unexperienced GM through the game (it unfortunately requires this, due to the numerous unclarified rules). We’re at our fifth session and we’ve started to really hit it off a couple of sessions ago. Me and the GM often […]
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I playtested a comedy pirate game
So, a few weeks ago I was playing Cairn as a player character, and we were exploring the house of a witch that had misteriously disappeared. We would poke around and interact with the empty house, and this reminded me very much of playing old LucasArts point-and-click adventure videogames. After a conversation with a friend, I was inspired […]