Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Greg
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Knowledge, Demons and Sacrifice
This game of Stormbringer (1981) writte by Ken St Andre and Steve Perrin. That game was played the 8 September 2025v at the Adept Play Happening in Norrköping. I made 9 pregen characters that the character could pick from. The book suggest to play with “3 to 6 players, probably with two or three characters…
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Playing without prep – an anecdote
This is a follow-up to this post : https://adeptplay.com/2025/07/11/playing-prepared/ I started playing Fantasy For Real with Julie & Logan, with who I played Apocalypse World three years ago (Already !), here https://adeptplay.com/2022/08/26/return-apocalypse-world/ Due to my recent improvement in play, also a period of only playing as a player-character (not as a GM) the last 6 months,…
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Playing prepared
I think I have internalized ways of playing prepared enough to be able to describe what I do when I play. This is the simplest description of what I learned about how to play situationally. This text assumes by default a traditional role of a GM who have NPC and backstory authorities. This partly describes…
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Eaten Taboos
We played a game of Zombie Cinema. It was at home, 4 players including me, my wife, a very old friend with whom I played RPG for 20 years, and another good friend “roleplayer” veteran, whatever it means. I found that it is an excellent game and that I want to play more. It reads…
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From textual prep to situational play
I want to focus my posts on situation play for the moment, especially with an eye towards being better at it, and this is my attempt to clarify what it means. Trying to internalize the various discussions, interactions and courses from AdeptPlay, I’ve decided last year to consciously change the way I view and play,…
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Vampire The Heresy
This is a report of an experience of Vampire The Masquerade played between 2003 and 2006. This was a play by forum game, on a French website (who is now offline), with more or less 30 players and 3 GM. The site functioned as a series of forums, each one used as a “scene”, generally…
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Friday Night Firefight
Friday Night Firefight David, Christoffer & me are playing Cyberpunk, first edition. When sharing our « inspiration list », David, Christoffer and me has always a very similar list. If there’s a jungian inspiration ocean, we’re surfing on the same wave. Also we enjoy playing together, although it didn’t happen much. I played my most functional and…
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Holmes & The Golden Medusa of Sorrow
So I played Holmes yesterday evening. I created pregens with evocative stuffs (an elf who is an “exiled noble from the cursed forest”, a thief ratfolk from the “guild of the forgotten secrets”), and I don’t like dwarves and halfings so I used the same rules for, respectively, Snake-peoples and ratfolks. I was feeling creative…
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Autopsy of a situation
This post is really a follow up of this one about situations and reincorporation. I wanted it to be a comment in that post, but it became too long. It’s about “playing the situation” vs “preparing it”. So please check it and see it’s more about general skills of play than about The Clay That…