Adept Play
Previously on: post 1 / post 2 We’ve continued our Worlds Without Number game, sometimes with 3 players (including me, the GM), most of the time with 2. The characters are now level 5, which is halfway up the ladder. Since the last post, they have traveled around local and semi-local areas a bit and…
See here for the first post in this series. We’ve played two more sessions of Worlds Without Number. After the first session, one of the players had to drop out—the player who had recognized my prep at the end of the first session and had me scrambling to prepare something else. I decided, since I…
We started a Worlds Without Number (WWN) game, playing in-person. WWN is built on the chassis of various editions, rememberings, and reconfigurations of the pre-3rd edition non-Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. It turns the dial up on Vancianisms, mostly through spell names and spell powers (spells are more versatile and powerful than spells in, say, Moldvay…
Eric and I played Mars Colony. We hadn’t ever played anything together; we set the game up on the Adept Play discord. I played the Savior Kelly Perkins, and Eric played the Governor role. I’ve played Mars Colony once before, about a decade ago, at a convention. My memory of that game is dim, but…
We’ve been playing Old-School Essentials, a reorganized retro-clone of Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons. Specifically, we’re playing module B4: The Lost City, by Tom Moldvay. I’ve run one-shots of B/X twice in the past and…as I think about it now, I believe it is my first time actually playing it. We’re playing online, and we’re a group…