Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: James_Nostack
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Halfway Heroes: Supervillain Showdown
Across three sessions: a bank robbery, a public unmasking, our protagonists finally have their show down, and a guest appearance by the most startling character of them all! Plus—the second death of the First Responder! James, whatever happened with that Marvel Super Heroes game David was running for you and Noah? There were a lot of session…
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Halfway Heroes: The Devil’s Workshop
Here’s a helpful hint: never keep a supervillain waiting. In case you skipped the last several posts: Sam (played by me) and Connie (played by Noah) are supervillains recently released from Rikers Island (run by David). Each protagonist has struggled with reentry. In the last session, each murdered their arch-enemy. Connie is a wanted fugitive, while Sam,…
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Long Live the New York Red Box!
Worth Remembering In 2013 I was getting divorced. I’d hurt someone I loved very much, and it blew up a lot of ideas I had about myself. One night in the middle of that emotional car wreck, I called my friend Tavis for advice. He was the only divorced guy I knew well enough to talk to about…
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“What if Catch-22, but with Giant Robots”
That was the pitch, but alas, I was far too ambitious, and ended up chickening out! Brief comments on the system, the play experience, and a few campaign design problems we encountered. The Group: me (GM) with Fano, Tazio, and Luke. Fano and I are friends in real life; this was my first time playing with…
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My Life as a Dog (in Glorantha)
WHO Me (playing) & Tavis (GM’ing) & our gaming group from twelve years ago. We’ve reconnected via video chat, and it’s really nice to see all these people after so long. One of the group was 16 when we met and kind of living a messy life; now he’s a licensed electrician and owns a house. PLAYING…
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The Tragic Passions of Sir Carabad
Ten years ago I played Pendragon (4th Edition 1993) with my friends Josh (GM), Adrian, Dan, Chris, and a few guests. The campaign lasted over twenty sessions, and sadly while I remember many stories I don’t recall many specific moments of play. So I asked the discord for some topics to narrow focus, and people…
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A Remedy for OppressIon: This Was America
The animal species in which . . . the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development . . . are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. . . . The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay. –Pyotr Kropotkin, “Mutual Aid: A Factor…
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A Remedy for Oppression: issue 11
For you these lillies, these stalks of hyssop for you this altar which is not an altar in the ordinary sense but a stairway of song to the unbearable ones helpers in our need. —Hjalmar Gullberg, “For the Demigods” “I’m not so much a ‘morality’ superhero.” —Fano Posing a question: “How much do you stick…
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A Remedy for Oppression: issues 4-7
“There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” —Frank Wilhoit, The Travesty of Liberalism “Science can save them from many things, Prometheus, but it cannot save them from themselves.” —Daedalus, supervillain, issue 7 Attempted coups, hospitals overflowing, breadlines stretching for miles. …