Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Jesse Burneko
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Authenticity And The Ghost of Bobby G
So, a third game I ran at Big Bad Con was Locus. Locus has intrigued me for a while because it plays around in the Silent Hill inspired space that I enjoy so much. It is definitely a passion project built by someone who I genuinely believe played it a lot. In this instance, I…
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Slowly Burning in a Quiet and Lonely Hell
While at Big Bad Con I had an opportunity to play my game in development, Variations on a Quiet and Lonely Hell. I had previously gone through a round of consulting with Ron about this game which can be found here: https://adeptplay.com/2021/08/23/fun-and-games-book-job/ Additionally, I have since taken seven of Ron’s classes including The Ronnies which…
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Red-hood Iskra
The past weekend I attended Big Bad Con in Northern California. It’s a convention that heavily favors small press and independent RPGs. So, it’s an excellent place to find people who are up for just about anything and try out games you’ve wanted to play but just haven’t been able to pull together. The first…
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A Spiritual Journey
I had a memory come back to me and I figured I’d share it. I had this friend named Sayler. I haven’t seen him in a long time. Sayler was an interesting and somewhat mysterious fellow. He was of German and Persian ancestry. He was stationed in Berlin with the U.S. Army when the wall…
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We Both Fail
This weekend I started a one-on-one Dirty World game with Robbie. Dirty World is a noir mystery/crime thriller game using an unusual variation of the One Roll Engine (ORE) created by Greg Stolze. I happen to like ORE quite a bit having played both Wild Talents and The Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor previously. The…
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Problems vs. Situations
There seems to be an unending stream of games that assume the players are a team that runs missions. Sometimes the characters are presumed to be freelancers who take on contract work and other times they have some kind of formal employment or indentured servitude or shared cause arrangement with an individual or organization. Either…
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What’s My Motivation?
Recently, I was invited by a friend to playtest a game he is working on. The game is about assassins that possess people close to their targets in order to gain access to them. The game is a work-in-progress, so I don’t want to get too deep into how it works. Instead I want to…
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Sympathy and Science
Recently, I ran a game of Ten Candles for David, Robbie and Manu after Manu had expressed an interest in the game on the Adept Play Discord. It’s a tricky game to run online but I managed to assemble all the technical pieces to pull it off. I also went out of my way to…
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I’m Becoming Predictable
After a few months on hiatus my D&D 5e group started out into the uncharted territory of Tier 3 play (levels beyond 10). They’re traveling to a cave that will allow them passage through the mountains to a desert land beyond. For context I prepare travel portions of the game by doing two things: Every…