Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Johann
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Verschollen im Archiv des KfK
I ran Electric Bastionland last weekend with an adventure of my own: Verschollen im Archiv des KfK (Lost in the KafKa Archives). To start with, I kept my (secret, at this point) promise that we’d begin play in less than 20 minutes: I did a brief icebreaker activity, introduced the world (e.g. its ‘tech level’…
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Emergency Room C
After some preparations discussed at the Discord (quoted below), I’ve finally run InSpectres. It was a mixed success, but I’m dying and preparing to immediately play it again — not least due to prior discussions: The course “Playing with the Pool” (which includes a section and activities regarding InSpectres) and several discussions and Actual Play…
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Im Reich der Nibelungen is finished!
After 2.5 years of development, Im Reich der Nibelungen is finished & available at DriveThruRPG in German — and French (core book only), courtesy of Greg! Ron’s greenlit a link, so here it is: Im Reich der Nibelungen | DriveThruRPG No promotion (e.g. no pitch or blurb), as befits this place, but some information and…
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Alien parasites vs. prom night
I recently ran The Pool on short notice for three players, using a ‘start file’ I created as part of Ron’s course, Playing with The Pool. The players Carl and Kevin are old friends of mine and in their 50s like me; Russel is Carl’s 19-year old son, who joined our regular (much larger) roleplaying…
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Egalitarian Design
It has recently occured to me that my game, In the Realm of the Nibelungs, is rather egalitarian, at least compared to other RPGs my group has played. I specifically introduced #4 to prevent discussions of tactics that (a) could get quite long and (b) were largely dominated by two players in the prior campaign.…
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Regression to Mercy
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of playing my game In the Realm of the Nibelungs for the first time because a friend has taken over GMing! Yesterday, another player’s character died — and the GM ignored the rules and said the PC might still be saved by cure light wounds…
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Callers for the Nibelungs
Greg asked me about the role of caller in my game *Im Reich der Nibelungen* (“*In the Realm of the Nibelungs*”), so here are some reflections. I know the concept goes waaaay back, but I have never used a caller before. Now I have seen it in action for 25+ sessions. The caller has a…
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Two executions, one averted
Inspired by a discussion as part of Ron’s current People and Play course, here are some of my thoughts about when and if to use resolution systems, specifically the dangers of going there too early. I’ve run Gunther must die, the introductory adventure for my game In the Realm of the Nibelungs, three times now.…
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Pricing and marketing the Nibelungs
I’m getting closer to publishing my game, In the Realm of the Nibelungs, so here’s my current thinking on pricing and marketing (phrased for, though not yet published on the game’s blog): Pricing My game’s [planned] price is €6,50. You’ll get five documents (S&WCL, Im Reich der Nibelungen, the optional booklet Rheingold, a GM Screen,…