Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: John St. Gaptooth
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“Here and Now”: A Flashback
While reading the Annotated Sorcerer rulebook this evening, I came across the phrase “here and now” again: the default “setting” for Sorcerer. And I had a sudden flashback. It is the summer of 1998, and I am GMing an ongoing GURPS game for some close friends and a rotating cast of friends-of-friends who want to…
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On hitting a sweet spot with Sorcerer
I feel another Adept Play post simmering, I just don’t know quite how to say it. We are six sessions into our Sorcerer & Sword game now, and every session feels like the best role-playing I’ve had the good fortune to be part of in years. With our recent Freebooters game which spanned 58 sessions,…
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Sorcerer & Sword: Into the Kl’au first session
We had our first session of Sorcerer & Sword yesterday! The pitch was this: There is a hidden forest valley between the perilous ridges: THE KL’AU. The only way to reach it is a hard-to-find pass called the Fraustgap, lost in the no man’s land between three civilizations. Rumor has it there are survivors of…
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Dark World after 5 seasons!
On Monday, we played session 51 of the game I wrote about here (and also here). The game feels like it’s reaching a conclusion, and I’m looking forward to wrapping it up by session 60. For the sake of convenience, I call each sequence of 10 sessions a “season” as in seasons of a TV series.…
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LotFP Dark World Session 2: “An Audience with the Chthonic Empress”
[S1:E2], 16 Feb 2019 Session 1 recap: The adventurers are at Castle Figaryo for the prince’s birthday festival when the Empress shows up with a military escort. She is ticked that her daughter is missing. The adventurers get into some antics and escape the castle, with the prince Sabin. Player Shuffle Phoebe and Mark joined…
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LotFP Dark World Session 1: “Pilot”
Previously: Planets Collide. We played a Dungeon World campaign for 30+ sessions over about two years. We started with nothing but the playbooks, and I used Dungeon BINGO to generate some ideas at the table for the first session. Session after session, we developed a thrilling world and saw the characters repeatedly cheat death, undertake…