Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: noah
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This Is How We Hold a Funeral in Glorantha: RQG Sessions 8 & 9
This afternoon my duet buddy and I will be playing another session of Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, and before we do I wanted to update my actual play record with two of the three sessions we’ve played since I posted last. Session 8: The Ambush The first session was occupied with the Wasp-Riders’ ambush of…
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Characteristics vs Skills
I wanted to post up some probabilities for Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. After I asked on Discord, Tommi generously crunched the numbers for me. You can view the spreadsheet he built (and lots of other game-related stuff) at his blog. As background, there are two methods of opposed rolls in RQG. The first is to…
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Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Sessions 6 & 7
My duet buddy and I have played another two sessions of Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. We agree that last session constituted a huge step forward in our game. This didn’t emerge ex nihilo. Dialog here at Adept Play laid the groundwork for it, and conversation with my fellow player helped us recognize it. But we accessed the…
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Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Sessions 4 & 5
Another two sessions of Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, and things are getting bloody and wild. We spent a good amount of time going through the game’s seasonal experience system. I appreciate how the “Between Adventures” procedures require zooming out, letting the wheel of the seasons turn forward, and watching the characters in lower-stakes situations like work,…
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Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Sessions 1-3
Our third proper session was yesterday, and my and my duet buddy’s Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha game is starting to heat up. Backdrop and Situation We settled on a backwater Orlanthi stead for setting, close to the road to Whitewall. ‘Our’ clan are the Maul-Mouths, Olontongi who stubbornly held onto their ways (and their rivalry with…
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Leaving Imp-Haunted New Orleans
Nathaniel Duhring arrives in New Orleans, nineteen, broken, -hearted and otherwise. He has just fled the travelling circus that employed him as a freak act—the Puzzle-Pieced Paddy, surgically dismembered and reassembled time and again for the awed entertainment of cycling crowds. Nathaniel’s feelings toward the surgeon are hundredfold and conflicting—here is his mentor & tormentor,…
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Character Creation as Play
I'm contemplating a game of Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. The core book alone is vast, a whole geography of world and system, and I have never played in Glorantha before. I sat down to try character creation. It took me two sessions, over two nights. I was surprised by how intense and rewarding I found…
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New Operations in Spire: The City Must Fall
This week, I finished up a four-session arc of duets using Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor. This is my third time running Spire, and there is a lot about the game I love. The writing is top-notch, the setting is rich with conflicts and status quos that just beg…
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Getting Our Surf-Boards Under Us At Last
On Monday, my partner and I played our fourth session of Champions Now. This is our fourth or fifth series of twosies together, games that have included PBTA (not my favorite for one-on-one), narrative OSR Trophy Gold, and (our favorite) Spire: The City Must Fall. This time around, I am GMing and my partner is playing.…