Adept Play
We’ve proceeded into a new chapter, or perhaps novella, in our Spelens Hus RuneQuest game. You’ll see a couple of changes. First, that William isn’t with us, as he’s moved out of town, and in this case it jibes with in-play events that make most sense for Jovahn to vanish from the situation. Second, that…
Nate and I met for our second and final session for The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, each of us pretty motivated for the respective “side,” in the curious fashion associated with the better examples of this genre. We began by discussing three important things. 1. New finishing conditions review. I went through the rules…
I’ve finally realized how regularly people ask me to explain RuneQuest, HeroQuest, the Chaosium, and Glorantha, specifically because they’ve bounced hard off the apparently extensive setting and apprently impenetrably insider-oriented fanbase. It’s usually private, and they often present the question as if it’s their last fatigued try at finding out what “there” is there. After…
Here’s a game I consider under-served. I would say “criminally” so except for the poor joke it entails, which is too bad, because yes, it’s criminal. Matt Gwinn’s The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is an excellent detective vs. serial killer role-playing game, and here I speak as someone who was heartily sick of the…
We’re two more sessions into the RuneQuest game since the last time, and as I’d feared, the material is demanding a further effort to live up to its tantalizing hints. I find myself creating things, especially cult writeups. One of them was completed for session 6, for the Cult of the Buried Dead, so it’s…
I’ve mentioned that I’m not skilled in bringing role-playing to kids. I’ve done it a fair amount – for instance, all the way back in 1986, with Mentzer’s D&D, when I was working at a neighborhood center. But I don’t have any special techniques or insights about it as a specific task, and as a…
Session 4 of our RuneQuest game! I wrote up a summary handout for them this time – see attached. It was fun to write, and also to feel as if I’d nailed down “this is what we’re playing” in some ways. In thinking about this session, and riffing off the question Ross asked in…
Would you believe more freakin’ original RuneQuest? And this time, not that teenfic evilmurk setting that I worked on so hard. (Yes, that’s still in active development; patrons know about it.) This time, it resulted from a request for a “proper” role-playing game at Spelens Hus, you know, with beweaponed adventurers and adventures in a…
Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the “beating heart of the activity,” and Manu – the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago – is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.…