Adept Play
A new Champions Now Beta playtest! With Jason and Rick. I told them, “powers are dark, ancient, and secret,” and “crimes are moral, not just legal,” and we set it in Los Angeles, where Rick lives. (lots of west coast going on in play … I’ll have to keep an eye on that, and make…
First session of Sorcerer! Allowing for a little more time to finalize the characters and one of the demons. As discussed in the previous post, the starting statements are Demons are pets and Ancient ruined cities, and our first meeting resulted in a strong Nordic Noir vibe as well. Pedro is playing Ingmar, a Swedish…
Just what the inheritor of the century-old superheroic powers and the sixty-year-old superhero-veteran need: a barely-legal vlogging celebrity hound who claims to be the Bay Area’s’ own indispensable crime-fightin’ hero guy. Meet Komodo Dragon! (and thanks to Rod dropping by to be our entirely enjoyable guest player) I am also pleased to present not one…
Here’s the next round of seeing how Cosmic Zap is shaping up. It’s an important phase because Ian is the project developer for Chaosium, and Rod and Juan are both artists who are very familiar with the source material. Juan screen-shared during most of the session, allowing us to enjoy his emerging character sheet. I’ve…
Second session for Legacy, this time ramping the soapy feels for Alan’s character, Mike, up to that number you know, and to my great pleasure, outdoing King Cinema Himself in sheer power of the spectacle. “Iconic” doesn’t begin to do it justice. Note to self: I swore that my three-plus hours play session days were…
“Demon pets,” I told them, and “Ancient cities.” After this meeting, we’re starting up with one sorcerer maximizing the first and the other maximizing the second, and with a fine mix of the components in this post’s title. This is Sorcerer, with me, Pedro, and Aybars. There is an almost physical impression of commitment among…
I love that cover. It was the first issue of The Uncanny X-Men I bought with my own money off the stands, and even Cyclops’ entirely unnecessary gesticulating is perfect. But … uh … why is Storm saying that? It is a very silly thing to say, and fortunately our heroes in the Defiants say…
Here’s session 1 for the series I’m calling Legacy, featuring Advance and PowerStar. As has been suggested before, you can now see the entire organization and prep process by following the tag, leading into play that you can see here. The whole session plays nicely off their respective defining features, in that Advance is a…
Whew – After the big monster climactic events of session 5, I settled down to prep things more widely. I had plenty to work with, some of which were hanging fire from initial character construction, and some of which had arisen with no planning during play. I was also feeling the pain of not having…