Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Ron Edwards
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Defiant to the end
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…
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Physics Man Was Not Meant to Know
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…
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Title drop
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…
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Monday Lab: Roll to Know
Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn’t help myself, it’s been only two days and here you go. The reason is nothing less than an impressive meeting…
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This is how – Champions Now, Beta
Whew – and here we launch into game design, for me an uncharacteristically scary moment, because this isn’t just anything, this is Champions – and playing what is undeniably either my elevation or profanation thereof. I have a bunch of Beta playtests beginning, and this one got going first, with Frank and Alan. I sent…
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This is villainy
My Champions Now alpha play is concluded, and I’m moving into Beta. You’ll see a lot of things in the Defiants game which I decided needed to be revised heavily: Mind Scan, Desolid, assisting, and plenty of others which in the past I accepted as “well, that’s just Champions,” all hit the butcher shop for…
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Burdens for good or ill
Consulting for Tales of Entropy has become almost a way of life, considering the multiple sessions, the length of the sessions, and the processing throughout. Especially for a game which is entirely finished and published, thus system development isn’t the point, and for a game whose typical play-time is single-session and relatively short, in the…
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Ah to be young and heroic
It took about four sessions to arrive at a title, but we did, and Rod provided this fine logo. It’s been seven sessions, and I am afraid it’s slogged quite a bit, paying off a bit later than I'd hoped. There’s no one reason, but a perfect storm of details which conspired to turn play…
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Safe Spaces [Games and Education]
The Games and Education podcast series by Keenan Kibrick is no small thing! I am very happy to be invited for a conversation there, and even more so about morality, explicit content, real-world emotions, and boundaries. That’s what my 2003 publication Sex & Sorcery was all about. You see, I think the developments from there…