Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Ron Edwards
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How to feel bad for killing a really unlikeable jerk
The post title refers to one of the casualties in the session, which also included one player-character catching on fire and getting stabbed in the face. But all told, our first knock-down savage RuneQuest combat went rather well for our heroes. It’s strange to be building a fantasy setting by little bits, knowing certain images…
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Crescendo
This phase of our “Sorcerer Musik” game definitely needs its own body of comment. The first batch showed us finding our feet with the on-line venue; the second one showed our re-orientation toward that venue and a little reflection on play so far; and this one is … well, it’s when Sorcerer delivers. None of…
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BPCC 4E continues!
The dungeon, which in this particular spin we’re calling vortices, is a dead psionic guy’s mind. For three characters who got their asses kicked, they did in fact revise and re-set the entire premise of my setup, through a number of roll-requiring actions, some of them judicious and some not-entirely-on-purpose. I’m kind of irked that…
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Meet the Good Guys
Up against the Good Guys! Weak Force, Ankylo, the Anomalator, and Scratch, as I named them from Zircher’s illustration. The game continues to be cursed by the interface. Please watch rather than listen, if you can, because I put in tons of visual material to help the understanding and the discussion. We lost the last…
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Sorcerer Musik – harmony and dissonance
Here’s a techniques discussion of the Sorcerer character diagrams, which is a spiky topic in the case of this game. I didn’t realize the physical separation among us would be this significant, and I’m worried enough to reflect here. First, a detailed look at how the damn things work: Now let’s apply this to play,…
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Hippie fantasy, adults are not to be trusted
It’s the adolescence. Creepy rural fantasy aside, which is working well too, playing the characters as mid-teens is working wonders. This is the second session following RuneQuest 1980: brambly hick coming-of-age fantasy. I’ve attached the file I sent to them before the session, updating my scribbled notes into complete sentences concerning the general cosmology, with…
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Proto-concept from D&D play
The absolutely nascent stage of game design sometimes isn’t any different from how you found yourself spinning some feature of some other game you happened to be playing. One may even “know” that hey, wherever I go with this will be something different, even when still thinking so closely to the primary experience that it’s…
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Brambly hick coming-of-age fantasy
Briefly, Cults of Terror is a not merely a landmark in role-playing history, it’s a giant. Coupled with the rules it was written to support, RuneQuest 1980, and the supplement that immediately preceded it, Cults of Prax, it established a new-and-different bar for play which defined “I play RuneQuest” into almost its own sector and…
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Sorcerer: Praying is Too Slow
Just some Sorcerer actual play, right? But pay attention to how a story came to be without a story in place. I’d like you to identify any rules of the game that interest you, regarding how they did or didn’t play into what happened. If you don’t know Sorcerer enough to be specific, then ask…