Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Ron Edwards
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Barbaric Psychedelic Cosmic Cataclysmic Fore Ee
I’ve given this some thought. I’ve played it, both badly and well. I’ve read a bunch. I’ve talked to its developers and knowledgeable business people. I’ve built a couple setups for play. I can only describe the cultural discourse about it as mass hysteria. Almost no one seems to have played the game I’m looking…
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Cold Soldier: Shambling along the avenue
My recent games of Cold Soldier – with Zac, Santiago, Ángel, and Moreno – make a powerful comparison.The first, in real time, is the session I played with Zac about a year ago, when I visited him and his wife Jann in Washington DC. I mention her as well because she was supposed to be…
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Cold Soldier: Crusader horror
Moreno and I have been meaning to do this for a long time, and finally got around to it: Cold Soldier, knives out.[see the attached file for the rules we’re using; rewritten but mechanically unaltered. This is the third instance of recent play I’m posting as a rapid-fire experiential bath in the game.] Riffing between…
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Cold Soldier: I am the Zombie Woof
Hey, more Cold Soldier in action! This time with Ángel, for a slightly less intercontinental session – Sweden and the U.K. But also, like the session with Santiago, placed in reference to a Spanish-speaking setting, based on Angel’s home city of Madrid. Our starting context used genius scientist and the past, specifically early 19th-century Spain.…
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Cold Soldier in La Plata
A couple of months ago, I invited patrons to play Bret Gillan’s game Cold Soldier with me, using my slight re-write of the text (no rules revision; see attached), and to talk about it. Santiago and I did so shortly afterward, via Skype between Sweden and Argentina. The question at hand, based on the points…
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Interview: Independent publishing, latter days – the sequel
This interview is from November 2017, almost exactly a year later than the Metatopia interview with Maksim Mohammedov, and a good comparison with it. You’ll see how both Vigil and Adept Play have emerged from the earlier points.
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Vigil playtest with Hijos de Rol
It’s almost right outta the box, with pauses and um’s and stuff – but it’s a great look at how topical and immediate the game is. Contrary to the question marks, the heroes’ names were El Santo and El Ángel Caído.
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Discuss: Do they get it?
gets right up my nose for people to pick through this essay as if it were a finalized thesis
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Discuss: Phenomenology
This five-piece video series is my raw material for the ongoing project, to generate a real text for what on earth this role-playing ‘thing’ might actually be. It’s the abstract part, coming at it with both extensive experience but also completely without the familiar in-hobby vocabulary or investments. It’s really abstract! I know that, it’s…