Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Ron Edwards
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Apoc western
Nils had a request for play for our Spelens Hus group, and it was highly specific. You’ll probably spot the influences: post-apocalyptic wasteland, retro Wild West, harsh, gritty, moody, occasional ancient tech (which is pretty much our own real-world tech), grotesque or offbeat elements which are treated in the fiction as naturalistic. He mostly knows…
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Magic, mutants, rats, guns
Look what I found at Gothcon! It’s a Fantasy Heartbreaker I did not know about. Special credit to the guy naming his imprint basically as himself, and special heartbreak for developing a line of lead miniatures which you can order by mail. It was published in 1992, which puts it right in there with Legendary…
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Gothcon 2024
This year I’m in “look, I have some things” mode, so I scheduled games of my own design and even brought printed copies for sale. Low-tech and totally pamphlet mode, but nicely printed for sure. I gave out a free copy of Cold Soldier with any purchase and handed out promo for The Happening all…
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Fights and delight
These would be Doyle (Fused Teacher/Gunkata, “disgraceful street poet”), Leonie (Focused Wardancer, “lithe lioness”), and Hans Horthy (Focused Cavalry, “getaway driver”), as I, Helma, and Hampus played them in Panic at the Dojo. Milo introduced us to the game and tried his hand at GMing for the first time. It’s a super fighty battle-map game,…
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Oog is all you need
The Great Ork Gods, by Jack Aidley, is along with Space Rat one of the quintessential Step On Up designs. It offers a deep insight into the interrelations among “game” (the colloquial term), game theory, and gamification. … but enough of that elf talk, this is about orks getting Oog, and more importantly, players competing…
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Para Int’l and so many beetles
InSpectres! Real play, not just a convention one-off. Here’s my preparation, in this case useful for discussion because I wrote content from play directly onto them. The core content, or backstory, or “what the hell is going on,” of a given situation is not prepared. It is stated into play in bits and pieces whenever…
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Setting it out there
Meet Cosmarina the Space Girl, Brutalina the Barbarian Girl, and Stacey X the Alien Girl, whom I brought as these pictures and character sheets to a public-meet-the-gamers event here in town, at a center for filmmaking and viewing called Cnema. Here is what I do. First, I set out the Space Rat play-materials in an…
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Shady deeds in shadowy places
We have begun our third adventure for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, including one half-orc cleric-assassin for the Church of the Eternal and Fundamental Ordination, one half-elf fighter-assassin for the Church of the Ineffable Disruption of All Being, one half-elf fighter-thief who moonlights for the Disruption, and two half-orc fighter-clerics for the, well, it doesn’t really…
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Laser focus
I have always found it fun and useful to have The Fantasy Trip: Melee open on the table with its sister game Wizard nearby. Lately, I’ve done so at several public events, including Spelens Hus, a mall games demonstration, and the city library, as well as a couple of fill-in play sessions when the whole…