Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Santiago Verón
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Crunching numbers, now
A year has passed and me and my friends decided to pick up our game prep where we left it. The good news: now I’ve got the actual Champions Now manual, in pre-publication form. (In case you don’t follow the Kickstarter, backers have already received a PDF with the rules; it’s not “finished” because there’s…
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The first superheroes of La Plata
In our fiction, that is. (Traducción apurada al castellano más abajo, después de la próxima foto.) Ale, Edson and I met at home, and later we caught up with Ceci and her two dogs. So we created the characters in my kitchen, the streets, and the beautiful forests of La Plata, in a lovely spring…
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Textil – Fantasmas asesinos, meaning Murderous Ghosts
Back in April, I sat down with three college friends, Alejo, Cecilia and Edson, to play Vincent Baker’s Murderous Ghosts for the first time. That’s four future librarians hanging out at Alejo’s place, the student housing for people from San Nicolás. It’s the Spanish edition, Fantasmas asesinos, by Nosolorol. It’s a very prolific Spanish…
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Just winging it: Trying to reduce prep sunk cost anxiety
What’s funny about “prep sunk cost anxiety” as a phrase is that I’m not sure it’s well constructed in English grammar, and I certainly wouldn’t be able to think it in Spanish. Go tell Sapir-Worf I have a clear concept on my mind that I’m not sure how to represent in words. I’ll quote myself…
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Getting conned at con games
A brief recap of the bad times I had at conventions, getting really close at completing a record of all the times I’ve roleplayed. I could call this “It sucked every time I didn’t play Call of Cthulhu.” These were all at the aforementioned comic cons at Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. It was called Leyendas…
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Cthulhu, again (and again): The RPG that never let me down
I’ll begin by contradicting the title and admitting there was this one time it did suck. I’ll talk about it for a bit, then move onto all the other ones. Three sessions total. By the time we’re over, between the previous posts and this one I will have reflected on half the times I roleplayed…
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All the times I couldn’t get it to work
And the one time I sort of, kinda, did. I wonder what I did differently. When I was 9 years old I read about tabletop RPGs in an Argentine videogames magazine. They sort of got it confused with Magic: The Gathering, but it was enough to get me really interested. The year after I found…
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My first time roleplaying
When I was a 10 year old child, I tried to gamemaster a few Toon games with my classmates during recess, but I could never get it to work. Barring that, the following is an account of my first time roleplaying, and certainly the first time that I participated as a player. I was 18…