Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Sean_RDP
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Not Content
Whatever the case, Earthdawn failed to capture a large enough audience and the game, even though still produced today, is more an oddity than a functional system. ~Art of the Genre Blog, July 24 2013. I do not think that it is controversial to say that the above quote is consistent with how folks feel about Earthdawn.…
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Climax & Endings & Rolemaster Thoughts
A few weeks ago the characters encountered the nemesis who has been behind the situation since the beginning. And it has me thinking about how “The End” of a situation / adventure can affect the prep and Play in a game. I will also muse a bit on how System Matters. The final confrontation between…
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Adjustments Mid-Stride
The Rolemaster game I am running with Rod and Robbie continues, and John has joined us as well. I feel like the point of this post is worth a new post instead of continuing the old one, but you can view that right here. About a month, maybe longer, ago Rod had asked if we…
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Minimal System
We finished up a run of Through Sunken Lands in the OSR/Lab group and we rooted around for another system to tackle. A few of us have been interested in Warlock! and so I offered to run. Warlock! is inspired by Warhammer Fantasy, but unlike many “retro-clones” it really isn’t that much of a clone.…
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Stop Setting DCs?
This discussion started with Sorcho (Ed Heil) on the Discord channel brought a video to the attention of the larger group. The video comes from the channel of Cetx Etc and can be found here. Feel free to have a listen, it is less than 11m in duration. In the video, the author expresses the…
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The Fool of Druids & Bob Pepper’s Art
I enjoy a great deal of gaming culture from the late 1970s and early 80s. Two of those things are the card game Dragonmaster and Rolemaster. Both touch on nostalgia for me, but Rolemaster in particular is one of those games I enjoy going back to when I can. It has been a while. I…
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Games & Systems: My Thoughts
I worked my way through both the post by (on) Liber Ludorum and the original post by Linda Codega, both of which I have linked. Codega’s post is on Gizmodo and by definition is more focused / influenced / to be read in as commentary on more commercial ventures. Whereas LL’s post moves further afield…
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COED-X or Mutants ’91
Our every other Friday Champions 6 is on hiatus for a while and the group has decided to slide our occasional Marvel Super Heroes game into center stage. As you might have guessed, we are playing mutants who are college students. Three of us went to Salisbury (State) University in Salisbury MD (USA) in the…
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I’m Tolkien Situation Here
A brief overview of my thoughts on The One Ring rpg.