Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Sean_RDP
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A funny Thing Happened on the Way to Davokar
My local friend group got back together to play in person. We decided on Symbaroum, which I know some folks have bounced (hard) off of. Like any hard-headed gamer I of course had to make my own mind up. I am going to talk about my prep and such, but I do not want to…
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Con Season Opens: virtualGROGMEET 2022
I have mentioned before that I like to run convention games and do so several times a year. The last few years have been mostly virtual, though this year I will be running games in person at least twice. However, the season has begun with virtualGROGMEET 2022. I am a fan of and listen to…
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Romancing the End of The World
Stormbringer Tales is an actual play I have been trying to get off the ground for about three years now. It has had its up and downs, but an appreciation for the source material and fondness for the system (especially Chaosium’s 1st edition) has kept me motivated. However, my prep and expectations have changed over…
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Empathy vs. Sanity: A Lamentations Interlude
Over at the OS/R Discord, we have been playing Lamentations of the Flame Princess through a few iterations. And if you look through any of the games at the protagonist characters, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone with any redeeming characteristics. Most have been brave in the face of monstrosity, but there are not…
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No Sword, a Sorcerer, and Competency
Due to some weird circumstances, I ran a 1-shot last night for a group I am an actual player in (as opposed to mostly GMing). It was for three of the players as the others could no make it (hence the 1-shot). The barrier was partially a social one: I do not know one of…
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Searching for Bards in all the wrong Places
This post continues on from the ongoing game described in Shadows, good bards, and a lot of rules and Horses on Squares. Athes and Fenja are in pursuit of Galen, a well-known bard who may be in possession of a cup, chalice, or cauldron belonging to the town of Ryeton. In the previous session they…
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D&D 3.5: Shadows, Good Bards, and A Lot of Rules
Players: Helma and Tommi DM: Sean (me) After some play of older versions of D&D, specifically a AD&D2e inspired OS/R game (For Gold & Glory), there was some interest and talk about a) play more D&D and b) doing so for longer. I chose 3.5 because it gets lost in Pathfinder talk, which is fair,…
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Blue Underworld: The Lost City Sessions 3,4, and 5 (finale).
We finished up the 5 session run with Blueholme and The Lost City (B4) last night. Here are the links to the three sessions (thanks Robbie): Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 This post has the links to sessions 1 & 2. To recap, the players were myself as the GM, Sam (Roland – Human…
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The Lost City Session 2
The link for session 2 is embedded below, and we played session 3 tonight. Originally we were going to play 4 sessions total but we may go to 5, depending on how things go with the next session. Here is the thread for session 1, which also has observations from a one-shot that was played…