Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: Sean_RDP
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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…
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Before the Campfire
I had an interesting experience this weekend at the scout campout I went on with my child. Some of us who arrived early were sitting and waiting for others. One of the other adults suggested a story seed game, where one person starts a story and others add onto it. There were few rules to…
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Not lying to you about your chances in The Lost City
A group of folks decided to look at some OS/R games to see how they play and how the term OS/R may or may not affect the game design itself. There are a ton of games to choose from, but several of us mentioned Blueholme and I volunteered to run it. We have four players,…
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Death Knights, Elven Barrows & Zero Authority Jealousy
The (mostly) same crew who were playing Carbon 2185 were interested in Forbidden Lands. So we have moved onto that, which is great because I enjoy playing this game. For those not familiar, it is a grim Fantasy setting that uses a modified form of the Year Zero Engine for sword & sorcery style play.…