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Adept Play
Category: Actual Play
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Minimalistic rules that work for me
Hi (be kind with my use of words, I’m not a native speaker)I played a game session online with a friend. The material setup was a Miro board and a vocal in a Discord server. Being just two, it was easy to adjust the game to our tastes, that we knew well, and the rules…
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Untitled vampire game
I generally play D&D (O or A 1e, if you’re curious), mostly focusing on creating and overcoming challenges for myself and other players. But after spending a few weeks watching lots of vampire movies, I thought I might play a game that would help me explore characters, situations, and emotions common to the genre. I…
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Arconissa kiskoja ja heikko Cairn
Tapahtumaraportti englanniksi: https://ropeblogi.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/arcon-23/ Arcon on Norjan suurin roolipelitapahtuma, mutta se on silti aika pieni. Raporttia kaikista pelatuista peleistä voi katsella tuolta blogini puolelta. Nostan esille pari asiaa tässä. Muistakin voi jutella, blogissani tai tässä. Tsuku tsuku lähdetään (Otsikko on viittaus tähän lastenlauluun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjp2e7hPhA .) Draker og demoner (Lohikäärmeitä ja paholaisia) on Fria ligan -kustantamon pelin…
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Yonder out yonder
This is Traveller, in one of its early-early publications: 1981, Game Design Workshop, which as far as I can tell is about the same as the original 1977 publication. A quick point: this isn’t anything like Traveller as stamped iconically into gaming culture. There is no setting, no Imperium, no canonical starmaps, no campaign-planning, nothing…
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Blades in the dark
IN SHORT… I have a complex relationship to BitD. It’s the game that made me “rediscover” RPGs after a long hiatus, in a long 20-session campaign that I ran as a GM without having ever played the game as a player… Along the way, I can say that I didn’t always run it as intended,…
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In nomine satanis / magna veritas
IN SHORT… INS / MV was a bit of an iconic game for me. I “missed” it in the 90s when I started playing and was largely consumed by other games. I recently discovered that a 5th edition, with a lighter setting and ruleset than prior editions, had been published in 2015. I decided to…
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Where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
A lot of things came together last month in a fortuitous way. One of them concerns a social gathering for the local and state branch of the Miljöpartiet (Swedish Green Party; link includes language options), right where I play at Spelens Hus. It wasn’t a promotional event; in fact, it’s useful to understand that a…
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The Gift
This post is a follow-up to the one I made in March titled “On My Way to Champions Now,” where I shared the two statements I’m using to set up a Champions Now game set in 1930s NYC. Those statements are: Following the game’s rules, I turned the statements over to my players along with a 3-Corners…
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When “dark” was excellent
Here’s the Darkurthe Legends session from Lincon! Featuring several rather willing & able players, whom I hope to meet with again because they embraced many setting and characterization features, including asking questions, and they were genuinely interested in the formal but savage combat rules. There is one tragedy, which is that the final events of…