Adept Play
“Authorities” is my term for how people say things which are honored by others in play. Using an authority often means including some constraining factor such as a dice roll. Authorities are organized very differently system by system, and often group by group.
The stars aligned and I found myself with willing participants to play Ribbon Drive, by Avery Alder. Here’s the publisher’s page about the game, and the embedded video is my musings from a couple of months ago about wanting to play it, and why. It’s a single-session game intended to go three to five hours,…
Ron Edwards
There are a lot of great games happening among participants at Adept Play right now. I’m especially happy about specific observations: people who are playing games they’d never heard of or conceived they’d ever play; people playing with others they’ve met through this site and associated internet things like the Discord channel; people who’ve played…
I initially composed this as yet another reflection upon the game of Undiscovered that I’m playing with Sam, Helma, and Lorenzo, but decided it was more generally relevant to bring into Seminar as its own thing. As a prelude, I’d like to repeat something I recently mentioned at the Patreon. It’s the marked contrast I’ve…
The learning process is a whole phenomenon of its own to watch, which is why I left in most of the considered silences so you can get an idea of the processing, especially since it typically resulted in inspiration. In the first turn, you can see them tune in and turn on, if you…
Ok, so I had the pleasure of introducing my 13 year old niece and her stepsister to rpgs this Christmas, and wanted to describe what I did, with an eye to better understanding things like intuitive continuity and also how to do things like this better in the future. So after some lightsaber practice (Mia,…
Ron Edwards
Here’s another reflection on a game session at Lincon, this one being Drakar och Banan (Dragons and Banana). I confess I don’t know who wrote it or how you can get it, so anyone who does, please provide the info. My fellow culprits are pictured in order: Lowe, Mikel, Viktor, and Kim; respectively, Zten, Groo,…
It was a surprise to see The Questing Beast there at IndieCON, in Italian, as well as that anyone would hold it up and say, “Let’s play this” when we were surrounded by so many other acclaimed or recent titles, and that the anyone happened not to be me. Here’s my take on the session…
Here’s another discussion of Quella Volta Che, aimed at the nuts and bolts of “what happens” in play, due to player choices and statements. We couldn’t have done this without the previous session which focused so intently on content. Part 1 addresses character creation steps, a topic I’d love to get into more thoroughly in…
Game Chef – boon or curse? I’ve been wondering since its very first days as a one-off “hey why not” by Mike Holmes at the Forge. So far, in official consulting, when someone shows up with “this was in last year’s Game Chef,” or even more so, “won last year’s Game Chef,” my count is…