Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Character creation
This section concerns character creation as it relates to playing a game, not in isolation. General topics are welcome as well as specific instances.
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Magical 70s
Wizard was the first scheduled game at the Happening, intended as a kind of flexer and also to establish direct contact for others with something that influenced me immensely and which I reference often. I brought several scans of the booklet, including several detached spell lists, and I confess I hoped to see many people…
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Gamma World at the Happening
I went to the Happening and ran two sessions of Gamma World 7th Edition, which is the version that uses the D&D 4th Edition rules. This gave me an opportunity to apocalyptically destroy bits of Norrköping again (see the old Gamma World actual play for more of this). I had supposed I could reuse some…
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The Mavericks: Meet the Heroes
Those of us playing this game are chomping at the bit to play again, but summer schedules have gotten in the way of even our regular Saturday games. I guess that gives me a chance to catch up on posting videos about the first session. I made a number of mistakes in this one. Most…
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Super good
Before anything else, permit me to clarify the photograph. Yes, that is the actual tram here in Norrköping, where our game is set. The Kungsgatan traffic circle it runs through, the site of the action in our session, is a short distance behind the tram in the photo; it is pretty big and notably empty…
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Fights and delight
These would be Doyle (Fused Teacher/Gunkata, “disgraceful street poet”), Leonie (Focused Wardancer, “lithe lioness”), and Hans Horthy (Focused Cavalry, “getaway driver”), as I, Helma, and Hampus played them in Panic at the Dojo. Milo introduced us to the game and tried his hand at GMing for the first time. It’s a super fighty battle-map game,…
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You had one job!
It begins at another post, Finding a game in there, which muses upon “fire-axing” Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, first version, published 1977-1979. Briefly: using the rules as best as possible or practical, but for a subset of the content, disallowing various classes or concepts from the start. I’ve already registered a session at Lincon, in…
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Champions Now Debrief: “Fear Death . . . Fear a Frog!”
Here’s a video debrief I did with Alan and Jon about our year-long Champions Now game, featuring middle-aged heroes in Burlington, Vermont (and a few road trips to New York along the way). Tons to discuss about situations, who can Presence attack whom, crazy mystical powers, and the simple joys of jumping around and kicking…
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D&D and its derivates – two games in one
No matter how hard I try, I keep coming back to Pathfinder 2e. Before I discovered the virtues of that game, the first edition had my interests captured for years and years. To some degree, it is unsurprising – I played D&D 3.5 before I really knew of any other systems. However, poring over feats,…
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Night Streets 2
Back in July, I played a “movie” of Extreme Vengeance with Denica and Nathan, in three sessions. This game is from 1997, with a discussable publishing history, and I later met and talked with its author, Tony Lee. As with a couple of similar games from around this time, the concept is that you play…