Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Combat rules
These posts examine the variety of procedures and the variety of meaning or story-operations for violent confrontations.
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Horror in the cold
I prepared some introductory play material for The Mountain Witch for some recent public activities. When our Spelens Hus EABA game ran into on-and-off scheduling, some of the guys indicated they’d like to play it, so we prepared and played for a session. Now that EABA is concluded, we’re continuing with everyone. I decided long…
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The heroes we know
This game was a reboot of the Villains & Vigilantes started early in the year. Johan’s schedule was too irregular for him to continue, unfortunately, as I miss Doctor Fungus. Although Filip and Helma used the same character designs and names, it’s a full reboot/beginning, and Theo joined us with his character, the Neutron. We…
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Dawnford
This has been a tough season for sustained play. For this EABA game, we have managed eight sessions in six months, and it kills me to see my claim in the prior post that we’d managed to recover regular play, which obviously we did not. (Previous posts: Apoc western, Radioactive grit) I categorized this post…
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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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Grit and focus
At the Happening, I was determined to play a little bit of Harnmaster and Dangerous Journeys, both of which I’ve been poking at for many years. David brought Boot Hill too, and as it happened, the three make a nice set for discussion. Also, we were intrigued enough to play a second session of Harnmaster,…
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Mavericks: Issue # 1
Earlier posts discussed the game’s two statements and character creation. Here’s the play report for Issue #1. I made a pretty big error related to Resin’s Alter Ego Situation, which is annoying. I also made a call that I’m not sure about regarding Pooka trying to save a protester. Otherwise, I think this went really…
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It always goes to the arena
The conventions and events of the summer have interfered with my tidy editing and posting habits, but we have indeed continued playing Dark Sun with The Pool, as first discussed in Dark + Sun + Pool. I’m finally getting around to presenting the recordings here. This link goes straight into session 2 in the same…
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Old School Essentials – Planescape
I have been playing Old School Essentials for about a year with four people I know from the punk scene in my city. There is one experienced role-player in the group. The others had some familiarity with D&D fantasy based on video games and pop culture. Our first play experience was a dungeon crawl using…
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Smelly scuffle
We are continuing to play Proteus, as first described in Magic, mutants, rats, guns. As you may recall, after the flashback session, we are back in the present as Ramzi the newly-arrived Stygian, Rhena the Rhat, and Siobhan the mutant escort/eros-priestling are battling stinking dead dogs apparently determined to kill Master Gah, Rhena’s mentor in…