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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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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Friday Night Firefight
Friday Night Firefight David, Christoffer & me are playing Cyberpunk, first edition. When sharing our « inspiration list », David, Christoffer and me has always a very similar list. If there’s a jungian inspiration ocean, we’re surfing on the same wave. Also we enjoy playing together, although it didn’t happen much. I played my most functional and…
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Laser focus
I have always found it fun and useful to have The Fantasy Trip: Melee open on the table with its sister game Wizard nearby. Lately, I’ve done so at several public events, including Spelens Hus, a mall games demonstration, and the city library, as well as a couple of fill-in play sessions when the whole…
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Egalitarian Design
It has recently occured to me that my game, In the Realm of the Nibelungs, is rather egalitarian, at least compared to other RPGs my group has played. I specifically introduced #4 to prevent discussions of tactics that (a) could get quite long and (b) were largely dominated by two players in the prior campaign.…
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Holmes & The Golden Medusa of Sorrow
So I played Holmes yesterday evening. I created pregens with evocative stuffs (an elf who is an “exiled noble from the cursed forest”, a thief ratfolk from the “guild of the forgotten secrets”), and I don’t like dwarves and halfings so I used the same rules for, respectively, Snake-peoples and ratfolks. I was feeling creative…
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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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Some boring combat
The following is a recollection of a fight from a session about a year ago, which I count as one of my worst gaming experiences. Not long after this I ended my tenure as referee in this ongoing game. It was particularly disappointing as I had had many of my best experiences in that same…
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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…
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Adjustments Mid-Stride
The Rolemaster game I am running with Rod and Robbie continues, and John has joined us as well. I feel like the point of this post is worth a new post instead of continuing the old one, but you can view that right here. About a month, maybe longer, ago Rod had asked if we…