Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Events
Adept Play activities, courses, workshops, and conventions.
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Gaming, future, role-playing
I was invited to attend Conpulsion, a long-standing and proudly non-commercialized convention in Edinburgh. This year, the convention theme was “The Future of Gaming,” which led me to ask the organizers to reconsider whether I would be a good guest. I told them: I don’t think the activity celebrated by Adept Play, whatever you want…
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Irresponsibility and integrity
I’d like to celebrate the virtues of my game Fantasy for Real, especially the phrase I hit upon at some point in its latter-day development, “irresponsible adventure,” and what that means. I’ve been playing the hell out of it during April through various events I’ve attended. The brief history is that I worked on two…
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Running Fallout at a Con
So I ran some demo games for a company at a recent convention, the Fallout RPG and Star Trek Adventures, and I’ve been thinking over the experience. The challenge I had was the games were supposed to be only one-hour-long introductions, and the sample adventures provided were all uniformly railroads. My problem with having a…
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4e Dark Sun at Airecon
I tried running 4e as a one shot again, this time in person at a local convention. I should really know better. Previously I ran an online one-shot with mixed results. But I feel I learnt some things, and have some thoughts about what I might do differently if only try running 4e d&d at…
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A day at the library
One quick point first: almost any available picture of the main library in town frames it to make it as angular and bleak-looking as possible. Yes, it is angular, but it also includes nice trees and a busy street and plaza, so don’t get the idea that it sits in silence except for a nearby…
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“Three men lived Legendary Lives for a few exhilarating hours”
More play from the Happening which I should have written about ages ago, where I ran Legendary Lives (as the quote from one of the players in the title suggests). More specifically I kept forcing people to roll up Legendary Lives characters until there were enough of them in one place and enthused enough to…
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Seven Year itch and scratch
That’s a terrible post title. Someone should have stopped me. Anyway, we are in fact seven years exactly into Adept Play, dated from its initial registration as a Swedish business. A tiny one to be sure, but at least as viable as a lemonade stand. What good has it done? What has been accomplished? What…
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Trying free form and tabletop role play at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2024
This post is about my experiences at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2024, “A festival for free form role playing games, short larps, and other kinds of shorter participatory storytelling.” This past year I have been wondering how little of a rules system a game could have and still be fun to play for me. What is…
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A light in the past
As scheduled and promoted, I played Amerika at the Happening, with Claudio, David, Laura, and Hans. If you donated to help the event, then you have the brief manuscript we used to play, set in this region of northern California. It’s far north of my hometown, but I have considerable experience there in two pulses,…