Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Events
Adept Play activities, courses, workshops, and conventions.
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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,…
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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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Excess and excitement
At the Happening, I played several games which share some features: characters at extreme risk and at least some are not expected to survive, circumstances which pit them against or with another as players decide, formal shifts in immediate content or theme, a lot of backstory content created during play, and a lot of inspiration…
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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,…