Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Fantasy Heartbreakers
A particular configuration of game design including doomed economics, self-referential fantasy content, and enthusiasm, first appearing in the late 1980s.
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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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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…
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Magic, mutants, rats, guns
Look what I found at Gothcon! It’s a Fantasy Heartbreaker I did not know about. Special credit to the guy naming his imprint basically as himself, and special heartbreak for developing a line of lead miniatures which you can order by mail. It was published in 1992, which puts it right in there with Legendary…
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When “dark” was excellent
Here’s the Darkurthe Legends session from Lincon! Featuring several rather willing & able players, whom I hope to meet with again because they embraced many setting and characterization features, including asking questions, and they were genuinely interested in the formal but savage combat rules. There is one tragedy, which is that the final events of…
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Fifth Cyclin’, Fantasy Trippin’, and Vampirin’
Jon, Sean, and I are about a dozen sessions into Fifth Cycle, and we’re going to continue carrying on with the game. But we’re also reassessing some key aspects of the combat system, and I’ve proposed some changes to oil the wheels and to improve the game in terms of pacing, magic use, and mechanics.…
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Breaking More Fantasy Hearts and Taking Names
Having played Forge: Out of Chaos for over a year, Jon, Sean, and I decided to put the game temporarily on the shelf and take up another fantasy heartbreaker. I’m now running Robert Bartels’ Fifth Cycle, and we had our first session this week. We were mulling over other possible candidates, but this game won…
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Arbitrary Advancement and an example of a GM lost in the murk
Our Forge: Out of Chaos game continues. We decided to wave a magic wand and advance the characters to what seems like a reasonable “next tier” of effectiveness, giving Robbie’s magic-using character Cyir Level 3 with his Magic skill and Sean’s roguish/scoutish Wrosk improvement throughout his repertoire of skills. We made this decision after coming…
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Back to the Temple of Necros
We’ve played a number of sessions of Forge: Out of Chaos since our last update, here, and Robbie has started to record the sessions. The video below is from a few sessions back (we’ve had two since then – those recordings are on the way). Since this video starts with the PCs and their allies…
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The Café at Wine Falls
I recently got involved in a campaign of Legendary Lives with Scott (GM) Helma, Arak and DragonSnacks. It’s such an inspiring game to create a character you’ll get very excited about with a lot of random tables. So we created our characters by ourselves and came up with pretty cools stories and when we weren’t…