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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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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Fifth Cycle GM Report: 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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Forge: Out of Chaos – 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 (more Forge: Out of Chaos)
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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Forge out of Chaos: Everyone is Lying
Jon, Robbie, and I are three sessions into Forge out of Chaos. Jon is the game master; Robbie is playing a Merikkii (humanoid bird), and I chose to play a Jher-em, which are weasel humanoids. This situation Jon has come up with for us to engage with is some fantastic sword & sorcery fare. I […]
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In it to the end
This post follows Desert duster fantasy and For a couple of fistfuls of pure sand. The embedded link goes to session 12 inside the playlist. Concept 1 We’re really into “this is the end” and, understandably, “how,” but also, significantly, what this ending even is. Here’s what I mean. I’m really, really not going to […]
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Preparing for the Fray / Forge: Out of Chaos
At Jon’s prompting, a group of us are preparing to take on Forge: Out of Chaos. This will be my third experience with a Fantasy Heartbreaker—Legendary Lives and Darkurthe Legends are the others that I’ve played, and you can find some materials on those games elsewhere on Adept Play. I’ve created my character for the […]
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For a couple of fistfuls of pure sand
Our two dusters and draver arrive near and along the Great River during their travels. The questions of why they’re here and what they want, individually, have just become pointier. This post continues from Desert duster fantasy with session 8 in the embedded video, which is also hooked into the entire YouTube playlist. For immediate […]
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Legendary Lives: Drowning Can Be Fun and Other Observations
Our Legendary Lives game continues: we're up to 12 sessions. Session 8 turned out to be the climax of the first arc of the story. To recap the events leading up to it: the Bowmen of Balgravia had managed to set fire to a number of buildings in the city, in an attempt to draw […]