Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Historical settings
When play includes past real-world content, with or without fantastic additions, in a way which highlights specific features, especially as instrumental to events in play.
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The Great Claim
(said somewhat defensively) I have never seen an episode of Dallas and, back then, I managed to avoid most information that seeped around as cultural references. You might have heard that it was a terrible flop, implied to be poor design, and the financial disaster that led to the publisher’s demise. However, the actual business history…
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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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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,…
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Alone In The Dead House
I recently acquired Desperation which is two games in one by Jason Morningstar. Both games work the same way; they just differ in subject matter. Both games are about groups of people desperately trying to survive a horrible situation. The two different situations are represented by a unique deck of cards. There’s a setup phase…
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Fracking, Penn$ylvania: An Amerika Scenario
I played Amerika (Story Now in the Radical U.S.A.) in a seminar class about environmental communication. The answer to fracking appeared to these students to be money and lawyers.
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Sentinels of Justice: “Prometheus Unhinged”
Here is the session 3 play report for our Sentinels of Justice Champions Now game. This session surprised me in various ways: both in terms of the heroes’ actions and the emotional effect that the emerging story had on me.
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Rethinking some of my habits
Rod, Sean, and I have been playing Bushido for a little bit now: I think we’re at five sessions, each about 2-hours in length. I’m GMing, though a notable feature of our game is that a lot of “typical GM duties” have been shared out. For one, Rod suggested the historical/geographical background material that informed…
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Sentinels of Justice: “The Wages of Justice”
Hello folks! Here is the session 2 play report for our Sentinels of Justice Champions Now game. There was no combat this session, so far less system involved, but many repercussions from the previous session and new elements pulled in from the hero sheets.
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The Sentinels of Justice: Drafting The Now
Hello folks, This is the next in my series detailing the steps involved in launching a Champions Now game. This one is dedicated to drafting The Now that will serve as the basis for our first session. I hope the description of my process is of use to somebody. Next time – the play report…