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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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…
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The Sentinels of Justice: Hero Sheets
Hi all! This is the third installment in my series of posts on the Champions Now game that has come to be named The Sentinels of Justice. The first post (Greetings: On My Way to Champions Now) presented the two statements I used to kick off the game, along with some musings. The second post…
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If it ain’t baroque….
The Game About 7 months ago, a group of us (4 players plus myself as GM) started playing a relatively new game called Fallen (Perplexing Ruins). The game is presented as a “baroque and grim” fantasy rpg which takes place in a time period analogous to the 17th century. My attraction to the game was…
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A Game of the Pool, Lovecraft-style
A couple of friends wanted to play the Pool, and picked a Lovecraftian scenario. So I updated my Cthulhu version of the Pool (available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xAJJUfMEksHb8TTC7pRdn_Hlh6fDyCbU/view?usp=drivesdk) and the players made one character each. They wanted a period piece, so we went with 1920s Seattle. The first thing I did in my prep was read about…
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Where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
A lot of things came together last month in a fortuitous way. One of them concerns a social gathering for the local and state branch of the Miljöpartiet (Swedish Green Party; link includes language options), right where I play at Spelens Hus. It wasn’t a promotional event; in fact, it’s useful to understand that a…