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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Death and blasphemy in ancient Hellás
A few months ago, I asked participants at the Patreon to focus some play-time toward Cold Soldier, preferably played in person. I’d hoped to see more posting about it here as well. I think I may still see that hope fulfilled, because I know there was a lot of play. In fact, Noah asked me […]
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Punching Cosmic Nazis or Do you Know The Way To Danzig?
About a year ago a friend of a friend began running a Champions 6th edition game unofficially called Stemming the Tide. The game is set in the months before WWII breaks out and began in San Francisco. Currently we are on a capture German Type 7 Uboat in the Baltic, having escaped Danzig with some […]
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Next Hunt, new perspectives
Adriano is remarkably good at locations and sensory impressions of play. If someone had said to me, “Sengoku Japan! Samurai and guns! With robots!” I would have groaned and likely found something else to do. But this is not that. The day our characters spent working as corpse-handlers, socializing and philosophizing, is high on my […]
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Say No to something, anyway
This post continues from Our first Hunt, which despite its name includes two Hunts, featuring my character Hazard, Noah’s Lilith o’Bedlam, and Alessio’s Grey Witch. We really wanted more Stalkers, that is, more players, so our latest session, and new Hunt, adds the Mask, played by Pedro. Unfortunately Alessio has to leave us in a […]
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The Pool San Diego
We’re playing The Pool, with me, Hans, and Christoffer. The setting I’ve offered comes from my presentation materials at Kulturnatten a couple of months ago, using Dust Devils at the time. I was born in San Diego, and although our family soon moved to the Monterey Peninsula, I’ve sought to understand the history of that […]
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Our first Hunt
Back to the Vault! In this case, as GM’d by Adriano, who is going all-out in terms of locations for our Stalkers’ hunting. I’m not sure what to tell you here except that our characters are also hitting hard right out of the gate – Lilith o’Bedlam (Noah), the Grey Witch (Alessio), and Hazard (me) […]
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The Fine Trousers, final days
The Spelens Hus is nearly finished with our do-it-all game of Dialect, having completed the Third Age and soon to play the Epilogues. We’ve already finished at least one session with some debriefing and opinions about the game, all of which I’ve saved for a closing video by request, and it’s likely that the final […]
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Dialect: Meine ersten Eindrücke
Ein kurzes Vorwort: Dies ist ein Spiel über und mit Sprache, weswegen ich mich freuen würde wenn alle sich ermutigt fühlen Kommentare in ihrer Muttersprache zu verfassen (eine englische Zusammenfassung ist kein Muss, aber sicher hilfreich für andere) Dialect online und mit einer Gruppe mit so unterschiedlicher Herkunft zu spielen bringt einige Herausforderungen mit sich. […]
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A new language is a new life
Dialect is a game that explores how an isolated group develops their own language and how both the group and the language then fade away either by assimilation or extinction. While I don’t really remember how I got to know about the game I do remember what made me want to play it. I love […]