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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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…
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The Gift
This post is a follow-up to the one I made in March titled “On My Way to Champions Now,” where I shared the two statements I’m using to set up a Champions Now game set in 1930s NYC. Those statements are: Following the game’s rules, I turned the statements over to my players along with a 3-Corners…
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The Erasmus Project experience 2023
I did not title this post “When in Rome.” Please credit this on my karmic record. Near the end of 2022, I received an invitation from Marco Mengoli to visit and teach at the Instituto di Itruzione Superiore “Roselli,” in Aprilia, a suburb of Rome. Several faculty at this school including Marco study and teach…
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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…