Adept Play
Roleplaying emerged from a historical meeting-point among wargaming, literary enthusiasts, and counterculture in the 1970s, and it has interacted strangely with pop culture and commerce.
This topic popped up on the Discord and Ross suggested someone who is not anglo-monolingual post about it. Here I am, I’m bilingual in English and Italian. @Ron: If I’m too vague with framing the discussion here, feel free to steer it in the direction you feel is useful. I consider myself bilingual in Italian…
Recorded on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 This is an in-depth look at the Adept Play website and at Adept Press. This lengthy interview opens with an overview of the site and its features, then moves into specific examples of how those features are put to use: Welcome – Actual Play – Seminar – Consulting The interview…
This conversation runs parallel to the recent post-play conversation among the participants of my Lamentations of the Flame Princess game. Jon wanted to discuss similar things in terms of his own decisions about titles to play, so we took some time for that. For orientation, here’s my position: that the cultural presence of “D&D” in…
This really could have gone into Seminar instead. I edited it as an epilogue to our Lamentations/Ottoman playtest and included it in that YouTube playlist, and it does fit and make most sense that way, but as an idea, it’s probably going to generate Seminar-style discussion. Maybe not the most serene discussion. I can’t think…
In November 2018, I presented some thoughts on the integrated history of American comics and the early superhero role-playing games. Briefly: The period from 1968 through the very late 1970s was marked by unusual ownership, editorial, and creative circumstances. This period’s comics provided the foundation for the development of early superhero RPGs like Villains &…
It turned out to be a week for interviews. At long last, I may be conducting this “presence on social media” thing correctly, because people I don’t know, working from venues I haven’t encountered, have been getting in touch. The interviewer in this case is Nick Kozos, who is armed with a considerable list of…
Follow-up to this post, June 30, 2020 I am fully OK with politics as a topic and as a context for other topics, right out here, in front of everyone. Today it matters for this post. First, the details include that Edward James Bluddworth contacted me for an interview, as anyone can do, as invited…
Here’s the follow-up to Conversation: Introducing role-playing, in which Ken Oswald presents an intensive and interactive summary of the hobby as activity. It’s hefty, at just under three hours, but full of titles (not summarized here in tags yet) and open doors for further discussion. I’d like to see some comments going through those doors!…