Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Horror
A very broad topic with many subsets or nuances including terror, monsters, crime, psychology, or surrealism, and with different compositions of fictional and participant experience.
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Oasis of the Blue Magus
For Common Hour D&D yesterday, I ran an hour’s worth of a game called Wolves at the Lake, in a scenario I called “The Oasis of the Blue Magus.” I had fun with it! The system is sparse but elegantly so, and the players (three students, two professors, all male) dove right in. We’d agreed…
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Portland to Granada and Back
My friend Joe has never played an RPG in his life, though he did participate in E-Fed Wrestling? That aside I thought the best game to use might be Cold Soldier for a number of reasons. It would be my first time playing Cold Soldier. Although I have read it over several times, this would…
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First Circle of Hands session in a new group
About a year ago I was introduced to Circle of Hands at Lincon, and I wanted to explore this game more. I tried running it at Arcon in Oslo last June, I set up the same con-scenario for some colleagues and during the autumn my regular group switched from Stonetop to Circle of Hands. My…
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Eaten Taboos
We played a game of Zombie Cinema. It was at home, 4 players including me, my wife, a very old friend with whom I played RPG for 20 years, and another good friend “roleplayer” veteran, whatever it means. I found that it is an excellent game and that I want to play more. It reads…
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Three Rounds of Abnormal
A few years ago I played a few games of Avery Alder’s Abnormal. The game come up in another context and I was surprised to discover my post about it was only in a comment on the Patreon. So, I decided to repost it here. So, I played three full games of Abnormal. The first…
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Sorcery is hard!
After my first “Sorcerer” campaign last year I fall in love with the game and run a short 3-session mini campaign between February and March. I must say I learned a lot during this second campaign but we had two sessions zero and only three sessions due to lack of enthusiasm to continue using the…
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Horror in the cold
I prepared some introductory play material for The Mountain Witch for some recent public activities. When our Spelens Hus EABA game ran into on-and-off scheduling, some of the guys indicated they’d like to play it, so we prepared and played for a session. Now that EABA is concluded, we’re continuing with everyone. I decided long…
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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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Historical technique
I’d like to start some group effort toward institutional memory of the historical role-playing activity. Here’s the D&D diagram I’ve been using for years, which I absolutely insist must be used rigorously by anyone who wants to use those syllables in a conversation. It helps to keep the title from bearing every imaginable generalization, along…