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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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…
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maria in three parts: the prep
intro i ran a UA3 demo at a local rpg meetup. i used the Maria in three parts introductory module. I’d like to share a report of how things went. i have way more to say than i thought i did so i’m splitting it into two parts: the prep and the run. prep goals…
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Demon Sex
I’m six sessions into running a Sorcerer game with an interesting social context. There’s my partner Tracey, her friend from college Dawn, Dawn’s husband Jeff and their (adult) son Storm. We play online because Tracey and I are in Southern California and they’re in Northern California. Context The game is set in the Greater Los…
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Engine Trouble
We played Canyon’s Vampire game, online, me and Canyon. Here are the rules: Victim creationYou think of yourself as a victim. You have admitted this to yourself, at least once. What are you a victim of? Something keeps you going, for now. What? After the victim has made their character, read it out. Then the…
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Arkham City, NY
I’m sharing this actual play experience from 2013 as part of an ongoing discussion of the Gumshoe RPG system and whether it can support real play. I agree that the game text of Trail of Cthulhu, for example, which uses the Gumshoe system, is full of non-play advice to the GM about writing a plot…