Adept Play
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.
At Odin’s request, we’re playing Vampire: the Requiem, 2nd edition, which I have agreed to learn enough to GM and for which he is the go-to for rules details during play. We’ve been at it for three sessions of varying length; the embedded video playlist is current through session 2 and I’m just exporting the…
So in this post I mentioned the fifth episode of Hantverksklubben, our ongoing GM-less freeform experimental group. Ron said he thought of breaking it out into a separate post, and I said I might as well make a new post about that session, since we didn’t have a Hantverk session this weekend. This session is…
In addition to my long running D&D game I am also running a Burning Wheel game. The game is heavily influenced by the Netflix animated series Castlevania. I have absolutely no love or even knowledge of the video game series the show is based on and had been largely ignoring it. When I decided to…
I am playing Annalise by Nathan Paoletta for the first time. I’ve only just begun to engage with the system, since I’m only a couple of scenes into play. That being said, I am looking forward to get back into it. I am playing by myself (solo). I consider myself experienced at it, though I’ve…
Bleed as a term has arisen in and around the safety-techniques discussion of the past decade; I’m not sure who coined it or in what context. It concerns strong and possibly aversive or uncontrollable emotions that well up during play. If I’m not mistaken, at least sometimes it’s identified as undesirable or unsafe. Edoardo Cremaschi,…
As I burn my midnight oil and avoid the elephant in the room in the United States, an idea for the game/setting/whatever I'm putting together came to my mind. A (sort of) custom character sheet. This sheet is born out of wanting to sort of smash together Circle of Hands with D&D 5th edition for this…
Tonight was session 0 of our first ever game of Paul Czege’s My Life With Master. First we developed the Master who remains as yet unnamed (but not untitled – he is ‘the Dramaturge’). He is a monstrous playwright who thinks himself a master of the art, but who is actually a venal physical beast unable…
It’s a good thing I reviewed my drives, because I found this game session played in March. I think it was the last time I went to Spelens Hus physically before shifting to screen play. Cold Soldier is an important game in terms of processes and learning. It has a way of breaking open one’s…
Nate and I met for our second and final session for The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, each of us pretty motivated for the respective “side,” in the curious fashion associated with the better examples of this genre. We began by discussing three important things. 1. New finishing conditions review. I went through the rules…