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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Young heroes, aged players this time
There’s a little story behind this one, in that I’d prepared for a session of that weird RuneQuest setting I keep working on at Gothcon. The planners noted some interest had arisen, including the Glorantha Etcetera panel, and suggested I do another session later that day (Saturday). I said yes, and then discovered that meant…
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There’s an RPG about vampires
Whew! Convention pile-up has me sucking wind on getting posts finished. This one’s about playing Svart av Kval, Vit av Lust, by Simon Pettersson. He’s a one-man Forge here in Sweden, and now that I think of it, reminds me of my good pal Jared Sorensen. When I visited Indierummet at Gothcon, I noticed several…
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Grim teenfic RQ at Gothcon, 10 AM
My goal at Gothcon was to be, basically, not weird. I didn’t want to show up as representative of some sector of hobby identity, but as fellow role-player. I’ve been playing a lot of Sorcerer lately and felt like resting it a bit. I knew that the founding Swedish RPG was originally a RuneQuest hack…
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Sorcerer: Deep ΑΠΝΟΙΑ
Although we haven’t sat down together for our first session, with the work and excitement of preparations I already feel as though we are “playing” and so I’m starting an actual play thread. I hope this doesn’t curse our actual plans to commence. I have 3 players committed to meeting me on April 4th to…
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The perfect is the enemy of, well, everything
The concluding sessions for Sorcerer Marseille! I love it when the rolled outcomes make NPCs go batshit. At one point you get to see me act out the same stare that Cage is thoughtfully providing for you in the accompanying image. Session 4 finally brings the slow burn of the previous sessions’ mere weirdness into…
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Inhuman perfection
Catching up on my Sorcerer posting! Laura, Grégory, and I get into weird spaces in this one, partly because of the location in our fiction, the mutable or at least shiftable interior of a demonic church, but also because I played demons with remarkably awful/abstract outlooks. To review, the phrases for this game are Shadows…
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Shadows and beauty in Marseille
We’ve been playing Sorcerer for two months! Five meetings and four sessions of play so far, and ongoing. This is with Laura and Grégory, both located in France, and thus set in Marseille. I was nonplussed to discover that neither had ever set a game they’d played in their own country. I went a little…
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Tea and sympathy, or failing that, monstrous retaliation
Contrary to a lot of play culture right now, I’m not too invested in single-session, highly staged play. I don’t mind the technique itself and have myself written some games along those lines, especially It Was a Mutual Decision, but there are so many of these at present, I find myself attracted mainly to “hey,…
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Who’s a good dog
I’d provide the two character-sheet diagrams I examined while preparing for play, but they are both the same: about 80% of the items on each one was now slammed into the center, including new ones that had been acquired from each other’s sheet. In other words, both sorcerers (Ahmet and Ingmar), their demons (Solomon and…