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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Demons 1, significant others 0
It may not appear in every Sorcerer game, but if you have to bet on what’s in one, you won’t go too far wrong with tattoos. In this case, due to the emergent Nordic Noir in our pets + ancient ruins opening statements, it’s tattooed dead people. And apparently, tattooed dead people getting up and…
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Policemen who talk to their pets
First session of Sorcerer! Allowing for a little more time to finalize the characters and one of the demons. As discussed in the previous post, the starting statements are Demons are pets and Ancient ruined cities, and our first meeting resulted in a strong Nordic Noir vibe as well. Pedro is playing Ingmar, a Swedish…
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Textil – Fantasmas asesinos, meaning Murderous Ghosts
Back in April, I sat down with three college friends, Alejo, Cecilia and Edson, to play Vincent Baker’s Murderous Ghosts for the first time. That’s four future librarians hanging out at Alejo’s place, the student housing for people from San Nicolás.  It’s the Spanish edition, Fantasmas asesinos, by Nosolorol. It’s a very prolific Spanish…
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Nordic Noir + Anatolian Antiquity
“Demon pets,” I told them, and “Ancient cities.” After this meeting, we’re starting up with one sorcerer maximizing the first and the other maximizing the second, and with a fine mix of the components in this post’s title. This is Sorcerer, with me, Pedro, and Aybars. There is an almost physical impression of commitment among…
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Emo poetry inside
It’s our fifth session of Monsterhearts! With only two more to finish editing to get current. This game took a hit between playtesting and summer family obligations, so the last session we played was about two months ago. I’d like to get back to it soon, so if you want to help with that, comment…
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Horror fallout
It’s a dark dark game, so I guess that it’s … artistic? for me to have borked the video and arrived an an all-black-void recording. I hope it can be fun listening anyway, but I really regret losing the explicit attention we were paying throughout this session. The player-characters did not interact at all, so…
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Monday Lab: Nutz R Us
It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed…
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Epilogue: down in the dark
There was one thing left to discover: what happened with Karva, priestess of Oome, devotee of Qar, and Jynathon, who is simultaneously the greatest threat to her power and its best immediate shot at restoring it – perhaps re-making it. After all, the first few minutes of our game brought these two characters face to…
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Conversation: le mon mouri
This is an excerpt from my conversation with Ken Oswald, who contacted me regarding a bunch of role-playing topics. He was especially interested in the references he’d run across about Sean Demory’s 2002 game le mon mouri, so here is the bit where we went through its system diagram and talked about its content. This…