Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Magic rules
Regarding magical content of any definition or description in play: what, how, by whom, with what impact, of what relevance, and anything else.
-
Knowledge, Demons and Sacrifice
This game of Stormbringer (1981) writte by Ken St Andre and Steve Perrin. That game was played the 8 September 2025v at the Adept Play Happening in Norrköping. I made 9 pregen characters that the character could pick from. The book suggest to play with “3 to 6 players, probably with two or three characters…
-
Lincon 2025
Gothcon was tough without Helma, and Lincon even more so. Over the past few years, I’ve relied on her entirely for many things: logistic reminders of all sorts, a welcoming presence for people while I’m setting up, opinions and observations which aren’t mine, her own experiences of other things at the convention, and basically understanding…
-
Gothcon 2025
I always enjoy Gothcon, and this time I received some much-needed exercise as the play-area was located a few blocks away from the main convention buildings. I may even have managed to navigate the larger layout of the city via the trams without embarrassing reversals, for the first time in my travels here. As usual…
-
The gods must be evil
We’ve continued with our Harnmaster game throughout the past two months, originally discussed through session 7 at One bad harvest. As of last week, we played the twelfth and final session, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My concepts and preparation for this game do have a fundamental flaw. I never…
-
Irresponsibility and integrity
I’d like to celebrate the virtues of my game Fantasy for Real, especially the phrase I hit upon at some point in its latter-day development, “irresponsible adventure,” and what that means. I’ve been playing the hell out of it during April through various events I’ve attended. The brief history is that I worked on two…
-
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…
-
Chicken counting
Drakar och Demoner (Dragons & Demons), originally published in 1982, serves as a cultural reference point for role-playing in Sweden, and many people encountered it in some form as their first-ever introduction to the activity. I’ve been looking into playing for a while but it’s been slow due to the plethora of versions and variety…
-
Magical 70s
Wizard was the first scheduled game at the Happening, intended as a kind of flexer and also to establish direct contact for others with something that influenced me immensely and which I reference often. I brought several scans of the booklet, including several detached spell lists, and I confess I hoped to see many people…
-
Grit and focus
At the Happening, I was determined to play a little bit of Harnmaster and Dangerous Journeys, both of which I’ve been poking at for many years. David brought Boot Hill too, and as it happened, the three make a nice set for discussion. Also, we were intrigued enough to play a second session of Harnmaster,…