Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Medium of play
Table-top role-playing occurs in a distinctive state of listening among the participants. In terms of fictional construction, the effect is reincorporation, and within the fiction, the effect to produce uncertainty. These ideas are presented in the course People & Play, the foundation of all the other courses.
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Champions and Dinosaurs – Before D&D
As a change of pace, here’s some proto-roleplaying… Back in 1956, a guy called Tony Bath wrote a pair of articles in the Bulletin of the British Model Soldier Society. Titled “War Game of the Middle Ages and Ancient Times“, they contained the first published set of Ancient/Medieval wargames rules. Developed over time, these rules…
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Trying free form and tabletop role play at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2024
This post is about my experiences at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2024, “A festival for free form role playing games, short larps, and other kinds of shorter participatory storytelling.” This past year I have been wondering how little of a rules system a game could have and still be fun to play for me. What is…
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“Collaborative mode”
What is this? Our group has been playing together for a bit. Some for 100+ games, some for 10+ games. We love Call of Cthulhu, “play to find out what happens” games (Apocalypse World derivatives) and GM-less games (Microscope, Fiasco, Desperation). We don’t love scenario-based adventures only, and we tend to play with the GM…
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Blackbrain Tea
I’m not completely certain, but I think this is in the realm of our activity. Whether it is or is not is a valid topic of discussion for this post. Some way or another, a year or two ago I became aware of the existence of a book called Top 10 Games You Can Play…
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Vampire The Heresy
This is a report of an experience of Vampire The Masquerade played between 2003 and 2006. This was a play by forum game, on a French website (who is now offline), with more or less 30 players and 3 GM. The site functioned as a series of forums, each one used as a “scene”, generally…
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Närcon 2024
As with past years, my particpation at this convention was tied to Spelens Hus, and now also allied with MiFF, the equivalent organization with our local SiN, with a Spelens Hus of their own in Göteborg (Gothenburg). Based on last year, I concentrated on workshops, offering two sessions of “Understanding Role-playing” and one of “No,…
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Swapping all the Places
Recently, my partner and I finished out the ongoing game-that’s-hard-to-describe we’ve been playing, which they call “Harmony Campaign”, set in Glorantha. It lasted about two and a half years, with a long gap near the end where active play was rare. In that time, a number of changes in both our lives occurred, directly correlated…
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Dungeons & Dragons 5e-ish
1 DM, 5 players. Online (Discord, YouTube). This group consists of audiobook narrators. It was originally an outreach for our new professional organization, PANA (the Professional Audiobook Narrators’ Association) so character voices are very much in style for this game. The premise is that fantasy characters have been magically transported into a particular genre of…
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The Yellow King Role-playing Game
3 players and 1 GM. In this game, we are playing three different sets of characters in four different timelines. Originally, we were only going to play this game during COVID, but it’s just so darned interesting we’ve been continuing to do mystery after mystery…probably until all the groups of characters die or go mad. …