Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: New players
Role-playing exhibits strange relations among subcultures and general society. People are introduced to play in many ways and presented with many claims, factual or not. Posts here present instances to arrive at some larger understanding of what we do and how people learn.
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Portland to Granada and Back
My friend Joe has never played an RPG in his life, though he did participate in E-Fed Wrestling? That aside I thought the best game to use might be Cold Soldier for a number of reasons. It would be my first time playing Cold Soldier. Although I have read it over several times, this would…
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Avant-Garde Retrogame
Back in early 1980s, when I was in high school, I was the Dungeon Master for a campaign of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with my friends. That is of course when the bug bit me; been chasing that dragon ever since. Last summer, I tried to run AD&D again, but of course even before I…
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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…
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A day at the library
One quick point first: almost any available picture of the main library in town frames it to make it as angular and bleak-looking as possible. Yes, it is angular, but it also includes nice trees and a busy street and plaza, so don’t get the idea that it sits in silence except for a nearby…
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Fantasy Role-Playing in 1998 Germany
The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge) isn’t the oldest German RPG, but by far the commercially most successful and most widely played one that had dominated the market for decades. Covering the entire publication history and design development here would be far out of scope, but I still need to establish some context for those…
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The Great Claim
(said somewhat defensively) I have never seen an episode of Dallas and, back then, I managed to avoid most information that seeped around as cultural references. You might have heard that it was a terrible flop, implied to be poor design, and the financial disaster that led to the publisher’s demise. However, the actual business history…
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Seven Year itch and scratch
That’s a terrible post title. Someone should have stopped me. Anyway, we are in fact seven years exactly into Adept Play, dated from its initial registration as a Swedish business. A tiny one to be sure, but at least as viable as a lemonade stand. What good has it done? What has been accomplished? What…
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maria in three parts: the run
intro this is a continuation of the Unknown Armies 3e session report i started a couple of weeks ago. i covered session prep in that first post. i’ll focus on the game session on this one. you don’t have to read the first post to understand this one. game day I ran Maria in Three…
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Setting it out there
Meet Cosmarina the Space Girl, Brutalina the Barbarian Girl, and Stacey X the Alien Girl, whom I brought as these pictures and character sheets to a public-meet-the-gamers event here in town, at a center for filmmaking and viewing called Cnema. Here is what I do. First, I set out the Space Rat play-materials in an…