Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: OSR
A hobby term beginning with “old school” and variable meanings for R. It has little or no useful definition, but the associated games and play provide many topics for discussion.
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The Lost City Session 2
The link for session 2 is embedded below, and we played session 3 tonight. Originally we were going to play 4 sessions total but we may go to 5, depending on how things go with the next session. Here is the thread for session 1, which also has observations from a one-shot that was played…
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Blueholme: Not lying to you about your chances in The Lost City
A group of folks decided to look at some OS/R games to see how they play and how the term OS/R may or may not affect the game design itself. There are a ton of games to choose from, but several of us mentioned Blueholme and I volunteered to run it. We have four players,…
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Ultraviolet Grasslands: allucinazioni narcotiche di uno studente fuoricorso
This post is in Italian. You can find a text file with a translation as an attachment. Ho avuto una prima sessione abbastanza figa e interessante di un gioco chiamato Ultraviolet Grasslands. Da quello che ho capito, fa parte del filone di giochi “old-school” che correntemente sta avendo un certo boom. Tralasciando i commenti negativi…
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Three characters in Greyhawk
Ranrance was a Praedor character I played once when I had moved abroad and had no gaming group yet. A short-grown river bandit, whose main feature was owning a river ship. Why not convert them to the highly customized BECMI rules variant in use here, since I would otherwise never play him? So I did.…
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Terrible mushrooms and loose rules
This is how I ran these games: http://adeptplay.com/actual-play/some-osr-sandbox-play (in English) I am going to tell about two linked one-shots; the first was open table, essentially gaming on demand, at a con and I am describing the last of the sessions, while the second session was an online oneshot. The system in use is as described…
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Flames and death in Saltmarsh
The way in which we are playing the game: http://adeptplay.com/actual-play/some-osr-sandbox-play . Context: Player characters were chasing some bandits, but lost track of them close to the town of Saltmarsh (from a TSR adventure, U1 The sinister secret of Saltmarsh) and the fort of Morgansfort (from a Basic fantasy adventure of the same name at https://www.basicfantasy.org/downloads.html…
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Some OSR sandbox play
This post is an oblique response to http://adeptplay.com/actual-play/dd-habits-and-culture and http://adeptplay.com/seminar-hearts-minds/conversation-dd-play-culture . I am not writing to give a definition of OSR, but rather describe my experiences over a number of years and how I play in and run games that are often classified as OSR, but also various other editions of D&D. I am talking…
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D&D as habits and culture
This really could have gone into Seminar instead. I edited it as an epilogue to our Lamentations/Ottoman playtest and included it in that YouTube playlist, and it does fit and make most sense that way, but as an idea, it’s probably going to generate Seminar-style discussion. Maybe not the most serene discussion. I can’t think…
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The House of Wisdom
I’ve been working on this project for Lamentations of the Flame Princess for some time, and it’s finally jumped to the front of my working goals. Briefly, it shifts the location of the game to the Ottoman Empire, during the same canonical year, 1630. Our scenario concerns the ruins of the House of Wisdom, a…