Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Politics
These posts include any socio-political content, regardless of how fantastically or realistically presented, however direct or indirect, which factors directly into the events and experiences of play. Disclosure: I do not credit any claim to “non-political” content.
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Big Stompy Robots
Rod, Robbie, and I sat down on Discord to talk about giant robots, the influences and the games we have (or have not) played. It was a good discussion, and I will just hit a few of the highlights to open up the discussion here. Apologies for not recording it, none of us felt strongly […]
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“What if Catch-22, but with Giant Robots”
That was the pitch, but alas, I was far too ambitious, and ended up chickening out! Brief comments on the system, the play experience, and a few campaign design problems we encountered. The Group: me (GM) with Fano, Tazio, and Luke. Fano and I are friends in real life; this was my first time playing with […]
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Pizza Games interview: what and why in Sweden
Remember all those interviews a couple of months ago! This was another in the same time-batch, and believe me, especially since the Thirteenth Floor interview from the previous year was released then as well, I was getting very boggled about who asked what and what I’d said in each. With any luck, you can forgive […]
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Galactic Peace: the Murkcap
This game of The Pool began with the peace conference as presented at Galactic peace Pool, in which the player-characters were various aliens conceived by the players: the Avix, the Murkcap, and the Hive. That was four sessions. We decided to continue playing by focusing on each of those alien species to see what happened […]
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A People’s History, or at least a person’s
A lot of interviews showed up recently. For this one, I was contacted by Nune, who is studying entrepeneurship in Rotterdam. (rhymes with “rune,” one syllable) His questions included what does it mean to be a role-playing publisher, what do you have to contend with, what should you consider, and especially, the term he used, […]
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Say No to something, anyway
This post continues from Our first Hunt, which despite its name includes two Hunts, featuring my character Hazard, Noah’s Lilith o’Bedlam, and Alessio’s Grey Witch. We really wanted more Stalkers, that is, more players, so our latest session, and new Hunt, adds the Mask, played by Pedro. Unfortunately Alessio has to leave us in a […]
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Galactic Peace: the Avix
Our game of The Pool continues, following the events of the great galactic peace meeting as seen in Galactic peace Pool. Here’s what we decided to do: to play each of the three established player-characters back at his, her, or its home-world, afterwards. In each case, the other players will make up new characters for […]
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Galactic peace Pool
Into another game of The Pool, this time with Jerry, Renee, and Helma. I’ve been prepared for this one for a long time, with a lot of accumulated images. You’ll spot the particular sort of pop science fiction right away: tons of implausible aliens as stand-ins for human concerns or outlooks, a completely transparent political […]
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Jim’s Fine Foods
For a week’s lull in our Väsen game due to many people’s schedules, I decided to bring in a solid and conceptually perhaps challenging game to generate some conversation and comparisons, both with our current game (which we resume tonight) and with the previously-played game, Dialect. I should clarify that the real title of the […]