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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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A Remedy for Oppression: issues 4-7
“There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” —Frank Wilhoit, The Travesty of Liberalism “Science can save them from many things, Prometheus, but it cannot save them from themselves.” —Daedalus, supervillain, issue 7 Attempted coups, hospitals overflowing, breadlines stretching for miles. …
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A Remedy for Oppression: issues 1-3
Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression. –Frederick Douglass, “What To the Slave is…
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Conspiracy fact
This game concluded with sessions 6 and 7, and I’m still editing #7 as I type this. It’ll be included as soon as it’s done. Oh! The title for this post refers to all the rather distressing real-world stuff I was able to find which tied hard into what Ulf and Ola had provided at…
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Message from the Fourth of July
The points raised or shared by Eloy LaSanta are not a minor concern for me. A couple of months ago, with a certain amount of uncertainty, I decided how I wanted Adept Play to participate in Black Lives Matter and related issues. It’s a risky way, because I am allergic to claiming myself to be…
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Hit the Streets: Defend the Block Demo
Rich Rogers joinsthe BwK crew for a demo session of his new TTRPG designed to concentrate on street level play. Be sure to check out the character and block generation we did prior to the actual play: https://youtu.be/ZygQcGf0Ql4
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That’s a Wheel
I got to play Dialect at IndieCON, although only one of the three phases of play, so these thoughts are certainly tentative. I haven’t read the rules either. “It’s the game about the rise and fall of a language!” True as far as it goes, but that’s a stalking horse, good at drawing people in…
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Scathings
One of the sessions I played at IndieCON was for Edoardo Cremaschi’s Marks on the Skin (you may remember him from Little Katy’s Tea Party in Consulting). I am wondering whether it is really good for a person to play several Cremaschi and Pettersson games in a short span of time, as each designer quite…
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Shadows and beauty in Marseille
We’ve been playing Sorcerer for two months! Five meetings and four sessions of play so far, and ongoing. This is with Laura and Grégory, both located in France, and thus set in Marseille. I was nonplussed to discover that neither had ever set a game they’d played in their own country. I went a little…
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In the trenches
This was my first scheduled consult session at Lucca. As usual, I had no expectations, but if I did, they would have been challenged by the degree that people came prepared. Francesco brought a deck of cards that looked ready to print. The title in English is “The Trench,” so my first question, as I’m…