Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Powered by the Apocalypse
Powered by the Apocalypse is an imprint which a game publisher uses to indicate that their game is inspired by Vincent Baker’s and Meg Baker’s game Apocalypse World
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I’m just a teenage gunmage, baby
I did three solo-play sessions of Ironsworn. The audio is here, but be warned that no editing has been done; thinking silences are preserved as well as physical and mental coughing and hitching. I didn’t use Ironsworn’s sketchy Norse frontier setting, but rather used the Iron Kingdoms, a magitech-meets-WWI kinda thing. I played a seventeen-year-old…
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Return to Apocalypse World
Very long time couple of non roleplayers friends wanted to play a rpg, and got into vampire with one of their friends, last year. I asked them a few month ago how it went. Julie, my long time friend, told me that she didn’t like all the thespian show she had to do, to precise…
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![[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – 11-14th session, the last and always.](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/239692-1.jpg)
[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – 11-14th session, the last and always.
We concluded our campaign in The Sword, The Crown and The Unspeakable Power. It lasted up to 14th session, which ended in magical storm, about sealing off the Wanton Death (deva Kali) and bringing two deaths to player characters. For a referrence, I do recommend reading my first two submissions about this campaign: 1st –…
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The Tragedy of Kaivan
I had no idea what kind of character I wanted to make for a solo Ironsworn game, so I left as much of it as I could up to the oracles. The result was Myrick of Lostwater, a guy who was both relaxed and hostile somehow. Lostwater itself is in the Tempest Hills, and the…
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![[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – Sessions 5th to 10th.](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/239692_0.jpg)
[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – Sessions 5th to 10th.
This is a follow up to my previous session report about first four sessions in The Sword, The Crown and The Unspeakable India. We play in our fantasy Ancient India, or at least our European Slavic understanding of it. I'd like to invite you to use my previous Adept Play submission as a reference to…
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![[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – first four sessions](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/239692.jpg)
[The SCUP] Unspeakable India & Power – first four sessions
The game called The Sword, The Crown and The Unspeakable Power interests me with a hook, that it is supposed to be “like Apocalypse World, but closer to Game of Thrones. I'd refer to that game as simply "The SCUP" or "SCUP." The book itself strongly encourages play in non-Western fantasy, literally calling it “Western…
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Conversation: Rules, Authorities, and PbtA
If you were following the development of Champions Now a while ago, you may remember the memorable game played at the Gauntlet which I adapted into the examples in the game text (Values and family, not necessarily family values). Pawel played Grimfire in that session, and a lot of his input found its way into…
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Apocalypse World: on forgetting moves and different player styles
How do you deal with a player that doesn’t pay much attention to her resources when playing? In Apocalypse World, I have 2 players, one of them (Mauro) pays a lot of attention to the rules and moves at their disposal. The other one (Ile) not so much, she rarely remembers her advanced moves. In last…
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Ironsworn: Mabon’s Vows
I saw a Twitch stream about Ironsworn early this year or late last year and I was intrigued enought to want to try it out. The PDFs are free to download, which is amazing considering how much work the author put into the game. So far I like it enough that I would buy a…