Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Preparing for play
These concern procedures and interactions before play begins, or, by contrast, when they are distinctively absent.
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Let’s put up another TV show
After having played Primetime Adventures (the 2nd edition, the one with the blue cover) a while ago … looking up when that was … wait now, that’s two and a half years ago? Anyway, here is the link to the old stuff if you want it … okay, let’s restart this:Ever since I’ve been a […]
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![[Galactic Adventures] Adventure Seeds](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/noiz-architects-spaceport-city-designboom-2.jpg)
[Galactic Adventures] Adventure Seeds
The classic Traveller game I started on Roll20 during the height of the pandemic morphed by degrees into something different, a kind of counter-Traveller, a funhouse-mirror Traveller that takes as its point of departure the same basic premise–you’ve spent your life so far in service to some galactic guild or other, gotten yourself to the […]
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My life with Maximus
We played a full game of My Life with Master at Spelens Hus for two sessions, across the end of last September and the beginning of October. The first two videos for session 1 show the preparation, excepting the nuts and bolts of making the characters. Given a very brief “stereotypical Balkan mountains, decayed nobility […]
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Through the lens of prep
A Viricorne Guide is a game where adventurers or other travelers arrive in Viricorne, the Reborn City, and are guided around it. It is a city of judgment, and people come there to be judged (and do other things). The text, as inspiration, has a dreamy, smooth quality to it, like a digital painting with […]
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Load-Bearing Questions in Sorcerer
A small group I’m a part of recently passed the GM buck to me, and I said I wanted to run Sorcerer, which I’ve been away from for a while but enjoyed immensely. The new setting is Victorian England, and I’m currently trying to guide the group through character creation, which I’ve had difficulties with before. […]
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![[Sword and Sorcerer] Gaius Caligula in Exile](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/caligula.jpg)
[Sword and Sorcerer] Gaius Caligula in Exile
Here’s a pitch (one pager) I’m drafting for an upcoming gaming retreat. If players join me, we’ll run 3 sessions over a weekend. I’d love some feedback before I finalize the pitch. Caligula’s Game Neos Helios, “the new sun”, the One King and One God, Jupiter on Earth, Divine Kindly Prince, Gaius Caligula has cheated […]
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Circle of Hands: first timid steps
Two days ago I had the chance to start a Circle of Hands campaign with some people interested in expanding their knowledge about roleplaying games, whose background is mainly focused on the 3.5 and 5 editions of D&D. In the first session we arrived at what I would call a turning point of the first […]
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First time running Sorcerer, looking for Feedback
There’s a guideline I used for a sorceror one-sheet that’s been pretty helpful, and if I’m going down the list it suggests I get feedback; and I’d like to get feedback from the noosphere before bringing it back to my group, so uh, here’s some stuff about this game, I guess. The premise for the […]
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Dungeon Calculus: A Mathematical Approach to Adventure Design
I’m currently 72 sessions into a D&D5e campaign I started in March of 2019. It is day 189 for the adventurers. The players are just beginning to reach level 10ish. I have a roadmap for the game out to level 20. Who knows how far we’ll make it or how long this will go on? […]