Adept Play
These concern procedures and interactions before play begins, or, by contrast, when they are distinctively absent.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]