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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Love Songs of the Death Goddess
At Big Bad Con this year, I ran a session of The Black Sword Hack. The Black Sword Hack is a heavily Moorcock influenced game branched off The Black Hack which is an OSR game that claims to branch off the original 1974 version of D&D. But like all OSR things, The Black Hack is…
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Ripping Off Tolkien and Other Secrets of My Success
Sean, Erik, and I have just finished up playing some Dungeons & Dragons using the 1977 Holmes Basic Set rulebook. We started playing at the beginning of December 2023, and played 19 sessions (about 2 a month). We played over Discord, for about 2 hours per session, using no extra technology: I drew maps and…
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Plain Sorcerer
At the discord, as part of another conversation, Ron said this: Here’s what I’d like to see more: plain Sorcerer, with no sorcerers beyond the player-characters, and at the start, few if any demons beyond those they’ve bound, with any other fantastic elements of the situation being considered normal within the fiction. Significantly as well,…
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From textual prep to situational play
I want to focus my posts on situation play for the moment, especially with an eye towards being better at it, and this is my attempt to clarify what it means. Trying to internalize the various discussions, interactions and courses from AdeptPlay, I’ve decided last year to consciously change the way I view and play,…
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Inspiration Discussion
For the last few years the topic of inspiration has increasingly become both noticeable by me and important to me. I wanted to talk about it with others. Jon and Claudio wanted to as well, so we recorded it. Note: we focus here on inspiration as the necessary first step that launches into preparation and…
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Climax & Endings & Rolemaster Thoughts
A few weeks ago the characters encountered the nemesis who has been behind the situation since the beginning. And it has me thinking about how “The End” of a situation / adventure can affect the prep and Play in a game. I will also muse a bit on how System Matters. The final confrontation between…
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maria in three parts: the prep
intro i ran a UA3 demo at a local rpg meetup. i used the Maria in three parts introductory module. I’d like to share a report of how things went. i have way more to say than i thought i did so i’m splitting it into two parts: the prep and the run. prep goals…
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Mavericks: Setup and Statements
So, we’re jumping back into Champions Now. Although we plan to continue the Sentinels of Justice in the near future, our gaming group also started a new game back in May. I discuss how I approached the game in this first video. More to come soon.
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Dark + Sun + Pool
I am merely typical in dreaming about play in the world of the Dark Sun, as presented as an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition product in 1991. I am aware that it’s been developed by who-knows-who in God-knows-what media, and that all sorts of fandom wikis and whatnot have bloomed in the internet since…