Adept Play
These concern procedures and interactions before play begins, or, by contrast, when they are distinctively absent.
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…
I just held session-1 of a Sorcerer game with a small group of old friends. They’re all new to Sorcerer and have only played a handful of other indie games. This was the character generation session, and it went so very well! We’re all really excited for the game to come. I’ll talk about the…
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?…
A little question by Sam about how to create an adventure (as an excuse for using the Random Esoteric Creature Generator) for LOTFP lead me to write this answer. Sam’s point was about “creating an adventure that is a garden for emergent story”. I was in this exact situation a few months before and this…
Dialect is a game that explores how an isolated group develops their own language and how both the group and the language then fade away either by assimilation or extinction. While I don’t really remember how I got to know about the game I do remember what made me want to play it. I love…
I recently got involved in a campaign of Legendary Lives with Scott (GM) Helma, Arak and DragonSnacks. It’s such an inspiring game to create a character you’ll get very excited about with a lot of random tables. So we created our characters by ourselves and came up with pretty cools stories and when we weren’t…