Adept Play
These concern procedures and interactions before play begins, or, by contrast, when they are distinctively absent.
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…
Imagine a campaign with a “common” system. Imagine having settled themes in the first session (aka session 0). Imagine having de-briefings used to leave impressions about what you played. Why pre-briefings? My impressions: a campaign is not a continuous play; weeks can run between a session and the next one. Themes could be partially forgotten,…
At Jon’s prompting, a group of us are preparing to take on Forge: Out of Chaos. This will be my third experience with a Fantasy Heartbreaker—Legendary Lives and Darkurthe Legends are the others that I’ve played, and you can find some materials on those games elsewhere on Adept Play. I’ve created my character for the…
I have been communicating with Sean_RDP / Logan40k about Star Trek Adventures and our experiences with it. Part of that conversation was to agree to post some thoughts about our respective campaigns in a digestible format, so as a starter we have this brief Q&A to broach the topic. What did you do with the…
Although for the first time in a long while I have a stack of games that I want to get to the table, circumstances have aligned to allow for and encourage a return to Star Trek Adventures as an online game. I ran the game for local friends around a real table in a real…
So I’ve been playing Sorcerer for several sessions now with Greg and Robbie, and recently we finished the first adventure and decided to continue with new kickers and new story diagrams. I took the material they gave me and typed it up in an online tool called Google Jamboard, and I thought it might be…
As I burn my midnight oil and avoid the elephant in the room in the United States, an idea for the game/setting/whatever I'm putting together came to my mind. A (sort of) custom character sheet. This sheet is born out of wanting to sort of smash together Circle of Hands with D&D 5th edition for this…
I am going to run an adventure using the 1981 D&D Basic Set. There have been a number of conversations that hit on directly, or indirectly, this set of rules and as it was my first RPG experience, I want to take a look back. More than a look, I want to run the game…