Adept Play
These concern procedures and interactions before play begins, or, by contrast, when they are distinctively absent.
I played a lot at IndieCON, in a relaxed way. This was a good example, a little bit of messing with my notes for Dreams of Fire. I didn’t film the session so the video is just me talking and thinking about it. I’m enjoying working on a game with no deadline, as the pressure…
Although we haven't sat down together for our first session, with the work and excitement of preparations I already feel as though we are "playing" and so I'm starting an actual play thread. I hope this doesn't curse our actual plans to commence. I have 3 players committed to meeting me on April 4th to start…
So we finalized Azur’s character and played our first session. Character finalization We finalized Laura’s character while reviewing the rules together so here is the reworked version. We used the Sorcerer & Sword rules for humanity and she traded off 2 points of humanity for 2 points in Will. Her character, Azur, is now: Stamina…
My Desperate Sorcerer’s group split up before we can continue and I absolutly wanted to GM Sorcerer. After a few of S/Lay W/Me sessions with Laura where we tried different ways of “playing loose”, we wanted to play a Sorcerer and Sword game. Furthermore, Sorcerer & Sword states explicitly that it’s good to play with…
Three players and I launched into our opening session of Sorcerer on Sunday morning. The core statements of our game: “Demons are social media junkies.” “The most magical place on Earth: Orlando’s theme park empires.” The background of the players: We are all part of The Gauntlet, an online rpg community. I had only…
After I posted our Session 0 beta description… Ron responded with… "It's possible to ruin things by front-loading and world-building, but this is more like what I described than not. It was more talky than I've been recommending, and granted, a little more content via consensus than I prefer, but that latter is a preference…
Back when Everway first came out I ran a game for about a year. What I remember was that it feel flat. I was using a mix a reading the text and assuming I knew how every RPG worked because I played D&D. So just over three years ago I picked the game back up.…