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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Monday Lab: Roll to Know
Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn’t help myself, it’s been only two days and here you go. The reason is nothing less than an impressive meeting…
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Albuquerque Sundays
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.…
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Now or later or much later? [Champions Now]
When Champions was first published, most people involved in role-playing accepted, or even expected, to put in extensive effort before play. Today, plug-and-play is widely recognized as a virtue, whether justified by playing in convention situations or by citing friends who reasonably do not commit to complex nonsense before doing the thing they want to…
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Two Premise Statements
From the Champions Now! Question Outpost: Joel Davis – Ron, if I understand the playtest document (plus everything you've said in your videos), the campaign is built around two premise statements: A defining trait of superheroes, supervillains, or powers in the campaign Campaign themes in a campaign location To wrap my head around this, I thought…
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The shape of the Circle
Here’s a good example of what Actual Play posting here can be: reflections afterwards. I recommend it. Here the game author is involved and thus rules questions abound, but whoever and about whatever is totally OK too. For Circle people, the rules questions included how order-of-action relates to groups, and some math concerning the components…
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Circle of Hands – Questions about the venture
Hi! Yesterday I played Circle of Hands as GM, but I have some questions about my venture. My dices were: Black 6, White 3, Red 6. So it was settled in Spurr with a double elemento of Rbaja. I chose a Splotch and a Rbaja zone, thinking about a black wizard dead who left behind…
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Monday Lab 3: Boiling Pitch
The topic is group preparation, when you spend some time together creating and customizing the setting and situation. Whether it’s a pitch, a series of rules steps,a suggestion-and-approval process, or anything like that – we hit it from a lot of angles and a lot of examples. Joining me are Ray, Herman, Ángel, Santiago, and…
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Monday Lab 2: Kittybox
“Everyone knows” what sandbox means. Except that it was a term ‘ported into table-top role-playing from another medium and adopted as fashion rather than substance, so no, I don’t. Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money, and let’s see if this is a thing, and if so, how many things, and if so in a given…
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Starting a Sorcerer game.
Hi, I’m starting a Sorcerer game as a GM and a few questions comes and difficulties comes from the practice. As adviced by Ron, I’m posting my thoughts here. I was walking with my old best brief who just came back from a 10 month kind of personal initiatic travel in Canada then South America…