Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Religion
This category concerns religion as a feature in the fiction of play. It might be a very direct (“the”) topic, or it may be a significant cultural feature, or anything relevant to what else is happening. A real person’s own beliefs and observances may be presented only if they are relevant to play and if that person is aware of the post or comment.
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Hippie fantasy, adults are not to be trusted
It’s the adolescence. Creepy rural fantasy aside, which is working well too, playing the characters as mid-teens is working wonders. This is the second session following RuneQuest 1980: brambly hick coming-of-age fantasy. I’ve attached the file I sent to them before the session, updating my scribbled notes into complete sentences concerning the general cosmology, with…
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Sorcerer: Praying is Too Slow
Just some Sorcerer actual play, right? But pay attention to how a story came to be without a story in place. I’d like you to identify any rules of the game that interest you, regarding how they did or didn’t play into what happened. If you don’t know Sorcerer enough to be specific, then ask…
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Cold Soldier in La Plata
A couple of months ago, I invited patrons to play Bret Gillan’s game Cold Soldier with me, using my slight re-write of the text (no rules revision; see attached), and to talk about it. Santiago and I did so shortly afterward, via Skype between Sweden and Argentina. The question at hand, based on the points…