Adept Play
The term refers to the available, actionable scope of play during the course of a roleplaying experience. It may be composed of different locations or times, or concepts, and it is always composed of scenes (where someone is, what is happening) as subunits.
We have begun our third adventure for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, including one half-orc cleric-assassin for the Church of the Eternal and Fundamental Ordination, one half-elf fighter-assassin for the Church of the Ineffable Disruption of All Being, one half-elf fighter-thief who moonlights for the Disruption, and two half-orc fighter-clerics for the, well, it doesn’t really…
This play report started as a comment on Issues 1–7 but ballooned into its own post. I ran an impromptu game of “generic OSR” (whatever that means — as I have seen playing these games, a lot of different things to different people) last week. We went spelunking in the module Caverns of Thracia by…
Sam and I sat down last week to record a conversation about a 7-issue run on Villains & Vigilantes we did along with our longtime creative collaborator Robin. Personally, I value how unprogrammed this particular dialog was. We excavated lessons from our play of Villains & Vigilantes that we’re excited to apply to our current…
We’ve continued to play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, first version, at Spelens Hus, for another whole adventure in three more sessions. It has included a big shift in focus due to adding two players, Yaroslav and Milo. [see the previous post You had one job!] Milo had been present in our initial preparatory session but…
We’ve been playing 3:16 for a while at Spelens Hus, meaning, the group of young people who’ve previously played Tunnels & Trolls, Villains & Vigilantes, and Mörk Borg among others. The membership has shifted around a little throughout its 18-month history but has always been characterized by enthusiasm and intellectual connections. Those latter features led…
Just got home from a thrilling Sorcerer one-shot and I wanted to post something while it’s still fresh. The situation was, we’re together for the holidays and today was our only chance to play an in-person game. Four of us have played together before in multiple games and campaigns. One player was new to the…
We’re taking a break from our Champions Now: Sentinels of Justice game due to scheduling issues, so I’ve decided to post videos about the Shadowdark game that I recently started running. This is a very different game in a number of significant ways. While the Sentinels of Justice game is a dedicated subset of our…
Rod, Sean, and I have been playing Bushido for a little bit now: I think we’re at five sessions, each about 2-hours in length. I’m GMing, though a notable feature of our game is that a lot of “typical GM duties” have been shared out. For one, Rod suggested the historical/geographical background material that informed…