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.
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…
I’m writing here about a single session for a group that met last August, playing Mörk Borg just once. That sounds simple, but it’s the beginning of my intensive and complicated play-history with the game which continues through today. Briefly, I have been playing the hell out of it ever since across a variety of…
Hello folks! Here is the session 2 play report for our Sentinels of Justice Champions Now game. There was no combat this session, so far less system involved, but many repercussions from the previous session and new elements pulled in from the hero sheets.
Not with me, but rather it’s me interviewing Kristoffer about his alleged one-session, now multi-session game of Electric Bastionland. The context begins with a bit of prior play with me GMing, using only the free version, then the subject of this interview, which is his GMing from scratch with another group, using the entire text.…
Hello folks, This is the next in my series detailing the steps involved in launching a Champions Now game. This one is dedicated to drafting The Now that will serve as the basis for our first session. I hope the description of my process is of use to somebody. Next time – the play report…
We finished up a run of Through Sunken Lands in the OSR/Lab group and we rooted around for another system to tackle. A few of us have been interested in Warlock! and so I offered to run. Warlock! is inspired by Warhammer Fantasy, but unlike many “retro-clones” it really isn’t that much of a clone.…