Adept Play
These are game experiences played at Spelens Hus in Norrköping, beginning in 2019. This is Ron Edwards’ primary roleplaying community, characterized by informal participation and multiple games, organized by whoever would like to do so. Please see the Local Play & Events (link on opening page) for more information.
Kulturnatten is a major event in Sweden, during which any and all activities conceivably identified as Kultur throw open their doors or set up stalls and bandstands, and everyone roams around checking out whatever they want. I participated last year both at Spelens Hus and at the game design event at the city library, as…
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…
Last August, Alan Barclay visited us during his tour of several nordic regions, and we found time to play some things, including Electric Bastionland. This was played before Kristoffer proceeded to get the full version of the game and play it with others, as we discussed in the conversation posted as Sewer madness. Despite the…
Back in July, I played a “movie” of Extreme Vengeance with Denica and Nathan, in three sessions. This game is from 1997, with a discussable publishing history, and I later met and talked with its author, Tony Lee. As with a couple of similar games from around this time, the concept is that you play…
Back in June, I played more sessions of original or nigh-original Traveller with Johan and Nathan. It has been one of the most pleasantly educational experiences of play that I can remember. We have really learned that most principles about “how it’s done” don’t apply to this early text and, I assume, to how the…
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.…
So I tried Cold Soldier (literally ice cold) together with Kristoffer under the tutelage of Ron this weekend; only an introduction really as we didn’t play a full game. Kristoffer chose a Vengeful god for the Dark Master. Neither of us had played the game before. I had read the rules as laid out by…
This is a downtown festival held in Norrköping every year, mostly associated with food but which has accumulated all sorts of other activities through the years. Now it’s almost a local extra version of the Sweden-wide Kulturnatt in late September. It’s also an important anniversary for me, in two ways. First, Spelens Hus began participating…
This is Traveller, in one of its early-early publications: 1981, Game Design Workshop, which as far as I can tell is about the same as the original 1977 publication. A quick point: this isn’t anything like Traveller as stamped iconically into gaming culture. There is no setting, no Imperium, no canonical starmaps, no campaign-planning, nothing…