Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Spelens Hus
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.
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Gamma World at the Happening
I went to the Happening and ran two sessions of Gamma World 7th Edition, which is the version that uses the D&D 4th Edition rules. This gave me an opportunity to apocalyptically destroy bits of Norrköping again (see the old Gamma World actual play for more of this). I had supposed I could reuse some…
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Hands-on content
I’ll lay this out the way I see it and have tried to present it over the past few years. I think the role of textual setting content is clear: it explicitly drives into playing situations, or it doesn’t. (So-called “scenario seeds” typically don’t.) However, one simply cannot tell by reading. Sometimes it seems overly…
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Grit and focus
At the Happening, I was determined to play a little bit of Harnmaster and Dangerous Journeys, both of which I’ve been poking at for many years. David brought Boot Hill too, and as it happened, the three make a nice set for discussion. Also, we were intrigued enough to play a second session of Harnmaster,…
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Ecstasy and mortality
The above graphic shows the games I played during the Happening, whether organized by me or by someone else. The total games played by everyone there approximately doubled that number of titles. This post is about the two I’ve circled, which are part of my Cantos set of four games. They are weird, arty, intimate…
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In memoriam: Helma Lindow
My best friend died Saturday, September 28. She was halfway between her 59th and 60th birthdays. She discovered role-playing in 2019 and swiftly became the center of many people’s experiences, for play itself and for learning what it actually is. She was the finest practitioner of this art, as an art, that I have ever…
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Hot passions, hot place
Sorry, not those sorts of passions, or at least not much, as we’ve been playing. We’re continuing with my more-or-less faithful extraction of the AD&D 2nd edition Dark Sun, plus a bit of 4E, using The Pool, as described in Dark + Sun + Pool and It always goes to the arena. The six sessions…
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Radioactive grit
This post continues from Apoc western, our EABA game begun last spring and repeatedly interrupted since then – but we continue, now with regularized schedules and increasing momentum. To review a bit, this is a bit of a retro-grim spin on the over-cartoonized “apocalypse restores the wild west” motif, set in an outlands town struggling…
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Närcon 2024
As with past years, my particpation at this convention was tied to Spelens Hus, and now also allied with MiFF, the equivalent organization with our local SiN, with a Spelens Hus of their own in Göteborg (Gothenburg). Based on last year, I concentrated on workshops, offering two sessions of “Understanding Role-playing” and one of “No,…
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It always goes to the arena
The conventions and events of the summer have interfered with my tidy editing and posting habits, but we have indeed continued playing Dark Sun with The Pool, as first discussed in Dark + Sun + Pool. I’m finally getting around to presenting the recordings here. This link goes straight into session 2 in the same…