Adept Play
This is a very broad category, often confounded with the medium of comics, often perceived as tropes which are much narrower than the historical reality. These posts concern its expression and range within role-playing.
Session four started on May 10, 2022 (in-game). We began with Samuel Holt (aka The Huntsman) paying a homeless person to walk around Times Square with a sign asking The Grandmaster (aka Peter King) to contact him. “Grandmaster, call the guy who stole your hard hat.” I made a successful roll for Peter to employ…
The session started on Saturday, May 7, 2022 (in game). Samuel Holt (aka The Huntsman) invited some old college buddies to a pizza place in Brooklyn. For this act, Samuel earned 5 Karma for "Get Together with Friends". Samuel now has 20 Karma. In the background, Ramirez tried to steal The First Responder's souped up red pickup truck…
Noah joined our group recently. James could not make it this session. We decided to a one-on-one session, introducing Noah’s character Connie Bleak (sheet is attached). Connie got out of the prison the day after Samuel Holt (aka The Huntsman). Like The Huntsman, Connie’s character was pregnant with Situation. It was very easy to integrate Connie…
Wolverine and Rogue are my two favorite Marvel characters. I have a whole host of Marvel Superhero or, somewhat less, Champions with Marvel detailing, adventures relating to these two characters. When the new Marvel Multiverse RPG came up and several friends and I grabbed copies of the work-in-progress (we paid for them, more on that…
The yellow box TSR Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set is my first love in role-playing games. TSR weaponized the game to appeal to young children via the three-color Universal Table on the back covers of the books. There is also a game for adults embedded in that box set. I have never played it to…
Jerry’s moved into a new design phase for Godsend Agenda, and it’s time to play some more. This time, Kieran is GMing for Renee, Jerry, and me, and he provided our group concept as well: a weird old society in a broken-down town in coastal New England, which has recently recruited the three of us,…
The animal species in which . . . the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development . . . are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. . . . The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay. –Pyotr Kropotkin, “Mutual Aid: A Factor…
I’ve been fortunate enough to play six sessions of Champions Now with Sam and my brother Seth. I decided to refrain from writing a report until we’d seen the Now crest and crash a couple of times, and our last session brought our first arc to a conclusive, explosive end. Our Statements are: Powers are…
For you these lillies, these stalks of hyssop for you this altar which is not an altar in the ordinary sense but a stairway of song to the unbearable ones helpers in our need. —Hjalmar Gullberg, “For the Demigods” “I’m not so much a ‘morality’ superhero.” —Fano Posing a question: “How much do you stick…