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.
A new Champions Now Beta playtest! With Jason and Rick. I told them, “powers are dark, ancient, and secret,” and “crimes are moral, not just legal,” and we set it in Los Angeles, where Rick lives. (lots of west coast going on in play … I’ll have to keep an eye on that, and make…
This is a recording of a session of the game “Masks: A New Generation” I run in a friend’s twitch channel. It is in Spanish and the video can only been seen on Twitch. Once it gets uploaded to youtube, I’ll post the link so you can give a try to the automatic subtitles. In…
Just what the inheritor of the century-old superheroic powers and the sixty-year-old superhero-veteran need: a barely-legal vlogging celebrity hound who claims to be the Bay Area’s’ own indispensable crime-fightin’ hero guy. Meet Komodo Dragon! (and thanks to Rod dropping by to be our entirely enjoyable guest player) I am also pleased to present not one…
Here’s the next round of seeing how Cosmic Zap is shaping up. It’s an important phase because Ian is the project developer for Chaosium, and Rod and Juan are both artists who are very familiar with the source material. Juan screen-shared during most of the session, allowing us to enjoy his emerging character sheet. I’ve…
Second session for Legacy, this time ramping the soapy feels for Alan’s character, Mike, up to that number you know, and to my great pleasure, outdoing King Cinema Himself in sheer power of the spectacle. “Iconic” doesn’t begin to do it justice. Note to self: I swore that my three-plus hours play session days were…
I love that cover. It was the first issue of The Uncanny X-Men I bought with my own money off the stands, and even Cyclops’ entirely unnecessary gesticulating is perfect. But … uh … why is Storm saying that? It is a very silly thing to say, and fortunately our heroes in the Defiants say…
Here’s session 1 for the series I’m calling Legacy, featuring Advance and PowerStar. As has been suggested before, you can now see the entire organization and prep process by following the tag, leading into play that you can see here. The whole session plays nicely off their respective defining features, in that Advance is a…
After I posted our Session 0 beta description… Ron responded with… "It's possible to ruin things by front-loading and world-building, but this is more like what I described than not. It was more talky than I've been recommending, and granted, a little more content via consensus than I prefer, but that latter is a preference…
A bit of GM thought rambling generated by our Session 1 of M-Hero/The Victors (Champs Now beta)… So… first sessions are always awkward for me as a Gm, even when playing with long time partnerns in crime. I still feel stressed and like I'm groping in the dark to have something "stick" that will make…