Adept Play
System refers to any and all interactions which result in play, as a dynamic and changing form of fiction. These posts address its features at any scale or purpose of play.
We have begun our third adventure for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, including one half-orc cleric-assassin for the Church of the Eternal and Fundamental Ordination, one half-elf fighter-assassin for the Church of the Ineffable Disruption of All Being, one half-elf fighter-thief who moonlights for the Disruption, and two half-orc fighter-clerics for the, well, it doesn’t really…
We had a couple of open sessions at Spelens Hus, which were filled by Space Rat, by Nathan Russell. The nominal franchise stars Jack Cosmos, the heroic Galactic Agent, but its many-texts content is either so satiric or so bad that no one can miss the fact that his arm-candy female companions actually do all…
On Sunday, Jan. 21, I ran an enjoyable 1-shot of a role playing game set in the universe of Fantasy Flight’s space-operatic war game Twilight Imperium. Embers of the Imperium uses the Genesys “Narrative Dice” system, a re-working of the system that was employed in Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars roleplaying game, that system employing the…
Playing an ongoing Pathfinder 2e Campaign and a curious situation has come up twice now: Most recently in a Negotiation, run as a “Social Encounter”, with a band of Demons that were hired to kill the Party, one of the players wanted to make an offer to help the Demons achieve their goal instead of…
No matter how hard I try, I keep coming back to Pathfinder 2e. Before I discovered the virtues of that game, the first edition had my interests captured for years and years. To some degree, it is unsurprising – I played D&D 3.5 before I really knew of any other systems. However, poring over feats,…
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…
While at Big Bad Con I had an opportunity to play my game in development, Variations on a Quiet and Lonely Hell. I had previously gone through a round of consulting with Ron about this game which can be found here: https://adeptplay.com/2021/08/23/fun-and-games-book-job/ Additionally, I have since taken seven of Ron’s classes including The Ronnies which…