Adept Play
The Forge was a website co-founded by me and others to discover and promote creatively owned (independent) publishing for roleplaying games. It included an extensive forum and many articles. I was the primary author and moderator, as well as the organizer for the associated booth at GenCon. The site lasted from its original version in 1999 through 2012. It is still available for viewing at indie-rpgs.com/archive (2000-2008) and indie-rpgs.com/forge (2008-2012), as well as a brief successor forum at indie-rpgs.com/adep (2012-2016).
Last October 31st, I went to the first conference of the Italian role-playing games authors, which has been held during the Lucca Comics & Games 2018 fair, and to which I partook with a small speech with the same title of this post, and with the following abstract: Six years apart from the closure of…
This interview is from November 2017, almost exactly a year later than the Metatopia interview with Maksim Mohammedov, and a good comparison with it. You’ll see how both Vigil and Adept Play have emerged from the earlier points.
This is an interview of me by Maksim Muhammedov, during Metatopia, November 2016.