Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Twosie play
Twosie play means that two people are playing. It might be a game designed for more people but only two happen to be playing, or it might be a game specialized for two players only. Fun fact: until 2008, I didn’t think good two-player roleplaying design was possible – but changed my mind entirely due to experiences in play.
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Big Damn Hero #1 – A Champions Now Actual Play
I’m doing an actual play of Champions Now called Big Damn Hero. It’s about powers being a blessing and a curse and takes place around the Witness Security program in Spokane, WA. The title hero is a super-villain turned state’s evidence and put in the WitSec program. Anyway, we’re three sessions in and we’re about to…
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Spooky phantasmagoria with pictures
My friend Tazio and I are are playing S/Lay w/Me! I’d prefer not to discuss the current health crisis at this site except as it’s relevant, but it’s true that he is in northern Italy and I am in a hard-hit area of Sweden – there is just a little bit of shared worry between…
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Nothing is bleaker than a sunny day
Nate and I met for our second and final session for The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, each of us pretty motivated for the respective “side,” in the curious fashion associated with the better examples of this genre. We began by discussing three important things. 1. New finishing conditions review. I went through the rules…
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Nordic Noir, role-playing style
Here’s a game I consider under-served. I would say “criminally” so except for the poor joke it entails, which is too bad, because yes, it’s criminal. Matt Gwinn’s The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is an excellent detective vs. serial killer role-playing game, and here I speak as someone who was heartily sick of the…
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Cold Soldier: Home for the Holidays
After the opening of Christmas presents, my daughter (home from college) and I sat down to play our first trial run of Cold Soldier. Not your typical holiday fare, but the mulled wine in my glass helped to keep me in the holiday spirit during play. Given that this was our first stab at Cold…
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That’s a good game title
A bit unfairly, this is the last game played during the two-pal pow visit, after Jared had left for home and Simon and I had a bit more time. We’d been talking about French games, as he’d just visited there to investigate the crazy-indie design scene, and he had a bag full of weirdness. One…
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Right here and long ago
It is pure pleasure both to play with and to converse with Simon Pettersson, with the added benefit of his help & guidance during my first visit to Lincon last month. Patrons already got to read about my adventures with sleeping quarters there, so if you want anecdotes and details, that’s the way. When I…
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Textil – Fantasmas asesinos, meaning Murderous Ghosts
Back in April, I sat down with three college friends, Alejo, Cecilia and Edson, to play Vincent Baker’s Murderous Ghosts for the first time. That’s four future librarians hanging out at Alejo’s place, the student housing for people from San Nicolás. It’s the Spanish edition, Fantasmas asesinos, by Nosolorol. It’s a very prolific Spanish…
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Monday Lab: How Long …
… Has This Been Goin’ On? Alternative equally music-meming title: My Only Friend, the End. Or, wait, how about, Stop! In the Name of What? This is about how long we play, in real time. It can refer to the length of a session, how many sessions relative to a given fictional situation, how long…