Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition
A fantasy game including the components the Player’s Handbook, the Monstrous Compendium, and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. It was written by David “Zeb” Cook (design leader) and published by TSR (TSR Inc) in 1989.
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Dark + Sun + Pool
I am merely typical in dreaming about play in the world of the Dark Sun, as presented as an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition product in 1991. I am aware that it’s been developed by who-knows-who in God-knows-what media, and that all sorts of fandom wikis and whatnot have bloomed in the internet since…
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Monday Lab: Battle Play
Part of hobby mythology concerns role-playing’s origins as bringing tighter focus into table-top wargaming, such that within this or that battalion, or aboard this or that vehicle, the group can look closer and see Sergeant Bob or whoever running around, being a character, having opinions, and doing things. If that’s so, then one would think…
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Keeping them all together.
During one of my consulting sessions, I told Ron one of my major design concerns regarding my current project is the concept of interdependence: it’s a game about a group of people fighting things that should be well beyond the possibilities of the common human being. How do they do this? I want one of the…
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Monday Lab: Halfbreed
The recent discussion in Actual Play has prompted me to what may be quite a lot of pointed looks at racism in role-playing content. I’ve made a little video to set local boundaries & standards for all of them, beginning right here. You’ll be seeing that link again. To repeat one of the points from…
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Reflections and dissections
Here’s a conversation with Ivan, following up on his comments (and video) in the Finding D&D series. I split the last bit off to join the SFTV RPG seminar too, so this was sort of an all-over-Adept-Play discussion. It’s divided roughly into some “how we met D&D” talk, thoughts on fantasy in role-playing and fantasy…
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Finding D&D: The Fundamentals
Here, hop into this handbasket with me. We’re goin’ for a ride! It’s part of “Finding D&D,” focusing this time on fundamentalist belief and practice, including but not limited to the OSR. I thought about waiting until part 4 was done, as these two parts only make full sense relative to one another. But whatever;…
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Finding D&D: Communion
It’s not a metaphor. I’m talking about D&D as religion, not merely “religious” as a colorful synonym for “passionate.” This is Finding D&D, Part 2, addressing TSR as orthodoxy and the resulting construction of culture and values. It’s still just a draft, intended for review & critique and so on. I’ve already spotted a couple…