Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Apocalypse World
An apocalyptic science fiction game by Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker, published by their company Lumpley Games in 2009.
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Return to Apocalypse World
Very long time couple of non roleplayers friends wanted to play a rpg, and got into vampire with one of their friends, last year. I asked them a few month ago how it went. Julie, my long time friend, told me that she didn’t like all the thespian show she had to do, to precise…
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Rules, Authorities, and PbtA
If you were following the development of Champions Now a while ago, you may remember the memorable game played at the Gauntlet which I adapted into the examples in the game text (Values and family, not necessarily family values). Pawel played Grimfire in that session, and a lot of his input found its way into…
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Apocalypse World: on forgetting moves and different player styles
How do you deal with a player that doesn’t pay much attention to her resources when playing? In Apocalypse World, I have 2 players, one of them (Mauro) pays a lot of attention to the rules and moves at their disposal. The other one (Ile) not so much, she rarely remembers her advanced moves. In last…
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Monday Lab: (AA)IIEE 2!
Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the “beating heart of the activity,” and Manu – the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago – is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.…
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Thoughts about Blades in the Dark
This post is about our experience with Blades in the Dark. The cool things, the problems we run with and the dialectics with the player's psychology. Prelude So, I got a bunch of old roleplaying friends. One of them is working in a public game library, I don't know if it exists in other countries,…
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Design Curriculum 1: Re-inspiration
I’ve been working up a Design curriculum for role-playing for a long while, so when Justin Nichols approached me for a game design discussion that leaned toward mentoring, I accepted without reservation. At the beginning of this episode, we considered our options for the initial approach, and Justin preferred the “lab” version in which we…
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Workshop: The Plot Thickens
Here’s one of the two workshops I presented at Lucca. It was prompted by two short videos I posted here in the past few months: The role of the roll and Emergent plot techniques, which have led me to a generally larger argument. The main point is that, there are two primary ways to play…
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Monday Lab: Roll to Know
Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn’t help myself, it’s been only two days and here you go. The reason is nothing less than an impressive meeting…
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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…