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Tag: Champions Now
A superhero game by Ron Edwards, published by Department of Justice (Hero Games imprint) in 2019.
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The Hero Calculator
It’s been a while since my last Champions Now post. I plan to resume sharing about the 1930s New York game that I introduced in my previous post, “The Gift,” with posts about the characters that my players created and the sessions we’ve run, but these future posts will include character sheets, build sheets, and…
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July 2023 Q&A
I see much underlying unity across these questions, and I hope you can too. The central concept is situation in play, which certainly needs more practical clarity among us as it relates first to texts, and also to straightforward behavior. Oddly, too, it matches with the final question concerning explicit role-playing references in music, as…
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June 2023 Q&A
Maybe I’m too much of a pattern-making story-making animal, but the questions this time really built a single coherent body of inquiry for me. I felt like I was addressing a single important topic from multiple angles of attack. I introduce the video with a warning, but I’ll say it briefly here as well: this…
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The Gift
This post is a follow-up to the one I made in March titled “On My Way to Champions Now,” where I shared the two statements I’m using to set up a Champions Now game set in 1930s NYC. Those statements are: Following the game’s rules, I turned the statements over to my players along with a 3-Corners…
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May 2023 Q&A
The first video is long as I wanted to keep my reply to Mark in a single packet. His question was a comment in the previous Q&A post, regarding my recommendations for myth inquiries & ideas regarding popular culture. I’ve attached an outline which may make it easier to follow. I did not manage actually…
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Situated characters
[This post is adapted from a Patreon post a couple of months ago. It’s relevant to the March Q&A so I’ve made it public here.] I’ve been thinking about a practical aspect of preparation which feeds into qualities of play. It boils down to a simple question: does whoever’s making up important aspects of the…
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Lead on, specter!
Rod and I played our first session of Champions Now this week, drawing on our favorite chunks of D&D media, and the roleplaying setting of Karameikos in particular, for our inspiration. Rod’s playing lots of NPCs, not the least of which is the city of Specularum itself. I’m playing Suleiman (Sully to his friends), a…
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Greetings: On My Way to Champions Now
Hello Adept Play community! I’m Aldo, and I’ve been promising Ron that I’d start posting here for at least a year. Online spaces are not very intuitive for me, however, so it took me a while to figure out how to do this. Indeed, this is a test to see if I HAVE indeed figured…
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Spirit Ripping, Psychic Tentacles, and Special Effects
We had an entertaining session of Champions Now tonight. The highlight I want to share is a short but cool example of how special effects showed up in the game. Uncle Death is a hero with the ability to separate a person’s soul from their body and instruct the soul to act for him. In…