Adept Play
A superhero game by Ron Edwards, published by Department of Justice (Hero Games imprint) in 2019.
This set of questions spans a wide range: some Forge and Story Games history, using traits or rules involving “Destiny” without railroading toward a specific thing, and plenty of resolution-type topics regarding how characters fight. Here’s the file summarizing our discussion at the Patreon. As always, I’m hoping for continuance and more development here.
Very meaty questions, good examples of highly specific topics which open up important levels of understanding, or so I hope. The relationship map technique from The Sorcerer’s Soul The Elemental Control from Champions At one point I mistakenly said “powers” when I meant “attacks,” unfortunately, as that is a key factor in my reply to…
The animal species in which . . . the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development . . . are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. . . . The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay. –Pyotr Kropotkin, “Mutual Aid: A Factor…
I’ve been fortunate enough to play six sessions of Champions Now with Sam and my brother Seth. I decided to refrain from writing a report until we’d seen the Now crest and crash a couple of times, and our last session brought our first arc to a conclusive, explosive end. Our Statements are: Powers are…
For you these lillies, these stalks of hyssop for you this altar which is not an altar in the ordinary sense but a stairway of song to the unbearable ones helpers in our need. —Hjalmar Gullberg, “For the Demigods” “I’m not so much a ‘morality’ superhero.” —Fano Posing a question: “How much do you stick…
“There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” —Frank Wilhoit, The Travesty of Liberalism “Science can save them from many things, Prometheus, but it cannot save them from themselves.” —Daedalus, supervillain, issue 7 Attempted coups, hospitals overflowing, breadlines stretching for miles. …
Our Champions Now game continues; you can read about the start of it here, and then I continued the discussion here. As Ron suggested in the comments in the latter thread, my GMing needed a little bit of a tune-up at that point, and making a few simply corrections to go back to doing what…
Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression. –Frederick Douglass, “What To the Slave is…