Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Champions Now
A superhero game by Ron Edwards, published by Department of Justice (Hero Games imprint) in 2019.
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A Remedy for OppressIon: This Was America
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…
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Champions Now: One Perfect…Actually, screw perfect…One WILD Session
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…
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A Remedy for Oppression: issue 11
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…
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A Remedy for Oppression: issues 4-7
“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. …
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Champions Now: Tune-Up
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…
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A Remedy for Oppression: issues 1-3
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…
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On Adept Play – An Overview with Ron Edwards
Recorded on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 This is an in-depth look at the Adept Play website and at Adept Press. This lengthy interview opens with an overview of the site and its features, then moves into specific examples of how those features are put to use: Welcome – Actual Play – Seminar – Consulting The interview…
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Information, Pacing, Holding Back or Pushing
Hi everybody, at Ron’s suggestion I recorded a video conversation with the players of my recent Champions Now game. This kicked off as a text discussion, with Manu asking me after the close of the game if I had any insights, and me saying this: Hmm, insight I’m not sure about, but there are definitely…
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Conspiracy fact
This game concluded with sessions 6 and 7, and I’m still editing #7 as I type this. It’ll be included as soon as it’s done. Oh! The title for this post refers to all the rather distressing real-world stuff I was able to find which tied hard into what Ulf and Ola had provided at…