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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Paying Attention to Emergent Properties
We’ve since completed Issues #4 and 5 for the Champions Now game. Discussion of the earlier session can be found here. These sessions dealt with the fallout from the capture of the ex-Super Fuzz villains, with the big question being: where are we going to put them so they can’t break out of jail again?…
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Monday Lab: My Character
I am pretty confident these days regarding the strength and utility of my/our ideas expressed at this site, so my Lab notions are shifting from organized curriculum and into “let’s see where we can gte.” In this case, we began with “tell me about your character” and moved on from there. For those who follow…
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The Göteborg Depths
Here is Ola’s portrait of the Kosmonaut, his hero in our Champions Now game set in Göteborg (Gothenburg) in Sweden. The other hero is Havsmannen (“man of the sea”) played by Ulf. We began with a very exploratory chat about the game and its design, as at least one person had little interest in any…
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Getting Our Surf-Boards Under Us At Last
On Monday, my partner and I played our fourth session of Champions Now. This is our fourth or fifth series of twosies together, games that have included PBTA (not my favorite for one-on-one), narrative OSR Trophy Gold, and (our favorite) Spire: The City Must Fall. This time around, I am GMing and my partner is playing.…
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Champions Now: New York City Tabloid
I was posting some questions and observations about my Champions Now game on the Discord channel, but wanted to go into some more detail here. We’ve just finished the second session, and there are a number of things that have jumped out at me as being impressive and interesting features of the system. Some brief…
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Champions Now Special Effects in Play
Here some examples of how we’ve been applying special effects in our game of Champions Now, set in Seattle during Spring and Summer of 2020. The Devil’s Deputy, a villain with the ability to turn into a dust devil represented by the mechanical powers of desolidification and teleport. He also has a 4 speed, while…
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Unscripted & Unchained
Follow-up to this post, June 30, 2020 I am fully OK with politics as a topic and as a context for other topics, right out here, in front of everyone. Today it matters for this post. First, the details include that Edward James Bluddworth contacted me for an interview, as anyone can do, as invited…
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Knocked out — Champions Now
I’ve just had a session of Champions Now where a villain was knocked to 0 knockout. The players, being in control of the field for the moment, just blasted him a second time to ensure he did not wake up. Is that kosher by the rules? How is the rules about recovering the first time…
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First Champions Now Character Attempt
After an abortive attempt or two that went off the rails due to trying to build a 4/5e character, I think I got my eyeballs recallibrated enough to make a credible first cut at a CN character as it was intended. I’m posting it here to get feedback, especially on remaining 4e/5e assumptions that may…