Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Circle of Hands
An Iron Age fantasy game by Ron Edwards, published by his company Adept Press in 2016.
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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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First game of Circle of hands as a GM
Hello everyone ! I've finally GMed my first game of Circle of hands (yay me)! I will try and retell it and include the most interesting stuff that had happened. Please be nice, I'm still learning 🙂 Interesting thing that happened numero uno : one of the player described rape in one of his key […]
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Monday Lab: Long form play
Here’s to participation, as this was the biggest attendance yet for a Monday Lab, and I really liked it. Everyone had a chance to chip in, and if we didn’t discover any One True Answer, well, some reasonable questions were unearthed. It’s tough to discuss long-term play without either idealizing it as role-playing’s most-sought goal […]
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Monday Lab: Intuitive Continuity continued
It’s been a while, but the new Discord functions are serving my needs to renew Monday Labs! To review the concept, these are discussion topics which patrons (any level) can participate in. They used to be organized beforehand at the Patreon itself, but that was a little clunky – now, at the Adept Play Discord […]
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Circle of Hands – Play Gets Metal
This is a post of pure enthusiasm for our most recent Circle of Hands session, which had one of the most epic and just plain metal conclusions I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s Venture two, the players are my wife and two of our sons (18 and 16) and they’re already very much Into […]
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Circle of Hands – Rules Queries
Managed to get Circle of Hands to the table last night – I'm running it for my wife (age redacted 😉 ) and two of our sons (18 and 16) and they’re having a blast. Happy times! Got a couple of queries after prep and first Venture that I'm hoping Ron will sort out […]
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Conversation: Where little situations come from
Sean Hillman and I discuss some confusing things about situations in play, specifically, what does preparation have to do with them. Seems easy, right? You prep it, then the group plays it – hey, the real (digital, video) games do it all the time, so we should just do that, right? So much for rhetorical […]
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Wrath (Circle of Hands Summary)
Foreword We’ve arrived at the second to last session for this series of ventures. Things got JUICY! However, players have further dug themselves into their fan favorites despite advising them to branch out. I get the feeling that part of this might be that the group has taken a bit longer to actually really get […]
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Building bridges (Circle of Hands summary)
Pre-Post Hello folks, I'm very glad to hear that you're enjoying these write-ups! It occurred to me that I ought to have included some player aliases so that way you all could keep a bit of track of who is who in all this. It also occurs to me as I'm writing this, I have […]