Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Circle of Hands
An Iron Age fantasy game by Ron Edwards, published by his company Adept Press in 2014.
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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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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…
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Swallowed by the Dark (Session Summary)
Session 2 Location: Western Tamaryon, toward the river at the edge of the map. This portion of the region has been called Falkebrook. Rumors of a massacre make their way to the Circle Knights and the first character shuffle occurs. Only one familiar face in this one, Wulf the fisherman now with a wonderful charm score…
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Cause and Effect (Circle of Hands Session Summary)
Session 1: Northern Rolke, a traveling Merchant's endeavors. Next component, an enchanted Amboriyon sword in the cliffside crypts, tended to by a priest losing his grip on reality. We begin with Wulf (Fisherman Wizard), Bern (L. Entertainer), Lutz (Priest), and another who regrettably had to leave the session early. They travel a bit north of the…
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Circle of Hands (Illustrations and Character Portaits)
I’ve found myself diving back into Circle of Hands with a group of friends I had been playing D&D with. My style of artistic preferences leads to a lot of my work looking dark and spooky (although I would argue it’s serene in its own way in some cases). Please enjoy and I’ll be sure…
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Keeping them all together.
During one of my consulting sessions, I told Ron one of my major design concerns regarding my current project is the concept of interdependence: it’s a game about a group of people fighting things that should be well beyond the possibilities of the common human being. How do they do this? I want one of the…