Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Cold Soldier
A two-player horror game by Bret Gillan, originally published in 2011.
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Dim memories, decaying tentacles
It’s a good thing I reviewed my drives, because I found this game session played in March. I think it was the last time I went to Spelens Hus physically before shifting to screen play. Cold Soldier is an important game in terms of processes and learning. It has a way of breaking open one’s…
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Cold Soldier: Home for the Holidays
After the opening of Christmas presents, my daughter (home from college) and I sat down to play our first trial run of Cold Soldier. Not your typical holiday fare, but the mulled wine in my glass helped to keep me in the holiday spirit during play. Given that this was our first stab at Cold…
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Right here and long ago
It is pure pleasure both to play with and to converse with Simon Pettersson, with the added benefit of his help & guidance during my first visit to Lincon last month. Patrons already got to read about my adventures with sleeping quarters there, so if you want anecdotes and details, that’s the way. When I…
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Dead protagonists, fleeting memories
Psychopomp is another of the many initial/proto game designs that Justin is musing over and playtesting, and he wanted to make sure it got into the scorching too. I had to think pretty hard about how to go into it, because it fits so strongly into a particular aesthetic and an existing set of variables,…
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Monday Lab 3: Boiling Pitch
The topic is group preparation, when you spend some time together creating and customizing the setting and situation. Whether it’s a pitch, a series of rules steps,a suggestion-and-approval process, or anything like that – we hit it from a lot of angles and a lot of examples. Joining me are Ray, Herman, Ángel, Santiago, and…
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Cold Soldier: Shambling along the avenue
My recent games of Cold Soldier – with Zac, Santiago, Ángel, and Moreno – make a powerful comparison.The first, in real time, is the session I played with Zac about a year ago, when I visited him and his wife Jann in Washington DC. I mention her as well because she was supposed to be…
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Cold Soldier: Crusader horror
Moreno and I have been meaning to do this for a long time, and finally got around to it: Cold Soldier, knives out.[see the attached file for the rules we’re using; rewritten but mechanically unaltered. This is the third instance of recent play I’m posting as a rapid-fire experiential bath in the game.] Riffing between…
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Cold Soldier: I am the Zombie Woof
Hey, more Cold Soldier in action! This time with Ángel, for a slightly less intercontinental session – Sweden and the U.K. But also, like the session with Santiago, placed in reference to a Spanish-speaking setting, based on Angel’s home city of Madrid. Our starting context used genius scientist and the past, specifically early 19th-century Spain.…
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Cold Soldier in La Plata
A couple of months ago, I invited patrons to play Bret Gillan’s game Cold Soldier with me, using my slight re-write of the text (no rules revision; see attached), and to talk about it. Santiago and I did so shortly afterward, via Skype between Sweden and Argentina. The question at hand, based on the points…