Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Cthulhu Dark
A horror game by Graham Walmsley, first published onine in 2010; published by Pelgrane Press in 2018.
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A Session of Squamous
So I got the chance to run a Lovecraftian-style scenario at this past weekend’s con, using the rules-light system Squamous. The scenario was inspired by some actual events around an oil company building a pipeline through indigenous land, but I changed the location, and changed the name of the tribe involved to something fictional, so…
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Turning Young People to the Dark Side (i.e., introducing them to rpgs)
Ok, so I had the pleasure of introducing my 13 year old niece and her stepsister to rpgs this Christmas, and wanted to describe what I did, with an eye to better understanding things like intuitive continuity and also how to do things like this better in the future. So after some lightsaber practice (Mia,…
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Star Wars: Dark Times
Ok, so I wanted to report on a couple of gaming experiences, looking for any interesting analysis and observations from y’all, and particularly with an eye towards understanding the difference between intuitive continuity and bangs. The first game I want to describe is a session of Star Wars: Dark Times, which for rules uses my…
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Monday Lab: Nutz R Us
It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed…