Adept Play
(Finnish title: Drager og demoner) A fantasy game by Tomas Björklund and Lars-Åke Thor, published in 1982 by Target Games, originally under license to Chaosium Inc (Basic Role Playing); later versions include different designers and publishers. The English title of the 2024 version (Fria Ligan) is Dragonbane.
Drakar och Demoner (Dragons & Demons), originally published in 1982, serves as a cultural reference point for role-playing in Sweden, and many people encountered it in some form as their first-ever introduction to the activity. I’ve been looking into playing for a while but it’s been slow due to the plethora of versions and variety…
Looking across quite a lot of current play and preparation, I realized I’m riddled with cult members throughout all of it. Like fleas, or maybe less mentionable little skin critters: lookit alla them creeping and crawling around in there! I doubt we need to slog through any breakdown of the concept. Bluntly, it’s a lazy…
This was a remarkable opportunity and experience. Adding my old-book RuneQuest game session to the Gothcon schedule caught some attention, as the Swedish version of the new edition has been organized, and its publisher and authors asked if we could add a panel for some conversation. I swallowed hard. I would be sitting with Gunilla…