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Adept Play
Tag: Dungeons & Dragons 1977 Holmes
(Title: Dungeons & Dragons including the cover blurb “Basic Set”) A fantasy game by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, edited by J. Eric Holmes [Holmes is now acknowledged to be the author and effective designer], published by TSR (TSR Hobbies) in 1977.
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Holmes & The Golden Medusa of Sorrow
So I played Holmes yesterday evening. I created pregens with evocative stuffs (an elf who is an “exiled noble from the cursed forest”, a thief ratfolk from the “guild of the forgotten secrets”), and I don’t like dwarves and halfings so I used the same rules for, respectively, Snake-peoples and ratfolks. I was feeling creative…
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March 2023 Q&A
Even a couple of questions can go pretty deep. There’s a solid look at initiative and order during confrontations, and some development of the “reverse mullet” problem observed in many role-playing texts. Please check out the attached file to see our discussion at the Patreon. Sean identifies the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition /…
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Role-playing culture and presentation
It’s been a very full six months for reconnecting to the physical and social activities here in Norrköping. Getting to GothCon turned out to be too demanding, but otherwise, I participated in various ways at Närcon (spring), Lincon, a service/play event for Ukrainian kids, Närcon (summer), Augustifesten, and just now, Kulturnatten. Only some of it…
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Q and A bucketload
For the last few months, I’ve invited patrons to ask me things, which I grapple with and collect as a presentation at the beginning of each month.. I can’t say I really answer them in an Ask Advice fashion, although you’ll certainly learn what I think. Sometimes it’s “I don’t know.” The embedded link goes…
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Q and A at the Patreon
During December, I asked patrons if they wanted to throw me some questions, especially pretty specific to games that I’ve published or perhaps know well enough to say anything about. The idea was to collect a few and make a little video response, to be posted and discussed at the Patreon. A quick point: if…
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Timing, movement, and maps
I think we have created a solid mini-curriculum about some critical features of play. The first part is Movement and maps, the second is Horses on squares, and here’s my next part. I definitely include the comments to the prior posts as part of it. If you find any other posts or sets of comments…
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The Lost City Session 2
The link for session 2 is embedded below, and we played session 3 tonight. Originally we were going to play 4 sessions total but we may go to 5, depending on how things go with the next session. Here is the thread for session 1, which also has observations from a one-shot that was played…
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Unscripted & Unchained
Follow-up to this post, June 30, 2020 I am fully OK with politics as a topic and as a context for other topics, right out here, in front of everyone. Today it matters for this post. First, the details include that Edward James Bluddworth contacted me for an interview, as anyone can do, as invited…
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Monday Lab: (AA)IIEE 2!
Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the “beating heart of the activity,” and Manu – the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago – is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.…