Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition
A fantasy game composed of the Player’s Handbook, the Monster Manual, and the Dungeon Master’s Guide; written by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams; published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000. At that time the company was not yet officially folded into Hasbro.
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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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Horses on squares
A figure chess rules system is one where the combatants take turns and during their turn they typically move and do some other stuff. There might be squares or hexes or one might do without. There are a few situations where most of them break down, with dynamic movement being the most glaring. My interest…
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Workshop: The Plot Thickens
Here’s one of the two workshops I presented at Lucca. It was prompted by two short videos I posted here in the past few months: The role of the roll and Emergent plot techniques, which have led me to a generally larger argument. The main point is that, there are two primary ways to play…
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Monday Lab: The Other Kind of Map
“Everyone knows” what a relationship map is, but they’re definitely not all the same thing, especially with these variables exposed: Whether the player-characters are in it Group preparation vs. single-person construction Criteria for links/connectors I also had prepared more thoughts on the Sorcerer’s Soul method, with the depicted Forbidden Tome map as the example, which…
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Monday Lab: Veil Power
Oh golly, let’s see a bunch of guys over-share about how much their characters have been having sex!! … for those few of you remaining in the room, you’ll see us talk well beyond the boilerplate. Sex has been freed-up in role-playing over the last decade and a half. This seems to have freed us…
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Finding D&D 3: The Fundamentals
Here, hop into this handbasket with me. We’re goin’ for a ride! It’s part 3 of “Finding D&D,” focusing this time on fundamentalist belief and practice, including but not limited to the OSR. I thought about waiting until part 4 was done, as these two parts only make full sense relative to one another. But…
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Finding D&D 2: Communion
It’s not a metaphor. I’m talking about D&D as religion, not merely “religious” as a colorful synonym for “passionate.” This is Finding D&D, Part 2, addressing TSR as orthodoxy and the resulting construction of culture and values. It’s still just a draft, intended for review & critique and so on. I’ve already spotted a couple…