Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition
A fantasy game including components Player’s Guide, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide, by James Wyatt, Robert J. Schwalb, and Bruce R. Cordell, published by Wizards of the Coast (a division of Hasbro) in 2014.
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We Crossed Off Death
This post is about D&D and the tendency of DMs to go through acrobatics and contortions to (seem to) challenge the characters while taking care to not actually kill them – or let them fail. I’ve been playing in a group for a few years that’s made up mostly of my old high-school friends, so…
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Dungeons & Dragons 5e-ish
1 DM, 5 players. Online (Discord, YouTube). This group consists of audiobook narrators. It was originally an outreach for our new professional organization, PANA (the Professional Audiobook Narrators’ Association) so character voices are very much in style for this game. The premise is that fantasy characters have been magically transported into a particular genre of…
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Stop Setting DCs?
This discussion started with Sorcho (Ed Heil) on the Discord channel brought a video to the attention of the larger group. The video comes from the channel of Cetx Etc and can be found here. Feel free to have a listen, it is less than 11m in duration. In the video, the author expresses the…
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Cross-Gender Trouble and Play
There is a question that people tend to avoid asking in roleplaying game discussion, in my experience, even as they spend a fair amount of time articulating answers and implicitly presenting them. This question is along the lines of “How much am I allowed to deviate from my social positionality and my lived experiences in…
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Hrunburg Gang Life: Situation or Set Piece?
Hrunburg began life, and one day may continue, as a setting for a game that I started working on back in the Forge Days. The City That Thieves is its name and it has gone through a few permutations. When this group of players wanted some D&D 5E. they asked me to create it more…
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Adventures in Middle Earth 5E
There has been some recent discussion on the discord about 5E play and how it shakes out nearly ten years on. Like all D&D and its close relations, Adventures in Middle Earth has a lot of familiar parts, but I think AiME shows off what can be done with the system. Even with all the…
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Refusing the Dream
Here is dungeon two, session one for Planetary Convulsionary Evolutionary D&D 4e. In terms of emotional and creative investment, this session was intense. In terms of procedure and ‘labor,’ it was easy — we’ve climbed the first, steep slope of 4e’s learning curve, and from the word go you can see all three of us…
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I’m Becoming Predictable
After a few months on hiatus my D&D 5e group started out into the uncharted territory of Tier 3 play (levels beyond 10). They’re traveling to a cave that will allow them passage through the mountains to a desert land beyond. For context I prepare travel portions of the game by doing two things: Every…
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5e and Inspiration
I've been playing / running a fair amount of D&D 5e oneshots at the local games cafe recently (the owner says they often get RPG curious people asking about D&D and has persuaded some of the regular RPG evening attendees to run it more often). As a result of this I have been thinking about…