Adept Play
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.
Here’s the follow-up to Conversation: Introducing role-playing, in which Ken Oswald presents an intensive and interactive summary of the hobby as activity. It’s hefty, at just under three hours, but full of titles (not summarized here in tags yet) and open doors for further discussion. I’d like to see some comments going through those doors!…
The second group to play in the Chaos Marches chose the fallen Wizard's Tower for their adventure and have been through two adventures so far. They fought bullywugs and found a dead elf. A rune on a piece of parchment in the hands of the dead elf lead to a basalt platform, perfectly round, with…
Setting / Backdrop has come up in some recent discussions as well, regarding a game in design and situations. How much is too much or too little? I think that depends on your taste. A game like Symbaroum is heavy setting. Glorantha is heavy setting as well and it changes depending on the system you…
Sean Hillman and I discuss some confusing things about situations in play, specifically, what does preparation have to do with them. Seems easy, right? You prep it, then the group plays it – hey, the real (digital, video) games do it all the time, so we should just do that, right? So much for rhetorical…
About a week or so ago, with so many folks having issues going into quarentine quietly and needing relief, I started organizing some online play. There are about 50 people in the group now and thankfully other folks are stepping up to run, lol. Most of them will be familiar with D&D 5E or somethign…
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.…
Ok, so here’s what I’ve been doing in my D&D campaign. I’m putting it here because I want to contrast it with the Star Wars game, looking for deeper understanding and analysis. Anyway, the basic setting is that the world is currently ruled by a decadent, decaying Elven Empire, where humans are the main slave…