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.
My son Erik, 11, joined me for a visit to Ulf’s in Göteborg (Gothenburg), for a one-night session of play. Ulf was kind enough to run things and to include his daughter Alice and son Franke, as well as another adult, Andreas, and Erik really wanted to try 5th edition D&D for his first time…
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…
Ken Oswald is a game and comics retailer in Alabama, who’ll be giving an ambitious introduction to role-playing later this summer, He contacted me for sort of a brainstorm, let’s compare notes session. The question is, how might a non-role-playing, or sorta-semi, heard-about-it audience be best oriented? Without manipulating toward specific products, and without falling…
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…
The absolutely nascent stage of game design sometimes isn’t any different from how you found yourself spinning some feature of some other game you happened to be playing. One may even “know” that hey, wherever I go with this will be something different, even when still thinking so closely to the primary experience that it’s…