Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Dungeons & Dragons B/X
(Title: Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Game) A fantasy game including the components Basic Set by Tom Moldvay and Expert set by David “Zeb” Cook (therefore “B/X”), published by TSR (TSR Hobbies) in 1981.
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D&D play culture
This conversation runs parallel to the recent post-play conversation among the participants of my Lamentations of the Flame Princess game. Jon wanted to discuss similar things in terms of his own decisions about titles to play, so we took some time for that. For orientation, here’s my position: that the cultural presence of “D&D” in…
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D&D as habits and culture
This really could have gone into Seminar instead. I edited it as an epilogue to our Lamentations/Ottoman playtest and included it in that YouTube playlist, and it does fit and make most sense that way, but as an idea, it’s probably going to generate Seminar-style discussion. Maybe not the most serene discussion. I can’t think…
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Introducing Role-playing
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…
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Reflections and dissections
Here’s a conversation with Ivan, following up on his comments (and video) in the Finding D&D series. I split the last bit off to join the SFTV RPG seminar too, so this was sort of an all-over-Adept-Play discussion. It’s divided roughly into some “how we met D&D” talk, thoughts on fantasy in role-playing and fantasy…
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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…