Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Monsterhearts
A horror game by Avery Alder, first published by their company Buried Without Ceremony in 2012.
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A night out on the town
Into our second session and into the troubled, almost psychologically spastic efforts of our characters to be … well, just to be, I guess, at all. I had joked during the initial prep that I didn’t want to play this game after all, after we talked about getting conditions laid upon us and other all […]
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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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The Hunger, Unresolved Trauma, Cold as Ice
I’m playing Monsterhearts, due to a series of coincidences that fell together just right, so here you can see three undead teens try to be normal at a privileged, sequestered, high-pressure school. I have some kind of big topics to get into, but first a couple of details. We’ve played three sessions so far, of […]
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Monday Lab 1: Engine Rev
It’s given: “Powered by the Apocalypse” is an effective brand, and “Apocalypse Engine” is common usage for a presumed mechanics base. I’m not challenging either of these. I’m investigating what they may mean, and whether meanings differ. This is the first formal seminar activity for the new structuring of Adept Play. The activity was announced […]