Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Over the Edge

A surreal occult and conspiracy game by Jonathan Tweet, first published by Atlas Games in 1992.

Humanity and morality in design

Conversations, Morality

September 3, 2018

Ron Edwards

Champions sensu lato, Cyberpunk 1st edition, GURPS, Over the Edge, Sorcerer, Vampire: the Masquerade

A conversation with Jonathan Tweet! I hope I do not bore anyone by repeating myself about the influence of Over the Edge upon me in role-playing, both in helping me return to enthusiastic play from a doldrums period and in providing me with a fresh view toward design. The DNA of Sorcerer lies back in…
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Monday Lab: [AA]IIEE[EE]!

Combat rules, IIEE, Monday Labs, System Matters

July 9, 2018

Ron Edwards

Amber, Blades in the Dark, Burning Wheel, Castle Falkenstein, Champions sensu lato, Circle of Hands, Comme il Faut, Dirty Secrets, Dogs in the Vineyard, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Exalted, Hero Wars/HeroQuest, InSpectres, Lace & Steel, Lovecraftesque, Mongrel, My Life with Master, Over the Edge, Primetime Adventures, RuneQuest sensu lato, Sorcerer, Spione, TFT: Melee, The Pool, The Riddle of Steel, Undying, Zero

Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect – fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it “the beating heart of role-playing.” Briefly: design zone 1 is to establish a linear order and then to carry…
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Monday Lab: Nutz R Us

Emotions in play, Horror, Lines and Veils, Monday Labs, Powered by the Apocalypse, System Matters

June 11, 2018

Ron Edwards

A Penny for Your Thoughts, Asylum, Bite Marks, Bluebeard’s Bride, Champions sensu lato, Cthulhu Dark, Cyberpunk 1st edition, Don’t Rest Your Head, Dread, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Estimated Prophet, Headspace, InSpectres, Khaotic, Kult, Little Fears, Mage: the Ascension, Monsterhearts, Over the Edge, Psychosis: Ship of Fools, Robots & Rapiers, Shadows, Shattered Dreams, Sorcerer, The Book of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Mask of Nyarlathotep, Tremulus, Unknown Armies, Vampire: the Masquerade, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Wildest Dreams

It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed…
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Monday Lab: Veil Power

Emotions in play, Gender and sexuality, Lines and Veils, Monday Labs, OSR, Powered by the Apocalypse

April 30, 2018

Ron Edwards

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, Albedo, Apocalypse World, Circle of Hands, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, Empire of the Petal Throne, Everway, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Legend of the Five Rings, Masks, Mekton, Monsterhearts, Over the Edge, Pathfinder, Pendragon, RuneQuest sensu lato, S/Lay w/Me, Sex & Sorcery, Sorcerer, Synthicide, Traveller, Trollbabe, Vampire: the Masquerade, Vigil, White Bear Red Moon

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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