Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Psychosis: Ship of Fools

A psychological horror game by John Fletcher and Charles Ryan, published by Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment Inc in 1995.

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…
Continue Reading
Monday Lab 4: SFTV RPG

Monday Labs, Science Fiction

April 23, 2018

Ron Edwards

3:16, Albedo, Bliss Stage, Broken Rooms, Bughunter, Cyberpunk 1st edition, Durance, Fading Suns, Headspace, Heavy Gear, Hunt the Wicked, Justifiers, Lacuna, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Manhunter, Mars Colony, Mekton, Noumenon, Ocean, PSI World, Psychosis: Ship of Fools, Psyk, Remember Tomorrow, Robotech, Shadowrun, Star Trek Adventures, Tears of a Machine, The Babylon Project, The Book of the New Sun, Traveller, Veil

Science fiction is a vast squishy thing spread throughout all sorts of media and culture/subculture. Got it. I wanted to examine its content in two pretty-specialized media: mainstream television series and table-top role-playing. You’ll see three dialogues: first with Ángel, then Ivan, and finally Moreno. I’m first to admit, the result is a mess: not…
Continue Reading