Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: The Beast

A solo romance and horror game by Aleksandra Sontowska and Kamil Węgrzynowicz, published by their company Naked Female Giant in 2016.

Bestial beauty

Actual Play, Gender and sexuality, Solo play

January 10, 2019

Ron Edwards

The Beast

The slow burn topic on my mind lately is randomization, for any and all ways it’s been employed in role-playing. As Justin and I discussed in the Design Curriculum series, solo games provide a useful comparison in terms of randomizing mechanics. In Aleksandra Sontowska’s The Beast, play is run simply through answering questions on cards,…
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Monday Lab: How Long …

Monday Labs, Situations, Solo play, System Matters, Twosie play

September 3, 2018

Ron Edwards

Amber, Apocalypse World, Bacchanal, Burning Wheel, Chronicles of Skin, Clover, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Everway, Fiasco, Hero Wars/HeroQuest, Kult, Monsterhearts, My Life with Master, Primetime Adventures, RuneQuest sensu lato, Sorcerer, Spione, Stock Birmingham 0:0, Swords of the Skull-Takers, The Beast, The Mountain Witch, The Quiet Year, They’re Onto Me: Red, Zombie Porn

… Has This Been Goin’ On? Alternative equally music-meming title: My Only Friend, the End. Or, wait, how about, Stop! In the Name of What? This is about how long we play, in real time. It can refer to the length of a session, how many sessions relative to a given fictional situation, how long…
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