Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: The Clay That Woke
A surreal fantasy game by Paul Czege, published by his company Halfmeme Press in 2014.
-
Autopsy of a situation
This post is really a follow up of this one about situations and reincorporation. I wanted it to be a comment in that post, but it became too long. It’s about “playing the situation” vs “preparing it”. So please check it and see it’s more about general skills of play than about The Clay That…
-
Silence and inflexions
Our The Clay That Woke game continues, and I may post a little more about it the following weeks, as I’m currently reviewing my notes from the classes (mainly Action in the Action, Situations and plots, and Numeracy). Here is a simple but interesting inflexion that happened.
-
Improving as “just players”
At Sam’s suggestion, he and I recorded a conversation about improving as “just players,” not GMs. We have 2+ years of conversation, shared play, and mutual influence between us, and we were able to ground the topic firmly in our experiences of play. The conversation largely speaks for itself. However, I want to highlight a…
-
Reincorporation and situations
This is a self-reflective post is about referring reincorporation and situation in play, and two mechanics of the game: the nameless conversation, getting a name and how all of those variables intersect together. For that reason, I’ll avoid any talk about prep in the article. What I want to celebrate, is what I see as…
-
Role-playing culture and presentation
It’s been a very full six months for reconnecting to the physical and social activities here in Norrköping. Getting to GothCon turned out to be too demanding, but otherwise, I participated in various ways at Närcon (spring), Lincon, a service/play event for Ukrainian kids, Närcon (summer), Augustifesten, and just now, Kulturnatten. Only some of it…
-
My experiences in tabletop role-playing game two The Clay that Woke.
The clay that woke was my second tabletop role-playing experience, my first being a game of sorcerer and sword played a week earlier. One of things that I really enjoyed about the clay that woke was that players represent minotaur’s in an ancient fantastical setting. Another thing that stood out to me was that…
-
The Clay That Woke
The Clay That Woke is a wonderful game to play. You play male minotaurs living as denizens in the ruins of the remains of a decadent civilization – with its very high culture only living as shadow of itself, but this shadow is still giving you a glance of the high wonderfulness of this society.…
-
Monday Lab: (AA)IIEE 2!
Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the “beating heart of the activity,” and Manu – the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago – is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.…
-
But not too silent
I’d been feeling like playing The Clay That Woke for a while, so I took it to Spelens Hus. It’s also Nate’s fault. I hadn’t planned to attend that week, but as it happened, several people showed up hoping I’d be there, so I got a message. I answered back with “traditional or weird?” and…