Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Trollbabe
A fantasy game by Ron Edwards, first publshed by his company Adept Press in 2003.
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Running a game or running away
I’ve for a while now been on a quest to learn how to run games for the people I enjoy playing with, starting with Dialect, trying to adapt Golden Sky Stories to what I prefer for play, running Trollbabe and now preparing for a game of Primetime Adventures.While on this journey I also participated in […]
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February 2023 Q&A
Lucky 13th time – I hope you like it, because this was a beast of a question series, across a wide variety of topics. I even get to revisit the Finding D&D series regarding current IP/OGL shenanigans. I promised Alessio a couple of links so here they are: Presentation: Why Glorantha (and its games) and […]
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July Q and A
These are some very think-y questions! Including a lot about beasts and monsters. I want to clarify some things about my response to Sean. First, here are the three “roots” of critical hits in text. They’re not intended to be in order, as I think they were simultaneous at this scale of history: List of […]
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Q and A bucketload
For the last few months, I’ve invited patrons to ask me things, which I grapple with and collect as a presentation at the beginning of each month.. I can’t say I really answer them in an Ask Advice fashion, although you’ll certainly learn what I think. Sometimes it’s “I don’t know.” The embedded link goes […]
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Late Night Post on New Players
I have had a fairly interesting 2 months introducing a whole lot of people to playing rpgs. This is hopefully going to be a pretty small post, focusing on some of my thoughts on the process of teaching/learning rpgs (I’m writing this at 3 am, forgive me if its a little messy). I’m going to […]
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Situation: primary and primal
At the Patreon, I began a deeper discussion of my breakdown of “setting” into three more useful terms: backdrop, situation, and scene(s). I presented it first in Circle of Hands and referenced it a lot since then. At first glance, these terms appear to be nested, in order from biggest to smallest, so that situation […]
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Listening to the past
Ever since Sean talked to me about consulting for his project The Empire of the Dragon Lotus, I’ve been looking through old files and papers for the earliest work by that name that I remembered from him, fifteen to seventeen years ago. I wanted to review some points of interest – especially since what he […]
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On Adept Play – An Overview with Ron Edwards
Recorded on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 This is an in-depth look at the Adept Play website and at Adept Press. This lengthy interview opens with an overview of the site and its features, then moves into specific examples of how those features are put to use: Welcome – Actual Play – Seminar – Consulting The interview […]
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RPG Conversation: Information, Pacing, Holding Back or Pushing
Hi everybody, at Ron’s suggestion I recorded a video conversation with the players of my recent Champions Now game. This kicked off as a text discussion, with Manu asking me after the close of the game if I had any insights, and me saying this: Hmm, insight I’m not sure about, but there are definitely […]