Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Undying

A horror game by Paul Riddle, published by Magpie Games in 2016.

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: The Other Kind of Map

Monday Labs, Powered by the Apocalypse, Relationship maps

June 18, 2018

Ron Edwards

Amber, Champions sensu lato, Circle of Hands, Deadlands, Dogs in the Vineyard, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Ganakagok, GURPS Goblins, High Fantasy, It’s Complicated, King of Sartar, Legend of the Five Rings, Microscope, Monsterhearts, Pendragon, Resistor, Sagas of the Icelanders, Sorcerer, The Sorcerer’s Soul, The Sprawl, The Watch, Undying, Urban Shadows

“Everyone knows” what a relationship map is, but they’re definitely not all the same thing, especially with these variables exposed: Whether the player-characters are in it Group preparation vs. single-person construction Criteria for links/connectors I also had prepared more thoughts on the Sorcerer’s Soul method, with the depicted Forbidden Tome map as the example, which…
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