Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Vigil
A vigilante superhero game in development by Ron Edwards (Adept Play).
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Situated characters
[This post is adapted from a Patreon post a couple of months ago. It’s relevant to the March Q&A so I’ve made it public here.] I’ve been thinking about a practical aspect of preparation which feeds into qualities of play. It boils down to a simple question: does whoever’s making up important aspects of the…
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Blunt trauma and justice
I’ve played a ton of Vigil in the past year, but not posted about it much. For those arriving recently, check out my Comics Madness post Is your hate pure? for what it’s all about. More generally, it’s one of my three simultaneous superhero game projects, along with Champions Now and Cosmic Zap. Like them,…
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Monday Lab: Veil Power
Oh golly, let’s see a bunch of guys over-share about how much their characters have been having sex!! … for those few of you remaining in the room, you’ll see us talk well beyond the boilerplate. Sex has been freed-up in role-playing over the last decade and a half. This seems to have freed us…
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Interview: Independent publishing, latter days – the sequel
This interview is from November 2017, almost exactly a year later than the Metatopia interview with Maksim Mohammedov, and a good comparison with it. You’ll see how both Vigil and Adept Play have emerged from the earlier points.
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Vigil playtest with Hijos de Rol
It’s almost right outta the box, with pauses and um’s and stuff – but it’s a great look at how topical and immediate the game is. Contrary to the question marks, the heroes’ names were El Santo and El Ángel Caído.