I tried posting this to the Barf Forth Apocalyptica forums but it doesn’t appear to be showing up, so I made a…

I tried posting this to the Barf Forth Apocalyptica forums but it doesn’t appear to be showing up, so I made a…

I tried posting this to the Barf Forth Apocalyptica forums but it doesn’t appear to be showing up, so I made a mirror post on my blog.

http://nerdwerds.blogspot.com/2012/12/all-of-playbooks.html

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  4. Matt Strickling thanks for linking that. I was just searching in vain for my own copy of the trifolds you did for Juggernaut and Feral Kid, but they don’t seem to be on this machine. 

  6. Witch King is an old one of mine (with help from others for layout and illustration: shamefully, I’ve completely forgotten who in the years since I made it and they didn’t put any credits in the doc itself). Brood Mother, Catalyst, Fallen, Loner, Valkyrie, Living God, and Wurm are all playbook expansions by Jonathan Walton. They’re all pretty sweet.

  15. I wrote and illustrated The Devoted, based on a character I played in Ben Wray ‘s game (so he did have a hand in it) with input from a bunch of others from the irc room.

    I didn’t do art for any others though.

    I think people trying to sell other people’s playbooks is bullshit, but i sort of enjoyed the reading scene that cropped up. Having to hunt down the playbooks was fun, and the books themselves were sort of mysterious. I often ran into people reluctant to trade unless I have them something new, which is why I wrote my own. I often encouraged others who were having trouble trading to do the same.

    To me, that was the secret to making that trading community awesome. It encourages people to create new playbooks so they have an advantageous thing to trade.

    However, that initial rush send to have died out, so there’s not so much point keeping them scarce.

    With that in mind: http://db.tt/1SXRWNCW there is The Devoted, and you’re welcome to share that as far and wide as you like. I’ve got a bunch more if be happy to share with anyone who asks, but I wouldn’t want to post them publicly without their creator’s permission.

    Oh, and thanks to Matt Strickling for his help with the layout for that pdf, and for drawing my attention to this post.

  22. Tim Franzke I didn’t expand upon that feeling because I wrote that when I had only played once, maybe twice, and I was still feeling the game out. At first, the 2d6 roll was unappealing because I automatically associate 2d6 with an arbitrary system – have you ever played classic Traveller? – but those reservations quickly evaporated.

    I also didn’t own a physical copy of the book when I wrote that, and I absorb the written word into my brain more easily with a book than I do with a pdf. I don’t know why, I’m weird with a -1ongoing I guess. Anyway, now I own three physical copies, enough to pass around a table of newbies which I’ll be doing this Christmas!

  23. Dylan Boates Thanks for the link!

    It seems like when the community first arose it was kind of a neat way to keep interest going in creating something new, and the idea that you share your creativity by inspiring somebody else to be creative is cool.

    But… yeah. Almost all of the forum posts I’ve read haven’t been updated since 2011. People selling player-made pdfs which they received for free IS bullshit. And, as somebody who wants healthy criticism applied to his work, I can see no good reason for keeping my creativity secret.

    I would also think the authors of some of these playbooks would at the very least want to see their work get spread around. You never know when somebody might look at a playbook and think “Oh, this guy’s playbook is really cool, I wonder if he’s written anything else?” because I had one of those moments when I read the Grotesque.

  24. You know, I’ll admit there is sort of an elitist pleasure in having a rare playbook though.

    I’ve got a copy of the Four Horsemen playbook that was apparently printed in limited number with no pdf version.

    As much as it would be cool for more people to see it and have fun with it, I sort of like that artificial scarcity… It feels very much in the Apocalypse World style.

  25. Nah, I disagree. When it comes to gaming, I think hoarding for the sake of hoarding is just selfish. Especially if something is out of print, and the original author can’t be paid or acknowledged for his work. But this line of dialogue is traveling into an off-topic conversation and I don’t want that to happen.

  36. Thank you very much!

    A goodly number of gamers have asked about the playbooks and all i could say is that i didn’t have the time to play internet swap meet.

    Thank you again!

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