Who of you has played with homebrewed Playbooks and how was the experience?
How do you deal with playbook extentions (or Micro Playbooks) like the Wurm, Devoted or Catalyst?
Do you put them on the table right away or do you have to “explore” some of them through In-Game actions like you would a compendium Class in DW?
I’ve played with both a full set of personally created play sheets (my Firefly inspired sheets) and with various Fan written sheets. Experiences have been mixed – sometimes awesome and sometimes very broken.
My advice – read through any play sheet very carefully before use. Try to think about how each move will work on play. Make sure that every move has a fictional trigger, that the trigger makes sense, and that the trigger isn’t something which is either incredibly likely or incredibly unlikely to crop up all the time. ‘When you are in danger’ is a poor trigger because it will be triggered all the time, whilst ‘when you ride a porpoise bareback’ is never going to come up.
– then, even though you have looked it over, make sure you know the play sheet is untested and you may need to tweak it after play starts
– if the worst comes up, and you do need to tweak it, make sure you involve all the players up front in what you are doing. Seek advice and work with them. Don’t just thrust a changed platsheet on them.
Maybe make a list of the triggers and only bring out the extensions if someone meets the criteria. That way they kind of sit there, taunting them to unlock the possibility.
Can’t edit my previous post from my iPhone…
I meant to say, make sure the PLAYERs know the playsheet may be poorly untested.
A player in my group used the Living God expansion book for his Hocus and is having a lot of fun with it. I just started playing a Maestro’D but the verdict is out. Our MC gave me the go ahead to play a Last Child and that will likely be my next character, but I’m not in a hurry to retire my Maestro’D.
what is the Verdict?
Verdict – some homebrew play sets are fantastic and add a lot to the game, but handle with care since they’ve had less play test time than official sheets.
stupid me. I really thought the Verdict was a playbook as i wrote that.
What is the Last Child’s schtick?
Josh Mannon Take a look for yourself
http://johnstone.wikispaces.com/file/view/AW-TheLastChild-Trifold.pdf/352379416/AW-TheLastChild-Trifold.pdf
I’ll do that in a bit.
It’s a creepy child in this playbook. I like the Orphan a bit more as a concept of a hopefull child.
I would liken the Last Child to the kid from the Exorcist, or the twin girls in the Shining. It’s a character that adds +horror to your group. 😛
Having a game with the last child, the orphan and the boy and his dog Playbooks would be really strange and different.
I’ve thought about starting a game with just the child playbooks: the Boy and His Dog, the Last Child, the Orphan, the Rat-Pack, and the Feral Kid.
I was thinking about a weird-based, creepy playbook game. Brainer, hocus , orphan, things like that.