Another updated mini-playbook from the upcoming AW supplement by me and Joe Mcdaldno. This one’s about a Quarantine out of space and includes a shout-out to the SMM, because of course. (Also lots of classic rock references.)
Another updated mini-playbook from the upcoming AW supplement by me and Joe Mcdaldno.
Another updated mini-playbook from the upcoming AW supplement by me and Joe Mcdaldno.
P.S. Totally differnet from Johnstone Metzger’s playbook The Fallen, which is also awesome (I’ve taken moves from it before).
I always liked it! the SMM mechanics make it even cooler… and… really, the new art is stunning.
WTF are you talking about? This is the only Fallen playbook there is. Maybe you’re thinking of the Earth Man or the Earthling?
Don’t you have a demonic playbook in the Heralds of Hell that’s called The Fallen? Now I have to go look…
Ah, that’s The Damned. Huh. Nevermind! Still, go check out Johnstone’s stuff anyway.
The one thing I wish there was space for (and I might make space) is a line in Must complete the mission about how the orbital satellite can drop new components of your stasis.
For some reason I like the idea of this archetype following a dying spacestation around the world as bits of it fall off and crash to earth.
Otherwise all I can see is Yuri from Manhattan Projects. (“I am the Yuri!)
Agent/Combatant might need some alteration to remove Reoceanification (unless it is Space Cousteau I guess?).
I now want an Apocalypse in a ‘safe’ zone. Like a facility cut off from the world or in orbit.
Oh god—I just realized that’s what Skyward sword is. A world suffering from a psychic maelstrom, abandoned by the gods, a literal island of safety above it all.
The first AW campaign I ran took place in low-earth orbit. Jamie Fristrom, our Quarantine, was frozen in a space pod and had just woken up to find that the earth had been basically wiped out. Lukas Myhan, our Faceless, never took his space suit off and carried around a fire axe. He was terrifying. And Gray Pawn, our Touchstone, was essentially a “Reaver” brought up from the surface who’d been reprogrammed by a space monastery to be non-violent. One major stop in the campaign was an Egyptian-themed orbital casino full of sun cultists.
P.S. Thank Jamie for playtesting a lot of these moves. Space oddity was really fun!
Logos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graypawn/8686676889/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graypawn/8686676857/
Oh, right, I’d forgotten that Vlad (the Quarantine) was a lost Russian cosmonaut. So great!
And that Trench finally took just his helmet off when he changed from Faceless to Savvy Head.
What’s this upcoming supplement you’re talking about!?
It’s a compilation of the best of my AW material, illustrated by Joe (and hopefully with some of his input too). There are 8 playbook supplements like this and then a 16-page version of The Afterborn, my YA AW hack. No timeline for release yet.
Oh, and the working title is Aftermather.
Awwwww yeah! That’s super exciting! I will definitely be looking forward to that!
I miss those days of being trapped in low earth orbit. Good times.