One more from the supplement with Joe Mcdaldno. This has some of my favorite custom moves on it (Lead by example, Confidante, Social engineering, Reciprocity). Also, love that picture!
One more from the supplement with Joe Mcdaldno.
One more from the supplement with Joe Mcdaldno.
Social Engineering is one of the coolest AW moves i’ve ever seen.
Seconded! Andrew Medeiros may want to check it out :-D
Already spotted one typo and I think Lead By Example probably needs to be shorter, so text here isn’t quite final.
While I totally love these moves I think they are also kind of fiddly. Something I would only give to more experienced AW players.
Yeah, I still remember being amazed the first time I saw Social Engineering.
Wow. This is so. damn. good.
Reciprocity is crazy strong!
Here’s a slightly revised version of Lead (thoughts?):
Lead by example: Folks want to be part of whatever you’re about. When you mark XP, hold 1. When there are at least a few NPCs around, spend your hold 1-for-1 and tell the MC that someone here does one of the following, without you even having to ask:
– offers you some information.
– backs up your play.
– fights alongside you (can be picked multiple times to temporarily form or enlarge a gang).
– follows when you leave.
The MC picks who and how; and it’s not always who you’d expect.
I think that last sentence really makes it
I almost want to say something like “if a PC does it before any NPCs, they mark experience”, but that could get problematic if two people take the move.
In a way, I think this stuff is like a mandatory add on for the Touchstone. There is so many moves here that I am desperate to take with mine! (I have Social Engineering already)
John Machin I wrote some of these before the Touchstone and Solace existed, but I’m really glad they seem more connected to the other “official” material now, since there are more moves about trying to create something positive (not that it’s often fully or permanently successful).
Social Engineering has started to force my Touchstone to realise that you can’t “solve” people’s “problems” and then leave – because they always screw it up again. He is realising that the glorious chivalric past wasn’t based on ideals – like he had thought – but on force and is preparing for the shift to technofeudal warlord.
Awesome. Yeah, in my XP, Social Engineering often involves the Catalyst setting up a local government of some sort to serve as her workspace, trying to get people to act properly.
BTW, shortening Lead let me add a little bit of clarifying text to this one:
Reciprocity: The beneficiaries of your works insist on repaying the favor. When you perform a welcome but unexpected act of charity for someone, you may treat your service to them as barter for the purpose of making one of the peripheral barter moves.
I missed these when you first posted them! I love Confidante and am intrigued but uncertain about Social Engineering.
These aren’t like… are they full playbooks or some kind of mod?
I originally called them “Playbook Supplements,” and I think they inspired what DW calls “Compendium Classes.”