Going to run a two game version of Hunger Games using a World System for my normal group.

15 thoughts on “Going to run a two game version of Hunger Games using a World System for my normal group.”

1. Anton Dominic, you may be happy to hear this!

2. Basic moves of Apocalypse World mixed with playbooks from Sagas of the Icelanders readjusted for setting.

3. Patrick Henry Downs, doesn’t Sagas use their own moves though?

4. The playbook moves I remember are mostly about filling roles in a struggling community and the relationships with other people in that community. Combined with the basic moves of AW I think it would possibly work. You’d have to tinker with the stats a bit and possibly change the names of the playbooks. I’m not referencing them right now so I’m working from memory, but that’s the first idea that popped into my head when I read your post.

5. I’d use Monsterhearts, adapting the flavor of each skin to less supernatural means

6. Monsterhearts is probably best right now.

7. P.S. I have a young adult hack of AW, The Afterborn, coming out sometime next year, but it’s not done yet.

8. Heck yeah!! I was just thinking about how awesome this would be!

9. Thanks guys

10. J. Walton, awesome! Excited to see it come to fruition.

11. If I had to choose a PbtA game, yeah, Monsterheart. But if I could take any game I’d probably use Classroom Deathmatch, obviously.

12. Bryan Hitchcock has done a hunger games esque game in the past using Monsterhearts. I’d bet his weigh in would count for a lot.

13. Changeling

14. Right. To do sci fi, i would go with Apocalypse World. However… I ran a con game and later a campaign called The Reaping with Monsterhearts. The short version is some very powerful monsters come to town looking for a winner (sacrifice) and they make the young monsters fight to the death for the Prize. In the con game, we spent half the gameplay building relationships and then toward the end it became clear that they were going to have to fight each other to the death. I used an abandoned asylum surrounded by guards as the battle ground.

    It has the potential to get ugly, but it dissipates when the winner is taken below the city and impaled with the shard of a demon, ensuring the survival of the dark powers for another year. Muahahahahaha!

    I can provide the entire scenario for you, if you’d like to check it out.

15. Anyone have a good list of dungeon / world related moves? I have made a few, but I know there has to be a good list/group from AW and DW games?

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