My self, and some of the blokes in the Dungeon World tavern are contributing to this idea of a Survival/zombie games based on Apocalypse World. Thoughts? ideas? contributions?
Is this redundant? too mechanics heavy? too light?
I plan on it ultimately being 20-30 pages for running a oneshot or a few short games. This probably won’t turn out to be a full-blown game.
Why not just have stats run from 3 to -3 (Useless)?
This always subtracting 3 is weird.
true. it just bugged me that 0, +1, and +2 still mean injured. but it’s a lot simpler
You could probably evoke the injury well with good character sheet design, but it’s no problem keeping 0 to 6. Just change move thresholds to 13+, 10-12, 9-.
there’s an idea! thanks James!
Before even looking, is the game based on day to day survival, combat or fear?
I have seen other Zombie AW hacks, but they are usually more combat heavy.
yeah. I still don’t know how to handle combat. I’m honestly stumped. But I think the survival mechanics I’ve got in here are interesting, and some of the scavenger bits.
But, this may lead to nothing. I’m just having fun refining and creating new ideas. Any input is highly valued!
Have you checked the other few hacks that also didn’t get far? I can find that list if you can not. They could help.
ooh! I would be very interested. I’ve only been fiddling with this for a week, and I don’t even like survival games. I just wanted to see it it might turn out.
UPDATES: I updated a lot of things, including the over-all organization of the system. I want it to be more modular than most of the -World games. Feel free to add your own expansions!
Tommy Rayburn did you ever find that list of aborted hacks? mine is starting to lose blood….
There is a recent one I am missing, but here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxOLKvL9ehx2Z0dQam1ZYzU5QTg&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0a_iGRNRo6BVk5ZT0hoamtjcVE#
Creating a hack is def. time consuming. I have been developing an alteration of WoD books into AW mechanics, I am a year in. Many people have came and gone, but I am still pushing through.
do you know who owns these? There is some great stuff here. I’d like to incorporate some if it.
I do …. Will send you the links I found them later