Really simple hack: change barter to favours owed. (Inspired by The Long Earth/War) is there anything I am missing at would create weird hints in play?
Really simple hack: change barter to favours owed.
Really simple hack: change barter to favours owed.
Sub!
Or Strings? So that it becomes a fictional resource (the barter) but a player resource (The strings) that can be used as per Monsterhearts?
But strings do things that are already done by different parts of the AW system (Hx, Manipulate move…). It would be redundant and confusing I fear.
Sure, but it just needs a slight change….
Spend a barter string you have on another PC to:
$ Add 1 to your roll against them (choose after rolling).
$ Subtract 1 from their roll against you (choose after rolling).
$ Offer them to mark experience to do what you want.
$ Force them to Act Under Fire (the fire being what they owe you) in order to carry out a certain action.
$ Add an extra harm to whatever harm you’re dealing them.
$ Place a Condition on them
You can spend a Barter String on an NPC to:
$ Add 1 to your roll against them (choose after rolling).
$ Add 3 to your manipulate an NPC roll against them (choose after rolling).
$ Cause them to falter, hesitate, or freeze up momentarily.
$ Add an extra harm to whatever harm you’re dealing them.
$ Place a Condition on them.
Sub
This sounds more like a system hack than a simple houserule.
To quote:
„And they helped each other out: I fetch water for you while your little one’s ill, you feed my chickens when I’m away up country. There was a kind of unwritten price for everything, recorded as ‘favours’, a loosely defined currency based on service and barter and promissory notes. “
—-
„I give you a room for a few nights. That’s a favour. Now you owe me a favour. We agree what that is before you move in, right? If it was Bill it would be so many pounds of fish. He does the favour for me, and we’re square. Or – if I don’t need any fish, then Bill can go to old Mike Doak down the street, who can shoe horses like he was raised to it, and give him the fish, thus transferring the favour he owes me to Mike, and then when my horse throws a shoe—“
From Stephen Baxter. „The Long Earth 2 – The Long War.“
Sub