I’ve recently been reading The Sprawl hack for AW, and to be honest, I’m pretty impressed. Has anybody run a reasonably long term game with this? If so, how does it play?
I’ve recently been reading The Sprawl hack for AW, and to be honest, I’m pretty impressed.
I’ve recently been reading The Sprawl hack for AW, and to be honest, I’m pretty impressed.
did try a bit, however, sadly, nothing long-term
I have ran it for four missions I believe, there are still some balance issues with some of the playbooks and some bits of cyberware that Hamish Cameron is already aware of which will likely be addressed in future updates. Overall though it is quite playable and all my players have had a lot of fun with it.
I should also add that when we are discussing which games to play at our next session it is almost always one of the most requested
I have played the Shadowrun hack, but mean really wanting to try and play the Sprawl.
I’ve run two sessions, so just getting in… though, I’ve rewritten much of the basic moves and also tweaked some playbooks, so my experiences won’t be typical…
Hi Alexander, feel free to let me know what you tweaked and changed, why you did so and how it went! I’ll be working on a revision in a couple of months and I appreciate feedback.
Hamish Cameron , but, please don’t think that I found any real problems per se with the original! It was mostly my endearment of these moves and a desire to road-test them. On the other hand, maybe it will give you some ideas to use as well. 🙂
What is more important about Dark Ages, is the Dark Ages XP. I forget how teh Sprawl specifically works for xp.
Tommy Rayburn : Well, I could disagree, but it’s just a digression on this topic.
Anyhow, Sprawl XP is basically keys + mission-based.
The Sprawl is still very much a working document not a finished product, and AW is such a fertile hacking community, I’m really keen to see how people use it and what works and what doesn’t. I’ve just started playing AW:DA as well and there’s a lot of new ideas in there that I will think by hard about next time I work on The Sprawl.
So hack away, tweak away, play with everything, and if you want the finished game to be better, let me know what you do and what works!
The Keys are something that will change. The next version will still use keys, but I think they’ll be a bit mor tailored to specific playbooks.
Hamish Cameron , so far, I don’t have much feedback, except to say I think the Soldier’s name is misleading. I thought for a while about how to present it, because it really sounds like a fighty-type, but is more of a leader (who can also kick ass 😀 )
It’s sad, but it’s not the first time I’ve heard that. Sad because it’s a Gibson reference that I might have to excise.
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I got it right away, but I’ve still been unable to get anyone to read the trilogy so I wasn’t hopeful for their comprehension.
Hamish Cameron I’ve always assume the Soldier is effectively Turner. I had to reference him by name to someone for them to get what the playbook was about 😛
Turner is my primary touchstone for the playbook, yes. And the protagonists of New Rose Hotel, which is essentially a condensed version of Count Zero, so…
Figured, I really need to get that short story collection.
Have just started re-reading Burning Chrome. It really is a work of art. Gibson is a visionary, no doubt about it. He blows most contemporary sci-fi writers out of the water.
Hamish Cameron, the term Soldier doesn’t quite work for me either. Something like Corporate Head-Hunter, or something similiar, would work better. A more specific reference to his/her function rather than a general, coverall label.
I associate the soldier so strongly with Gibson’s work I’d be sad to see it go. Might be best to play the people’s chord though 🙂
Hi Jared Hunt, I know what you mean. Something like ‘Corporate Soldier’ would imply the difference in roles, perhaps. It would indicate a different level of warfare, a corporate level, which is altogether different from the role of a standard ‘soldier’ as we know it.