Finally got a chance to read the play books today. Corruption is a really, really great idea. Adding that cycle along with XP makes for some intriguing game play, especially considering some archetypes can’t retire to safety. There’s a lot to chew on there. Gonna muddle it over a bit but I’m really digging it so far.
Finally got a chance to read the play books today.
Finally got a chance to read the play books today.
Glad you noticed that some Archetypes can’t retire to safety! 😀
Yeah you’re the first person to point that out to us. Makes me smile inside and out. 🙂
First thing I noticed about The Aware. Puzzled me at first but then I noticed it isn’t consistent and I realized its a statement about each archetype: some can have happy endings, some cannot. Sometimes the only way to get to your happy ending is to become something else, probably something a little more dark and broken. It’s great.
People haven’t commented on that yet? That’s a bit surprising. Well, to me. But I’m weird.
It sounds similar to Debts. Some archetypes start with a mix allowing them to owe some while some it owed to them. There are others that don’t start with one side or the other of that equation. The Wolf starts owing others but nobody owes them. I love it!
I noticed that myself, but figured the playbooks weren’t fully fleshed out yet. Not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, it is cool to have a character that struggles against an impossible burden. But part of me likes to think of a good end for my character. Though I guess if retiring well is really the goal, one could switch archetypes. But then the decision to walk away from one’s power comes into play. Lot’s of good meat to chew on.
David Walker – Exactly! It’s giving you some discrete options to push play, but you’ve still got a lot of ways to move forward in the situation. 😀
I hadn’t noticed this, but I like it! ^^