Took John Harper’s Bootleggers to the local comic/game shop last night to see if I could seduce any stragglers into playing! That didn’t work, because everybody was playing D&D5e – sadness!
Met a very friendly party who let me drop in to their game with a pregen, though! I played Rook Rosethistle, charismatic Criminal Rogue. It was all right — no complaints, although I did at one point exclaim out loud (after getting a 22 and a 27 on two stealth checks to set up for a backstab and then blundering an attack roll) “But but but… fictional positioning!”
And hey! The party fighter is a Powered by Apocalypse enthusiast, I learned, when I pulled out my copy of DW to make up a character name! We stayed after the game ended and talked about all thing PbtA. We talked Fate too, and I pointed out some PbtA players in our area.
Overall the night was a net Gain, I’d say! Anyone else ever stumbled across PbtA fans unexpectedly?
The weirdest surprise connection for me was at the playground last year talking to the parents of the kid our kid was playing with when it came out that we were going to PAX, and that we design games, and the parents were big fans. Totally unexpected moment.
That’s awesome
I someone who also enjoyed that brand of rpg at a job interview. We came to talk about our hobbies as we took the same train home. So having similar interests helped start a friendship. To be honest it wouldn’t have needed to be AW specifically but it was one of the games we talked about together with Monsterhearts.
She mentioned learning about AW in a fetish themed chatroom, so that could be unexpected as well.
Tim Deschene We were on a narrow road – then goblin ambush. I dive off the cart into the woods and say I’m sneaking forward to loop around the goblin archer and stab the back of his face. GM says roll stealth, I get a 22. Into the woods I go! GM says I’ll arrive on my next turn — fair enough, says I, I’m skulking and probably slow!
Next turn I want to finish moving and stab. GM says to roll stealth, which I think is eh because I already am sneaking but I see where they’re coming from, so I ask if I can can have advantage (which apparently in stealth is a flat +5). They’re like “we’ll see.”
…Okay! So I get the 27 and I’m all stealth’d up and the sword is out and I’m gonna stab! And the GM is like “well roll to attack since you could technically still fumble.”
That was where I was like, y’kidding me? Okay, but I ask about advantage since I was so stealthy and they’re like yeah, so I roll two dice and get a 5 and a 7.
So that is my story of playing a strategic rogue who rolled two excellent stealth rolls and then got denied my Backstab ability in my D&D5e one shot.