So this past weekend I ran a fun AW game and I did playbook selection a bit differently.

Originally shared by Delos Adamski

So this past weekend I ran a fun AW game and I did playbook selection a bit differently. Instead of just putting a pile of sheets in front of people I instead asked leading questions like “Who is in charge?” and then offered three play books for that…

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/04/17/apocalypse-world-quick-start/

3 thoughts on “So this past weekend I ran a fun AW game and I did playbook selection a bit differently.”

Meguey Baker says:

April 17, 2015 at 12:48 pm

This seems like a sound process.
Tommy Poole-Frank says:

April 17, 2015 at 1:52 pm

This is brilliant! I wish I’d thought of this before starting the first session of my new AW campaign. Definitely will be borrowing from this technique in the future. Seems like there’s lots of ways you could arrange these questions to create a multitude of scenarios.
Delos Adamski says:

April 17, 2015 at 1:54 pm

Seems like folks like this so I’m writing up another one right now. Will have it out on Monday. I’m going to try for new combos and different situations. The next one will have one person coming to destroy a small group of survivors.

I’m also going to start adding in love letters to the players with custom moves to help push the game in a way that will cause conflict and help promote agendas.

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