Is there a PBtA game for The Game of Life?

24 thoughts on “Is there a PBtA game for The Game of Life?”

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2. There’s The Hood.

3. The Hood would be closest to this — you play city dwellers trying to get by while cutting corners and occasionally (read: often) cheating to stay afloat. Its a really cool game, and it was recently rereleased in ‘director’s cut’ edition with expanded materials.

4. Link?

5. The link I have connects to something called superhuman…

6. Its on DriveThru http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151133/The-Hood-Directors-Cut

   and you can search the designer’s website for some of his thoughts http://groundhoggth.blogspot.com/

7. Not PbtA, but Five Fires is about being a hip hop artist and trying to solve community issues with your art. It’s a pretty solid “ordinary life” game that actually seems fun to play.

   http://www.five-fires.com/#intro

8. Spirit of 77

9. There is Sagas of the Icelanders

   In which you play an ordinary Icelandic person in a more ancient time period

   /sub

10. Not a pbta but Fiasco?

11. One could try to make a “Soaped by the Apocalypse” hack for normal hospital, law company, countryside, music business drama ^___^

12. I’m making one set in Rural Quebec called Poutine. It’s currently in playtest.

13. Is it weird that these all sound Awesome!!??

14. Adam Robichaud​, you’re making that a PbtA game? When I played with Kelley Vanda​ at Forge Midwest it had almost no rules… Were we playing it wrong?

15. If it’s being turned into an AW hack, that’s news to me!

16. Adam Robichaud If you want some fresh eyes, I have two!

17. None of the examples so far sound like “normal life”.

18. I’ve never heard of this “normal life” thing outside of fiction.

19. The hood is a pretty good one, I’m reading it now.

20. I see how your ordinary people, but your still criminals, anyone tried using the hood for “non-criminals”?

    are there any Apocalypse games where your not criminals but still ordinaries?

21. Kelley Vanda , Dylan Clayton: Technically, Poutine was built on an MC-less version of PbtA (similar to Dream Askew), though you’re right… It’s a pretty far stretch from PbtA in its current incarnation. I’m adding things which are giving it more structure all the time, but it’s still pretty similar to what you played at Forge Midwest.

22. Marshall Miller, and anyone else who may be interested: 

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/00v6abd7wjao3ea/Poutine%20playtest%20v3%20-%20letter.pdf?dl=0

23. Alfred Rudzki Man I am really likeing the hood!  I still have to check out spirit of 77 and the Icelanders one!

    Thanks for all the suggestions folks 

24. Thanks for liking The Hood Christopher Moore 

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