The news is a really cool playbook. I like the way they already pissed people off even before the game begins.
A few years ago on barf forth Vincent Baker wrote about the different kind of effectiveness across playbooks and tried to explain that the battlebabe was efficient on a different axis as the others, “brainscape effectiveness” or something. I feel like this playbook — and, in a different way, the touchstone — are efficient the same way the battlebabe is. What do you think? Is there something there or am I seeing things again?
On the plot-pushing axis, yeah I got the exact same feeling.
Do you have a link to what Vincent Baker wrote on barf forth?
What is the news?
Delos Adamski Yes! Here’s the first one: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=132 and here’s more: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=472
Noah Tucker it’s a new AW2 playbook. Here’s a link: http://apocalypse-world.com/AW2ndEdTheNewsPreview.pdf
Awesome sauce. Thanks mate.
I feel like they have more “fiction forming” effectiveness. What they do will have very big impacts on the whole world – and more regularly then a Hardholder.
Oh man, I love this. Are there other new playbooks? I wasn’t going to back AW2, but maybe I should.
3 new Playbooks so far
They also have some malleability, you could be a reporter, cutting through the lies of apocalypse world. or you could play a demagogue, a king maker. its kinda like the skinner, on a larger scale.
A skinner built to have a wider impact than a single target, but with less fine control over the results.
Exactly