So this is what I’m going to do.
Apocalypse World +2
Inexplicable marriage of steam punk and Mad Max world overrun by giant monsters.
The characters are hunters, reminiscent of whale hunters. They sell the fat and oil from the beasts.
Tell me the most outlandish METAL thing you can think of to put in this setting.
This just in, the Chopper’s bike runs on monster blood, and has thus grown fur and roars when you start her up.
Oh shit! It’s soooooooooooooo wicked! Hope you’ll write about your sessions.
Yeah, okay, we will. I’ll post the custom moves when we’re done.
Proper hunters kill the beasts with a knife, after climbing to a vulnerable point. Probably quite a big knife.
I was thinking they have to use an arm mounted drill. HehehahahahahHAHAH!
When hocus gets augury with his followers they try to imitate the thundering steps of the giant monsters with the POWER OF TRUE METAL!
When you interact with the maelstrom it creates an actual storm in your head, so you can speak thunder and spit lightning.
Rapid sound pulses can be used to stun the monsters when going in for the kill. Some hunting groups use this as the basis for a soundtrack to hunt by.
When you hook a beast with your harpoon…
When you navigate the guts of a beast…
When you scale a beast on the move…
Andy Gibson Yes! I’ll be using that if you please.
Bone Drill [close, loud, messy, fuelled]
A purpose built drill designed to crack through the tough skulls of beasts. Runs on refined beast fat, and must be topped up after every major use. It’s customary for hunters to name their drill, for they’re as precious to them as good drooler.
Drooler [living, ravanous, dumb]
Droolers are dog sized fleas and the like that exude an acid puss. Often found crawling over beasts, over the years men have bred them to aid in the hunt, as their senses are keen for the blood of beasts. Their use is disputed.
News flash: The hardholder’s fortress-city is made almost entirely from giant bones and old tanks.
Tony Ferron and painted red with PATHOS!)
Particularly badass Drivers have cars whose frames are monster skeletons, their armored skulls perfect for ramming. If you didn’t kill it yourself, driving it gets you no respect.
(Also, maybe check out Age of Dragons. It’s a hilariously bad movie, but it’s also a retelling of Moby Dick with landships hunting dragons for the oil that feeds their flames. With Danny Glover as Ahab.)
James Etheridge Seen it, yeah it’s awful, but that’s not unlike what I’m going for I guess!
Except, you know, good!
The city-sized beasts are one thing, but the half-intelligent dog-sized mantis-things that live on their backs like fleas are just as dangerous, both during and after a kill. Metre-long claws, like scythes… but they make for good harpoons.
Tony Ferron Please be my guest – that’s what I posted it for 😆
Flaming cybernetic giant dobermans. Or Rottweilers. With biker gang leather jackets. And laser cannons on their shoulders. Being ridden by tattoo’d valkyries with double-headed axe-staffs and black leather battle bikinis.
takes out clipboard and blue pen
Hm, yes, hm, ah, okay, I’ve got that. Thank you Henry de Veuve
Tony Ferron You’re very welcome! It might need more Brian Blessed factor, though. (Y’know. LOUDER.) 🙂
There is a quite thumping that rings in the back of everyone’s head. Everyone hears it, no one talks about it, but it’s there constantly, in your waking hours, in your sleep, in your bones. If you’ll start to make out the screams.
Put a large playlist of metal in the background of each session but very quietly. Turn it up from time to time when dramatically appropriate.
They say that there is a biker gang of unstoppable skeletal warriors eternally riding the wastes with ember eyes and black coal teeth. They say they wield mighty axes that strike with thunder and fear. They say they only want battle and the taste of blood on their steel.
The Wolves of the Maelstrom are coming, each holds a guitar in one hand and a harpoon in the other.
Giant bony spikes pierce from beneath the ground every so often, the spikes are hooked so beasts and people get dragged down, to places unknown.
I’ll just leave this here. http://nerdwerds.blogspot.com/2012/12/all-of-playbooks.html