Hey, what´s up! First, this game is so great! Congrats! The reading was really inspirational.
Im getting ready to play a game and i have two questions. If you could answer them, it would be really nice!
Apparatus
With the move “The Abyss stares back” im afraid the players could take advantage of “searching the vast accumulated knowledge of The Veil in an attempt to understand humanity and what your place may be in it” and “grinding” humanity points. I dont have a problem with the other part (interact with something new[…]). Is that a problem? It is designed that way? How could i treat it?
Jam in Character Creation
So, the Jam is presented as something that can tie the characters to each other in the setting (like the Giri Questions). How should i manage this? should i, like, insist in the relations between their jobs? Should i suggest something more thight, like, idk, a corporation where they all work?
Thanks in advance!
Hey Edgar! Thanks!
For the Apparatus, I suppose they could try to spam it but that would be super weird in the fiction right. They just constantly have to find new stuff through the same source in The Veil. Plus, in a regular game a player is going to roll only about 3-4 times most likely, and then also have to choose to keep doing that same move instead of interacting with the players and what else is happening. If they try to do that I’d just inject some new situation they’d have to deal with.
For Jam, I’d have a chat first about what kind of game you want to play. What kind of cyberpunk are we going for? Is this like a AAA video game, an anime, a TV show, or a movie? What kind? Like a heist flick, a slice of life meets action? What do we want? Based on that I’d guide the jams to something that makes sense for those answers. If it’s 4 stories interwoven into a single narrative, like “Crash” but cyberpunk, maybe the overlap is loose. If it’s a heist flick, the jams could be their specific specialities they bring to the table for those jobs. It’s just something everyone knows they’re good at in the fiction as established before we even get going.
Then use Giri to contextualize it further. Does that help?
Very much, thanks a lot!