The Bloodborne hack of Urban Shadows I’ve been working on for the last few months (and as a Dungeon World hack for over a year) is finally ready for alpha testing! If anyone is interested give me a shout!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2CdOtIcsIbRazJTZEdEaDZrY2s
May be a while before I have a chance to run anything new, but I’m excited to take a look! Been grabbing all the Soulsborne hacks I see, and I ran Urban Shadows for about a year…
Jason Tocci Great, thanks for taking a look! If you get a chance to run it I’d appreciate whatever feedback you might have!
This is a neat take I was not expecting! Some notes based on first read through:
1. Most Soulsborne hacks I’ve looked at are really looking to model the combat from the games, but I really appreciate how you pick a couple core elements of Bloodborne you want to capture (factions, corruption) and pick a game that already handles those excellently.
2. I love how you did trick weapons as a choice between two tags.
3. “Scholarly Discipline” seems narrow enough to be more like a starting move than a corruption move (see also “Slayer,” which I see you adapted), especially as that playbook has another stat substitution corruption move. (I know the “Transcendent Mind” stat sub corruption move is direct from the Wizard playbook, but I feel like stat substitution on the combat move is kind of a special case.)
4. I am kind of surprised to see that imbibing or transfusing blood doesn’t appear under any corruption moves. Maybe that’s okay! Certainly doesn’t do anything to increase Beasthood or what have you in play. Just surprised me.
5. Love the Cleric end move. Perfect.
Jason Tocci Thanks so much for taking a look and providing comments! I will make a note of these for my first revision of the rules!
As far as the transfusion corruption thing goes, do you think a miss on the Cleric blessing move should add corruption to either the Cleric or the recipient? I considered using Corruption for the use of blood vials (which I still need to write up) but it seemed a bit too punishing.
Oh, I missed that in the 7-9 results! Never mind, that is a good use. 🙂 I almost want to suggest “add a 4th option so the recipient can mark corruption AND the cleric can too,” but then you’d kind of have to specify that can only apply when the recipient is a PC, and 3 options is nice and short, etc…
In other words, I think it works as is. 🙂