The Quarantine is one of my favourite playbooks.

17 thoughts on “The Quarantine is one of my favourite playbooks.”

1. Very neat. How did you decide upon the current list of ‘old world’ occupations (reporter, filmmaker, archaeologist, etc.)?

2. Thanks, Slade Stolar. It was fairly off-the-cuff; I’m sure a better list could be made. Suggestions are welcome, but ultimately the player is free to invent her own, as well.

3. It was interesting that they were mostly information gathering folks bwfore.

4. I like it! The names are great and communicate the tone of the playbook immediately.

   For “when were you released..,” I think the options could be more forceful, maybe just like,

   “weeks of lonely, barefoot walking”

   “days of painful thawing or surgical reconstruction”

   “hours of confused prodding from…”

   “years of shattered prescient dreaming, compressed into moments”

   I’m having a hard time extrapolating the intended effect of “favorite of the maelstrom,” or what themes its trying to get at.

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6. Great comments so far! I think that my decision to draw on “information-gathering” professions was unconscious but not meaningless: this Quarantine is all about learning, about revealing information, and any record of the past is fruitful stuff in Apocalypse World.

   Dirk Detweiler Leichty, I really like your idea of making more fiction-specific descriptions for the time since the release. Those are great! However, I fear that those wouldn’t leave enough room for the player to reinterpret it in their own fashion. Hmmm! Not sure what to do here. Will have to ponder.

   As for “favorite of the maelstrom”, I’m also having trouble with it (and have changed the name a few times; the original was “Star Eyes”).

   One theme I want to present with this playbook is that it’s all about the relationships with the other PCs, and so I wanted to make a move that’s all about colouring their interactions. This move is intended to entangle the PCs with each other, and for the other PCs to have an opportunity judge the Quarantine (who represents all of Humanity in the past, after all!), in a mirror of the move where the Quarantine gets to judge them by his or her own, antiquated moral standards.

7. I like this take. It is a very different flavor from the standard quarantine. Father memory maybe Shawty, one move that seems to jump out at me would be something like Old World advice. Which would be something along the lines of give advice based on your previous profession or career if the player takes the advice they gain plus one forward for a related to roll.

8. I keep thinking that I would love the name for that move to be something like “All the psychiatrists are dead and gone, Jim”, but that’s not exactly punchy. Can anyone help me rephrase that in a better way?

   Would it help telegraph the move’s intentions better?

9. Paul Taliesin what about old school?

10. Hmmm! What I’m trying to get across is that it’s all about the Quarantine’s different outlook on human nature, and that makes him special/set apart/noticeable. I like how short “old school” is, but I’m not sure it gets at that quite enough. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

11. Alternatively, there’s also not sure, which is kind of a send up to the movie Idiocracy.

12. the last clean mind?

13. “you cant see the maelstrom; when someone else tells you what they see there, take +1 hx with them. “

14. “when someone sees you stand before the maelstrom unmoved, they choose: fear, hope, awe or anger. In any case, they take -1 hx with you.”

15. alternatively, or as an upgrade, “when someone tells you what they see in the maelstrom, ask the MC a clarifying question about it.”

16. they could have a different list for read a person, both for using it and having it used on them.

17. Those are all pretty interesting, Dirk Detweiler Leichty! Hmmm.

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