At long last, a new version of the playtest kit for my Cold War espionage game “The Service”!
It’s a (mainly) mission-based game that is made to emulate the kind of gritty, bureaucratic, dirt-under-your-fingernails espionage that you would encounter in Le Carré, Len Deighton or The Sandbaggers.
I had an earlier version up here a while ago. A lot of this will be familiar if you already saw that one, but I’ve overhauled bits and pieces throughout.
Big shout-out to Acronico Meia Noite who came up with most of the Crises and provided me with much needed help and encouragement. Huge thanks also to Marshall Miller for giving a lot of extremely well-though out feedback to the previous version.
If you notice mistakes, faults, typos or stuff that makes your blood boil, I’m super grateful for any feedback! This is still a work in progress, so anything that makes it better is much appreciated.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ySGypMo2OkBG0tmZkeV5Fj8d83SfnoE1
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ySGypMo2OkBG0tmZkeV5Fj8d83SfnoE1
P.S. Acronico Meia Noite, I didn’t get your special Playbook The Asset layouted in this version, but rest assured I will incorporate it at some point.
Where can we follow development of this project post-G+?
Have you looked at the Gauntlet Forums? There are a lot of game developers there who can provide constructive criticism and advice
Jeremy Downey at the moment, I’m just getting started on Discord, under my name, in the Apocalypse World channel. I’m under my name at itch.io as well and I just joined the PbtA-community on Reddit. If you want, you can check out my site on rocketsurgeongames.com, where I’ll try to be more active as well.
ETA: I’ll check out the Gauntlet Forums as well, thanks for the tip! I’ve heard other people talk about them as well.
rocketsurgeongames.com – Rocket Surgeon Games
Oh, here’s some play aids; sheets to track crises, opposition and assets.
drive.google.com – Crisis_Opponent_Asset_sheets.pdf