I’m planning to run Apocalypse World at a convention here in August. Initially I was thinking of using Hatchet City, but then I thought: how about a two-session game, with usual 1st session stuff in one slot and then a standard (though turbo-charged for pace) session the next day.
Any thoughts/advice?
I tried this at GenCon 2012. First session went very well as they usually do and had loads of fun, but everyone had made other plans for their second slot. At least they were upfront about it. 🙂 A great idea, I wish you loads of luck with it!
Check out the #KristaCon hashtag. Lots of stuff going on with this space at the moment! People can give you good advice!
I dunno, a large part of the excitement is setting up the world and local environment. How would you handle those who sign up for world creation and then fall un love but not have a slot for the game. Or vice versa where they can play the game but had no input in party creation?
Pavel Berlin yes. Essentially it’s an AW one shot. I looked for a link but the one I found is broken
Full title Blind-Blue & Hatchet City
You can have a look at Sunken Sidney too, which is a “Hatchet City”-like scenario
David Rothfeder Andrew Medeiros I’m definitely going to make the fact that there are two slots to the game explicit in the blurb (and remind front desk to highlight this fact when people sign up)
There are several helpful threads on this topic in the forums on apocalypse-world.com and storygames.
Basically Hatchet-city is considered to be too complex by most people (have you run it before?). There is a recommended 1st session setup where you get someone to pick a “leader” from, eg, the operator, chopper, hardholder or hocus playbooks then you have someone pick a “right hand” character for the leader from eg the gunlugger, brainer, angel and a “pain in the ass/left-hand” eg the battlebabe. The remaining player if necessary picks from the rest of the playbooks you have available. Then you run a directed 1st session with few npcs (eg <10) to take you up to half the time-slot. The the MC prepares a front/threats and you play a 2nd session for the 2nd half of the timeslot.
PS I’d like to play in your game, its at hobocon, right?
Thanks for the pointer Rob – interesting threads alright; plenty of food for thought.
Yes, that’ll be at Hobocon.