Weird Driver expanded Playbook
The Partner
When your car has been possessed by the Spirits/Wolves of the Psychic Maelstorm…
Choose the spirit
The Lovebug; Want; want: sexual Energy
Christine; want: Murder
Kitt; want: secrets
Bumblebee; want: Chaos
Cars Hunger
Your car begins with hunger=0.
Every time you use No Shit Driver, it hunger increases by 1.
If it hunger reaches 4+ you can’t use any of your moves relating to it anymore until you
If you fullfill one of it’s wants give it -1 hunger.
Driven by Ghosts: When you tell your car to do something or get something for you, roll +Weird
On a 10+ choose both
On a 7-9 choose 1
– You get exactly what you asked for
– It doesn’t increase it’s hunger by 1
On a miss, your car goes immediately to hunger+4.
Additional Moves
Reconfiguration
Tell the spirit in your car what it needs to become, give it enough material, wait a night and give it +2 hunger.
You can then recreate the Car , give it a new profile, frame, strenghts, weaknesses and looks.
Spirit in the Machine: you seek the advice of your car. Roll+weird to see what it directs you to do. On a 10+ mark experience and take a +1 if you do as your car wishes. On a 7–9, take a +1 if you do what it wants and act under fire if you don’t. On a miss, it has its own agenda and act under fire if you don’t follow it.
Parasitic Partnership: When you have fullfiled your cars hunger, take +1 forward.
I don’t know if punishing No Shit Driver is fair here or how to balance that…
any more ideas for spirits?
Hitler Car? Like, a car that used to belong to a psychopathic dictator of some sort.
wait. What about the Popemobile?
Both are probably offensive though.
I don’t think Apocalypse World shies away from offence very often…
Tim Franzke Have you seen The Wraith starring Charlie Sheen? This reminded me of that.
I think I would change Spirit in the Machine to just give the car +insight. But otherwise it’s good. Definitely has a “I made a pact with the devil, and the devil is my car” kind of feel.
I like it!
A nice little thing i noticed. When you loose Reconfiguration you loose the stat boosts you got from working on it at a Workplace. That’s cool. All the care you put into it get’s lost when you say “naah, i don’t like you like this anymore”