Author: David Rothfeder

Played in a one shot of AW this weekend where time did not exist.  I played James Dean as a driver and was in love with Ben Franklin who was a skinner and was bro’s with Annie Oakly as a gun lugger.  Of course Joan of Arch, a battle babe, was Franklin’s lover.  The game ended with a three some with Oakly, Arch, and Dean.  Much fun.  I’d love to play a campaign with like this.

OK, weird idea which might be awesome if it were ever supported.  Math World.  A math class run with as many of the rules of AW as possible.  All students must be fans of the math we do, the teacher barfs forth vocabulary, we do problems to find out.  Lessons last as long as they do, and hey, no prep.Would be awesome if it wasn’t completely contrary to how education is organized.

Hey, took my first attempt at writing a playbook.  It’s not formatted in tr-fold, but let me know what you guys think cause this is a first draft.  If people think it has merit, I’ll make edits, maybe even see about prettying it up and re release it.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B511-yaR3CdxeUtPbnhGNUpsZjQ/edit

It’s weird how Hocus’s are either hard and sharp or hot and cool.

I have a question about ‘Touched by death’.  What level of commitment qualifies as ‘in your care’?  Does that include members of your gang?  Followers?  Random guy on the street you fail to save from a lynch mob?  Should the line be one based on actions (I dive to in the way to try to take the bullet) or emotional (I should have done more)?

edit:  Should it be based on whether or not it effects your characters psyche?  (I no longer see life as precious because of this loss)

How do you decide what playbook to play?  Do you pick what you want every time?  If you do, do you find that you end up playing the same books over and over again?  Or do your characters feel similar   If not how do you like to institute unpredictability into your character choices?

What does it mean for a PC to use an improvement to take the Quarantine playbook?  Should it be allowed?  Should the player establish this aspect of their past prior to the decision or is it ok for it to be a spontaneous discovery?

I really miss playing AW.  It was really a fun game when I was in it.  What do you guys do when you lament RPG’s you don’t have opportunities to play but don’t have a practicable way to play them?