Author: Delos Adamski

I have a question about Single Combat (SC) vs Chaotic Free For All (CFFA).

Say you have one PC vs a group of people. All of the group are on the same side and are one gang.

Which move should I be using?

Vincent Baker

Was it ever said how many new play books we were getting with 2e AW? By new I mean not released with the first slew of play books (so the faceless, counts as new for this question)

Vincent Baker

My PbP group just finished our first mission/run. Take a look at this PbtA hack of Shadowrun.

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/10/30/sixth-world-a-play-through/

Question:

Gunlugger has +3 Hx with Savvyhead

Savvyhead hits the Gunlugger for 3 harm

Is the Gunlugger at +1 Hx with and Xp or back to +3 with an Xp?

And yes this just happened in my game and yes the savvyhead smoked the gunlugger.

I started up another AW play by post. The below link leads to my blog which gives a quick overview of what we’re doing, but in there is a link that takes you to the game itself. We’re doing the whole thing via google docs, and so far it’s working well. We’re in “session 1” as of now so there isn’t a lot of story just yet, but the world we’re building is getting interesting. So if you ever wanted to run a play by post but wasn’t sure how to tackle it, maybe this way would work for you.

Also if my players see this post, give a shout out!

Henry de Veuve Russell Engel EJ Borchardt Todd Knealing 

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/09/25/new-apocalypse-world-play-by-post-started/

I finally got my hands on Hatchet City. My only question was “Why did it take me so long to find this?!” This would have been so helpful for all the times I ran AW one shots. The picture links to my review of it.

Direct link to Hatchet City

 http://bignose.whitetree.org/tmp/apocalypse-world/hatchet-city.pdf

I’m hoping to run this in the near future. There are a bunch of NPCs so I made a MC list and a player hand out. I left blanks on the lists for notes and only added in things that are directly said in Hatchet City.

MC Version

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-1hpUdt5dOX7wSjDZTc6MWJ5MB38cwHexbDrqNo6maM/edit?usp=sharing

Player Handout

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgrEMQ2tRTPPe4gwTVqNqu-G-5EpzQpuJsRfbwpOi2U/edit?usp=sharing

The player handout is nearly identical to the MC version but sans the important notes of who is a spy and what is driving certain NPCs. If you have any suggestions to the handouts let me know.

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/05/25/hatchet-city/

So here is a question for you guys. Can you sell me on playing the hocus? I’ve seen it in play once and I just didn’t see the appeal. Maybe it was how he played it. Not sure. Anyone have any great hocus stories?

Just got done playing AW2 with some high schoolers. It was freaking nuts. All of my players were first timers to AW at all. We had a:

Hocus

Gunlugger

Brainer

Driver

Quarantine

Skinner

It was pretty fun, but we ran into some things that made me scratch my head a bit, and I was hoping to pick everyone’s brain on how they would handle it.

1. The brainer and skinner decided to try to start mind controlling as many people in the town while the hocus was away. Basically the skinner was do his thing to keep all eyes on him and the brainer wanted to just walk through and touch as many as he could with his violation glove. I just had him roll once and let him have a small gang at his disposal. Otherwise he wanted to just roll for each one and since his Weird was highlighted and at +3 would just keep scoring more and more xp. What would you have done when you brainer wants to take over the town? (Note: All the players left in town while the hocus was gone wanted to just burn it to the ground and had no problem with the brainer doing this, so no PC was going to step in)

2. Vincent Baker This might take the master to answer this one. The driver and gunlugger got in a fight. They do battle with the hand to hand move. The gunlugger kills the driver outright while the driver won the seize the advantage. What happens when the victor of the fight dies? Our driver took the “life is unattainable” option to stop the harm (which I think is how it works), but if the victor dies, does the loser still have to choose? (Of course if Sir Vincent doesn’t want to answer this since the game is still in Alpha I totally understand and will wait patiently for the next morsel of update on his Paetron that I’m sure everyone on this community is on…)

3. The driver wanted to take the “improve cool by 1 (max +2)” but then realized he started with + 2, I assume this was just an error and the improvement should say +3.

That’s all I can think of now for questions. I’ll post the story and play report sometime soon. Probably Monday.