Hi!

Hi!

Hi! I don’t think I’ve talked much about What Ho, World! here but I think you all might be interested in it. It’s essentially my attempt to make a PbtA game that’s a) GM-less, b) Diceless, c) Card-based and d) Wodehouse/Jeeves and Wooster-themed! We’re crowdfunding the card print run now and I’d be very grateful if you could take a look.

The big thing with the game, inspired heavily by Dream Askew, is that each move (which comes on its own discrete card) automatically has what would be a 7-9 effect normally – you do it but there’s a cost, you only do some of it, etc. On top of that, each player has tokens broken up into four stats that they can spend to trigger move-specific extras: you can spend a Skulduggery token to hide your identity with an outlandish disguise when Sneaking Around, for example, or spend a grace token to make the character you’ve just introduced to the story with Who’s Who inordinately fond of you. The kicker is that these tokens are found on the reverse side of the cards that have your playbook’s moves on, so you have to work out which moves you have faceup and able to be used, and which ones you want to have facedown and usable as tokens to boost other moves.

Finally, I’m trying to blend in story pacing systems to keep the plot moving forward without a GM’s intervention. Every playbook has a Trouble Move that gets them into deeper and deeper complications but rewards them with wildcard tokens, there’s explicit character spotlight and scene framing mechanics, and random drafting of character goals and assets at the start of each game to give you your character’s personal plot.

I’ll stop talking now, but it’s a design I’m pretty proud of and think it’s worth your time!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1549920133/what-ho-world-a-roleplaying-game-of-farce-and-eleg?ref=apocgplus

Douglas Santana, main author of the upcoming Mirrors in the Ruins, wanted to talk a little about the lessons he’s…

Douglas Santana, main author of the upcoming Mirrors in the Ruins, wanted to talk a little about the lessons he’s…

Originally shared by Jay Iles

Douglas Santana, main author of the upcoming Mirrors in the Ruins, wanted to talk a little about the lessons he’s learned running Legacy. More GM advice is one of the regular requests I get for a revised version of Legacy, so I thought I’d give him a place to talk. Take it away, Douglas!

http://ufopress.co.uk/2016/07/28/guest-post-talking-legacy/

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Hi everyone! Lowell Francis from Play On Target podcast and the Age of Ravens blog will be running Legacy: Life Among the Ruins over Gauntlet Hangouts in September! Lowell is an awesome GM, and I am delighted he will be running some games for us.

The dates are 09.01, 09.08, and 09.15. Each runs from 7:00 – 9:30 pm Central time. If you’re interested in joining us, follow the link!

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/events/232710701/

EDIT: Poll closed – the Reaver won.

EDIT: Poll closed – the Reaver won.

EDIT: Poll closed – the Reaver won. Check it out here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J_c28VhSullkrwiU_lPhhKM8IhCSPYsitytmLHLDST4/edit

So, you’ve seen the things offered by the Synthetic Hive. Next up – which character playbook would you like to know more about?

The Reaver, who strikes into the heart of enemy territory, takes what they need, and disappears back into the wilderness?

The Promethean, with a head full of advanced knowledge and up to their elbows in machinery?

The Borg, durable, perceptive and cooly calculating?

The Savage, nimble and given fearsome strength by the struggle of surviving in the wasteland?

We’ll run this poll over the weekend – I’ll show you the winning playbook on Monday evening!

Our poll had a runaway leader: here’s the first playbook we’re spoiling from Mirrors, the Synthetic Hive.

Our poll had a runaway leader: here’s the first playbook we’re spoiling from Mirrors, the Synthetic Hive.

Our poll had a runaway leader: here’s the first playbook we’re spoiling from Mirrors, the Synthetic Hive.

As you might expect, the Hive is all about technology. Specifically, Tech. Most of their moves involve spending or gaining it, and especially with Vast Digital Archives the Hive has a strong incentive to go out into the Wasteland and harvest its advanced technology. They can be a strong ally for other families, able to use Nanofabricators to build any material surplus and Terraformers of Tomorrow to act as a force multiplier for others, but the surviving tribes of humanity should be careful – the more respect and social capital the Hive has, the more Tech they can accumulate and convert into an all-devouring Drone Army!

As a final aside, if you have a look at their statlines you’ll see we’re doing something a little different with the Mirrors playbooks – their stats say less about the Family and more about the state of the wasteland. Having one of these Families in play makes a broad statement about what your Wasteland looks like – and your Homeland, by contrast. That’s part of a general theme in Mirrors: by showing you how the ‘horrors of the Fall’ live, the safety of the survivor’s Homeland is thrown into sharper detail.

Enough said; here’s the playbook! Questions and feedback are of course welcome.

EDIT: Poll closed! Have a look at the Synthetic Hive here: https://plus.google.com/+JamesIles/posts/SQTztRo8ak8

EDIT: Poll closed! Have a look at the Synthetic Hive here: https://plus.google.com/+JamesIles/posts/SQTztRo8ak8

EDIT: Poll closed! Have a look at the Synthetic Hive here: https://plus.google.com/+JamesIles/posts/SQTztRo8ak8

We’re getting to the stage of playtesting for Mirrors In the Ruins, and Douglas Santana suggested we give you the choice of a playbook to look at. Here’s the four Family playbooks that we’re putting into Mirrors – let us know which one you’d like to see most!

Since its kickstarter a lot of people have asked about adding mad max-style vehicular action to Legacy – in the base…

Since its kickstarter a lot of people have asked about adding mad max-style vehicular action to Legacy – in the base…

Since its kickstarter a lot of people have asked about adding mad max-style vehicular action to Legacy – in the base game vehicles exist but they’re mainly used as props and for fictional positioning rather than any mechanical weight. For those who want a bit more focus, I’ve hacked AW’s car rules to fit them into Legacy’s mechanics – let me know how it goes if you use them, or if you have questions!

https://ufo-press.squarespace.com/blog/2015/9/23/legacy-the-road-wars

If you were interested in Legacy, my hack focusing on community and multi-generational play, I’ve just released a…

If you were interested in Legacy, my hack focusing on community and multi-generational play, I’ve just released a…

If you were interested in Legacy, my hack focusing on community and multi-generational play, I’ve just released a supplement for it adding 3 new playbooks and a bunch of other stuff!

Originally shared by Jay Iles

Legacy: Echoes of the Fall is now out! This supplement adds a bunch of stuff to Legacy, including the stretch goals we unlocked during the Kickstarter.

Check it out if you’re interested in:

– New family playbooks, from the agricultural transhumanism of the Cultivators of New Flesh to the revolutionary fervour of the Firebrand.

– A new tech subsystem, with 10 new devices (with associated moves) to use it with.

– A bunch of new settlements, places and dangers to fill the wasteland with.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152807/Legacy-Echoes-of-the-Fall

After a few years of graft and the support of friends, family, and kickstarter backers Legacy: Life Among the Ruins…

After a few years of graft and the support of friends, family, and kickstarter backers Legacy: Life Among the Ruins…

After a few years of graft and the support of friends, family, and kickstarter backers Legacy: Life Among the Ruins is now finished!

If you’re interested in a game that focuses on rebuilding and exploration and adds a faction-level focus to the Apocalypse World engine, go check it out here:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151507/Legacy-Life-Among-the-Ruins?src=g_plus_awcom