It totally works for us: Monsterhearts without an MC.
It totally works for us: Monsterhearts without an MC.
Without the usual mechanical work for the gamemaster, nor a need to push hard from the fronts it’s really just the fictional consequences that needs to be settled, which we do quite effectively. The tempo’s a bit slower, but it puts more spotlight on the characters and gives extra time to explore them. Top fun!
Anyone else tried something similar?
I am so putting this in my AW game:
I am so putting this in my AW game:
“Across much of the west,” C.F. Eckhardt explains, “…there was already a network of wire covering most of the country, in the form of barbed-wire fences. Some unknown genius discovered that if you hooked two Sears or Monkey Ward telephone sets to the top wire on a barbed-wire fence, you could talk between the telephones as easily as between two ‘town’ telephones connected by slick wire through an operator’s switchboard. A rural telephone system that had no operators, no bills—and no long-distance charges—was born.”
The system relied upon the creative use of everyday materials as insulators; in fact, according to Delbert Trew, “the most clever, most innovative cowboys used every conceivable type of device as insulators to suspend the wire. I have found leather straps folded around wire and nailed to the posts, whiskey bottle necks installed over big nails, snuff bottles, corn cobs, pieces of inner-tube wrapped around the wire and short straps of tire holding telephone wires to the post.”
I’m having a ton of fun MC-prepping, we just had the setup session for a new run of AW, set in frozen and isolated…
I’m having a ton of fun MC-prepping, we just had the setup session for a new run of AW, set in frozen and isolated western Siberia. So far I’ve made a custom list of russianic names, slang from Clockwork Orange and soviet military hardware. Started doing fronts, threats and custom moves.
Anyone have good stuff I can loot or recycle?