Author: T. Franzke

New Playbook (just Text, Tri-Fold will come) 

It isn’t something completly unique or so, more of a combination of AW Driver and DW Ranger but hey, you have something to play with.

I will give the tri-fold out when it is ready. It would be cool if someone could shoot me the Hollow and Selkie (Monsterhearts Skins) for it. 

Introducing

The Master of Hounds 

We contain ruthless predators within, call them wolf or ambition or rage but it is there. Only with full control of this wolf can we survive. That’s why we have laws to not be on each others throats at all time. Alphas make these laws and the other packmembers follow. Law is all that seperates us from the howling within. 

But law, to far removed from the beast makes us weak. We loose our claws and our fur falls out so we are cold and without weapons.

The only law that makes us strong it the one close to the beast. Pack law.

I am this law

Homo homini lupus.   

NAME

Argos, Fang, Ace, Toto, Lockjaw, Beethoven, Hooch, Marley, Rex, Bolt, Lassie

Sonya, Beau, Concorde, Flash, Hidalgo, Spirit, Artax, Cisco, Rigel, Pokey

Nala, Marlin, Sarafina, Kenai, Naveen, Sadie, Flik, Remy

Lams, Sheba, Friskies, Felix, Milk-Bone, Winalot, Kibbles, Avoderm, 

 

STATS

Cool +1 Hard +2 Hot+1 Sharp-1 Weird=0

Cool +1 Hard +2 Hot+2 Sharp=-1 Weird=-2

Cool +0 Hard +2 Hot=+1 Sharp+1 Weird=-1

Cool +2 Hard +2 Hot=0 Sharp=-2 Weird=-1

MOVES

You get all the basic moves. You get Command and then choose a second Master of Hounds Move 

HX

Everyone introduces their characters by name, look and outlook. Take your turn. 

List the other characters‘ names.

Go around again for Hx. On your turn

Tell everyone else Hx -1, you don‘t really get people individually. 

On the others‘ turns: 

Everyone, if they belong to a gang, have followers or something similar, whatever number they tell you, give it +1 and write it next to the character‘s name

*Choose one of them who was with you, when you tamed your first beast whatever number  this player tells you, give it +1 and write it next to the character‘s name 

*Choose one player who attacked one of your animals recently, whatever number this player tells you, give it +1 and write it next to the character‘s name 

LOOK

man, woman, ambiguous, transgressing

fur clothes, shredded clothes, leather clothes, 

circus animal trainer clothes, showy clothes

Scarred face, animalistic face, tattooed face,

rugged face, busted face

hawklike eyes, squinting eyes, weary eyes, mad eyes

hounded eyes 

hard body, overbuilt body, scarred body, crooked body 

GEAR

In addition to your pack of animals you get 

* oddments worth 2 barter 

* one animal control weapon

* one people control weapon

animal control weapon, choose 1 

Tranquilizer Gun (s-harm far  reload) 

A whip (1 harm hand  close)

A heavy chain (2 harm hand area)

human control weapon, choose 1

.38 Revolver (2 harm close reload loud) 

Machete (3 harm hand messy) 

Sawed-off (3 harm close reload messy)

PACK OF ANIMALS  

You have a pack of 3-12 violent animals 

Choose the kind of animal

Lupine

Feline

Bovine

Avian

Reptilian

Insectoid

Mutant 

Choose of these profiles: 

Ferocity +2, health +1, 1-Armor Instinct+1  

Ferocity +2, health +2, 0-Armor Instinct+1 

Ferocity +1, health +2, 1-Armor Instinct+1 

Ferocity +2, health +1, 2-Armor Instinct+2 

Choose as many strengths for the animals in your pack as their ferocity: 

fast,  huge, strong, quick reflexes, tireless, camouflage, intimidating, keen senses, stealty, omnivore

Your pack is trained to attack and kill people, choose as many other trainings as their health

search, hunt, scout, guard, perform, labor, travel, steal,  

Choose as many weaknesses as their Instinct

flighty, savage, slow, broken, frightening, forgetful, stubborn, lame, mad, sickly

Moves

*Command

When you work with your pack of animals in something they are trained in 

and you do something under fire, add their ferocity to your roll

and you go aggro add their ferocity to your roll

and you seize by force, add their ferocity to your roll

and you read a situation or pack, add their ferocity to your roll

and you seduce someone,  add their help to your roll

and you take harm, you can add their armor to your armor but they take the harm you know…

If you work with your animals and someone interferes with you, they add their instinct to their roll 

O Well trained 

Chose another training for your pack of animals

O _Pack orde _

When you read a group of people roll+hard

* Who is the pack alpha 

* Who is the pack omega

* How can I damage this pack

* Who in this pack is easiest to manipulate 

Who is fighting with the pack alpha for power 

O Security in numbers 

When you open your brain to the psychic maelstorm and are in the protection of your pack of animals you can roll+hard instead of +weird

O Primal Howl

When you howl like a beast that stalks the night you get the effects of going aggro on all enemies within earshot with the demand being “flee in terror”. If they suck it up they take s-harm.

O Animal Speak 

You can talk to animals and can use moves on them like on humans and they get +insight

Special 

When you have sex with someone they smell a bit like you (and you will smell a bit like them). They can use the Command move once 

Advancement

get +1 hard (+3)

get +1 sharp (+2)

get +1 cool (+2)

take another Master of Hounds move

take another Master of Hounds move

take a move from another playbook

take a move from another playbook 

get a breeding pit and training ground where you can work on animals like on tech

get a real gang(detail) and pack alpha

you get a herd of livestock(alive, valuable), 2 gigs and moonlighting. One gig      must be “tending your herd(2 barter/they are gone) “

Is there a AW playset for Fiasco?

Would you agree, that Apocalypse World, Dungeon World and Monsterhearts are really the big 3 of the *World family? Is there another game one “should” know?

Is there a better way to phrase this improvement

* You get a herd of livestock, 2 gigs and moonlighting. One gig must be “tending your herd(2 barter/they are gone) “

Or should i make this a move you can take? 

Threats and fronts

So i have a Problem with fronts. I can find threats in the game but I find it hard to put them together as a front. I can maybe come up with 2 things that can work together more or less but it’s hard. I understand that maybe half of the threats should be stuff directly found in play, the other half would come from my evil mind.

Is there a good front workshop somewhere online? The stuff in the book doesn’t help me enough. I will post the stuff going on in my game later but at first i want to know if fronts themselves are needed or if a bunch of threats can be enough.

I somehow also just stars at countdownclocks all the time empty minded. I know that it isn’t that hard or shouldn’t be but I just don’t know what to do. Mostly I have either a startpoint or endpoint and don’t know further.

So i listened to book 3 in the Iron Druid Chronicles and realised how bad of an agressive GM i became again. I was really good at that when we played Mouse Guard but i have become a bit of a too big fan of the PCs i think. 

This book (and the dresden Files too) is really good at putting 3-5 fronts in front of the protagonist and making him somehow deal with that. I use maybe 1-2 fronts per session and generally don’t bring that much adversity. 

I need to update my fronts too so that is something i definietly need to work on (i am really bad at creating fronts. the process is hard for me)

So any tips on beeing more aggro, on creating fronts without starring at countdown clocks to long and on fronts at the table? 

So where does one start if he wants to create a playbook? 

can’t stop playbook design posts

Is there Design Space for a Playbook that two persons share? Something like Captain Marvel/Billy Batson maybe but more playable. 

The things i am thinking right now are 

Psychic Link – doable

Guy and his monster – maybe?

Lovers/Twins – not strong enough thematicly

Captain Marvel/Hulk – means one person can’t play half the time. 

Any other ideas? 

So what Playbook would you really like to try but haven’t had the chance to? 

I would like to play (in no particular order)

The Hardholder – because having so much power is tempting. I like beeing in charge in RPGs

The Hoarder – i can’t figure out what they really are about without seeing it in play

The Operator – a mix of Hardholder and Hoarder. I want to see how it ticks and i like beeing in charge

The Juggernaut – GIANT! MECH! Especially a biomechanical one that requires peoples blood to work. Giant machine of death that requires a sacrifice? Yes please! Awesome moral questions. 

Thought half the Day how my Hardhold would Look like if i finally got to Play an AW game…