Reading Poltergeist, the French edition of Murderous Ghosts.
Reading Poltergeist, the French edition of Murderous Ghosts.
Not bad. I’ll take it with me to try with my g/f during our 30hr flight to New Zealand 🙂
Tonight our group of characters attempted to exorcise a Faceless’es mask off, and when he refused we killed him.
Tonight our group of characters attempted to exorcise a Faceless’es mask off, and when he refused we killed him. When we lit the pyre to burn his body afterward, the MC declared that the entity in the mask was dead but then offered the player a choice: he could allow his character to die with the mask or he could be swept into the psychic maelstrom and become an entity that lives within it. He chose the second option.
I just saw this last night.
I just saw this last night. The staging is very AW. Witches in rubber waders and gasmasks, AK-47s, bowie knives. Macbeth with axe and machete. Etc. The “arrival in England” transition with pseudo-religious procession is particularly good. Worth a watch if you are in London.
AW Hack about vigilantes (I’m thinking The Shield+Hotline Miami+Dark Knight Returns)
AW Hack about vigilantes (I’m thinking The Shield+Hotline Miami+Dark Knight Returns)
MOVES:
When you openly use violence, roll +Bold.
You may:
– Force the threat at large to change its behavior.
– Harm the person you’re attacking.
But it might also:
– Make The System on to you.
– Get you hurt.
– Get an innocent hurt.
When you make someone disappear, roll +Careful.
You may:
– Remove them without a trace
But it might also:
– Go sideways
On a miss:
– Make The System on to you.
When you interfere with an investigation, roll+Authority
You may:
– Get The System off their back.
But it might also:
– Make the System on to you.
– Ruin a cop’s career.
– Cause collateral damage.
When you Order people to fight for you, roll +Bold
You may:
– Get them to fight for you.
– Get them to absorb the consequences.
But they might also:
– Absorb the consequences.
– Act on their impulses.
– Be corrupted by you.
– Get a Beef with you.
– Refuse.
PLAYBOOKS:
The Nut: Bold+1, Authority-1, Careful-1 – They could have a symbolic Weapon, that has positive psychological effects.
The Sergeant: Bold-1, Authority+2, Careful-1 – They can stand behind the system when they use violence, and roll+Authority to openly commit violence.
– They can order their subordinates, and roll+Authority to Order people to fight for them.
The lurking killer: Bold-1, Authority-1, Careful+1
– They could have a position of Authority (Authority+1)
The professionial: Bold-1, Authority-1, Careful+1
– They can order around a hand-picked squad of professionals, they roll+Careful to order them to fight for them.
– They can skillfully interfere with a crime scene, and roll+Careful to do it.
BELIEF:
Instead of Hx (Or more accurately, Strings). You have Belief in the other player characters.
If you’ve helped a player character in the session, you roll your Belief with them and get XP for rolling high.
You can betray the people who believe in you to get a bonus to sensical goals.
You can use your Belief in somebody as a bonus to Bold.
THE SYSTEM:
If your countdown clock on the System catching up to you catches up,
then the system sends a Major Threat to shut you down. (Detective Cavanagh from The Shield is one of the best examples)
I’m running an AW game over the hangouts. We played the second session this week.
I’m running an AW game over the hangouts. We played the second session this week.
So, between the first and second session, I thought about fronts and threats or whatever, and before the second session started I sat down and filled out a couple of front sheets, but I was having a hard time conceptualizing how all the things that were on the sheets fit together.
To sort out my ideas, I also made a basic R-map that had most of the NPCs that I was interested in on it, and the different ways that what they want from the PCs intersected.
In play, I never looked at Front sheet, but the R-map was super, super helpful.
Am I missing something critical about Fronts if I don’t really bother?
Via cracked. Isaac Stern VS. Saddam Hussein
Running another play-test session on Monday. It’s a holiday here in Canada and I want to do some gamin’! 🙂
Running another play-test session on Monday. It’s a holiday here in Canada and I want to do some gamin’! 🙂
Originally shared by Andrew Medeiros
Urban Shadows is a table-top role-playing game set in a modern urban setting with a dark shadow cast over it. In Urban Shadows, Vampires, Were-wolfs, Faeries, Ghosts and all manner of powerful creatures roam our world preying on humanity and it’s ignorance of their existence. But not all of them want to hurt or hunt humanity, some of them fight against their natures and expectations to try and live a life among mortality, constantly struggling to be a part of our world yet always apart.
But where there is life, there is hope. Humanity is not alone in their struggles, there are some who have seen the darkness, have let it in and choose to stand up and face the night.
In the game, you control a member of one of four factions in play around the world. Mortality, the humans with nothing to offer except insight, guile and resolve. Power, humans who have been imbued with awesome powers and heavy burdens. Night, those who were once human and now stalk the nights and hunter. Wild, creatures and being from outside our world who have come to stake their claim.
Who will you be? Which side will you choose? Will you be strong enough to face the darkness without and within?
Urban Shadows is now in play-test mode. I am eager to see how the game plays and am looking for players with enthusiasm and would love honest and useful feedback to create an amazing game that can be enjoyed by many. Experience with Apocalypse World will help you understand the game but players new to the rules will always present an extremely useful perspective as well, so all are welcome.
Can’t wait to enter the shadows and see what lurks there. I can take up to 5-6 players for this event.
News you can use.
News you can use.
So a Hardhold has a “a bustling, widely-known market” there is a big merchant there that sells nearly everything.
So a Hardhold has a “a bustling, widely-known market” there is a big merchant there that sells nearly everything. You want to play that Guy.
What Playbook do you use?
Maestro’D ? Operator?
Today seems like a good day to meet some more awesome storytellers.
Today seems like a good day to meet some more awesome storytellers.
Many moons ago (as i am often fond of saying) a call went out to gather a grand list of those goodly gamers who sit down and run all of those wonderful games that we all enjoy so much.
The project was called Mapping the Dungeons, and i as someone who is always on the look out for more fantastic and wonderful people to add to my gaming circles have picked up the torch.
I am again putting forth the call to you the goodly google gamer to let me know who your favorite GM / DM / MC / Storyteller is so that i may expand my map o’ the dungeons of the interwebs.
At the moment i have a list of 95 peoples who bring dragons to life, barf forth apocalypta, Decloak Romulan battle fleets and generally cause the gleeful rolling of dice.
After each itteration of asking for names i post this circle of wizards of all things polyhedral for the greater enjoyment of all. I see this as a list of the who’s who of internet gaming and a brain trust of such creativity as to make one believe in miracles.
So join me on my quest to #mappingthedungeon and share with us the people that have been missing from our gaming tables.