Category: Powered by the Apocalypse

Finished with my Apocalpyse World/World of Dungeons hack (with a tiny bit of inspiration from Chronica Feudalis)…

Finished with my Apocalpyse World/World of Dungeons hack (with a tiny bit of inspiration from Chronica Feudalis)…

Originally shared by Gremlin Legions (Michael Wight)

Finished with my Apocalpyse World/World of Dungeons hack (with a tiny bit of inspiration from Chronica Feudalis) that I’m calling End of the World…just in time for the end of the world.

Yeah, I dated it 12/21/12, but that’s because I didn’t want to actually wait until tomorrow. So sue me.

…wait, no, don’t sue me. That’d be silly.

Anyway, download either the standard version (which should be small enough to fit onto an iPod or smartphone screen and only about 300kb), or the PocketMod version to print out, fold up, and take with you where ever…especially if the net crashes and all power goes out for the next decade.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5K_Bqfr0dqcVEpuczdLRG1zVnM

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5K_Bqfr0dqcbUgxdUd0T0tXZ2s

Hi everyone. Did anyone happend to stumble upon some Traveller-like hacks? Or maybe WtA/WtF?

Hi everyone. Did anyone happend to stumble upon some Traveller-like hacks? Or maybe WtA/WtF?

Hi everyone. Did anyone happend to stumble upon some Traveller-like hacks? Or maybe WtA/WtF?

Has anyone else seen the manga Drifting Classroom?

Has anyone else seen the manga Drifting Classroom?

Has anyone else seen the manga Drifting Classroom? An elementary school and its kids, teachers, and janitor get pushed into a horrifically blighted mysterious landscape, and try to survive. Not very well, because nobody has secret ninja awesomeness waiting to be unleashed. Bad thing piles on bad thing, as in the pair of images linked here. 

It occurred to me last night that the same kind of vibe would make for fascinating Monsterhearts play if you did it with a high school, or a community college, or a Peace Corps or AmeriCorps project, or something like that. 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5_rOpnZyyxs/TojXt3SIcyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/YRK8tnQoSMg/s1600/Drifting+Classroom+v7+p095.png

Hey AW Hackers – how do you feel about other folks making playbooks for your hacks?

Hey AW Hackers – how do you feel about other folks making playbooks for your hacks?

Hey AW Hackers – how do you feel about other folks making playbooks for your hacks?

I love the idea, but I’m in this weird place where I see how I would do it differently, but I don’t want to just rewrite other folk’s contributions. So far the game itself is in an early enough stage that the whole framework is still malleable, so the fact that these playbooks are coming from other people is triggering some really valuable conversations.

But in the future I see people enthusiastically contributing a playbook that just isn’t “right”. Am I a dick if I rewrite the problematic parts and put that out there as an “official” thing?

So I have been thinking of Tags a bit and what they have been used for in AW and in its hacks and I had a thought I…

So I have been thinking of Tags a bit and what they have been used for in AW and in its hacks and I had a thought I…

So I have been thinking of Tags a bit and what they have been used for in AW and in its hacks and I had a thought I need to just get out… Is it me or is a Condition nothing more than a Tag applied to a character and if so, aren’t some of the Moves (such as Insano like Drano or Breathtaking) are just a more permanent version of a Condition…

Can anyone point me to a good place (or places) to look for player-created Monsterhearts skins?

Can anyone point me to a good place (or places) to look for player-created Monsterhearts skins?

Can anyone point me to a good place (or places) to look for player-created Monsterhearts skins?

So what happens when “Lost” or “Frenzy” is used on a PC?

So what happens when “Lost” or “Frenzy” is used on a PC?

So what happens when “Lost” or “Frenzy” is used on a PC?

We had this going on with Lost last session. 

I said the Player that his character just had this amazing idea to visit smith. This would really help right now. If he doesn’t want to go there right away he has to act under fire. 7-9 would be that he can do 1 more thing before going there. 6- is, hey: you don’T even know how you got here.

This is cool and easy, but what about Frenzy? 

Ooookay, so I know I posted these a few days ago, but here they are again, with a few more details and a few more…

Ooookay, so I know I posted these a few days ago, but here they are again, with a few more details and a few more…

Originally shared by Gremlin Legions (Michael Wight)

Ooookay, so I know I posted these a few days ago, but here they are again, with a few more details and a few more pages with some hints at what the rules are going to look like. Work’s been a bear lately, right before the holidays, so I haven’t been able to finish everything up just yet, but I am pretty confident that I’ll have PDFs ready before the End of the World. I mean, all it really is is a World of Dungeons -ified version of Apocalypse World, with a hint of Chronica Feudalis, set during the beginning of the apocalypse itself. So it’s not like it’s going to be complex. But it should be short and fun and playable.

…I think.

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#ApocalypseWorld tonight. The Gunlugger missed a few sessions and so is not so connected to anything. He said his main goal for his character is to survive so the ratpeople will attack him i guess. Also Balls (mindfucker/perversion of birth) the owner of the Halfmoon-Shop (where basically everyone get’s food and water) will higher him as a new Bodyguard. This will allow me to show the players a bit more about the things Balls is doing behind everyones back. 

Bascially this is how i prep. I have a rough outline of threats but i prep only a few situations for every character. So i will have stuff to say. I don’t HAVE to have this situations come up but it is helpful. The situations also won’t have to resolve in any way. I jsut like to give people (hard/bad) choices.