Category: Uncharted Worlds: Discussion

About the advancements. I quickly read the manual, so I can be wrong, however I saw that you can “simply” add more moves from your careers. Correct?

Well, I love advancement in RpGs, and I own almost every AW-based game that exists. So: why limit the advancement to some new move? Why to not add some “special” advancement, that gives one or more of these:

– +1 to a Stat (maybe another +1 to another Stat in a successive special advancement).

– An additional “slot” to endure an additional minor damage (and, in a successive special advancement, an additional medium damage)

– An automatic “big” asset, like “A new ship”, or “A loyal crew/community/gang”, or “A secret base”

– A sidekick (you create a “backup” character, and this is introduced in the fiction, useful as sidekick, backup PC when another PC is out of the scene for a while etc.)

I’d say you can easily add these to the core rule, and a lot of from-zero-to-hero player enthusiasts will be grateful for that!!!

Also, a fantastic idea could be tie these special advancements to specific careers, so for example, the Military gets +1 Stat and +1 Damage Slot, the Starfarer gets +1 Stat and a Backup Ship, the Scoundrel gets +1 Damage Slot and A Gang etc. 

I feel the standard rules a little “plain”, mildly exciting.

I am quite confused from the rules about the Wild Jumps. Now here I don’t have the book with me, however, if the crew has time, they can do a normal jump. If they need to do a quick jump in a hurry, or a jump to unknown, they do a Wild Jump. If they get 10+, they succeed, and they could choose from the 7-9 list to obtain… What?

If they get a 7-9,they succeed, however they get a thing chosen by the GM from the list. Now, 7-9 should be a “mixed success”, but in the list I see all positive things, like “we found a new planet!”, “we found precious ores! ” etc. So: why a crew should do a normal jump, if with the wild jump they do the travel quickly AND with good surprises at the arrival??