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Coming soon: Session Zero zine

Very close to being finished: 1 more piece of content, then a couple days away from it before some editing. Then it’ll be a while before I publish while slogging through layout.

Here’s a first draft cover of what will be Issue 1: The Smoldering Swamp of my zine called Session Zero, coming soon as PWYW on DTRPG.

Inspired by, but not a slave to The Fire Swamp found in The Princess Bride (This is Dungeon World after all, not Fairy Tale World)

Teaser:

Maximillian’s Miracle Medicine

A small, roughly spherical ball that looks like pure chocolate. It comes in a small leather pouch branded with the words “Maximillian’s Miracle Medicine”.

When you’re mostly dead and someone pops a Maximillian’s Miracle Medicine ball into your mouth, you start to regain consciousness, but you’re very weak. You gain half half your starting hit points and take all six debilities. Over time, those debilities start to disappear as you regain your strength, wits, etc.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwGZKblpJGgYYm9mbnZOU2NDcTA/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwGZKblpJGgYYm9mbnZOU2NDcTA/view?usp=sharing

I have an idea for a PbtA game, but I need to know if it, or something like it, already exists so I don’t reinvent the wheel…

Sort of a cross between Net Runner and Spycraft, the characters take on the roles of shadowing members of a secret cabal sitting in their offices or safe rooms, being projected into a virtual conference room. They are coordinating the “running of the world” by sending their agents out to do various underhanded tasks: Bribing officials, assassinating troublemakers, stealing corporate and government secrets, etc., during which agents of the legitimate governments of the world are hacking into their feed, attacking their resources, searching for them, etc.

I guess similar to something like Shadowrun, but you are directing the missions rather than participating in them

Very high level thinking right now, and although I’m not entirely sure how ANYTHING would work yet, I think it would be apropos to play a game using google hangouts/roll20 about controlling the world through google hangouts/roll20.