Tag: Delos Adamski

I have a question(s) for you fine people.

Do your AW players tend to try to be good friends all the time and always avoid stepping on other character’s toes?

I’ve run a decent number of AW games now and it seems like unless I force it, the characters never consider crossing another character.

I ask because I feel like there never is any PC vs PC tension in my games and I know that the potential for some great role playing moments can happen when PC’s are at odds, especially in AW.

Granted I play with the same group of people so it could just be their style, and that’s fine, but I’m wondering if your game has the PC’s at odds more so.

Maybe I’m not doing my set up well enough. All the conflicts are PC vs NPC. As I’m typing this I realize that there is a page or two in the book that states I should be making PC-NPC-PC triangles. How does one do that to make for tension and interesting choices/role playing opportunities?

I have a question about Single Combat (SC) vs Chaotic Free For All (CFFA).

Say you have one PC vs a group of people. All of the group are on the same side and are one gang.

Which move should I be using?

Vincent Baker

Was it ever said how many new play books we were getting with 2e AW? By new I mean not released with the first slew of play books (so the faceless, counts as new for this question)

Vincent Baker

My PbP group just finished our first mission/run. Take a look at this PbtA hack of Shadowrun.

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/10/30/sixth-world-a-play-through/

Question:

Gunlugger has +3 Hx with Savvyhead

Savvyhead hits the Gunlugger for 3 harm

Is the Gunlugger at +1 Hx with and Xp or back to +3 with an Xp?

And yes this just happened in my game and yes the savvyhead smoked the gunlugger.

I started up another AW play by post. The below link leads to my blog which gives a quick overview of what we’re doing, but in there is a link that takes you to the game itself. We’re doing the whole thing via google docs, and so far it’s working well. We’re in “session 1” as of now so there isn’t a lot of story just yet, but the world we’re building is getting interesting. So if you ever wanted to run a play by post but wasn’t sure how to tackle it, maybe this way would work for you.

Also if my players see this post, give a shout out!

Henry de Veuve Russell Engel EJ Borchardt Todd Knealing 

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/09/25/new-apocalypse-world-play-by-post-started/

I finally got my hands on Hatchet City. My only question was “Why did it take me so long to find this?!” This would have been so helpful for all the times I ran AW one shots. The picture links to my review of it.

Direct link to Hatchet City

 http://bignose.whitetree.org/tmp/apocalypse-world/hatchet-city.pdf

I’m hoping to run this in the near future. There are a bunch of NPCs so I made a MC list and a player hand out. I left blanks on the lists for notes and only added in things that are directly said in Hatchet City.

MC Version

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-1hpUdt5dOX7wSjDZTc6MWJ5MB38cwHexbDrqNo6maM/edit?usp=sharing

Player Handout

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgrEMQ2tRTPPe4gwTVqNqu-G-5EpzQpuJsRfbwpOi2U/edit?usp=sharing

The player handout is nearly identical to the MC version but sans the important notes of who is a spy and what is driving certain NPCs. If you have any suggestions to the handouts let me know.

http://ramblingsofjacobanddelos.com/2015/05/25/hatchet-city/

So here is a question for you guys. Can you sell me on playing the hocus? I’ve seen it in play once and I just didn’t see the appeal. Maybe it was how he played it. Not sure. Anyone have any great hocus stories?