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I’ve always found the phrase “Hold 1” and “Spend your hold” a little clumsy.

Here’s two versions of the same move, a pretty basic version of Read a Person. It’s a western game, so I’m experimenting with a different form of language, but I wonder if it is still clunky:

When you size up a person during an intense interaction, roll + Savvy. On a 7-9, Hold 1. On a 10+, Hold 3. On a miss, Hold 1 anyway. You’ll need it.

During the conversation, you can spend one of your Hold to ask a question of the character’s player:

*Are you telling the truth?

*What are you really feeling?

*What do you intend to do?

*What do you wish I would do?

*How could I get you to do ____?

When you size up a person during an intense interaction, roll + Savvy. On a 7-9, collect a Chip On a 10+, collect three. On a miss, collect one anyway. You’ll need it.

During the conversation, you can cash in one of those chips to ask a question of the character’s player:…

What reads better for you?

When assigning stats in a AW game, which of these do you prefer:

*Picking stats from a choice of arrays (Apocalypse World)

*Assigning numbers to each stat (Dungeon World)

*Starting with a fixed array, then modifying somehow (Monsterhearts, Urban Shadows, World Wide Wrestling)

Something else (???)

If you were playing a Western game, what would you expect the standard character options/playbooks to be?

How does your answer change if there are supernatural elements?

If you liked Fast Cast Episode 3 (all about Apocalypse World), you’ll probably like Fast Cast Episode 4 (which talks about, amongst other things, Mad Max: Fury Road and Apocalypse World 2E)

https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=2496719

You might enjoy Fastcast Episode 3, which is all about Apocalypse World and why it’s awesome- in 20 minutes or less.

https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=2452318&rf=745418

Did anyone else notice that in Fury Road, the War Rig’s gas pedal is a Brannock Device?

Barf forth apocalyptica, indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannock_Device

Suppose you are playing a new Spy-themed Apocalypse World game.  What sort of things do you expect there to be basic moves for?  What sort of things do you think might need advanced/optional moves?  What sort of things would you not expect to see moves for?

How would you hack the basic die engine (2d6+) to accommodate a system where you would like to have more granular player stats?

In AW, dice rolls basically come from -2 to +3, a variance of 5.  I’d like to have a game where dice rolls tend to come in from +0 to +10, for twice that variance.

I started by looking at rolling 3d6, to see what the probabilities look like.  Interestingly, not much is different from 2d6.  Rolling a 14+ on 3d6 is close (35/126 vs. 36/216) to rolling 10+ on 2d6, and rolling a 10+ on 3d6 is likewise extremely close (125/216 vs. 126/216) to rolling 7+ on 2d6.  This is stretches out a 3 point spread only to 4 points.

Before I start running the numbers, has anyone else taken a look at things like 4d6, 2d10, or 2d12?