For the Monday crowd. I'm excited to talk about and continue to revise this. Thoughts and ideas welcome.
Originally shared by William Nichols
Markets & Mages is the current working title of my pbta hack about adventurers coming home and paying rent.
Here's some things I think are cool about this game:
1. There aren't stats. Instead, there's Assets, Bonds, and Credit. Assets is literal stuff you posses. Bonds are with other people, and represent a reserve you can call from them. Credit is in communities, and represents how you stand in these.
2. Each player not only details their character, but also an NPC. This creates a nice web, and your character ends up knowing all the player characters, and maybe one NPC for each of them.
3. Each player also details a community. This also creates a nice web of communities -- the wizard's academy, the cleric's church -- and each character can be connected to these. Everyone, together, details a town.
4. There's a single adventure move. It is really simple, and intentionally so. You need the adventures, but the game isn't about those. Its about coming back to town and dealing with the fallout.
5. You can read it, and give feedback, right here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1veP6xfxQ-QJIkYuUjQjpPncPjXlNRZ0KjJO2C4DkgJA/edit#slide=id.g115385ccf3_0_328
All comments, thoughts, and ideas are welcome! What makes sense? What doesn't make sense? What makes you scratch your head?
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What's your approach for when players want to Get All Adventury on a pesky landlord?
ReplyDeleteRalph Mazza You can pay the rent using Assets, Bonds, or Credit. If you want to spend a bond with someone to have them give you safety? Sure, no problem! That's absolutely one way to pay the rent.
ReplyDeleteI mean.
ReplyDelete"I'm an adventurer who hunts orcs and has friends who can hide in shadows and throw fireballs. He's an out of shape, red faced, balding twit. He'll get the rent when I feel like paying him...he's welcome to try to collect late fees from my sword..."
How does that play out?
... That's literally an understanding of paying with Assets, namely your sword. So, mark your sword down by one.
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