This game is very close.
What game? I don't know the name, but its about fantasy adventurers returning from the adventure.
It really is; there's a move for going on an adventure and everything. And you've got classes like Paladin and Thief. And bard.
That being said, the MC is tracking a poverty rating for each character -- which is how much you need to pay when you pay the rent. This rating is based on privilege levels, which are invisible to the player characters. That is, I didn't tell them before they made unalterable decisions.
At the same time, the three poverty fronts are also spewing out new problems -- ones related to safety, friendships, and your place in society. These have countdown clocks. If the PCs ignore them, they get worse until they make everything terrible.
Next steps: remove the hard currency, simplify, cut to ten pages and submit to the civic games contest.
I need a name. Who can name games?
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The Return
ReplyDeleteDismissed
The World Outside
Back Again: What happens after the adventure
ooooh, fun! I love the idea.
ReplyDelete* Aftermath
* Everyday Adventurers
* Balancing the Books
* Invisible Costs
* Take-home Pay
* Adventure Tax
* Budget Rolls
ReplyDelete* Cost of Adventuring
* AdventureNomics
* Dungeonomics
* Spent (adventures are tired, and their money is spent)
How central is the adventuring vs dealing with non-adventuring stuff? That is, would you expect a switch between "in town" sessions and "adventuring" sessions?
ReplyDeleteSometimes We Fall
ReplyDelete3-point Process
Systems Check
Invisible Forces
Undertow
ReplyDeleteThe Jagged Edge
David Schirduan +1 for Aftermath (I thought of it as well) and +1 for Invisible Costs
I really like Spent and Back Again.
ReplyDeleteHero's Respite
ReplyDeleteHomefront
The Problem with Peacetime
While You Were Away
I am cosigning David on "Spent" and "Back Again." I am highly interested in playing this game!
ReplyDeleteGut feeling: Meguey Baker has named some well known published games.
ReplyDeleteKimberley Lam Most of the game is spent "in town", with adventurers being decided by a single die roll and asking questions.
William Nichols Not that I know of! Hero's Banner is pretty close to Hero's Respite. I haven't checked any of the names I suggested, so maybe!?
ReplyDeleteMeguey Baker What you don't know is that William Nichols is EVEN NOW creating games based on the titles you suggested. They will be kickstarted in 10 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI'm leaning towards "... and back again"
ReplyDeleteAnd Meguey Baker ? I didn't mean you were saying names of current games, but rather that my gut feeling is there are games published that you named. Like maybe Bedlam Beautiful or AW.
William Nichols 😁
ReplyDeleteAnd Back Again is a good name!!
ReplyDeleteKeeping.
ReplyDeleteFor the pun on what you hold on to, and the strongholds adventurers build.
"You Return to Town But Have Some Bills, Especially the Money You Owe Shyrl, who Yells Louder Every Week Your Payments are Late."
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit late to the party but:
ReplyDeleteworking classes
A fist full of gold
After the party
Why we do it
David Schirduan I have no idea how to do a Kickstarter. At all.
ReplyDeleteYou're not fooling anyone William Nichols! We're on to you!
ReplyDelete"...and back again" is a fantastic name! It has a nice brevity, as well as a literary note. It evokes the feeling that this is epilogue, or inter-"adventure" adventures, and therefore the difficulties that come from dealing or returning to mundane life.
ReplyDeleteNo Rest For The Weary
ReplyDeleteAdd another for "...And Back Again"
ReplyDeleteBetween Adventures
ReplyDeleteDelves & Debt
Adventurers & Accountants
Fantastic Capitalism
An Adventurer's Worth
Bringing The Treasure Home
Treasured Debts
As an aside, when the players choose to "go adventuring", is there any chance that one or more of the characters don't survive the Move?
Brian Ashford Yes, but it is hard. You'd need to already be injured, and for someone (maybe the MC) to choose it. Even then, there's what amounts to a death saving throw.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols Fair enough.
ReplyDeleteIn old school D&D a mortality rate of 50% wouldn't be out of place. When a PC dies the player would roll up a new character and the GM would slot him in as soon as appropriate. By the time the party returns to town the new character (s) would likely be fully assimilated into the group. It's just one of the anachronisms of traditional role-playing games that one group goes on adventure and a slightly different one returns, and ask the locals just have to carry on as if that's normal. It's not something you could emulate here though.
Sorry, off-topic. Back to the names!
William Nichols, are you settled on a name yet?
ReplyDeleteMeguey Baker New working title "... and back again, or: How adventurers pay the rent".
ReplyDeleteThat's been my subtitle for a while. Thank you for your help!
Charybdis.
ReplyDeleteRent and Broke.
ReplyDeleteBoth words have dual meanings.
Though R&B will confuse people.
Curmudgeon Crawl.
ReplyDeleteCopper Pieces.
ReplyDeleteOooh, I really like "Homefront", Meguey Baker
ReplyDeleteI love ... And back again. I do. But it carries with it too much baggage. Positive baggage, but it's there. If I pick up a game called and back again I better be a hobbit.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of good options here…I really like Spent
ReplyDeleteSpent is kinda interesting, I admit.
ReplyDeleteand Davey Cruz , you can be a hobbit. You could also be something else. And you're coming back from an adventure. Is that ok?
I love the literary reference because it also is a nod to one of the key pieces of modern source material for this whole thing. And yeah, lemme tell you about my hobbit thief who came home and everyone thought he had died and now he has to track down his belongings from his avaricious relations and sort out the garden and write this massive report that some wizard wants him to do!
ReplyDeleteI'm pro Spent.
ReplyDeleteSpent is a reasonable good name. And its a single word, which is kinda nice.
ReplyDeleteI remain torn!
Mashup! Back and spent again
ReplyDeleteThat's a fine working title. Maybe eventually I'll have another title.
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