Friday, July 21, 2017

What is necessary and appropriate to hack apocalypse world into a game wherein the characters are friends, and go on...

What is necessary and appropriate to hack apocalypse world into a game wherein the characters are friends, and go on adventures together?

Extra points for it being in FUTURE AWESOME SPACE.

12 comments:

  1. 1. Shared xp.
    2. Collaboration moves, not seduce & manipulate and help or interfere.
    3. GM prep that doesn't create pc-npc-pc triangles.

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  2. Check out Masks for a very specific type of collaborative move.

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  3. Future awesome space is just a skin you can put on when you're done with mechanics that work.

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  4. I'm pretty sure someone's mentioned Golden Sky Stories to you before.

    Making relationships not reset like Hx sounds important to me.

    Doesn't Monster of the Week sort of do this?

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  5. I've been thinking about this very thing after reading Becky Chambers' novel Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Following with interest.

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  6. Fellowship is laser-focused on a group of friends going on a quest together - it's all about how they work together and learn more about each other's cultures.

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  7. Well, I didn't expect Vincent Baker to show up. Certainly not first post.

    Shared xp: Dungeon World does a lot of this with the end of session moves, and that for sure works.

    Maybe get rid of highlighted stats, have end of session + xp for helping each other / doing acts of service. Huh.

    Jason Corley Masks has what, both the Persuade With Best Interests move and team-related battle moves with bonuses for being good to each other? The Watch has something similar, where having camraderie makes battle easier.

    Not splitting the PCs up emotionally through NPCs, yeah.

    Alright. I'd thought about maybe half of this already.

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  8. Jesse Cox Yeah. I'm trying to get Tony to run it sometime.

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  9. James Iles What're the guts that you think make it work so good?

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  10. William Nichols currently GMing a UA game but will get back to you soon!

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  11. William Nichols The main collaborative move in Masks is influencing each other. You literally get to make each other different

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  12. GSS and Masks both have tons of support for this, and setting is easy enough to hack.

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