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- Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Planescape PbtA - suggestions welcome!
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Planescape PbtA - suggestions welcome!
Still an early version, but it's shaping up to something interesting, I think. Page 1 http://i63.tinypic.com/x35z5s.png Page 2 http://i66.tinypic.com/10dh2ci.png By now only Stats, Alignment, Race and Moves are more or less defined. (don't consider the Faction part, I got it from the AW "Turnco...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7820
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7820
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Yep, but sometimes the design is solid enough, and the problem lies in the text communicating it. In such cases, talking with experienced people can help. Don't know if it's the case of Masks though. Just sayin. :wink: By the way, @shinimasu, has you look at Undying in the meantime? I still think it...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
I'm confused about why you're replying to some of my points in terms of how AW does it. I'm not super fond of AW either but I also didn't mention it at all in relation to Masks. Orion was the one making the point that Masks it Better than AW specifically, my point is merely that masks is bad at pla...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7820
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Apocalypse World promised to let you be a sexy badass or a hardened survivalist and it did not deliver. Masks says you can use the same mechanic to be a reckless-but-invincible kid, and comes a lot closer to delivering. Have you had a Battlebabe or a Gunlugger or - god have mercy on the MC soul - b...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Teammate with influence: Don't listen to him bull, your punches are great and just because we're young doesn't mean we aren't real heroes. Experience matters less when he's the one who's outnumbered. Me: Er, is than encouragement or are you also telling me how the world works? Them: Um.. the latter...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7820
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
This doesn't make me feel like I'm playing someone with an impressionable and developing sense of identity. It makes me feel like I'm playing someone with borderline personality disorder. Did my favorite person say I'm good at fighting again? Well then I must be good at fighting again! What is my s...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
So there's a teen superheros game called Masks: A New Generation. It's officially part of the PBTA brand, but seems to have had substantially more and better design work put into it than any other apocalypse hack I've looked at. Playing Masks has actually really helped me get a better understanding...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Alternatively I want to push back against the idea of an inevitable doom track being inherently unfun or something players are unwilling to engage with. There are a non-zero number of games pitched around the idea of your ultimate demise being more or less predetermined and a non-zero number of pla...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
If simplicity's the main goal, there are a range of systems that are even simpler and have far fewer of these problems. Fate, Risus, and especially Munchausen are all light on rules and don't suffer from lack of player agency. (Fate has a few problems of its own, of course, but very different ones!...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 3:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
I agree with the sentiment but I also want to point out that Broken Worlds (and a few others, I think the Sprawl and Monster Hearts might do this too but it's been a while since I read the GM sections for either of those) does at least codify the specific types of bears to use. They're divided into...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Broken Worlds is a good example of a less-shitty version of PbtA. It accomplishes this by assigning actual pre-defined outcomes to your moves. Take the basic combat move, Reach Heaven Through Violence: 10+: your target takes damage equal to your weapon's damage AND you get to do your weapon's flour...
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12590
Some examples in the AW book are on the wonky side indeed (the author seems more intent on impressing the reader than explaining the game). But if you ignore them and just go with the rules as written, the games run just fine. God knows our Shadowrun sessions had a qualitative jump since we ported i...