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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Powered By The Apocalypse: It's All In The Conversation
 
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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

Bear Enthusiast posted:

I remember someone had a great writeup on writing an Agenda and Principles for a hack, but I'm not sure if it was someone here or a link to the official forums, or something else. Anyone remember something like that?

Simple World is the closest I can think of. That it?

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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

 Anyone has play experience with Worlds in Peril? I like how it reads but I'd also like to hear from others how it works out in practice!

Mitama fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Sep 8, 2015

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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

 Can you clarify? I've been reading the book and it was in the stance that it could do PVP perfectly fine.

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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

QuantumNinja posted:

This might as well read: "On a 12+, you instantly win combat. Congratulations!"

So in literally the first volley, the Wizard lost to the Hunter's advanced Unleash. Seeing as we were on a train platform, the Hunter had the option to just... throw the Wizard in front of a train. Then I pointed out the Wizard's Death Curse could literally unmake the Hunter's entire long-term goals, and the Hunter decided not to follow through.

For system failure, I think the complaint stems from how Urban Shadows treats combat: it tries to ignore it and avoid it at essentially all cost. Unlike Apoc World, there isn't an interesting and rich infrastructure for throwing down. The fight felt cheap: we were sort of hyped up to see which of us would win in a fight, and the advancement of Unleash unceremoniously declared one the winner. Compared to the Battle Moves of Apocalypse World, which would have guaranteed a good and interesting fight, which would have been a crazy fight across Grand Central Station, we just got the Hunter getting an ace roll. I don't think it felt satisfying to anyone involved---it certainly didn't to me.

Okay, I totally get this. I suppose not even the Hinder move can do much against a really, really good roll on an advanced Unleash move.

On the other hand, that 12+ description works nearly the same as AW's advanced Go Aggro move, so I dunno if it's unique to this game. I guess custom moves would be the way to go, if it ever happens again?

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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

 You missed the Tainted. :)

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Mitama
Feb 28, 2011

 I don't know about now, but Dungeon World PBPs used to swarm the Game Room a few years back. I think people are burned out on it.

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