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Heliotrope posted:The other playbooks are being made by other people, so it would be hard to get together with everyone and make it work with all of them. That makes more sense, but it should be backed in later in an update or in the HCH book itself. Just saying.
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I decided to update The Kid a bit. Try to give him a bit extra from just his moves, since most playbooks do that, and give him some rules for working with the Joined.
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Banana Man posted:Has there been any new content for aw? Playbooks etc? Not particularly. After they did 2nd Edition, it looks like they went back to fooling around with AW: Fallen Empire, the official fantasy hack.
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xiw posted:It is really depressing playing in a *W game where the GM clearly hasn't read the GM section and just runs Their Adventure, because they know how to run D&D so who reads GMing advice anyway. Tell me about it. My friend tried to Run Dungeon World once and it totally turned out like that. I sent him the GM's guide from the site and try to explain it to him and that didn't work. Total klusterfuk. Then one of the players from that botched dungeon World game ran their own game. I didn't like the guy so I didn't play in it but I heard stories from that. He gave out tons of +1 magical item, hosed with the core resolution mechanic, punished a player for asking for a reward for saving orphans because she was "being greedy", and constantly complained his characters kept falling rolls because they couldn't meet DCs. Ugh!
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mllaneza posted:The KS for Happiest Apocalypse on Earth. I was about to drop $10 on PDFs when, Never back a game without a public demo.
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Hey, I've been working layout on my hack, Friendship, Effort, Victory, and I'm curious how it looks so far. It's very spartan at the moment, but I'm new to layout. What do y'all think? You can find it here. It's in spread format so zoom-out.
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homullus posted:I think you maybe you mean recalcitrant rather than recailtrant The sans-serif heading font is Whizbang. I'm going to buy the license later. The reason I'm using it is because of this:    It and Wild words were the closet I could find to this typeface used for Manga dialouge. It defintely like a thing Viz does. I checked some of their other manga and it seems like they jump between Whizbang and Wildword for normal dialouge, but anything yelled or the like is put a different typeface. Found examples of them using this all the way back in 1980. Regradless, Viz the people who primarily bring shonen manga over so it felt like a good fit. You're probably right about the typo. As for the "which should I expand part, I'd prefer if it was more accessible so I should probably expand the basic terms and concepts section. That said, I don't see why it should come later. It's probably better for people to get the basic terms going in so everything makes sense as they go through the book, no?
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Alright, I updated it with an expanded Basic terms and concepts section. How does that look?
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Fuego Fish posted:Yelling things at the table is a hallmark of a good PBTA game, I feel. I've got some plans for playtests in the near future, for now I've been relying on other people playtesting it for me. Well, one other person. From experience, having other people play test for you is superior to play testing yourself. The reason is that you're not there to correct things so you know exactly how another group AKA customers will respond to what you wrote.
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All that happens is your phone gets an error titled "2spoopy4me" and refuses to open the text.
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Ewen Cluney posted:It's called The DnD Zone, and it's very silly and has lots of random tables. It's about ready to start playtesting, and I'm hoping that (1) the conceit of playing gamers playing a game isn't hopelessly confusing in practice and (2) the moves for stuff like arguing with the DM don't make the game unpleasant to play. Hate to be that guy, but are you going to kick start that Dragon World game? Also, this looks loving cool. Covok fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Halloween Jack posted:There's Sagas of the Icelanders. (Rulebook Heavily, whom I believe is Icelandic, has some sharp criticism of its historicity.) Can you explain what that was because my friend really took a lot of its historical interpretation to heart? Not to come off as a jerk, but my friend can be such a know-it-all that it is a little fun to point out when he's wrong for believing reading TRPGs or something nerdy makes him an expert on it.
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lessavini posted:Anyone know some hack for Glorantha or Dragon Pass? I'm playing the Six Ages videogame and keep thinking a PbtA hack for this would rock. Well I don't know of any powered by the apocalypse ones, but 13th age just released their Source book specifically for dragon's path and that's a pretty good game. Edit: Perhaps not the best place to mention that. So I suppose you could also hacked Fellowship. I thought this was the chat thread at first.
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madadric posted:Hello folks! It's been a hot minute since I posted about my PBTA hack in this thread, but I have some big news. Good luck to you, bro. I hope it all works out for you. Threw you 50 AUS for the hardcover. Hope you make your goal! I'd cross post this in the Kickstarter Thread. Also, apparently, 50 AUS is only 35 USD.
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madadric posted:It's the last few hours of the Impulse Drive Kickstarter! I forgot to say this earlier, but congratulations on getting funded man. Look forward to the finished product. I really should do the same with friendship effort Victory soon. I still think there's a market for shown in battle comic role playing game using this engine.
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Any suggestions on updating the OP? Edit: I just reread the original post and now I'm unsure if I knew how to speak English at the time, even though I'm a native speaker. Holy hell. Covok fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 30, 2019 |
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I've spent the last two days reading 180 chapters of My Hero Academia from issue 1 to issue 180. I have a shonen jump account so I'm limited to 100 chapters per day. just got to get to issue 232, which I can feasibly do this week. Then I move on to Doctor Stone. The point is that Phoenix Academy seems like a fun setting for Masks. Though, it is funny to think how different it would be to set it in America. Set it in America and you lose so much considering how little Americans care about High School.
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Capfalcon posted:Edit: also, lol @ america not caring about high school In Japan, high schools are treated more like college. You have to take entrance exams and your high school placement is considered as important as your choice in university. That doesn't mean college is unimportant, of course. And, sure, there are private high schools, "good" schools, "bad schools", charter schools, etc in America. But, a lot of people in America just go to the high school assigned to their geographic region based on zoning. And, while people can see the value in a good high school, university is where most Americans worry about such things. And very few high schools have entrance exams in America. Most kind of view high school in America as a given, unless extraneous life factors arise. But, from my understanding, you could flunk the exams for every high school in Japan and end up hosed. A lot of this is because high school is compulsory in America and is not compulsory in Japan. Covok fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Tekopo posted:I know i've already spammed it in some discords, but I commissioned some art for my wrestler for WWW and it came out pretty well: You got to drop dat artists name, man. I need to know who I can comis for stuff like dat.
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Ilor posted:Hey, so is the official "Barf Forth Apocalyptica" forum on Vincent's site gone for good? If so, I wish someone would have warned me. I would have archived some of my ramblings from there before it went offline. It does appear to be gone. However, I'm gonna make your day. It appears that the Wayback Machine archived it. You can try to find what you need that way. General Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/ Last Backup: http://web.archive.org/web/20190721033301/http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/
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Kaja Rainbow posted:So I'm thinking about doing quick custom homebrew pbta systems for future games I'll be running. Design the basic moves, agenda/principles/GM moves, stuff like that. No playbooks, instead I'll work with the players to design moves specifically for their characters. This is in part because some of my players prefer more freeform character generation than playbooks provide for. Well, this is an interesting situation. I guess great minds think alike. A while back, when I was in a darker place, I did make a game like this. It's not a pbta game though. It's more like a dog-eat-dog game or a quiet year game. However, I could help you. It's a little bit darker though. I was in a bit of a dark spot. But it does go for the concept of a queer take on Ranma 1/2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zlG762QwK0rWPS7HhRDe7EqMxCx1Z6YaxRzwG2uy5i8/edit?usp=drivesdk
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lessavini posted:I've just brewed this for Kult. Weirdly, there's no official charsheet in playbook format (only in the "classic" vertical format where you fill in the descriptions yourself). The problem here is that Kult has too many moves (and verbose ones!), so I'll probably need 3 pages to fit in all Advantages and Disadvantages. This is great layout. You just made this? This looks professional.
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Kind of amazing that The Watch RPG can have a nice section explaining why trans women are women and trans men are men and thus the groups are affected by the Shadow as such and yet a professional comic writer cannot do so and defines all women by their ability to menstruate, literally.
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I never made sheets for anything. Not eve my own game. I am grape jelly for those sheets.
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Intersitial: Our Hearts Intertwined is supposed to be Kingdom Hearts the RPG. The free preview makes me thinks its lacking. Why? All of the rules are in that preview because, according to the table of contents, they spend NO time explaining the rules in any detail. That speaks to...issues in the development process. That said, to those who played it, how good is it? The idea of "you are a bunch of licensed characters hoping into licensed worlds to save them" is a cool concept.
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madadric posted:Impulse Drive goes for a space opera flavour. You can get the full rules for free or get the pretty art PDFon my Drivethru & Itch, or or hard copies through Drivethru. Impulse Drive is a cool game. I have a physical copy of it. It's kind of for that "Starship crew of misfits" design. You know, like Firefly. It's a cool game and, since its on sale, you should check it out.
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Agent Rush posted:I'm still reading through the thread, are there any other PBTA games that use a "combine two playbooks" set up like Spirit of '77? I think that's a really cool way to build characters, and I'd like to see if there are any other ways that was done. Worlds In Peril uses a Drive Playbook and Origin Playbook system to make your superhero.
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I might have asked this before, but is Interstitial crap? Because I heard it has next to no GM advice in the book and too many playbooks.
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I don't believe I posted these earlier. Friendship, Effort, Victory is a shonen jump pbta game that started on these forums back in 2015. It found a publisher this year in Far Horizons Co-operative, an awesome publisher and one where I previously worked with on their small games digest for Crying Fantasy Friends and Shaping The Stars. FEV is inspired by Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, My Hero Academia and other Shueshia Battle Comics aimed at young teens. I'm not the best at selling myself or my work so apologies in advance if this explanation is messy. Essentially, it uses the narrative mechanics of PbtA to emulate the frantic battles and melodrama of these manga series. To that end, the moves focus on what matters in and out of battle: the characters and their drama. The basic and battle moves try to keep the camera on the drama. The miniutia of battle is mostly narrative, until a dramatic moment that would warrant a splash page or a two page spread. You are pushed and pulled by the drama, not combat statistics or action economy. The moves only kick in at moments of narrative relevance, like the first time you transform in a battle, when you use your final attack as a desperate final charge, or when you try to prove the ideology of your foes wrong. The playbooks pull from some common archetypes, including some that people called me wacky for using. From someone wrestling with an inner demon to someone with a tragic backstory seeking revenge to a childlike idiot to a vice led mentor to a pathetic loser who always gets their rear end beat to inspire others and so on, the playbooks try to emulate the most common tropes of the genre. Some examples follow: https://twitter.com/KamalaKaraA1/status/1443032672956203013?s=20 https://twitter.com/KamalaKaraA1/status/1436734362062622732?s=20 https://twitter.com/KamalaKaraA1/status/1434917854332264453?s=20 I'm open to any questions. Recently, I was interviewed on Scheduled For Launch about the game: https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/tabletop-kamala-friendship-effort-victory-sh%C5%8Dnen-pride/id1552006027?i=1000537593158 The book is set to be sent for final layout on December 10th. We are hoping for a late December release. Due to the global crisis, we will likely need to delay a physical release until prices stablize.
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https://twitter.com/KamalaKaraA1/status/1482079452121243648 HOT-BLOODED YOUTHS! TENSE MELODRAMA! SHONEN ACTION! Join the fray in Friendship, Effort, Victory, a shonen battle manga tabletop roleplaying game. Inspired by works such as Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, My Hero Academia, and other battle manga, Friendship, Effort, Victory uses the acclaimed Powered By The Apocalypse Engine to deliver the flashy, dynamic battles and intense, climatic drama of those sensational works.
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https://twitter.com/KamalaKaraA1/status/1484189028824006659?s=20 And we're live with the PDF!
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Do you have a Google Sheet or Roll20 or Foundry etc. for character sheets and whatnot? No, we don't. I didn't think about that when I recruited for the project originally for the co-op.
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Tulip posted:Picked up the bundle and read it; I liked it! It took me a minute to really put together that PCs in fact do not have stats, and I'm not super into shonen battle manga (I'm into josei slice of life), but it makes sense to me, like the point of having stats is to distinguish PCs on things they succeed and fail at, but in principle in like DBZ people are just as strong as they need to be at that narrative moment. There's theoretically an underlying set of power levels e.g. Goku is stronger, but in practice success has less to do with that than what they need and how they express it in the moment. So I think it was a cool thing here! The Awakening is cool as a concept and how its presented. I do kind of wish there was a little more explanation for techniques? Maybe I missed it, I did read it pretty quick, but it feels like something that's really important to have guidelines and inspiration on. It's funny you bring up techniques. I was talking with my friend about that yesterday. Techniques feel half baked because they're a corpse of a former mechanic. Nowadays, like with my new game Petmon, I throw every half baked idea in an "optional rules section" so people can try to make it work if they like the idea. Back then, I cut them out. Combat used to have a mechanic called Tension. Tension represented the current dramatic flair of the fight. Tension was expressed in a number between 1 and 5 and would naturally go up as a battle continued. Techniques had Tags. Tags were narrative abilities that gave wider narrative power. There were also bad tags that would apply limits to the power. Your net Technique had a Tension Score and a Technique could only be used if its Tension Score was equal to or less than the current Tension. However, I never could make the system balance out and it ultimately added very limit since it was all narrative with no mechanic effect. Ultimately, I cut my losses and made Techniques purely descriptive in nature. When (well, if) I do the book of knock off settings I have planned, I might reintroduce the ideas an optional rule. If you like, here is an unofficial One Piece playset I made for the game that shows a bit of how the rules can be stretched to fit a setting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VdCURAGPrS1zv-TOk4xVQzIxDQ73kckHziEwzwFI2zM/edit?usp=drivesdk Edit: Also, I really, really appreciate you taking time to buy and read the game and support a good cause. I am glad you enjoyed what you read. The no stat system took a long time to decide on. I tried SO MANY different systems over and over and none of them ever felt right ever. I just couldn't feel satisfied with any of the stat arrays. Finally, I cut it out and the game got a lot, lot better. And you are exactly right as to why: stats don't matter too much to a shonen work. It's about expression more so than aptitude. While PbtA has always been about stats that reflect characteristics rather than physical traits, it feels off when a narrative that's always so loosey goosey on power levels and focuses more on narrative role gets so influenced by stats. Regardless, thank you buying the bundle. Covok fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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ItohRespectArmy posted:world wide wrestling is an incredible game that properly captures pro wrestling. Yeah, my bad on that. I didn't know this bundle existed because I don't control the itch account. Then, when I found out, the co-op had to vote. Then, I waited for it to actually be approved into the bundle by the itch peeps because it was sitting in queue for like 3 days and I didn't want to say it was in until I was sure to avoid looking a fool. So, yeah, sorry about that.
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If you liked my game Friendship, Effort, Victory, the shonen battle manga inspired Powered By The Apocalypse Tabletop RPG I have been mucking around with the idea of a campaign using an old setting I never got to used inspired by Bleach. It is based on Christian mythology. I tried to run a Valor game in it once, but it never got off the ground. Even if you don't care about the setting, I used this as a chance to put some alternate rules for Battle as a way of maybe testing out some ideas for a 2nd edition or supplement down the line. The link is down below if you want to check it out yourself. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1knPvyEqwq6cg_KAXHoPcokfaTvS9Cy17iz47rxg8Mhg/edit?usp=sharing
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Tulip posted:Here's my suggestion: Why "Legend of the Elements" and not the official Avatar game, "Avatar Legends?"
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