My first question to you folks was quite fruitful, I thought I’d try another:
After school, I co-sponsor a gaming club at the high school, in which I am currently conducting a session of Microscope that is the setup for a PbtA game, most likely Dungeon World. I seeded the Microscope session as a post-apocalyptic story. At its most fundamental level, it has developed into a world like our own that has rapidly devolved after losing the ability to mechanically generate electricity. I want to use Dungeon World for the rules set as I am new to running a PbtA game and that is the one of which I have read and studied the most material.
Do any of you have suggestions as to which published DW setting I might use to facilitate running a PbtA adventure in this world my group and I are constructing?
Vince
What is the reason you are looking for a published DW product? Are you looking for inspiration for your fictional world, or are you looking for specific guidance on how to create a post-apocalyptic feel, or are you looking for playbooks/mechanics?
What is the reason you are looking for a published DW product? Are you looking for inspiration for your fictional world, or are you looking for specific guidance on how to create a post-apocalyptic feel, or are you looking for playbooks/mechanics?
Will P Regarding the first question: yes, inspiration and to facilitate play with a setting that already has that feel. Guidance with regard to sustaining the post-apocalyptic feel would be great, as well. Having said that, I note that I have Apocalypse World 1st and 2nd editions, Legacy and I’m looking to them for inspiration. Nevertheless, I’m seeking something that has a fantasy-ish feel to it. If I were to liken it to something in media, then it would be like the new production of Sword of Shanarra. My players have posited the rise of beings, essentially human mutation, that are able to generate and control bio-electricity – Bio-wizards.
Will P Regarding the first question: yes, inspiration and to facilitate play with a setting that already has that feel. Guidance with regard to sustaining the post-apocalyptic feel would be great, as well. Having said that, I note that I have Apocalypse World 1st and 2nd editions, Legacy and I’m looking to them for inspiration. Nevertheless, I’m seeking something that has a fantasy-ish feel to it. If I were to liken it to something in media, then it would be like the new production of Sword of Shanarra. My players have posited the rise of beings, essentially human mutation, that are able to generate and control bio-electricity – Bio-wizards.
Is there arcane magic apart from the bio-Wizards? Are there gods and divine magic?
Is there arcane magic apart from the bio-Wizards? Are there gods and divine magic?
Divine magic can be reskinned to a military command outfit that you call for help (guidance, supplies, etc)
Mutations are the demi-human races. Easy.
Magic, l like you say, are further mutations. Again, easy.
You can use monsters as mutations and/or came from another planet via meteor/ship.
I think you can pull it off no problem
Divine magic can be reskinned to a military command outfit that you call for help (guidance, supplies, etc)
Mutations are the demi-human races. Easy.
Magic, l like you say, are further mutations. Again, easy.
You can use monsters as mutations and/or came from another planet via meteor/ship.
I think you can pull it off no problem
Will P Robert Doe There are no gods as defined by them in the process of playing Microscope, but the field is wide open for me to include them, maybe as an emerging force. Additionally, I’m tossing the idea around in my mind of having those “gods” be rogue AIs that survived from the previous age and are toying with their human gerbils. Or, maybe they are “mad” themselves and have adopted mythological personas, aka the Greek pantheon. The PCs in their timeline will be removed enough from the initial events of the fall that they’ll have to muck around in hearsay, legend, complete falsehood, and cultural idiosyncrasies having developed to discern the truth. To actually answer your question, yes, I think there could be other “arcane” magics. But, the PCs don’t know the true reality of these magics and their source.
Will P Robert Doe There are no gods as defined by them in the process of playing Microscope, but the field is wide open for me to include them, maybe as an emerging force. Additionally, I’m tossing the idea around in my mind of having those “gods” be rogue AIs that survived from the previous age and are toying with their human gerbils. Or, maybe they are “mad” themselves and have adopted mythological personas, aka the Greek pantheon. The PCs in their timeline will be removed enough from the initial events of the fall that they’ll have to muck around in hearsay, legend, complete falsehood, and cultural idiosyncrasies having developed to discern the truth. To actually answer your question, yes, I think there could be other “arcane” magics. But, the PCs don’t know the true reality of these magics and their source.