Author: Tim B

Apocalypse World 2nd ed MAP

I start any AW campaign with drawing a 5 minute map while we flesh out ideas. There are always raiders, and there’s always Burn Flats. I don’t like to dwell on the setting, so we’ll then launch right into characters and leave nice, glaring blanks on the map.

Then this sits in the middle of the table for every session, and I’m always amazed at how much we use it. The map is more an impression than a reliable guide to the world, and yet we’re pointing at its landmarks all the time.

What’s your experience with drawing maps during play?

The illustrious Gauntlet Portland played the Fiasco playset “Dragon Slayers”! That’s the fantasy trope-y setting from the exhaustive list of playsets (and now republished in Playset Anthology Vol. 1).

There’s a bit of a tone mismatch between Coen Brothers meets the Dungeons & Dragons (2000) film (real talk? teenage me had such a weird thing for Justin Whalin in that movie), yet we still told of a disastrous plan gone horribly well as expected. Good times were had!

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Gauntlet Portland played “World of Dungeons”! Though the characters were paper-thin (see literal paper below), we still took time to discuss simple player flags for the session. They were:

* Player A: Player B gives me sound advice that they know I won’t take

* Player B: Player A compromises their values in order to help me succeed

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Gauntlet Portland played Marshall Miller’s The Warren today, and for the third time I ran “The Threat of Cottontail’s Ascendancy”. A torrential downpour beat on the tin roof above us while we told a pretty dang grisly tale that ended with my first case of rabbit-on-rabbit homicide!

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