You can read part 1 here. Navigating the Territory In the first post of this series, I talked a lot about harder moves and softer moves, how to make them, and what those terms mean. I argued that any move can be made harder or softer, and that there’s no quick and easy rule to […]
In the Powered by the Apocalypse community, we’ve gotten used to a few pieces of terminology we use regularly—in particular, we talk a lot about soft and hard moves. Steve Segedy of Bully Pulpit Games wrote a post all about soft and hard moves, aptly titled “Soft and Hard Moves in The Warren (and other […]
In this series of posts, Brendan will tackle games outside of the tabletop RPG realm, dissecting them for any useful tidbits to apply to tabletop RPG design. XCOM 2: a game of soldiers, aliens, bad calls, upsetting mistakes, a really cruel RNG (random number generator), and many, many explosions. There’s a tactical level of squad-based […]
Grab the Dungeon World +2 Bundle of Holding in its last day (https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DungeonWorld2)! The Bundle is a great deal at this point, featuring Dungeon World, Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone, Plague of Storms, The Green Scar, and Dangerous Space Jail, for $6.95. And if you pay the threshold price ($17.63 at the time of this writing), you also get The Perilous […]
Masks: A New Generation, a tabletop RPG of young superheroes, is up on Kickstarter now! The game is all about playing young adult superheroes, growing up in Halcyon City and trying to figure out who they are. The adults, hero and villain alike, will tell them who to be and what to do, but it’s […]
Urban Shadow’s corruption mechanic often allows someone to get out of a bind by taking corruption and giving in to the power that they wield…eventually opened up new corruption moves (acting like gaining experience) which of course generated more corruption themselves. All to the end of turning your character into a monster. This is what WoD was trying to do…like forever!
