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Ellie

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Ellie@fools-pyrite.com · 2mo ago

Sort of tangential, but: any time someone says "PbtA moves are triggered by the fiction" an angel loses its wings. It wasn't true in Apocalypse World, it's especially untrue in the later Under Hollow Hills, and here's Vincent Baker specifically saying it's not true: lumpley.games/2021/05/31/p...

The rule for moves is to do it, do it. In order for it to be a move and for the player to roll dice, the character has to do something that counts as that move; and whenever the character does something that counts as a move, it’s the move and the player rolls dice. Usually it’s unambiguous: “dammit, I guess I crawl out there. I try to keep my head down. I’m doing it under fire?” “Yep.” But there are two ways they sometimes don’t line up, and it’s your job as MC to deal with them. First is when a player says only that her character makes a move, without having her character actually take any such action. For instance: “I go aggro on him.” Your answer then should be “cool, what do you do?” “I seize the radio by force.” “Cool, what do you do?” “I try to seduce him.” “Cool, what do you do?” Second is when a player has her character take action that counts as a move, but doesn’t realize it, or doesn’t intend it to be a move. For instance: “I shove him out of my way.” Your answer then should be “cool, you’re going aggro?” “I pout. ‘Well if you really don’t like me…’” “Cool, you’re trying to manipulate him?” “I squeeze way back between the tractor and the wall so they don’t see me.” “Cool, you’re acting under fire?” You don’t ask in order to give the player a chance to decline to roll, you ask in order to give the player a chance to revise her character’s action if she really didn’t mean to make the move. “Cool, you’re going aggro?” Legit: “oh! No, no, if he’s really blocking the door, whatever, I’ll go the other way.” Not legit: “well no, I’m just shoving him out of my way, I don’t want to roll for it.” The rule for moves is if you do it, you do it, so make with the dice.Q: “Fiction first” is for me a solid guideline when thinking of #PbtA moves. That means always having fictional content trigger the move. But what can we consider to break from this guideline in some cases? What do we lose and what do we gain? @jogadorsonhador Look out! I have beef. I don’t know where the idea of always having fictional content trigger the move came from. I’ve never espoused or recommended it as a guideline. It’s not in Apocalypse World — Apocalypse World just says that you can’t get the effects of taking action without actually taking the action, and you can’t actually take the action without getting the effects of it. And then Apocalypse World goes on to include like a million moves without any fictional triggers at all, and to explicitly talk about moves without fictional triggers in its chapter about how moves work.
Ty@mindstorm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

feel like the whole pbta movement is ALWAYS on the cusp of splitting into two warring factions: those of think its okay to just say "I go aggro" and those who don't

Ellie@fools-pyrite.com · 4mo ago

New blog post about weather / season rules: fools-pyrite.com/posts/season...

Season-ing my game world

Right now I’m running a game of The Drowned Isles, a setting / ruleset I wrote to play a bunch of OSR adventures. There are plenty of inspirations for the game, but one its earliest seeds is an attempt to write a game about where I’m from. Of course, I’m not from an archipelago infested with seafaring magical adventurers. But I’ve tried to infuse a little New Jersey into this far-future science fantasy.

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Valerie Halla@valeriehalla.dicot.moe · last yr.

programmer encounters linear algebra for the first time: (audible discomfort) strange. this vector.......... it's fixed-length and immutable. it's almost like some kind of........... tuple

lumpley@lumpley.bsky.social · last yr.

Every once in a while I'll get to tell someone, and they'll suddenly understand what I mean, that PbtA doesn't begin and end with the fiction, it begins and ends with the conversation. "Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.

Ty@mindstorm.bsky.social · last yr.

Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.

Bran wants Keeler’s backup in an ill-considered raid on Jackabacka’s junkyard. Keeler knows how ill-considered it is, though. “Oh come on, it’ll be fun,” Bran’s player says. He hits the roll with a 7. “So, the carrot or the stick?” Keeler’s player says. “The carrot,” he says. “You’ve got hard highlighted, yeah? The way I figure it, with that, plus one from me, this raid could give you enough experience to get a whole improvement.” “Hm,” Keeler’s player says. “at’s an interesting point.”
Ty@mindstorm.bsky.social · last yr.

Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.

Bran wants Keeler’s backup in an ill-considered raid on Jackabacka’s junkyard. Keeler knows how ill-considered it is, though. “Oh come on, it’ll be fun,” Bran’s player says. He hits the roll with a 7. “So, the carrot or the stick?” Keeler’s player says. “The carrot,” he says. “You’ve got hard highlighted, yeah? The way I figure it, with that, plus one from me, this raid could give you enough experience to get a whole improvement.” “Hm,” Keeler’s player says. “at’s an interesting point.”
Ellie@fools-pyrite.com · 2y ago

Wrote a blog post about playing my DIY rpg: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne... I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer

The First Outing to the Drowned Isles, feat. Tannic

In November, I ran a oneshot using my ruleset/setting/campaign, The Drowned Isles. I was trying to test drive the kernel of a ruleset I’ve written as well as some character classes. This oneshot ran f...

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Ellie@fools-pyrite.com · 2y ago

as bsky gains momentum two things become clear: 1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow 2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious

Ellie@fools-pyrite.com · 2y ago

New blog post! I played a session of ICON (fantasy RPG from one of the Lancer creators) and wrote down some thoughts. TL;DR: totally unremarkable FitD game stapled to an exciting tactics game fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...

First Impressions: ICON

This week I played my first session of ICON, Massif Press’s tactical fantasy RPG. It’s my usual group less two players, so that makes one GM and then four of us on the other side of the table. So far ...

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