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MotW: How to fulfill Monstrous Luck special?
Monstrous Special: When you spend a Luck, your monster side gains
power. Your Curse may temporarily become stronger, or another dis-
advantage of your Breed may manifest
The Monstrous player has ...
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MotW: Which bonuses stack?
As far as I can tell, there are:
Stat bonuses
Ongoing
Forward
Do these stack with each other or themself? One can easily imagine scenario where two Ongoing bonuses would apply, for example. Should ...
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Is the Forgers Of Marbled City's Family move supposed to be Crop Rotation or Delving The Depths
I have been invited to play a game of 'Free from the yoke' so I was reviewing the book and I was thinking of selecting the 'Forgers Of Marbled City' In the book it has a move called 'Crop Rotation' ...
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How many advancements can a Root RPG character get before running out of options to choose from in the advancement list?
Some of my players are fulfilling both of her drives every session, so I want to know how many sessions I have before I need to add some new options to choose.
The Advancement list is in the Root Core ...
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In Farflung, how do the Last of Their Kind counsel points work?
The Powered by the Apocalypse game Farflung from Sanguine Productions makes use of “points in time”, organised into two pools: History (Hx) and Future (Fx). In general, Fx is “anted up” as a ...
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Advice for designing clocks in PBTA games
I'm creating a PBTA game about mice with swords. The feel I'm going for is "little creatures in a big, dangerous world."
I'd like to use clocks so that the GM can track moon phases and ...
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Already have the story before a PBtA game
I'm studying the rules for MOTW for the first time and I think I'd like to run a round soon.
I'm getting a little confused reading the rules for the agenda where it says "play to see what happens&...
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Does this trigger violate GM principles? Can it be fixed?
I have been working on homebrew class replacements for dungeon-world, and as part of this we have added "class triggers". Class triggers look like the compendium class triggers. However ...
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Help Me Understand Move Sequencing / Time-Management
I have tried reading several PbtA games, and repeatedly ran into difficulties understanding how Move sequencing/order is supposed to work. I feel as if these games are mere supplements for some sort ...
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Where can I find examples of NPC heroes' Moves for "Masks: a New Generation"?
Thanks to the Deck of Villainy (2017), I have a lot of examples on how to write moves for my villains, but I haven't found any example of moves for allied heroes.
What guides or examples of NPC hero ...
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When I'm making a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game, how do I pick good questions for moves like Read a Person?
The Apocalypse World RPG has the following move:
When you read a person in a charged interaction, roll +sharp. On a 10+,
hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 1. While you’re interacting with them, spend
your hold ...
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How can you map the probability of 2d6 onto a standard poker deck?
One of the projects I'm working on in my free time is the adaptation of the Urban Shadows milieu to a live-action environment. (In 2022, this is what one might charitably call a long-term goal.) One ...
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What does "Advance a Move" mean in Urban Shadows 2nd edition?
I know the final book is still being written and the Quickstart Rules may change before publication, but the game is already easily playable, despite this advancement rule that is common is several ...
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How do I calculate the probabilities of two consecutive success results in AnyDice?
I know that rolling with disadvantage gives you a negative bonus in between 1 and 2, that's easy to calculate in anydice.com but how can I estimate the increasing in difficulty that adds an extra roll?...
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How does a character change position ("move") between ranges?
How does a character change position between ranges?
e.g. "move" near to far
... appreciate that "move" is a key word in Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA)
Appreciate this question ...
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