AP written by Ian, thread on story-games available here for further discussion. Dungeon World is a modification of Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World for D&D-style play – the free version (requires Apocalypse World, available for loan from SAGA Inc.) is available here

We join our heroes trekking for days through the leech-infested rainforest to reach the dread Temple of Ungu, intent on killing Florimel the Spider-Witch. They each had their reasons- Jenk, the Thief, was motivated by dreams of gold- with his wife and child under dire peril of eviction, a fate the heartless rogue claimed moved him not at all. Rurgosh, the dwarven Cleric, was tasked to cleanse this blighted sanctum on threat of penance- to be stripped of rank and wander the land spreading the word of Helferth with but the shirt on his back. Aldara, the elf Wizard, was here to destroy hir former lover- the rift between them growing as Florimels evil did. Octavia, the Paladin, knew Florimel in her days as an initiate of the Order, when she had sworn always to defend the now black-hearted mage. Continue reading »

 

Polaris is a game of “Chivalric Tragedy at the Umost North”, authored by Ben Lehman. It’s one of the pioneering games in the “GM-less game” tradition, and its influence can be seen in a number of other indie RPGs such as Joshua A.C. Newman’s Shock: Social Science Fiction, Mathijs Holter’s Acrhipelago or Erlend Bruer’s The Father. At its heart, it’s about tracking a character through their inevitable downfall, watching them try to make the best of the world even as it wears them down, until they are faced with either death or damnation.

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Apocalypse World, self-published by Vincent Baker, is a game about scarcity. It’s also a game about sex. It’s also a game about being incredibly cool in a world where people will shoot you for your food, or your car, or just because you might someday be a threat to them. Continue reading »

 

The shopkeeper from Back East? His wife isn’t really his wife. He’s the procurer and she’s the available woman. Their marriage is a front.

Your brother’s son, your nephew, is fourteen years old. He’s been stealing money from his father, your brother, and taking it to visit this woman.

Your brother is in a bitter rage, humiliated by his son’s thievery and grieving his son’s lost innocence. He’s going to shoot her.

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The original intent of ASoCE was to get new people to GM, or to get experienced GMs to experiment. So when I’d found that most of my time this year had been taken up with a rather standard game of [Diaspora][diaspora] (not that there’s anything wrong with Diaspora) I thought I’d better turn things up a notch. Continue reading »

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