Barf Forth Apocalyptica
barf forth apocalyptica => Apocalypse World => Topic started by: djmalloc on March 29, 2012, 07:34:33 AM
-
Hey all, I am interested to know how other people find their games progressing.
All of my fronts are external from the Hardholder's hold. A biker gang, a warlord in another town, a foreboding landscape, etc.
But the player's tend to spend a lot of time in the hold interacting with NPC's there. So a lot of drama is unfolding there. More so, in fact, than with the entities that constitute my fronts.
I am fine with this and am allowing new fronts to appear that exist solely within the Hardholder's hold.
So this is more of a style question. Do you have the same happen and how do respond? Do you forcefully interject your external fronts into the hold? Or just let the internal-to-the-hold fronts grow and take center stage?
-
I am fine with this and am allowing new fronts to appear that exist solely within the Hardholder's hold.
"Home front" doesn't mean "all the stuff at 'home'"... it means "threats without a fundamental scarcity/dark future"... so you should feel free to have threats within and outside!
The holding could be brimming with threats... the the Fear of the citizens (Brutes: Family), the Hardholder's gang's Ambition (Brutes: Hunting Pack) clashing with the NPC "doctor"'s Ambition (Grotesque: Pain Addict), so say nothing of people always slaking their Thirst at the local watering hole (Landscape: Maze)... and the woman who supplies the booze and drugs (Warlord: Collector)... and each of these can tie into a Front with Threats that are external as well...
To say nothing of all the various Afflictions that can be used in a holding!