Barf Forth Apocalyptica
barf forth apocalyptica => Apocalypse World => Topic started by: lumpley on January 12, 2011, 01:29:19 PM
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Hey so when I go to cons I bring the faceless playbook with me, because that's its deal, it's the special playbook for cons.
If you're going to be playing Apocalypse World at a con, drop me a line and I'll give you the faceless PDF. That way you can bring the faceless to cons with you too!
-Vincent
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I took the faceless to Indiecon last year, so did Rich Stokes. It was used in the game that Rich ran and received some attention in my game. I shared a copy with the players in my game because they were awesome and bought some cool narration to the table. Am I right in thinking that this sharing is to be encouraged in the AW community?
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If you're going to be playing Apocalypse World at a con, drop me a line and I'll give you the faceless PDF. That way you can bring the faceless to cons with you too!
-Vincent
Does this work retroactively? :)
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Sure.
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Faceless got chosen at my con game at Endgame Oakland tonight, we lots of fun. The faceless was a masked circus ringleader almost, dressed to the nines but scary and fierce with his metal cane. Nasty.
Player sketched him during platy, too.
Was great fun running for everyone, love the game, Vincent thank you again!
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Vincent-
I will hopefully be traumatizing Smithies at JiffyCon with my Intro 1st session next week if you can shoot me a copy by then!
-JC
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Sure.
Thanks, Baker. The hardcopy I got at GenCon was marked up in a series of random embassy one-shots I ran that weekend and all the erasing in the world didn't clean it up for photocopying. On the other hand, having a smudged up Faceless has seemed apropo.
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Thanks, Vincent! Faceless was played in a couple of games last weekend at the Kapcon XX games on demand room.
In the game I ran, Momo the sad faceless - broken from having had to mercy-kill her own child - left a trail of destruction, and then took over the Hocus' cult of strength and blood.
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Yeah Faceless!
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I'm totally running this at PoliCon this year, Vincent!
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I'm running Apocalypse World at swedish convention GothCon this easter. Vx, I sent a mail about this a while ago if it sounds familiar. Could you send me a copy? Cheers.
arvidos@gmail.com
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Must've missed it somehow, Arvid. You should have the form letter now.
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I got it, thanks.
All day I've been fantasizing about Momo the masked man-child. Oh yeah. He might make an appearance in tomorrows game.
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Y'know, I ran a quickie session at the indie game room last gencon. And I actually have a paper copy of the Faceless (from the pre-order bundle), but have been loath to let anyone use it - since I don't have a PDF to make a fresh copy after.
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I had a chance to play the Faceless at this year's Dreamation run by Brendon Conway. I got to keep my character sheet, but it then spent the rest of the con in my jacket pocket. I was hoping to get a fresh pdf via the offer above.
I have a pdf of my scanned sheet around here somewhere if we need collaborating evidence.
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You should have the form letter now!
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Indeed!
Thanks Vincent. I will put it to good/evil use. It was very strange to play a character that never talked. but spoke only through actions. very different from my typical MO.
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Hey Vincent,
Great little game you've cooked together :) To spread the AW love, a friend of mine and yours truly are running the game at the Swedish convention LinCon in early June. Here's the link http://shop.textalk.se/se/article.php?id=15486&art=7334165 (http://shop.textalk.se/se/article.php?id=15486&art=7334165).
It would be awesome to bring a copy of the Faceless to the con!
Peace
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I'm planning to run AW at Camp Nerdly. Would you mind sending the faceless my way?
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I think I've got copies to you all. If I missed anybody, let me know!
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Would it be possible to get a copy of the faceless for a small RPG con in Australia that I am going to be running a demo game of AW at?
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Sure. Email me.
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Hey, I'm gonna be running a theme room at this year's Con of the North (St. Paul, MN), and there's gonna be Apocalypse World there. Would it be possible to pick up the Faceless for that?
kingvitamin at gmail (dot com)
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Sent.
Hey, did I miss somebody? NyarghoDirge, did I get yours to you?
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I'm starting a new game with some veteran players tomorrow night in Phoenix, AZ. None of us have seen the faceless in action yet. I'd like to make it an option in my games if you don't mind good sir. :)
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Hey..
Im going to a con later, could you be so kind and send me The faceless
to hr.bo.hansen@gmail.com?
Thanks in advance.
/Bo
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I'll be MCing an AW game at this year's KublaCon (http://www.kublacon.info/), and my email is Yarrum@gmail.com. Please and thank you for providing a Faceless book.
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It may be too late to bring it in, but I'm running AW at Fear the Con tomorrow. My email is mikelmatthewsjr@gmail.com
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Does the Faceless work in the Blue-Blind Hatchet City-scenario?
If so, I'd really love it. (I'd love it anyhow.) HolmCon, Matthijs Holter's convention!
platini1984 àt gmail (dot com)
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I ran Apocalypse World for the first time last Friday at a tiny little convention in Columbus, IN. It was a Firefly game, and it went pretty well. All of my players had a great time and they all had a chance to take the spotlight and shine. I look forward to running it again!
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Cool!
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Thanks for putting together such a great game! I had tried to run a Firefly game once before, but we got bogged down in the rules of Savage Worlds. Many of the same folks had no trouble picking up AW and running with it.
Especially striking to me was how much easier it was for the player with the Registered Companion (Skinner) to get involved and really contribute to the crew's success. Her and the Shepherd (Hocus) both were vital to completing their job and keeping the Seraphim flying.
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Though it was not at a convention, I have been MCing a game where a player choose the faceless playbook and it has been simply amazing. "Oh Yeah" has got to be one of the coolest moves ever. I love role-playing terrified NPCs as the player tears through walls to do some murders.
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Now having sent off the notice to the organizers of that con that I'll run Apocalypse World on Rubicon SommerCon, Osnabrück, Germany, end of July, and considering to offer the faceless, could I please get that one sent by email?
My plan is to ask if people want to be (mostly) a crew or the core of a cult, and then offer either Operator* – Brainer – Battle Babe – Skinner – Driver – Savyhead or Hocus – Faceless – Angel – Skinner – Battle Babe – Brainer. Each has two WEIRD-playbooks, because I want the Maelstrom more present than in the first AW games I MC'd, even going so far as to take „Mahlstrom“ as the title of the session. Furthermore I decided to break the rules and create a potential Despair-Front involving a Slaver who lost someone he loved and is looking for a replacement since and a Family who have a secret technique to “dive” the Maelstrom.
*)Although from looking at the playbook which still is in some google cache, I think I'd prefer the Maestro D'. The operator seems in theory a good playbook, but I still don't really get on with it personally. In which case I'd probably replace the Driver by the Gunlugger.
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You should have a form letter now!
-Vincent
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Thank you very much.
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Now having sent off the notice to the organizers of that con that I'll run Apocalypse World on Rubicon SommerCon, Osnabrück, Germany, end of July, and considering to offer the faceless, could I please get that one sent by email?
My plan is to ask if people want to be (mostly) a crew or the core of a cult, and then offer either Operator* – Brainer – Battle Babe – Skinner – Driver – Savyhead or Hocus – Faceless – Angel – Skinner – Battle Babe – Brainer. Each has two WEIRD-playbooks, because I want the Maelstrom more present than in the first AW games I MC'd, even going so far as to take „Mahlstrom“ as the title of the session. Furthermore I decided to break the rules and create a potential Despair-Front involving a Slaver who lost someone he loved and is looking for a replacement since and a Family who have a secret technique to “dive” the Maelstrom.
This happened on Saturday. Somehow I threw most of my planning overboard. Having seven players instead of five as I was originally thinking about when I wrote this made me combine those lists. (I have posted the playbook dynamics somewhere else; having the Maestro D' and Facebook playbooks was definitely a helpful addition, thank you very much!) I ended up with only one Weird playbook (Brainer) and the Maelstrom played only a minor role, because I also did not use my prep. With the Brainer opposing the Maestro D' (“Hey, Brainer, so you work independently? Who do you pay protection money to?” – “Nobody!” – “Who wants you to?” – “I guess, the Maestro D'…”) and various people hanging somehow between the two of them, I had enough stuff going on within the party and their next-door neighbours in the North to do a lot of interesting stuff anyway. So even though from the first thing on it did not run as I had previously imagined, in particular the social interactions part was the best I ever had in any of my AW games.