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AW:Dark Age / Re: Videography / bibliography

« on: March 25, 2014, 08:17:38 PM »

depends on the finished product

my maybe list
Berserk - manga /anime mainly
Gladiator for potential visual inspiration
Passion of Joan of Arc for potential atmosphere
Tudors if I play a Court Intrigue game
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus potentially for visuals.

I wouldn't be surprised if Princess Bride, Willow or some old D&D games manage to finagle their way into my subconscious while playing.

AW:Dark Age / Re: For Plausiblefabulist: Jewish Genealogy?

« on: March 25, 2014, 08:07:50 PM »

More thoughts than anything close to a solution:

if Bloodless Xristos/Noble(New) Blood is closest to a Christian equivalent, I could see Blood of the Ancients or some such. But considering there is already "Old Blood" , it seems a bit repetitive.

If you did go this route or something similar, I could see leaving the description open enough to be interpreted as having some similarities to ancient South American (incan,myan,aztec,etc.) religions - this if you wanted to include temples without being transparent that you are directly referencing Judaism. I only mention this because The Bloodless have a few "well it may not be exactly like Christianity bits"

Other thoughts:

Binded Blood (realize Binded isn't a word but sounded kinda cool) or The Binding Blood. Could have allusions to be "Chosen" by a specific god without being completely overt and partially reference the process of laying tefillin and what it represents. While at the same time having just an evocative name that could be interpreted several ways.

Similarly if one wants to go really off-kilter. Could go with the Stone Blooded /Blood of the Stone-Soil/ Stone Blood- obvious play on Iron Blood and obscure reference to Golems (I figured Clay was too obvious). Could provide a good segue to use of temples. (I mainly came to this through an attempt to figure out an alternative interpretation of bloodless..)

*shrugs* just some thoughts..doubt it's helpful but never know if it might spark a thought or something

AW:Dark Age / Re: Choosing Rank

« on: March 25, 2014, 01:24:27 AM »

Quote from: jacob on March 12, 2014, 12:25:08 PM

For other playbooks it's less obvious; why play a Rank 3 Outlaw Prince over a rank 2? Both are high ranks, so there doesn't seem to be an incentive to pick 3 over 2, and 2 has more fun hooks built into the backstory.

Well if you like the general playbook but don't want to be say a Targaryen equivalent, I can see why someone might go with rank 3. That said the character concept I've come up for that particular playbook would be rank 3, because it fits the bits of fluff I've thought up.

Apocalypse World / Re: Gunluggers and Hot in General

« on: May 21, 2011, 05:15:52 PM »

Quote from: Evan Torner on May 21, 2011, 08:53:39 AM

But I'm curious about your beauty taxonomy: what's wrong with the Angel? How are the Hocus' descriptors any more/less "beautiful" than the Hardholder's?

I tried to address this a bit when I said that some of the non-hot play books didn't have bad choices (e.g. pretty, determined, rugged, smooth, strong, etc. ), but I guess I didn't do a great job. It's one of the reasons I had a bit of doubt about the hot/attractive connection but figured it had to do with flavor and the like.

As for Hardholders specifically aside from having access to gorgeous and aristocratic (the latter I don't see as inherently attractive). They are pretty similar to Hocus' and Angels in terms of choice.

Apocalypse World / Re: Gunluggers and Hot in General

« on: May 21, 2011, 05:31:10 AM »

Thanks for responding and yeah that does make sense. And it's definitely one way I could see things going since mechanically that is how Hot works. You are seducing or manipulating people.

What threw me and my friend off was the description of Hot.

Hot meaning fucking hot, attractive, subtle, gracious, sexy, beautiful, inspiring, exciting.

Now subtle,gracious,inspiring and exciting obviously don't have to do with looks but the others do. For the most part (though I suppose someone can be beautiful without being outright sexy or overtly sexy).

What compounds this are the options the various playbooks are given. Playbooks that can increase their Hot stat are given ,what I think most of society would deem, more attractive .

To compare and contrast

Those who can increase Hot with progress (facial options)
Battlebabe(smooth,sweet,handsome,sharp,girlish, boyish, striking)
Driver (Handsome,gorgeous, stern, fine-boned, worn, crooked)
Hardholder(strong, stern, cruel, soft, aristocratic, or gorgeous)
The Skinner(Striking,sweet, strange, cute, or beautiful)

Those who cannot increase Hot with progress
Angel(kind, strong, rugged, haggard, rugged, pretty, lively)
Brainer(Scarred ,smooth, pale, bony, plump moist, sweet)
Chopper(weathered, strong, rugged, narrow, busted)
Gunlugger(scarred, blunt, bony, dull, worn, blasted)
Hocus (innocent, dirty, determined, open, severe, or ascetic)
The Operator (worn, pretty, honest, rough, hard, or open)
The Savvyhead (plain, pretty, open, or expressive)

The fact that you have the hot definition which includes look with the above options . Granted some of those that improve have "pretty" and such and other ones you could probably expand to say are good look 'determined" or "rugged".

Apocalypse World / Gunluggers and Hot in General

« on: May 21, 2011, 12:35:41 AM »

So hi everyone this is my first post here. I've been lurking for awhile and just decided to pose a question now. Albeit a rather silly one perhaps.

I was talking with a friend the other day about Gunluggers and how physically attractive they can be. Obviously they aren't going to be seductive with a low Hot stat (which they notably can't increase) , but they also have facial options which are all potentially unattractive (if they are described by their defining trait).

“Scarred face, blunt face, bony face, dull face, worn face, or blasted face.”

Now I assume scarred face could theoretically be attractive in a really rugged sort of way (e.g. John Marston from Red Dead Redemption ).

Worn (if read as tired as opposed to old/leathery ) and Bony (if not emaciated) could work maybe..

But the best you can have is the -1, so does this put your character squarely in ugly-ville so-to-speak?

This kind of brings up the question where would an ultra attractive person with no seduction fall on the scale? Obviously a person who above average (or even average) and has skills of seduction or animal attraction would have positive Hot.

I was made a tad more confused because of the Gunlugger example of Keeler ,who isn't that bad looking, but I understand if she is just there for “the art”.

Thanks for any insights.

I suspect this is pretty cut and dry but curious to hear from others.

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