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Apocalypse World / Going too far?
« on: January 05, 2013, 12:13:12 AM »
I'm thinking of doing something rather cruel next game but I fear I might be overstepping. I thought I'd run it by you friendly forumers first.
We ended the last game with "And after that night everyone heals up and the city is relatively quiet ... until the gator attacks."
We also decided to start winding down the campaign (two or three more sessions).
Anyway, my plan for next session is, instead of using history to highlight stats, I was going to have each player pick an NPC that is "important" to their character. Then I'd pick one for that character too (using Hx as would be done with highlighting).
So then the four characters would have a stack of eight NPCs that are all important to them in some way.
Then comes the cruel part: I'd ask them each to pick an NPC from the stack that survives the gator attack.
I want some of their cherished NPCs to meet their tragic ends to gear up for the upcoming climax and this seemed like a pretty good way to get their without forcing it too much. Is that taking too much agency from them? If your MC did this, would you hate or like it?
Thanks for any insight you can offer!
We ended the last game with "And after that night everyone heals up and the city is relatively quiet ... until the gator attacks."
We also decided to start winding down the campaign (two or three more sessions).
Anyway, my plan for next session is, instead of using history to highlight stats, I was going to have each player pick an NPC that is "important" to their character. Then I'd pick one for that character too (using Hx as would be done with highlighting).
So then the four characters would have a stack of eight NPCs that are all important to them in some way.
Then comes the cruel part: I'd ask them each to pick an NPC from the stack that survives the gator attack.
I want some of their cherished NPCs to meet their tragic ends to gear up for the upcoming climax and this seemed like a pretty good way to get their without forcing it too much. Is that taking too much agency from them? If your MC did this, would you hate or like it?
Thanks for any insight you can offer!