I changed it from "anyone with the link can view" to "anyone can view", but that's weird. Tell me if it works.

On impulses: I dunno. To me, impulses are like a one-step countdown. If you can't be bothered to make a proper countdown for a threat, you can treat it like a countdown that has "victimize the vulnerable" on every tick. Dreams and ambitions, however, are much more abstract, kind of like the dark future. You can't make a "dark future" for a Scene, because dark for whom? Not everyone's working towards the same goal, or against the same adversaries, and that's pretty much the point of using scenes instead of fronts. So we can't have a catch-all dark future but rather state everyone's hopes, dreams and fears broadly.

I'm not sure about impulses. How mandatory is it to create a countdown for every threat in AW? We could say that each agent should have a hope, dream, fear or impulse, or more than one of those, but at least one. Like, make it not mandatory. I don't know if that works.

I'll think I'll try using both. Then if I notice that the impulse just keeps reiterating the dreams and fears, we'll scrap it. But if it does generally say something else, then it can stay.

On that topic, Tim, I've been thinking as well (tell me if I'm too OT for the thread!). Sure, it's a good way to view AW that "everything and everyone" is a threat, but I keep thinking about the thing on the Fronts playbook: "Threats are people, places nad conditions that (...) threaten the players' characters." What if they only concern themselves with one of the player's character? What if they, and this is probably the worst that could happen if you do the "everyone's a threat" thing right, threaten different PCs in different ways? I mean, if an NPC hired gun is hired by the hardholder to root out the hocus' cultists, sure, he can be a threat to both, but in different ways, and his countdown clocks probably say different things.

For our hack, we use Stages with different agents involved rather than fronts. But then again, AW is unique in that the setting makes someone's existence be a threat to you inevitably, since there's got to be something you can't both have. Scarcity.

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Playtesting has started! We did a first session, with much world-building and little actual play, yesterday! I just wrote it up in swedish and don't have all day so I won't write a report now, but here it isin swedish.

Here are the playbooks.

How nice!

I translated the game on the spot(starting with google translate and moving through cleaning up).

Here are the main rules
Here's the character sheet

Enjoy!

Well, depending on how much you want to modify it, the Chopper could definitely fit right in. People live under no real authority or sense of a purpose, and the place they live in is large enough to physically withdraw from the tribe or whoever is in charge. That's pretty much all it takes for someone to gather people around him and just hang out with his new gang, not caring for anyone else (and, since it's AW, probably not much for each other either).

I've seen a lot of cool ideas for choppers in other settings, like a band of horse-ridden bandits in a car-less setting, a jetski gang in a waterworld setting, and so on. But I don't think the vehicles are that important. Decide on something that not everyone has aboard the ship, and let the Chopper be the leader of a gang of people who have that. It could be that they have access to and know their way around the maintenance shafts. It could be that they have crude exo-skeleton style power armor, poorly functional, originally intended for repairs work or heavy augmenting strength or agility (not straight-up weaponry). If the group decides it likes space, it could be those hoppers you mention, and then the Chopper is suddenly even more interesting since he's the only one except the driver who can travel between ships by default.

Either decide on one of these or an idea like them and remake the Chopper costum-made for it, or just strip away the bikes from the Chopper and make him the kind of character you get when a gunlugger gets a gang from an improvement. Just "I'm the leader of a gang of violent badasses and I'm totally their alpha" is interesting enough, and if you have a hardholder too, then sure, they may be pretty alike, but in that case it's almost mandatory that the Chopper is vying for power anyway.

Both moves have other qualifiers than "start of session, if it feels right". Moonlighting explicitly needs downtime, but doesn't care about sessions. Skipping a week in-session is the kind of things the Operator loves, but if less than a day has passed since last session, nothing happens. Everyone does stuff "on-screen", but the Operator is special because he, by default, keeps doing stuff off-screen, whenever that is.

Wealth needs a secure position or whatever, and can admittedly become a bit weird, especially if you let the barter from the surplus accumulate. I'd say that "having surplus at hand for the session" and "surplus: 2-barter (you're personal share)" combines to make "you can grab up to 2-barter from just around your compound without anyone caring, but if you don't use it during the session, it doesn't automatically go into your personal hoard." And if you play that in mind, the hardholder can roll for Wealth pretty much regardless of time passed since last time, as long as his hold is secure and his rule unchallenged.

The brainer I played last had the brain relay and the receptivity drugs, I think. She introduced herself as the Angel, that was fun.
The brainer in the group I'm currently MCing in took the pain-wave projector and the brain relay. He really wanted the glove, but realised he liked the other moves more than the ones that actually let him use the glove.

We had a Battlebabe who went with the Operator and the Hardholder warlord in an attempt to conquer another city, and faced of against the NPC mindfucker Brine deep inside the stronghold after sneaking in. Learning new things about herself and losing some kind of mental duel, iirc the MC told her player that something about her has to change due to this; that Brine had left a big messy footprint inside her brain. So the Battlebabe realised that she had taken enough lives and should start fixing them instead, and thus left the war to become a roving Angel. Completely story-driven; I think the player went into that confrontation with no expectations - she knew the risks and would've accepted character death but she also had an unused advancement so she knew those options were up as possible results too.