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Apocalypse World / Help me with my Winter Front.
« on: October 02, 2011, 12:25:14 PM »
Hi I am preparing my fronts and I need some help for one of them.

Our apocalypse is a eternal winter vomiting ashes and snow storms.

The characters:
- A hocus who want to lead her people south.
- A gunlugger who think his lost son went south.
- A brainer intrigued by the hocus who want to go south.

The group is trying to go south to run away from the winter and cannibals.

For now I have the home front, the men hunters (cannibals) front and a winter front.

The prep of the home front and the men hunters front went well, but I am hesitating a little with my winter front since this is not a group of people.

So for now I have (I have put in bold my main hesitations):  

Front: Winter
Express: despair
Dark future/agenda: cover the entire world?
Description & cast: ash snow, storms, freezing cold ?
Stakes questions:
- do summer still exist in the south?
- can people survive the winter?

Threat 1: The road south
Kind: landscape/mirage
Impulse: entice & betray people
Cast: people migrating south, ?
Custom move: ?
Countdown: this is where I am hesitating. For now I have the idea that more and more people will migrate south. But should I focus on the actual "road" or the trip?

Threat 2:  The freezing cold
Kind: affliction/condition
Impulse: expose people to danger
Cast: ?
Custom move: something about freezing?
Countdown: I am aslo hesitating here. The temperature could become colder and colder. Or maybe a super ash-snow storm could happen. Maybe something weird could lurk in the cold. Or maybe I should focus on the effects on the general population?




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How do you deal with stat highlighting for characters who have a move that override one of their stats with a other one?

In my group we have the Angel with sixth sense who use sharp instead of weird and the Gunlugger with Battle-Hardened who use hard instead of cool.

Highlighting their overridden stat don't seem to be a option since they wont be able to use it. Should they cross their highlight box for their overridden stat so that other player wont highlight it?

Or should we keep the overridden stat available for highlighting and count on the MC to provide a custom move for this stat? (it don't seem practical)

  

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Apocalypse World / Re: Choosing names from the list
« on: September 20, 2011, 06:36:14 PM »
New player here. We just started to play AW and when we created our characters I was surprised to see how the playbooks names can inspire character concepts.

I had no character in mind and when I looked at the names I was seeing very different characters (for example, I was hesitating between Barbecue, Colonel and Madame for my hardholder). 

Same thing for the other players, I noted that their character name choice colored their character.

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