DM Playbook

Are you planning on having a GM/DM playbook like the MC one for AW?

It's definitely on the to-do list.  We're hoping to have some Fronts and GM playbooks ready by the time the final iteration of the game goes "to print".

Will these be legal tri-folds or letter-sized documents?

I *LOVE* me some tri-folds... it's so much fun fanning out pamphlets when starting a new game...

Trifolds are sweet but US legal is non-existent in Australia so it's painful paper size. For AW I even went  so far as to trim down A3 paper, more expensive and time-consuming, just because printing legal documents on A4 paper is so shit. I'm loving that the Beta 2.3 character sheets print so well on A4 paper.

Yes, A4 is much easier.

I'm a huge fan of the trifolds, too, but if you don't live in a place where they're easy to get, they can be annoying.  We're leaning more towards standard-sized sheets, but we'll see.  We're still experimenting!

I do find it somewhat amusing to see the focus of this discussion revolving around the size of paper that will be used to create the document, and not the actual content that will be on the document.

I'm planning on putting together a playbook for myself this weekend. I think I'm going to try to include:

- Agenda
- Principles
- Moves
- Names
- Tags

Really, I could probably get away with a list of names, but I like to be through, and to have a quick reference during "mind blank" moments.

I would have loved something like a sort of Front Playbook, with empty spaces where you can write the front with pencils. Just like a character sheet, but for the GM and about the front.

I agree that would help new GM's get the basic structure of Fronts. Worksheets can definitely be handy in a pinch.

I made my own once the steading rules came out that I printed 'blocks' of text (moves, principles, custom moves, names, instincts etc) and cut them out. I then stuck them around the margins of our huge butcher's paper map that sat in the middle of the table. Always there for easy reference. And whenever I used a name I could cross it off the list on the map (which doubled as a relationship map too).

It strangley acted as a cue to the players too. 'Hey, have we had an arcane enemy as a danger yet? That sounds awesome! Where can we find one?'