New Playbook: The Feral Kid

If you make Harmless a hold-based move, it might be easy to add "if you deal harm/take an aggressive action, you lose all your hold."

Yes.

Quote from: mcdaldno on September 01, 2010, 11:16:16 AM

I'm struggling with this one. I can't build malacai from Children of the Corn. That's what I want to do with this playbook. Also, I can't model the kid from RW as I'd like to.

Been a long while since I saw Children of the Corn but wouldn't Malacai by a hocus?  He seems like he is not a feral child.  I dunno.

Isaac is the hocus you're thinking of.
Malacai is the lead grunt of the group. He's the tall red-head with the scythe.

He takes Isaac's shit not out of faith, but out of the power he is given in turn. And then suddenly he's like, "Actually, fuck this, I can take that same power without kissing ass to boy wizard over here." It's the one good scene of the movie, and it's all Apocalypse World.

Revised version of Harmless:

When you act all vulnerable and helpless, or surrender in battle, roll +Hot. On 10+ hold 3, on 7-9 hold 1. Spend your hold 1 for 1 to:

• if you suffer harm, you suffer one less harm
• make someone hesitate when they act against you
• give someone who is helping you +1 on a roll
• take +1 on a move to escape the danger

On a miss, nobody is taken in by your act - you're marked as a threat right away.
If you act violently or inflict harm, you lose all your remaining hold.

That's pretty rockin', Mike.

I put together a trifold playbook for the Feral Kid: Here

There's probably a bit more that could be added, but it seems good overall.

Mike I really like your Feral Kid idea. I'm actually running a story line in my game around one. The PC's take care the Kid and how they treat him/allow events to befall him determines what he becomes.

Reaction I dig the Trifold

I just re-watched Road Warrior, and I really want to see somebody play with the boomerang and glove.

I had someone take the Feral kid and a boomerang in a one-shot last weekend. It was everything that I had hoped it would be.

It´s too weird, I just had the idea of a similar playbook and did it. It´s sort of different, I´ll post it soon...

i was thinking about this one and about what children are like in general in apoc world and i was wondering about how you would go about running a short prelude before a campaign as to what some of the characters were like when they were kids.

any thoughts

For my own game I've blended elements of the Feral Kid with some of Khimus' Child playbook, slapped a couple bits of my own on, and put it on the table for my players.  There've been no takers quite yet, but I think we'll be needing some new characters soon.  My fingers are crossed that somebody will pick The Kid so I can see how it works in actual play...

Anyways, here's what it looks like.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_XJtVbYj_jjMTUzYWQwMWItZGI0MC00ZGQ0LTljZjEtNThiYjYxNzYyNDYw&hl=en&authkey=CMS52MMK

Just for the record, Mike Sands and Khimus did all the heavy lifting on this.  I just swiped my favourite bits.

For my own game I've blended elements of the Feral Kid with some of Khimus' Child playbook, slapped a couple bits of my own on, and put it on the table for my players.  There've been no takers quite yet, but I think we'll be needing some new characters soon.  My fingers are crossed that somebody will pick The Kid so I can see how it works in actual play...

Not sure if it's a typo or intentional, but your "Hungry" move basically lets another PC "double dip" for both experience and history.

In the "Feral Kid" playbook it reads:

When someone helps you – offers food, shelter or healing –
without hope of payment, you mark experience. If they are a PC, they gain
+1 Hx with you.

In the "Kid" playbook you have:

when someone helps you - offers food, shelter, protection or
healing, for example - with no strings attached, they mark experience. If they
are a PC, they gain +1Hx with you.

Yeah, maybe both is too much.  Perhaps it should read "they may either mark experience or gain +1Hx with you."

Yeah, maybe both is too much.  Perhaps it should read "they may either mark experience or gain +1Hx with you."

In the original Feral Kid move, both participating characters gain a benefit from the interaction; in yours, only the the *other* character gets a benefit. What was you intent in making that change?  As well, marking experience and gaining history only apply to PCs, so I'm not sure the "If they are a PC" condition is needed.

I like it if both characters get a benefit, even if they aren't balanced/equal value.

While it could probably be exploited, I feel the move should be the "giving" character gaining experience and the "Kid" (of whatever type) getting the +Hx with the giver as they see a "different" side of the giver.