When a player fails a roll, they already know that the MC is going to be there with a hard move, at least they get to mark a consolation Experience and 'learn from their mistake' :) I find tying experience gain to failed rolls to be a much more elegant solution. Inevitably, you have characters who happen to advance super fast and others who move at a glacial pace. I've played in and run many games that try to tie character advancement to frequency of die-rolling, or dice rolls tied to certain types of rolls, and they never work. I'll take a tangent moment to discuss the 'highlighted stats' thing. Since Consult Training is basically a 'clue-generator' move (kind of like Open your Brain), and is generally rolled only if someone needs a clue that can't be found via Read a Sitch or Read a Person, it seemed more like a 'sub-move' of Read a Sitch and therefore putting it under Sharp didn't seem like that big a deal.Īlso, since advancement isn't tied to rolling 'highlighted stats' it doesn't really matter if Sharp has an extra move to it, especially since, functionally, it's not that different from the other two Sharp moves, just more situational. Weird/Will = Specialty stat for setting-specific outcomes The reason I made Consult Training a Sharp-based roll is less to do with tallying the number of moves used for each Stat as the underlying function each stat serves in Apocalypse World. Here's a glimpse into my thought process on Consult Training. I would absolutely love any character-sheet feedback you care to make, as I suck at graphic design and character sheets (as the crappy word docs I have up there can attest) :) I divorced 'special moves' from sex, and grounded them in full-on character motivation (which can, certainly, involve sex). I tried to keep the number of 'killer combos' to a minimum :) But AW is not a game that rewards the min-maxer very well, so I can't say I'm all that concerned about it. I went for uniformity in Hx generation and advancement, and made it a more traditional 'species/class' generation rather than a stack of discrete playbooks. Most of the Apocalypse World moves have been reskinned and turned into Personal Moves (or species moves, or whatnot).

All those powers are moves, but the moves are comparatively narrow, and tend to hang strongly off of the 'Optional Battle Moves.' Players choose their 'Class' moves for combat purposes and their 'Personal' moves to give them background and flavor. Game is still 'in planning' so feedback here or on the site is appreciated.ĭesign notes: I wanted to preserve the variety of 'combat/tech/biotic' powers from the games without flooding the game with complication. The actual crunch stuff is on the 'wiki' tab. Here's my Apocalypse World hack for the Mass Effect universe/setting.

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