What PbtA game should I try if I wanna try how the system works but don't wanna deal with the cringy sex moves from Apocalypse World?
What PbtA game should I try if I wanna try how the system works but don't wanna deal with the cringy sex moves from Apocalypse World?
Apocalypse World 1st Ed.
Don't have le sex.
Done.
I borrowed that from the local library and it does indeed have the cringy sex moves.
Probably need to learn how to read anon.
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/threading yourself is the highest levels of homosexualry. Just like including sex stuff in your game, or telling people to just not use it.
>op is too moronic to read
>op is also too moronic to not read
lmao even
>Anon can't read IP tracker
>Anon doesn't have GankerX+
You are too new to be allowed an opinion worth listening to.
I'm the anon who solved the problem you're too fricking dumb to sort out in the first post.
The aon who /threaded it was a different anon.
I returned to laugh at how moronic you are. It's pretty funny.
Anon, as an anon who has GankerX but can also read: you're moronic.
Apocalypse World and Dungeon World the best PbtA game (though the latter is like rules-lite DnD).
Either do what
said, or there is the Burned Over hackbook which is a slightly updated, PG-13 version of the rules. I consider it a straight upgrade, despite the insistence of the original author that it's just an alternative ruleset.
>said, or there is the Burned Over hackbook which is a slightly updated, PG-13 version of the rules
I am the reason that that exists. I messaged the guy who made it asking for a version without sex moves and profanity. instead he made an entire new version and changed all the class names to the lamest shit imaginable.
I just wanted a game that didn't have weird sex moves and tons of cuss words and he rewrote all of it.
If you want le sex to make more sense, Monster Hearts is probably better.
Dungeon World is one of the worse PbtA games, because the PbtA overarching structure doesn't really suit the gameplay of old school D&D.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians
World of Dungeons with D&D bestiary.
Monster of the Week.
I also hear that Fellowship is cool.
I believe the Burned Over Hack removes the sex moves or changes them
City of Mist.
Or Bluebeard’s Bride
Monster of the Week + Tome of Mysteries. Do not pay for them. Evil Hat sucks ass.
Dungeon World, but throw out the default "playbooks" and find the PDF splat called "Class Warfare" that lets you make unique playbooks that are actually cool and fun to play.
does dungeon world have a lot of loot and/or power progression
my big problem with pbta stuff is that as fun as it is to get the narrative going there's really nothing outside of that that keeps me hooked on the game
Very few of the class upgrades from leveling are straight power increases. Some of it is in there and your character does become more effective at a few things, but generally you should not play any PbtA game expecting a D&D-like power ramp.
>"Class Warfare" that lets you make unique playbooks that are actually cool and fun to play
In PbtA way or DW but better way?
DW but better. If you don't like the PbtA mechanics or general structure, Class Warfare won't do much for you. If you're alright with it, you'll just find that Class Warfare has the potential to make characters that feel more interesting to use instead of DW's default structure of half-assedly watering down D&D and then giving you the option to take a boring move from another class instead of a boring move from your own class's list.
PbtA... game?
I didn't think there was such a thing.
Blades in the dark 🙂
Not real Pbta, neither is Ironsworn.
OP wants to play real, unmodified, roll 2d6 to fail at fricking in the sexy apocalypse Pbta.
I think they want to play roll 2d6 to never hear about sex ever because it's icky or something.
They have somehow ma and to fail tha roll and the hard move is, fiction first, that they're illiterate.
Dungeon world is a bad pbta game imo, doesn't get the genre right at all
Monster of the Week
I've been running a ROOT RPG campaign and have been enjoying it very much.
Your PC's are basically mercenaries who're operating in a Redwall/Tribes/Watership Down reality with CIA board game overtones. A good chunk of the game is parlaying with the different factions and getting involved in their conflicts solider of fortune style.
Alot of seemingly benign decisions, like what woodland creature you are, can have a huge effect on how other residents react to you since if you're a bird, the rolling avian monarchy will be more favorable to you, but any of the local races might show disdain if they had a bad experience with the last empire. You'll get the most mileage out of it if you've played the ROOTs board game, but it's not essential.
In this vein, The 'clearing system' that the game uses to generate the overworld map, which mirrors the board game, can be very useful. It allows you to simulate changes to the over arcing conflicts so players can see the effect they're having on the war between smaller sections and make moves based on that. Like if the party blows up a weapon depot for the moles in secret, then decide to smuggle some to their side of an ongoing battle so they can cash in(When I said CIA, I meant it).
The gear creation system is also pretty flexible. You basically just say what the weapon/armor/trinket is, it's range, amount of 'wear'(durability) it has, and throw on appropriate attacks/attribute tags. Although you'll want to define some of your own custom tags, especially for negative tags, since the starting set is elusively limited.
Altogether I think it captures the simplicity of the system well, adds some cool stuff on top of it, and isn't a perverted sex game holy shit why are PbtA games so horny?. Really wish the Core book had more illustrations though, most of it is just re-used artwork from the board game, although it is DENSE with text.
There is Masks for the Teen Titans-esque angle
It's all gay and about feelings and shit though. There isn't even HP or anything, player characters literally can't be beaten in fights. They just get sad or whatever.
>"Why do I have to roleplay teenager feelings in this narrative-driven roleplaying game about teenage superheroes in a coming of age story?"
>"Why do I have to roleplay teenager feelings in this narrative-driven roleplaying game about teenage superheroes in a coming of age story?"
Can you address anything head-on like a fricking man instead of this passive aggressive gay shit? What's the point in playing a game that has no failure state in combat?
>BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT COMBAT!
It's a fricking superhero game.
>but when you fill up all your emotional conditions, you get taken out
Literally says you can just choose to lose control and hulk out to win... but be LE SAD about it because losing control and winning is TERRIBLE!
You can just admit that it's not the kind of game you want to play instead of implying that games have to match your expectations and are badly designed if they don't.
>It's a fricking superhero game
It's a game about being teenage superheroes who are unsure about their self-image and are trying to figure out their direction in life while super and mundane aspects tear them in two directions. It's a narrative-focused game built on an engine and design philosophy that prioritizes narrative play. If you want to play a supers game that is more about fighting, go play Mutants and Masterminds.
Sounds like something made for tourists- namely fat neon-haired white girls and stinking trannies.
Anyone who loves this kind of game should be violently urinated on in front of their family.
>Anything I don't like is associated with how I imagine people not from Ganker to be like
lol. lmao.
Just fricking play games that cater to your interests instead of being mad that other games do different things.
I'm not mad, I just absolutely get my thrills by making those sorts of people suffer. It's a simply pleasure, it doesn't take much- and every now and then you can do it just well enough and you'll get rewarded by finding out they did a strangle-dangle with a speaker wire in the garage or something.
I'm about as edgy as a soccer ball, let's not pretend it takes much to set your kind off.
After all, I've watched trannies have a fricking meltdown and punch themselves because someone didn't want to play a game with them.
>They disagree with me, so now I'll project them as that same image of what I dislike
>violently urinated on in front of their family.
that's their fetish
The real questions:
>Why the frick does this exist
>Who is it made for
>Where can I find them to bully them
>player characters literally can't be beaten in fights
That's not really true. Not only are you allowed to run away from problems (which can actually be a narrative fulfillment of being afraid), but when you fill up all your emotional conditions, you get taken out. You are encouraged to have your characters acting out on their feelings and emotionally support each other, and if you don't then the stress starts to get so bad that they temporarily break.
>when you fill up all your emotional conditions, you get taken out.
that's the cringiest sentence I've heard all week.
this has got to be the most homosexual rpg of all time lmao
>It's all gay and about feelings and shit though. There isn't even HP or anything, player characters literally can't be beaten in fights. They just get sad or whatever.
That’s literally every PbtA game.
Dungeon World has HP
OH SNAP! You’re right. Let me rephrase that then:
That’s literally every other PbtA game.
Avatar Legends has fatigue. If you overflow your fatigue and keep pushing though, it starts distressing you mentally/emotionally and starts giving you conditions. If you load up all your conditions and have to mark another one, you get taken out of a fight.
>raven as a man
I...
That's a they/them btw
>superhero game
>not a single woman wearing a leotard in view
is this really a superhero game? I don't buy it.
The main mechanics of general PbtA is:
>Playbooks
>You have Moves that trigger when you naratively do something meeting the condition
>Roll d6 to gauge level of success
It's just a more narrative-focused style of playing a game. In my own group, we've played Masks: The New Generation and Avatar Legends. The former is a pretty typical game for PbtA, and the latter is a more elaborate game with very notable added mechanics.
If you're coming in from a DnD style game, Dungeon World may also be worth a shot, since it's probably the closest PbtA game to that in terms of aesthetics and concepts.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over does not have sex moves.
best one
This is good, even great for a session or two but the advancement system is really bad. Slow it down for pacing? Don't advance at all? Cap advances? There's no real good way to do it because advancement is in one huge block with no granularity.
Nahual RPG is pretty cool. You play modern day shapeshifting mexican who hunt angels to sell their blood, meat & bits
If you aren't willing to accept extreme cringe then PBtA is not the system for you.
Ironsworn
Kingdoms of Ooo has no sex moves.
Matt Colville's new system is a combination of like, PbtA's action resolution system, Into the Odd's damage system, 3.5 Iron Heroes' resource system, and 4e's tactical combat.
I'm really looking forward to it, frankly.
You know that joke about how heaven has british police, french cooks, german engineers, and italian lovers, and hell has french police, british cooks, italian engineers, and german lovers?
I feel like there's a similar joke to be made here about a hypothetical worst possible system.
4e's overhomogenized resources, Into the Odd's allmost-ruleless combat "tacticality", 3.5's 'file your taxes then consult 2 books and the innards of a cow to find your total bonus and target DC' action resolution, and PbtA's "what's hp?" damage system?
I refuse to believe Anima, Fatal and GURPS wouldn't all be involved somehow.
Wait, what's wrong with german lovers?
Since this is PbtA thread, does anybody have official playbooks for Freebooters on the Frontier 1e?