So Andri Erlingsson up and decided that DW wasn’t oldschool enough and that there should be Basic-like playbooks for the Elf/Dwarf/Halfling.
He’s still working on the Dwarf and the Halfling, but in any case the Elf is done and linked just below.
Credits: main writing: Andri Erlingsson; proofreading, feedback and layout done by me. License: CC-BY-SA.
You can expect the next two in the next couple of weeks, then probably a bunch of related CCs (the Elf will get the Dark Elf and the Elf-Friend, we’ll figure out the rest).
What is Elfsight supposed to do, exactly?
You can be a mile away from somewhere, and as long as you can see that location you can discern it and get answers as if you were physically there (so no “you can’t tell, you’re too far away”).
It’s Legolas’ elf eyes.
But that doesn’t do anything. Even if you are there, you still have to interact with a location in order to discern realities about it, since locations don’t trigger the move. Only studying situations and people do (so, like, searching a room thoroughly is a situation, looking at it isn’t). “You can’t tell, you’re too far away” is something that blocks the move from being triggered, it’s not a legitimate answer to a question.
Maybe you mean something like “You can discern the realities of any location you can see without having to interact with it” ?
Honestly, I would just leave it at “you can see really far”, and let the players work with it from there
Elfsight allows the move to trigger under a wider variety of situations, or rather lets you study something closely without needing to be close at all. It’s really not more complicated than that.
Also, I just went back and checked. There’s no explicit requirement to interact physically to discern things. How you discern realities is left to the fiction to explain, and Elfsight is just an example of this.
I didn’t say anything about “physically” but page 66 is pretty explicit about the interaction part.
(Although it’s usually pretty hard to interact socially with a location, so physically tends to be the way to go.)
Johnstone Metzger: that is literally what Elfsight does, remove the need to interact with a place/sitch to Discern Realities about it as long as you can see it. It’s the entire point of the move. Note how Elfsight says “study,” which is explicitly Discern Realities’ trigger (“when you closely study a situation or person”).
It says “usually” interact. Playbooks can and often will provide exceptions! Elves have such sharp eyes that they can spot secret doors on a roll of 2 or less on a d6-wait, wrong game. But consider Elfsight an exception.
Wow. A great playbook! Thanks.
Yo guys, I know what the move does. I am saying the way it is written is poorly executed, and could be better. Like, for example, you have already done it better twice each in this thread.
Johnstone Metzger: “When you Discern Realities, you may study any location you can see—no matter how distant—without interacting with it and as if you were standing there.”
Does that solve the problem you have with the move?
Sure, that’s much better.
The “as if you were standing there” still seems weird to me, like you are trying to ward off a dick GM. Wouldn’t something like “Your eyes are so good that…” at the beginning do the same job with more flavour?
Johnstone Metzger: well, the “as if you were standing there” was put there to cover the interaction requirement in the first place.
Golf clap This is amazing, I look forward to seeing your Dwarf and your Halfling Alex Norris Andri Erlingsson !
I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but the Elf’s Chaotic alignment should give the race a reputation as slackers.
Elves are the WORST slackers. You meet them at a crossroads on midsummer or leave some honey and milk out for them and at first it’s cool, but soon they’re living on your couch blasting dubstep all day.
Andri Erlingsson it seems you speak on personal experience 🙂
Hazard of being Icelandic
Tim Jensen: it’s completely intentional as it’s meant to evoke the carefree nature of elves dancing in the forest etc. I may change it to “put off something important” or “get onto trouble putting something off” to make it less common though.
Can’t wait to see the dwarf !
I’ve updated the sheet with the Elfsight change and made the Chaotic alignment “get yourself into trouble putting off now what can be done tomorrow.”