I’ve running a one-shot in a few weeks for a friend’s birthday. While I’ve run a bunch of DW it will be the player’s first experience with the system and I wanted to make it special. I’ve asked the birthday boy what kind of themes he’s want to focus on and I was given “Arabian Nights” and “Faustian Deals.” I was hoping to access the brain trust here and see if we can come up with some awesome custom moves for such a setting. Please, make my mind explode with your great ideas!
I’ve running a one-shot in a few weeks for a friend’s birthday.
I’ve running a one-shot in a few weeks for a friend’s birthday.
i don’t have any custom moves off-hand, but my mind immediately goes to the genie-in-the-bottle, but instead of it granting 3 wishes, it’s a quid-pro-quo sort of thing. “Sure, yeah, I can make you a prince, but I’ll need this from you…”
When you make a deal with Al-Alraham roll +int
10+ as 6-7 and he lets slip a hint of a loophole
6-7 you get exactly to the letter what you asked for and the payment is your stuck in time repeating this day over and over.
I would prep by taking some notes on possible “hard bargains” you could offer, so you have plenty of those to go with when rolls give you the opportunity. That would really emphasize the “Faustian Deal” part.
Great idea running a special game, too. I’m sure it’ll be a ton of fun!
The players have been sent to find the fabled “Parliament of Birds” by their Dervish Master to save the world from the King of Ghuls and his plans to end the world by bringing on the “Endless Night of Feasting and Delight”. The problem: Legend says to gaze unprotected on the parliament is to lose your soul forever. Also: What price will the bird parliament demand to stop the Ghul King?
^BOOM!
I am reminded of a couple of movies. There’s both the 1967 and the 2000 versions of Bedazzled, each very good for this in their own ways, although the older one has a sharper wit.
The usual hard choices are between different things we value, such as a daughter’s virginity versus career success, or financial admiration versus peace of mind. Consider what he values.