I’ve been playing with GM moves, “fronts,” and how to organize them, and it’s led me to here: the GM Playbook.

I’ve been playing with GM moves, “fronts,” and how to organize them, and it’s led me to here: the GM Playbook.

I’ve been playing with GM moves, “fronts,” and how to organize them, and it’s led me to here: the GM Playbook.

The intent is that this would be a booklet, 3 sheets of paper, with front & back cover and 5 internal spreads.

I’ve pretty much decided that I won’t be using Fronts for Stonetop. They just don’t work. The AW2e approach to Threats is much more appropriate. You’ve got threats, and threat types, and moves that come with them, and a countdown clock (grim portents) if they need them.

So, yeah, here’s my go at it. I’ve also made some tweaks to the core DW moves, ported over my Monster Creation Cheat Sheet, and added a few miscellaneous things I’m always looking up.

Questions or comments about the format, the approach to moves, or anything else? I’d love to hear them.

https://goo.gl/vggJcT

8 thoughts on “I’ve been playing with GM moves, “fronts,” and how to organize them, and it’s led me to here: the GM Playbook.”

  2. I love the threats being managed like this. Have you considered making it a landscape page with threat types across the top, allowing space to write specific threats? It’s a format from Sagas of the Icelanders I find super useful

  4. Amazing work. Stonetop is definitively on my radar. Everytime you post a small piece of youre design Im blown away by the quality.

    Can you give us all a rough estimate on the release window for Stonetop? (Knowing this is subject to change obviously). 😆

  5. Aaron Griffin that was actually my initial design. The three Threat Sheets (Homefront, Nearby, Distant) are landscape spreads, and I tried squeezing in the threats and threat moves I thought most relevant to the sheet. But it just took up too much space. There wasn’t enough space left to actually record the threats.

  6. Maxime Lacoste optimistically: content complete this fall? Kickstarting sometime after that.

    Most of the player-facing stuff is done (or close to it), but all the supporting documentation and GM-facing stuff is still in flux. Plus, the almanacs for the regions, other steadings, etc.

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