Tag: Mike Wice

Moves are below all this explanation mess

After much deliberation, I decided this book wouldn’t be complete without my own take on the NECROMANCER. I may rename it like I did my Illusionist, since there are several existing playbooks out there. Suggestions? Would it still be ok to call it a necromancer given that its going to be in a combined classes book based on the old spell schools?

Here are the two main starting moves! I had envisioned that you pick one of these at character creation, but if you think it would work with both, by all means I am open to ideas. 

◘ That Which is Dead

You’re dead. Well, mostly dead. Your heart has stopped, and you don’t need to breathe anymore. You have a pale sunken look, but otherwise seem alive. When you reach 0 hit points, as long as your body still is mostly intact, you do not die. Missing limbs and other body parts don’t injure you any worse than a bad bruising would hurt a living person, but could still have an effect on your physical capabilities. 

▬ You no longer need to draw breath.

▬ You no longer need to eat. You never have to use rations.

▬ Healing magic does not work on you. 

▬ Magic or effects that work against undead work against you.

▬ When you reach 0 hitpoints, each time you would take damage that would take you below 0 hit points, you instead take one debility of the GM’s choice. Once you have taken all six debilities, your body is destroyed and you make the Last Breath move as appropriate.

▬ You do not heal naturally.

◘ Body Snatcher

When you die, or leave your current body, your spirit can occupy a nearby humanoid body if it is not too rotten. If the body is currently living, you need to roll +WIS to push the other spirit aside. It stays in there with you though, and might cause you trouble. You can communicate telepathically with the spirit with which you share the body. If you occupy a rotted body, the GM may give that body some debilities as appropriate.

◘ Arcane Forensics: When you are in the proximity of magic which has been active within the last week, including currently active magic, roll +WIS or +INT. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7-9 choose 1.

▬ You can tell what the magic does, its function and purpose.

▬ You detect and remember a magical signature. If you find magic cast by the same spell origin in the future, you can tell if it was the same origin or spellcaster.

▬ You know when the magic was activated, and/or when it stopped working or how long it will continue working.

▬ You catch a fleeting echo of thought from one of the victims of the magic.

▬ You catch a fleeting echo of thought from the caster of the magic.

▬ You can follow the direction of the caster and can track left behind magical residue.

Hey Folks! Long time no post. I just started getting back into finishing up my caster playbooks, and I plan to expand that book to include not only the caster classes but also some new advanced moves, locations, items, and other magicky magic magicalness. 

I was hoping I could get some feedback on this move from you fine folks. Note that this move has way too many choices currently but I wanted to include my current ideas to get some feedback. Thank you so very much for your time. 

Hello fine folks. So a friend of mine is having a birthday soon, and for his birthday we want to run a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed *World game since hes a big fan. To that end, I am trying to brainstorm some ideas for the different moves.

My basic thinking is that each of the named turtles has a specific move list that makes up their “class” so for example Leonardo would have moves that help via leadership, Raphael would have moves that make him the tough guy, Don the smart guy, Mikey some  party buffs etc.

I am thinking of also giving each of them a weapon specific move since that is sort of a big part of their overall identity.

I think they could all share a racial move called “I love being a turtle” that works something like this:

When you behave like a turtle in some way, using your shell for protection, swimming, or generally doing turtle like things. make a statement or joke about being a turtle and ROLL +CON. 

So I am wondering if anyone has done anything like this previously, or if you have any ideas and suggestions.

Thank you much!

Anyone ever thought of doing away with hit points and going with using debilities as a core damage system instead? Something like:

“When you take damage, choose a debility. The GM describes the effects of the attack as it relates to the debility. If you currently have all 6 debilities and would take a 7th debility, you instead make the Last Breath move.”

You could adjust healing spells to cure a debility. Alternately healing spells could give you a bonus to roll to heal your ability when you Make Camp.  I think this would make the game considerably more deadly though and would likely change the overall tone.