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How to ...? - Apocalypse World - Learning Oneshot
Legends tell about the great riches from a long forgotten time. Do you believe in those fairy tails or are you forging your own legend?
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Once / Monday - 7:30 PM UTC
Nov 3
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
4 / 4 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
Learn how to play Apocalypse World in this One Shot. You will learn: - how to create your character - how to do things in the game world - what "fiction first" means and how it helps everyone to play - what "narrative focus" means and if that style suits you - Get to know the most common phrases while playing pen&paper Have fun with a bunch of newcomers!
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(10)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
3 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Rule of Cool
About me
Turned 33 years this year. Playing Pen&Paper since I was around 14 years old. Started with DSA (Das schwarze Auge) as a player. Switched to GM after 2 sessions because I realized that experiencing an amazing and entertaining story, with my friends, was more important to me then playing one character. I tried lots of different systems (Das Schwarze Auge, Shadowrun, D&D, Ironswon, Blades in the dark and many more) but nothing really "clicked" with me. Then I played Dungeon World and Apocalypse World...holy moly that was my style. Monsterhearts also joined my experience. I realized that heavy rules are not for me. I like to improvise and those games gave me the tools to do what I like the most and have an amazing time as a GM. If you want to check rulebooks and play by the book then I am not your GM. If you want to be creative and expand our world with your own ideas then see me as your GM for an entertaining time.
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Creating your character
We will create our Characters in the session. You don´t need to prepare anything. Stats will be distributed with fixed numbers. You can check the free Apocalypse World rules but it´s not required. The character creation will take 30-60min, the rest of the session will be the game itself
What to expect
Preparing for the session
We will use roll20 for the map and character sheets so an account on roll20 is required. Discord is required for communication.
What Steve brings to the table
You can expect me to make different voices for the characters, at least I will try my best. We won´t be using ambient music because I am not skilled enough to guide through the adventure and be a dj at the same time. Rule of Cool is excellent for Apocalypse World! Try to be as cool and interesting as possible! -> It´s a one time (one-shot) session anyway, try things!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Steve creates a safe table
We will check our Lines and Veils together at the start of the session. I won´t cover rape, gore, explicit torture. Feel free to say it again but it´s not needed. You can always write X or say loud and clear "X" via voice We will do a short feedback after the game session Schedule of the session: Start (40-80min) - Defining lines and veils together (5-10min) - Explaining the rules (5-10min) - Character Creation + introduction of those (30-60min) Adventure (90-120min) - Already on the road - Diving into the danger - Big Bad Evil Guy (BBEG) - Enjoying the spoils? End - Feedback (5-10min)
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