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MC: Sean Nittner
Players: Karen Twelves, Ralph Wolterbeek, Michael Garcia, Kristin Hayworth, Shaun Hayworth, Basil Benitz
System: Apocalypse World
Hack: Apocalypse Galactica

BEST GAME EVER!

This was it; this was the game I had wanted to run for almost six months. Karen Twelves gave me the idea. Hack the awesome desperation of Apocalypse World into the ( Read more... )

GM: Duane “A Terrible Idea” “Not-Batman” O’Brien
Players: Shannon MacNamara, Tom Idleman, Filipe Morales, Patrick Idleman, Sean Nittner, Jill Stapleton and Luke Miller.
System: Shambles

I went into this game with a lot of varied expectations:

• Duane has run this game several times and I had heard good things about it. Magnificent Seven + Seven Samurai ( Read more... )

GM: Noam Rosen
Players: Sean Nittner, Kristin Hayworth, Duane O'Brien, Eric Zimmerman, Lalita Devi, and Karen Twelves
System: Dread (setting material from How we came to live here)

I was so excited to play this game, and I wasn’t at all let down. Components of the awesomeness:

• Players: Every single one of these players are awesome. I’ve gamed with all ( Read more... )

MC: Sean Nittner
Players: Alex Miller, Charles Stone, Meghan Miller and Brendan McGuigan
System: Dungeon World

I was really excited about running Dungeon World for Alex and Charles. Specifically because I had a good experience playing it with Shaun Hayworth and I hoped that maybe it would be THE system we ended up using to pick back up a D&D campaign ( Read more... )

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Should the XO be a playbook? Right now “a loyal XO” is an option on the Commanders playbook. Should he have a book of his own? Should I make the Commander playbook more flexible to cover either the Commander or the XO (calling him a Military Leader, etc)?

Should the CAG lead with ( Read more... )

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I’ve written two sets of love letters.  One is for a mixed group of civilian and military characters that command the fleet (I require one player to play either the Commander or President, both can be played as well).  The letters deal with both fleet-wide and personal crises.   ( Read more... )

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Most folks I have talked to don’t feel comfortable planning the canon characters (Apollo, Starbuck, Rosslyn, etc). So, I’ve created a Fleet playbook that allows the group to create a fleet of their own, including the rationale for why your fleet is the last remaining survivors ( Read more... )

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Some things have just been renamed but are otherwise identical:

• Weird has been renamed to Faith
• Front has been renamed to Crisis
• Other minor flavor changes to reflect the setting of BSG.

Some things have changed on a mechanical level

Hx is assigned differently.  There are default ( Read more... )

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I’m not a game designer. Someday maybe, but not today and not this game. This isn’t a complete creation like Dungeon World or Mosterhearts, it’s a reskin of Apocalypse World to fit in the Battlestar Galactica universe. I made new playbooks, and hacked a couple rules, but there’s ( Read more... )