Thursday, February 14, 2013

new Apocalypse World playbooks

I can make my own pdfs now, which means that I've turned my response to the Solace into a trifold pdf: the Wolf

I also made a Basic Moves playbook that includes the descriptions for the advanced versions of the basic moves, I called the file Advanced Moves

Another member of the AW community is really active and always posting his ideas to the google+ forum, and I took his concept of character with a pack of animals into a pdf: the Wrangler

The MC of my Sunday game wrote up notes for a Boy And His Dog playbook, but when she posted her ideas to the Barf Forth Apocalypica forums it seems the conversation derailed away from her ideas and another user supplanted a lot of his own ideas, then somebody else turned that into a playbook. I asked Willow for her notes and I put what she had into a new version of the playbook: the Boy & His Dog

I asked Johnstone Metzger if I could get a copy of the Heralds of Hell playbooks, mainly because I was curious about seeing them and in many forums they were described as print-only, but it turns out he had them in a pdf and he sent them to me. When I asked him if I could turn them into trifolds and distribute them he said "do whatever you want with them" and so I started turning them into playbooks: the Damned, the Haunted, and the Sorcerer

Finally, the author of the Wrangler and I worked together to make a different kind of playbook: the Beast Master

All of which have been quietly added to my omnibus page of playbooks.

It's actually incredibly easy for me to make trifolds. I have a generic playbook file set up and all I have to do is copy-paste text into the boxes. Empty space is the hardest part because it needs to be filled with info boxes for gear and barter, and these usually need to be custom-made for the spaces that the text fills up. But the longest this takes is two hours. Making the portrait that accompanies the playbook can take another one or two hours, depending on the complexity of the image. I'm slowly going through the potential playbooks that are talked about in the forums and turning them into trifolds, but in the meantime I've also made custom character trifolds for my gaming group.

11 comments:

  1. Looks great. Somehow I never thought about doing custom playbooks.

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  2. That is quite badass. You really get into the artifacts-of-play stuff when GMing!

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    1. Except I'm not GMing, Willow is.
      I just have a lot of free time and if I'm excited about playing a game I will do and make things to keep it interesting.

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  3. The custom playbooks are fantastic. All that he's showing you are the covers, but he also changed some of the interior text to reflect the character's personalities and their take on situations (Including picking the perfect song for my Driver!)

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  4. These are awesome. Are there plans to give us the template?

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    1. It's a Scribus file, and I would probably have to include a lot of notes as to how I put the thing together.

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    2. Or you could just give us what you did and let us figure it out or not. Whatever you feel comfortable with, it's your hard work.

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    3. You're right. I'm just self-conscious about my own work. Let me fix it up so there's some descriptive text on how to use the boxes and then I'll post it to Party Favors on the main page.

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  5. You, sir, are glorious. When I made the Shieldbearer, I realized that with the right source material (good resolution lines), all that is missing from doing every playbook ever posted into a trifold i a) an illustration and b) hard work filling up the empty spaces and c) a lot of patience with that buggy POS Scribus, which does the job admirably. I am impressed - keep up the good work, continue the good fight!

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  6. I echo everyone else's sentiment. Thanks for stepping up, taking action and being so generous.

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