0.4.0 - Backstory Update


Hello all!  So, 2020, amirite?

Jokes aside it's been one hell of an unpleasant year and I had to put a stop to game dev for quite a while.  Recently I finally found inspiration again, and I have a brand spankin' new version of ] [ to give you as a result!

This is slightly an interim update prepping it for rapid playtesting at an upcoming event.  A lot has been added, but you'll notice several missing features, too.  Most of those features I plan to re-add at a later date.  Until then, I hope you enjoy this new version!  It was a lot of fun to revisit and revise, even when I did decide that everything needed to be two font points smaller.


What's new

GM Guide

    Currently outdated; pending an update.

Playbooks

  • All Playbooks: Layout has been overhauled.
  • All Playbooks: Background character creation questions (“Origins”) have been added.
  • All Playbooks: Bonds have been renamed to Sync.
  • All Playbooks: Starting Sync questions have been reduced to 2 per playbook. All but one question is totally new.
  • All Playbooks: An Experience track has been added. Things that used to give advancements now give Experience, and Sync to individual worlds how generates larger amounts of Experience (See Basic Moves).
  • All Playbooks: Darkest Self prompts were reworded slightly for uniformity.
  • All Playbooks: Nexus questions were removed pending an update that fleshes out Nexus mechanics better.
  • The Hero: A new move, Hero of Legend, has been added.
  • The Slayer: A new move, My Only Real Friend, has been added.
  • The Prodigy: The Redemption track has been temporarily removed while I work on making it not entirely placeholders.
  • The Damsel: A new move, Negotiator, has been added.
  • The Hermit: A new move, Have I Ever Told You…, has been added.
  • The Oaf: The Hero’s Journey has been removed as it does not forward the playbook mechanically or narratively. I’m saving the track for a future playbook idea.
  • The Eldritch: Two new moves, One-Winged Angel and You Rang?, have been added.

Basic Moves

  • Several changes to layout have been made.
  • Unleash the Darkness had the World Darkness option removed, and had two purely fictional options added.
  • The Advancement heading has been removed following the addition of an Experience track.
  • Sync has its own heading, including a new move that uses World Sync.
  • A heading on Destiny has been added.

Files

sbtu_basicmoves_v040.pdf 488 kB
Feb 27, 2021
sbtu_playbooks_v040.pdf 1.3 MB
Feb 27, 2021

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