Comments | seannittner: Actual Play - Apocalypse Galactica (10/22/2011)

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Actual Play - Apocalypse Galactica (10/22/2011)

Oct 23, 2011 14:30

GM: Sean Nittner
Players: Xander Matthews, Antonio Morton, Eric Ullman, and David Gallo
System: Apocalypse World (Hacked to BSG)

Signing up to run this game was a bad idea. Two weeks after Big Bad Con, I was going to have a BSG hack of Apocalypse World ready for showtime? Well, foolishly I thought I could port playbooks over and just change the ( Read more... )

hack, actual play, apocalypse world, endgame minicon, apocalypse galactica, battlestar galatica

Comments 8

Amazeballs! mrboy October 24 2011, 21:43:52 UTC

Looks bad ass! Sign me up for materials when/if you are ready to share them. (Dead World too!) No rush though, I probably won't be able to run either until this time next year.

Re: Amazeballs! seannittner October 24 2011, 21:51:14 UTC

Sure thing. The DeadWorld Playbooks are here: http://www.sadric.com/download/DW_Playbooks.pdf

ext_848986 October 24 2011, 23:28:34 UTC

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seannittner October 25 2011, 00:36:47 UTC

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Apocalypstar Galactiworld was better than most published games. Srsly. ext_849113 October 25 2011, 03:57:51 UTC

I am still digesting the amazing experience that this game was. Now, I haven't played in one of Sean's games before (or played with him at all), so I didn't have any expectations. As such, here are a few bullet points that sum up my first impressions:

Just walking up to the table and seeing all the playbooks laid out told me that this was going to be something special.

Opening the playbooks and taking a glance at the contents (but not the love letters, mind you!) confirmed that this was indeed something into which Sean put some love and attention.

Apocalypse World is perfect for BSG, one of the most F'ed-up post-civilization settings in existence. If BSG isn't all about scarcity and relationship triangles, then I don't know what is. Having a popular TV show that so well represents the basic tenets of AW really helps players who are unfamiliar with the game get a feel for the game earlier on.

For an Apocalypse World fan, the playbooks and love letters were pure gold. Did they add a few minutes to character creation, yeah, but who ( ... )

Re: Apocalypstar Galactiworld was better than most published games. Srsly. seannittner October 25 2011, 17:32:11 UTC

Eric, from the subject line of your comment alone, thank you. I'm really glad you enjoyed the game and I would be thrilled to hear about it being run again.

I think I could have shaved a good 20 minutes off of character creation by being a little more involved (and prepared, I had to pull those clocks out of my butt last minute and it showed), but yeah, other than that, having a longer session would probably allow for more of the drama and action to unfold, especially if we started in the middle of the ambush.

cedyeus October 25 2011, 21:09:34 UTC

Count me in on both the polishing efforts and playing in the next time you run the game!

seannittner October 25 2011, 21:12:17 UTC

Just sent you the google doc I worked out of. It isn't complete (some things were done last minute in In Design), but it is the 99%.