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Planet of the Week: Player's Guide » Devlog
I’m fortunate to be running three campaigns of Planet of the Week. Including a one-shot I ran on the PbtA Discord, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to find out what’s working well and what needs refined. Most of the edits I’ve made in the past six weeks are fairly minor.
Here’s a recap of the changes:
- New advice “On Moves,” setting expectations about what players need to know
- Clearer instructions on character creation, with better-worded questions to create connections between PCs.
- New section summarizing “Other Stats.”
- Core Move:
- Changed “Difficulty” (5=Easy, 1=Critical) to “DIFCON” (Difficulty Condition), a play on DEFCON, where 5 is also best and 1 is worst.
- Replace Energized/Well-rested die with an Extra Effort die (costs 1 Health) and replaced Well-equipped die with an Extra Time die (cues Jump Cut).
- Skills: Clarified Xenophysiology.
- New moves:
- Basic Move—Translation Matrix (DPL)
- Episode Move—That’s a Wrap!
- Renamed moves:
- Combat Move—Hand-to-Hand (formerly Arena, a bit too clever a name).
- Episode Move—Closing Credits (formerly Cliffhanger, because sometimes the session wraps up a mission and doesn’t end on a cliffhanger).
- Deleted moves:
- Tactical Response (TAC), handled better by Combat moves and Security moves.
- Rewritten moves:
- Dark Place That Knows Things (OPS)
- Jump Cut
- Lightly edited moves:
- Augmentation
- Design Parameters
- Environmental Challenge
- Esper Reading
- Flow Like a River
- Frontier Medicine
- Gem
- Level Up
- Love at First Contact
- Negotiation
- Next Week On
- Opening Credits
- Party Line
- Previously On
- Equipment
- Removed the “Neural Scanner” as it was confused with the other types of scanners and its function can be handled by the medical scanner.
- I added the tag #flashlight to every scanner except for the security scanner. I added it to the environmental suit and changed "Personal Light" to "Lamp (illuminates area)".
- Added Shuttlepod Specs.
Illustration Credit: Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1956, public domain.
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Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | TroyPress |
Tags | PbtA, Sci-fi, Tabletop role-playing game |
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