My wife and I have been burning through The West Wing on Netflix and it got me pondering… What do you think of a BitD hack for a political party? Just another group of scoundrels as far as I can tell…
Playbooks for Chief of Staff, Communications Director, Press Secretary…
Add House of Cards. Thats also working well.
A lot less use of Murder in West Wing…
Well, the Game of Thrones Hack will cover some of this. Are you thinking of a modern day political Hack Jared?
I’m desperately trying to have enough patience to attain some mastery of the base game before I start hacking 🙂
Once I give in, I’ll first apply BitD to Wizard World (my Ars Magica PbtA hack). A modern political hack could come after that…
Sweet! That said, I think that running the game as RAW and having a crew using the ‘cult’ sheet could work just fine.
All your heists could be socio-political in nature, with a fair bit of ‘hired skullduggery’ for the more underhand wrangling.
You could make the game session be the night the election returns come in, and handle the previous campaign trail as flashbacks, trying to fill enough clocks to overcome the opposition and win the election.
Jared Hunt I love Wizard World! Would love to help the BitD adaptation of Ars Magica if you need extra feedback from another group.
Jaime Climent that’s very nice hear! I actually wrote and playtested my Ars Magica hack (Spells in the Dark). Much like Wizard World, it is mostly functional but would need a ton of work to be a real thing.