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Dungeon world adaptation

Night shift : the nightly grind Sat 27 Sep 19:51:10 2014 No.35154736 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>35158125 >>35160043 >>35160306 >>35162816 >>35171796 >>35175809 >>35208078

Supt /tg?
I'm not one of the Night shift guys, but I like it a lot lot and Halloween is coming.
So, based upon the 1d4chan entry, the Dungeon world adaptation is'nt close to finished or streamlined.
But it's a fucking lite rulez thing so can we get it done guys?
Please post more recent docs if they exist plz.
Priorities:
> WTF is Effort? With how much do you start with? How is it regenned?
> WTF is Management? With how much do you start with? How is it "managed"?
> HTF is a Threat's Weird value determined? (I understand it is reduced by "Glad it's over")
> Can we come up with a simple system for the number of tasks you can attempt in a night VS the number of weird events that happen and thus hinder --> slowing the progression of the ressources needed by the characters to leave their fucking job.

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JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 20:13:17 No.35155151 Report

Quoted By: >>35155217 >>35155934 >>35169030 >>35169446

Hey, a Night Shift thread! First things first, putting up the Fiasco! playset I cobbled together for this setting to contribute.

In any case, if you want something rules-lite, let's think of each session as a one-shot game. Each session would be a night, and each night would be divided into a number of time units (call them whatever you will). For the sake of the idea brewing in my head at this very moment, let's say that each time unit would represent 15 minutes. This means that in a standard 8-hour shift, you'll have 32 total time units to play with.

Tasks would require a base number of time units to complete. The employees' abilities and the effects of the Weird Stuff would alter the requisite time units accordingly. Of course, Weird Stuff would have its own time unit requirements to resolve, which would result in a game of resource management. Don't complete the tasks by shift's end? You may get fired. Don't resolve the Weird Stuff by shift's end? Well, the station may disappear from the face of the earth anyway.

How's that for a basis?

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sat 27 Sep 2014 20:16:38 No.35155217 Report

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>>35155151
Great start! Thanks, I'l be back later tonight for contribootin', don't wait for me, go at it!

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 20:48:13 No.35155934 Report

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>>35155151
Well then, let's get some definitions put down:

>Time Units (TIME)
The basis of this concept. Each TIME = 15 minutes of game time, leading an 8-hour shift to consist of 32 TIME total. Both Tasks and Weird Stuff require a number of TIME to complete and resolve.

>Tasks
The things that the employees are supposed to do for the Manager before the end of the shift. Not completing Tasks risks the employees' employment at the station.

>Weird Stuff
The strange happenings that occur during the shift and affect the employees' ability to complete their Tasks. Not resolving Weird Stuff risks the employees to not complete their Tasks, or worse.

>Effort
The rate at which an employee can complete a Task in 1 TIME. This number is how much TIME that an employee can complete for a Task or Weird Stuff during 1 TIME. For example, an employee with 3 Effort can complete 3 TIME worth of a Task in 1 TIME of gameplay. An employee's Effort can be changed throughout the shift.

>Stats
Stats can be burned throughout a shift to allow an employee to complete Tasks and resolve Weird Stuff as if he or she has more Effort. Burning 1 point of a Stat allows the employee to perform as if he or she has 1 more point of Effort in a relevant Task/Weird Stuff.

COOL is how calm and collected you are.
TOUGH is how strong and mean you are in a fight.
CHARM is how pleasant and persuasive you are.
SHARP is how observant you are.
WEIRD is how weird you are.

Tasks and Weird Stuff are tagged with one or more of these Stats to describe what is needed to complete them more efficiently. Some may be tagged with Stats that may actually make it HARDER to complete (burning one of THESE Stats make the employee require 2 Effort to complete 1 TIME worth of the Task/Weird Stuff).

If a multiple-shift game is being played, the Stats regenerate by the beginning of the next shift.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 20:49:35 No.35155961 Report

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Guess this got hi-jacked into a night shift, but thats cool. Continue

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:18:02 No.35156547 Report

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I've got the GM's guide, character sheet, and player's guide for the dungeon world hack if anyone wants them.

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:18:27 No.35156558 Report

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>>35155934
>Affecting Stats
While you have the option to burn Stats to increase your efficiency, some Weird Stuff and normal events naturally increase or decrease your available Stats during a shift. Employees cannot naturally increase their Stats throughout a shift.

>Running out of Stats
It is entirely possible to run out of one or more Stats during a shift. This doesn't quite mean the game is over though. A player can always burn Sanity in lieu of a Stat currently at 0 points.

>Sanity
So, what is Sanity? It's a catch-all Stat that can work in lieu of any of the above Stats. However, as you burn Sanity, penalties occur to your Effort. Though low Sanity may actually help an employee deal with some of the worst Weird Stuff out there. Run out of Sanity though, and your employee is as good as dead.

>Positions
Apparently, not every employee that the gas station hires is the same. Different positions offer different Stat spreads.

SHIFT MANAGER: High COOL, low SHARP
CASHIER: High CHARM, low TOUGH
STOCK CLERK: High TOUGH, low COOL
PUMP ATTENDANT: High SHARP, low CHARM

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:32:33 No.35156863 Report

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Movie?

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:39:52 No.35157006 Report

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>Skills
A possible idea to increase the variance of employees and the replayability of the game could come in the issuance of one-time Skills that an employee can choose from before the beginning of the shift, based on his or her Position.

Examples:

SHIFT MANAGER
"I wanna see the Manager!": Automatically resolves one Weird Stuff with the COOL tag in 1 TIME.

CASHIER
"Someone actually used the tip jar": Regain one point of the following when the next Weird Stuff is resolved: EFFORT or CHARM.

STOCK CLERK
"I think I got that in the back": Weird Stuff does not alter your stats while you are completing the current Task.

PUMP ATTENDANT
"That don't look right": The next SHARP you spend in the current Task or Weird Stuff gives you double the benefit, regardless of their tags.

>Management
I love the idea of the green phone used to call the management, but I don't really know how best to use this bit of the concept in the game sense. Do you get hints from the GM? Do you get bonus Stat points at the cost of Sanity? I could use some help with this.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:41:55 No.35157056 Report

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Not great at crunch myself but participated in the other Night Shift threads in days of yore. Anything in need of fluffing or brainstorming?

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:44:48 No.35157116 Report

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Holy shit it's been a while.

Any news on Night Shift World?

Any news on the TV show?

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:47:44 No.35157169 Report

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>>35157056

Really not the picture I'd meant to select there, but a fine addition to the Night Shift:

>The convenience store becomes overrun, half way through the evening's shift, with pitch-black "animals" that appear to be constructed entirely of human arms. They stride around the store, snatching and grabbing stock off the shelves. Will you be able to make them pay, or will you have to find some way to drive them off before they steal everything?

>The overhead light in the bathroom flickers off and hen on, covering the walls in an ongoing shadowpuppet play for the rest of the shift.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:53:29 No.35157281 Report

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Hey >>35157116, we're trying to suss out the Night Shift World adaptation now, and I'm sure that our TV Anons will stop in if they see that the thread is alive and well. In the meantime, we should try our darndest to work on a polished rules set, or do as >>35157169
has done and try to come up with more weird encounters and fluff to make this thread worthwhile.

>One by one, linoleum floor tiles in the convenience store begin falling away at random, revealing a seemingly bottomless pit beneath the station.

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JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 21:57:24 No.35157365 Report

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>>35157281
I think I'm spent for now. Gonna let the stuff I threw on here percolate for a while, get some feedback, and see how to build this not-as-crunchy take on it from there. I know I'm already planning an unrelated Dread game this Halloween, but this may be a good lead-up to it.

>"Um, boss, why is the CCTV dripping again? I thought we got the electrician to come fix it."

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:07:47 No.35157593 Report

Quoted By: >>35157667 >>35157719

Another poster from the original threads here, just wanting to write in that I really liked the thought that had been put into making the "Threat System" workable by means of a series of "portents" and "signs." As per one of the previous threads:

"A Portent is a sequentially tiered-event related to the threat which carries with it a mechanical effect on the game play. Under each portent are a number of Signs, which carry no mechanical effect but help convey the proper atmosphere or hints and may manifest in any random order."

To follow is an example, from the same thread.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:11:09 No.35157667 Report

Quoted By: >>35157690 >>35157719

>>35157593
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Freezer

Threat: There's an unusual chill in the desert air tonight, so the Attendants decide to turn up the the thermostat a little. However, they soon find themselves sweltering inside the Station as the temperature keeps climbing, while the old thermometer by the gas pumps shows that the mercury keeps on falling outside. Worryingly, the thermostat on the wall now seems to be unresponsive.

Resolution: Fixing the Station's malfunctioning central heating and air conditioning unit will bring the temperature both inside and outside back to normal. The Unit is vast and complicated, and exists in a non-Euclidean labyrinth of pipe and ductwork behind the walls accessible through the scorching air vents inside, the freezing maintenance hatch outside, or the locked door at the back of the janitor's closet.

First Portent:
Things are getting balmy inside, and chilly outside. The patrons notice. [Requires interacting with unhappy customers]
Signs:
- An old, tape-patched note warns not to change the setting from 68 degrees.
- The warm air currents coming from vents rustle posters and papers around the store.
- Attendants tug subconsciously on their collars or fan themselves with handy items.

Second Portent:
The air vents start rattling, and smoke is leaking from a couple of them. [-1 ongoing to tasks requiring concentration]
Signs:
- An acrid, oily haze fills the Station before slowly dissipating.
- Attendants can see a snow-halo around the moon outside.
- A groaning, bumping, sputtering noise can be heard faintly behind the walls.

Third Portent:
Inside is getting very hot, outside is freezing. [-1 ongoing to all physical tasks unless Attendant's change attire appropriately.]
Signs:
- Condensation covers the freezer doors, front windows and any chilled surface.
- Attendants are now sweating profusely while inside
- The windshield wash buckets outside have frozen solid.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:12:22 No.35157690 Report

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>>35157667
Fourth Portent:
Pumps no longer work because of ice, freezer no longer keeps things frozen. [-1 Management for losing the ice cream.]
Signs:
- The melted contents of the freezers run all over the floor.
- Flecks of snow begin to fall in the desert night.
- The internal thermometer has passed the highest temperature the thermostat can be set to.

Fifth Portent:
It is snowing outside, and shimmering with heat inside. [-1 ongoing to all physical tasks even with appropriate attire.]
Signs:
- Glass bottles inside burst and spill their contents, plastic and metal containers swell.
- Blizzard conditions reduce visibility to near-zero.
- The Gas Station itself groans and creaks as the best differential between inside and outside wreaks havoc with the building.

Sixth Portent:
The Grey Man comes in for his candybar, undisturbed by the heat/cold but perturbed by the lack of candy, which melted. [-1 Management and activate one of the Grey Man's Portents.]
Signs:
- Attendants inside are drenched with sweat and windburnt from the scorched air circulating around.
- Attendants outside begin experiencing hypothermia and onset frostbite.
- All Attendants begin to suffer temperature induced delusions.

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:13:43 No.35157719 Report

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>>35157593
>>35157667
>>35157690
I also liked that idea. Maybe for my current system concept, Portents could result in Stat adjustments and even additional Tasks for the employees to complete.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:31:14 No.35158033 Report

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>The Station is instantaneously and mysteriously translocated into the middle of a dense, dark nighttime forest while the Attendants aren't looking. The canopy above is thick enough to block out even the smallest mote of star or moonlight, leaving the Station the only source of illumination under the trees. The clientele likewise changes accordingly.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:35:09 No.35158125 Report

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>>35154736
In lieu of having an official ruleset for this I've been using Unknown Armies rules with my group for the past few months. I'd definitely recommend it if you're not dead set on getting a Dungeon World adaptation.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:38:19 No.35158194 Report

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This is great, bump for more

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:38:41 No.35158204 Report

Quoted By: >>35158537 >>35158680

>>35158125

Would you care to share any stories from your experience actually playing in this setting? Outstanding happenings, what works and what doesn't? I know I've been dying to hear actual play stories.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:48:52 No.35158409 Report

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Bumping

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:54:53 No.35158537 Report

Quoted By: >>35158592 >>35158606 >>35158782

>>35158204
Sure thing.

I generally stick to putting the attendants up against one Major Weirdness per night, but I like to pepper in lots of smaller weirdnesses that may or may not be related to the Major Weirdness.

For example, one night I put them up against a group of graffiti artists trying to summon a demon by covering the station in paint, effectively turning it into a giant portal.

Highlights of the night included the graffiti artists climbing into a hole they painted on the side of the station (really creeped out one of my players for some reason), driving a car through the hole in the wall and getting a Day Shifter trapped inside the demon dimension probably forever.

I will usually roleplay all of the customers that come in on any given night as well as a few NPC employees. I try to keep the whole vibe a mix of comedy, horror and general weirdness and my players seem to like it a lot.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:57:06 No.35158592 Report

Quoted By: >>35158620 >>35158782 >>35215450

>>35158537
Here are a few examples of minor weirdness I've come up with

-First Aid kit has different stuff in it all the time
-Leeches
-Healing potions
-Defibrillator wired directly to the box, still works somehow
-Needle and thread
-Can of chicken soup and ginger ale (Cures any illness)
-Contents of a toolkit
-Medieval surgical tools
-Syringe full of green liquid
-One scalpel
-Wad of clay (takes shape of anything it is molded into but turns into the subject’s flesh)
-A book of uplifting poems
-A kitten/puppy
-Jumper cables
-Mirrors malfunction
-Plays the twist reveal of movies on a loop
-Show’s sad memories from an Attendant's childhood
-Is sometimes helpful to the scenario
-Functions normally except it shows whoever is looking at it from the back
-Shows a fat guy in one of the stalls eating a whole roast chicken
-Shows the Attendant with an increasing number of cuts/bruises on their face
-All skeletons
-Money arrives in an envelope on attendant’s doorstep when they do well, in increasingly strange/threatening ways when they do poorly
-Cashed stuffed in a dead animal’s mouth
-Envelope nailed to their door with something
-Amount of cash is carved/burned into the wall, attendant finds money in bank account. -If they don’t have a bank account they do now
-An ex lover drops off a wad of cash absently saying they “forgot they had it”
-Cash stuffed in the attendant’s mouth when they wake up
-The next time they open their wallet spiders crawl out but they have more money
-The next book the attendant reads has one dollar/coin on every page adding up to the amount of money he earned for the night

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:57:31 No.35158606 Report

Quoted By: >>35158680

Anyone have any more related PDFs to share?

>>35158537
Sounds great

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 22:58:13 No.35158620 Report

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>>35158592
Wow I shouldn't have just copypasted that straight from my word document but you get the idea.

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 23:00:37 No.35158680 Report

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>>35158606
>>35158204
Here's my outline for the graffiti demon session if you want to try it out sometime

[Title] The Hole in the Wall

[Threat] A group of graffiti artists got their hands on some spray cans containing demonic talismans instead of mixing marbles. The malevolent will of the cans has taken hold of the artists and they are trying to paint a portal big enough to let the demon into this dimension. The paint turns any surface it it sprayed on into a portal to the demon’s dimension and it slowly spreads.

[Resolution] Either clean all of the paint off of the station using a combination of cleaning chemicals and get rid of the spray cans or climb into the portal and defeat the demon

[Portents & Signs]
While cleaning the bathrooms, an attendant hears rustling coming from behind the station.
>A group of hooded kids is spraying a big hole on the wall. They notice the attendant and jump into the hole. One of them drops a spray can
Any attendant who is holding the spray can subconsciously sprays paint on the nearest flat surface
Any attempt to destroy or force open a spray can results in the can exploding, sucking any object or person in its immediate vicinity into the paint demon’s dimension
A call from Management comes in saying two Day Shift employees didn’t clock out and seeing as their cars are still in the parking lot, they should be tracked down.
>They’re in the garage, passed out from huffing paint thinner

[Doom] The station is engulfed in paint, the paint demon is released and wrecks up the place before taking off into the night

Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 23:03:16 No.35158741 Report

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>>35158680
Thanks!

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 23:05:19 No.35158782 Report

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>>35158537
>>35158592

This really does sound great, and your mixing and matching comedy and horror together is exactly what I'd hoped to see. Thank you very much for sharing!

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 23:37:29 No.35159401 Report

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Anonymous Sat 27 Sep 2014 23:52:23 No.35159713 Report

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>Neon signage begins to appear in the desolate field across from the Station, sometimes giving cryptic warnings, but more often than not simply presenting insults to the Attendants inside.

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:07:32 No.35160043 Report

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>>35154736
Hi, OP is back, already too much stuff to handle... wonderful!
Back to my first questions :
- We now have a great new time management system to test/balance (how many portents or sign per play sesion is toot much?).
- We have an idea of what Effort could be.
> Could an oldfag tell us what Effort was supposed to be and how to handle it?
As I personally want to stay true to the original idea, we now have to answer:
> WTF is Management? With how much do you start with? How is it "managed"?
> HTF is a Threat's Weird value determined? (I understand it is reduced by "Glad it's over")
Oldfags?
> pic related, dayshift is full of assholes.

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:11:21 No.35160099 Report

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>>35156547
hey, i want them is you are still there.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:22:06 No.35160302 Report

Quoted By: >>35160359 >>35160679

>>35160043

>Effort
Effort is the resource or metric by which tasks or missions are accomplished. For instance, cleaning out the freezers might take 4 effort if it's a big job, searching the security tapes for discrepancies in reality might take 2 effort. Different types of Attendants might be able to expend more effort on activities than others, a dutiful college student working through his summer break versus the local stoner chick.

>Management
Management is the metric denoting how happy the mysterious Management of the Station is with your performance. Your Management scores increase when you complete their nightly tasks, defend the station, or treat the customers well, and decrease if you fail to fulfill your obligations or allow undue destruction to befall the Station. The higher your Management score, the more
Station perks" are unlocked, like caches of weapons, tools or eldritch lore, assistance from Day Shift assholes you've won over, or help from the Station itself. If your score falls below a certain threshold, the GM could choose to allow the Ghost of the Assistant Manager to complete tasks while the Attendants aren't looking.

>Weird Value
This metric was the subject for some debate in the previous threads, and no adequate decision was come to regarding it. At the very least, it was suggested that "Weird Values" could just be used to grade the danger levels of the game's threats.

Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:22:12 No.35160306 Report

Quoted By: >>35160372

>>35154736
Guys guys, serious rationalisation for the setting, use if it suites you : the players don't know but they are in purgatory/limbo. They try to get out of their current situation (working night shift at the gas station) but they cannot, there is always some shit to steal their hard earned pay to anger management...

Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:25:28 No.35160359 Report

Quoted By: >>35160826

>>35160302
Weird value of threat could be approximated using Glad it's over's mecanism, I'l look into it.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:26:13 No.35160372 Report

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>>35160306

That is definitely one possible explanation for he goings on.

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:42:23 No.35160679 Report

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>>35157006
Alright, a little more.

>Management
I'll stick with the basic idea as >>35160302. Each completed Task and resolved Weird Stuff adds to this score, as leftover Tasks and unresolved Weird Stuff subtracts from the score at the end of the shift. In one-shot games, your team's Management score determines whether or not you keep your jobs (win the game). Though for multi-session games, it would make sense to add things like multiple Skills for employees, perks for the station that lessen the bad effects of Weird Stuff, and the like.

>Portents and Signs
Totally love this, and I don't see why not to include it in this game. Weird Stuff was already going to have features that affect gameplay anyway. Makes sense to keep this system around.

In any case, I'm gonna put together a quick GooglyDoc so I can stop cluttering this thread with my ideas.

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 00:50:21 No.35160826 Report

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>>35160359
Hum, if you reword the move to "resolve a Weird PORTENT (instead of Threat) to the gas station" you get a way to decrease the Threat's value before it hits the "Doom" Portent when it's out of Portents.
Considering you decrease it by 2 (10+ on the roll) or 1 (7 to 9 on the roll) by defeating each Portent, if you "crit" each one you down 2 points per Portent, so "Max defeatable Threat value" = 2 * [number of Portents].
Here is a chart
> Lame : 0,25 Threat per portent, ex.: 4 Portents, 1 Threat value.
> Easy : 0,5 Threat per portent, ex.: 4 Portents, 2 Threat value.
> Challenge : 1 Threat per portent, ex.: 4 Portents, 4 Threat value.
> Hard : 2 Threat per portent, ex.: 4 Portents, 8 Threat value.
> Fucked: 2+ Threat per portent, ex.: 4 Portents, 10 Threat value.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 01:33:28 No.35161565 Report

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I really love the work that you both have been doing. I hope to se this thread still around by morning, when I hope to be able to contribute. I wish you both the best of luck with your own Night Shift.

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 02:27:16 No.35162499 Report

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>>35161565
(OP)
Thanks mate, my pleasure! I'm so tired I'm not very productive.
Be sure I'l pack up and produce something out of tonight's stuff, put the weird events ideas in the list, etc.
Keep the thread up if you guys can!

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Night shift : the nightly grind Sun 28 Sep 2014 02:49:22 No.35162816 Report

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 04:23:45 No.35164538 Report

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 05:15:32 No.35165432 Report

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[Title] Occupied!

[Threat] “Someone asks to go to the bathroom, you point them to your only one. Several minutes later, someone else comes out of your second bathroom. A patron gets confused as to which of the three bathrooms they should use. The fourth bathroom has sprung a leak, and while you're fixing it a patron complains that the toilet in the fifth bathroom won't flush. You reach into the freezer to get yourself a soda, but the person occupying that sixth bathroom calls out 'occupied'. Dejectedly, you return to the register in the seventh bathroom.”

A disgruntled plumber found an old spell book and accidentally cursed The Station. Now the Attendants have to find a way to break the curse before the whole place turns into one giant bathroom.

[Portents & Signs] I don't really know

[Resolution]
Break the curse. A few goth kids came in at one point of the night and left a spell book in the Take a Book Leave a Book rack

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 05:16:49 No.35165451 Report

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[Title] Out of the Past

[Threat] It’s a rainy night. All of the color has been drained out of the station and all of the shadows fall just a bit harsher. The station looks an awful lot like a private eye’s office tonight. She walks in. Her legs go on for miles. Her glittering black dress wraps a body that cries for you to stay but her eyes are twin blue orbs that scream “danger”. Her story is the same as all the others: Missing boyfriend, owed money to the mob, little pay besides her eternal gratitude. And you’ve spend too many nights on your own for that price to be wrong. Dames... (A film director has found an old magic video camera that turns anything it shoots into a movie. It seems to be stuck on Noir but he’s decided to run with it and shoot at the Gas N’ Go and the attendants are in for the most intense method acting exercise of their lives.)

[Resolution] Either figure out that they are stuck in a movie and break the fourthwall or live through all of the gunfights and broken hearts of a cheesy noir film. The director reveals himself once the movie is over and asks the attendants to sign release forms before driving off into the night

[Portents & Signs]
The attendants notice film grain or a cigarette burn
An old camera reel can be heard faintly
A voice narrates any noteworthy person, place or dramatic event
Everywhere the attendants go smells like cigarettes/Everyone is always smoking
Jazz soundtrack in the background

[Doom] Damage to the station from gunfights with “mobsters” (patrons under the camera’s spell), love stains from steamy encounters with the femme fatale, not much business gets done with everybody running around thinking they are in a movie

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sun 28 Sep 2014 06:49:16 No.35166624 Report

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Bumping with a link to the GooglyDoc with my idea for this so far.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-sP3og8EvB1zljyPv73bHNFDcIS3Im_V6gOCARgZkF0/edit?usp=sharing

JSCervini !!L+hOixyXrvo Sun 28 Sep 2014 08:26:19 No.35167716 Report

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One final bump for the night.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 10:33:39 No.35169030 Report

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>>35155151

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 10:42:44 No.35169134 Report

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>A squad of well-armed Vietnam-era American soldiers roll into the station, nearly hitting one of the gas pumps with their jeep. The men shove themselves out of the vehicle and shamble into the store, looking extremely shell-shocked, sleep-deprived and twitchy. Each soldier looks as if just one wrong move, one wrong word would be enough to set them off, and you're pretty sure that one soldier freaking out is going to make all the others freak out too.

>The station is caught in a heavy rain that lasts all night, a storm with rumbling, grumbling thunder overhead but no visible lightning. The lights inside the store flicker occasionally, but don't seem to be in danger of going out and everything is calm. Looking outside however, you are nearly certain that you can pick out invisible shapes moving around under the rain. The front doors begin to open by themselves while you're not looking, setting off the "new customer" ding-dong alarm, and wet barefoot prints begin appearing on the floors.

>Someone accidentally knocks a detailed, commemorative snowglobe depicting the station off its shelf, shattering it on the floor, and everyone in the station is suddenly filled with an overwhelming sense of dread and terror.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 11:14:08 No.35169446 Report

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>>35155151

>There is a (new) drug dealer hanging around the back of the building that needs dealing with. He appears to be a giant praying mantis in a trenchcoat and knit cap.

>The plastic placard beside the big red button mounted to the shelving unit under the counter would have you believe that it's meant to trigger the station's silent alarm. However, its words have been scribbled over with a red marker, and a new message has been added in a girl's handwriting: "SELF DESTRUCT - FOR WHEN ALL ELSE HAS FAILED - GOD HELP YOU."

>Your reflection in one particular bathroom mirror is incredibly sarcastic and refuses to copy what you do You can, however, browbeat it on occasion for answers to what's been going on all shift.

>You go out to the ice chest to fetch a bucket of ice for the soda machine and open the door to find the heads of a man and a woman sticking out of the ice, skin pale as death, lips frosty blue. Both bodies open their eyes, and the ice shifts as they both raise shushing fingers silently to their lips.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 11:36:26 No.35169647 Report

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 13:33:26 No.35170715 Report

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>>35169446
>"SELF DESTRUCT - FOR WHEN ALL ELSE HAS FAILED - GOD HELP YOU."
If I ever have that in a game and need to use it, I'm ending the session by headbutting the thing.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 14:10:28 No.35171142 Report

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>>35157006
Calls to the management vary at the GM's discretion. BUT, it is still a last resort and should have some sort of penalty attached to it.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 14:30:11 No.35171335 Report

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>>35171142
As is even going into the General Manager's Office. I remember in a previous thread, the General Manager's Office was considered the eerie "eye of the storm" of the Station where time stands still and everything is safe, but the Management doesn't like Attendants poking around in there, and they don't like taking calls on the Green Phone.

The Angry Chessmaster Sun 28 Sep 2014 15:10:22 No.35171796 Report

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>>35154736
Hey does anyone know what happened to those guys who were talking of turning ths into some kind of tv miniseries, he mentioned finished writing a treatment and some prototype scripts, he also had some kind of contact at a tv company?

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 15:16:12 No.35171894 Report

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>mfw this thread

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 15:19:28 No.35171924 Report

Quoted By: >>35172964 >>35180977

Ask the guy who was part of Night Shift's catalyst, and currently working night shift at his petrol station, anything.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 16:22:39 No.35172873 Report

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Bump, politely.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 16:28:14 No.35172964 Report

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>>35171924
Dude. Speak.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 19:14:26 No.35175809 Report

Quoted By: >>35175854 >>35176516 >>35181118 >>35205718

>>35154736

Original Night Shift World anon, here. Nice to see there is still some interest in this; it stalled out last time because I got literally 0 playtesting data. One guy popped in having tried a game of Night Shift but he used a different ruleset.

Regardless, I've scrapped most of my original maths and am starting again using Simple World as my starting point.

The link above still works, though that particular Google Doc is no longer my primary workspace.

I'm essentially breaking up my original design goal, though, and lumping a lot of stuff which was previously part of the main gameplay into playbooks.

For example, the Green Phone is no longer something anyone can do. Only the Assistant Manager has access to the Green Phone. Similarly, the Stock Clerk will be the only one rooting through a package of Mars bars for the welding mask that he inexplicably knows is there.

Other changes include a revamp of the 'Paycheck' and 'Management' nonsense; Paycheck was functionally similar to Xp previously, and now I plan to solidify that. Each playbook will have a To-Do list not unlike the 'keys' of AW. If at the end of the shift they satisfy one of their list, they gain +1 Paycheck. When they hit X Paycheck (I'm guessing around 6) they will be able to quit on their own terms.

Management is being turned into 'Trust'. The loss of all Trust leads to you being fired, which seems pretty simple. And it will track a lot easier than having a single pool for everyone.

Playbooks won't grant a lot of specific moves; the idea is that your playbook unlocks 1 unique and very useful Move (the Green Phone for example) and lays out the manner by which you get Paycheck and Trust. But nearly all the rest of player Moves are going to be drawn from a pool of universal Moves which should allow for plenty of customization.

My goal is to have chargen be pretty quick and simple, and look almost entirely like an employee application form. Example in next post;

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 19:16:07 No.35175854 Report

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>>35175809

Attributes
Cool is how calm and collected you are.
Tough is how strong and mean you are in a fight.
Charm is how pleasant and persuasive you are.
Sharp is how observant you are.
Weird is how weird you are.

Designer’s Note: For character sheet/employee form.
“How likely are you to keep calm while speaking with an irate/undead customer?” (Cool)
“How physically healthy are you and how durable is your flesh under distress?” (Tough)
“How likely are customers/entities to be persuaded by your words/invocations?” (Charm)
“How FNORD perceptive FNORD are your FNORD faculties of observation? FNORD” (Sharp)
“Have you ever been so far as have decided ever to want to do more look like?” (Weird)

Basic Moves
“Hostile Work Environment”
Management understands that working at the Stop ‘N Gas can be stressful. It is important to cultivate the ability to stand up to that pressure; whether it be a late shipment of Cola, a dissatisfied customer, or the shrieking un-howls of negabeasts.
When you act under pressure roll+Cool
On a 10+, you do what you set out to do
On 7-9, the GM is going to give you a worse outcome, hard choice, or price to pay
On a miss, things go right to hell.

“Do The Stupid Thing”
Here at the Stop ‘N Gas family, we don’t believe in violence; Management certainly doesn’t advocate its use against cannibals, hollow-men, evangelists, certain undead, or denizens of Z’plnth.
When you try to fight and kick ass, you idiot roll+Tough.
On 10+, You gain a physical advantage over the other.
On 7-9, Your advantage comes at a painful cost.
On a miss, You get exactly what you deserve.

The Angry Chessmaster Sun 28 Sep 2014 19:49:37 No.35176516 Report

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>>35175809
Hullo, I'm pretty new to tabletop rp gaming, but this system seems interested, and I'd be interested in participating in a game sometime over skype, also i'm in the gmt timezone.

NSWanon@yahoo.com Sun 28 Sep 2014 19:57:03 No.35176668 Report

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>>35176516

Email is in the name field. Shoot me an email with your specific availabilities, and I'll set something up.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 19:59:25 No.35176729 Report

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>>35172964
Yea? Whatcha wanna know?

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 21:06:01 No.35178130 Report

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>>35176729
Weird stuff. Go.

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 22:47:46 No.35180139 Report

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Nice work so far!

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 23:29:57 No.35180977 Report

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>>35171924
Hey, give us a boring list of nightly tasks please! (it's actually really useful for the game)

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 23:36:01 No.35181106 Report

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>>35180977

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 23:36:27 No.35181118 Report

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>>35175809
Hi sir, OP here.
I read you google doc and these two posts you just made look a lot like how it was, ex. Green phone had Assistant manager tagged to it, rightfully thought it was exclusive.
Link to the doc I'm talking about for everyone else : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wku2x8PJoB0vMfAxHaEY0X06bkpLVmsDGnrWduBx7wc/edit?pli=1

So, thanks for explaining Paycheck and Management, makes sense now. I like you original stuff and this threat was meant to build upon it, so please share the new or reworked stuff you got. I'l compile something for my own purpose soon and try to share it (Halloween game).
My questions: How high would Management/Trust start at? And wtf is Effort? ;)

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 23:37:32 No.35181148 Report

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>>35181106
Thanks elegen/tg/entlement, is it from one of the threads?

Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2014 23:41:21 No.35181231 Report

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>>35181148
Pretty sure it was. I'm not the same anon who was part of the catalyst, but I've been following and contributing what I can to Night Shift since the second or third thread so I guess if you want to know anything I'm here too.

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 00:45:58 No.35182519 Report

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>>35181118

Effort was originally going to function as a kind of amelgamation of Sanity (hit zero and you 'Burn Out', which basically made you useless for the rest of a shift) and something not unlike 'bennies' from Savage Worlds (you spent Effort to bump rolls etc.)

In practice it was awkward and unintuitive. I'm essentially dropping the whole thing, since elements of its original design goal are making it into other parts of the game.

At most, I think it will make it into a playbook as their own personal resource to manage. Probably Cashier. They will have a move that says;

"Like I Give A Fuck"
When you [start a new shift at the Stop N Gas] roll+Weird.
On 10+, you have precisely three fucks to give
On a 7-9, you could give two fucks
On 6 or less, you might be able to muster up a fuck somewhere.
Spend fucks in order to add a third die to any roll, taking the highest two before adding your Attribute bonus.

Or something. Maybe build the Cashier playbook around fuck management; at zero fucks they treat all rolls of 10+ as though they were 7-9. I dunno. Possibly.

In terms of playbook I have only given thought to four so far.

>Assistant Manager
Cool-focused, with unique Moves which let him buff the other employees/take their shit on as his own.
>Cashier
Charm-focused. Good at discerning social information - what does that Aztec Bloodlord REALLY want a pallet of Gatorade for? - and generally mollifying through words.
>Gas Attendant
Fixes broken shit, probably Tough-focused? As close to a fighter as the gas station is likely to get, which is to say, once got in a shoving match with his mom after a burnt casserole.
>Stock Clerk
Sharp-focused. Finds things, gets things, knows where things are. Probably hides drugs in with the Cola. Or just packages the oregano in bags and sells it like its drugs.

>catpcha: 6606
Almost there, captcha, almost there.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 01:26:41 No.35183299 Report

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>>35182519
Hahaha, thats gold, I love your writing. Thanks for your answer!
If you'r not droping your stuff on 1d4chan or something, we should share info.

NSWanon@yahoo.com Mon 29 Sep 2014 01:42:06 No.35183593 Report

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>>35183299

Thank you very much.

I'm not, no, but feel free to do so. Email is in the field.

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 03:24:25 No.35185908 Report

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http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/gasstation/Interesting

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 05:32:23 No.35188456 Report

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>>35160099
Sorry, was away for a while, I just got home so if the thread's still up tomorrow I'll lost 'em

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 09:52:22 No.35191877 Report

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bump

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 15:07:06 No.35195221 Report

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Bump from page 10

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Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 17:12:13 No.35197023 Report

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Hey, anybody know how to change the 1d4chan article?
(yes I could just check, consider it like a bump)

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 19:16:43 No.35199190 Report

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Bump before work.

>>35197023

I think there's an edit button?

TV Anon !!N4jGcT6O5vY Mon 29 Sep 2014 19:31:31 No.35199486 Report

Quoted By: >>35199616 >>35203540

Hey guys! Long time no see, eh?

Here's the current state of the Night Shift movie.

I had sent the script to a few people for review and pitch. One guy who I can't name seems really interested in directing it. He's got plenty of horror under his name, but again, I can't name him.

Other than that, things have been moving slowly. Still moving though. NSW Anon has been really busy with his life, and I've been suffering from problems which have been consuming much of my time.

The general consensus of the script is that it's great. So keep your hopes up. Someone is bound to pick it up eventually. Even if it's 20, 30, 40 years from now, I won't stop until you guys get to see the fruit of your labor.

Thanks for being awesome, /tg/.

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 19:34:56 No.35199548 Report

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>>35171796
If I remember the contact wanted to turn it into a comedy instead of a horror.
Damn shame, not enough horror series lately.
There's also a medical drama called The Night Shift.

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 19:38:37 No.35199616 Report

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>>35199486
That's great man. Glad to hear people seem into it.

TV Anon !!N4jGcT6O5vY Mon 29 Sep 2014 19:40:46 No.35199648 Report

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>>35199548
Yeah, our first guy--the guy I initially turned to for making this into a TV show--wanted it to be a comedy.

That's why we're gearing for the indie movie route.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2014 23:20:19 No.35203540 Report

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>>35199486
Didn't you post the first page of the script somewhere?

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Bump

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 00:19:27 No.35204569 Report

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>>35203540

I saw that posted before but forgot to save it. It was really good.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 00:49:12 No.35205100 Report

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Both the Player's guide and Character sheets can be found here, version 4 seemed to be the last one. There was also a GM's guide, but I can't seem to find it. http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/31103676/

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 00:53:39 No.35205172 Report

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>>35183593
I love the sound of a "Management management point system" so I'm not calling it Trust in my notes :P

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 01:22:54 No.35205718 Report

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>>35175809
> Paycheck was functionally similar to Xp previously, and now I plan to solidify that. Each playbook will have a To-Do list not unlike the 'keys' of AW. If at the end of the shift they satisfy one of their list, they gain +1 Paycheck. When they hit X Paycheck (I'm guessing around 6) they will be able to quit on their own terms
Hey, I'm not finding any reference to "keys" in Apocalypse world, could you reference it or explain it further?
I like the idea of job-specific tasks

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 02:34:20 No.35207116 Report

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>>35205718
Guys something weird is going on... I can't find the "Glad it's over" Move in the google doc... seriously wtf? Was it modified by it's owner?
I need it for my threat management system, can someone dig it out of some version of something? The outcomes were "-2 Weird" and "-1 Weird" and stuff.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 03:26:50 No.35208078 Report

Quoted By: >>35208228 >>35216706

>>35154736
Alright, OP here. Worked for a while at rules stuff and put this thread's scenario leads (copy pastas or not) into a doc, here it is : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2nM2M664fkJMW1GLUhkSnFBRmM/view?usp=sharing

But i'm not done, did'nt produce the more complicated stuff, but here is some of it:
> Managing management
> The trust of Management is a personal resource and starts at 5 and can be raised or lowered as a result of the character's actions. Some of its variations is covered by moves and some is covered by completing nightly tasks. As a rule of thumb, if an employee screws up for a whole week he can expect to get fired. If the game is a one shot, tweak the Management management system in general so they can be fired at the end of the session if they screw up.

> Doing the nightly tasks
> The main objective of the employees should always be to do their job : accomplishing their list of nightly mundane tasks. Each character has a list of tasks related to his job, the character's playbook. There is also one (or more) major weekly task that usually requires cooperation and takes some time to do. At the end of the night:
> • If a character accomplishes his whole list of nightly tasks = +1 Management.
> • If a character accomplishes some of his nightly tasks = 0.
> • If a character accomplishes only one nightly task or none = -1 Management.
> • If the team accomplishes a night's weekly task(s) = 0.
> • If the team fails to complete a night's weekly task(s) = -1 Management.

> If, after a night, you run out of Management points, you are fired. Please make a new character!

> List of weekly tasks :
> • Check propane exchange cage for expired tanks.
> • Wash all the windows in the gas station.
> • Wash all the graffiti from the walls.
> • Clean out the cooler.
> • Receive, verify and put away the cigarette order.
> • Receive, verify and put away the food orders.
> • Return clippings from unsold newspapers.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 03:35:32 No.35208228 Report

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>>35208078
Here is also an idea for stuff each role needs to do every night. Should probably be streamline to a specific number of tasks that amount to 40% of the night, than the basic task 1d6*10% of the night's duration. Or something, good night (shit?) everyone.

> Playbooks
> Assistant Manager : Cool-focused, good at talking to Management and directing others in their duties. Has the special Move "The Green Phone".
> List of Assistant manager nightly tasks:
> • Basic: Doing paperwork.
> • Check store log printer.
> • Shut down lottery machines after drawings late evening.
> • Lock up everything.
> • Make sure the change machine has enough change.
> Stock Clerk : Sharp-focused. Finds things, gets things, knows where things are and where they go. Probably hides drugs in with the Cola. Or just packages the oregano in bags and sells it like its drugs. Has the special Move “Let Me Check”.
> List of Store clerk nightly tasks :
> • Basic: Moving stuff around.
> • Check/Clean bathrooms.
> • Sweep/Mop floors.
> • Vaccum doormat/rugs/carpets.
> • Check/Fill humidor.
> • Restock shelves in the cooler.
> Gas Attendant : Tough-focused. Knows how to fix things or break things, or break fixed things. As close to a fighter as the gas station is likely to get, which is to say, once got in a shoving match with his mom after a burnt casserole. Has the special Move "Well, That Ain't Right".
> List of Gas attendant nightly tasks :
> • Basic: Attending to the gas pumps.
> • Take tank readings.
> • Check trash in fuel aisles.
> • Close propane tower.
> Cashier : Charm-focused. Good at discerning social information - what does that Aztec Bloodlord REALLY want a pallet of Gatorade for? - and generally mollifying through words. Has the special Move "Like I Give A Fuck".
> List of Cashier nightly tasks :
> • Basic: Serving the clients.
> • Refill cigarettes.
> • Clear off food station.
> • Close out register.
> • Check/Refill coffee pots.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 05:37:41 No.35210590 Report

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 11:24:10 No.35214192 Report

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I love everything I've read here. I'm just sorry that I don't have anything that I can contribute to the conversation. I will say that I'm following this really closely, and I wish you all the best of luck in crunching this out.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 13:33:23 No.35215450 Report

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>>35158592
>kitten/puppy
>somehow can heal gun wound by licking it or cuddling

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 15:05:06 No.35216461 Report

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>>35205718

They might not be in AW; in fact I'm fairly certain that they are from another AW-hack. I've done a lot of background reading while cobbling this together.

Regardless, each playbook would have something like this;
>Assistant Manager's To-Do
>At the end of a shift, you may check off one of the following if you have completed that task. If you checked off an item, take +1 Paycheck.
- Cover for an employee's mistake
- Downplay a lethal danger to Management
- Ensure every employee but one is treated with respect
- Let other employees handle something difficult or dangerous

>Cashier's To-Do list
>At the end of a shift, you may check off one of the following if you have completed that task. If you checked off an item, take +1 Paycheck.
- Talk back to a customer and get away with it
- Get the cash drawer's count correct for once
- Get complimented by a customer for your eloquence
- Spend precisely zero time at the register
- Spend precisely zero time NOT at the register

I'm hoping to have a BIG list for each playbook. Since characters are hopefully rolling over every 5-6 sessions or so, I'd want different Cashier characters to have different items checked off. They would be a mix of funny/easy/difficult/vaguely horrifying things that they could do to earn their Paycheck each shift.

>>35208228
These items will probably make it onto the final playbook lists.

>>35207116
I deleted the 'Glad It's Over' Move, along with a lot of others. They're casualties of the new incoming draft, sorry. I don't doubt there's a .pdf out there with the last iteration of rules.

"Glad It's Over"
When you [finish a shift or resolve a Threat] roll+Weird
>10+, Activate the next Portent AND activate or create a new Threat. -2 Weird
>7-9, Activate the next Portent. If there are no more Portents/the Threat is resolved create a new one. -1 Weird.
>6 or less, -1 Weird.

It was something like that. But not that, precisely. Sorry.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 15:22:19 No.35216706 Report

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>>35208078

Right now my design goal is for Paycheck to be affirmative - do X for Paycheck - whereas Management will be negative - if X doesn't happen, don't lose Management.

It will likely get structured like the Dungeon World 'End of Session' Move, working example below;

"Glad That's Over"
When you [end a shift at the Stop N Gas] ask the following questions. For each answer 'Yes' take -1 Trust.
- Was anything important or expensive broken tonight?
- Were any important patrons dissatisfied with service?
- Did everyone fail to mark off a 'To-Do' item on their list?
Roll+Trust
10+, Management is pleased. For now. One employee (Assistant Manager's discretion) gets +1 Paycheck.
7-9, You haven't done a totally shitty job! But you also haven't done a great job. Mediocre, basically.
6 or less, They set the bar low, and you pass right under. One employee (Assistant Manager's discretion) takes -1 Paycheck. In addition, take -1 Trust.

The first time the group hits 0 Trust, the Assistant Manager has to fire someone. The second time, the Assistant Manager gets fired.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 15:25:46 No.35216767 Report

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>>35181106
Holy shit, someone saved my list. Speaking of my old gas station, here's a session idea based on every time I go there these days.

[Title] Standing Room Only

[Threat] There didn't used to be this much stuff in here, did there? You were outside for just a minute to check the ice chest, but when you came back in there were three more cardboard stands for M&Ms and beef jerky around the store. Your co-worker just got out of the bathroom, and all the sudden a stand for rubberband guns just appeared next to the T-Shirts you never sell. You had to squeeze past three new shelves of collectable metal signs just to check the drinks in the cooler, and now you're standing at the counter, afraid to leave the counter, lest you run out of space to leave the store at the end of your shift.

[Resolution]Either find a way to sell all the stuff or stop it from coming in. Destroying it in the short term is a way to buy time, but the dumpster out back can only hold so much.

The cause is a store catalog left on the keyboard on the manager's computer.

[Portents and Signs]
Every thirty minutes, a delivery truck shows up to drop off goods.
The commercials on the radio station are replaced by the theme to the game show "Let's Make A Deal".
A customer complains about how little moving space there is in the store, just before wishing there were something else in the store. Ten minutes later, that item arrives.
The lights flicker and a large neon sign covers part of your window, blocking your view to the outside.

[Doom]
Getting crushed by the merchandise.
Having the store completely blocked off so you can't leave at the end of your shift.
Hazardous merchandise (knives, lighter fluid, et cetera) injures a customer.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 15:30:28 No.35216838 Report

Quoted By: >>35219129

>>35216706
Very interesting! Considering we are working independantly, we'l probably end up with several AW retheme versions. But that's fine IMHO. It'd be cool if a least one of our version was completed and than posted, probably on 1d4chan.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 17:49:52 No.35219129 Report

Quoted By: >>35220314

>>35216838

I plan to put out a playtest packet once I've got something working. After that I wanna track down the original graphic-design anon who did the Employee Handbook.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 19:00:32 No.35220314 Report

Quoted By: >>35220609

>>35219129
Do you have a like to that handbook?

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 19:16:55 No.35220609 Report

Quoted By: >>35221848

>>35220314
fuck, a *link*

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 20:20:03 No.35221848 Report

Quoted By: >>35226419

>>35220609

Nope. Should be >>35164538 though. Night Shift Player's Guide thread.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 23:13:52 No.35225593 Report

Quoted By: >>35226105

I've been an enthusiast of this setting since the second thread we had about it but since then have quit my night job in favor of full time day shifts.

I'm probably going to try to run this some time soon but on the D6 system.

Hopefully we can get this DW version finished soon too.
Thread TL;DR, where are we at now on this?

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Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 23:40:05 No.35226105 Report

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>>35225593
3 different takes on it at the same time :) But good news, original AW/DW retheme guy is one of them and seems pretty qualified.

Anonymous Tue 30 Sep 2014 23:54:38 No.35226419 Report

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>>35221848
If I recall thread 7 had the player's guide.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 01:12:00 No.35228247 Report

Quoted By: >>35228517

>>35208228
Ok, here is my current version (new link) for those interested.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2nM2M664fkJZzhwRmFwTjNOMEk&authuser=0
Personally, I don't like playing too much with the employees' Paychecks, as you see below, I prefer they always get a pay, but sometimes one gets a bonus or a cut (like you suggested). The individual Management/Trust points will vary more and get the players fired.
My version of End of Portent and End of night shift :

"Is It Over?"
When you resolve a Portent roll+Weird
>10+, Activate the next Portent. -2 Weird to Threat. (If the Threat is resolved, create a new one and activate its first Portent).
>7-9, Activate the next Portent. -1 Weird to Threat. (If the Threat is resolved, create a new one and activate its first Portent).
>6 or less, Activate the next Portent. (If the Threat is resolved, create a new one and activate its first Portent).

"Glad That's Over"
When you [end a shift at the Stop N Gas] ask the following questions. For each answer 'Yes' take -1 Management.
- Was anything important or expensive broken tonight?
- Were any important patrons dissatisfied with service?
- Did they allow a dangerous anomaly to wreck its Doom on the station?
Roll + Management
10+, Management is pleased. For now. One employee (Assistant Manager's discretion) gets +1 Paycheck.
7-9, You haven't done a totally shitty job! You get paid! +1 Paycheck for everyone.
6 or less, They set the bar low, and you pass right under. +1 Paycheck for everyone. One employee (Assistant Manager's discretion) takes -1 Paycheck (thus earning 0 tonight).

Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 01:23:01 No.35228517 Report

Quoted By: >>35228641

>>35228247
>wreck

the word you're looking for there is "wreak" (homophone of reek), meaning to inflict / cause <something bad>

as in, "to wreak havoc", "to wreak vengeance"

wreck doesn't make sense, any more than "Did they allow a dangerous anomaly to destroy its Doom on the station?"

Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 01:28:53 No.35228641 Report

Quoted By: >>35228738

>>35228517
Ya, I changed my wording and second language, eh.

Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 01:33:35 No.35228738 Report

Quoted By: >>35229538

>>35228641
Cool. Just lending my proofreading skills acquired from going over people's term papers.

I haven't read the rules yet so I might be misunderstanding the system here, but shouldn't the
>10+, Management is pleased. For now. One employee (Assistant Manager's discretion) gets +1 Paycheck.
be +1 paycheck to everyone, with an additional +1 for one employee? Otherwise it looks like it's worse than the reward for the lower success roll.

Also might want to clarify explicitly if you take additional -1 to management for each dissatisfied patron/broken item

Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 02:16:19 No.35229538 Report

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>>35228738
Thanks, all good points, dare to check out the doc if you want ;) My new stuff is in green, concept was just fixing the original.
According to my interpretation of original AW retheme guy and my personnal preference, it'd be just one -1 Management, even if many important things are destroyed, etc. One slap on the wrist per type of thing.

Anonymous Wed 01 Oct 2014 05:01:04 No.35232821 Report

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bump, g'night

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