A Shock: and Swords Without Master Mash-Up

A Shock: and Swords Without Master Mash-Up

Take Swords with the following alterations to the Threads:

1. Morals are now Shock:-style Minutiae that carry a consequence. Instead of writing the lesson associated with the consequence, write the Minutiae itself.

2. Mysteries are now Shock:-style Minutiae that stymie. Instead of writing a question about what stymied you, write the Minutiae itself.

3a. Motifs elements should be about those moments that exemplify alienness, the petty made wondrous, or the wondrous made petty. Each element is also an intersection of a Shock and an Issue. This is like the grid in Shock: but you do not determine the Shock and Issue before play. Instead, decide on the Shock and Issue when you write the element and write them next to the element.

3b. Instead of echoing elements in later Motif threads, one element on each Motif after the first must intersect with a Shock or an Issue from a previous Motif thread.

I suspect that this would produce stories with more of a Swords feel than a Shock: one. Stuff like Les Maîtres du temps. And I would probably give each planet it's own set of tones, each Rogue a set of tones according to their homeworld, and if they happen to be spending most of their time in a vessel they can call home, I'd give it its own set of tones as well. Or perhaps I go too far.
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