All the Pretty Little Horses - a game for girls and boys about magical ponies and their quest to save Saddle Valley · 12:18am Aug 12th, 2015
...that's Powered by the Apocalypse. It's a goodly part Lord of the Rings, a good part Friendship is Magic, and a huge part Generation 1.
I have hired an artist to illustrate the iconic champions! She goes by Lillayfran and she's amazing. She also has several commission slots available, if anyone is interested...
I've tagged it on my Tumblr as #All The Pretty Little Horses (rpg), and am steadily setting up playbooks now - have a look-see if it tickles your fancy. All the core playbooks are currently up.
Magic - You need a circle of magic to call the Deep Magic from Before the First Dawn, and what better magic circle than a circle of friends?
Redemption - You were never the darkest of dark lords, but you were bad enough... once. Now you offer redemption to those things in the darkness that don't deserve it but desperately need it, and thank each Dawn that your past is not today.
Valor - There are things Outside whose idea of fun is taking everyone you call a friend, breaking them in half, eating what’s left, and then tearing up everything they loved afterwards. But they’ll have to get through you first, Valor.
Justice - There are some who'll take your love for weakness and your tolerance for license, claiming they are the victimized and their justice-seeking victims the true bullies; and when you meet them you must show them what your Virtue really means.
Diligence - There's a time for plans and a time for action, and when you teach people the difference you can move mountains one stone at a time.
Hope - Life's not fair, but we can be. Life sucks, but we don't have to. Night will fall, but dawn will come again. And knowing all that is Hope.
Charity - Maybe the poor, the tired, the huddled starving masses don't deserve a little luxury - but then, neither do you, and you've got nothing to lose once you give it away.
Patience - Time does not heal all wounds, but it does eventually make them light enough to bear.
Humanity - Even if you must one day return home, you are determined to repay your new friends on four legs. And humans are nothing if not determined.
Well, this is several kinds of cool. I'm not familiar with the system, but I definitely look forward to seeing more of this.
3313028 The original rules set, Apocalypse World, is all kinds of not work safe but all kinds of cool: it's a happy accident that the new Mad Max came out soon before I told you this, because BOY HOWDY is it great for Mad Max. Or Fallout. Or FO:E, for that matter.
It also has the best GM advice for all time, starting with calling the GM the Master of Ceremonies.
3314116 It's in shorthand - these aren't the full rules, just the character sheets. If you've never played Apoc World or Monsterhearts or what have you before, I'd be surprised if these made total sense!
Still, I hope it's intuitive enough.