Front (02)
FRONTS
Introducing
Fronts are the MC's prep for play.
A front is a set of linked threats. Threats are people, places, and conditions that, because of where they are and what they're doing, inevitably threaten the players' characters — so a front is all of the individual threats that arise from a single given threatening situation.
A FRONT
CREATING A FRONT
See pages 136–150 for complete instructions.
FUNDAMENTAL SCARCITY
Underlying every front is a fundamental scarcity. Choose 1:
Hunger · Thirst · Ignorance · Fear · Decay · Despair · Envy · Ambition
THREATS
Threat type
Warlord · Grotesque · Landscape · Affliction · Brute
Warlords
Slaver · Hive queen · Prophet · Dictator · Collector · Alpha wolf
Grotesques
Cannibal · Mutant · Pain addict · Disease Vector · Mindfucker · Perversion of birth
Landscapes
Prison · Breeding pit · Furnace · Mirage · Maze · Fortress
Afflictions
Disease · Condition · Custom · Delusion · Sacrifice · Barrier
Brutes
Hunting pack · Sybarites · Enforcers · Cult · Mob · Family
See pages 138–142 for complete descriptions, including impulses.
Choose a fundamental scarcity.
Create 3 or 4 threats.
Write its agenda / dark future.
Write 2–4 stakes questions.
List the front's cast.
Create the front's overall countdowns.
OVERALL COUNTDOWNS
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