Hello, World

Devlog

• Version 7.9 content push: crew creation, score prompts, factions & districts!
  March 03, 2022 by Charles Simon

  What's new? Quite a lot! Aside from lots of little textual tweaks, here are the big things: The Book now has more consistent PDF features! Navigation features in the PDF were soft-launched a while bac... Continue reading

  
• World version 0.78 _ Playbook adjustments & Handout changes
  November 13, 2020 by Charles Simon

  Winter Sale In tandem with this update, Hello, World is now on sale! Go check it out! Lots of little changes to Hello, World and a few big ones. Many of the little changes are in the Book, and related... Continue reading

  
• World version 0.75_huge update!
  September 18, 2020 by Charles Simon

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  Time to move on to a new paradise Hello everyone! Welcome to all those who found us through the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality ! This version control change is a big one. The most obvious chan... Continue reading

  
• Hello, World super update! New GM Guide, new Playbooks, new Setting notes, new Rules, New Memories!
  December 04, 2019 by Charles Simon

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  This update to Hello, World is quite simply the biggest yet. We've added a bunch of interior art, over 8000 words of setting and game-running advice, an additional Faction, and tons more! Here's a... Continue reading
• The Roller: Momentum and Leadership in World
  November 27, 2019 by Charles Simon

  Above: one of Hello, World’s pregenerated character sheets using the Roller playbook as it’s foundation. These things are at serious risk of getting a little belaboured, so I’m going to try some... Continue reading

  
• The Filcher: Control and Theft In World
  November 22, 2019 by Charles Simon

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  Above: one of Hello, World’s pregenerated character sheets using the Filcher playbook as it’s foundation. Forged in the Dark games are somewhat unique in the action roll conversation that surround... Continue reading

  
• The Breaker: Force and Hurt in World
  November 19, 2019 by Charles Simon

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  Above: one of Hello, World’s pregenerated character sheets using the Breaker playbook as it’s foundation. Hello, World provides players a power fantasy, like a lot of tabletop role-playing games... Continue reading

  
• Playbook update: the Capacitor
  November 05, 2019 by Charles Simon

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  Hello again! This update adds The Capacitor to Hello World, a seventh(!) playbook that explores the tenuous line between Order ( restore! ) and Chaos ( crash!) . Their special abilities let them foc... Continue reading
• Pregenerated characters
  October 14, 2019 by Charles Simon

  This update is from the road at BigBadCon, so I'll be brief! Just wanted to share the most up-to-date Pregenerated Characters (8 of them!) that I used for these convention one-shots. Enjoy!... Continue reading
• Hello, World pre-BigBadCon update!
  September 26, 2019 by Charles Simon

  Hello, everyone! Hello, World is progressing steadily and surely. I'd like to take this opportunity to push a significant playtest legibility update to the handouts and shared table materials, stuff... Continue reading

  
• Musings: Playbook design
  August 08, 2019 by Charles Simon

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  I was planning to talk about the playbooks of Hello, World today but as I was thinking about what I would say, I realized that before I did that I first needed to talk about playbooks . Wait don't g... Continue reading

  
• #dreamjam submission complete! Beta status!
  August 07, 2019 by Charles Simon

  This is the beta update for HW, putting a "minimum viable" version for a short campaign's worth of play in the hands of a GM. My updates have been slow and weak lately due to real life intrusions but... Continue reading
• v0.3 Preview 2: Immortality, Trauma, and the Stack
  July 18, 2019 by Charles Simon

  As you can see from the preview image, hello, world integrates several Blades gameplay loops into a single system. One of my favorite things about Blades in the Dark is how the desired gameplay info... Continue reading
• v0.3 Preview: Factions and the Map
  July 14, 2019 by Charles Simon

  I wanted to do something a bit different for the Factions in hello, world . Factions are very fluid in World. It’s a hyper-mobile digital environment ruled by accelerated waves of media-driven zei... Continue reading

  
• hello world v0.1
  July 09, 2019 by Charles Simon##helloworldRPG

  hello, world is finally here! I am deeply excited to share the development and evolution of this game with you. The current uploads represent the playtest materials I used as a GM to run the game at... Continue reading