Playbooks

When you create a PC for Stonetop, the first thing you'll do is pick your playbook. Each playbook contains a set of choices, prompts, and options that point towards a specific character archetype, while leaving room to make your character unique.

Your playbook also serves as a character sheet. You'll use it to track your PC's stats, debilities, current HP and XP, moves, and so forth. The playbooks are designed to be printed double-sided and folded down the middle, so that they form a little booklet.

The nine standard playbooks are:

• The Blessed
• The Fox
• The Heavy
• The Judge
• The Lightbearer
• The Marshal
• The Ranger
• The Seeker
• The Would-be Hero

For an explanation of each component of a PC playbook, see Your character in the previous chapter.

Each PC also has at least one insert. The standard inserts are collected in Inserts. The village's own playbook is The Steading.

When you have questions about particular moves or other elements of a playbook (how they work, what exactly __ means, what constitutes "a creature of darkness," etc.), talk it out with the GM and the other players. Consider what's already been established or implied, and work it out as a group.

Don't be surprised if the GM turns such questions back on you. "Well, what do you think constitutes a creature of darkness?" This isn't a trap or a trick! It's an invitation for you to help author the world. Answer with whatever seems obvious or interesting to you. Just be prepared for that answer to have lasting implications for how the move works in your game!