I have some questions about some advancements, namely the C-Type's 'Song in my Ears' and 'The Concept of You' High Advances from page 75, and the 'Personal Appearance' O-Type High Advance from page 113. They refer to 'Acceptance', could they mean Realizations? Personal Appearance also refers to an Acceptance in the failure track, which wasn't defined anywhere, and Song in my Ears talks about pushing Titles by 1d6, but there are no mechanics for pushing Titles, just Expectations. Clarification would be appreciated!
Oh boy, great catches. Yes, they refer to Realizations, the mechanic was renamed way too late and those slipped through the cracks. For Personal Appearance, it's just because your "failure" track counts as a title, and can have a Realization as well. For Song in my Ears, it does mean the Expectation, but in testing, it came off better when I said "Title" for that move in particular, for a variety of reasons I cannot remember right now.
Ascendancy is one of my favourite TTRPGs out there. Until I played it, I had never played a game that can at once perfectly capture the deeply interpersonal, techno-mystical vibes of Symphogear, the over the top urban epic fantasy of Kekkai Sensen, and the quiet, dark, moody rain drenched cyberpunk of Blade Runner, all within the same session. I also never realised that that was the exact sort of game I had been desperately wanting.
A deeply meaningful game about rebellion, self-acceptance, and finding identity as an adult in an adult world, Ascendancy is a game that should be on everyone's radars.
The best psychic anime cyberpunk RPG on the market right now. Period. There's something explosive and free about Ascendency that screams "a straight cis dude did not write this, roll with it or die". Where most cyberpunk games are content to weakly imitate William Gibson, Ascendancy is a breath of fresh air blasted upside your head with hurricane force.
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Hi, I'm reading through this and loving the game.
I have some questions about some advancements, namely the C-Type's 'Song in my Ears' and 'The Concept of You' High Advances from page 75, and the 'Personal Appearance' O-Type High Advance from page 113. They refer to 'Acceptance', could they mean Realizations? Personal Appearance also refers to an Acceptance in the failure track, which wasn't defined anywhere, and Song in my Ears talks about pushing Titles by 1d6, but there are no mechanics for pushing Titles, just Expectations. Clarification would be appreciated!
Oh boy, great catches. Yes, they refer to Realizations, the mechanic was renamed way too late and those slipped through the cracks. For Personal Appearance, it's just because your "failure" track counts as a title, and can have a Realization as well. For Song in my Ears, it does mean the Expectation, but in testing, it came off better when I said "Title" for that move in particular, for a variety of reasons I cannot remember right now.
Thanks!
Great game!
Really love the ideias and system.
Is bookmarking the PDF in the horizon? :)
Ascendancy is one of my favourite TTRPGs out there. Until I played it, I had never played a game that can at once perfectly capture the deeply interpersonal, techno-mystical vibes of Symphogear, the over the top urban epic fantasy of Kekkai Sensen, and the quiet, dark, moody rain drenched cyberpunk of Blade Runner, all within the same session. I also never realised that that was the exact sort of game I had been desperately wanting.
A deeply meaningful game about rebellion, self-acceptance, and finding identity as an adult in an adult world, Ascendancy is a game that should be on everyone's radars.
The best psychic anime cyberpunk RPG on the market right now. Period. There's something explosive and free about Ascendency that screams "a straight cis dude did not write this, roll with it or die". Where most cyberpunk games are content to weakly imitate William Gibson, Ascendancy is a breath of fresh air blasted upside your head with hurricane force.