this is pretty goofy but I had a dream, idk when but it was way before I knew about this jam. but in the dream there was a PBTA game where the only move was "Fight all the gods at once" - so that's what I'm making my game. That name the fact that it's PBTA was all I remember from the dream so its interesting trying to wrap a mechanic around that idea

I love this discussion. I'm from Brazil, so sorry for any bad english...

Last year I was playing with some dice probabilities and came up with a mechanic based on PbtA but without the fixed two D6 roll. Every player gets a dice pool, and they use it as a resource, much like the strings from Monsterhearts. So players spend their dice to make a roll, but the results can save them or earn more dice, and that's how the pool is replenished. So if you want to save your pool, or just don't care about that roll, you roll 1 die trying to hit a 6, just to get a mixed result. If you really need to get a high result, you can roll 3 dice so your chances of getting a 10+ result is better.

I created a game (in portuguese) about pirates, actually more about the ship with expendable characters, using that mechanic. The whole dice exchange thing seemed amazing as a meta barter mechanic... so pirates. But it came up overly complex. So last month there was a jam for games in portuguese and I revamped every other aspect of that pirate game but the mechanics, and started writing a space game. But then other work came into the picture and there wasn't enough time to finish it.

Now I'm thinking about revamping it again, adapting it to have a single move mechanic laid out on the character's sheet, no GM (the dice would swap between player's hands the whole game), and keep the space theme and art I did for that almost-to-be game. Sounds fun, and totally doable in this time frame.

(Like Encho, I'm also Brazilian, and my English is no good, so I'm sorry about that. I'm using Google Translate to communicate.)

The first idea I had when reading about this jam stuck in my mind, so I'll probably stick with it. It's pretty silly, but maybe it can result in fun scenes.

Basically, it's a game about platonic loves. The only move would be "Don't be pathetic!" or something like that. It's a little game about those kind of cool people who turn into complete failure in the presence of the person they love. :)

So I was playing this really simple card game today with my kid, it’s called “Stress” in Swedish, I think it’s similar to a game called “Speed” in English. The aim of the game is to get rid of your hand as quickly as possible and you play the cards at the same time, without taking turns. I was thinking that you could maybe use a simplified version of that mechanic for a resolution system, to model something like a duel with rapiers or witty repartee or something in that vein. So maybe I’ll do a game about 18th century duelists using cards instead of dice? Unless you think it’s too out there. I think I can get the fail/partial success/full success bands dialed in, hopefully.

Just published my entry. I wrote a really generic move, "Do the Arts", to perform acts of magic. Instead of giving playbooks stats, I gave them assests or possessions -like a workshop, or a group of followers- which they can risk losing (for a +1). One of those assets is their own life, so in a way, PCs can only really die if the players put character's lives at stake.