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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8253573" data-attributes="member: 6696971">1)  My initial question on this is "are the Company types more indexed to Playbook/class than in Blades?"Assassins - HoundBravos - CutterCult - WhisperHawkers - LeechShadows - LurkSocial - Slide, SpiderReally on Smugglers doesn't index directly to a playbook.2)  Going the Dungeon World model where PBs aren't duplicated.  So a few things on your thoughts:* My experience with running Blades is that I've never run a game where I've had the same Playblook played by two players so I'm not clear on what work "in the second case I think you could lose the Company idea entirely and base that part on playbook stuff (i.e. reflecting the playbooks in the group)" is doing.  Its always been that way.* The play I'm envisioning (as a result of the game) wouldn't "pretty strictly index to exploration."  Its not clear to me what you're seeing from the above that derives this inference.  No Dungeon World game I've ever run indexes to exploration (as in "set out and see what is out there") and the only Adventure listed above that is similar is Range. Outside of that, the play loop is basically just like Blades but with Dungeon World tropes/aesthetic subbed in and Journey mechanics.Could you elaborate on what is making you feel the game would "pretty strictly index to exploration?"* I already put above how I feel that the redundancy you're mentioning above is already present in Blades.  But to go a bit further:- Losing the Company (Crew analog) aspect fundamentally changes the enterprise and the play experience.  Since both of those are fundamental to what I'm looking to do here, that's not so much an option!- Just like in Blades, there is nothing stopping a group of Smugglers from taking an Assassination or Social score (my games have never featured anything resembling heterogeneity when it comes to Crew archetype > Score archetype...our game should be a pretty strong anecdote for that!), there would similarly be nothing stopping a Companion of Wardens from doing Adventures in Town that aren't Range or Escort or Slay (et al). - Finally, just like in Blades, the Companion Advancements would have general purpose Advancements that help the Company, but also specific-purpose Advancements that enable/amplify their specific portfolio (eg something like a Temple/Hospitaler to Recover or a Minstrel Cohort for Knights of a Faith).</blockquote>

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