Category Archives: Apocalypse World
Apocalypse World: Structured Freeform, Take 1
A Twitter discussion with John Harper and Rob Donoghue made me think of drafting up something like this. This version isn’t quite what I originally had in mind when I … Continue reading
That Ancient Serpent: Rules
Over beers the other night, John mentioned my plans to hack Apocalypse World to create a crusaderpunk setting inspired by Rifts: Wormwood and the German post-apocalyptic angels game Engel. I’d … Continue reading
That Ancient Serpent
This post is going to be a work in progress, since I want to get back to doing incremental design on this blog, rather than in InDesign or on a … Continue reading
An Outbreak of Dragons
I was just thinking about how to combine fantasy with body horror. What if monsters are an infection? So it’s late medieval times, the Black Death (that horrid outbreak of … Continue reading
Dibs
I’m calling these splats, so nobody better write them up before me. Or else I will look at you very sternly across the internet! The Taikonaut This character type starts … Continue reading
The Way This Wheel Burns
Over here, Clyde is talking about breaking down GMing 4E into Apocalypse World-style MC agendas. I don’t really agree with the way he’s done it, because my instinct is to … Continue reading
Beyond the Master of Ceremonies
This is my response to Ewen Cluney’s response to my response to Will Hindmarch’s response to Apocalypse World. This conversation just keeps giving and giving. In Ewen’s words, one of … Continue reading
Tearing Veils Asunder
I’ve been carefully following Will Hindmarch’s attempt to wrestle with the rules text of Apocalypse World, which has been both fascinating and really enlightening. Will, who’s done a lot of … Continue reading
Playbook: Valkyrie
I’m working on a new character type for Apocalypse World, inspired by the “Broken Rainbow” campaign I ran earlier this year. An initial sketch is posted over at Barf Forth … Continue reading
Firmament Notes: The Sciences
Life’s been too busy to work on Geiger, so here are some notes mostly to myself. In addition to all the other scarcities that Apocalypse World is normally about, Fingers … Continue reading
