I found Apocalypse World in “Swords & Wizardry”.
What’s Swords and Wizardry? It’s one of the better OSR-style retroclones (in my opinion; but there are better ones).
And here is an excerpt:
Take note: Monsters do not always leap to the attack. Unless they are on the alert for intruders, the Referee may roll 2d6 to determine whether the monsters will attack if they surprise the adventurers. On a roll of 2-6, the monsters will be hostile and attack; on a roll of 7-9, the monsters will withhold judgment and wait to see if the adventurers are hostile; on a roll of 10-12, the monsters will have a positive initial reaction to seeing the adventurers, and might even be convinced to offer some help – if they are well paid, of course!
Sounds familiar, I thought! Cool.
I believe that if you go back you’ll find that mechanic in Moldvay, maybe earlier.
This existed all the way back in the day as the reaction roll.
Hm. I should maybe write something about D&D, Apocalypse World, and why the OSR isn’t that impressed with the latter.
Whoops, cross-posted with Vincent. (btw, I think some segments of the OSR are impressed with AW, or at least bits of it.)
I’d love to hear about that, Vincent (and anyone else). Apocalypse World and OSR games, to me, overlap in significant ways and yet occupy very, very different areas of the “gamescape”.
Sometimes it just comes down to perseveration about some minor thing in AW that really isn’t such a big deal but prices to be a mental stumbling block.
Sorry, Cam?
I think Cam’s taking about things like sex moves or name lists that some people get hung up on.
I think the name lists have caused some of the most hilarious misconceptions ever seen in gaming.
That should be “proves to be” but my phone’s autocorrect hates me. And yes, what Sage LaTorra said.
Ah, cool, thanks. (I have a feeling Vincent is talking about something else, though. In any case, I think there’s a major fundamental difference between AW-type games and most OSR games, which is significant here.)
2d6 has been my one true bell curve since 1980.