I know there is dungeon world for medieval gaming, but has anyone just used apocalypse world anyway (with different…

I know there is dungeon world for medieval gaming, but has anyone just used apocalypse world anyway (with different…

I know there is dungeon world for medieval gaming, but has anyone just used apocalypse world anyway (with different play books) to run a gritty Medieval fantasy like song of fire and ice?

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  1. There have been thoughts along that line here, yeah. Nothing in public yet. And I’d be really surprised to learn no one had just house-ruled a few names and some setting color.

  2. I think one of the cool thing about *world games is how they all define a particular settings, but the tropes displayed by the playbooks seem to be larger than just that. Apocalypse World can run the range from Sci-Fi to Fantasy, but it will always create a very powerful tone of scarcity. Similarly, Monsterhearts could just as easily take place in an medieval royal academy or a space-age “education space station”. The game I’m working on is defined as a medieval-or-earlier fantasy game, but I feel like Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Harry Potter would be conveyed just as well with mostly the same rules.

    Has anyone run a fantasy apocWorld game? I’m curious to know how it actually turns out.

  3. Colter Hanna is barking up the tree I’m thinking about, bringing the apocalypse world tone (not the dungeon world tone) to a fantasy setting!

    The song if ice and fire uses strings (monster hearts I think) and feels like an interpersonal intrigue story.

  4. I remember something like this coming up on the SA forums; just reskinning the existing playbooks to “dark fantasy”. So the Angel becomes the Cleric, the Battlebabe is the Barbarian, the Gunlugger becomes the Swordlugger, and so on.

  5. I’m running AW set in post-Roman Britain, inspired by Jo Walton’s The King’s Name and The King’s Peace. So far we’ve needed a few house rules about weapon types and damages but that’s it.

  6. No prob. Do me a favor, though, and start a private G+ circle with me. There are several people Matthew Cashman and I can’t figure out which one is you! When I see it, I’ll give you the link.

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