15 thoughts on “Does anyone know why the Apocalypse World playbooks have two separate name lists?”

  1. Some have three, some have one, but each list seems to share a sort of theme.

    The Driver has a “Hollywood” list and a “Car” list.

    The Hardholder has a “last names” list and a “title” list.

    Gunlugger has a…I don’t know what the first list is exactly but the second list is dog names.

    Hocus has “virtues” and “animals”.

    etc

    So in AW I think it’s mostly to underline the theme.

  2. Marshall Miller – That’s what I’m finding with my lists. I just made two lists to copy AW without thinking it through and that’s what’s happening. I’m finding it irksome :).

    I had intended to suggest things like Jeff says but then I didn’t put the effort into it :).

  3. Knowing Meg and Vincent I expect I’m wrong about this, but if I’d seen this from other designers my first guess would be that they started out with gendered lists and then halfway through realized “wait a minute why are we gendering these?” so they removed the gender labels but didn’t bother merging the two lists into one.

  4. Wilhelm Norsten some cross referencing show your idea to be correct, characters played by Rutger Hauer, all of them. Some obscure movies in there for sure, but they all match. Interesting

  5. Greg Barnsdale It’s pretty funny. I certainly didn’t catch it at first. Nowadays, the Gunlugger always brings to mind that scene from Split Second when Hauer’s partner is going nuts. “We need some big F***ING guns!”

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