I keep thinking about wanting to hack AW to let me use it in Nexus: the Infinite City.

I keep thinking about wanting to hack AW to let me use it in Nexus: the Infinite City.

I keep thinking about wanting to hack AW to let me use it in Nexus: the Infinite City. (If you missed this, it’s a great setting from the 90s where this one shifting city connects to various cities in all different realities, so you can walk from modern LA to Victorian London with vampires to a Mars colony to ancient Athens.)

I don’t want to do a huge project here for various reasons, and a lot of base AW would work just fine. I’m planning to tweak Weird and give some options to replace the psychic maelstrom.

But I will need at least a few new/different playbooks. Magic is possible, so I need some kind of mage playbook, and maybe some kind of hacker/tech wizard. And I’ll need to decide how to handle races.

My purpose in posting is to see if any of this work has already been done for me so that I can just steal it instead of doing it myself. Suggestions?

8 thoughts on “I keep thinking about wanting to hack AW to let me use it in Nexus: the Infinite City.”

  1. Have you seen The Planarch Codex for Dungeon World? It’s basically a fantasy version of this idea. 

    Other non-AW games you might want to mine for ideas include Itras By, Don’t Rest Your Head, Technoir, and the video game Planescape: Torment.

  2. I would suggest playing it in DW with the Planarch Codex as your base. Its a lot less work to bring apocalypse elements and motorcycles into Dungeon World, than it is to write entire playbooks and create racial moves for all of Apocalypse World.

  7. I do want the base feel of AW though, where you can have a Hardholder or an Operator, people who are tied into specific people and places–though I do have the Planarch Codex, and I see the similarity. I just want to start from AW not from DW.

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