I’m reading the original Apocalypse World and, holy shit, it’s well-written.
In lots of game books, there’s a tendency to overwrite, to overexplain, to pack the book with fiction. I find lots of them hard to read.
Apocalypse World avoids all that. I don’t know how and yet I kind of do: it puts you straight into the game. Right from the beginning, everything is useful. You never skip ahead, you never feel your eye wandering over the introductory stuff, waiting until you get to the game. It’s all there.
It sets the bar so high. If I can make Cthulhu Dark half as good as Apocalypse World, I’ll be doing well.