Author: Michael Pfaff

We’re looking for one player for an Apocalypse World Play-By-Post. We’re going into Session 2, so it’s a perfect time to join up.

About the Game:

* We’re using Apocalypse World 2nd Edition.

* The game is set on Mars after a half-complete terraforming project. What’s left after the project was abandoned are filthy and terrible people surviving by violence and desperation. Think: Mad Max on Mars.

* The game is Rated R. There is blood, filth, sex, violence, and in some cases all those things mixed together.

The story as of now:

The players’ characters all live in a Martian mesa-complex called Red Butte. Recently, an insurgency from the previous ruler of the holding has bombed the large marketplace that drew in hundreds from all over the wastes for a monthly festival. The insurgents also assassinated the leader (a former PC named Barnum). In the aftermath, one of the other PCs have taken over the holding and will rule now. The second session will begin a month after this bombing.

That’s the basics anyhow. There’s more. Play to find out.

We play on a local forum that I manage, so if you’re interested in being a player, post here:

https://community.nerdlouisville.org/topic/1364/need-1-player-for-apocalypse-world-pbp

https://community.nerdlouisville.org/topic/1364/need-1-player-for-apocalypse-world-pbp

Looking for PbtA games that do not have playbooks, ala Freebooting Venus or Amazons. Any suggestions?

Retiring a character – to safety.

So, the way I’m reading this, the “to safety” part in the book really is about safe from the MC. But, what if the other players are looking to enact vengeance on a PC that was retired to safety?

In my game, a PC made enemies of most of the other PCs in the game. Then, took Retire to Safety (probably to get out of the fallout of making enemies) and started a new character. However, the PCs still want to get even with the retired PC.

How would you handle this?

AW 2E says this:

“To safety” means two things. First, it means the retiring character’s

safety: as MC, you promise not to kill her off just because now she’s yours and technically you could. No fair decorating your up-and-coming new warlord’s pike with her head.

Second, it means the player’s characters’ safety: as MC, you promise not to turn her into their enemy, just because now she’s yours and technically you could. No fair making her be your up-and-coming new warlord either.”

Which, to me, seems like it makes the PC off limits to the MC, but not to other PCs.

Looking for a Kinslayer move for my Fallen Empires (with some stuff from AW:Dark Age mixed in) game, inspired by the curse and taboo in ASOIAF.

Here’s what I have, but not entirely loving it:

When you *slay a kinsman*, fill in all the come back or change playbook options under wounds that you have not used yet. You are doomed to die.

Any other ideas for a Curse of the Kinslayer?