History TabletopGame / ApocalypseWorld

''Apocalypse World'' is a TabletopRPG from Lumpley Games. If focuses on a post-apocalyptic setting, but also supplies suggestions for hacking the game for use with other settings. It is available here: http://apocalypse-world.com/

Other games "powered by the Apocalypse" (i.e. hacks of the ''AW'' engine) include:

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonWorld'': A classic HeroicFantasy DungeonCrawling game thematically based on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterhearts}}'': A ParanormalRomance game about the "lives of teenage monsters".
* ''TabletopGame/MonsterOfTheWeek'': An UrbanFantasy game about monster hunters operating in modern times.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Sagas of the Icelanders}}'': A HistoricalFantasy game about the first Norse settlers arriving to Iceland in 874.
* ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfSeventySeven'': An AlternateHistory game set in TheSeventies.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Tremulus}}'': A CosmicHorror game in the vein of Creator/HPLovecraft.
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* ''TabletopGame/MonsterHearts'': A ParanormalRomance game about the "lives of teenage monsters".

* ''TabletopGame/MonsterOfTheWeek'': An UrbanFantasy game about a group of monster hunters exterminating dangerous supernatural beings.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonWorld'': A classic HeroicFantasy DungeonCrawling RPG thematically based on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* ''TabletopGame/MonsterOfTheWeek'': An UrbanFantasy RPG about a group of monster hunters exterminating dangerous supernatural beings.

* ''TabletopGame/MonsterHearts'': A game about the "lives of teenage monsters".

* ''TabletopGame/{{Sagas of the Icelanders}}'': A HistoricalFantasy game about the first Norse settlers arriving to Iceland in 874.

Apocalypse World is a tabletop RPG from Lumpley Games. If focuses on a post-apocalyptic setting, but also supplies suggestions for hacking the game for use with other settings. It is available here: http://apocalypse-world.com/

** Most of the classes in the corebook are roughly analogous to characters in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': [[TheMedic The Angel]] is Simon, The Battlebabe is Zoe, [[PsychicPowers The Brainer]] is River, [[BadassDriver The Driver]] is Wash, [[GunNut The Gunlugger]] is Jayne, [[TheLeader The Operator]] is Mal, [[MrFixit The Savvyhead]] is Kaylee, and [[TheFace The Skinner]] is Inara. This reference has been confirmed by WordOfGod.

* DyingLikeAnimals: Many types are obviously likely - Vultures and Wolves, for instance. Rats and Butterflies even get their own specific Threat types (Grotesque: Disease Vector, and Brutes: Sybarties, respectively).

* MindRape: The Brainer class (psychics, essentially) can start with an item that allows them to do things which normally require 'time and intimacy' with simple skin contact. It's called the violation glove.

* [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Level Up At Intimacy +/-4]]: When your [[RelationshipValues Hx]] with another character hits either top or bottom, it resets to almost neutral and you get experience.

** Most of the classes in the corebook are roughly analogous to characters in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': [[TheMedic The Angel]] is Simon, The Battlebabe is Zoe, [[PsychicPowers The Brainer]] is River, The Driver is Wash, [[GunNut The Gunlugger]] is Jayne, The Operator is Mal, [[MrFixit The Savvyhead]] is Kaylee, and The Skinner is Inara. This reference has been confirmed by WordOfGod.

** Most of the classes in the corebook are roughly analogous to characters in [[Series/Firefly]]: [[TheMedic The Angel]] is Simon, The Battlebabe is Zoe, [[PsychicPowers The Brainer]] is River, The Driver is Wash, [[GunNut The Gunlugger]] is Jayne, The Operator is Mal, [[MrFixit The Savvyhead]] is Kaylee, and The Skinner is Inara. This reference has been confirmed by WordOfGod.

** Most of the classes in the corebook are roughly analogous to characters in [[Firefly]]: [[TheMedic The Angel]] is Simon, The Battlebabe is Zoe, [[PsychicPowers The Brainer]] is River, The Driver is Wash, [[GunNut The Gunlugger]] is Jayne, The Operator is Mal, [[MrFixit The Savvyhead]] is Kaylee, and The Skinner is Inara. This reference has been confirmed by WordOfGod.

** They have another move called [[Franchise/SpiderMan Norman]], which lets them get advice from their [[CoolMask mask]].

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Well, maybe. Each class has something different happen if they have sex, so this might be the case if the party is made up of a Gunlugger, a Brainer and a Skinner, then lots of sex is pretty likely. On the other hand, if the party is made up of [[CantHaveSexEver a Driver, a Touchstone and an Operator...]]

* AfterTheEnd: The default is roughly fifty years [[AfterTheEnd after]] a [[ApocalypseHow Class 2]] apocalypse. What exactly happened is left up to the MC and players.

* AfterTheEnd: The default is roughly fifty years AfterTheEnd. What actually [[ApocalypseHow happened]] is left up to the MC and players.

* AfterTheEnd: The default is roughly fifty years AfterTheEnd.

* RelationshipValues: Every PC has a 'History' stat for every other character, which indicates not their feelings towards that character, but rather how well they understand them. This stat is rolled against whenever a player wants to help (or hinder) another's roll. It's initially set by choosing options during character creation which determine certain feelings or past events (the Faceless thinks someone is pretty, and someone once helped them do something nasty, for example).

* OneStatToRuleThemAll: Cool and Sharp both have this reputation. The other three stats apply to fairly specific situations (Hard is for hurting or threatening people, Hot is for persuading people, and Weird is for going on bizarre psychic dream-quests), while Sharp gives you bonuses to any other roll as long as you do as the MC tells you, and Cool is for almost EVERYTHING else.

* HumanPopsicle: The Quarantine class is essentially this. They get a base full of wonderful stuff, but they don't understand the culture and they aren't prepared for the damage The Maelstrom can to one's psyche.

** They have another move called [[Franchise/SpiderMan Norman]], which lets them get advice from their [[CoolMask Mask]]