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[Ragenaut]

Hello, newb Master of Ceremonies here, looking for some players who'd be interested in some Apocalypse World, a fairly rules light, narrative heavy RPG. I don't think a Rulebook is necessary to play, all you need is a playbook and a love for all the classic apocalyptic tropes! Anyways, here are the books, if you'd like to read them, just click on the links.

If you're on mobile you can find a free zip viewer in the App Store.
http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E.zip

And now, the characters! The 1 player/2 player thing means that only 1/2 players can pick from that column. I noticed that the characters are built with a certain stat in mind, and I'd like to have a more balanced group.

Cool: 1 player
Battlebabe: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (7-8)
Operator: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (21-22)
Quarantine: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (16-17)

Hard: 1 player
Chopper: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (11-12)
Faceless: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (4-5)
Harry Baldman-Gunlugger: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (15-16)
Hardholder: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (17-18)
Touchstone: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (24-25)

Hot: Taken
Maestro D': http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (10-11)
Voidslayer-Skinner: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (25-26)
Solace: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (18-19)

Sharp: Taken
Angel: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (5-6)

Spoiler: Fniff: Ghost the Driver (click to show/hide)

"Babe, I've killed people. It's not what it's cracked up to be."
Name: Ghost
Look: Woman in vintage wear with a fine-boned face, sad eyes, and a slim body.
Outlook: Nihilistic pacifist
Theme: "End of the Line" - Murder by Death

Moves
No Shit Driver
Weather Eye

Stats
Cool=0 Hard-1 Hot+1 Sharp+2 Weird=0

Gear
Fashion (Bomber jacket, skirt, trilby, doc martins)
Magnum (3-harm close reload loud)
Oddments worth 2-barter

CAR: THE E-TYPE
Power +1 Looks +2 1-armor weakness+1
Frame: Compact
Strength: Fast
Weakness: Cramped
Look: Vintage, Sleek

Weird: 2 player
Brainer: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (9-10)
Hoarder: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (6-7)
Hocus: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (19-20)
Macaluso: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-limitedrefbook.pdf (8-9)
Savvyhead: http://apocalypse-world.com/previews/AW1E-basicrefbook.pdf (23-24)

The setting will be built by us, but in general, nuclear war broke out in 1992, and it ravaged the world, destroying life and corrupting all things with nuclear fallout. We begin 34 years later, in 2036.

You are trapped in the orang-ish area, trapped by a thick, purplish orange super storm that refuses to let you leave. Whenever you try, the storm becomes violent, and things are hard to see. Afterwards, you just end up somewhere within its borders, along with other, weirder happenings. Other than that, there's not much else to say until the characters are made.

[Fniff]

YES! Apocalypse World is awesome. I'd like to be the Driver, please.

[Ragenaut]

Welcome aboard. The Master of Ceremonies is pleased to meet you.

[Fniff]

Lovely to make your acquaintance. My sheet's done; does it meet your standards?

Spoiler: Introducing Ghost the Driver (click to show/hide)

"Babe, I've killed people. It's not what it's cracked up to be."
Name: Ghost
Look: Woman in vintage wear with a fine-boned face, sad eyes, and a slim body.
Outlook: Nihilistic pacifist
Theme: "End of the Line" - Murder by Death

Moves
No Shit Driver
Weather Eye

Stats
Cool=0 Hard-1 Hot+1 Sharp+2 Weird=0

Gear
Fashion (Bomber jacket, skirt, trilby, doc martins)
Magnum (3-harm close reload loud)
Oddments worth 2-barter (Diamond rings, gold bracelets, and classy watch)

CAR: THE E-TYPE
Power +1 Looks +2 1-armor weakness+1
Frame: Compact
Strength: Fast
Weakness: Cramped
Look: Vintage, Sleek

Hx
[spoiler=Running Tally]Midnight =0
Chaplain Spot -3
Avery =0
Macaluso -2
Xenos -1

[Roboson]

Sheet coming later.

[Ragenaut]

Lovely to make your acquaintance. My sheet's done; does it meet your standards?

Spoiler: Introducing Ghost the Driver (click to show/hide)

"Babe, I've killed people. It's not what it's cracked up to be."
Name: Ghost
Look: Woman in vintage wear with a fine-boned face, sad eyes, and a slim body.
Outlook: Nihilistic pacifist
Theme: "End of the Line" - Murder by Death

Moves
No Shit Driver
Weather Eye

Stats
Cool=0 Hard-1 Hot+1 Sharp+2 Weird=0

Gear
Fashion (Bomber jacket, skirt, trilby, doc martins)
Magnum (3-harm close reload loud)
Oddments worth 2-barter

CAR: THE E-TYPE
Power +1 Looks +2 1-armor weakness+1
Frame: Compact
Strength: Fast
Weakness: Cramped
Look: Vintage, Sleek

Yep, looks good, you are in.

[Ragenaut]

FNIFF HAS TAKEN A "SHARP" CHARACTER. NO OTHER "SHARP" CHARACTER CAN BE CHOSEN. ONLY ONE PERSON CAN CHOOSE A "COLD" CHARACTER,  AND ONLY ONE PERSON CAN CHOOSE A "HOT" CHARACTER. SAME APPLIES TO "HARD" AND "WEIRD" CHARACTERS, ALSO, BUT THEY HAVE A 2 PLAYER LIMIT.

[Roboson]

Never heard of this game before, but macaluso looks cool. I think I'll play that one.

[Ragenaut]

The beginning tag to it says it's not beginner friendly, but go ahead and give it a shot. It's not like I'm any more experienced

[TheBiggerFish]

Huh.

[VoidSlayer]

If there are a few experienced people you can pick the game up quick from watching them.  It is very narrative focused so if you want your character to grab the bar stool and smash it over Joey's head because he is being an ass, just say so.

Also the character sheets reference has basic moves common to all characters near the end.

Midnight the Skinner

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Midnight

"You don't know the half of it.  Let me tell you what really happened..."

Look: Man Showy Scrounge Wear Striking Face Troubled Eyes Expressive Hands Toned Body

Cool 0
Hard 0
Hot +2
Sharp 0
Weird +1

Gear:
•oddments worth 1-barter (detail later)
•Bright Red hooded fleece jacket with bits of scrounged metal and plastic sewn in all over in different shapes and colors.
•Grey cargo shorts with tears in them patched with hundreds of large stickers for political parties, restaurants, businesses and such.
•Unusually clean black and white sneakers.
•ornate sword (3-harm hand valuable)
•spectacular tattoos (implanted) : arms and legs, animals and plants of various types flowing together on the left side, machines and tools on the right
•a pet (valuable alive) : A large horned lizard, Betsey, often kept in a cage when traveling but just as often sitting on a shoulder or running around.  Trained, but sometimes bites people it does not know.

Skinner Moves:
Artful & gracious: when you perform your chosen art — storytelling — or when you put its product before an audience, roll+hot. On a 10+, spend 3.
On a 7–9, spend 1. Spend 1 to name an NPC member of your audience and choose one:
•this person must meet me
•this person must have my services
•this person loves me
•this person must give me a gift
•this person admires my patron
On a miss, you gain no benefit, but suffer no harm or lost opportunity. You simply
perform very well

Hypnotic: when you have time and solitude with someone, they become fixated upon
you. Roll+hot. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 2. they can spend your hold, 1 for 1, by:
•giving you something you want
•acting as your eyes and ears
•Fighting to protect you
•doing something you tell them to
For NPCs, while you have hold over them they can’t act against you. For PCs, instead, any
time you like you can spend your hold, 1 for 1:
•they distract themselves with the thought of you. They’re acting under are.
•they inspire themselves with the thought of you. They take +1 right now.
On a miss, they hold 2 over you, on the exact same terms

[Fniff]

A little thing; if you have spotify and want some appropiate tunes, I made an Apocalypse World playlist for a game I did a while back.

[Gwolfski]

ill pick a wierd. Let me choose...

edit: Hoarder.

edit2: sheet in progress

[Harry Baldman]

Let's, uh, give this a shot.

Spoiler: Chaplain Spot the Gunlugger (click to show/hide)

Name: Chaplain Spot
Look: Man in scrounged, mismatched armor with a bony face, little piggy eyes and a stringy body.
Outlook: that giant red, hairless, peeling spot on his scalp isn't a target. It's a warning.
Theme: Heaven Is A Place On Earth by Chipmunks On 16 Speed

Moves:
Bloodcrazed (+1 to harm inflicted)
NOT TO BE FUCKED WITH (count as gang 3-harm small in combat)
Battle-hardened (acting under fire is roll+hard)

Gear:
MG (3-harm close/far area messy)
AP ammo (AP to all weapons)
Hunting rifle (2-harm far loud)
Machete (3-harm close messy)
2-armor scrounged, mismatched armor
Oddments worth 1-barter

Stats:
Cool-1,  Hard+2, Hot-2, Sharp+1, Weird+2

Hx:
Ghost: Hx+2
Xenos: Hx+1
Midnight: Hx+0
Avery: Hx+1
Mox/Bow/Olive: Hx-1

I think I did it right. Dunno what the basic moves are, though. Never mind, found 'em.

Real question time: what exactly is the roll? d10? d12? d20?

[Ragenaut]

2d6 for all rolls. 7-9 is partial success, 10+ is success.