I don't feel like you can fight giant pink wasps without the right tools (likely a flame thrower, or going straight for the queen or something) Here's how I would do it.

When you cross the Coral Bees territory alone, roll+cool.

On 10+, you keep your calm, nothing bit you. Your pretty sure you haven't woken up any bug. Go you!

On 7-9, you step on something, you pass through the wrong building, you've woken up some bees, but you can probably leave healthy. Probably. Choose 1:

- You escape, but not safely. You step on something wicked sharp, you have to jump down a second story or something. Take 1 harm.
- You find safety, but you don't escape. You're stuck there for now and will have to act under fire to do anything else.
- You've escaped with nothing more than a sting or two. Doesn't even hurt.

If you are crossing the Bee Lands with a group, roll+Sharp

On 10+ Things are orderly and organized. You've scared the bees away or found a safe path for your group.

On 7-9,  things go well enough. you've made it through. A kid in the back is complaining about an itchy leg, but it's probably nothing.


I like the countdown clock, I would also add a separate one for an infected community.


At 3: A couple of people are complaining. It's no big deal.
At 6: Chaos hits, people are dying left and right and the bees are starting to build hives.
At 9: Pockets of survivors still fight on, or might have run off. A few members of the community are identified as immune. Nobody knows why.
At 12: The Bees territory grows

And finally, for recovery and for the Angel:

Recovering from the corral infection : At the beginning of every session during which they have access to some form of treatment, roll+hard (the bees don't strike me as particularly weird). On 10+ you heal 1 infection. If the infection clock goes back to 0, you're fine. I'm putting this here for two reason : 1- Maybe nobody's playing an angel, or the angel's player is off to a friend's wedding or whatever. It just kind of sucks when there's no way for it to be fixed without that one ability.

The Angel and the Corral bees : Using an angel kit can heal infection in the exact same way it heal wounds. I figure the system still exist, why make it more complicated.

You could also give the bees a "world domination" countdown, which starts at "There is a few hives in the waste" and ends with "Bee World". If you want the players to make it a big deal to kill every single bee (possibly by blowing up a nearby active nuke)

Well, to be fair, if it doesn't change much, statistically, why bother?

That being said, if your reason is "Because I love my D20s!" by all means, do not let me stop you!

I'm a student at the University of Ottawa, currently working on a degree in Translation (into French).

I have a project to do in a terminology class (that is the study, writing and creation of terms) in which we are asked to create a couple of terminology records in a field of our choice, that it must not have been already covered by the two major Canadian term banks.

Essentially, I need to find terms that nobody important ever bothered translating in French, translate them, and publish the research and the record. I've chosen as my field of study RPG design.

Which brings me to the reason of this post. I'm looking for essays and discussions on the concept of "color" in roleplaying game and was wondering if the good people at the RPG theory forum could help me out with some research.

I do have to say I'm enjoying scurrying around in the Forge's archives, during class, and not being a terrible student.

Racial moves: Ongoing is fine. I just figured there was a word missing.

Familiar: Another solution would be to treat it like a free hireling of a type of one's choice at creation.

Bewitchment: I'd be mostly worried of it of slowing down the game. There should be some way to define scale at character creation. Maybe by setting a sphere of influence of sorts? Plus, I'm not a fan of giving any power to the GM in Apocalypse World hacks, it just feels wrong :p

Sage Altar: For the quantity, I'd put it at 1/1/3, with all associated moves, but wouldn't define the amount of time it takes to recharge them more than "it takes a period uninterrupted time".

Charm Weaver: I'd use both. Landing 12+ on 2d6 is real hard and should be considered extraordinary. If anything, I find the move a little boring. I'd also give a +1 forward to using that charm.

And now that I'm reading it, Needle and Thorn feels a little nuts. I mean, at high level, you can essentially spend two charms to kill anything in the game.

I'm also kind of feeling a move for using Wisdom to help instead of history. Something along the lines of "When you help someone by sharing wisdom and knowledge, roll+Wis instead of +Bond. If the target's roll succeeds, mark experience"

The druid was said to be included in the final version of the book, so for the druid, you should be safe.

For the rest, I wouldn't think so (unless you can trade an limited edition AW playbook for the barbarian, I would guess).

For the why the goblins would do that, I'd say because the GM felt it was dramatically appropriate. As for the damage move to be used sparingly, well, it's a hard move, you're expected to use it whenever there's a golden opportunity, not necessarily just rarely. Again, essentially, whenever the GM feels it's appropriate.

The GM in AW engine games isn't really scrutinized, in my experience, just do stuff and your good as long as your players don't think you're being cheap.

"Your party has been in a small jail cell for a few hours. It's your own damn fault, really. They've quickly thrown you there after catching you. I guess the authority hasn't taken a decision yet. You hear sounds of battle from up the stone stairs and a man in blue garbs, the prison guard, falls down the stairs, landing a broken, twisted mess of skin, blood and bones, right in front of your cell. The keys are dangling from his belt. What do you do?"

Not quite one line, but yeah!