Hi everybody.
Sorry for not posting for so long, I was busy with university. Anyway, I'm going on writing the game. I've changed the setting in the way suggested Guns_n_Droids, leaving untouched some points. I've decided to set the game after Antoninian Dynasty, but also to leave at players' description who were the dead Emperor (name, attitude, behavior, etc.), and who the new one is (if there is one).

About rules, I've written those for 1st session, described how do fronts work (they are called "crisis" and work in a slightly different way from AW) and the threats (that are one or two more). For now it's all.

Hi everybody. Let me introduce myself. My name is Luigi, I'm an italian medievist and freelance journalist and I am a real appassionate of roleplaying game.
I've started playing Apocalypse World about two years ago and I play it nowadays.

I'm writing here to introduce a hack project based on Apocalypse World and set in Ancient Roman Empire. The following is the pitch of the game I'm writing:

One hundred years ago Octavianus Augustus founded the Roman Empire and take the control of the most powerful and rich State in the whole civilized world. A lot of emperors later, Rome is still in expansion, trying to conquer the entire Europe invading lands, plundering resources, imposing its authority. At the four corners of the Empire, people try to find their place in the status quo: the hope of every single citizen lay on social redemption or becoming rich and powerful or more rich and more powerful or simply obtain Roman citizenship in order to enjoy the privileges coming from this status. Meanwhile, on the frontiers, barbarians press the limes to enter Rome looking for fortune or just to plunder from the opulent colonies of the borders. At East, Parthians are an ongoing menace and threaten the eastern edge with a continuous wind of war.

You are the scum belonging to all that kind.


The game can be played in whatever year between 73 a.C. and 476 a.C. (namely from the reign of Vespasianus to the end of Roman Empire). The Emperor is just dead and pretorians have elected a new one. The player will act character capable to knock over - if they want - the stated power, such as a Senator, a Gladiator, a Philosopher, a Centurion and so on.

I've already written 8 of the 9 basics playbooks (the ninth is in doubt). I have to ask to Vincent Baker/lumpley if I can go on writing it in order to (one day) publish it if it's worth. Maybe, I will need to draw on some passages from Apocalypse World, the ones strictly related to the very basics rules that I preferred to leave as they are.

This is it for now. If there are any questions, I'm glad to answer.