I'm in a sufficiently early stage of this hack that I haven't even picked names for my stats, but here's The Florida Game.

Why the Florida Game ?
Florida in 1960 had an amazing number of things going on. A presidential election is underway, Cuba is heating up, the Comintern is recruiting, Soviet military intelligence is spying, Batista's people want their island back, a huge hurricane is on its way. And that leaves out small town political corruption, organized and disorganized crime, broken hearts, business deals gone badly wrong, and every other complication.
The actual thrust of this playset is to do a contemporary Apoc Engine game. I'm drawing on the Trais McGee novels and other tarnished white knights like Jim Rockford, Thomas Magnum and the rest of that rare breed.
I chose 1960
This hack has one main conceit: one player, one GM. Very few RPGs work well with only one PC. This one will be balanced for that from the start.

What's it gonna be ?
Step one is to make an actually playable AW hack out of this. Step two is to make a standalone game using the rule book from my secret project hack. Step three is finishing the campaign stuff for two styles (free form, and pick a staring date and go through the almanac).

Then what ?
I'm publishing this !

Why should anyone care, err What does this hack give back ?
Protagonists in this sort of story are have where they live and what they drive as prominent characteristics. McGee combined both in a houseboat, Magnum PI isn't the same story without the mansion and the Ferrari, that short-lived show about the guy in the South Pacific with a surplus PBY Catalina had the plane... And so on. So character creation will involve spending some choices on housing and mode of transport. I fully intend these to be an easy steal for other games. Then there's whatever in your background that you d t like to talk about but gave you the experience and self confidence to be e protagonist of your own story. By setting the game in 1960, veterans of WW2 or Korea are in their mid 30s and at their prime.

Where is it, where is it !!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MzbNRxktphEUNVjjfbfDijbLlz_e-ga1dC0EJ331cVQ/mobilebasic

Enjoy !

I have an AW hack working up, using mostly the same stats as AW. I'm using a catch-all move similar to Defy Danger and making my basic +cool move more like just being so cool you take over the scene for a minute. For my +any move, I have it defined so that all of your physical abilities are lumped under +hard because a character that is physically gifted in some way usually also uses that gift in a fight. my move looks like this:

Grace under pressure (any)
When you act in the face of an imminent threat roll as follows

   

• If you rely on your physical abilities or combat skills, roll +hard
• When you think your way through, roll +sharp
• When you carry on with grit, willpower or attitude, roll +cool
• When you sweet talk your way out, roll +charm
• If you rely on tools or technology, roll +tech.
• If you rely on your psychic talents,roll +psi

On a 10+ you succeed and don't end up in a worse situation. On a 7-9 you don't get away clean, the GM will tell you what it cost you, the next fix you're in, or give you a hard choice. On a miss the GM makes as hard a move as she sees fit.

I know when I first read DW I was like "how is there no initiative for combat??". But then what rpg has initiative for social interactions?

Diaspora actually. The designers extended the "opposed rolls, maneuvers and consequences on a zone map" FATE combat and ported it directly to social conflicts and murder mysteries.

It sounds like what you want is for the player to say "I cast magic missile" and then immediately roll on their own. If they do that, they are skipping stakes/move negotiation.

Maybe not just go ahead and roll, but the ideal DW player will know they're making a move and have their dice in their hand and be ready to roll when the DM is paying attention and expecting a die roll.