You can also ask like, what type of creepy shit they're dreaming up while they're under.

What does being narcostabbed feel like? You've been dreaming of a man named Rothschild--who is he? Why do you keep dreaming of your brother? Through your drug induced-hazed you occasionally feel a lurking presence in the clinic. What do you think it is?

Or try this:

The maelstrom opens up and swallows you whole. You're standing on a too-pristine road in some sort of huge urban ruin. It's night time, or the sun went out, or there is no sun. It's hard to tell.

On second glance, you notice that the buildings are terrifyingly tall. So tall you can't see their tops. Light pours out of most of the windows. You hear a massive horn blare and suddenly are awash with light. What do you do?

Plus like, expanded moves.

Yeah, I wouldn't write up too much about the setting when presenting it to the players. I'd just be like, here's how things are for you, here's a bit about maybe why your world turned out this way, who wants to play what?

Thanks for the enthusiasm guys. If you're anywhere near the San Fransisco Bay Area, there's room at my table for you. :D

It's also good to note that just because you're fighting multiple opponents doesn't mean you're fighting a gang. Five or six guys could all be on the field with different objectives, different ways of completing the same objective, on different 'sides', etc.

The size tags are a little misleading. They don't correspond with a concrete number--it depends on your game, the MC, and the situation. A single Gunlugger can be a small gang, as Ross said two or three well-trained guys could count as a small gang, and fifty people could be just a medium gang.

Think of it terms of force rather than population (this is hard to do with the 'a guy or two' line); this has helped me out. Like horsepower! One car can be 200 horsepower, and one badass dude can be a half-dozen guys of forcepower wooooo. =D

I'm finishing up an Apocalypse World game and planning on starting another. My current game took sort of a Mad Max vibe for the setting--wide open wasteland, with a few pockets of urban maze left.

This time I want to set the game in a heavily urban area, inspired by Hamsterdam from teevee series 'The Wire', Kowloon Walled City in China, and the quarantine zone in the movie 'Blindness'. My idea is that when civilization began to crumble and the maelstrom began to form, the governments of the world started to put the poor (the untouchables) into what amounted to fortified concentration camps, which themselves were just walled off and secured sections of big cities. Automatic security systems were set up, and the world forgot about the people inside.

These places were called "Harm Reduction" zones, and were unpatroled, unprotected, and unknown to the general populace.

Then the end came, and the security systems that were supposed to keep the untouchables in ended up keeping the screaming hordes of mutants, pissed-off raiders, and physical manifestations of pure hatred out.

When things calmed down, the untouchables were all that was left. They turned the security measures of the camps to their benefit, and scavenge out in the areas beyond the safety of the walls. There were sometimes two or three of these zones in larger cities, and now they trade or war against each other.

There were dozens of these zones set up in various cities all over the world, and the game would focus on one that people simply call 'Sanctuary'. It's set in one of the cities that had a few of these zones, to make for interesting interactions.

Thoughts? Reactions?

Any progress being made on this? It looked super rad. I would definitely buy it day one if you developed it to production...

Please add "Three-Dog" to the list of names. =D

I've got all the playbooks but the Touchstone. I'll gladly trade for the revised Touchstone playbook!