I have a number of Flickr galleries I use for NPC portraits. You can see them all here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/94313484@N00/galleries/

I posted a couple of these before and, as Meg mentioned, many of the photos are not released under any kind of license. My personal feeling is that using them for a private campaign is kosher, though they have to be referenced via the galleries since you can't obtain the files for print-outs.

I maintain a separate (but overlapping) Picasa webgallery of photos that were available for download -- unfortunately they are consequently stripped off their Flickr-attribution -- and I make (relatively low-quality) printouts of these to use at the table.

As Johnstone has emphatically repeated in the thread on tracking NPCs, a good photograph really does go a very long way. For example, the moment I showed this photo for Pimple, a local hardholder, he was pretty much guaranteed mental immortality. He hasn't showed up the last few sessions, but I am confident that even if he doesn't appear for another six sessions, none of the players will have trouble remembering who he is.

I'm not really a fan of the 'poetically perfect' weapon/equipment rules for teenagers. The adult example makes sense -- it's a concrete, defineable thing related to the Skin's mythic weaknesses -- but the boxcutter example just makes me scratch my head. It doesn't sound like any more apt a weapon than... anything the character might have picked up in the same situation. A kitchen knife, her brother's switchblade, a can of gasoline. If anything the situation seems poetically charged, not the equipment -- is there really any weapon that a PC in such a charged situation is going to choose that the table is not going to give this bonus to? This seems like it is going to be a huge headache in play, because the only appeal is to pure subjective aesthetics, without the game providing any kind of clues or advice.

Similarly, I'd rather see the adult +1 thing apply only to harm, but maybe that's just my conservatism speaking -- the -1-to-player-rolls feels kind of awkward, and worryingly close to 'the MC decides how hard the task is,' without necessarily adding a lot. But maybe in play it would be no problem.

Ditto. Naming and detailing an entire hardhold or gang in advance of their becoming individually relevant seems like a road to madness to me. In a case where I have already assigned the group to a particular threat, I might come up with one or two named NPCs 'in advance' -- but no more than that.

Ew, no -- if I roll dice I might get player cooties!

Though I have to say, I think I am currently remembering the +harm roll about 20% of the time -- maybe rolling it myself would help remind me?

Yeah I think you might be better off trying to align 'Issues' with the fundamental scarcities in AW, so that you have a shortish list of very strong, fairly universal issues (this shouldn't be hard, the characters have a pretty tight theme) that are expressed through your shiny new threat types.

You know what else there's only one exclusive copy of? Me. Every time someone games with me, they get an exclusive! It doesn't even matter which playbook I choose.

Well, I understand that they're enjoying their shtick, but I can't help but point out that five years doing the same thing is a big 'up yours' to the game's slogan: there's no status quo in Apocalypse World. So surely part of what you want to do is paint a target on their little routine, either by ramping up the difficulties of travel or providing reasons to hang around -- whether it's negative (towns in desperate endless need) or positive (remarkably nice places where they actually kind of fit in.)