I wouldn't replace them with anything, personally. Sex moves are a huge part of the color of Apocalypse World.

Right.

Maybe I wasn't clear. This question is specifically for hacks of AW where sex isn't a huge part of the color.

Know what I mean?

When creating playbooks for the hack, taking out the Sex move feels like it leaves a big empty hole there. I want to fill it up with something else.

Replace War Magics with:

When you gather destructive energies to wield as a weapon in battle, roll +weird. By default, they are (2-harm close loud reload magic). On a 10+, choose 3, on a 7-9, choose one:

* +1 harm
* +1 harm, +messy
* +far
* +area
* -loud
* -reload
* Roll +weird instead of +hard to go aggro or seize by force with said energies.

On a miss, you take 1-harm channeling the energies, choose none, and get +messy.

Wow. Nice. I'm probably gonna be stealing this to mold into my game.

Funny this got brought up today because as I was working on my "Dark Sun" hack, I was taking a look at stats and trying to figure this out.

I broke it down as follows, but I also was wondering a couple things:

A) What happens when you add more stats? Does this mess with the balance? For example, in my hack I have 6 stats (not including Hx) vs. 5 in AW. I decided to keep the same numbers and just have the sixth stat =0.

B) Why didn't you let the player choose stats as they desire instead of putting 4 "sets" of stats to pick from? Did you just not want people making ineffective characters? (i.e. putting -1 in Cool for Battlebabes or something)

Here's what I mean and what I'm considering for my hack:

The Stats
Choose one set:
+2, +2, -1, -1, =0, =0
+2, +1, +1, -1, =0, =0
+2, +1, =0, =0, =0, =0

Apply each bonus to one stat.

For example, a Warrior might choose:
Str+2, Dex=0, Con+2, Wis-1, Cha-1, Int=0
Str+2, Dex+1, Con+1, Wis=0, Cha=0, Int-1
Str+2, Dex=0, Con+1, Wis=0, Cha=0, Int=0

Is anyone doing a hack based on the Dark Sun D&D campaign setting?

I'm considering giving a shot at this, but don't wanna duplicate work if someone else is designing it.

~Mike

Is there a reason why some forum names are lower case and others uppercase?

The inconsistency is making my brain juices boil. :)

~Mike