The rulebook specifically states that conditions don't double up; no 2xfreaked out.

In the specific instance where the player asked about his choices, I suggested that his terrified couldn't be removed (since that was his original, explicit goal). In the fiction, it made sense, but it did cause us to scratch our heads.

In either case, thanks for quickly answering my questions, mcdaldno! This game has been fun, but also challenging!

Ran into an interesting conflict between players. The Werewolf had gone Darkest Self and attacked some football players in revenge for keying his car, but he did this at a house party where the Chosen was waiting for signs of monstrousness.

The Werewolf wanted to run away after the attack, but the Chosen wanted to spend Strings on him to prevent that from happening, but the Werewolf player asked, "But how do you know I'm a werewolf? Your Strings are from my human form."

The Chosen player then said that she was the monster hunter and would just know. There was a kind of stand off since the Werewolf player didn't want to be found out (at least, not right then and there), but the Chosen wanted to confront him using Strings.

I kind of half-arsed an answer and let the Werewolf spend Strings on her to influence her to back off, but it didn't sit right with me.

Any suggestions on how to resolve a secret identity with the String mechanic?

River's a Brainer in the series but switches to Battlebabe in the movie.

Everyone has already mentioned Large-sized gangs...

There is always (ap) ammo, the great equalizer. It could be an Announce Future Badness move ("You're heard rumors of a shipment of (ap) ammo coming into town. You don't know, or maybe you do know, who or why there is a shipment all of a sudden...")

2-armor also can't protect NPCs that the player character cares about.

And other player characters can be an effective threat even if they aren't Hard-based.

Don't forget that with 0-harm there can be times it can call for a Harm move.

And 2-armor can be narratively ineffectual against Weird-based moves/things/people. ("So you've contracted a strange disease..."

I feel like the playbook would also seriously benefit from some hints about how the PC has convinced these people to basically let him/her possess them.

P.S. An obvious Hx question related to the above might be: One of them briefly acted as your antennae, that person gets +3 Hx with you. Or maybe: One of them is good friends with one of your antennae: you have been watching them without their even knowing. Etc.

- Hey, I'm wondering (after pondering your comments for a while) if a stronger, more evocative set of Hx descriptions might resolve what I think are several, but related issues of playbook concept?

"You get a small stable of 4 antennae (maybe Typo, AM, Notch and Carver)."

- Yes, thank you. In fact, it shall be yoinked!

Survivalist I don't get. Not a playbook much predisposed to violence, is it?

- All my survivalist friends have a fully stocked medical kit in their bunker/closet/hidey hole. It seemed what a loner-type would have this in his stash.

Conspiracy theorist seems fictionally appropriate, but...

- Yeah, it is actually a near-copy-paste from the Touchstone, but with hope flipped with doom. It was not very original. I do want something to compel the Radio to broadcast, but I'm at a loss at the moment.

Live from the scene! - when you're in a dangerous situation and want to broadcast it live, roll +weird. On a 10+, anyone who can see or touch any of your antenae get to see and hear and feel what you do, and you get to keep your wits about you, too. On a 7-9, you can still broadcast well, but you can't do anything else for the duration. On a miss, you link everyone to the maelstorm direct instead.

- hmm... this is interesting... let me think on it...

So last year I experimented with making a playbook. And then I actually got to run 2.5 Apocalypse World campaigns, and that scratched my itch.

I haven't been playing (boo!) lately, so I dragged out the old playbook and tried to polish it.

Any comments and criticisms are welcome. Anything to make it pop will be much appreciated!

THE RADIO (version4)

There were men and women, wise men and women, who warned of the coming apocalypse, who hid supplies and made preparations to wait it out. You follow in that tradition, warning people of the new coming disaster... because life can always be worse. But really, you’re ready to survive without them since you don’t expect people to see reason.

CREATING AN RADIO
To create your radio, choose name, look, stats, moves, gear, and Hx.

NAMES
Newsboy, Anchor, Mic, Shout Out, Feedback, Voice Over, Offscreen, Beat, Tagline, DJ, Turntable, Spin, Tape Deck, Fadeout, Blogger, Anon, Spam, Broadband, Router, Wireless, Autotune, Three-Dog, Stern, Gross

STATS
Choose one set:
Cool+1 Hard=0 Hot-1 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool-1 Hard+1 Hot=0 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool=0 Hard-1 Hot+1 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool+1 Hard-1 Hot=0 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool-2 Hard+1 Hot-1 Sharp+2 Weird+2

MOVES
You get all the basic moves. You also get receivers and one more radio move.

LOOK
Man, woman, ambiguous, transgressing, or concealed.

Rags, old military clothes, fetish-bondage wear, or t-shirts and jeans.

Disheveled face, grizzled face, emaciated face, plump face, or ashen face.

Dead eyes, sunken eyes, tired eyes, deep eyes, ruined eyes, or sad eyes.

Flabby body, skeletal body, toned body, crippled body, or scarred body.

GEAR
You get:
   1 personal weapon
   1 paranoid weapon
   fashion suitable to your look, including at your option, a piece worth 1-armor

Personal weapons:
 many knives (2-harm hand infinite)
 baseball bat (2-harm hand)
 machete (3-harm hand messy)

Paranoid weapons:
 sniper rifle (3-harm far hi-tech loud)
 shotgun (3-harm close messy)
 hunting rifle (2-harm far loud)

HX
Everyone lists their characters by name, look, and outlook. Take your turn.

List the other character’s names.

Go around for Hx, on your turn:
   Tell everyone Hx-1. You keep to yourself.

On the other’s turns, choose 1 or both:
   One of them knows something or does something you really admire. Whatever number that player tells you, add +1 to that.
   One of them knows something or does something you really detest. Whatever number that player tells you, add +1 to that.
   Everyone else, you haven’t had the time or interest to learn about them. Whatever number they tell you, subtract -1 to that.

At the end, find the character with the highest Hx on your sheet. Ask that player which of your stats is the most interesting and highlight it. The MC will have you highlight a second stat too.

Radio Moves
Receivers: You get a small stable of 4 antennas. If you speak aloud, your antennas can hear you. In turn, you can hear, see, taste, feel, and smell anything your antennas similarly experience. If you and they speak aloud, you can communicate as if you were right next to each other.

You cannot read their minds, and they cannot read yours, or any of that shit.

[Note to the MC: Don’t forget to treat each antenna like a real person. Name them, give them desires, etc.]

Static: when you interfere with someone who’s rolling, you can choose to roll+weird instead of roll+Hx.

Conspiracy theorist: share a vision of future doom with another player's character. If the player acts on that information, they take +1 to any rolls they make while doing so, and you mark an experience circle.

Remote viewing: you don't have to be physically present to use the radio moves static or conspiracy theorist, or any of the basic moves, but you do need one of your antenna present and active in the situation.

The medium is the message: each time you open your brain to the psychic maelstrom, you can insert information as if you had picked the same option under augury (cf. hocus).

Cloud sourcing: you can ask the world’s psychic maelstrom for the name of the person who can help you best with your current problem. State the problem and your proposed solution and roll+weird. On a 10+, you get their name and current location. On a 7-9, you get the name and location, but someone else also learns the name, location, and reason for your query. On a miss, someone else learns the info, but you don't.

Survivalist: you have a well-stocked and high-quality first aid kit. It counts as an angel kit (cf) with a capacity of 2-stock.

Radio Special
If you and another character have sex, the other character automatically becomes one of your antenna.

Radio Improvement
Whenever you roll a highlighted stat, and whenever you reset your Hx with someone, mark an experience circle. When you mark the 5th, improve and erase.

 get +1cool (max cool+2)
 get +1hard (max hard+2)
 get +1hot (max hot+2)
 get +1sharp (max sharp+2)
 get a new radio move
 get a new radio move
 get a workspace (detail) and oftener right
 get followers (detail) and fortunes
 get a move from another playbook
 get a move from another playbook

[Note to MC: yes, if a radio chooses the psychic antenna option for followers, they are all receivers.]
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 get +1 to any stat (max stat+3)
 retire your character (to safety)
 create a second character to play
 change your character to a new type
 choose 3 basic moves and advance them
 advance the other 4 basic moves

HIDEOUT
Choose which of the following your hideout includes. Choose 2: it’s hidden from view and a secret from everyone, it’s booby-trapped, it’s armored (1-armor), it has an escape route or backdoor, or it sits in a maze of twists and turns.

Your hideout has food, water, and other supplies worth 5-barter.

It has enough room to house a small family.

I have a casino-based game coming up, and I feel it's necessary to have form of gambling-based custom move, whether in-game or meta. Of course, I'm a little brain-fried so I can't think of anything. Help!

I will owe people 1-barter! Or whatever good will 1-barter equals to!