This is really neat.  I may start using it tonight for my ongoing game.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

One question: the countdown clocks normally start at 0 and get worsse as they head towards 12.  Why did you chose to flip it?

This is a good question. I suppose I don't have a great answer except that these clocks are meant to represent quantities of food, water, health, etc and I felt that reverse the clocks made them more into a measurement than a countdown. Just made more sense to me in my head. There is no reason that you couldn't switch it around for your own purposes though.

When a place on a clock says +/- to another clock, is that a one-time effect that kicks in when you reach that point, or is it a modifier that you lose when you move to a higher/lower place in the clock? I feel like it should be the second, so that, say, yo-yoing between 6 and 9 o'clock on Food doesn't tank your Morale. Does that make sense?

You had it right the second time. The affected clock only suffers the penalty or gains the bonus while the primary clock is at that segment. When the primary clock is increased or decreased the affected clock loses the bonus or negative.

I like it, especially if there's actually a Hardholder in play. I sort of feel like if there isn't a Hardholder, maybe people didn't want to deal with making sure everyone's needs are met, so it'd be a read of your group about whether stuff like this needs careful tracking or whether it should just be a general "Water is scarce, people are desperate, the NPC hardholder might hire the Gunlugger to go secure some more." Although I suppose that if there isn't a Hardholder in play, only the descriptive part of countdown clocks come in to play, and it might give you a sense of what else goes wrong when X runs out.

This is most definitely a move most utilized while a hardholder is in play. But like you say, it would be helpful guide to seeing how when actions effect a resource in a hold how that action has a ripple effect beyond what they expected. For example, if the brainer accidentally kills the holds only doctor than the population will suffer one segment because their overall health has decreased and that can affect morale and increase the likelihood of disease and death within the holding. I personally plan to use it as a descriptive countdown system when no hardholder are in play.

Since the bonus/penalties to other people's rolls only come in at the very ends of the clock, I'm not sure they'll add much investment, per se; they're not likely to be good citizens enough to push it to the bounty side, and I'm not sure a -1 is much of an incentive beyond what people already have to prevent their society from collapsing.

This is an excellent point. I will edit the clock segments so that bonuses to other playbooks and moves come into play early and hence make them more accessible and attainable.

I think I will take out the 0:00 condition. I think getting things to 3:00 is bad enough and allows the MC and PCs to react approriately. Besides, there's nothing like it in the rules so why add new things is it's not needed.

Thanks for your feedback Hobb, it's really appreciated.

I think this is actually very clever. I can definitely see myself using a few of these in my next game to throw my players for a loop. :) Thanks for the idea.

Ooooh I like that idea! I think I may implement that in my next game.

I sense that you enjoy 'hot' playbooks then. :) My favourite AW character was a Skinner turned Angel so I'm all for the Skinner Fanclub.

I'll be running an 8 hour slot game of Apocalypse World at GC and given that we'll have time for it I'll probably go with the classic approach of the 1st session. Don't know how I'd do a 3-4 hour slot. Probably come into it with a lot already created in your head with a bit of wiggle room to accommodate player's ideas. But I have no experience to draw upon for this one.

I plan on running games at GoD, with AW one of the options. 

You will most likely find me on your list of wanted players then. :)

I plan to spend most of my weekend at GoD as well. First GenCon ever and looking forward to it!

Farther out: if the MC introduces the custom moves for sneaking or pickpocketing from the rulebook, should you be good at those? Ghosting fools is definitely the sort of thing that BAMFs like yourself might expect to be good at; sleight-of-hand less so.

When I make custom moves, such as the pick-pocketing one listed above I never allow players to sub out stats for them. The example move in question (battle hardened) allows you to roll +hard for acting under fire, it doesn't replace the stat. If the Gunlugger takes gigs, he's rolling cool, not hard.

As a rule I hate the stat substitution moves, they feel very cheap and min/max to me, but they exist and I won't deny access to them for my players. It's their loss if they want to cover up their flaws.

Now that being said, I'm an ass so some people might be more lenient on this front and i'm also a hypocrite since I've taken these moves before as a player. However I feel very dirty when I do and take no pride in it. :(

My two cents.

So, recently in one of my games several of the PC's have decided to throw caution to the wind and have begun outright attacking each other when they feel threatened. I, as any good MC should, can't help but feel a bit of glee as these trad gamers break out of their shells and experiment a little.

But that isn't why I'm posting. My question is this. If PC #1 attacks PC#2 on normal terrain without any special circumstance. Is PC #1 Going Aggro (or seizing by force is the other is aware and armed against the attack) and PC #2 interfering? Or is PC #2 Acting Under Fire and PC #1 interfering? Or if they've both agreed to attack one another am I simple exchanging harm for harm as one of my moves?

In the book it gives an example a pc pulling a gun on another pc and the pc being attacked acts under fire to avoid while the attacker interferes. But I wonder if this is the only way it should be done or not.