I don't really like Healing Touch either. I like this move though!

I think I would change the choices a little though. The results of how the community respond is a little too leading, I think the consequences of the choices should be left more open-ended and easy to interpret in different ways. How does this sound?

On a 10+, you deliver the baby safely and without complications to the mother. On 7-9, choose 3:

• the mother lives
• the baby lives
• it's an quick birth with little pain
• it's a easy delivery with no other health complications

On a miss, the MC chooses 2.

I mirrored this post over on my blog, and since I can't edit this one that seems like the best place to go to see updates. I've already had a few people send me copies or share links to trifold versions of playbooks.

http://nerdwerds.blogspot.com/2012/12/all-of-playbooks.html

If you're missing a playbook, this will probably become the best place to look for it!
If a link goes down, for whatever reason, then I'll throw up my copy to a place where it can be downloaded for free.

Also, sorry about the double-posting.

Many of these player-created playbooks are hard to track down, and that's kind of annoying. I'm actually surprised at how many comments I've seen online from people saying "I don't have that one" or "I only have these."
It looks like about a year ago there was this trading community happening with a handful of people on these and a few other forums, probably because there was no single place to upload files to, but as somebody who is relatively new to Apocalypse World it feels like there are players hoarding playbooks and not sharing them with the rest of us who are late to the party, and that attitude seems really childish.
When I do searches for playbooks the first page almost always links back to multiple forums where one person is spam-asking for the same playbooks over and over again yet he refuses to share what he's acquired unless somebody else trades him something new. Just now he offered to sell me all of the playbooks he's accumulated for $15. So, you know, if you wrote a playbook that you intended to share with other players there's one guy out there trying to profit from your work without sharing the profit with you. In contrast, the stuff that I spent the last few weeks working on I make publicly available on my blog for anybody to use.
I feel that this whole trading and keeping it hard to find attitude also runs counter to the spirit of encouragement D. Vincent Baker wrote into the game by asking people to hack the game and make it their own. I think there needs to be a unified place for those who've contributed to AW, even in a small way, to share their work and get recognition for it. The forums here are difficult to navigate at times, there isn't a list of links to others' work, and there isn't a single sticky-ed thread that lists all of the great work that's come out of this community.

I'm making this post in the hopes that other people with player-made custom playbooks will upload their work to the internet and share their work with the rest of us. It seems like there are a lot of socially conscious gamers in this community which I think is really awesome. In the spirit of paying it forward and sharing, if you send me a playbook, or share a link that has it, I'm missing from this list I'll give $5 worth of canned food to my local homeless shelter. For now all I can share is this, here are links or instructions for getting all of the playbooks I've managed to find online. (If I know who wrote it, I also list their name next to it.)

This 1st list is links to tri-fold pdfs of playbooks that can be downloaded

the LE Playbooks (the Faceless, the Marmot, etc.) - if you bought Apocalypse World then you should already have these, plus they were written by D. Vincent Baker so they're official and stuff

the Coot, by Dan Hull - http://www.mediafire.com/?7rzq6gsk7n9qntm

the Grotesque, by Joe Mcdaldno - follow instructions at http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/14869/x&page=1#Item_1

the Rat-Pack, by Gerald C. - http://www.mediafire.com/?dd4ipfpkexrvc1a

the Last Child, by Johnstone Metzger - http://johnstone.wikispaces.com/file/view/AW-TheLastChild-Trifold.pdf/352379416/AW-TheLastChild-Trifold.pdf

the Horseman, by Johnstone Metzger - http://redboxvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/aw-thehorseman-trifold.pdf

the Agent - broken pdf, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13772998/agent_v1_2_sm.pdf

the Juggernaut - free to print but have to pay $6 to download despite the fact that it says it's "free," http://www.scribd.com/doc/74072939/Apocalypse-World-Juggernaut

This 2nd list is links to downloads or forums where the information for a new playbook is listed, but no tri-fold pdf exists (as far as I know)

the Boy and his Dog - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=389.0

the Orphan - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jryb1Y6Q-uGM_Oq_E1F9TzBAiKZI8lzaLkBSxoRpo68/edit?hl=en#

the Firebug - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=4192.0

the Man in the Box - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1547.0

the Wildcard - apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1712.msg10042

the Swashbuckler - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1709.0;wap2

the Traveller - email aedsoftware at gmail for a non-trifold copy

the Spectacle - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1938.0;wap2 (there's a trifold version mentioned but not linked)

the Transmitter - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=2270.0;wap2

the Feral Kid - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=391.0;wap2

the Kid - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_XJtVbYj_jjMTUzYWQwMWItZGI0MC00ZGQ0LTljZjEtNThiYjYxNzYyNDYw/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMS52MMK

the Scholar - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1723.0

the Tribal - http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=438.0

This 3rd list is simply a list of playbooks I've seen referenced in forums that appear to have no other information or download links

the Infiltrator
the Creep
the Battlemaiden
the Poison Flower
the Flesh Circus
the Ruin Runner
the Witch
the Broodmother
the Catalyst
the Fallen
the Loner
the Valkyrie
the Wurm
the Witch King
the Devoted
the Living God

I've been fairly unimpressed with the work of Dungeon World. To me, it just feels like the creators took some D&D concepts and applied the AW philosophy of GMing to the game. Which is fine, actually it's brilliant! But I personally dislike level-based RPGs. I never have enjoyed them despite the many years I've played some version of D&D. It's just easier, you know, to find gamers who know D&D and want to play that but aren't necessarilly interested in playing in some wild west horror, or samurai intrigue, or post-singularity sci-fi space opera game.

There are a lot of great things in Dungeon World, but I wanted to see a fantasy hack that bore a closer resemblance to Apocalypse World than to Dungeons & Dragons. So I decided to make my own. I've been posting what I've been writing (playbooks that I consider first drafts) for the past couple of weeks, and it only just occurred to me a few days ago that "Hey, I should probably join the AW forums and share some of my ideas there."

What can I say? I'm not too Sharp.

Anyway, here's a link to my blog that shows all the work I've done =
http://nerdwerds.blogspot.com/search/label/Adventure%20World

There's a lot there, or else I would just copy and paste it to the forums here. Cheers!

When I was a kid I always daydreamed about living in a big city. I watched the Fat Albert cartoon on Saturday mornings and imagine myself exploring the alleyways with Rudy or keeping Donald and Bucky from getting into trouble.  The fact that I was a suburban white kid living in semi-rural Wisconsin didn't make me think that I would be out of place there, but then I was as naive about city living as my background suggested.
I moved to Chicago in August of 1999, a few months before I turned twenty-three and when I arrived it was everything I wanted it and hoped it would be. The elevated trains were noisy, the people were constantly rushing from place to place, and whole streets of the city seemed to have been spray-painted with a grimy gray lacquer that had evaporated and dried up. I lived in a huge apartment block where my window faced other windows and nothing else, and when my neighbors cooked food I could smell it. I was a block away from the train so every time the express roared past I could hear the metal clacking and groaning. It was everything I dreamed it would be!
What it wasn't, and what I was in complete shock to discover, was fucking expensive! Just to eay regularly seemed like a small fortune. My diet quickly turned into a staple of ramen noodles and generic off-brand macaroni & cheese boxes as I looked for a job. It was all of my savings later when I finally managed to snag a minimum wage job and keep myself from failing to pay rent.
The job was really boring and I felt it sucked my day away, it was my first experience as an adult and hating my workplace. But my co-workers were great, and I was suddenly in a place where I didn't see the same people every day. I made friends all over the city and this added to my financial woes as my free time ended up taking me to all sorts of exotic neighborhoods where there was always a new restaurant to try out, a bar to go get drinks at, or a new club to go dancing in.
By the time I decided to retreat some place more affordable I had developed a new and more realistic appreciation for city life. It was a great experience but there were a lot of things missing from it that seemed impossible to replace. This was in the days of internet infancy, so it was very hard to find a regular gaming group, and having to rely on the altavista search engine was not always the best way of searching for one. The best gaming store in the city had closed and gone out of business in the summer before I arrived, the only place I knew of that sold games only carried Magic cards and didn't have a RPG section, and this was before the days of google too so even if I had owned a computer I probably wouldn't have been able to do much more than find game stores with net-savvy employees or Vampire LARPs (because in 1999 it seems like every Vampire LARP had their own website).
I don't live in a big city anymore, I live in a big college town that lies to itself about being a metropolis. I play games regularly, I hear new music constantly, and I can always afford to pay my bills. But I still miss being poor and gamerless in Chicago, it was a fun time!