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Reading Club: Apocalypse World
Description
Book club episode! We discuss Apocalypse World 2nd edition.
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Discussion Questions
1. What do you think of Apocalypse World? What do you think of the MC section?
2. What do you think about the game's statement: "follow these as rules"? Do you think that sentence makes its MC section different from other games?
3. What does "play to find out" mean to you? Do you think its a universal aspect of games?
4. What is your favorite or least favorite principle and why?
5. What was your first reaction to the idea of GM moves? What do you think about it now?
Show Notes:
Don't Prep Plots on The Alexandrian (blog)
Vincent Baker on the philosophy of PbtA (blog)
The music used for this show is by Nihilore and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. The opening track is So Does Hope and the closing track is Something Beautiful Is Going To Happen.
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