Science fiction / Horror
Stories of survival, community, and power in a devastated world, with protagonists defined through playbooks and moves that launched the Powered by the Apocalypse tradition.
Directory entry · lumpley games
- Entry type
- Roleplaying game
- Rules family
- Powered by the Apocalypse
- Edition
- Apocalypse World
- Rules licence
- Community programme
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What is it about?
Apocalypse World follows people building lives amid scarcity, violence, and a strange psychic maelstrom. Characters occupy different roles within fragile communities, from leaders to specialists. Their decisions and relationships move play forward, and the game’s design inspired many other roleplaying games that describe themselves as Powered by the Apocalypse.
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At the table
Choose a playbook, establish connections, and describe what you do. Moves trigger through the fiction, and their outcomes transform dangers, relationships, and available resources.
For module creators
Publishing modules
Publishing route unconfirmed
The public policy permits creation and publication of original games inspired by Apocalypse World without requesting permission for that original work. Permission to take inspiration does not itself authorise publication of modules compatible with Apocalypse World.
Conditions
Distinguish taking inspiration to create another game from reusing text or publishing compatible adventures. Copying words, moves or lists and using the PbtA logo require separate permission. The policy also asks that AI writing and art not be used in PbtA games; that request must not be presented as a clause of an unconfirmed module licence.
Permission and sources
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Read the rules
Read the rules Licence sourceLogos and credits
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Apocalypse World
Apocalypse World — lumpley games.
Original logo design, resized for the web.