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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9391269" data-attributes="member: 42582">No I didn't. And don't.Apocalypse World had no influence on how I ran 4e D&D. I drew on the RPGs that (it seems to me pretty obviously) the 4e designers also drew on - Maelstrom Storytelling, HeroWars/Quest, and Burning Wheel. These are all scene-based RPGs, very much like 4e D&D in that respect, and they all have extended conflict resolution systems, similar in broad outline to 4e D&D skill challenges.I'm not going to say it is impossible to run 4e D&D in a way that is influenced by Apocalypse World, but I'm not sure what that would look like. For a start, 4e D&D does not have an "economy" of player-side moves that operate under the rubric "if you do it, you do it".I have often posted that I have drawn on Apocalypse World to help me run Classic Traveller. But unlike 4e D&D, Classic Traveller is chock-full of sub-systems that are, in effect, player-side moves operating under the rubric "if you do it, you do it". For instance, many of its skills (eg Vacc Suit, Ship's Boat, Streetwise, Admin, Bribery) and other elements (eg operating starships) are described in exactly those terms: when you do <such-and-such a thing>, then roll the dice and establish the outcome within such-and-such parameters depending on the result.</blockquote>