Apocalypse World to Get Third Edition, Kickstarter Launching Soon

Apocalypse World is getting a new edition, with original creators Vincent & Meguey Baker running a Kickstarter to fund a new edition of the influential TTRPG. Over the weekend, Vincent Baker posted a Kickstarter preview page for Apocalypse World: Burned Over, promoting the "3rd edition of the groundbreaking original". No other details about the new game was announced, but the Kickstarter page has attracted 1,300 followers as of press time.

As its name suggests, Apocalypse World is an RPG based around surviving in post-apocalyptic settings. The game notably launched the "Powered by the Apocalypse" game engine that uses a 2D6 system with successes, partial successes, and failures, as well as "playbooks" for characters. The Powered by the Apocalypse game engine has been a hallmark of modern TTRPG design and is used by everything from Dungeon World to Monster of the Week to Avatar Legends.

 

[RenleyRenfield]

I did not like Burned Over, it made changes that took away from the game. Kinda how Deep Cuts was really not fun for us for Blades in the Dark....
But we play AW regular and BitD regular lots lots, so we love these games.

There are issues with AW, and we do have to ignore like 80% of the extra battle moves and car wars moves in the back (they are neat, but no way are we ever keeping 30+ moves out on the table to play AW.)

I rather like how Legend in the Mist handled this, by making LESS moves, and giving the MC more CONEXT BASED compilations. I am curious what AW 3e will change or do...

 

[overgeeked]

Awesome.

 

[Bae'zel]

I was also wary of all of the extra, very specific moves introduced in 2e. I hope that they streamline the game a bit.

Early Apocalypse World games had a tighter "package" of moves which was really appealing.