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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9637766" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, obviously you can do what you want. The text itself though is DRIPPING with 'Bring it on!' Consider the Principles:* Look through crosshairs - "Whenever your attention lands on someoneor something that you own—an NPC or a feature of the landscape,material or social—consider first killing it, overthrowing it, burning itdown, blowing it up, or burying it in the poisoned ground. An individualNPC, a faction of NPCs, some arrangement between NPCs, even anentire rival holding and its NPC warlord: crosshairs. It’s one of the game’sslogans: “there are no status quos in Apocalypse World.” You can let theplayers think that some arrangement or institution is reliable, if they’rethat foolish, but for you yourself: everything you own is, first, always andoverwhelmingly, a target."* Ask provocative questions and build on the answers - this means PROVOKING. And then we have a CHAPTER called "Moves Snowball". Sure, things can resolve, but then we have that principle about intermittent rewards, fuckery, etc. There's no conception of stability, order, peace, etc. in AW's world. So, obviously you can play in a kinder, gentler Apocalypse, but the one that Vincent Baker conceived of is not that one!</blockquote>