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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9145769" data-attributes="member: 87792">The thing is it's entirely untrue to say that Apocalypse World lacks either assistance for improvising or for storytelling.For improvising for the GM Hard Moves and the list of them are excellent, giving you things to reach for when it's time to act. And Fronts are very useful for the more distant things. Yes you have to improvise and if you aren't Apocalypse World isn't the game for you. But there are mechanics there to support you.As for mechanics for storytelling, the biggest and strongest thing in storytelling is character growth. And Apocalypse World has the single best mechanic to represent and encourage character growth I have ever seen in any RPG; the playbook change.  Either when you gain enough XP and are far enough through the season that you've grown enough to change the path you are on or when life has become untenable. Ones that this mechanic has encouraged in games where I've been the MC that would not have happened in any non-PbtA game I've played:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The creepy Brainer shot in the head, bleeding out into their mask, and having an NPC put the mask on to become The Faceless out for revenge</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Hocus realising they'd failed their cult and becoming a Savvyhead, trying to fix things if they couldn't fix people</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Battlebabe realising someone needed to take care of the Hocus' idiot cultists and stepping up to become the new Hocus.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Angel cutting the mind-controlling Brainer off permanently from the Psychic Maelstrom (having cut them off temporarily earlier during the campaign) and giving them much of their knowledge so the Brainer became the new Angel</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Having given their medical knowledge to the Brainer the old Angel now going back to their Gunlugging ways</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Maestro d' having taken over the whole town and becoming the Hardholder.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Driver retiring to "safety" as a psychic entity among the satellites.</li> </ul>And that's just two campaigns and covers every single PC who was there in the first session. And none of this was particularly planned but all of it fitted with what had gone before and provided satisfying climaxes that wouldn't have been possible under other rulesets.</blockquote>

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