Apocalypse World 2nd Ed

THE PLAYBOOKS
THE BRAINER
Brainers are the weird psycho psychic mindfucks of
Apocalypse World. ey have brain control, puppet
strings, creepy hearts, dead souls, and eyes like broken
things. ey stand in your peripheral vision and whisper
into your head, staring. ey clamp lenses over your eyes
and read your secrets.
ey’re just the sort of tasteful accoutrement that no
well-appointed hardhold can do without.
Brainers are spooky, weird, and really fun to play. eir moves
are powerful but strange. If you want everybody else to be
at least a little bit afraid of you, a brainer is a good choice.
Warning: you’ll be happy anyway, but you’ll be happiest if
somebody wants to have sex with you even though you’re a
brainer. Angle for that if you can.
THE CHOPPER
Apocalypse World is all scarcity, of course it is. ere’s not
enough wholesome food, not enough untainted water, not
enough security, not enough light, not enough electricity,
not enough children, not enough hope.
However, the Golden Age Past did leave us two things:
enough gasoline, enough bullets. Come the end, I guess the
fuckers didn’t need them like they thought they would.
So chopper, there you are. Enough for you.
Choppers lead biker gangs. ey’re powerful but lots of their
power is external, in their gang. If you want weight to throw
around, play a chopper—but if you want to be really in charge,
play a hardholder instead. Warning: externalizing your power
means drama. Expect drama.
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