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Danger Traits


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Name
Notes
Header Image
Type
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Misguided Good
Ambitious Organisation
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Thieves Guild
Ambitious Organisation
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Zealous Cult
Ambitious Organisation
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Religious Organization
Ambitious Organisation
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Corrupt Government
Ambitious Organisation
6
Cabal
Ambitious Organisation
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Powerful Individual
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Environmental Calamity
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Malignant Plague
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Burgeoning Conflict
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Cursed Site
12
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Dangerous Monstrosity
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Individual
Leader
Loner
Troubled
Group
Generic
Organisation
Cult
Community
Monstrosity
Creature
Horde
Location
Situation
Conflict
Calamity
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Ambitious Organisation

Misguided Good (impulse: to do what is “right” no matter the cost)
Thieves Guild (impulse: to take by subterfuge)
Zealous Cult (impulse: to infest from within)
Religious Organization (impulse: to establish and follow doctrine)
Corrupt Government (impulse: to maintain the status quo)
Cabal (impulse: to absorb those in power, to grow)

Powerful Individual

God (impulse: to gather worshippers)
Demon Prince (impulse: to open the gates of Hell)
Elemental Lord (impulse: to tear down creation to its component parts)
Scheming Leader
Power-Hungry Mystic
Lord of the Undead (impulse: to seek true immortality)
Power-mad Wizard (impulse: to seek magical power)
Sentient Artifact (impulse: to find a worthy wielder)
Ancient Curse (impulse: to ensnare)
Chosen One (impulse: to fulfill or resent their destiny)
Dragon (impulse: to hoard gold and jewels, to protect the clutch)

WARLORDS
A warlord threat consists of the warlord, plus the gang and other people
under the warlord’s control. Choose which kind of warlord:
• Slaver (impulse: to own and sell people)
• Hive queen (impulse: to consume and swarm)
Prophet (impulse: to denounce and overthrow)
• Dictator (impulse: to control)
• Collector (impulse: to own)
• Alpha wolf (impulse: to hunt and dominate)
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Push the battle moves.
• Out�ank someone, corner someone, encircle someone.
• Attack someone suddenly, directly, and very hard.
• Attack someone cautiously, holding reserves.
• Seize someone or something, for leverage or information.
• Make a show of force.
• Make a show of discipline.
• Offer to negotiate. Demand concession or obedience.
• Claim territory: move into it, blockade it, assault it.
• Buy out someone’s allies.
• Make a careful study of someone and attack where they’re weak.
Warlords act primarily through their people, acting directly themselves
only when cornered or caught out in the open.

GROTESQUES
A grotesque is a person—remember fundamentally a person, human, not
a monster—whose humanity has been nevertheless somehow crippled.
Choose which kind of grotesque:
• Cannibal (impulse: craves satiety and plenty)
Mutant (impulse: craves restitution, recompense)
• Pain addict (impulse: craves pain, its own or others’)
• Disease vector (impulse: craves contact, intimate and/or anonymous)
• Mindfucker (impulse: craves mastery)
• Perversion of birth (impulse: craves overthrow, chaos, the ruin of all)
reat moves for grotesques:
• Push reading a person.
Display the nature of the world it inhabits.
Display the contents of its heart.
Attack someone from behind or otherwise by stealth.
Attack someone face-on, but without threat or warning.
Insult, affront, offend or provoke someone.
Offer something to someone, or do something for someone, with
strings attached.
• Put it in someone’s path, part of someone’s day or life.
THREATS
reat moves for warlords:
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APOCALYPSE WORLD
reaten someone, directly or else by implication.
• Steal something from someone.
• Seize and hold someone.
• Ruin something. Befoul, rot, desecrate, corrupt, adulter it.


BRUTES
A brutes threat is a group of people, with or without a leader, acting in
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