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Name

Notes

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Type

Misguided Good

Thieves Guild

Zealous Cult

Religious Organization

Corrupt Government

Cabal

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Individual

Leader

Loner

Troubled

Group

Generic

Organisation

Cult

Community

Monstrosity

Creature

Horde

Location

Situation

Conflict

Calamity

Affliction

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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

crude, perhaps provisional, concert. Choose which kind of brutes:

• Hunting pack (impulse: to victimize anyone vulnerable)

• Sybarites (impulse: to consume someone’s resources)

Enforcers (impulse: to victimize anyone who stands out)

• Cult (impulse: to victimize & incorporate people)

• Mob (impulse: to riot, burn, kill scapegoats)

• Family (impulse: to close ranks, protect their own)

An individual person within a group of brutes might not share the group’s

impulse, and might even �ght against it. It’s the group’s impulse, not

necessarily any person’s.

reat moves for brutes:• Push reading a situation.

• Burst out in uncoordinated, undirected violence.

• Make a coordinated attack with a coherent objective.

• Tell stories (truth, lies, allegories, homilies).

• Demand consideration or indulgence.

• Rigidly follow or defy authority.

• Cling to or defy reason.

• Make a show of solidarity and power.

• Ask for help or for someone’s participation.

Environmental Calamity

LANDSCAPES

A landscape threat can be natural or constructed, and whatever size you

need. e burn �ats, the ruins of Las Uncles, a poison’d canal, the holding’s

bustling marketplace, the warrens of a grotesque’s den in its depths.

Choose which kind of landscape:

Prison (impulse: to contain, to deny egress)

• Breeding pit (impulse: to generate badness)

• Furnace (impulse: to consume things)

• Mirage (impulse: to entice and betray people)

• Maze (impulse: to trap, to frustrate passage)

• Fortress (impulse: to deny access)

reat moves for landscapes:

Push terrain.

• Reveal something to someone.

• Display something for all to see.

• Hide something.

• Bar the way.

• Open the way.

• Provide another way.

• Shift, move, rearrange.

• Offer a guide.

• Present a guardian.

• Disgorge something.

• Take something away: lost, used up, destroyed.

TERRAIN

A terrain threat is a small and immediate piece of a landscape. It’s where

the character is right now, what she’s moving through or standing in or

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