Character 8 - Apocalypse World
Welcome back to day 8 of the Character Creation Challenge. Today we have another quick one, the namesake of the Powered By the Apocalypse engine, Apocalypse World. So Apocalypse World, like All Flesh Must Be Eaten before it, doesn't really have a "setting" per se. It has a genre. The Apocalypse has come and gone and you're trying to eke out a living in the burned out remains. Was there a war? A plague? A rogue comet crashing into the Himalayas? Your character has no idea. And, honestly, it doesn't really have much of an effect on their day to day life. You're here, the world is shitty, there's gangs of raiders and probably mutants and maybe even mutant raiders and you need to get enough food and water and shelter to live to see another day. Cool, let's make a character. Character Creation Overview Right, so we've already covered Masks so the bones of this are going to sound familiar. Every character has six Stats, each with associated Moves: Cool...