A third edition of the landmark indie darling Apocalypse World is on Kickstarter right now, and I wanted to have on Meguey and Vincent Baker to see what makes this edition different. Specifically, in Dice Exploder fashion, I wanted to get into specific examples. I took the Brainer playbook from 2e and starting with the name change to the Brain-Picker, for everything that had changed in 3e, I asked the Bakers “why?” And I felt a way about it when so many of their answers pointed back to their kids.
Vincent Baker
The Brainer VS The Brain-Picker (Apocalypse World 2e/3e) with the Bakers
TranscriptCommentApocalypse World 3rd edition is on Kickstarter right now. In many ways, it hasn’t changed much. In many ways, it's a whole new apocalypse. So I thought it'd be fun to have on the Bakers and go through a playbook - the Brainer in 2e vs its equivalent the Brain-Picker in 3e - and ask them about every single change on the sheet, from updating the basic moves all the way down to a single name on a single picklist.