Apocalypse Fuel
A generator by Sam Kabo Ashwell, to create factions and setting details for Apocalypse World games.
We’ve talked about many generators for tabletop roleplaying games before, of course. But this one has some unique features of its own.
First off, it’s written in Inform, the natural-language interactive fiction programming language. This makes its source code particularly readable, especially for people who don’t have a lot of experience with more conventional programming syntax.
Secondly, its results are quite literary. Though the tone the Apocalypse World game sets certainly helps, the writing should be commended for making everything flow.
How would you like to visit a place like this?
Scow’s Roadhouse is a Maestro D’s establishment, at the fringes of a hardhold, its status questionable. It mostly provides music, with sports and scene as lube. Its aesthetic: masks, eavesdropping and dancing. Its maestro d’ is Frisky Coco. There’s a constant supply of young fools willing to risk life and limb for glory and riches that come with the Grand Belt, but the setup makes a victory near-impossible. They claim to have invented roller derby, though this is hotly disputed. Their lead raconteur is pregnant and hiding it. Its defenses include an enthusiastic regular guest with far-reaching power and influence; and secrecy and subterfuge.
And I hope you don’t run into these jokers:
the Skunks are nomads, making only temporary camps. They are an army - 100 or more violent bastards. They travel in ex-military humvees. Their best vehicle is the Carrier, a fast and huge pickup, shaped around a massive roll-cage and with unusually high clearance. It occasionally catches on fire for no very clear reason.
They’re adequately armed, and heavily armored in pre-Fall riot gear. They are savage. They mostly care about arrogance - they see themselves as naturally superior. They are under the principled leadership of Lilian Iron. Right now they’re poking around in a burned-out hardhold, but this has interfered with the schemes of the Raccoons.
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