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Your ships ugly, but shes all yours. That baby never left you down.

Shes all you need. Some people want a nice, quiet life. All you want

is to keep travelling the galaxy till the day you die. You dont care

about the empire, the crime syndicates, the rebellion and all that. You

do what you must to refuel and maintenance your beauty, and you

keep on cruising the stars.

a playbook for

A P O C A L Y P S E W O R L D H A C K

ADDITIONAL RULES

DOING ODD JOBS

Paying jobs on screen:

Prot: the GM can choose whether to come in on the end of the suc-

cessful job, or let the whole job happen in summary, off-screen.

Catastrophe: the GM can come in on the moment when the job goes

south, or you can summarize the job going south and come in on the

aftermath.

Obligations on screen:

Prot: the GM can choose whether to come in on the end of your

accomplishing it, or let it pass without much remar k.

Catastrophe: the GM should come in on the moment when it goes

south, as a rule.

Unworked: an unworked obligation is an opportunity for the GM.

BUDGET PERIPHERIC MOVES

When yougive 1-budget to someone, but with strings attached, it counts

as convincing them and hitting the roll with a 10+, no roll required.

When youhit the black market looking or some particular thing to

buy, and its not obvious whether you should be able to just like go buy

one like that, roll+smart. On a 10+, yes, you can just go can buy it like

that. On a 79, the GM chooses one of the following:

it costs 1-budget more than youd expect its available, but only if you meet with a guy who knows a guy

damn, I had one, I just sold it to this guy named Rolfball, maybe you can

go get it off him?

sorry, I dont have that, but maybe this will do instead?

When youmake known that you want a thing and drop bribes to

speed it on its way, roll+budgetw spent (max roll+3). It has to be a

thing you could legitimately get this way. On a 10+ it comes to you, no

strings attached. On a 79 it comes to you, or something pretty close.

On a miss, it comes to you, but with strings very much attached.

YOUR JOBS

(Prot / catastrophe)

Choose 3 paying jobs

Bodyguarding (1-barter / embattled)

Surveillance (1-barter / deceived)

Pirate raiding (1-barter / embattled)

Enforcement (1-barter / overthrown)

Honest work (1-barter / impoverished)

Entourage (1-barter / entangled)

Deliveries (1-barter / bushwacked)

Inltration (1-barter / discovered)

Scavenging (1-barter / impoverished)

Brokering deals (1-barter / shut out)

Technical work (2-barter / shut out)

Planetary defense (2-barter / inltrated)

Hunting bounty (3-barter / embattled)

And choose 1 obligation job

Avoiding someone (you keep well clear / they catch you in a bad spot)

Paying debts (you keep up with them / they come due)

Revenge (you victimize someone / they humilate you)

Protecting someone (nothing bad happens to them / theyre gone)

Pursuing luxury (beauty in your life / you wind up in a bad spot)

Maintaining your honor (you keep your word and your name /

you cross a line)

Seeking answers (you get a clue / you chase a red herring)

YOUR CREW

Your crew or contacts can consist entirely of the other players cha-

racters, or entirely of the GMs characters, or any mix. If they inclu-

de any of the GMs characters, sketch them out names (eg Roark,

Bekkar, Mace, Jada) and 1-line descriptions with the GM. Make

sure theyre competent and suited to the gigs youve chosen.

OTHER MOVES & POSSESSIONS

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experience: improve

+1cool (max. cool+3)

+1tough (max. tough+2)

+1smart (max. smart+2)

new smuggler move

new smuggler move

new move from another playbook

new move from another playbook

+1job and may change crew

+1job and may change crew

resolve obligation for good

+1 to any stat (max stat+3)

retire to safety

a new, second character

change to a new playbook

advance three basic moves

advance the other four basic moves

SMUGGLER MOVES

Odd jobs: you get 2-juggling. Whenever theres a stretch of

downtime in play, or between sessions, choose as much or fewer

jobs to work as your juggling. Roll +cool. On a 10+ you get prot

for all the jobs you chose. On a 7-9 you get prot for at least 1 job; if

you choose more than one job, you get catastrophe from 1 and prot

for the rest. On a miss, all catastrophes. Jobs you arent working get

you neither prot nor catastrophe. When you get a new job, get

+1juggling.

Lets get the hell out o here: name your escape route and roll

+cool. On a 10+ youre out. On a 7-9 you can stay or go, but if

you go thats going to cost you: either you get hurt, leave something

behind or take something with you. On a miss youre caught in a bad

place, half in and half out.

I know people: when you meet an impor tant NPC (your call), roll

+cool. On a hit, they heard of you, you say what theyve heard. On

a 10+ you also get +1ongoing with them and you can take +1history

with them. On a miss, the GM will decide what theyve heard of you.

Reckless: when you boldly go into danger without care or cau-

tion, take +1armor. If people follow you, they take +1armor as well.

Poker ace: when you convince a NPC, roll +cool. When you

convince another players character, roll +history.

YOUR SHIP

Your ships starting profle, should you need it:

power+1 look=0 1-armor weakness+1 2-harm small hyperdrive

Strength (choose 1): Weakness (choose 1):

Options (choose 1):

NAME

Choose a amboyant name,

or a name that reects your

free-wheeling nature. Choose

a name for your ship, and name

the members of your crew.

STATS

Choose one column:

Attuned

Cool

Magnetic

Smart

Tough

MOVES

You get all the basic moves

and odd jobs. Choose 2 other

smuggler moves.

HISTORY

Taking turns, all of you introdu-

ce their character by name, look

and outlook. List other charac-

ters names on your sheet.

On your turn:

one of them has been with

you since a while. Tell that

player +2.

one of them got you out of

some big screw-up. Tell that

player +2.

tell everyone else +1. A lot of

people talk about you.

On their turn:

you dont get close that easily.

Whatever number they tell

you, give it -1 and write it next

to their characters name.

LOOKS

Masculine, feminine, ambiguous

or transgressing.

Working clothes, ashy clothes,

piloting gear, former uniform.

Quick eyes, smiling eyes, pier-

cing eyes, appraising eyes, sweet

eyes.

Nonchalant posture, exagerated

posture, tough posture, strict

posture.

POSSESSIONS

You get:

fashion suitable to your looks,

including a piece worth 1-armor

or an proper armor (2-armor)

a blaster pistol (2-harm close

stun loud) or a signature wea-

pon (detail with the GM)

your ship

trading goods and ship parts

worth 1-budget

EXPERIENCE

When you roll a highlighted

stat or reset your history with

someone, you mark one expe-

rience bubble.

When you mark the fth bub-

ble, erase all the bubble thenchoose, cross and apply one of

the basic improvement options.

You cant choose an improve-

ment youve already crossed.

Once youve crossed ve basic

improvements, you can choose

an advanced improvement (tho-

se six improvements at the bot-

tom of the box) next time you

improve.

CREATING A SMUGGLER

To create your jedi, choose your name, looks, stats, moves,

possessions, ship, jobs and history.

DYING MOVE

When you die, give your ship to

another players character. When

this character is in the ship, your

former character can communicate

with them as directly or symbolically

as you wish. When they ask the ship

whats their best course of action,

tell them what you honnestly think

they should do. If they do it, they get

+1 in the course of it. If they dont

succeed, they mark experience.

shattered (-1cool)

crippled(-1tough)

disfgured(-1mag)

broken (-1smart)

laser canons, +1harm

reector shields, +1armorboosted engines, +1power

medium instead of small

slow

sloppy

bucking

lazy

unreliable

spartan

fast

rugged

aggressive

reliable

responsible

comfortable

SHIP

ATTUNED

COOL

MAGNETIC

SMART

TOUGH

trust the orce

ace danger

help / interere with [name]

convince / seduce

read situation / person

fght or it / go aggro

HIGHLIGHT

HIGHLIGHT

HIGHLIGHT

HIGHLIGHT

HIGHLIGHT

ADVANCES

HARM

HISTORY

LOOK

HOLDBUDGET

NAME

=0

+2

+1

+1

-1

-1

+2

+1

=0

+1

-1

+2

-1

+2

=0

-1

+2

=0

+1

+1

LOOKWEAKPOW ARMOR

HARM