Faceless
THE
FACELESS
☐ get +1 hot (max hot +2) ☐ get a new faceless move
☐ get +1 sharp (max sharp +2) ☐ get a new faceless move
☐ get +1 weird (max weird +2) ☐ get a new faceless move
☐ get a gang (detail) and pack alpha ☐ get a move from another playbook
☐ get a holding (detail) and wealth ☐ get a move from another playbook
THE FACELESS
Introducing
Is it true everywhere, always? Was it true in the golden age of legend, when life was kind? For certain it’s true here in Apocalypse World: some of us are born and grow up and live without faces. We have things on the fronts of our heads, of course, but they’re soft, malleable, expressive, revealing things, they aren’t our faces. Our faces would be hard, ungiving, silent, and stern, they would be what we are. They would never flinch.
CREATING A FACELESS
To create your faceless, choose name, look, stats, moves, gear, mask, and Hx.
NAME
Hunk · Tor · Ork · Doule · Big Fucker · Blag · Mega · Dent · Crudhammer · Deg · Frog · Summint · Trench · Zuto · Kray · Momo · Gigg · Meat · Stomp · Playboy
LOOK
man · woman · transgressing · concealed
casual wear · fetish-bondage wear · showy armor · scrounged armor
hard eyes · blank eyes · merciless eyes · dead eyes · calculating eyes
huge body · muscular body · tall gangly body · wiry body · obese body
STATS
Choose one set:
MOVES
You get all the basic moves. Choose 3 faceless moves.
GEAR
In addition to your mask, you get: 1 brutal weapon; oddments worth 1 barter; fashion suitable to your look, including at your option a piece worth 1‑ or 2‑armor (you detail).
Brutal weapons (choose 1):
HX
Everyone introduces their characters by name, look, and outlook. Take your turn. List the other characters’s names.
Go around again for Hx. On your turn:
On the other characters’s turns, choose one or both:
At the end, find the character with the highest Hx on your sheet. Ask that player which of your stats is most interesting, and highlight it. The MC will name another stat for you to highlight too.
Cool+1 Hard+2 Hot−1 Sharp+1 Weird=0
Cool=0 Hard+2 Hot+1 Sharp−1 Weird+1
Cool=0 Hard+2 Hot−1 Sharp+2 Weird−1
Cool+1 Hard+2 Hot−1 Sharp=0 Weird+1
magnum (3‑harm close reload loud)
sawed off (3‑harm close reload messy)
crowbar or club or bat (2‑harm hand messy)
machete or axe (3‑harm hand messy)
chainsaw (3‑harm hand autofire messy)
One of the characters helped you do something terrible once. Tell that player Hx+2.
Tell everyone else Hx+1.
One of them was once kind and unafraid towards you. Ignore what they tell you and write Hx+3 next to the character’s name.
You think one of them is pretty. Add +1 to whatever number that player tells you, and write that next to the character’s name.
Everyone else, whatever number that player tells you, write it next to the character’sname.
If you’re charging someone wealthy for your services, 1‑barter is the going rate for: one act of murder, extortion, or other violence; one week’s employment as bodyguard or gang leader; one month’s employment as thug-on-hand; one threat delivered; one convoy guarded through hostile territory; one month’s physical labor requiring your strength and size.
©2k+11 Bret Gillan
with D. Vincent Baker