The players generally control a single Player Character each (although it's perfectly legal to play more than one at once), while the GM controls the world and the NPCs in it. Like most Tabletop RPGs, the gameplay is a conversation between the players, one of whom serves as the Game Master (called "Master of Ceremonies" or "MC" in the original AW and a dozen other terms in the hacks). Ron Edwards' essay " Narrativism: Story Now " is credited as a major inspiration for this approach. The system is designed to facilitate smooth story flow, with a lot of focus on characters ( Player Characters in particular) and overarching Central Themes and as few rules, crunch, and pre-published content in the way of it as possible. Given how Blades in the Dark grew out of an Apocalypse World hack, Ghost Lines (2013), Appelcline also views the entire Forged in the Dark line as a distinct cadet branch of PbtA.
Popularity of the AW engine led Shannon Appelcline, RPG historian and author of Designers & Dragons, to proclaim it one of the "two great 'generic' RPG systems" produced by the indie RPG movement, the other being Fate.
Urban Shadows (2016): An urban horror game in the vein of The World of Darkness. Thirsty Sword Lesbians (2021): A speculative fiction lesbian game about angsty disaster lesbians fighting evil and falling in love. Tremulus (2013): A Cosmic Horror game in the vein of H. The Sprawl (2016): A classic dystopian Cyberpunk game. Spirit of '77 (2015): An Alternate History game set in The '70s. 
Sagas of the Icelanders (2013): A Historical Fantasy game about the first Norse settlers arriving to Iceland in 874. Flying Circus (2020): A Fantasy aviation game about mercenary companies of ace pilots doing missions in the remnants of a magical Kaiserreich land destroyed by war. Fellowship (2016): A High Fantasy game about a team of brave heroes taking on an Overlord. Epyllion (2016): A High Fantasy game about young drakes drawing on The Power of Friendship to hold back encroaching darkness. Dungeon World (2012): A classic Heroic Fantasy Dungeon Crawling game thematically based on Dungeons & Dragons. City of Mist (2017): A Fantastic Noir set in the eponymous city, where ordinary people can gain legendary powers. Avatar Legends The Roleplaying Game (2022): A role-playing game set in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Lumpley games maintains a notably liberal attitude towards AW hacks: basically, it's OK to publish and even to sell them, as long as you credit him as the original creator of AW, don't copy entire passages from his book verbatim (paraphrasing is OK, though), and don't infringe upon other people's intellectual property.
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