OVERALL COUNTDOWNS FRONTS

Fronts are the Keeper’s prep for play.

A front is a set of linked threats. Threats are people, places, creatures and
conditions that, because of where they are and what they’re doing, ineviatably
theaten the players’ characters - so a front is all of the individual threats that
arise from a single given threatening situation.
a Kepper playsheet for

CREATING A FRONT
• Choose a fundamental failing.
• Create 3 or 4 threats.
• Write its agenda / dark future.
• Write 2-4 stakes questions.
• List the front’s cast.
• Create the front’s overall countdowns.
see p. 136-150 of the Apocalypse World book for complete instructions.

FUNDAMENTAL FAILINGS
• Ignorance • Decay • Envy • Prejudice
• Fear • Despair • Ambition • Greed

THREATS MAJOR CULTS INHUMANS

Cults Blanks Migo
Inhumans control everyone satiety & plenty
Landscapes Death shadows Liches
Afflictions own & sell people mastery
Conspiracies Order of Dagon Deep ones
consume & swarm contact & intimacy
Children of Chaos Ghouls
denounce & overthrow restitution, recompense
Chrysalys Corporation Dhohanoids
own everything pain, own & others
Rapine Storm Beasts
hunt & dominate bring chaos and ruins

LANDSCAPES AFFLICTIONS CONSPIRACIES

Prison Disease Bigots
contain, deny egress saturate population victimize the weak
Breeding Pit Condition Sybarites
generate badness expose to danger monopolize ressources
Furnace Custom Enforcers
consume things justify violence victimize the other
Mirage Delusion Cult
entice & betray people dominate choices victimize&incorporate

FRONT
Maze Sacrifice Mob
trap, frustrate passage
Fortress
deny access
Leave people bereft
Barrier
impoverish people
riot, burn, kill scapegoats
Family
protect their own A
 THREAT 1 A FRONT
THREAT 3
Is called:
name: name:

kind: Expresses: kind:

impulse: impulse:
Dark future / agenda:
description & cast: description & cast:

custom move: custom move:

Description & cast:

countdown: countdown:

THREAT 2 Stake questions:

THREAT 4
name: name:

kind: kind:

impulse: impulse:

description & cast: description & cast:

custom move: custom move:

countdown: countdown: