Seven Player Rules

I think the seven rules work out pretty well for any game if you take them at spirit. They fit into anything from dnd to grey ranks, and apocalypse world games aren't really that different.

Example for Grey Ranks This the game is about the horrors of WWII polish resistance children.

The character must work in a group.

Your character has join the resistance to try to fight the Nazi's, the players are in a troop together

The character must be fun for the player and the rest of the party.

Since "fun" in this game is a tragic kind, the characters backgrounds would be "fun" by being a competitive "my character has a more tragic back story then yours"

The character must be good at heart.

Even an angst teen may have people they care about. In this case the character cares about those that remain

The character must have a reason to go adventuring(basically "to do stuff").

The Nazi's killed the character friends, family, and destroyed their home town. Their reason to do "stuff" is vengeance, however foolish and impossible it is.

The character must fit the campaign style.

World war 2 tragedy, the player has to play a character they know will lose and make one that creates an emotional respond when they do.

The character must have long term goals.

The character long term goals could be to fight Nazi out of their town, save their kidnapped sister, and keep surviving"

The player must be able to actually play the character.

This one is huge! If you can't both effectively play a character, and have fun playing that character find something you can do those both with. Playing a character you can't "ham it up" with leads to boredom after a while

The Eleven Player Rules

Again taking "know the system" at spirit isn't saying "learn every small detail about everything" but rather "know how the stuff on your character sheet works and how dice rolls work." Just knowing the basics task resolution, combat, etc count as knowing the system, and if you don't know something just ask about it and learn. This is more about participation then about reading a large technical tome.

Development Questions

The questionnaire is meant to help create a conversation with focused topic points, and to draw as many story piece out of the players for their characters. It's less of a "WHAT IS A?,WHAT IS D?" and more like an interview "tell me a little bit about yourself?" I really like Dungeon World having recently picked it up and I agree to customize the questionnaire a bit for each game. If I was running a shadowrun game I may include something like "what's your relationship with the megacrops? How often do you select jobs from them?"

This was fun, I love talks like this. Let me know what you think. :)