Watch the World Die

"Let's tell the story of how the world ends..."

WATCH THE WORLD DIE is a collaborative game allowing any number of players to create their own custom apocalypse. There are no winners, and everybody loses. Get ready to ruin everything.

WATCH THE WORLD DIE can be used as a standalone game, a solo game, a worldbuilding tool, or a prelude to a post-apoc RPG like Apocalypse World, etc.  Depending your approach, preferences and ideas, it can be anything from a fun little one-shot game, to a structured brainstorming device, to a collaborative system for generating entire post-apocalyptic pre-game histories.

This PDF includes all you need to play (except 2 six-sided dice):

• Rules
• Example of Play
• Sample Apocalypse Timeline
• Optional Rules and Variations

Notes for use with Apocalypse World: When played as a preface to an AW campaign, WTWD kicks off "Session Zero". You do it with the same people who are going to be players in the campaign. It provides an interesting mood-setter or intro/exposition piece and it's a great icebreaker for RPG newbies.  Most importantly, it leaves behind a physical artifact - the timeline of the fall - which can be used as a practical tool by both players and gamemasters.  This timeline assists in brainstorming character details which are faithful to the fictional world the group has collaboratively created, and it provides prompts and "common knowledge" for "what's possible to find out there".