Not at all! We have many listeners who are not gamers, and we play the game/tell the story in a way that game mechanics don’t bog down the narrative. Though, do be warned: many non-gamers who have listened to the show find themselves looking to start rolling dice themselves after the first 2-3 story arcs!

Item descriptMonster of the Week is a skin for Apocalypse World (more about that below under “What does Powered by the Apolcalypse mean?”) The moves, playbooks, and enemies are retrofitted to feel like you’re in the world of TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, or X-Files.ion

Item descriptionYou do not! But by the time you get through the first story, you’ll have a clear understanding of how the game and its mechanics work. In fact, several of our listeners have told us they felt much more comfortable trying the game themselves because they’d already learned the basics listening to the show!

Powered by the Apocalypse is the rule/dice system which originated from a game called Apocalypse World. PbtA games, as they’re known, use two six sided dice and a 2-page character sheet (also known as a playbook) that you use to build a character by choosing from a set list of stats, moves, and weapons. It makes for a game that is very fast to pick up, learn, and start playing. It is rules-lite and narrative heavy, with the players and the DM (or Keeper in MotW terms) working in tandem to tell the story.

Do start at the beginning (it’s a very good place to start)! The story we tell is episodic in nature, much like the genre that it is paying homage to – so if you jump into the middle, there will be themes, information, and even recurring characters that you’ll miss out on.

Haha, yes – very aware! A little behind the scenes: we had the logo and the name of the podcast created back when the show was going to feature a different game system, but about six weeks before we launched, we played MotW and loved it so much that we changed the podcast to feature it instead. But we still loved the name and the logo we had, so we kept them! And who knows what future seasons might bring…

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