# Apocalypse World: Burned Over tags: #game/rpg/apocalypse-world ![[Apocalypse World - Burned Over (cover).jpg|600]] **Apocalypse World: Burned Over** — functionally **Apocalypse World 3rd Edition** — is the "PG-13" reimagining of the D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker game that launched a thousand Powered-by-the-Apocalypse ships. It keeps the scarcity, desperation, and crosshairs-on-the-people-you-love vibe, but trades the raw, abrasively adult tone of its predecessors for a tighter, more surgically focused set of mechanics. If the original was a punk rock basement show, *Burned Over* is the remastered vinyl: cleaner, more deliberate, and arguably more dangerous because you can see the teeth coming. The core is the PbtA action roll: **2d6 + a relevant stat**, with results as unyielding as a skeletal skyscraper — **10+** a strong hit (you get what you want), **7–9** a weak hit (you succeed but at a cost, or the Master of Ceremonies offers a hard choice), and **6 or less** a miss where the MC makes a move and the situation escalates. The signature shift in *Burned Over* is toward **Highly Interruptible Moves** — you announce them explicitly, giving everyone at the table a chance to jump in before the dice land. It also kills the "Hot" stat (social maneuvering now runs through Cool or Aggro), replaces the laundry list of peripheral moves with Standard Moves tied to equipment and holdings, gives every character an explicit psi rating, and swaps the vague wasteland for specific Hard Zones. Its lineage is enormous. This is the game whose DNA runs through a thousand PbtA descendants — and it's a direct touchstone for the **[[Blades in the Dark]]** engine, which credits **Apocalypse World** among its acknowledged influences. If you want to see where the modern narrative-forward revolution came from, this is the wellspring. ## References - [Apocalypse World: Burned Over - itch.io](https://lumpley.itch.io/apocalypse-world-burned-over-hackbook) - [Apocalypse World: Burned Over - lumpley games](https://lumpley.games/burnedover/) - [Review: A Kinder, Much Angrier Apocalypse - Rascal News](https://www.rascal.news/apocalypse-world-burned-over-is-kinder-and-much-angrier/) - [Apocalypse World: Burned Over 3rd Edition Kickstarter - Bell of Lost Souls](https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/12/rpg-apocalypse-world-burned-over-3rd-edition-final-day-on-kickstarter.html)