Academic PS Berge wrote, 'Vincent and Meguey Baker's Apocalypse World ( AW, 2010) marked the beginning of a critical era in 'fiction-first' TRPG design. Multiple reviews discuss how the system's reliance on moves provides a streamlined focus on the fiction. In addition to other awards won, Apocalypse World won the 2010 Indie RPG Award for Most Innovative Game and Dungeon World won the 2013 ENnie award for Best Rules. Success levels fall on a scale of total success, partial success, or failure-referred to as a 'miss' in the system. Moves are resolved by rolling two six-sided dice and adding the relevant modifier, should modifiers be a mechanic in the game. Character classes have access to a number of class-specific moves. Apocalypse World, Dungeon World, and most other PbtA games are class-based. Alternatively, Apocalypse World has a 'seize by force' move, as the game assumes a setting where collecting scarce resources is part of the game-play experience. In the fantasy game Dungeon World, characters have access to a hack and slash move, as combat is central to the dungeoneering experience. Characters have access to a default selection of moves based on the expectations of the game setting. Powered by the Apocalypse games are centered on resolving what characters do as Moves. (Ha! This last, the least so.) Its use in a game's trade dress signifies ONLY that the game was inspired by Apocalypse World in a way that the designer considers significant, and that it follows our policy wrt others' use of our creative work'.

Again, 'Powered by the Apocalypse' isn't the name of a kind of game, set of game elements, or even the core design thrust of a coherent movement. It's the name of Meg's and my policy concerning others' use of our intellectual property and creative work. Vincent Baker wrote that PbtA 'isn't the name of a category of games, a set of games' features, or the thrust of any games' design. Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) is a tabletop role playing game design framework developed by Meguey Baker and Vincent Baker for the 2010 game Apocalypse World and later used for Dungeon World, Monsterhearts and numerous other RPGs.

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