#COMPENDIUM CLASSES DUNGEON WORLD PLUS#

✴On a 7–9, you still do it, but the GM will offer you two options between suspicion, danger, or cost. When you pick locks or pockets or disable traps, roll+DEX. And example could be the Thief’s Tricks of the Trade move: These moves often merely replace basic moves, when applicable. Except for which die you roll for damage (d4, d6, d8 or d10), representing how dangerous your character is, and your bonus to HP (+4, +6, +8 and +10), represents how battle-hardened he is, a class mainly provides a list of Starting Moves related to your class.

How are the characters different?Īs I said, the system emphasized how the characters can handle tasks differently. A partial success might mean that he gets angry at you instead, maybe complicating your situation a bit, but you succeed at your goal your friends will get in unnoticed. If you try to confuse the orc guarding the cave entrance by fast talking to him, letting the others slip in unnoticed, then a success confuses him. The important thing to notice about Dungeon World is that all moves has a fictional effect. The Fighter and the Cleric would take some damage. When a the dwarf fighter charges an ogre and rolls 6-, the GM does what he always does complicates the situation by picking the dwarf up, head first, and throws him into the cleric. The list of GM moves is actually only a formality.Īfter playing a while as a GM, you will notice that you don’t do anything different than what you are used to. GM moves works like player moves, except there never is a mechanic, and they happen because the players rolled less than 10. Formally, when you roll 6- or 7-9, the GM makes a “GM move”. The point is that outcomes are not binary, they are more than success vs.

Note that a 6- result is not a failure, it is merely “trouble”. ✴On a 7–9, you stumble, hesitate, or flinch: the GM will offer you a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice. ✴On a 10+, you do what you set out to, the threat doesn’t come to bear.

…by getting out of the way or acting fast, +Dex.When you act despite an imminent threat or suffer a calamity, say how you deal with it and roll. 7-9: You succeed, but with a compromise or cost.6- : You get 1 XP, but the GM decides what happens (Also called “trouble”).Your stats are the basic D&D Abilities Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence and Charisma.

#COMPENDIUM CLASSES DUNGEON WORLD PLUS#

When you roll dice, unless it’s for damage, you always roll 2d6 plus some stat bonus, your result being the sum. If there is no mechanic, there is no roll. There is always an effect, but if a mechanic is present, the effect depends on a roll. The mechanic, if there is one, is what roll you make. The trigger is something that happens in the fiction, meaning something that your character does in the story. It consists of a trigger, maybe a mechanic, and then an effect. Instead of having a lot of predefined things your character can do, the system gives you a short list of “Basic Moves” that encompasses everything your character could attempt.Ī move has a simple syntax. The base system is incredibly simple, yet it has enormous depth. Rather, he is defined by how he can handle task differently than other people. Your character is not at all defined by how good he is at specific tasks or what he can do. This utter disregard for realism even extends to your character. It tries to establish a platform for telling fantastic stories in a D&D inspired fantasy world, without the restrictions implied by a “realistic” rules set. Dungeon Worlds doesn’t even try to do that. A lot of games try to achieve some sort of immersion by making the rules “realistic”. So, what isn’t Dungeon World? It is not a “physics emulator”. Obviously, DW is a role-playing game, but it’s a game that is so different from what I’m used to play that it’s easier to explain what it is by what it’s not. A lot might not be familiar with the latter, so why not start off with a review? What is Dungeon World?

If you read my introduction, you would most likely have noticed that this blog will mainly focus on Game Mastering and Dungeon World. My first post was kind of a rant, which annoys me a little, but I just had to get it off my chest.

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