So I’ve been tinkering once more with my Dying Earth hack for Dungeon World.

So I’ve been tinkering once more with my Dying Earth hack for Dungeon World.

So I’ve been tinkering once more with my Dying Earth hack for Dungeon World. I’d really love to hear what people think of it.

Fat stack of Dying Earth playbooks:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzodcvOSM5bDazJ5Ukw0dFFkZTg/

Arch-Magician and Sandestin playbooks:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzodcvOSM5bDNzl3dEU4WVJ1U00/

6 thoughts on “So I’ve been tinkering once more with my Dying Earth hack for Dungeon World.”

  2. Only had time to skim, but a couple of comments so far.  I find the name of the Thug playbook a bit, un-Vancey?  Maybe switch to something like “The Brute”?  Also, the Thug’s “My Way” move uses +CHA to intimidate.  I might use +STR instead.  More feedback when I can read in more detail.  This is really tempting me to run a Dying World game.

  3. Mm, yeah, the Thug could certainly use a more evocative name. Although, as far as the STR vs CHA thing goes, I like having the choice (and that’s what the “Hulking Brute” background is there for).

  4. How about these, upvanced names:

    The Pedagogue (know-it-all)

    The Toadying Syncophant 

    The Traveling Merchant of Means (Trader)

    The Gentleman Without Means (Vagrant)

    The Argumentative Ruffian (Thug)

    The Innocent  (Gossip)

    The Naif (Innocent)

    As for the gossip, he isn’t really innocent, but naming him ‘Seems to be Innocent” or “Claims to be Innocent” doesn’t really work.

  5. This has also got me thinking that I really don’t like the name “The Gossip.” But “The Munchausen” doesn’t work for the Dying Earth, and “The Exaggerator” or “The Hyperbolist” just sound silly. “The Fabulist,” perhaps?

    Or running with Gil’s idea of going all-out Vance-verbose with the playbook names, the Gossip would become “The Teller Of Tall Tales.” (Also, I think “The Gentleman Without Means” and “The Argumentative Ruffian” are both quite lovely. And now I’m imagining The Dying Earth as it might be narrated by Stephen Fry.)

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