Hey folks,
I am currently designing a new game, based on the Dungeon World mechanical framework. It’s meant to allow an all-rogue (Thief, Acrobat, Bard etc) party with premade characters. Each character has six moves in total, all of which consist of 3 options. Each character will have four of the core moves, and two more unique moves.
I need your help and keen eyes to scrutinize these moves! Threat and Harm are bad things, while Treasure and Equipment are good. You can consider them to be handy custom moves for any of your DW games!
Thank you for any feedback you might have! Just leave comments below on this post, if you are willing.
Two “Option 3” columns? 😛
Fixed!
E3: “You are of the monster’s reach.”
Ah yes, I can see by the way the hobgoblin punches my face he is from the same Hobgoblin Reach as me!
Is this going to be GMless?
Good catch Johnstone Metzger , typo fixed. You are now out of the monster’s reach.
This game is designed to serve when not enough people show up for a Pathfinder/D&D/DW game. In such a situation, a player (in this case, Thief’s player) would be handed a small rulebook and all the instructions needed to run a simple, procedural dungeon crawl. This game is meant to be DM training wheels, teaching the skills necessary. This means that there is a DM role with defined responsbilities, however I am trying to make their decisions more limited in scope.
Oh, okay. Some of these moves lean heavily on the player making up facts about the world (like whether or not they find treasure in someone else’s pockets), and some feel kinda like scene resolution moves, both of which lean more toward the possibility of GMless play. But “GM training wheels” makes sense too.
Johnstone Metzger That one major advantage of this approach is you have your normal GM as a player of the game, able to give improv help to the others.
Hey, still have this marked as something to look over. What’s the design goal? What kind of feel are you going for?
Larry Spiel
Design goal: To teach D&D players how to run games, and as a lead in to both Story game and OSR game playstyles, while fitting into their existing Pathfinder/D&D campaigns.
Feel D&D characters telling campfire stories about their youth. Mostly tall-tales, with lots of homages to the classic D&D adventures. This one is meant to focus on an all-rogue experience, though other ones will deal with the other classes.
Sorry to take so long on this.
I like some of the ideas in there, although it’s a bit more focused on combat than I tend to play. Considering your design goal, I can see how this fits in, though.
I was thinking about this a bit, and here’s what occurred: When playing a thief, for me, the best moments are when:
I steal something and the mark has no idea I was even there; and
almost getting caught.
Now, if if that’s what it’s about for most of us who loves to play rogues (and I certainly do), awesome. Might not be a bad thing to aim a few moves a bit more in that direction.
Larry Spiel Perfect. I changed the basic dex moves to “Picking Pockets” which means that almost all characters get the ability to blatantly steal stuff without being noticed.
I like the new one. If I wrote it, I’d probably put:
You get the item.
Your mark doesn’t notice the theft.
No one else saw you steal it.