I realized today that the DW playbooks offer a way to define your character’s personality and style using the “Look”…

I realized today that the DW playbooks offer a way to define your character’s personality and style using the “Look” options. As an example, the options for a thief:

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Choose one for each:

Shifty Eyes or Criminal Eyes

Hooded Head, Messy Hair, or Cropped Hair

Dark Clothes, Fancy Clothes, or Common Clothes

Lithe Body, Knobby Body, or Flabby Body

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The personality you could develop for a character using these descriptors can be a great starting point. Combine the Messy Hair with Fancy Clothes and you’ve got a wild-hearted rich boy who does it for the thrill. Cropped Hair with Flabby Body? A formerly sedentary fence who’s having to resort to finding his own merchandise to make ends meet. I could go on.

Anyways, that was my own little moment of inspiration today. Perhaps that’s how they were intended to be used and I missed that part. Perhaps this is something the DW veterans have known for ages. Either way, here it is for the rest of us newbie hirelings.