I’ve been having a look around but can’t find a playbook I’d like and hope nobody minds a couple of questions about play books.
Firstly I’ve been looking for a Minotaur playbook (thinking the Qun from Dragonage in particular but I’d be interested to see how people generally handle a Minotaur.
Second off, are there any discussions about how to balance play books. In case I want to create my own or modify my one?
Thanks
I know absolutely nothing about Dragonlance or its minotaurs, but could this be handled by making a minotaur racial move for an existing playbook?
Possibly, as you’d expect they are minotaurs (big strong, tough) but have their own belief system that the majority follow (more a code) and are far from dumb brutes.
Class Warfare is a good resource for creating Playbooks
Compendium classes are great too. Sounds like you can start with the Barbarian Class and create some addition moves to choose from that would only pertain to minotaurs.
The supplement “Number Appearing” has some info for Minotaurs under the “Towerign Brutes” section but also has a ton of info for playing monsters as characters. I think a combo of that and Class Warfare would be a great place to start:
Number Appearing:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3269630/dwdotcom/Number%20Appearing.pdf
I’ll address the other question, re: “balance.” Stay away from moves that give you anything better than the standard +1 forward/ongoing and you’re probably fine. The + 1 in Dungeon World is deceptively powerful! It is better than a + 2 in D&D and often close to + 3. (It varies because you are comparing a curve, DW, to a flat distribution, D&D.)
At just +1 in DW, your chance to hit a 7 or better go from 58% to 72%. At +3 you are basically telling “competence porn” stories with a 92% chance of a 7 or better
Stacking plusses break the core move formula that assumes you will have a reasonable number of results in each of the three broad categories – 10+ success with little trouble, 7-9 success but with a cost, and 6- failure.
(Some text cribbed from an earlier post I made with a good discussion following it – https://plus.google.com/+RayOtus/posts/KXTCT7nkE56.)
What Ray said lol. VERY important.
Stick to Fiction moves
Thanks all. That’s an interesting post and I’m just looking at class now