How do you handle the Human Ranger move of not requiring a ration in the City or a Dungeon when some of the…

3 thoughts on “How do you handle the Human Ranger move of not requiring a ration in the City or a Dungeon when some of the…”

1. They don’t need the ration when the fiction fits. I mean, the ranger hunts for food, right? Ask them what they hunt in the city or dungeon.

2. I’ll admit that even after running DW for a few years, the ranger’s human racial move has always been something I’ve had difficulty following on a fictional level. I’ve been told the implication is that the ranger is adept at scrounging together or hunting down food on his own even when he’s in areas of particularly scarce resources, but the fact that the Ranger is able to automatically identify a meal and trigger this move in the dangerous titular dungeons of the Dungeon World but not in the forests where hunts are often much less immediately dangerous and the ranger is likely much more experienced in hunting down quarry is kind of weird.

   My interpretation is usually just that the ranger has gone long enough without food before that, so long as he feeds himself on the road, he can go a few days without eating gross city/dungeon food just by subsisting off the meals he had during the trip. Even that leaves some questions that are hard to answer (like “why not just say the Ranger can go X days without consuming a ration?”) and I’ve been temped to replace it with something different on a few occasions.

3. Since this ability is available only to human rangers, perhaps this implies that humans in Dungeon World are such creatures of civilization that cities and dungeons are effectively “favored environments” for human rangers.

   In other words, human rangers are “dumpster divers” supreme and actually have an easier time hunting and foraging in urban environments than out in the wilderness.

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