As many others before, I’m transitioning a group from D&D (5e) to DW. How about this move for a dragonborn bard?
Dragonborn. When you use your arcane art, you can instead choose all the opponents in front of you and the following effect:
• You breath forth the elements and deal your damage to all targets, ignoring armor.
(xposted from reddit)
Thats a cool thought, but I don’t think it would have to be connected to Arcane Art. They could just have the racial move allowing them to use a breath weapon. Or just fictionally be able to do that. I picture a breath weapon move looking like this:
Breath Weapon
When you breathe forth the element that lays within your heart, roll+CON. On a 10+, you deal your damage to nearby enemies in front of you. On a 7-9 the same, but choose one:
• You won’t be able to do that again for a while
• You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot
• You affect more than you intended
I’d be curious to see other attempts at translating existing 5e races/subraces & classes. Does anyone know of anything like that? I have a campaign in 5e that is somewhat halted at the moment, I’d love to convert the lot over to DW!
Scott Selvidge yep that’s exactly how i would do it, thanks for writing it so clearly! However, I liked to connect the breath weapon to arcane art for a couple of reasons: the player chose the race because it reminded him of Skyrim, and he also liked a lot to cast a spell (Thunderwave) that creates an effect similar to an ability in Skyrim (the famous dragon-shout Fus Ro Dah). So my intention was to make the breath weapon being more magical and bound to the user’s voice. That, and I also wanted it to be unique to the class; if other dragonborns would show up, I’d like each one of them to have a unique spin on the breath weapon tied to their class’ moves (so a wizard has a breath weapon-like spell etc.)
Alessandro Gianni I actually played a barbarian that used a Fus Ro Dah shout, but it was just me taking the bard’s Metal Hurlant as a multiclass move! That was a fun character.