When you forge a pact with the Spirits of the Land, the Elements and the primal Beastkings you may take this move…

19 thoughts on “When you forge a pact with the Spirits of the Land, the Elements and the primal Beastkings you may take this move…”

1. I will also write up a few more Guardian Forms i think… 

2. I really like the Warden. Like your take on the Warlock, this almost seems like a better Warden, than the 4e version.

   Generally …. I am strongly thinking about a 4e-conversion of Dungeon World – which means more races and also more class-specific moves for more races.

3. i am still wondering on how to do Dragonborn Breathweapon…

4. and thank you for “almost better then 4e” bit 🙂

5. Out of your CCs this is by far the best. Liked it very much. Though I’d let shapechage and assume guardian form at the same time, why not?

   Also one cosmetic thing: when you’ve got three options to choose from, it’s “on 10+ all three” instead of “on 10+ choose three” .

6. 1. thank you Vasiliy Shapovalov 

   2. I think transforming into 2 things at once (more with the Chimera move) get’s really weird.

7. Weird. And fun!

8. if anyone else is interested in writing Guardian Forms, feel free ^^

   Not sure if this can support a whole base class but having more options is fun ^^

9. Bernd Pressler pointed out, that the 7-9 on the GF moves was to destructive and might hinder the whole group more then help them. 

   Because of that players might be to cautious in actually using that move thereby destroying the purpose of even having the move.

   What do you think?

10. Rainbow Dash is the only move with this problem, I think. Others are good.

11. Please note: I am coming from MHR and 4e, where there is almost no bad results for trying to use a feature of your character. I am slowly relearning my patterns with DW – nevertheless some outcomes are very dangerous, and I am indeed not sure about those. My thinking is: You build a feature into a (compendium) class, and you want to make it as appealing as possible.

    comments highly welcome 🙂

    The Warlock by Tim Franzke has a similiar mechanic, where basic features of the class are dangerous. You rest means you gamble for a soul shard, which can go bad. You might lose XP, suddenly carry a debt to another power. But that one first and foremost is “dangerous” (or I would rather say interesting) for the character itself. It does not directly damage the group she is travelling with.

    So the Warlock presented does endanger himself. And she tends to do so in a non-dangerous situation. When making camp.

    The Warden does similiar thingsin a more extreme way: iT does carry danger for himself and her allies in a directly dangerous situation. You use the forms of the Warden in action scenes mostly, when there is direct inherent danger already. Mostly. WHen you don’t roll good enough you damage your enemy, yourself and your allies. And that I do consider very dangerous.

12. So how would Lying Cat change Rainbow-Dash Vasiliy Shapovalov ?

13. I don’t know, may be this:

    On a hit, you erupt a blinding flash. On 10+ choose 2, on 7-9 choose 1:

    * The searing light deals damage

    * Your allies are safe

    * Undead suffer extreme harm

    Or may be on 10+ all 3, on 7-9 2.

14. The 2 – 1 version could work yes. Still thinking about it…

    The light still blinds people regardles of what you choose right?

15. Yep.

16. I like that general approach 😀

17. cleaned up a bit. Taking a Guardian Form is now easier but regaining access to it requires that you sacrifice something to the spirits. 

18. the nice thing about the Guardian Forms: 

    I can now reference them in other classes. Example:

    Beastly Guardian

    You were blessed by primal spirits. Choose an animal based Guardian Form and get the Take a Guardian Form move 

19. Is anyone interested in writing new guardian forms? 

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