Author: Brennen Reece

One of my players asked me about changing playbooks from Thief (level 5) to Dashing Hero. I have absolutely no problem with this, but I’m not exactly sure how to handle the transition in terms of moves.

Any ideas?

Here’s the sickenly obvious way to run a great DW game: go out of your way to make sure your players get XP. I’m sure this is old hat for most of you guys, but I’ve never thought of it this way until tonight.

Before tonight’s session, I wrote down each PC’s alignment key on an index card. Throughout the game, I made sure that Fenfaril had plenty of opportunities to terrorize folks with magic, Chance had plenty of danger to leap into without a plan, and Drummond could engage in trial by combat.

A memorable treasure was looted, a notable monster/enemy defeated, and plenty new was learned about the world.

FLAILSNAILS & Dungeon World — I’ve finally come to accept that, at this point in my life, I’m no good at running campaigns. I don’t have much time or energy to devote to gaming (work, family), and most of the folks I like to play with are in the same situation. Also, there are so many different people I want to play with, both in real life and online, I don’t want to commit to a long-term group.

Ideally, I want to run low-prep episodic games that resolve, more or less, in a single 3- or 4-hour session, and where characters can jump in and out of the game without any weird continuity issues.

I have a few ideas, but I’d love to hear how others are dealing with this kind of thing.

What would you put on a DW GM screen?

I haven’t used a GM screen in years, but I’m running at least one game, and sometimes two every week and I’d like to 1) give my players the experience of something secret and special happening, and 2) put some useful reference on the inside.

The obvious is to include GM moves, principles and agendas.

I might also put NPC names, towns, taverns, etc.

What else? What would you put on a GM screen?