Author: Emir Pasanovic

I liked the idea behind Colin’s Insidious Hunger move in the last Dungeon World Newsletter, but I didn’t like the amount of rolling the players had to do while fighting the horde that attacked with this move, especially on a play by text platform like rolegate.com where battles take long enough as it is. So I changed it a bit but it’s still terribly costly and dangerous after a horde of fog creatures attacked the capital:

*Insidious Hunger*

This enemy exudes an aura of gluttony and everhunger. Once it drains your HP to half or below, roll+CON: on a 10+, gain 1 craving. On 7-9, gain 2 cravings. On 6-, gain 3 cravings and a sick debility. Whenever a move would have you consume a ration, such as Make Camp or Undertake a Perilous Journey, consume an additional ration and reduce your craving by 1. You must consume at least 1 ration to reduce your craving. If you ever go a day without eating while you have any craving, lose all craving and gain an appetite for sentient flesh.

I played it like this with my group, and I’ll let you know how this appetite for sentient flesh translates in a slum on the borders of a city waiting to be attacked by a supernatural threat.

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My Barbarian just did an awesome, so I wrote some custom moves for him to choose from in the future:

Paralysing Headbutt (levels 2+)

When the enemy is within your arms reach and you land a hit, you can choose to roll your damage die twice without any modifiers (unarmed combat) and take the higher die. In addition, the target is stunned going forward.

Killing Headbutt (levels 6+, replaces: Paralysing Headbutt)

When the enemy is within your arms reach and you land a hit, you can choose to roll your damage die twice without any modifiers (unarmed combat) and take the higher die. In addition, the target immediately goes unconscious.

What do you guys think?

I’m GM-ing Dungeon World for the first time (we’re playing on RoleGate with some of the characters that survived a Funnel World adventure) and I came up with an interesting Druid animal-shape move I wanted to share and hear feedback about (whether someone’s already done this before better than me, or you’ve tried it and there’s something I’m missing).

The assumption here is that the Druid is not able to speak in her animal shape (except if the animal she takes the shape of can speak in this world). Therefore I suggest that the Druid can use one hold to speak with her human voice in any of the shapes she takes, making this the first permanent animal-shape move that I’ve seen in DW.

Do I curtail this move to a few lines (Enemy is coming! Head for the trees!), or just let them speak throughout? I guess it will never come up when there’s only one hold left, but right now my Druid has two holds left, so it could come in handy.