Author: Gerard Snow

Do here’s a question for all of you. Do you ever mess around with the starting gear of players to suit the setting or a custom character? I prefer all means of healing, including potions, to be rare and special to give the setting more of an epic flavor and less of a videogame one. I also like to switch out bard weapons like rapier for something more like a quarterstaff cause I have a more ancient bard in mind like Homer or gabrielle or a skald. I don’t think it would imbkance the game if there was more flexibility in choosing what goes onto your gear or weapon/armor slots such as more food/coins and less potions. Finaly, could a character trade one or maybe two slots of gear for a secondary weapon like a chakram or shiv or sai? Maybe swapping out the shield would be better.

So I’m a big Xena fan I watched all the episodes and the Hercules show Xena trilogy of eps. It has really influenced my view of RPGs with its its Grecian take on sword and sorcery. I think it really fits dungeon world with all the gods and demons and heroic and villainous characters on quests and adventures. I would like to make a better more realistic bard class for bards like Gabrielle (I think she took many fighter moves when multiclassing). As well as some hacks and specialized moves and items. If anyone knows of people who have already done this or similar please let me know thank you. Xenite forever! Woo!

Ive been play testing dungeon world for a while and I’ve been thinking has anyone else felt that the amounts of XP needed to get to higher levels is too little? The amount of levels is fine but I have felt there to be a need of slightly more xp to the point where I have house ruled that the amount of XP required for each level is 20 plus the next level your ascending to. I chose the 20 as I was inspired by old school d20 but I suppose a 12 from 2d6 would be more fitting for DW. I know that xp gets harder to get as you level, but I like long term rpg storylines and I like characters to take it slow and enjoy utilizing the basic moves they have so each new move is special and appreciated and well earned. Has a home else fooled around with XP? Please tell your opinions or stories.

I’m already working in this but I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a project I’m working on. It’s an attempt to make a world if dungeons back for stonetop. So basically all the really simple classes and rules of w.O.d. in the stonetop setting. I love lots of rules and moves which really expand the world but when I want to play with my younger siblings and want to set up a game in the setting with as little hassle as possible(plus printer ink for character sheets is expensive). I think it would bring a new and interesting feel to the campaign world. So what are your thoughts on this hack idea?

So I’m posting because I have a question. I love the the idea of making killing and injury difficult in my games because I want it to reflect real life where decent people don’t easily murder people to solve problems because its difficult and squeamish. But if you have a good damage dice and numbers its problem solver number 1. I want characters to be more like Bilbo in the hobbit or Gabrielle from Xena warrior princess or Aang and friends from Avatar the last airbender( who killed almost never and Aang not ever never). So any advice such as penalties, special moves, or hard GM moves or world building would be much appreciated thank you.

So here are some means I use to make the revolutionary but overpowered MAGE class playable ( I mean seriously, unchecked it takes over nearly every other classes job, rivaling nearly everything except maybe the fighter, because at minus 1 he can do literally anything except three banned tags.). But here they are.

1. Have the player only cast spells that fit into what they specialize in. To compensate, you could let the player pick two fields of expertise such as both stars and winter at level one to balance it out. I also noticed gandalf is like this, specializing in fire/lights and healing. This I think is a simple fix to a big problem.

2. Is you want to have more costly magic, you could put an xp cost on each spell casting (I prefer to use this method instead of the vancian spells per day in the wizard and cleric class to make it more free form but limited. )Here is how a move would work. Roll 2d6 plus stat. 10+ means that spell only costs 1 xp. 7-9 means 2 xp. And 6- means you gain 1 xp as standard but bad stuff happens. Overall I think this makes play and magic use more organic and allows the mage to fill a very powerful flashy but balanced with other classes niche. My sister plays a winter and stars mage with both above methods in play and is happy with how the system works. How do you handle the mage if at all?