Author: james day

So Just played my first Dungeon World game in awhile, we were going to use Perilous Wilds to create the world but first an opening scene We start with a wizards tower, the players having delivered a really nice old Paladin that volunteers at Soup kitchens called Arcadius.

But dun dun dun the Wizard actually was going to use Arcadius saintly energy for nefarious means, the monk decided that he was going to run down the tower, but instead he ran down the tower about to hit the ground. The Executioner tried to save him but it was a monumental weight and he found himself hanging by his feet trying to hold on. The Wizard seeing this grabbed onto Arcadius and tried to put him into a cage. The Bard trying to convince the Wizard not to do this failed and a battle was about to happen. But at this point the executioner got up and stabbed the Wizard in the chest.

The Wizard Tower then started to crumble around them, the players tried to get out. The Druid Minotaur was able to change into a flying squirrel and said by to everyone. Fun was had with grappling hooks by the Cleric and Executioner. And the rest decided to use the stairs. While on the stairs the Bard decided to figure out if she knew anything about what was happening, turned out she did and that they were actually in an ancient Planar spaceship. She decided what the heck and convinced all the players to come on board.

So instead of a regions and cities on a fantasy map, we actually created different planes and decided what was all these planes. It was completely not what I was expecting but was damn cool and now we have so many different planes that we can explore and the players are on a ship that may need the saintly life force of people to run it.

I can say that was a bloody good reintroduction to Dungeon World. And I’m excited and terrified with the massive sweep we have created with all these planes.

So for my one shot session yesterday in dungeon world I kind of wanted something structured, something that would last the 4 hours have a satisfying session and a big bad guy at the end. So I decided to experiment with using the 5 node mystery design that Justin Alexander made : http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/37903/roleplaying-games/5-node-mystery.

It went pretty well, I had basically 4 locations which each had various clues that pointed towards each other and each had a little mini “encounter”. The good thing about Dungeon World is.that its front loaded the players can roll spout lore and you can directly tell them it points to this place. This leaves the clues being very open to inspiration and changing them depending what tge players do. The nodes also.weren’t designed throughally, I just had cool ideas that would fit in the particular setting and went with it.

I.will have to see if it works for more canpaign, as I.said its a lot more structured, I didn’t have any fronts and basically kind of pushed each location and cut to it. But for a one shot I recommend it.

http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/37903/roleplaying-games/5-node-mystery