Author: Joachim “Yoki” Erdtman

I’ve lost over 22 lbs. since I started playing Dungeon World a mere 8 sessions and 2 1/2 months ago.

Thanks Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel. 🙂

My Dungeon World Study Guide e-books are ready for proofreading and testing with various e-readers. The books look great in the fantastic Mantano Reader for Android and look good on the Kindle as well. However some other e-book readers gave less spectacular results. I use some pretty advanced CSS to ensure they look good and are easy to read and use.

The two books are:

Dungeon World Play Examples – A Study Guide

A Dungeon World study guide to help GMs master how to run Dungeon World. I have collected all the GM rules for running the game, along with all the moves and play examples from the rules and Guide, some of the extra material and edits from Truncheon World, and a newly cleaned up, by Stras himself, ’16 HP Dragon’. This worked as a perfect study guide for myself in preparation for my first few sessions.

Dungeon World Fronts – A Study Guide

A Dungeon World study guide to help GMs master how to create Dungeon World fronts. It uses the same sources as the above book, but concentrates only on the rules governing Fronts and how to create and use them in play. Compiling this book really helped me nail down how to use Fronts in play, and my game’s singing since!

Would some of you kind people be willing to volunteer and test the epub and/or mobi versions of these two Dungeon World Study Guides?

P.S. I have the blessings of Johnstone Metzger, Adam Koebel, Sage LaTorra, Eon Fontes-May, Sean Dunstan, and Stras Acimovic to use their material from the Dungeon World rules, Truncheon World, the Guide, and ’16 HP Dragon’ in these e-books.

Holy crud! I love Dungeon World. I just finished session 5 of my 1-on-1 game with Ajax the Fighter and me as GM. I am rushing to catch the end of the UFC event, but just wanted to shout about how damn cool the game is first!

When creating a City using the Steading rules, if you don’t select Autocracy as an additional tag (if it has trade with 1 and fealty from 1), nor Theocracy or Democracy as a problem, then what the heck kind of government does it have? (Yes, I will gladly ask my players…)

Today I finally finished my first Adventure Front, and two Dangers on our Campaign Front (leaving room for another later). It took me running three sessions to actually understand how Fronts are meant to work, as I had to somehow first manage the other parts.

By the way, the way I managed to learn how to GM Dungeon World was accomplished by creating two epub study guides.

The first contains everything about how to GM, and the rules for all the Basic and Special Moves along with every example on how to resolve those from both the core rules and the Guide. I also included the full Example of Play from the rules, the Guide, and the 16 HP Dragon. It provided me with some great night time reading.

Next I did a study guide for how to create and use Fronts, again incorporating everything from the rules and the Guide. It took me a couple of reads, but now I finally understand the finer points of Fronts. Huzza!

I require some assistance to figure out the tags of the Naga (a monster) from the core rules (p. 304). It has the following tags:

Solitary, Intelligent, Organized, Hoarder, Magical

Solitary (monster organization): It can live and fight without the

help of others. This tag gives a bonus to random treasure rolls.

Organized (monster): Groups of this monster will have formal

organization—if you kill one, others might seek revenge.

Solitary and Organized seem a bit at odds to me. Does Solitary simply designate a creature that is able to fight alone and be a strong opponent even by itself, whereas Organized points to it having some sort of family structure? (Please refrain from any “ask the players” replies, please.)

There’s also no mention about how Solitary gives a bonus to random treasure rolls in the rules, the Treasure table does not list Solitary as granting any bonuses. So do you let Solitary grant a bonus to random treasure rolls, and if so how? Do you perhaps go with the +1d4, such as with Ancient, and Lord, or roll twice as with Hoarder? Also note that the Naga is already a Hoarder, so that will be quite some treasure at b[2d10] with (possibly) another bonus on top.

I’m running a game for just one player, and he decided to make an evil Fighter. My issue is that I have a bit of a hard time being a fan of his character. Please help me out, are there some sympathetic evil protagonists in other media that I could check out to see if I can figure out what’s missing in this instance?

Something ominous showed up at my door after brekfast.

Time to play!