Author: John Jessop

Another custom move for my Black Company/Game of Thrones inspired DW game for those folks who want to play Littlefinger and run a business.

When you attend to the workings of a business at the beginning of each session or during downtime roll +Int

On a 10+ Choose 2

·         Your business expands into new markets +1 Profit

·         Your business gains the attention of a useful ally or patron.

·         Your business earns you 1d6 coin per point of profit it possesses.

On a 7-9 Choose 2 from the above list, but there’s a problem too that’s disrupting business as usual. Deal with it or watch your business suffer.

On a 6- Your business suffers a nasty setback. -1 Proft and unless you deal with the problem that faces it, expect it to suffer more.

A new business requires at least 50 Coin to start along with workers to partake in it and starts at 0 Profit. If you invest 100 Coin +100 Coin per point of Profit your Business currently has into your business, increase it’s Profit by 1. Adding significant fictional improvements (like replacing your workers with tireless golem slaves or conjured demons) will also increase profit, but may have other repercussions.

A custom move for my Game of Thrones/Black Company inspired Dungeon World game. Hopefully I’ll have enough players to make it work…

When you send minions, toadies, or servants afar to accomplish your will with the appropriate tools and skills roll +Cha if it’s a simple direct order, +Wis if it’s a long term plan, or +Int if it’s part of a long and elaborate scheme.

On a 10+ They’ll do it for you without problem or complaint.

On a 7-9 They’ll do it for you but you’ll need to give them aid, support, or motivation if you want them to do it properly.

6- They make things worse through incompetence, ill-fortune, or rebellion.

I was also trying to brainstorm something along the lines of a “When you make your first appearance at court” move, for those characters that might try elevating themselves by their bootstraps into the ranks of the nobility. The move would cover the sort of impression they make, the attention they attract, and how aware they are of the scheming sna…I mean respectable and upright nobles of the court.

Any thoughts on that?

When you try to tell a foolhardy and impetuous village youth what to do roll +Charisma  

On a 10+ Choose 2

*They do it without getting in over their head

*They don’t resent you for it

*They do it right away, instead of at the last possible minute

On a 7-9 Choose 1

On a 6- You’re a meddlesome old fogey, and they’ll act out just to spite you.

When you try to decode the mumblings of Thrice-Drunk Winston first make sure you’re drunk yourself. You’re drunk? Okay, good… then roll +the number of bars you’ve gotten roaring drunk in tonight (max +3).

On a 10+ Choose 2

*You’re able to decipher advice that proves strangely relevant to your current problem.

*His drunken ramblings gird you for what is to come. This counts as 1 preparation for whatever great task you’re party is trying to accomplish

*You don’t pass out soon after Winston finishes dispensing his incomprehensible wisdom.

On a 7-9 choose 1, or choose 2 and accept that your visit with the drunken sage will be interrupted by a massive bar fight. He’ll finish what he was saying after the fists, knives, and flagons stop flying.

What do you guy’s/gals/folks of non-binary gender(s) think? A couple of custom moves that I’ve been kicking around for a DW game I have planned that will begin in a piss-stain of an old fishing town, turned shelter for the families of slain soldiers, turned back into a piss-stain of an old fishing town called Widow’s Landing.