Author: John Marron

Here’s a question about spell availability (again) for folks who have run Freebooters.  I was talking with one of the players in my campaign after our game last night who plays a magic user.  His character is now 3rd level, and he has the capacity to memorize 4 spells at once, but still only has the basic 2 spells he started with.  I put some spells he could learn in a couple of the dungeons they have explored so far, but I put them in the hardest parts of the dungeons and the PCs have decided to wait and tackle those areas later when they are more powerful.  the player wasn’t unhappy, but felt a little left behind since he had this wasted capacity for his character.  Any ideas?  I’m tempted to make new spells a little more available to keep pace with his growing ability to use them, but I don’t want to overpower the MUs in the campaign over the other characters.  he did get a minor magic item in the game (once he figures out what it does), so he’ll have another magical toy to play with, but I certainly sympathize with his desire to learn some actual new spells.

We’ve decided to go full-on “West Marches” for our Freebooters campaign, so I’ve created a G+ community to keep things organized.  It’s primarily for local players to post to, but I thought that some folks here might enjoy following along and seeing how we work things.  Thanks to Jason Lutes for the Freebooters and Perilous Wilds rules which make this style of game so much easier!

I got to run Freebooters for the first time last night, and posted an actual play of the session on RPGNet.  Thanks to Amber LeClaire , Jeremy Kush , and Tabitha Kush for playing!

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?766043-Dungeon-World-Freebooters-on-the-Frontier-The-Ghost-s-Tomb

A couple of quick Freebooters rules questions.

1) I’m assuming that for the fighter’s Signature Weapon and the Thief’s Tricks of the Trade starting moves, the player can opt to take an additional weapon/trick in place of an advanced move any time they reach an odd numbered level. Is that true?

2) This one’s not really a rules question, but I see that the Magic User has a move to inscribe a new spell into their spell book.  Any suggestions on how often often the Magic User should get access to new spells to copy? 

I just did character generation for a planned Freebooters game this past weekend.  I used the playbooks form the most recent update (7-6-15), and I noticed that the space to write in your virtues and vices seems to be missing from all of the playbooks.  Is that a conscious choice, an error, or a problem on my end?

I haven’t checked in for a while (trying not to get too excited about the release too soon), but I was wondering if the 7-6-15 versions of the Freebooters playbooks were the most recent versions?  I might have a chance to run it for some folks new to RPGs, and wanted to have the most recent versions if possible.

I just got a copy of Yoon-suin, which is a pretty amazing Asian influenced, randomly generated OSR setting book, and I was wondering if anyone had tried (or even thought about) using it with Freebooters?  I realize both items are very new, so its probably a long shot, but I think the two books would mesh together really well.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144820/YoonSuin