Author: Nathan Parrish

Hello taverners, I’m prepping to run a DW one-shot that has the potential to expend into a semi-regular campaign with a rotating cast of players. I remember seeing on here in the last few months someone had worked up a system to do a sandbox hexcrawl-type campaign by making a 5×5 grid of index cards with steadings and dangers randomly dealt out, and someone else(?) had put together some information about doing a keep on the borderlands-style thing where the party took some responsibility for a steading and managed it as it grew over the course of the campaign. Both of these ideas seem like a slam dunk for my current needs, but my google-fu appears to be failing me and I can’t find them anywhere. Anyone happen to remember these popping up?

Hello Tavern-goers. A few friends of mine and I have been running a little low-fantasy campaign where the players were all criminal undesirables and the action took place entirely within a giant city. Last session we wrapped up all the fronts I had and we decided that we wanted to keep playing in the setting but re-boot the campaign to allow the characters to sort of take the initiative. They get to plan heists and potentially organize they’re own underworld cartel. To this end we’ve been thinking about re-purposing the steading rules to represent the different districts of the city and track a “rep” stat for each one. Then have one or more custom moves that use a +rep mechanic. So my question to the hivemind would be; what changes, if any, would you make to the steading rules to represent this, and what kinds of custom moves would you want to see to for underworld characters?

Ok, instead of just doing the custom moves, maybe its better to just put the whole thing up and letting people judge it as a whole. Please look it over and provide feedback. Also, feel free to use this as is or modify it for your own tastes.