Author: Tyson Krout

And while I’m about it, I’ve got one other question that i’m copy/pasting from the barf-forth-apocalyptica forums.

So I was just wondering other GMs of Dungeon World, how do you handle failures for Druids shapeshifting? I’m normally really creative, and have found multiple clever and dangerous ways of handling failed rolls (the last session we had, my bard failed a healing song roll in a castle that oozes necromantic magic…she accidentally raised one of the dead mages who was previously being nommed on by ghouls who almost TPK’d in a hilarious succession of bad damage die rolls.) Anyway, I can’t figure out a way to handle a failed shapeshift. To me it just seems like they don’t shapeshift. Any ideas to help this GM get some creativity flowing?

Just curious about something as a brand new GM to Dungeon World with four sessions under his belt with his party. Lately, my players have taken to using the Discern Realities roll which I’m like “awesome! They get to ask me questions!” I typically respond with cryptic answers, never straightforwardly, especially to the question “What’s about to happen?” And I try to think from the perspective of the characters and think “okay, they see x on the horizon, or in their field of view, and that can’t mean anything good.” A recent example is they asked me what was about to happen and I told them they see black, skeletal things with weapons coming for them in a phalanx formation in answer to “What’s about to happen?” The issue is that this seems to be annoying my players xD. Am I doing something wrong, or am I instead doing something really right? And if I am doing something wrong, how would I go about fixing it? Do I just tell them straight-up “you’re about to fight these draugrs?” Or is there some other way? Just curious as to what the people think.