Category: The Dungeon World Tavern: Actual Play

The Black Spot! Actual play with Pirates, Minotaurs, and Jail Breaks, oh my!

The Black Spot! Actual play with Pirates, Minotaurs, and Jail Breaks, oh my!

The Black Spot! Actual play with Pirates, Minotaurs, and Jail Breaks, oh my!

GM: Justin Evans. Players: Greg Bailey, Josh Curtis, and me!

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Got to run Dungeon World for some old high school buds who only have Pathfinder/World of Darkness experience.

Got to run Dungeon World for some old high school buds who only have Pathfinder/World of Darkness experience.

Got to run Dungeon World for some old high school buds who only have Pathfinder/World of Darkness experience.

The session started with one of them (a Pathfinder DM) remarking that he was impressed by how concise the Druid rules were, and ended with the player of the Cleric leaping into a mine shaft to fight an evil spider-god in midair. 

It’s actually made me rethink the traditional RPG assumption of scaling difficulty. . . representing harder tasks fictionally as “more things that could go wrong” instead of mechanically as “higher chance of failure” is pretty brilliant, and interestingly enough ties into the way a lot of the old-school D&D game mechanics worked  . . .

Joe Banner GM’ed a one-shot yesterday, and it was fantastic!

Joe Banner GM’ed a one-shot yesterday, and it was fantastic!

Joe Banner GM’ed a one-shot yesterday, and it was fantastic! Tim Franzke played a Captain, Christopher Patterson played a Fighter, and I played a Paladin.

It is probably the first and last time I’ll ever get to pull a parachute out of my adventuring gear.

At the school where I teach, I facilitate Ludi Fabularum, a story game club.

At the school where I teach, I facilitate Ludi Fabularum, a story game club.

At the school where I teach, I facilitate Ludi Fabularum, a story game club. I have nine students who participate, divided into two groups who meet on alternating Thursdays.

Today I met with four 5th graders to play Dungeon World. We ended up with a rookie adventuring party made up of Alderist, an elf bard; Longor, a human fighter; Aragorn, a human paladin; and Throndir, an elf ranger (with a wolf animal companion).

The adventure started with the four heroes leaving civilization behind to seek fortune and glory in wilder lands. Along the way, their ship was caught in a tempest and torn apart by wind and waves.

The players’ first move was a roll to see how many choices of gear they managed to salvage. As a result, when the party came to rest in the Shallow Sea (which, unknown to the heroes, is to where the storm magically transported them).

With a minimum of equipment, the heroes battled giant lampreys, and then Undertook a Perilous Journey to find land. The session ended with the party reaching a small island, down to their last day’s worth of rations, and ambushed by frogmen that their scout failed to notice.

I’m addicted to drawing the constellations of our #DungeonWorld  pantheon, and 500 blank playing cards arrived, so.

I’m addicted to drawing the constellations of our #DungeonWorld  pantheon, and 500 blank playing cards arrived, so.

I’m addicted to drawing the constellations of our #DungeonWorld  pantheon, and 500 blank playing cards arrived, so…