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Looking for ideas!

My party members are helping a conclave of wizards complete a ritual by rooting out the traitor among their 4 lieutenants. I want each to be a unique, iconic magic-user for the party to investigate. So far I’ve got:

(these are descriptive names, not npc names 🙂

Golem-mancer – has created a variety of golems, and his flesh golem poses as him. The real wizard’s body is kept safe inside the large iron golem.

Enchanter – a throng of dominated and enchanted humanoids, all dressed similarly – which among them is the real mage?

Drug addict – uses illegal substances to boost spellcasting, at the cost of sanity and health.

I’m still looking for one more strong thematic take on a mage, and haven’t come up with anything on my own. Would love your help thinking dangerously and portraying a fantastic world.

What’s your play style?

What’s your play style?

If someone asked you how you play your RPGs for the most part, are you more akin to light-hearted play? Dark and brooding? Casual? Whimsical?

I’ve don’t think I ever noticed before.

I’ve don’t think I ever noticed before… Dangers (as in fronts) have an impulse. Monsters (e.g. goblins) have an instinct.

Both are written as “to “.

Both describe the general behavior of the thing. An danger’s impulse is “its crucial motivation,” and “what pushes it to fulfill it’s impending doom.” A monster’s instinct “describe its goals at a high level” describe “what does it want that causes problems for others.” They seem pretty similar to me, at most just a difference in scale.

Given that it’s pretty common for dangers to also be monsters… it seems redundant to use two different terms.

What about you? Do the two terms mean something different to you?

For things that are both dangers and monsters (e.g. a dragon, a lich, a demon lord)… have you gotten value from having a separate impulse and instinct?

I’ve got a party exploring a crumbling underground city where the souls of all of the people have been trapped in a…

I’ve got a party exploring a crumbling underground city where the souls of all of the people have been trapped in a magical artifact and the bodies are animated by some dark force tonight.

They’re headed to the wizard’s tower to attempt to free the souls and lay them to rest, help me to Think Dangerously and come up with some trouble for them!

https://www.fiverr.com/iusepentool/photoshop-remove-background-retouching-resize-crop-images

Huh.

Huh. I did not know this was out there. Pretty solid collection of DW stuff from around the webs, including some stuff I’d missed or forgotten.

Anyone know who Laurel Artemis Stuart is? I can’t find them on G+ at all.

http://a-dungeon-world.wikia.com/wiki/A_Dungeon_World_Wiki

I’m starting a new thread for this only because the version 1.1 file is WAY down in the thread.

Here’s version 1.1 of the “One Sheet RPG” which may get a new name if I publish it into a “booklet” format. This version has some changes as a result of suggestions made here and on other threads.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwGZKblpJGgYMjRXaWNGTlhpbFE/view?usp=sharing

I am pleased to release my interview with Jeremy Strandberg.

Originally shared by Andrew Huffaker

I am pleased to release my interview with Jeremy Strandberg. In this episode of 2SP, Jeremy Strandberg joins me for an extra long session. We started rolling on topics and didn’t stop for more than two hours. Even after editing a lot of content out, this episode is full of Jeremy’s valuable insights. We discuss what makes Stonetop unique, Stonetop’s Major/Minor Arcana, game design, Jeremy’s creative process, the Strandberg guide to custom moves, and the problem with Monks. Here are the show minutes:

4:30 Shared imaged space and theory of mind

6:00 Videogames and toilet research

8:00 Why Dungeon World?

13:00 What is Stonetop?

19:00 How is Stonetop different?

21:30 Inspiration for Stonetop

28:00 Major Arcana vs Minor Arcana

40:00 What is a ‘heart-breaker’ game?

47:00 The War

52:00 Starving to death

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57:00 Collective Unconscious