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Dungeon World question on affecting the behaviour and actions of characters and other things:

Dungeon World question on affecting the behaviour and actions of characters and other things:

Dungeon World question on affecting the behaviour and actions of characters and other things:

My problem: AW doesn’t really let you affect the emotional state (the S&M move comes close but still) of fellow players’ characters without them playing along, and their actions even less. DW looks like a whole lot different and not in the best way.

If you look at the Charm person spell:

“The person (not beast or monster*) you touch while casting this spell counts you as a friend until they take damage or you prove otherwise.”

or the Dominate spell:

“You gain 1d4 hold. Spend one hold to make the target take one of these actions: (…)”

These pretty much dictate their attitude towards you and their actions, in this order.

When I compare the former with the following:

“A monster is any living (or undead) thing that stands in the characters’ way.”

I get the idea that in DW, PCs are not less controllable than monsters even with the basic manipulation move being only againgst NPCs.

*And thirdly, yeah. What does this dualism mean? Everything is monster except the PCs. So what does “beast or monster” mean? I mean, I suspect this is just badly worded, but if they are not monsters, they must be persons as they are the very characters of the players.

Any thoughts on these?

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Your opinions are encouraged:

Your opinions are encouraged:

Your opinions are encouraged:

I’m considering making a Sword & Sorcery hack and setting for DW, something like a blend of Hyboria and Nehwon.  I know there are a couple Hyborian/Conan AW hacks, but I want it more DW-ish.

1. The only PC race is human.  How should I handle racial moves?  I’m inclined to let them pick any racial move that doesn’t involve non-human features.

2. Alignments are gone.  What should I use to replace them?

3.  How should I handle spell casters.  I’d prefer to do away with any sort of blatant spellcasting, however, I want to keep rituals.  I’m thinking to allow greater multi-classing options.  Maybe something like ‘pick 2 classes, you may freely choose moves from both.’

4. I’m sure I want the musician aspect of The Bard gone for this, so the class would really just have some moves available for multi-classing.  As for the Druid, I’m not sure if they could fit as is, or are too overtly magical.

Question from someone: What stops a Wizard from just blasing trolls with 5 fireballs and 3 magic missiles?

Question from someone: What stops a Wizard from just blasing trolls with 5 fireballs and 3 magic missiles?

Question from someone: What stops a Wizard from just blasing trolls with 5 fireballs and 3 magic missiles?

Answer:

1. The Trolls

2. Time

3. Screentime 

The same things as in any story or movie. 

4. The Rules. You won’T 10+ every of those moves