Tag: Adrian Thoen

Ever wanted to be “that Guy” at your table? Ever wanted to play the bungling albatross that gets all the laughs? Well, now you can, and still be effective! Maybe…

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

The Fool is a Playbook designed for use with Dungeon World and Inverse World. As The Fool, you will stumble from mishap to calamity to disaster, failing forward and unwittingly leaving destruction in your wake. If you ever wanted to play a bungling buffoon and leave your party in stitches – figurative and literal, The Fool is your chance!.

Starting Moves

Fool’s Fortune

When you gain Calamity, fill on an empty box on one of the below options.  (If all boxes are full, you lose the Calamity) When an option has all the boxes filled, you may empty all of the boxes for that option to use it once.

Choose 1 less or 1 more from the list of choices on any Fool move

⃞⃞Give +1 to someone else’s roll.

⃞⃞⃞⃞Shift the result of any roll, yours or an ally’s, from a 6- to a 7-9, or a 7-9 to a 10+.

Out of your Depth

When you attempt a task beyond your capabilities, roll+Cha. *On a 10+, it kinda works! choose 2, *On a 7-9, it seems ok… choose 1:

You gain 1 Calamity.

No-one will know it was you.

You didn’t cause permanent damage.

Someone else is initially implicated.

Get Lost

When you try to find your way through somewhere that isn’t an obvious, direct route, roll+Int. *On a 10+, you got there! choose 2. *On a 7-9, this looks like the place, choose 1:

You gain 1 Calamity.

It didn’t take too long.

You’re not getting pursued.

You accidentally found an interesting secret!

Gullible

When you believe someone you should question, roll+Wis. *On a 10+, choose 2. *On a 7-9, choose 1:

You gain 1 Calamity.

They assume you are more competent or important than you are.

You gain access to somewhere or something you shouldn’t.

You don’t lose something important.

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Here’s my second playbook based on Folktale creatures, The Giant!

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

The Giant – A Dungeon World Playbook

“Fee, Fie, Foe, Fum! I smell the blood of a Smallfolk man!”

Oh the funny little tales the smallfolk tell about you. Little worlds about small deeds, their tiny mouth incapable of truly describing you and your deeds properly. Puny words like brute, thug, beast cannot do you or your heritage justice.

Your people have a duty that goes back into times the smallfolk can only describe as legend. Your heritage is a great part of you, it gives you your magic, your appearance, and your solemn duty. You may be a builder, a grower, a protector, or a balancer. With your magic and your size, you carry out your duty with implacable stoicism.

The Giant is a Playbook designed for use with Dungeon World and Inverse World. As The Giant, you will be towering over smallfolk, lifting great burdens, and using your heritage magic in the service of the age-old Duty handed to your people in the distant past.

The Giant uses Drives and Aspects instead of Alignment and Race, an exciting new way to describe your character!

Drives and Aspects are an exciting new look at Dungeon world classes that comes from the creators of inverse World,  the upcoming book that will have a unique setting for use with Dungeon World. Keep your eyes open for Inverse World!

Starting Moves

Larger Than Life

Your large size gives you both advantages and disadvantages. When you bring your size and strength to bear against a problem, roll +Str. *On a 10+, you choose 2 Actions and the GM chooses 2 Consequences. *On a 7-9, you choose 1 Action, and the GM chooses 3 consequences:

Actions

You send someone or something of your choice flying

You deal your damage

You crush or smash an item or object of your choice

You pick up someone or something the size of a human

You clear an obstacle with a great leap or stride

You make an opening that was too small just large enough

Consequences

Your surroundings are damaged by your actions

Someone you don’t want harmed is put in danger

Something important is knocked out of reach or damaged

you lose your footing or get stuck

you are attacked, or suffer damage from the environment

You draw unwanted attention to yourself or others

Heritage Magic

When you call on your Heritage Magic to fulfill your people’s Duty, roll +Con. *On a 10+, your magic bolsters your action substantially. On a 7-9, it helps, but choose 2.

It’s effects aren’t as powerful as you intended

It’s effects won’t last as long as you wanted

You’ve had to sacrifice something valuable

Camouflage

It is normally very hard for you to hide due to your size. When you stay perfectly still in an environment linked to your Heritage, you blend in and others look right past you.

Unusual Diet

Choose a commonly found resource: Wood, Ice, or Stone. When there is a plentiful supply of your food source nearby, you don’t need to consume a ration when making camp. When there isn’t a plentiful supply of your preferred food nearby, you eat one of your rations, and someone else’s too!

Choose either Enduring Atlas or Hurl to start with. You may take the other as an advanced move when you level up:

Enduring Atlas

When you push yourself beyond your limits to lift the impossible, roll+Con. *On a hit, you lift it. *On a 10+, choose 1. *On a 7-9, choose 2:

The strain harms you, take D4 damage

You are vulnerable to attack

You can’t hold it for long…

Hurl

When you pick up and throw something or someone, roll+Str. *On a 10+, it lands where you intended. *On a 7-9, the GM chooses 1:

It lands awkwardly

You or an ally is vulnerable

You threw it too soft, or too hard!

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Introducing a new Playbook – The Fae!

The Fae is a playbook designed for use with Dungeon World and Inverse World. As The Fae, you will be tricking your enemies with illusions, pranks, and tricks, blessing some with wishes, damning others with curses, and causing no end of mischief and trouble. But beware, every Fae has rules they must abide, and weaknesses that can cause them trouble. You will have to walk a fine line between causing trouble and solving it!

Preview of starting moves:

Fae Nature

As a Fae, there are strange laws, customs, and weaknesses you must attend. When you create your character, Choose 3 weaknesses. These are the Fae weaknesses that are specific to you. When you encounter a situation that affects one of your weaknesses, either through the natural course of play or as a result of a GM move, you immediately gain 1 Boon.

Bitter Iron – you are allergic to Iron. It’s touch poisons you, and suppresses your Fae Magic.

Truthbound – You may never say a thing you know to be untrue.

Sun-Averse – The brightness of the sun strips away your glamours and illusions.

Oath-bound – You must keep any oath, deal, pact, or agreement you make.

Name-Bound – Your True Name is ________. You must obey one order of any that know your true name, then you are free.

Life Debt – you owe a debt to any that save your life, and must truly help them or save their life before the debt is paid.

Holy Words – The sacred words of the mortal religions can weaken you, bind you, or drive you out.

Riddle-Obsessed – You cannot resist a riddle, and will stop and ponder it until you reach an answer.

Mischievous – You cannot resist playing pranks or taunting figures of authority.

Child Liberator – You will try to steal mistreated or mischievous children away from their families, and deliver them to a life of magic and adventure in The Fae.

Curse

When you curse a person, creature, place, or object, say the curse out loud, spend 1 Boon and roll +Wis. *On a 10+, choose 3. *On a 7-9, choose 1. *On a miss, you choose 1 and the GM chooses 2 from the list below, and those affected know who did the cursing.

The curse only affects that which you want it to

The curse wears off when you want it to (3 days and 3 nights, until the next full moon, a year and a day)

The curse changes their form, puts them into a supernatural slumber, or strikes them mute

The curse can be broken only by one of the following: True Love’s Kiss, a heartfelt apology, a pure tear of sorrow.

Sly Words

When you mislead and confuse others with technically true words, roll+Cha. *On a 10+, they make the assumption you were implying. *On a 7-9, they make an assumption, but not the one you were hoping for.

Glamour

When you use your illusion magic to trick, entice, or confuse others, describe it and roll+Cha. *On a 10+, they fall for your glamour. *On a 7-9, they’re mostly convinced, but demand some kind of proof. *On a miss, you illusion shatters to reveal the naked truth.

Fae Tongue

you can communicate with other Fae, spirits, and wild, living things like forest animals and plants. You cannot understand domesticated animals or plants.

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Some of you may remember a few months back when I released the Spellslinger, a new class for public distribution. I’ve since refined it, turned it into a PDF, and released it for sale on dtrpg.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112749/The-Spellslinger—A-Dungeon-World-Playbook

The google docs version and Declan Feeney ‘s version are still available free, but if you’d like the latest version complete with artwork, visit the link!

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112749/The-Spellslinger—A-Dungeon-World-Playbook