More illustrations of Dungeon World stuff. This time, a frogman.

More illustrations of Dungeon World stuff. This time, a frogman.

More illustrations of Dungeon World stuff. This time, a frogman.

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Frogman

Here’s the finished piece for my fourth day of #Inktober. Twenty seven more to go in #Inktober2017. I will be making drawings of #DungeonWorld monsters, magical items, and gear. I had a lot of fun and saw some improvement while doing it last year.

I wanted to do !y take on the frogman. I decided to base it on a poison dart frog and I think it turned out alright. I am challenging myself with poses and lighting that will help me improve if I can pull the off. I am also messing around with some markers. Let me know what you think.

This is also the month leading up to the sixth annual St Peter’s 24 Hour Extra Life Board Game Marathon benefitting Riley Hospital for Children, which is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Riley saved my youngest daughter’s life through a cranial reconstruction surgery when she was just over a year old. Riley does amazing work for the children of Indiana as well as all those that are referred to its specialists and come from all over the world. It has one of the best pediatric diabetes centers in the United States and its Children’s Cancer Center is a national leader in the clinical cancer care and conducting research in the treatment and cure of childhood cancer and blood born illnesses. Our board game marathon is like a charity run, walk-a-thon, or dance-a-thon. Players find sponsors and then play board games for twenty four hours. All the money raised through our sponsored players and our game marathon weekend go directly to Riley Hospital. Over the past five years, our generous donors have helped us raise over $32,700 for Riley.

If you like my Inktober drawings, please consider sponsoring me as a player and donating through my #ExtraLife page at http://extra-life.org/participant/jimjones. This year, I will be raffling off my drawings when I reach each $100 milestone. Each donor that helped reach that point will be entered to win. Watch my Extra Life page for details.

Riley is close to my family’s heart and your support means a great deal to me. Thank you.

Vellius’s Gauntlets

Vellius’s Gauntlets

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Vellius’s Gauntlets

My third day of #Inktober and I am still at it. Twenty eight more to go. I will be making drawings of #DungeonWorld monsters, magical items, and gear. I had a lot of fun and saw some improvement while doing it last year.

Today I decided to tackle a magic item and draw Vellius’s Gauntlets. Vellius’s Gauntlets are described as allowing the wearer to hold onto anything without letting go. For some reason, I kept thinking of rubbing was on something to add grip to it, this the bee and honeycomb theme of the gloves.

This is also the month leading up to the sixth annual St Peter’s 24 Hour Extra Life Board Game Marathon benefitting Riley Hospital for Children, which is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Riley saved my youngest daughter’s life through a cranial reconstruction surgery when she was just over a year old. Riley does amazing work for the children of Indiana as well as all those that are referred to its specialists and come from all over the world. It has one of the best pediatric diabetes centers in the United States and its Children’s Cancer Center is a national leader in the clinical cancer care and conducting research in the treatment and cure of childhood cancer and blood born illnesses. Our board game marathon is like a charity run, walk-a-thon, or dance-a-thon. Players find sponsors and then play board games for twenty four hours. All the money raised through our sponsored players and our game marathon weekend go directly to Riley Hospital. Over the past five years, our generous donors have helped us raise over $32,700 for Riley.

If you like my Inktober drawings, please consider sponsoring me as a player and donating through my #ExtraLife page at http://extra-life.org/participant/jimjones. This year, I will be raffling off my drawings when I reach each $100 milestone. Each donor that helped reach that point will be entered to win. Watch my Extra Life page for details.

Riley is close to my family’s heart and your support means a great deal to me. Thank you.

Let me know what you think about the drawings.

Hill Giant

Hill Giant

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Hill Giant

I made it through my second day of #Inktober and came out with a drawing even though it was a busy day. Twenty nine more to go. I will be making drawings of #DungeonWorld monsters, magical items, and gear. I had a lot of fun and saw some improvement while doing it last year.

Today’s subject was a hill giant. I didn’t have him throw a cow, but he is still throwing somebody. I’ve never really gone up against a giant in any game that I have played, but I have to think that their ability to just chuck their enemies great distances must be quite formidable.

This is also the month leading up to the sixth annual St Peter’s 24 Hour Extra Life Board Game Marathon benefitting Riley Hospital for Children, which is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Riley saved my youngest daughter’s life through a cranial reconstruction surgery when she was just over a year old. Riley does amazing work for the children of Indiana as well as all those that are referred to its specialists and come from all over the world. It has one of the best pediatric diabetes centers in the United States and its Children’s Cancer Center is a national leader in the clinical cancer care and conducting research in the treatment and cure of childhood cancer and blood born illnesses. Our board game marathon is like a charity run, walk-a-thon, or dance-a-thon. Players find sponsors and then play board games for twenty four hours. All the money raised through our sponsored players and our game marathon weekend go directly to Riley Hospital. Over the past five years, our generous donors have helped us raise over $32,700 for Riley.

If you like my Inktober drawings, please consider sponsoring me as a player and donating through my #ExtraLife page at http://extra-life.org/participant/jimjones. This year, I will be raffling off my drawings when I reach each $100 milestone. Each donor that helped reach that point will be entered to win. Watch my Extra Life page for details.

Riley is close to my family’s heart and your support means a great deal to me. Thank you.

Let me know what you think about the drawings.

Kobold

Kobold

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Kobold

I am participating in #Inktober again this year in order to force myself outside of my comfort zone and draw with ink. I will be making drawings of #DungeonWorld monsters, magical items, and gear. I had a lot of fun and saw some improvement while doing it last year.

For some reason, I love the idea of kobold assassins and rogues. I see them as these underestimated minions of dragons that go out and find and steal all the good loot for their masters.

This was the first time that I have ever used a brush pen. It’s going to take some getting used to.

This is also the month leading up to the sixth annual St Peter’s 24 Hour Extra Life Board Game Marathon benefitting Riley Hospital for Children, which is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Riley saved my youngest daughter’s life through a cranial reconstruction surgery when she was just over a year old. Riley does amazing work for the children of Indiana as well as all those that are referred to its specialists and come from all over the world. It has one of the best pediatric diabetes centers in the United States and its Children’s Cancer Center is a national leader in the clinical cancer care and conducting research in the treatment and cure of childhood cancer and blood born illnesses. Our board game marathon is like a charity run, walk-a-thon, or dance-a-thon. Players find sponsors and then play board games for twenty four hours. All the money raised through our sponsored players and our game marathon weekend go directly to Riley Hospital. Over the past five years, our generous donors have helped us raise over $32,700 for Riley.

If you like my Inktober drawings, please consider sponsoring me as a player and donating through my #ExtraLife page at http://extra-life.org/participant/jimjones. This year, I will be raffling off my drawings when I reach each $100 milestone. Each donor that helped reach that point will be entered to win. Watch my Extra Life page for details.

Riley is close to my family’s heart and your support means a great deal to me. Thank you.

Let me know what you think about the drawings.

#DungeonWorld #Kazarak #Plundergrounds

#DungeonWorld #Kazarak #Plundergrounds

Originally shared by Jim Jones

#DungeonWorld #Kazarak #Plundergrounds

This is the final version of my Escaping Kazarak Encounter Checklist.

In play it worked really well and took the party about an hour and fifteen minutes to blast, rapid fire, through nine of the total eleven encounters due to the luck, or lack thereof, of their dice rolls.

I am glad that I went this route for the cataclysmic final battle between the dwarf titan and the Eyrok demon because the players were more invested in the outcome. This may be due to the fact that they are mostly in their earlier teens and preteen years.

Again, I was going for the idea that the battle between the titan and the demon was raging all over the gigantic underground city of Kazarak, destroying the path that they had used to enter the city. This checklist gave me a chance to switch focus between the battle raging around them and the current encounters that they were stumbling upon as they tried to make their escape.

I am working on a full session report (the outline and my basic notes are finished) and will post it to my website, and link it here, when I complete it.

Working on this encounter from my Escaping Kazarak Encounter Checklist

Working on this encounter from my Escaping Kazarak Encounter Checklist

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Working on this encounter from my Escaping Kazarak Encounter Checklist

I’ve got the following scene set, I just need to come up with a custom move, I think.

Waterfall of Treasure

You round the corner and see a squat round being (a xorn, see Plundergrounds #2, Threats, kz-10), seemingly made of stone, that is standing on its three legs and using its three arms to shove rocks and debris into the giant mouth that makes up the top of its body. With every bite of its three jawed mouth, you feel a pulse of heat emanate out from it as it warms the room. It must have been in this area for a while as the walls and floor are full of holes. Below its feet you can see lace-like caverns spider webbing into the darkness. After a moment or two, one of its three eyes rotates and fixates in your general direction and it takes a step towards. Just then, a crack in the stone structure above it widens and crumbles away as a waterfall of gold coins and treasure jets forth from a giant secret treasury and crushes the being, killing it instantly.

And the treasure keeps coming, more than should realistically exist in the world. At first, it forms a giant mound completely obscuring the monster. Then, you notice, it starts to fall away and you hear a distant tinkling as it begins falling into the caverns below. You also hear cracking and popping sounds and the floor feeling like it is shifting under your feet.

What do you do?

I found this class list based on races, as opposed to the default Dungeon World presentation, useful.

I found this class list based on races, as opposed to the default Dungeon World presentation, useful.

I found this class list based on races, as opposed to the default Dungeon World presentation, useful.

Perhaps you will too.

I also think it raises some interesting questions that can be explored in play.

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Races and the Classes They Can Be in the Base Dungeon World Playbooks

For my own edification, I wanted a list of all the races and which playbooks they could play in the base Dungeon World playbooks. I want to be able to answer the question, “I want to play a dwarf, what can I be?”

Dwarf

▶ Barbarian

▶ Cleric

▶ Fighter

Elf

▶ Barbarian

▶ Bard

▶ Druid

▶ Fighter

▶ Ranger

▶ Wizard

Halfling

▶ Barbarian

▶ Druid

▶ Fighter

▶ Thief

Humans

▶ Barbarian

▶ Bard

▶ Cleric

▶ Druid

▶ Fighter

▶ Immolator

▶ Paladin

▶ Ranger

▶ Thief

▶ Wizard

Salamander

▶ Immolator

Write In (no racial moves or details per playbook)

▶ Bard

▶ Cleric

▶ Druid

▶ Fighter

▶ Immolator

▶ Paladin

▶ Ranger

▶ Thief

▶ Wizard

Title

Title

List of Bear Names

Arctos

Badger

Bar

Bee Finder

Bera

Bjorn

Boulder

Canid

Claw

Graypelt

Grub

Gruff

Grumble

Honey

Log Roller

Lookout

Major

Maple

Moon

Oak

River

Rumble

Shaggy

Shambler

Shiny

Sky

Sleepyeyes

Sloth

Sniffer

Snout

Soft Paw

Stand Tall

Stone

Stone Dreamer

Sweet Claw

Sun

Swat

Tail

Trailmaker

Tree

Orson

Ursa

*Hat tip to Ray Otus for a few of these that I nabbed from my post about this in my Dungeon World Gazeteer Collection

Title

Title

Hey, Tavern,

I am working on this encounter checklist for an upcoming game where I am running +Ray Otus ‘ #Kazarak from his #Plundergrounds zine.

Just based on the titles, do you think these encounters come up on the right rolls in a 2d6 distribution?

Thanks!

Originally shared by Jim Jones

Filling out the Encounters in the Escaping Kazarak Encounter Checklist

I finished out the list of encounters in my check list and now I am putting in the details, monster stat blocks and custom moves as necessary.

Here’s my current list and the rolls that will evoke them:

2 ▶ Gelatinous Cube Street Cleaner

3 ▶ Cargo Hauler Coaster

4 ▶ Sinkhole!

5 ▶ Rust Monster Stampede

6 ▶ Star Bears to the Rescue

7 ▶ Tidal Wave of Mice

8 ▶ Derro Deserters

9 ▶ Constructs Run Amok

10 ▶ Spectral Funeral Procession

11 ▶ Web of Woe

12 ▶ Waterfall of Treasure

I’m not sure they are in the right place (occur on the right random roll, given a 2d6 distribution). I welcome any suggestions.