Tag: Jordan Raymond

I find the quartermaster role in the Undertake a Perilous Journey move redundant with the trailblazer, and less interesting. Getting to destination faster means something tangible in the fiction (and also means less rations consumed), but consuming less rations means just that.

I’m thinking about changing this role with something else, maybe scavenger or hunter. On a 10+, you find something useful or intruiguing (poultices and herbs, a hip bone etched with runes, some rare berries worth 10 coin, whatever). O a 7-9, nothing out of the ordinary.

What do you think?

A quick way to decide if the PCs are attacked during camp (when you don’t want to decide yourself) :

Roll a dice (any one; bigger means less probable, smaller more probable) and if the number on it is the number of characters in the party (PC and NPC), there is an attack. Ask for a Take Watch roll, maybe from the PC who was at this place is the watch order (so ask the first one if you roll a 1, the second if you roll a 2, etc.) 

Anyone had players judge DW to have “vague” rules? We played 3 sessions (monthly or so) and it was fun, but the rules did not click for 2 out of 4 players. One of them is very fond of elaborate mechanics (he’s a power gamer, but in a good way), and the other told me that “as weird as it sounds, I like rules telling me what I can’t do” and so that DW was too “wild” for his taste. Since I love DW, I’m a bit disappointed, but I’m not trying to convince him otherwise. We’ll go back to our D&D game (a 3.5 edition game we’ll convert to 5th), where I am a PC, not the DM.

Anyone want to share experiences or thoughts about this?