Tag: Kasper Brohus Allerslev

When a player rolls a miss, I often direct the bad stuff at another player. I do this for several reasons, but there’s two primary ones.

The first reason is that I want to be a fan of the characters. I want to make the character look competent and capable, and as such I often externalize the effects on a miss, by making the bad stuff come from a source the player haven’t got control over. For example, last game I made a Mountain Giant wake up as they needed to sneak past him.

The second reason is to change spotlight. If one character rolls a miss after a short series of rolls, and another player is so far relatively unharmed, then I sometime put that player in a spot to give them a piece of the action.

I usually make softer moves when doing so, even though I could make a hard move. I just find fictional positioning more interesting than damage most of the time. For example, I think having the fighter caught in the Mountain Giant’s fist is a lot more fun than having the giant step on them.

I’m just wondering if other people do this as well. What is your take on it?

I’m sharing this here because I want to know if other people has the same experience as me.

Dungeon World opened up a new way of gaming to me, one that I vastly prefer to what I was used to.

The inclusiveness and the assumption of equal participation is something many other, more traditional games leave out, and often they assume the exact opposite; that it’s “the GM’s game”, that the players are just along for the ride.

I just felt that I needed to share this here, and see if other people has similar experiences.

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Has anyone tried to play this game with a large group? (6+ players + GM) I feel it lends itself very well to that, since the game generally plays pretty fast, and the party can split up because of that.

Quick question; if a fighter wields a Close signature weapon, and wields a longsword in his other hand, does he get the +1 damage bonus from the longsword?