Kevin Kloek – Dungeon World Tavern G+ Archives

One of the things I like to do in the games I’m mastering is the following:

Me: “you arrive at the house you’ve been looking for. What do you do?”

Player: “I’m going to try to open the door using locksmithing!”

Me: “Ok, seems like that’s a check + DEX, roll it 🙂

Player: “Ok, I succeeded in the check, what does the door do?”

Me: “It’s locked”

Players: “But he/I just made the check.”

Me: ” True, but you never tried to see if the door was unlocked before.”

Now they know they just need to check the door first 😛 Which makes it easier to put traps on them ‘w’

Now my question is, does this make me kind of an asshole? Or do you have similar things in your game?

Next update on my DW adventure.

Next update on my DW adventure. I totally forgot I already gave an option to get rid of the vampire bite my paladin obtained last session, so he’s actually already been cured. In the end of last session our heroes saw a swarm of rats running away from the catacombs they just got out of. U’riell the elven druid changed into a bat and followed them for several days untill the rats went into a cave/catacombs complex all the while saying they “have to be there”. He changed into a rat to try and infiltrate, but they immediately knew he wasn’t one of them and tried to attack him. Luckily he could escape unharmed. The rest of our group were on their way back to town where they found out the priests of the church had been killed. A discern reality check pointed towards Lizardmen and they also found the Oracle, Sundra, to be missing. At the same time there were some new heroes in town, Rat the human thief and Foesmasher the human barbarian. After cremating the priests the next day our heroes (minus Foesmasher because he was too tired from a night of having fun) headed towards the swamps in the South to bring justice to the Lizardmen and get the Oracle back to safety. They had an encouter with a Gnoll tracker party, which were killed in a few seconds, almost killing Raymond, our bard. Inside the swamp they got careless and were attacked by a giant treebark crocodile. Rat the thief managed to dodge its attack, but stumbled into the water right next to the croc, who charged into another attack. Luckily he had help from Roald, out paladin. Roald jumped into the water, barely keeping his head above water and slew the croc while gaining heavy damage himself. The party decided the rest for the day and heal up. This was the end of the session, but they weren’t safe yet, they could hear singing coming from further inside the swamp.

We had tremendous fun playing this and I can’t wait to GM the rest of this campaign.

I Gm’d my first ever game yesterday.

I Gm’d my first ever game yesterday. Our party consisted of Raymond the neutral human bard, U’riell the neutral elven druid and Roald the lawful human paladin. I used the Catacombs of Bone as a starter dungeon (found somewhere on this site).

Raymond uses drums as a special music instrument (I allowed, because why not) Ur’iell is of the forest and sea, having lived a large portion of his 305 years on a remote island and Raymond has a large hatred against Drow (ideas for a next session).

Judging on the reactions of the other players, I think this will be a game we’ll play more 😀

There were quite a few things happening, like U’riell changing into a unicorn, Roald hanging onto him and they jousted a skeleton into dust, U’riell changing into a giant sea-turtle and again Roald using him as a living shield, all while Raymond was using his drum as assistance (for +1 forward, +1D4 damage, etc.), accidentally killing one of the vampire children using a bone wand and killing a horde of ghouls to take their treasure. In the end, Roald used lay-on)hands to heal Raymond, but this only partially worked and now Roald gained the vampire bite of Raymond, I’m curious how they will get rid of that in the next session. Any ideas?