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Ambitious Organizations • Misguided Good (impulse: to do what is “right” no matter the cost) • Thieves Guild (impulse: to take by subterfuge) • Cult (impulse: to infest from within) • Religious Organization (impulse: to establish and follow doctrine) • Corrupt Government (impulse: to maintain the status quo) • Cabal (impulse: to absorb those in power, to grow) GM Moves for Ambitious Organizations • Attack someone by stealthy means (kidnapping, etc.) • Attack someone directly (with a gang or single assailant) • Absorb or buy out someone important (an ally, perhaps) • Influence a powerful institution (change a law, manipulate doctrine) • Establish a new rule (within the organization) • Claim territory or resources • Negotiate a deal • Observe a potential foe in great detail “Well tides are a-turnin’ once more Six dark-winged devils line up at my door Each one is more evil than that which came before” —Titus Andronicus, “Four Score and Seven” Planar Forces • God (impulse: to gather worshippers) • Demon Prince (impulse: to open the gates of Hell) • Elemental Lord (impulse: to tear down creation to its component parts) • Force of Chaos (impulse: to destroy all semblance of order) • Choir of Angels (impulse: to pass judgement) • Construct of Law (impulse: to eliminate perceived disorder) GM Moves for Planar Forces • Turn an organization (corrupt or infiltrate with influence) • Give dreams of prophecy • Lay a Curse on a foe • Extract a promise in exchange for a boon • Attack indirectly, through intermediaries • Rarely, when the stars are right, attack directly • Foster rivalries with other, similar powers • Expose someone to a Truth, wanted or otherwise 190
Arcane Enemies • Lord of the Undead (impulse: to seek true immortality) • Power-mad Wizard (impulse: to seek magical power) • Sentient Artifact (impulse: to find a worthy wielder) • Ancient Curse (impulse: to ensnare) • Chosen One (impulse: to fulfill or resent their destiny) • Dragon (impulse: to hoard gold and jewels, to protect the clutch) “Sub-creatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildohar, the Traveller has come! Choose and perish!” —Gozer, “Ghostbusters” GM Moves for Arcane Enemies • Learn forbidden knowledge • Cast a spell over time and space • Attack a foe with magic, directly or otherwise • Spy on someone with a scrying spell • Recruit a follower or toady • Tempt someone with promises • Demand a sacrifice Hordes • Wandering Barbarians (impulse: to grow strong, to drive their enemies before them) • Humanoid Vermin (impulse: to breed, to multiply and consume) • Underground Dwellers (impulse: to defend the complex from outsiders) • Plague of the Undead (impulse: to spread) GM Moves for Hordes • Assault a bastion of civilization • Embrace internal chaos • Change direction suddenly • Overwhelm a weaker force • Perform a show of dominance • Abandon an old home, find a new one • Grow in size by breeding or conquest • Appoint a champion • Declare war and act upon that declaration without hesitation or deliberation 191
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Contents Introduction ― 6 Playing
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Dungeon World Dungeon World is a wo
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The Druid Cast your eyes around the
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The Thief You’ve heard them, sitt
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How to Use This Book This book is g
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What’s Dungeon World Like to Play
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Playing Dungeon World means having
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Moves and Dice Most moves include t
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Some Moves… …Use the phrase “
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Damage When a character takes damag
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Best and Worst Some monsters and mo
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If your original character returns
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Magic Dungeon World is a fantastic
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special conditions that you can ful
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Writing New Bonds You write a new b
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alignment. The player must have a r
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When hirelings are in play, the pla
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Priest Priests are the lower rankin
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Monsters The beasts and worse that
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Keep in mind that not all power is
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“That’s fine, we’ll come back
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tip of this huge crocodile snout pe
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Making Dungeon World characters is
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6. Figure Out Modifiers Next you ne
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11. Introduce Your Character Now th
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This chapter contains the moves tha
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GM: Jarl, you’re up to your not-i
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Aranwe: So, I’m stuck down here o
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GM: Emory, as you climb up the side
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GM: Avon, you begin weaving the spe
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Fenfaril: The floor was illusory? D
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Omar: I don’t trust this room—I
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In some cases when you state what y
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GM: Ozruk, you stand alone and bloo
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GM: Sparrow, as the knife blade dis
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Take Watch When you’re on watch a
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Carouse When you return triumphant
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Bolster When you spend your leisure
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The poems say an adventurer’s lif
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Charming and Open When you speak fr
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Advanced Moves When you gain a leve
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An Ear For Magic When you hear an e
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The lands of Dungeon World are a go
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Divine Guidance When you petition y
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Greater First Aid Requires: First A
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Bless Level 1 Ongoing Your deity sm
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Revelation Level 5 Your deity answe
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Storm of Vengeance Level 9 Your dei
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Cast your eyes around the fire. Wha
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Chose a tell—a physical attribute
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The Druid Sleep When you take this
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It’s a thankless job—living day
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Signature Weapon This is your weapo
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Taste of Blood Replaces: Scent of B
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Hell awaits. An eternity of torment
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Quest When you dedicate yourself to
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Smite While on a quest you deal +1d
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Divine Authority Replaces: Voice of
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These city-born folk you travel wit
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Animal Companion You have a superna
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Advanced Moves You may take this mo
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Smaug’s Belly When you know your
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You’ve heard them, sitting around
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Page 145 and 146: Dungeon World has rules. Not the la
Page 147 and 148: Spell Defense You may end any ongoi
Page 149 and 150: Know-It-All When another player’s
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Page 155 and 156: Cage Level 5 Evocation Ongoing The
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Page 159 and 160: There are many different fantasy ge
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Page 167 and 168: Making your Move When making a move
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Page 171 and 172: Introduce a new faction or type of
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Page 177 and 178: The first session of a game of Dung
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Page 187 and 188: Creating Fronts Here’s how a fron
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Page 193 and 194: Description and Cast Write up somet
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Page 197 and 198: Adventure Front Cast, Stakes, Custo
Page 199 and 200: Resolving a Front Often a front wil
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Page 203 and 204: Description and Cast An ancient gat
Page 205 and 206: Much of the adventuring life is spe
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Page 213 and 214: Making a Town By default a town is
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Page 219 and 220: Other Updates The conditions above
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Page 225 and 226: Making Monsters Monsters start with
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Page 229 and 230: Monster Settings The monsters in th
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Maggot-Squid Horde, Small Chew (d6
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Spiderlord Solitary, Large, Devious
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Bakunawa Solitary, Large, Intellige
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Crocodilian Group, Large Bite (d8+3
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Ekek Horde Talons (d6 damage) 3 HP
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Kobold Horde, Small, Stealthy, Inte
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Sauropod Group, Huge, Cautious Tram
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Abomination Solitary, Large, Constr
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Draugr Horde, Organized Rusty sword
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Mohrg Group Bite (d8 damage) 10 HP
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Sigben Horde, Large, Construct Tail
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Wight-Wolf Horde, Organized, Intell
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Assassin Vine Solitary, Stealthy, A
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Cockatrice Group, Small, Hoarder Be
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Elvish High Arcanist Solitary, Magi
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Satyr Group, Devious, Magical, Hoar
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Worg Horde, Organized Bite (d6 dama
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Formian Drone Horde, Organized, Cau
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Formian Queen Solitary, Huge, Organ
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Gnoll Alpha Solitary, Intelligent,
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Orc Breaker Solitary, Large Hammer
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Orc Shadowhunter Solitary, Stealthy
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Triton Sub-Mariner Group, Organized
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Bulette Solitary, Huge, Construct B
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Ethereal Filcher Solitary, Devious,
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Flesh Golem Horde Miscellaneous Cla
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Aboleth Group, Huge, Intelligent Te
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Deep Elf Assassin Group, Intelligen
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Gray Render Solitary, Large Rending
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Salamander Horde, Large, Intelligen
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Angel Solitary, Terrifying, Divine,
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Corrupter Solitary, Devious, Planar
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Inevitable Group, Large, Magical, C
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The Tarrasque Solitary, Huge, Plana
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Acolyte “Can’t all be the High
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Guardsman Group, Intelligent, Organ
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Knight Solitary, Intelligent, Organ
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Soldier Horde, Intelligent, Organiz
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The musty tombs and forgotten treas
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Weapons Weapons don’t kill monste
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Armor Armor is heavy, difficult to
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Dwarven Hardtack Requires Dwarf, ra
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Land and Buildings A hovel A cottag
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Axe of the Conqueror-King Close, 1
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Cloak of Silent Stars 1 weight A ca
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The Fiasco Codex 0 weight A thick t
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Lamented Memento 0 weight Taking th
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Teleportation Room Slow James Ninef
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Dungeon World portrays a specific k
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World Moves Your Dungeon World is f
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New Classes Once you’ve gotten yo
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Compendium Classes A compendium cla
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them in the dark about what earns X
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Changing the Basics Moves can also
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gets a 10, and makes his choices. M
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Address the characters, not the pla
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Thanks Tools Dungeon World was crea
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everse engineered the rules of the
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the mystifying elixir. Gregor Hutto
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to both warring kingdoms. Nick is t
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fallen gods. With words a piece of
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Urah Kazar, craig guarisco, Craig H
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Jesse Kirkpatrick, Jesse Pudewell,
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Milton M. Fernandez, Mircea Ungurea
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Thibault Mesmin d'Estienne, Thomas
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Teaching the Game Present the Class
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Continuing Play After an hour or tw
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Adventure Conversion Fronts The cor
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custom move for, do so! Custom move
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villagers are being kept—but I’
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Instant NPCs 45. To prove their wor
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70. A sense of right and wrong 71.
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• Enmity (steading): The steading
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• Solitary (monster organization)
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Fighting 41 Finishing a Session. Se
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hell hound 310 high priest 318 hill
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consume (cleric) 103 contact other
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