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Effect Moves effects can be anything you can think of; they are as limitless as your ideas. Don’t feel constrained to making rolls, +1 bonuses, and swapping stats. Since all moves flow from the fiction, a fictional effect like “They treat you as a friend” is just as powerful and useful as +1 forward—maybe more so. Here are some broad types of effects, any given move may use more than one of them: • Roll. Examples: Defy Danger, Cast a Spell (Wizard), Called Shot (Ranger). • Substitute stats. Examples: Dwarf (Fighter). • Negate damage. Examples: Man's Best Friend (Ranger). • Give a bonus or penalty, forward or ongoing. Examples: Underdog (Thief), Smite (Paladin). • Deal or heal damage. Examples: Volley, Backstab (Thief), Arcane Art (Bard). • Choose options. Examples: Spout Lore, Discern Realities, Ritual (Wizard). • Hold & Spend. Examples: Dominate (Wizard spell), Trap Expert (Thief). • Ask & Answer. Examples: Charming and Open (Bard), Spout Lore. • Change circumstances. Examples: Reputation (Bard). • Mark experience. Examples: End of Session. • Call for more information. Examples: Parley, Ritual (Wizard). • Add options. Examples: Called Shot (Ranger). 354
Changing the Basics Moves can also change the basic structure of the game. Consider this one, to avoid the use of damage dice: When you would deal damage, instead of rolling the dice, substitute each dice with the listed number. d4 becomes 2, d6 becomes 3, d8 becomes 4, d10 becomes 5, d12 becomes 6. Moves like this change one of the basic features of the game. Be very careful with moves that muck with the fundamentals. Moves should never contradict the GM’s principles or agenda, or break the basic “take the action to gain the effect” rule. There are some parts of the game that are exceptionally easy to change. The amount of XP to level reflects our view, but you can easily make leveling more or less rare. As well, the kinds of things players are awarded XP for can be easily changed—if your game isn’t about exploring, fighting monsters and finding treasure, change the End of Session move to reflect that difference. Make sure to share it with your players before you start the game. Another basic that’s occasionally asked for is a way to make, say, fighting a dragon harder. The best answer here is that fighting a dragon is harder because the dragon is fictionally stronger. Just stabbing a dragon with a normal blade isn’t hack and slash because a typical blade can’t hurt it. If, however, that isn’t enough, consider this move from Vincent Baker, originally from Apocalypse World (reworded slightly to match Dungeon World rules): When a player makes a move and the GM judges it especially difficult, the player takes -1 to the roll. When a player’s character makes a move and the GM judges it clearly beyond them, the player takes -2 to the roll. The problem with this move is that the move no longer reflects anything concrete. Instead, the move is a prompt for the GM to make judgment calls with no clear framework. If you find yourself writing this custom move, consider what difficulty you’re really trying to capture and make a custom move for that instead. That said, this is a valid custom move, if you feel it’s needed. 355
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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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Poisoner You’ve mastered the care
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Shoot First You’re never caught b
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Escape Route When you’re in too d
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Dungeon World has rules. Not the la
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Spell Defense You may end any ongoi
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Know-It-All When another player’s
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Ethereal Tether When you have time
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Contact Spirits Level 1 Summoning N
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Cage Level 5 Evocation Ongoing The
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ignores armor. This spell persists
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There are many different fantasy ge
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Agenda Your agenda makes up the thi
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Embrace the fantastic Magic, strang
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Moves Whenever everyone looks to yo
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Making your Move When making a move
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Give an opportunity that fits a cla
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Introduce a new faction or type of
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Dealing With Common Situations Ther
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The first session of a game of Dung
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Also pay attention to the players
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Establish details, describe All the
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After the First Session Once you’
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Fronts are secret tomes of GM knowl
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Creating Fronts Here’s how a fron
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There’s always more dangers you c
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Arcane Enemies • Lord of the Unde
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Description and Cast Write up somet
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You can advance a grim portent desc
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Adventure Front Cast, Stakes, Custo
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Resolving a Front Often a front wil
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Description and Cast An ancient gat
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Much of the adventuring life is spe
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Elements of a Steading A steading i
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and support of smaller steads. Dung
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History: Something important once h
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Making a Town By default a town is
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Making a City By default a city is
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Growth When a village or town is bo
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Other Updates The conditions above
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Great heroes need horrendous antago
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A monster’s HP is a measure of ho
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Making Monsters Monsters start with
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What is its most common form of att
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Monster Settings The monsters in th
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Ankheg Group, Large Bite (d8+1 dama
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Dwarven Warrior Horde, Organized Ax
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Gelatinous Cube Solitary, Large, St
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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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consume (cleric) 103 contact other
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